German actress Antje Traue is the latest to join director Sergei Bodrov’s TheSeventh Son, an adaptation of author Joseph Delaney’s “The Wardstone Chronicles,” the first volume in his young-adult series “The Spook’s Apprentice.”
The film stars Ben Barnes as exorcist-in-training Tom Ward, Jeff Bridges as his mentor Master Gregory (AKA: The Spook) and Julianne Moore as evil witch Mother Malkin. It’s unknown at this time what role Traue will play.
Traue made her American feature film debut as genetic engineer Nadia in 2009’s criminally underrated sci-fi survival frightener Pandorum. She will next be seen as villainess Faora in director Zach Snyder’s Superman reboot Man of Steel.
Newcomer Michelle Argyris makes her movie acting debut in first-time director Greg A. Sager’s Devil Seed. Argyris, whom those of you who watch too much TV will recognize from her hilarious and sexy Axe Body Spray commercial, plays a college coed possessed by a demon.
Originally entitled Darkness, Devil Seed finds college student Alexandra (Argyris) slowly consumed from the inside by an evil entity conjured up during a psychic reading gone wrong. Shantelle Canzanese and Vanessa Broze play her hot, but worthless, roommates.
British actress Anna Walton stars in award-winning FX artist Paul Hyett’s (Woman in Black) upcoming directorial debut The Seasoning House. Written by Hyett, the revenge thriller is described as a cross between Pan’s Labyrinth and Martyrs.
Peep the synopsis:
THE SEASONING HOUSE is a stylish, claustrophobic, nightmarish neo-horror about Angel, a young Balkan girl forced to work in a rape house during an unspecified war. After killing a militiaman, she goes on the run.
Rape house? I could be wrong, but I do believe that was the plot-line to the very last entry in the successful Kid ‘n Play House Party franchise. Boy, were Kid’s parents mad when they got home unexpectedly early that night!
Joining walton in The Seasoning House are Sean Pertwee (Doomsday), Jemma Powell (Alice in Wonderland), Kevin Howarth (Gallowwalker) and 17-year-old Rosie Day (“Bernard’s Watch”) as Angel.
Genre fans will recognize Walton from her roles as Princess Nuala in Guillermo del Toro’s Hell Boy II: The Golden Army and protector Severian in Simon Hunter’s Mutant Chronicles. The 31-year-old stunner also played Robinson Crusoe’s wife on the short-lived NBC adventure series “Crusoe.”
“LOST” star Terry O’Quinn is taking up residence at “666 Park Avenue,” a new supernatural drama set up at ABC by writer David Wilcox (“Fringe”), Warner Bros. TV and Alloy Entertainment, publishers of the Gabriella Pierce book series the show is based on.
O’Quinn plays Gavin, the owner of a historic apartment building in New York City that houses a coven of witches whose practices endanger the lives of the building’s tenants, including the young couple who serve as its managers. Alex Graves (“West Wing”) directs the pilot.
O’Quinn is coming off a multi-episode arch on the CBS revamp “Hawaii Five-O.” He’s beloved by genre fans for his Emmy-winning role as John Locke on J.J. Abrams’ “LOST” and as former FBI agent Peter Watts on Chris Carter’s “Millennium.”
Norwegian model-turned-actress Natassia Malthe is set to star in director Dan Walton’s upcoming horror mystery In From the Outside. Malthe, best known for her role as vampire Rayne in Uwe Boll’s BloodRayne franchise, will play the fairer half of a couple trapped at a roadside dinner.
The film’s synopsis reads:
Three couples from different walks of life find themselves at a fifties themed roadside diner, soon they realize they may be at the cafe for another reason when one by one, each of the patrons begin to disappear under mysterious circumstances.
Malthe, who is coming off Boll’s In the Name of King 2, can also be seen in Universal’s Alone in the Dark 2, the werewolf thriller Skinwalkers, superhero flick Electra (she shared a kiss with Jennifer Garner), Halloween: Resurrection, the David E. Kelly penned creature-feature Lake Placid, and the awesome DOA: Dead or Alive.
