Dimension Films announced today that Sin City directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller are set to begin production on their much anticipated sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Casting will begin next week and the film is expected to shoot over the summer in Austin, TX.
Rodriguez said via press release:
The first question I am always asked is “When will you make another Sin City?
I have wanted to re-team with Frank Miller and return to the world he created since the day we wrapped the original, but have felt a duty to the fans to wait until we had something truly exceptional that would meet and exceed what have become epic expectations.
A Dame To Kill For will certainly be worth the wait.
Miller, on whose graphic novel Sin City was based on, promised that he and Rodriguez were going to “shake things up and deliver a ferocious film experience that is going to go even further than the first.”
The sequel is an adaptation of Miller’s “A Dame to Kill For” with the script co-written by Miller and Academy Award winner William Monahan (The Departed). AR Films and Quick Draw Productions are producing. Harvey and Bob Weinstein serve as executive producers.
Oh … and many from the original’s cast are said to be returning.
Leven Rambin is set to star in Twentieth Century Fox’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters, a sequel to the studio’s modest 2010 hit Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief. Both films are adaptations of Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” book series.
Sea of Monsters finds Percy (Logan Lerman) battling evils from the deep while in search for a mythical Golden Fleece. Rambin, who is coming off the Lionsgate blockbuster The Hunger Games, will play Clarisse La Rue, the smart, but hot-tempered, daughter of Ares, the God of War.
The film is directed by Thor Freudenthal (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and stars returning players Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, Jake Abel as Luke Castellan, son of Hermes, and Booker T. Washington as Percy’s friend Grover.
New faces include Nathan Fillion (“Firefly,” “Castle”) as Hermes and Anthony Head (The Host) as teacher Chiron. The film goes into production on April 16 in Vancouver, and is slated for release on March 26, 2013.
Because not all guys are Zombie Ass men, Japanese (of course) director Francois Fujimoto is set to release Zomboobies. The horror-comedy follows a group of doctors whose experiments to create perfect breasts go terribly wrong, transforming them into mammary-seeking mutants.
Fujimoto teases on his YouTube page:
You will see boobs doing things that boobs have never done before! Stay tuned. But also this is an action packed horror comedy full of crazy mutant creatures and FX!
Zomboobies stars Cathy Shim (pictured above), Diana Toshiko (Horrible Bosses), Marissa Tuyui (Balls of Fury) and Judilin Bosita (“All My Children”).
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has set a June 12 release date for Grasshopper Manufacturer’s Lollipop Chainsaw, a third-person zombie adventure written by horror filmmaker James Gunn (Slither) about an 18-year-old panty-flashing cheerleader out to slay the undead.
To promote the game, Warner Bros. hired insanely hot professional Cos-player Jessica Nigri to play a live-action version of protagonist Juliet Starling in a funny-till-squirts mock advertisement for Zom-Be-Gone detergent.
While it’s probably fair to say that most folks enjoy the idea of having the entire cast of MTV’s “The Jersey Shore” eaten alive by a 20-foot maneater, the reason to tune into Syfy’s upcoming Jersey Shore Shark Attack is curvy Canadian stunner Melissa Molinaro.
Molinaro plays Nookie, one in a group of guidos desperately trying to convince officials to shut down the beach after a man is killed by a shark and triggers fears of another Jersey Shore bloodbath like that of 1916.
Jersey Shore Shark Attack is Molinaro’s first foray into horror. The 29-year-old is best known in the States for her appearances on the reality competition shows “Making the Band 3” and “Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll.”
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for slasher fans. Director Steven C. Miller’s (Scream of the Banshee, Automaton Transfusion) remake of Charles E. Sellier, Jr.’s beloved 1984 holiday classic Silent Night, Deadly Night has been greenlit.
Malice in Wonderland scribe Jayson Rothwell will pen the script and serve as executive producer. Richard Saperstein (The Mist), Brian Witten (Chernobyl Diaries) and Shara Kay (The Barrens) are producing. Anchor Bay will handle North American distribution.
Silent Night, Deadly Night follows a murderous Santa out to slaughter all who have been bad, but in particular nude young women and the men who screw them. Genre icon Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork Orange) has already been cast in the remake as Sheriff Cooper, a small town lawman in for the night of his career.
The Silent Night, Deadly Night redo is slated for release this Christmas season.
Tomcat Films has released a trailer for its campy new creature-feature Snake Club: Revenge of the Snakewomen. Penthouse Pet and girls-only porn star Veronica Ricci stars in the film as a half-woman/ half-snake creature feeding on the patrons that visit the strip club where she works.
It’s about a group of jaded strippers at a seedy, dive strip club when some dramatic action happens and a series of events causes me, Jaded Stripper #1, the ‘prized dancer,’ to transform into a snake God-like woman with snake stripper minions.
Snake Club: Revenge of the Snakewomen is directed by David Palmieri (Axegrinder, Darkworld) and is Tomcat Films and Ricci’s first collaboration since last year’s Bloody Mary 3-D. Her adult creds include My First Lesbian Experience, Welcome to Bondage, Veronica’s Private Tickle Hell, Girls Who Want GirlsandSideline Sluts: Cheerleader Confessions.
Columbia Pictures has released a new set of images for it’s upcoming sequel Men in Black III. Showcased in the shots are its female leads: Emma Thompson as MIB head O, Alice Eve as a young agent O and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger as a busty leather-clad villainess.
MIB III finds Will Smith’s Agent J heading back in time to save Tommy Lee Jones’ Agent K from an awful fate with the help of K’s younger self, played by Josh Brolin. Costars include Michael Stuhlbarg (“Boardwalk Empire”), Jemaine Clement (Diagnosis: Death) and Bill Hader (Superbad).
The Barry Sonnenfeld-directed sequel arrives in theaters on May 25.
Production has wrapped on TinRes Entertainment’s new supernatural thriller The Firstling. The film is directed by Peter Antonijevic and stars model/actress Rebecca Da Costa, Milo Ventimiglia (“Heroes”) and old people actors Andie MacDowell (Groundhog Day) and Lou Gossett Jr. (Iron Eagle).
Written by Nissar Modi, The Firstling tells the story of a pregnant woman who must avenge a wronged spirit or risk an awful fate for her unborn child.
Da Costa’s horror creds include 2010’s silly “trapped” frightener Trick of the Witch, in which she played a fashion model trapped during a shoot in a mansion by malicious supernatural forces, and Kevin Carraway’s (Fear Chamber) upcoming time warp thriller Seven Below.
Production on director Eduardo Sanchez’s Big Foot thriller Exists is set to begin in Elgin, TX on Monday. The film marks Sanchez’s return to the found-footage genre he ushered in with 1999’s game-changer The Blair Witch Project.
Written by Jamie Nash (Lovely Molly), Exists follows a group of friends as they’re stalked and slaughtered by Big Foot in the Texas woods. Cast includes Dora Madison Burge (“Friday Night Lights”), Roger Edwards (Bad Kids Go to Hell) and Denise Williamson (pictured).
The Haxan Films and Amber Entertainment production also stars “suit” actor Brian Steele as the legendary beast.
