FilmDistrict has released a red-band trailer for Spike Lee and screenwriter Mark Protosevich’s (I Am Legend) American remake of South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s revenge thriller Oldboy, starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Lance Reddick, Michael Imperioli and Samuel Jackson.
Oldboy tells the tale of an advertising executive (Brolin) who is abducted and held captive in a hotel room for 20 years for no apparent reason. When he is finally released without explanation, he sets out to find and take vengeance on those responsible, but discovers that he is still caught up in their game.
FX premieres tonight its new 13-episode crime series “The Bridge,” starring Diane Kruger as a U.S. detective suffering from Asperger’s (take that “Homeland”) who teams up with a Mexican detective, played by Demian Bichir (“Weeds”), to catch a serial killer terrorizing the border of El Paso and Juarez.
The setting between Mexico and America is unique, and I don’t think it’s been done on television before. And I think the backdrop of the unsolved crimes, with the missing girls from Juarez, and the relationship between America and Mexico, is very interesting to see and shine a light on.
I think that the two characters, Marco Ruiz and Sonya Cross, are an unusual combination of detectives. The show’s not your usual cop show. It’s a very character-driven show. And you think the show’s about one thing, but then it goes in directions that will be quite unexpected.
Kruger is coming of Andrew Niccol’s adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s tween sci-fi novel “The Host.” She is best known for her portrayal of Dr. Abigail Chase in Walt Disney Pictures’ National Treasure franchise and as actress/spy Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
Magnet Releasing announced today that it has acquired the U.S. rights to Focus Features International’s new sci-fi thriller The Last Days On Mars. The film marks the feature film debut of Ruairi Robinson and stars Liev Schreiber (“Ray Donovan”), Olivia Williams (“Dollhouse”)and stunner Romola Garai (pictured).
The synopsis reads:
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life.
Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses, and he falls into a deep crevice and near certain death.
His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not yet dead. As the group begins to fall apart it seems their only hope is the imminent arrival of the relief ship Aurora.
Garai is best known for her work in dramatic fare your mom watches such as the period drama Atonement, the Anne Hathaway romance One Day and the Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas relationship thriller The Other Man. The British babe has only one horror cred to her name: Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.
The Last Days On Mars will be released on VOD later this year.
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New photos have gone online for Mummy director Stephen Sommers’ legally delayed adaptation of Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas, starring Anton Yelchin (Fright Night), Willem Dafoe (Antichrist), Addison Timlin and Addison Timlin’s breasts (”Californication”).
Posted below, you’ll find the a string of images featuring Timlin because who wants to see Yelchin and Dafoe’s mugs? That’d be odd. The shots don’t really display much of Timlin’s natural talents, but hint at some sexy PG-13 hotness.
Odd Thomas is a short-order cook (Yelchin) who can speak with the dead and identify evil forces. When a mysterious man arrives in his small California town, Thomas is convinced that doom accompanies the stranger. Caught in the mix are his girlfriend (Timlin) and the local police chief (Dafoe).
Acort International has acquired the distribution rights to Dead of the Nite, a “psychological slasher” marking the feature film debut of S.J. Evans and starring sexy scream queen Suzie Lorraine (Pinup Dolls On Ice) and horror icon Tony Todd (Candyman).
Dead of the Nite follows two homicide detectives as they investigate the mysterious and brutal murders of a group of ghost hunters out to capture evidence of paranormal activity at Jericho Manor. No word yet on a release date.
Lorraine has starred in more than 40 indie horror flicks, including the fem-driven slasher Chainsaw Sally, the cannibal chiller Destined to be Ingested, Bikini Girls On Ice and The Lord of the G-strings: Th Femaleship of the String.
Warner Bros. has set an Oct. 4 theatrical release date for Gravity, a sci-fi drama from acclaimed director Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men), starring Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts drifting aimlessly through space after a routine spacewalk goes terribly wrong.
Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical engineer whose first shuttle mission is with retiring astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney). The film is said to focus much of its run-time on Dr. Stone, after disaster separates her from Kowalsky.
Those wondering if Bullock can hold a moviegoer’s attention for two-hours without a funny sidekick or crazy pratfall, can find their answer in the film’s newly released photo (pictured above). The image finds Bullock floating around the shuttle in her underwear. Sold!
A trailer has gone online for Universal Home Entertainment’s Curse of Chucky, the fifth installment in its Child’s Play franchise. The film returns to its darker tone, skipping over the comedic sequels Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky in favor of a darker story.
Directed by franchise creator and writer Don Mancini, Curse of Chucky once again features Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky and introduces his sister Fiona Dourif (”True Blood”) as Nica, a woman grieving the suicide of her mother while playing host to her domineering older sister’s family.
Things get gruesome when a Chucky doll arrives to the house, triggering a string of murders that convinces Nica the Good Guy Doll may not be so good after all. Curse of Chucky will be made available on Blu-ray and DVD on Oct. 8.
Happy Fourth of July! Here’s hoping you guys didn’t blow your hands off while setting off fireworks this weekend, because you’re gonna need them. Listed below are Clatto’s Top Ten Babes of Fourth of July Horror. Not a lot of movies to pick from, but the chosen starlets are hot. Feel free to add your own names.
Enjoy:
10. SUSAN BACKLINIE (JAWS)
Stunt woman and actress Susan Backlinie both terrified and titillated movie goers in 1975 as shark victim Chrissie Watkins in Steven Spielberg’s still frightening classic Jaws.
The film opens with Backlinie stripping off her clothes for a skinny dip in the ocean, where a great white lurks beneath the surface, ready to kill her and our boners.
