Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine 3D) has signed on to star opposite genre icon Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork Orange) in director Steven C. Miller’s (Scream of the Banshee) remake of Charles E. Sellier, Jr.’s beloved 1984 holiday classic Silent Night, Deadly Night.
King will play Aubrey Bradimore, Deputy Sheriff to McDowell’s Sheriff Cooper.The duo will face off against a murderous Santa out to slaughter naughty young women and the men who screw them. Donal Logue (Shark Night 3D), Jamie Kennedy (Scream), Brendan Fehr (“Roswell”), Lisa Marie (Lords of Salem), and Ellen Wong (“The Carrie Diaires”) costar.
Silent Night, Deadly Night will go into production next week in Winnipeg. The remake is slated for release this holiday season. Anchor Bay will distribute the Genre Company and Buffalo Gal Pictures production.
Academy Award winning actress Charlize Theron is attached to star in director Rupert Wyatt’s (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) recently announced T.S. Nowlin-penned sci-fi thriller Agent 13, an adaptation of the ’80s comic book series created by writers Flint Dille (Dead to Rights)and David Marconi (Live Free or Die Hard).
The Universal Pictures production is set in the 1930s and follows Agent 13’s battle against the Brotherhood, a secret organization made up of people from the lost civilization of Lemuria that has fallen under corrupt leadership. Theron will most likely play Agent 13’s lover China White or his closest operative Maggie Darr.
Theron, who will soon be seen as villainous bureaucrat Meredith Vicks in Ridley Scott’s eagerly awaited Prometheus and as the Evil Queen in Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsmen, will also produce under her Denver and Delilah shingle.
[Rourke is] all excited to come back, but he’s probably the first one. I saw Rosario [Dawson] too. I ran into her for something else, and she’s pumped. They’ve always been excited about doing another one, so that will be fun.
Cameras will roll on Sin City: A Dame to Kill For this summer in Austin, Texas. Miller is promising “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.
Rebekah Brandes (Bellflower) is set to star in Nothing to Fear, a demonic thriller directed by Anthony Leonardi III for Slasher Films, the start-up genre studio founded by Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.
Brandes joins a cast that includes Anne Heche (The Occult), James Tupper (“Revenge”), Willa Holland (Straw Dogs), Jennifer Stone (”Wizards of Waverly Place”), Ethan Peck (Mine Games) and Clancy Brown (“LOST”). She will play the daughter of Heche and Tupper’s characters.
Nothing to Fear is the story of a pastor who moves his family to Stull, Kansas, one of the seven known gateways to hell, and watches as his daughters unleash the ultimate evil. The film is based on actual town folklore that claims the devil rises once every year from the local graveyard to walk the earth.
Syfy has released the first official trailer for its upcoming Jaws meets “Jersey Shore” parody feature Jersey Shore Shark Attack. The film follows a group of guidos trying to get city officials to shut down the beach after a man is eaten alive by a sharks.
Jersey Shore Shark Attack is directed by John Shepphird (The Santa Trap) and stars Melissa Molinaro (“Making the Band 3”) as Nookie, Alex Mauriello (Forget Me Not) as J-Moni and Audi Resendez (Retribution) as BJ.
Rounding out the cast are Paul Sorvino (Repo! The Genetic Opera), Tony Sirico (“The Sopranos”), William Atherton (The Crow: Salvation), Jack Scalia (Red Eye), gay singer Joey Fatone and Vinny Guadagno (“Jersey Shore”).
Gemma Arterton could very well be one of The Wright Girls for Relativity Media and Atlas Entertainment’s upcoming remake of Japanese filmmaker Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s bad roommate thriller 2LDK.
The film’s official synopsis reads:
Vanessa and Katie are best friends and roommates who are living the Hollywood dream by starring together on a hit television show. Ambitious and eager to advance their careers, the two both set their sights on the same choice movie role.
A wicked game of sabotage begins, which soon escalates into a visceral, bloody catfight filled with violence, mutilation… and nearly murder.
The Wright Girls is scripted by Easy A scribe Bert Royal. Andy Fickman, director of such family fare as Race to Witch Mountain, The Game Plan and She’s the Man, is said to be circling the project.
Arterton will next be seen opposite Jeremy Renner in Tommy Wirkola’s (Dead Snow) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, and as Saoirse Ronan‘s mom in Neil Jordan’s (Interview with the Vampire) mother/daughter vampire drama Byzantium.
If you heathens think that Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky’sNoah project isn’t Clatto material, the casting of Jennifer Connelly should give you two reasons to reconsider … two beautiful, creamy white reasons.
Another reason is that the biblical story of Noah involves an angry God drowning humanity with a global flood, leaving Noah and his family and their zoo stranded on a big ship until Kevin Costner grows gills and swims out to discover land while Dennis Hopper chases him on a jetski.
Connelly will play Noah’s wife Naameh. The film reunites the Academy Award winning stunner with Aronofsky, who directed her in the meth drama Requiem for a Dream, in which her character performs a memorable lesbian ass-to-ass dildo scene.
Noah also re-teams Connelly with her Beautiful Mind costar Russell Crow, who plays the biblical icon. Teen up-and-comer Saoirse Ronan is also said to be on Aronofsky’s radar for a supporting role.
Paramount has set a March 28, 2014 release date for Noah with production slated to start in July.
Wild child Alessandra Torresani (“Caprica”) is set to star alongside old people actress Morgan Fairchild (The Seduction) in Echo Bridge’s new supernatural thriller Paranormal Initiation. Torresani plays one of three sorority sisters trapped inside a haunted house.
Torresani is best known for her portrayal of teen cylon Zoe Graystone on Syfy’s short-lived “Battlestar Galactica” spinoff “Caprica.” The 24-year-old starlet has also appeared on episodes of “American Horror Story,” “Warehouse 13,” “Bones” and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”
Up next for Torresani is writer/director Michael A. Nickles’ ghost story Playback, about a group of teens who pay the price for uncovering a small town’s secrets. The film is inspired by the mysterious 1888 disappearance of French inventor Louis Le Prince.
IFC Midnight has set a July 6 limited release date for writer/director Nicholas McCarthy’s feature film debut The Pact. The supernatural thriller stars “Death Valley’s” Caity Lotz (pictured) and Vacancy 2’s Agnes Bruckner as sisters haunted in the home of their deceased mother.
The Pact also stars Haley Hudson (Killer Pad), Kathleen Rose Perkins (The Island), Sam Ball (”The Event”) and Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers). It is based on the 2011 McCarthy short of the same name.
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.
