Back in February, news dropped that American Pie starlet Tara Reid had scored a dramatically challenging role in a tsunami thriller that Clatto was sure would rival Naomi Watts’ Oscar-nominated performance in The Impossible. Today, it becomes apparent how right we were.
Reid is starring in Sharknado.
Originally titled Dark Skies, the story was said to follow a divorced Venice Beach bar owner as he searches for his estranged family after a flood drowns his city. Making the quest more difficult are the man-eating sharks hunting the flooded streets.
Pretty good, right? Well, good wasn’t enough for director Anthony C. Ferrante and writer Thunder Levin. They’re out for genius. That is why they’ve thrown a tornado into the mix… a tornado that scoops up the sharks and hurls them at flood survivors jaws first.
Sharknado is everything you had hoped The Impossible had been. Here’s hoping Reid is as committed to the role as Watt’s was to hers and shows off a buoy or two. No word yet on when the Asylum-produced epic will release.
“Cold Case” star Kathryn Morris is set to join director Dante Tomaselli’s remake of the 1976 slasher Alice, Sweet Alice. Morris will play Catherine Spages, a single mom to two daughters, one of which is emotionally disturbed and suspect in the death of the other.
In keeping with the spirit of the original, Kathryn’s character will look and feel similar, strikingly beautiful, perfectly sculpted dark hair, fiercely protective of her children and plagued by deep Catholic guilt.
Morris has starred in a string of notable genre films, including the Steven Spielberg sci-fi thrillers Minority Report and A.I. Artificial Intelligence, John Woo’s Paycheck, Renny Harlins underrated serial killer actioner Mindhunters, The Prophecy II opposite Christopher Walken and the sex-comedy Cougars, Inc.
She is best known, however, for playing Det. Lily Rush for seven seasons on the hit CBS crime procedural “Cold Case.”
The only thing that could scare horror fans from Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes is its title. The flick sounds like the story of a young French woman’s journey from Milan to Minsk. And, yet, there are creepy overtones that suggest Francesca Gregorini’s film may indeed be a disturbing psychological thriller.
The film is about an emotionally disturbed teen girl’s (Kaya Scodelario) obsession with the single mom (Biel) who’s moved into her neighborhood, a woman with an uncanny resemblance to her deceased mother. Things get trippy when the young girl offers to babysit the woman’s newborn.
Canadian actress Sarah Gadon is set to reunite with her Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis director David Cronenberg for Entertainment One and Prospero Pictures’ upcoming ghost story Maps to the Stars. She joins Julianne Moore (Carrie), John Cusack (Hot Tub Time Machine) and Robert Pattinson (Twilight).
Written by Bruce Wagner (Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors), Maps to the Stars is described as a supernatural “critique of celebrity-obsessed society in Los Angeles.” Cameras are slated to roll in July in Los Angeles and Toronto.
Gabon can currently be seen in the art-house frightener Antiviral, directed by Cronenberg’s son Brandon. Previous creds include Mary Harron’s (American Psycho) teen vampire thriller The Moth Diaries, Jim Sheridan’s (My Left Foot) Dream House and the short-lived ABC horror series “Happy Town.”
Marvel Studios has released six-minutes of behind-the-scenes footage from its upcoming sequel Iron Man 3. The clip provides a glimpse at the making-of action sequences and shows Robert Downey Jr. working with the Iron Man suits.
Directed and written by Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), the new entry in the blockbuster franchise finds Tony Stark (Downey Jr.) seeking vengeance against a villain named the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) after his “personal world is destroyed.”
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.
Faster than a speeding bullet, Warner Bros. has released a new 3-minute trailer for director Zach Snyder (300) and writer David S. Goyer’s (“FlashForward”) 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.
This time out, the trailer provides a glimpse at Clark Kent’s childhood and adolescence, the meaning of the emblem on his chest and a look at Superman’s two dads: Russell Crowe as Jor-El and Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent.
Man of Steel flies into theaters on June 14, 2013.
