Oblivion star and former Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko is set join Reliance Entertainment and IM Global’s Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, an adaptation of Richelle Mead’s bestselling young-adult book series from Mean Girls director Mark Waters and Heathers scribe Daniel Waters.
Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters follows the relationship between 17-year-old Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) and her vampire BFF Lissa (Lucy Fry) as they attend St. Vladimir’s Academy, a school for vamps who wish to retain their humanity. According to Deadline, Kurylenko will play headmistress Kirova.
Kurylenko was best known for her portrayal of revenge-seeking Bond girl Camille Montes in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace up until this year’s hit sci-fi snorefest Oblivion. The Ukrainian stunner can also be seen in Neil Marshall’s Centurion and the big-screen video game adaptations Hitman and Max Payne.
Monarch Home Entertainment has set a May 21 DVD release date for director Christian Charles’ (Comedian) new horror-comedy Love Sick Love, starring “Gossip Girl” regular Matthew Settle and “Dexter” season seven stunner Katia Winter.
Winter plays Dori, an attractive woman whose infatuation with a slick New York businessman (Settle) leads her to abduct him and force him to spend a year’s worth of holidays with her over the course of one very dangerous weekend.
Winter is coming off season seven of Showtime’s “Dexter,” in which she toplessly played Russian stripper Nadia. She will next be seen inThe Banshee Chapter, a drug-thriller from actor/producer Zachary Quinto’s Before the Door and the Fox pilot “Sleepy Hollow,” a re-imagining of the Washington Irvingclassic.
If you only take your hands out of your pants once this year, make sure it’s to play The Evil Within, a new survival horror game from Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami and producers Bethesda Softworks and Jango Gameworks. The game will available for Xbox 360, PS3, PCs and next generation consoles.
Synopsis reads:
Shinji Mikami, the father of survival horror, is back to direct The Evil Within™ – a game embodying the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story weave together to create an immersive world that will bring players to the height of tension.
Beautiful Creatures star Alice Englert stars alongside “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” actor Iain De Caestecker in StudioCanal’s road trip thriller In Fear. Directed by Jeremy Lovering, the film finds the couple terrorized while en route to a music festival held in the English countryside.
The synopsis reads:
Trapped in a maze of country roads with only their vehicle for protection, Tom and Lucy are terrorized by an unseen tormentor exploiting their worst fears. Eventually they realize they’ve let the evil in – it’s sitting in their car.
It’s her. I bet she stops for too many pee breaks and fucks with the stereo and A/C.
A trailer for writer and director Dan Walton’s new thriller Bind has gone online. The film stars Edward Furlong (Terminator 2: Judgement Day), Kane Hodder (Hatchet III), Playboy model and scream queen Christa Campbell (Drive Angry) and SAW II stunner Emmanuelle Vaugier (pictured).
The synopsis reads:
A family move into an abandoned orphanage and they soon learn that their charming orphanage has a disturbing history and is convinced they aren’t alone.
Vaugier is best known to genre fans for her roles on The CW’s “Smallville,” Showcase’s “Lost Girl,” the CBS crime procedural “CSI: NY” and the horror sequels Mirrors 2, House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim, SAW II and SAW IV.
Dark Sky Films and ArieScope Pictures have released a red-band trailer for Hatchet III, the second sequel in the popular slasher franchise created by Adam Green and starring Danielle Harris (Halloween) as protagonist Marybeth and Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th) as supernatural backwoods killer Victor Crowley.
Written by Green and directed by BJ McDonnell, Hatchet III follows a search and recovery team as they set out to investigate Crowley’s murders at Honey Island Swamp. Marybeth, meanwhile, seeks for the truth behind the killer’s immortality.
I’ve always found the Victor Crowley character to be lame and goofy-looking, but the first two films’ kills were totally creative and fun. Judging by its new trailer, Hatchet III is going to be nuts. The film will play selected theaters on June 14 and arrive on DVD and Blu-ray on Aug. 13.
Walmart announced today that it has partnered up with Warner Bros. to provide customers with an exclusive opportunity to watch an early screening of Zach Snyder’s upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill as the son of Jor-El , Amy Adams as Lois Lane and Michael Shannon as General Zod.
The press release reads:
Tickets for the exclusive screening of Man of Steel will go on sale in more than 3,700 Walmart stores starting at 8 a.m. on May 18.
Customers will be able to purchase up to four tickets per visit, and have the option to choose between 2D or 3D showings, where applicable.
The advance screening will take place in selected local theaters nationwide at 7 p.m. on June 13.
The deal is the first of its kind and sounds pretty cool except for the fact that you’ll be sitting next to Walmart customers so don’t be surprised if your neighbor’s arm flab spills into your seat or if you get stabbed in the throat with a meat thermometer for shushing the tattooed parents of eight seated in front of you.
If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll just end up sitting next to an old man who’s crapped his pants.
Gemma Arterton (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect) are joining Ryan Reynolds (R.I.P.D.) in Voices, a psychological thriller from Iranian director Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and screenwriter Michael R. Perry (Paranormal Activity).
Voices tells the story of a bathtub factory employee (Reynolds) who falls for a woman working in accounting only to have homicidal issues later threaten their union. As for the voices, they belong to factory employee’s evil cat and his morally sound dog. No word on what roles Arterton and Kendrick play.
Deadline broke the story and reports that the project is set to shoot in Berlin.
Arterton is coming off Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. and will next be seen in Neil Jordan’s mother-daughter vampire thriller Byzantium. Kendrick’s creds include the Twilight Saga and Universal’s ParaNorman. She stars in the upcoming end-of-days comedy Rapturepalooza.
Marvel Studios has released the first trailer for Thor: The Dark World, the eagerly anticipated sequel to Kenneth Branagh’s 2011 blockbuster Thor. Helmed by “Game of Thrones” director Alan Taylor, Dark World looks far more epic and exciting than Branagh’s meh original.
Thor: The Dark World finds the Norse god bringing the hammer down on Malekith the Accursed, ruler of the dark Elves of Svartálfaheimr.
The film sees the return of Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Natalie Portman as his girl Jane Foster, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Anthony Hopkins as Odin, stunner Jaimie Alexander as Sif and Kat Dennings as busty researcher Darcy Lewis. Christopher Eccleston (The Others) joins the cast as Malekith.
XLrator Media has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Banshee Chapter, a mind-bending thriller from actor/producer Zachary Quinto’s Before the Door Pictures shingle, starring Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs), Michael McMillian (“True Blood”) andSwedish stunner Katia Winter (“Dexter”).
Quinto said:
In keeping with our commitment to foster first-time feature directors, Before the Door is proud of our collaboration with The Banshee Chapter writer/director Blair Erickson.
He has created a movie that is as scary as it is intelligent and rooted in a fascinating and factual historical context.
We’re excited about partnering with XLrator Media to bring this unique vision to audiences this fall.
The Banshee Chapter follows a female journalist as she searches for a friend who has gone missing after experimenting with “mind-altering chemicals developed in secret government drug tests.” The film, based on true accounts, is described as a fast-paced blend of fact and fiction.”
The deal was announced last week. No word yet on a release date.
