Swedish actress Helena Mattsson, best known for her nude turn in Species: The Awakening, is the latest to check into “666 Park Avenue,” a new supernatural pilot based on the book series by author Gabriella Pierce. The show is produced by writer David Wilcox (“Fringe”), Warner Bros. TV and Alloy Entertainment.
“666 Park Avenue” is set in a historic Manhattan apartment building where demonic forces are possessing the tenants. Other than her character’s name—Alexis—no details have been given about Mattsson’s role.
Costars include Rachael Taylor (”Charlie’s Angels’) and Dave Annabel (”Brothers & Sisters”), as the apartment supers; Terry O’Quinn (“LOST”) and Vanessa Williams (“Desperate Housewives”) as the building’s owners; and Mercedes Masöhn (”The Finder”) and Robert Buckley (”One Tree Hill”) as a photographer and playwright couple .
Jessica Biel is set to star in Fox Searchlight’s upcoming bio-pic “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.” She joins an all-star cast that includes Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as his wife Alma Reville, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh and James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins.
Directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil) from a script by John J. McLaughlin (Black Swan), the film follows Hitchcock as he overcomes various obstacles to bring Psycho to the big screen. Biel plays Vera Miles, the actress who starred as Lila Crane, sister to Leigh’s Marion Crane.
Biel, who made her genre debut in the 2003 Platinum Dunes remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, will next be seen in French director Pascal Laugier’s (Martyrs) English language feature debut The Tall ManandLen Wiseman’s (Underworld) upcoming Total Recall reboot.
“GCB” starlet Leslie Bibb is set to star alongside Hot Tub Time Machine’s Rob Corddry in Hell Baby, the feature directorial debut of “Reno 911” writers Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. The horror-comedy is produce by Darko Entertainment.
Bibb and Corddry will play an expectant couple living in a haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans. The duo look to the Vatican for help when they realize that a demon spawn is growing inside Bibb’s womb.
Bibb’s genre creds include the Clive Barker-produced Midnight Meat Train, Michael Dougherty’s beloved Halloween anthology Trick r’ Treat, and Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 1 & 2. She will next be seen in Takashi Shimizu’s (The Grudge) new airline frightener 7500.
Lingerie model-turned-actress Kara Tointon is a good reason to hop onboard newbie director Omid Nooshin’s runaway train thriller The Last Passenger. The Pathe International production follows a mass murderer as he attempts to slaughter a train full of innocent people.
Dougray Scott (Hitman) stars as a single dad trying to protect his son from the killer on the train. Tointon plays the flirtatious passenger who befriends him. Rounding out the cast are Lindsay Duncan (“Rome”), Iddo Goldberg (The Tourist) and David Schofield (The Wolfman).
Tointon is best known for her portrayal of Dawn Swan on the British soap “EastEnders.” Her only horror cred is the 2001 asylum-set frightener Never Play with the Dead.
“Ringer” star Zoey Deutch has joined writer/director Richard LaGravenese’s big screen adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s 1985 novel Beautiful Creatures. The romantic frightener follows a teenage couple who discover dark secrets about their families and town.
Alice Englert (Singularity) and Jack O’Connell (Eden Lake) play the story’s lovers, Lena and Ethan. Deutch has been cast as Ethan popular, but nasty, ex-girlfriend, Emily Asher. Emily Rossum (“Shameless”) also stars as a witch. Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis and Emma Thompson play the film’s old people.
Deutch can currently be seen on The CW’s Sarah Michelle Gellar comeback vehicle “The Ringer.” The 17-year-old up-and-comer was also a recurring on the Disney Channel’s “Suite Life on Deck.”
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first full-length trailer to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, a stand-alone sci-fi actioner that will reveal origins to Scott’s 1979 classic frightener Alien … and Noomi Rapace in her space undies. Co-written by Damon Lindelof (“LOST”), the film follows a team of scientists stranded on a hostile planet where no one will hear them scream.
Peep it:
The official synopsis reads:
In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system’s natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team discovers an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers.
A trailer for the Oren Peli-produced radioactive ghost town thriller Chernobyl Diaries has gone online. The project, announced back in November, is the first to be fully financed by FilmNation and was shot in Eastern Europe by F/X guru-turned-director Brad Parker (Let Me In).
The film, which follows a group of friends stranded in a town long believed to be abandoned after a nuclear disaster, stars Norwegian starlet Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (Cold Prey) Olivia Taylor Dudley (Chillerama), Jonathan Sadowski (Friday the 13) and Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek).
The buzz around director Brad Anderson’s (The Vanishing on 7th Street) new serial killer drama The Hive has just gotten buzzier: Academy award-winning actress Halle Berry has officially signed on to star in the Troika Pictures’ production.
Berry will play a 911 operator attempting to help a girl survive the clutches of a sadistic murderer. The film, written by Richard D’Ovidio (Thir13en Ghosts), will shoot in Los Angeles starting in June.
Berry is coming off the John Stockwell (Turistas) shark drama Dark Tide, available now on VOD and slated for a limited theatrical run on March 30. Previous genre creds include Perfect Stranger, Catwoman, Gothika, and the X-Men franchise.
Jessica Morris (pictured above), the topless star of Senior Skip Day and Role Models, stars alongside Ariana Madix (Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt) and Eric Roberts (The Cloth) in Full Moon Features’ new horror-comedy The Dead Want Women.
Directed by Charles Band (Puppet Master: The Legacy), The Dead Want Women centers on two girlfriends (Morris, Madix) who are haunted by horny ghosts while staying at a large, isolated mansion. The film arrives on DVD and VOD on May 15.
Rodrigo Santoro (“LOST”) is set to reprise his role as Persian king Xerxes in Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ 300: Rise of an Empire (formerly titled 300: Battle of Artemisia), a companion piece to the Zack Snyder-directed blockbuster 300.
He tells Omelete:
The movie is set at the same time. The idea is to show another point of view. While that battle from the first 300 is taking place, there were others going on…
Actually, it’s all of this and then there is an intersection point with the first movie. It goes back and then goes beyond that. That was the initial concept.
Snyder returns as producer and cowriter on a script loosely based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel. “Camelot’s” Eva Green is already attached to play Artemisia, the golden goddess who leads Xerxes into battle against Athenian general Themistokles.
Noam Murro (Smart People) will direct the project, which is set to shoot early next year.
