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.
Addison Timlin (“Californication”) is set to star alongside Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) in Lotus Entertainment and Mayhem Pictures’ movie adaptation of Lauren Kate’s young-adult novel The Fallen. Oscar nominee Scott Hicks (Shine) is attached to direct the film, scripted by Michael Ross (Turistas).
The Fallen is the first entry in a four-book Gothic romance series about a introverted girl (Timlin) who is sent to a reform school after being suspected of killing a boy. Once there, she discovers the student body is comprised of fallen angels and finds herself caught in a love triangle.
First sparkly vampires; now fallen angels? What is it with today’s high school chicks? Aren’t black guys exotic and dangerous enough anymore?
Timlin is best known for toplessly playing actress Sasha Bingham on Showtime’s “Californication.” She will next be seen as Stormy Llewellyn in Stephen Sommers adaptation of Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas and producers Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum remake of the 1976 cult film The Town That Dreaded Sundown.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has set an Oct. 22 release date for the DVD and Blu-ray editions of Dead in Tombstone, a horror-western directed by Roel Reiné (Death Race: Inferno), starring Danny Trejo (Machete), Mickey Rourke (Sin City), Anthony Michael Hall (Weird Science) and Dina Meyer (pictured).
Dead in Tombstone tells the tale of Guerrero Hernandez (Trejo), a ruthless bandito betrayed and murdered by his gang of outlaws and sent by Satan (Rourke) to collect their souls in exchange for his own. Hall plays the lead double-crosser and Meyer is the ass-kicking eye-candy.
The flick looks fun. It also gives me hope that when I die and go to hell, I’ll be able to throw past acquaintances under the bus to escape damnation.
Chinese starlet Bai Ling plays a warrior witch in writer and director Brian Feeney’s Demoniacs, a supernatural thriller set in Italy that pits a married couple against a coven of witches. Chase Williamson (John Dies at the End) and Ellary Porterfield (“Hidden Palms”) co-star as the couple.
According to Fangoria, Demoniacs is slated to roll camera in Rome this October. Veteran Sergio Stivaletti (Mother of Tears, Demons) is handling the film’s effects.
Ling is coming off The Asylum’s Clash of the Empires, formerly titled Age of the Hobbits up until Warner Bros, New Line and MGM sued the shit out of them. Ling is best known in the U.S. for playing psycho hooker Ria in Crank: High Voltage and bad-girl Myca in The Crow.
Good news for fans of ABC’s fairytale drama series “Once Upon a Time”: “Reba’s” JoAnna Garcia is ready to become a part of your world. According to TVGuide, the actress will play mermaid Ariel in the show’s upcoming third season.
Producers promise plenty of new back story and twists for the character while holding on to Ariel’s “charms and ambitions.” Ariel will also have a connection to one of the show’s leads. “Once Upon a Time” returns Sept. 29.
Garcia is coming off two short-lived sitcoms: NBC’s “Animal Practice” and ABC’s “Better With You.” She is best known for playing alcoholic teen mom Cheyenne Montgomery on The CW’s “Reba,” but horror fans may recognize her from Nickelodeon’s anthology series “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”
Resident Evil star Sienna Guillory toplines director Jay Alaimo’s The Wicked Within, playing a married woman who becomes demonically possessed during an ill-conceived family seance. The film is written by Stephen Wallis and co-stars Michelle Hicks (“The Shield”), Enzo Cilenti (Kick-Ass 2) and Eric Roberts.
The film’s trailer has been posted on its Facebook page and it is a doozy of a head-spinner. Guillory is both sexy and sinister, and just pretty damn frightening and mean. The clip also gives a nod to The Exorcist in a very funny and cool way.
Guillory is best known for portraying Jill Valentine in Screen Gems’Resident Evilfranchise. Additional creds include the sci-fi crime drama Big Bang, fantasy-adventure Inkheart, dragon-thriller Eragon, indie-frightener Superstitious, and the Warner Bros. adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine.
Kathleen Robertson (“Boss,” “Beverly Hills, 90210”) has checked into season two of A&E’s “Bates Motel,” a present-day prequel series to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, produced by Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin (”Friday Night Lights”).
“Bates Motel” follows an emotionally unstable Norman Bates and his controlling mother Norma as they attempt to start new lives and a motel business in the small fictional town of White Pine Bay, Oregon. According to TVLine, Robertson will play a “sexy and smart” artistic career woman named Jodi.
Robertson is coming off the recently canceled Starz program “Boss,” but is perhaps best known for playing Clare Arnold on “Beverly Hills, 90210.” Fright-wise, she’s starred in the horror-comedy Scary Movie 2 and in Mark Neveldine’s (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) upcoming exorcism tale The Vatican Tapes.
Posted above is the first image of French actress Melanie Thierry in Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem, an Orwellian-based sci-fi drama about a computer geek named Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), hired by a mysterious corporate figure (Matt Damon) to solve a mathematical formula that would reveal life’s meaning.
Thierry plays Bainsley, a seductress who repeatedly interrupts Qohen’s work. Unlike most first-look images that depict a character at their dullest to conceal plot points, this photo gets down to business, reminding us that behind this artsy-fartsy tale there is a hot and busty French chick in a sexy nurse uniform.
Thierry is best known for starring alongside Vin Diesel in Gothica director Mathieu Kassovitz’s 2008 sci-fi actioner Babylon A.D. She played Aurora, a genetically engineered breeder.
The Weinstein Company has released a trailer for Reliance Entertainment and IM Global’s Vampire Academy, an adaptation of Richelle Mead’s bestselling young-adult book series from Mean Girls director Mark Waters and Heathers scribe Daniel Waters.
Vampire Academy 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.
