Imagine Men In Black with ghosts instead of aliens and you’ve got Universal Pictures’ R.I.P.D., a supernatural buddy-cop actioner from director Robert Schwentke (Red), starring Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges and Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated model Marisa Miller.
Reynolds and Bridges play lawmen-turned-ghosts working paranormal crime for a police unit known as the Rest in Peace Department. Miller, making her feature film acting debut, is Bridges’ avatar—his human form among the living.
The pilot episode of Amazon Studios’ “Zombieland” will premiere online on April 19.. The show is based on the 2009 horror-comedy starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin and Emma Stone as an unlikely band of zombie apocalypse survivors.
Written by original Zombieland scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the pilot picks up where the original film left off and stars people named Kirk Ward as Tallahassee, Tyler Rossas Columbus and Izabela Vidovic as Little Rock. “Switched at Birth” and “Desperate Housewives” stunner Maiara Walshplays Wichita.
With the exception of Walsh, casting leaves a bit to be desired. Ward stepping into Woody Harrelson’s boots just doesn’t tickle one’s pickle, though props for nutting up to the challenge must be given. But, hey, decide for yourselves on April 19. It’s free to watch on Amazon.
British actress Kelly Reilly (Eden Lake) has signed on to star as the female lead in Randall Wallace’s Heaven Is for Real, a faith-based drama about a four-year-old boy who claims to have seen heaven after having a near-death experience during emergency surgery.
The film is based on Nebraska pastor Todd Burpo and his wife Lynn Vincent’s New York Times bestseller “Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back.” According to the book, no one believed his young son up until he started to say things about heaven that no one would know.
I’m guessing it’s ice cream.
Reilly, along with Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine) will play the boy’s parents. Reilly is best known for her starring role in the British horror film Eden Lake and for playing Mary Watson in Warner Bros. Sherlock Holmes franchise, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.
“What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas” isn’t such a fun motto when what’s left behind is your kidney. That’s what five best buds discover when they’re lured by gorgeous strippers to an organ trafficker during a night of drunken debauchery.
Described as The Hangover meets Hostel, Stripped is directed by J.M.R. Luna and stars Nathalie Walker, Jenni Burns, and Greek model Christina Aloupi (pictured) as the malicious lapdancers and Nicole Sienna, Joshua Cole, Carson Aune, Alvaro Orlando and Joseph Buttler as the ill-fated friends.
Electra Avellan of the Avellan Twins, stars of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror and the Machete franchise, is a producer on the film, slated for DVD release on May 14 from Inception Media. To cash in on some pics and info, visit StrippedtheMovie.
