“Twin Peaks” star Sherilyn Fenn stars in The Asylum’s new creature-feature Big Foot, set to premiere on the Syfy Channel later this year. Actor-turned-sometime-director Bruce Davison helms the project about lifelong rivals hunting down the legendary beast.
Fenn joins a cast that includes Davison (X2), Andre Royo (“The Wire”), Howard Hesseman (“Head of the Class”), rockers Alice Cooper and Billy Idol, and Barry Williams (“The Brady Bunch”) and Danny Bonaduce (“The Partridge Family”) as the Big Foot hunters.
Unfortunately, time has not been kind to Fenn, whom your penis probably still remembers as sultry sex kitten Audrey Horne on the David Lynch ABC series “Twin Peaks.” If only someone had really amputated the Boxing Helena star’s limbs, she would have never gotten her hands on so many Taco Bell burritos. Damn you, Jennifer Lynch!
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first teaser-trailer for producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov’s upcoming period-frightener Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Directed by Bekmambetov, the film is an adaptation of author Seth Grahame-Smith’s best-selling novel in which the 16th president of the United States is revealed to have been a vampire slayer.
The film stars Benjamin Walker (Flags of Our Fathers) as Honest Abe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Thing) as his wife Mary Todd, Anthony Mackie (Real Steel) as Secretary of State/vampire killer William Seward and Dominic Cooper (Captain America) as Lincoln’s vamp-killing mentor Henry Sturges. It arrives in theaters on June 22.
Lionsgate has set an April 24 DVD release date for director Jonathan Glendening’s Night Wolf (formerly titled 13HRS). The film marks the horror film acting debut of British model-turned-actress Gemma Atkinson.
I hope it’s the first of many as I loved it! What drew me to the role is the fact that it’s a horror movie; I love a good gory movie. Yes, many of them are cheesy and predictable, but there’s something about them which we all love. It was also a good story and a great cast and crew, so I was thrilled to be involved.
Night Wolf tells the story of a dysfunctional family trapped in their house during a violent storm while a bloodthirsty creature hunts them down. Toplining the film are Isabella Calthorpe and Harry Potter franchise star Tom Felton.
Atkinson will also be seen later this year in Black and Blue Films’ in-flight frightener Airborne. The busty (34-E!) stunner is best known for playing self-cutter Lisa Hunter on the British teen-soap “Hollyoaks” and its various spinoffs.
French model-turned-actress Léa Seydoux is set to topline writer/director Christophe Gans’ dark re-imagining of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. The 26-year-old stunner will star opposite Black Swan’s Vincent Cassel in the Eskwad and Pathé production.
Seydoux is coming off the Tom Cruise blockbuster Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, in which she played a super-sexy, diamond-loving assassin. Additional creds include roles in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
Beauty and the Beast will roll camera in October. The film is Gans’ first directorial project since 2006’s creepy Radha Mitchell-starrer Silent Hill.
Universal Pictures’ remake of John Carpenter’s The Thing may have gotten the cold shoulder at the box office last year, but that isn’t keeping its star Mary Elizabeth Winstead from taking on more horror shows.
The 27-year-old looker has just signed on to star in director Daniel Stamm’s (The Last Exorcism) The Darkness, a loose adaptation of the Henry James novel “Turn of the Screw,” scripted by Megan Holley (Sunshine Cleaning).
The Darkness finds Winstead playing an American student, who while babysitting her tutor’s children in an English manor, comes to believe that they are being haunted by malevolent spirits. Production on the film will begin this summer in Europe.
Winstead will next be seen in director/producer Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Her creds include Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, Hideo Nakata’s The Ring 2 and the James Wong frighteners Final Destination 3 and Black Christmas.
Focus Features has released a trailer for screenwriter Lorene Scafaria’s (Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist) directorial debut Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, an apocalyptic romantic-dramedy starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley (pictured).
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The official synopsis reads:
Set in a too-near future, a man searches for a meaningful connection as humanity’s last days are at hand. Can he find his greatest love at the worst possible time? As the respective journeys of Dodge and Penny converge, the two spark to each other and their outlooks – if not the world’s – brighten.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World costars Connie Britton (“American Horror Story”), Patton Oswalt (Young Adult), William Petersen (“CSI”), Adam Brody (Scream 4), Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), Melanie Lynskey (“Two and a Half Men”) and Gillian Jacobs (“Community”).
Danny Trejo is a Mexi-can, not a Mexi-can’t. That is why the tatted, 67-year-old genre legend is reprising his role as former Mexican Federale Machete Cortez in Robert Rodriguez’s recently greenlit sequel Machete Kills.
The film, which shoots in April, follows Machete as he’s recruited by the U.S. government to bring down the Mexican cartel head and the billionaire arms dealer plotting to create global warfare by creating and utilizing a high-tech space weapon.
Posted above is the Machete Kills sales poster to be displayed at this year’s European Film Market (courtesy of Coming Soon). According to Rodriguez, a second sequel, Machete Kills Again … In Space, will complete his Machete trilogy.
“Melrose Place” starlet Jessica Lucas returns to The CW to topline its new pilot “Cult.” The 26-year-old Canadian looker will play Skye, a production assistant on the popular crime show “Cult” who teams up with a news blogger to investigate a series of disappearances linked to its fans.
Deadline reports that Alien Nation and “Farscape” scribe Rockne S. O’Bannon has penned the pilot script and will produce with Fake Empire and Warner Bros. TV.
Lucas, last seen on NBC’s short-lived comedy series “Friends with Benefits,” is best known for her portrayal of first-grade teacher Riley Richmond on Fox TV’s now defunct “Melrose Place” reboot. Horror fans, however, will recognize Lucas from her roles in producer J.J. Abrams’ Cloverfield and director Renny Harlin’s teen-warlock thriller The Covenant.
A sales trailer for Darclight Films’ upcoming shark frightener Bait 3-D has finally surfaced online. Set in Queensland, Australia, the Kimble Rendall-directed film finds a group of tsunami survivors trapped in a supermarket with violent thieves and man-eating sharks
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The synopsis reads:
In a sleepy beach community, shoppers at an underground supermarket are terrorized by a crazed bandit when the unimaginable occurs: A monstrous freak tsunami swallows the town. Now trapped, with rushing water threatening to entomb them in a watery grave, the survivors discover they are not alone.
The tsunami has brought unwanted visitors from the depths. Not only must they overcome the threat of drowning and the predator within their midst, but a threat far more deadly and far more bloodthirsty – packs of hungry tiger sharks.
A full-length trailer for Sony Pictures’ The Amazing Spiderman has hit the web. Based on the Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley “Ultimate Spiderman” comics, the reboot serves as an origins story that finds our friendly neighborhood crime fighter back in high school.
The Marc Webb-directed film stars Andrew Garfield (Spiderman), Emma Stone (Gwen Stacy), Denis Leary (Capt. George Stacy), Rhys Ifans (The Lizard), Chris Zylka (Flash Thompson), Sally Field (May Parker), Martin Sheen (Ben Parker) and C. Thomas Howell as the Soul Man.
The Amazing Spiderman swings into theaters on July 3.