Nasty little porn queen Sophie Dee took a short hiatus from fucking groups of angry black men to star in the horror short Unmimely Demise. Featured in the upcoming anthology Theater of the Deranged II, the film follows a murderous mime who kills with invisible weapons.
Unmimely Demise is directed by some guy named James Cullen Bressack and stars a bunch of people you don’t know, including Alexei Ryan whose performance as Cheeky the Mime trumps Jean Dujardin’s silent turn in The Artist.
Dee’s most notable creds include the family classics I’ll Take It Black 3, Drink from the Stink, My Daughter Is Fucking Blackzilla and Irritable Bowel Syndrome … as if you didn’t already know. Peep the trailer:
This Sunday, while most of you are busy worshipping the baby Jesus, model/actress and former “World Poker Tour” hostess Sabina Gadecki will be hard at work on Caliber Media’s new monster movie Dark Was the Night.
The 28-year-old, Massachusetts-born stunner joins a cast that includes Kevin Durand (“LOST”), Lukas Haas (Red Riding Hood), Heath Freeman (“Bones”) and Nick Damici (Stake Land). Jack Heller directs from a 2009 Black List script written by Tyler Hisel.
Dark Was the Night follows a group of desperate townsfolk as they attempt to survive an evil beast freed from the woods by a careless logging company. Durand and Haas play the town’s sheriff and deputy. No word on Gadecki’s role, but let’s hope she lives long enough to get a shower scene.
Gael Garcia Bernal (pictured above … if you look really hard) is set to topline 20th Century Fox’s Zorro: Reborn, an outside-the-box reboot that finds the Spanish swashbuckler turning vigilante in a post apocalyptic wasteland … well, at least he isn’t a vampire.
Zorro: Reborn is written by Glenn Gers, the scribe behind the surprisingly taut Anthony Hopkins/ Ryan Gosling crime thriller Fracture, and newcomers Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy, whose Dracula based script Harker is set up at Warner Bros.
Bernal’s genre creds include Michel Gondry’s fantasy-romancer The Science of Sleep and Fernando Meirelles’ outbreak thriller Blindness, opposite Julianne Moore. He is, however, best known for his work in dramas The Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien and Amores Perros.
The CW has targeted its former “Gossip Girl” and “Supernatural” star Katie Cassidy to play the female lead in their upcoming superhero pilot “Arrow,” an adaptation of DC Comics’ “Green Arrow,” starring Stephen Amell as the vigilante superhero.
Cassidy will play attorney and ex-Green Arrow flame Dinah “Laurel” Lance, aka Black Canary. David Nutter (“Entourage”) is attached to direct from a script by writers/producers Andrew Kreisberg (“Warehouse 13”), Greg Berlanti (“No Ordinary Family”) and Marc Guggenheim (Green Lantern).
Cassidy, daughter to ’70s teen idol David Cassidy, has starred in a string of notable genre projects including Platinum Dunes’ A Nightmare On Elm Street, Dimension’s Black Christmas, Screen Gems’ When a Stranger Calls and the short-lived CBS mystery series “Harper’s Island.”
“Smallville” alumna Kristin Kreuk is set to star in The CW pilot “Beauty and the Beast,” a re-imagining that Deadline reports to be loosely based on the CBS series that ran in the late ’80s with Linda Hamilton and Ron Pearlman in the lead roles.
The re-do finds Kreuk playing beauty as a tough NYPD cop named Catherine who protects the identity of the man/beast vigilante—the victim of a military experiment gone bad—who avenged her mother’s murder nine years ago.
Kreuk is best known for her role as Clark Kent’s love interest Lana Lang on The CW’s “Smallville.” The Canadian stunner can also be seen in Shunji Iwai’s indie-pleaser Vampire with Rachael Leigh Cook, the less pleasing Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li and the hilarious comedy EuroTrip.
