British actress Lucy Griffiths’ starring role on The CW’s now abandoned teen-zombie apocalypse series “The Awakening” may be DOA, but the 25-year-old starlet is set to breathe new life into the fifth season of HBO’s hit vampire soap “True Blood.”
According to TVLine, Griffiths will play Eric Northman’s (Alexander Skarsgard) sister Nora, a centuries old vampire turned by Godric (Allan Hyde) and now working as a double agent within the Vampire Authority. She’s described as an intelligent and intimidating force with a penchant for lying.
Griffiths is best known for her portrayal of doomed Lady Marion of Leaford on the BBC program “Robin Hood.” Earlier this year, she and “Royal Pains” star Meredith Hagner were cast to play sisters on The CW’s “The Awakening,” a coming-of-age drama set against a zombie apocalypse backdrop that wasn’t picked up to series.
American World Pictures has released a trailer for director Mark Atkins’ upcoming Jaws-meets-Tremors creature feature Sand Sharks … and I, for one, am hooked. Written by producer Cameron Larson, the story finds prehistoric tiger sharks attacking spring breakers from beneath the sand.
The film stars Brooke Hogan as shark scientist Dr. Sandy Powers, Vanessa Lee Evigan (Briana Evigan’s sister) as Deputy Sheriff Brenda Young, “7th Heaven” hottie Julie Berman as a bikini-clad party reveler and gorgeous genre queen Gina Holden and Corin Nemec as Sandman Festival promoters.
Leslie Bibb, star of the upcoming ABC midseason replacement series “Good Christian Belles,” is ready for take-off in Japanese director Takashi Shimizu’s (The Grudge) in-flight frightener 7500. The 37-year-old stunner joins Amy Smart and Ryan Kwanten in the CBS Films production, set to shoot later this month.
The film follows a group of passengers terrorized by a supernatural force after the mysterious death of a passenger on Vista Pacific Flight 7500. Bibb will play a flight attendant with a secret, while Smart and Kwanten portray a married couple traveling with friends to Japan.
Bibb’s genre creds include Heathers scribe Daniel Waters’ horror-comedy Sex and Death 101, the superb Clive Barker-produced Midnight Meat Train, Michael Dougherty’s beloved Halloween anthology Trick r’ Treat, and Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 1 & 2.
Norwegian actress Ingrid Bolsø Berdal is part of the ensemble cast featured in writer/producer Oren Peli’s (Paranormal Activity) new untitled radioactive ghost town thriller. Joining Berdal are Jonathan Sadowski (Friday the 13th), Jesse McCartney (“Greek”), Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek), Dimitry Diatchenko (Burning Palms), Olivia Taylor Dudley (Chillerama) and Devin Kelly (“Chicago Code”).
According to Deadline, the film’s plot follows a group of friends stranded in a town long believed to be abandoned after a nuclear disaster (sounds like Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes meets shaky-cam to me). The project is the first to be fully financed by FilmNation and is currently being shot in Eastern Europe with F/X guru-turned-director Brad Parker (Let Me In) at the helm.
Berdal is best known for kicking ass while looking good in the 2006 Norwegian survival frightener Cold Prey. She will next be seen as a deadly witch in Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, a flash forward of the classic fairy tale that finds the siblings hunting down supernatural forces for profit.
