Ashley Judd is set to star in Summit Entertainment’s Divergent, a Neil Burger (Limitless) directed adaptation of Veronica Roth’s debut novel of the same name, the first in a young-adult trilogy about a dystopian future in which people are divided into a caste system based on their personality traits.
Heatvision reports that Judd will play the mother of a young woman who doesn’t belong to any group and is out to end the war among the people. The film also stars Kate Winslet, Aaron Eckhart, Theo James, Ray Stevenson, Tony Goldwyn, Zoe Kravitz, Maggie Q and Shailene Woodley as Judd’s daughter.
Judd’s genre creds include William Friedkin’s junkie thriller Bug and the serial killer dramas Twisted, Eye of the Beholder and Kiss the Girls, an adaptation of James Patterson’s Alex Cross crime novel. She’ll always be remembered, however, for flashing her wynonna at the 1998 Oscars.
Sucker Punch and Limitless star Abbie Cornish has been tapped to play the female lead in Solace, a serial killer drama directed by Afonso Poyart (Two Rabbits) and co-starring Colin Farrell and Academy Award-winner Anthony Hopkins.
Written by Ted Griffin (“Terriers”), James Vanderbilt (Zodiac), Peter Morgan (Hereafter) and Tron producer Sean Bailey, Solace follows an FBI agent and a doctor (Hopkins) with clairvoyant abilities as they hunt down a serial killer. According to Variety, the film will shoot in May. No word on what role Cornish plays.
Cornish is coming off Martin McDonagh’s comedic crime thriller Seven Psychopaths. She will next be seen alongside “The Killing’s” Joel Kinnamanas in director Jose Padilha’s remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi classic Robocop. She plays wife to Kinnamanas’ Alex Murphy.
Production has begun on Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow’s Jupiter Ascending, a new sci-fi adventure from Andy and Lana Wachowski (The Matrix), starring Mila Kunis (Oz, the Great and Powerful) and Channing Tatum (Magic Mike).
The synopsis reads:
Jupiter Jones (Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks.
Only when Caine (Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along – her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.
Jupiter Ascending co-stars Eddie Redmayne (Les Misérables), Douglas Booth (Noah), James D’Arcy (Hitchcock), Tuppence Middleton (Trance), Doona Bae (Cloud Atlas) and Sean Bean (“Game of Thrones”). The film will shoot in the U.K. until June before moving production to Chicago.
Jupiter Ascending is slated for release in 3D on July 25, 2014.
Lionsgate has released the first trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The clip finds Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss embarking on her “Victor’s Tour” after winning Panem’s 74th annual Hunger Games. It also hints at the upcoming Quarter Quell games which will pit her against past winners in a new tournament of death.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) and co-stars Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Sam Claflin, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Jena Malone, Amanda Plummer and Elizabeth Banks. It opens in theaters on Nov. 22.
“Arrow” star Katie Cassidy posed in swimwear for Canadian publication Sharp For Men. While any opportunity to see Cassidy in some stage of undress is appreciated, if this layout was truly “for men” the vintage swimsuits would have given way to Wicked Weasel bikinis and micro-slings.
But, nice try Canada.
Cassidy, daughter of ’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.”
Cassidy currently stars as Dinah “Laurel” Lance, aka Black Canary, on The CW’s “Arrow,” an adaptation of DC Comics’ “Green Arrow,” starring Stephen Amell as the vigilante superhero. She is also featured on Clatto’s esteemed list of The Hottest Women Working in Horror.
Anchor Bay has released a red band trailer for WWE Studios and Pathe UK’s No One Lives, an abduction thriller directed by Ryuhei Kitamura (Midnight Meat Train) and starring Adelaide Clemens (Silent Hill: Revelations), Lindsay Shaw (”Pretty Little Liars”), Laura Ramsey (The Ruins) and America Olivo.
The story follows a young couple as they’re abducted by a criminal gang and taken to an abandoned and secluded house where one of them is murdered, sparking the other to hunt down the captors and brutally slaughter them.
No One Lives on May 10 will play selected theaters in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia, Miami, Boston, Detroit, Houston and Baltimore.
Retromedia Entertainment and Synthetic Filmwerx have released a trailer for After Midnight, a supernatural stripper mystery from director Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers), starring Catherine Annette (Lucky Bastard), Jeneta St. Clair (pictured), Tawny Kitaen (“Celebrity Rehab”) and Richard Grieco.
After Midnight follows a television newscaster (Annette) as she goes undercover as a stripper at the downtown nudie bar where her sister (St. Clair) was shot to death. Things get strange when—much like Grieco—the dead lapdancer continues to pop up when least expected.
I have known for what seems like FOREVER and have been busting to tell people. I was very excited to have been asked back!
[Hannah] is coming back to shake things up for Dexter a little… just to add to the turmoil.
Hannah McKay became romantically involved with Dexter Morgan after learning about his Dark Passenger in an almost fatal manner. By the season’s finale, she had been arrested for the murder of a true crime author out to expose her, but faked a seizure at the courthouse to escape from going to prison.
Strahovski, best known for her role as CIA agent Sarah Walker on the NBC comedy “Chuck,” will next be seen in Lakeshore Entertainment’s I, Frankenstein, a futuristic re-imagining of Mary Shelly’s classic novel adapted from Kevin Grevioux’s (”Underworld”) graphic comic.
Academy Award-winner Anne Hathaway is set to close a deal that will find her starring opposite Matthew McConaughey in Christopher Nolan’s new time travel drama Interstellar. Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. are co-producing the film, written by Nolan and his brother Jonathan.
No information has been officially released about the film or the roles Hathaway and McConaughey play, but Deadline reports that it will “depict a heroic interstellar voyage to the farthest borders of our scientific understanding.”
Interstellar will mark Hathaway’s first project since winning an Oscar this year for her performance of wretched hooker Fantine in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables. The film reunites her with Nolan, for whom she played Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises.
TriStar Pictures and Media Rights Capital have released the first official trailer for Elysium, director Neil Blomkamp’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed 2009 feature film debut District 9. The film stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, William Fichtner, Diego Luna, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga and Ona Grauer.
Set in the year 2159, Elysium is a man-made space station where the wealthy live prosperous, crime and disease free lives far above the earth, where the poor are left to die in squalor. In dire need of medical care, working-man Max (Damon) sets out to infiltrate Elysium and overthrow Secretary Delacourt (Foster).
