When a film studio releases an official image from an upcoming project, it usually ends up being a shot of some actor’s big head emoting. Thankfully, the folks behind Machete Kills know better and have released a photo to EW guaranteed to get your hard earned pesos on Oct. 11.
Machete Kills finds ex-federale Machete (Danny Trejo) recruited by the U.S. government to take down a billionaire arms dealer (Mel Gibson) looking to trigger a world war.
Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”) has joined the cast of French director Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s English-language debut Dark Places, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best selling 2009 novel. Co-stars include Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicholas Hoult, Andrea Roth and Charlize Theron, who also produces.
Dark Places tells the story of Libby Day, who at the age of seven testified against her brother in the brutal massacre of her family. Fast forward 25-years and Libby has grown up to become a mess. Looking to turn a profit from her tragedy, she agrees to help a group called The Kill Club re-investigate the case.
Empire reports that Hendricks will play Krissi Cates, a sloppy, downtrodden stripper with enormous creamy white breasts who knows a thing or two about the Day murders. The film is slated for release in September 2014.
Full Moon Films has released a trailer for The Impaler, starring Gregory Lee Kenyon (Swine) as Dracula and a bevy of stunners that includes Mindy Robinson (pictured), Christina Collard, Katelynn Derengowski, Vera Nova and Diana Busuioc, who co-wrote the film with director Derek Hockenbrough.
The Impaler follows seven high school friends on a post graduation trip to Romania to visit and party in the castle of Vlad the Impaler. Once there, the group is bamboozled by a mysterious groundskeeper into a blood ritual to release Vlad from hell. It plays selected theaters on Oct. 31.
Warner Bros. and Dark Castle Entertainment have released a new trailer for Getaway, an abduction thriller from director Courtney Solomon (An American Haunting), starring go-to horror-hero Ethan Hawke (The Purge) and former Disney star Selena Gomez (“Wizards of Waverly Place”).
Getaway finds ex-race car driver Brent Magna (Hawke) carjacking a Shelby Cobra Mustang, along with its owner (Gomez), to carry out a variety of fucked up shit for the villainous asshole (Jon Voight) holding his wife (Rebecca Budig) captive. It opens Aug. 30.
I’d be a lot more into this flick if producers had cast someone in the Gomez role who doesn’t look like a chubby-cheeked nine-year-old. Never mind her dreadful acting, looks alone keep me from buying the notion that she’d drive a Shelby. This should all be happening in a pink Nissan Cube.
Prom Night and Hills Have Eyes 2 star Jessica Stroup is joining “The Following” in its second season. She will play Max, an NYPD officer working in the Intel Division, who is also the niece of FBI profiler Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon).
According to EW, the new season picks up a year after the events of the season one finale and finds a new murder spree spreading across the city courtesy of serial killer Joe Carroll and his cult of deranged followers.
The series also co-stars newcomers Tiffany Boone (Beautiful Creatures) as a new impressionable member of Carroll’s cult, Valerie Cruz (“Dexter”) as an NYPD detective, James McDaniel (“NYPD Blue”) as an FBI agent, Sam Underwood (“Dexter”) as a villain and Connie Nielsen (Nymphomaniac) as Ryan’s love interest.
Stroup, who is coming off The CW’s “90210,” broke into acting with a string of indie frighteners, including Vampire Bats with Lucy Lawless and Steven R. Monroe’sLeft in Darkness. Roles in producer Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes 2, Screen Gems Prom Night and the Mischa Barton psycho-bitch drama Homecoming followed.
Director Tommy Wirkola is following up Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters with a sequel to his 2009 cult Nazi- zombie hit Dead Snow. Titled Dead Snow: Red Vs. Dead, the film finds a Norwegian survivor teaming up with an American group of professional zombie killers to battle the undead Schutzstaffel.
Variety reports that “Freaks and Geeks” alum Martin Starr and comedienne and Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World co-star Ingrid Haas have signed on to star. Also on board are Jocelyn Deboer (5 to 7)and original Dead Snow players Vegar Hoel and Ørjan Gamst.
Wirkola made his English language film debut this year with Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. A sleeper hit in the U.S. and international blockbuster, the movie earned more than $225 million worldwide. Dead Snow: Red Vs. Dead will release in Norwegian and English.
RLJ Entertainment and Ruthless Pictures have released a trailer for Mischief Night, a Halloween-set thriller directed by Richard Schenkman (Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies), starring Noell Coet (Ice Scream), Erica Leerhsen (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Ally Walker (“Sons of Anarchy”).
Coet toplines the film as Emily Walton, a young woman afflicted with psychosomatic blindness after the death of her mother in an automobile accident. Walker plays the doctor treating her. All is going well up until a masked murderer invades Emily’s home on the night before Halloween.
Mischief Night will play selected theaters on Oct. 30.
Inception Media Group has set a Sept. 24 DVD and VOD release date for Silent But Deadly, a horror-comedy starring Jason Mewes (Clerks) and featuring special nude performances from Kim Poirier (Dawn of the Dead), Vanessa Burns (Severance), Rebeka Coles-Budrys and Nicole Arbour (pictured).
Silent But Deadly finds Mewes tapping into Silent Bob territory to play an introverted small-town farm boy whose gig with a visiting Hollywood film crew goes awry when his beloved pet goat is butchered and served as lunch, triggering his bloody wrath.
A sales trailer has gone online for producer Timur Bekmambetov’s nuttiest endeavor to date: Squirrels. Written by people named Daniel Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin, the Red Sea Media film centers on a small town overrun by man-eating squirrels.
Peep it:
The synopsis reads:
When a young man’s estranged father is killed under suspicious circumstances, he returns home for the first time in years to get to the bottom of the mystery.
He instead finds his mom’s sleazy new boyfriend, a natural gas company buying up the town, an angry female sheriff who happens to be his ex-girlfriend and an army of flesh-eating squirrels hellbent on destroying everything in their path due to an erosion of their food chain as a result of environmental destruction by the gas company.
Bekmambetov produced the sci-fi thriller Darkest Hour, the animated feature 9 and last year’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which he also helmed. Additional directing creds include Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie, and the supernatural thriller Night Watch and its sequel Day Watch.
According to BleedingCool, Machete helmer Ethan Maniquis is attached to direct.
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions has released a minute long teaser-trailer for its mysterious new project. Titled “Stranger,” the clip is in black-and-white and features some dude with his mouth sewn up frolicking in the ocean.
The narration says:
He arrived knowing nothing of himself. Who is he? Soon he will know. Because what begins at the water shall end there. And what ends there shall once more begin. This is what happens when we become lost, when we vanish, when we are erased and reborn.
It’s unknown if the Bad Robot project is a film, TV program or web series. What we do know is that it isn’t Star Wars: Episode VII so like whatever, right? I will say, however, that the music and religious overtones in the teaser remind me of “LOST.” Could it be a relaunch? That’d be interesting, but I’m guessing unlikely.
