Relativity Media has released the first official trailer to its Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger Games) toplined frightener The House at the End of the Street. The Mark Tonderai-directed film, which costars Elisabeth Shue (Piranha 3-D) and Max Thieriot (Chloe), arrives in theaters on Sept. 21.
House at the End of the Street revolves around a teen girl (Lawrence) and her mother (Shue) who discover that the house across from her new home was the scene of a brutal murder. Things complicate further when the girl befriends the deceased family’s surviving son (Thieriot).
Actress Rosario Dawson and “Walking Dead” producer Gale Anne Hurd are developing a supernatural drama for A&E based on the graphic novel O.C.T. (Occult Crimes Taskforce), created by Dawson and David Atchison. “Homicide: Life on the Street” writer Jorge Zamacona will pen the pilot.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dawson will star as Sophia Ortiz, a new member of the NYPD’s O.C.T., a bureau “established after the Civil War to make the New York City streets safe from practitioners of black magic, demons from another dimension and all manner of supernatural malcontents.”
Dawson is best known to genre fans for her roles in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City. Additional creds include D.J. Caruso’s tech-thriller Eagle Eye, Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black II and Chris Columbus’ Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
Fifteen-year-old actress Chloe Moretz (Dark Shadows)has been offered the iconic role of Carrie White in MGM and Screen Gems’ Kimberly Peirce-directed adaptation of the 1974 Stephen King bestseller Carrie. Moretz reportedly beat out Haley Bennett (Haunting of Molly Hartley) and Dakota Fanning (Twilight Saga) for the role.
Carrie tells the story of a bullied high school teen who develops deadly telepathic powers when she reaches puberty. After suffering a humiliating prank at her school’s prom, she freaks the fuck out and uses her new found skills to punish her classmates and her religiously retarded mother.
King’s novel was first adapted for the big screen in 1976 by Brian De Palma and starred Sissy Spacek as Carrie, Piper Laurie as her deranged mother and Amy Irving, William Katt and John Travolta as bullies.
Moretz is coming off Martin Scorsese’s epic fantasy Hugo, a Best Picture nominee at the 2012 Oscars. Notable genre creds include Matt Reeves’ Let Me In, the Michael Mann-produced Texas Killing Fields, Platinum Dunes’ The Amityville Horror (her scary movie debut) and, of course, Matthew Vaughn’s Kick Ass, in which she stole the show as pint-sized hero Hit-Girl.
Anchor Bay Films has released a new trailer for its long delayed remake of the 1980 Troma rape/revenge thriller Mother’s Day. Rebecca De Mornay (Hand That Rocks the Cradle) stars as the demented matriarch tasked with helping her two criminal sons pull off a home invasion.
The film is directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and costarsJaime King (My Bloody Valentine 3-D), Deborah Ann Woll (”True Blood”), A.J. Cook (”Criminal Minds”), Briana Evigan (Burning Bright), Alexa Vega (Repo! The Genetic Opera) and some dudes.
Mother’s Day will have a limited run in theaters on May 4. Home editions will follow on May 8. Peep the trailer:
Imagine Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof with more bikinis and less showy dialogue and you’ve got director Jim Valdez’ Machine Head. Sharon Hinnendael, who also stars in the insanely awesome Rites of Passage with Briana Evigan, toplines the film.
Peep it:
The film’s synopsis reads:
The desert of Los Ranchos, CA isn’t your standard spring break hot spot but when Rachel’s (Hinnendael) high powered father gives her the keys to a beautiful desert home, she decides to make the most of it.
Spring break will most certainly be filled with her friends, some boys, cocktails and fun. Once away from the city, they find themselves being followed by a menacing hot rod on the highway. They quickly wish they’d gone anywhere else as a masked stalker hunts them through the desert heat.
Finally at the lavish vacation pad, the trouble they had on the road appears to be a distant memory …. until the doorbell rings late one night and Machine Head unleashes a hell unlike they’ve ever seen.
Machine Head costars Nicole Zeoli (The Telling), Christina Corigliano (Sand Sharks), Morissa O’Mara (The Cottage), Alana O’Mara (The Cottage), Robert Adamson (“Lincoln Heights”), Brett Howell (iMurders) and Blake Baskin (Last Day on Earth).
Posted above is the first official still from Relativity Media’s Mark Tonderai-directed frightener House at the End of the Street. The image depicts Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger Games) and her two beautiful costars in a state of terror.
The film concerns a teen girl (Lawrence) and her mother (Elisabeth Shue) who discover that the house across from her new home was the scene of a brutal murder. Things complicate further when the girl befriends the deceased family’s surviving son (Max Thieriot).
House at the End of the Street costars Krista Bridges (Land of the Dead), Gil Bellows (“Ally McBeal”), Nolan Gerard Funk (Deadgirl), Jon McLaren (Metal Tornado), Jonathan Malen (Mean Girls), and Joy Tanner (“Degrassi: The Next Generation”).
“Criminal Minds” alumna A.J. Cook is set to star as the female lead in Devil Inside writer and director William Brent Bell’s new found-footage frightener Wer. The 33-year-old Canadian stunner will play a defense attorney whose client ends up being a werewolf, reports BD.
The FilmDistrict project, written by Bell and Devil Inside scribe Matthew Peterman, is slated to shoot next month in Bucharest, Romania.
Cook, best known for her role as Special Agent Jennifer “J.J.” Jareau on the CBS crime-drama “Criminal Minds,” can also be seen in Final Destination 2, Ripper, Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell, The House Next Door and director Darren Lynn Bousman’s “Mother’s Day” remake.
Hairy lesbian lovers rejoice! Magnolia Pictures’ Sapphic werewolf thriller Jack & Diane has received an R-rating from the MPAA for “strong sexual content including nudity and an assault, bloody violence, language and drinking—all involving teens.”
Jack and Diane stars Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough as a harden New York City dyke determined to keep her latest out-of-town conquest Diane, played by Juno Temple, from leaving. What Jack doesn’t know is that Diane’s lesbian-awakening has unleashed her animalistic nature.
The film is directed by some guy named Bradley Rust Gray and costars Cara Seymour (American Psycho) and Aussie pop singer Kylie Minogue. The long-delayed film will have its premiere next month at the Tribeca Film Festival.
“Californication’s” Camilla Luddington has staked a recurring role on season five of HBO’s vampire soap “True Blood.” The 28-year-old British stunner will play Claudette, a faerie confidant for Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin).
Luddington joins newcomers Kelly Overton (The Ring Two), Lucy Griffiths (“Robin Hood”), Peter Mensah (“Spartacus”), Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone), Louis Herthum (Last Exorcism), Carolyn Hennesy (“Cougar Town”) and Scott Foley (“Scrubs”).
Luddington has toiled around Hollywood for about two years, guest starring in a number of forgettable TV projects. This year, she’s taken on the breakthrough role of Lizzie, Charlie Runkle’s nanny-turned-lover, on Showtime’s hilarious hit series “Californication.”
If picked up, the series will follow retired FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) as he returns to the bureau to help track down Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), a serial killing cult leader utilizing the internet to recruit accomplices. Grace will play a doctor who is the killer’s only surviving victim.
Grace, best known for her portrayal of spoiled rich girl Shannon Rutherford on ABC’s Emmy-winning drama “LOST,” made her major horror film debut in the 2005 remake of John Carpenter’sThe Fog.
Additional genre creds include Malice in Wonderland, a clever retelling of the “Alice in Wonderland” fable, and parts one and two of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. The 28-year-old stunner will next be seen in producer Luc Besson’s Lockout.