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9. KRISTEN CONNOLLY (THE BAY)
Kristen Connolly plays cute MILF Stephenie in Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson’s The Bay, a found-footage frightener about water-bred parasites that consume humans from the inside and out.The outbreak takes place in the seaside town of Chesapeake Bay during the Fourth of July.
Stephanie and her husband are taking their baby to visit with family. They’ve chosen to set sail into town and are videotaping their trip. Their holiday turns horrific when they arrive to find the residents of Chesapeake Bay playing hosts to scary and disgusting mutant isopods.
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8. TORREY DEVITTO (I’LL ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER)
“Pretty Little Liars” and “Vampire Diaries” star Torrey DeVitto (pictured on bottom) plays a hot rocker chick in Original Film’s I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, a direct-to-video sequel in the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise.
DeVitto plays one in a group of friends who stage a prank on the town of Southport, NC on July 4th to scare the townsfolk into believing that Fisherman Ben Willis is back to kill them all. The joke, however, is on the pranksters when the wrathful killer does return to slash, stab and impale their goofy asses.
Rock on:
7.BROOKE NEVIN (I’LL ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER)
“Breakout Kings”and “Chicago Fire” star Brooke Nevin fares a little better than Torrey Devitto in I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. As the film’s protagonist, her character is less douchey and rewarded with a longer life span.
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6. SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR (I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER)
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star Sarah Michelle Gellar made her horror feature debut in the Kevin Williamson-penned 1997 teen-slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer. Gellar plays Helen Shivers, the Miss Croaker beauty pageant winner, who while on a drive with friends runs over Ben Willis, a fisherman with a homicidal past.
Gellar plays second banana to Jennifer Love Hewitt, but brings her A-game B-game to the role in a variety of tight tank tops and clingy dresses. She also speaks the sexiest lines of her career during the opening scene: “Come ride in the back with me. I’ll let you do things to me.”
I know you want to watch this:
5. MARY ELISABETH WINSTEAD (FINAL DESTINATION 3)
Not certain if Final Destination 3 takes place during the Fourth of July, but a chunk of the film takes place during a fireworks display at a fairgrounds. Mary Elisabeth Winstead plays sexy high school senior Wendy Christensen, who… what’s that… we had you at high school senior? You guys are sick!
Sadly, Winstead’s wardrobe doesn’t include plaid minis and knee-high socks. In fact, she sticks to plain-Jane outfits that are meant to remind us that she is a good student and capable of figuring death’s game plan out. But, despite the nerdy dress code, Winstead still conjures up those old school girl fantasies.
4. OLIVIA D’ABO (THE SPIRIT OF 76)
Olivia D’Abo, best known as Kevin Arnold’s hippie sister Karen Arnold on ABC’s “The Wonder Years,” plays a time traveler named Chanel-6 in the Lucas Reiner (son to Carl, brother to Rob) 1990 sci-fi comedy The Spirit of ’76.
Set in the year 2176, Chanel-6 is one of three time travelers sent back in time to July 4, 1776 to recover the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence after all recorded U.S. history is lost in a magnetic storm. Things go wrong and the group ends up in 1976 at the height of disco and hippie culture.
Hilarity and D’Abo in skintight bell-bottoms ensue:
3. VIVICA A. FOX (INDEPENDENCE DAY)
She plays a stripper! A stripper who must work an empty house while hostile alien invaders hover over the earth in giant space crafts, prepping to blow the shit out of the earth and its inhabitants. She plays a stripper that rescues the First Lady and keeps hero Will Smith motivated enough to kick the tires and light the fires.
German director and co-writer Roland Emmerich could have made Vivica A. Fox’s character a doctor or nurse, an educator or cop, even been a doting housewife. The fact that she’s a stripper shows us that sometimes it takes a foreigner to remind us of what makes America great.
This is not a clip from ID4, but you won’t care:
2. JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT (I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER)
After stealing Neve Campbell’s thunder on “Party of Five” with her abundant and natural talents, Jennifer Love Hewitt trumped the Scream star once again by toplining the 1997 teen-slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer and its 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.
Both films take place over the Fourth of July holiday and find Hewitt playing Julie James, one of four friends who accidentally kill a fisherman and keep the crime a secret. Unfortunately for Julie—and all those who befriend her—the fisherman is a homicidal maniac not easily deterred by boob-revealing tank tops.
1. MELISSA MOLINARO (JERSEY SHORE SHARK ATTACK)
Stunner Melissa Molinaro made her horror movie debut last year in Syfy’s Jersey Shore Shark Attack, a campy creature-feature that spoofs MTV’s “Jersey Shore.” Molinaro plays Nookie, one in a group of guidos desperately trying to convince officials to shut down the beach after a man is killed by a shark.
Molinaro is best known in the States for her appearances on the reality competition shows “Making the Band 3″ and “Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll.”Jersey Shore Shark Attack probably won’t change that, but Molinaro is one to keep an eye on (like you wouldn’t).
Syfy has released a trailer for The Asylum’s Sharknado, an epic creature-feature marking the triumphant comeback of American Pie star Tara Reid. Set to premiere on July 11, the film follows a Venice Beach bar owner searching for his estranged family in the midst of a shark flinging tornado.
Co-starring alongside Reid are “Beverly Hills 90210″ alum Ian Ziering as the bar proprietor and ABC Family’s “Make It Or Break It” star Cassie Scerbo as the sexy bartender helping him on his journey. Reid plays Ziering’s jiggly ex-wife.
Brian de Palma’s Passion will release on VOD on Aug. 1 and play selected theaters on Aug. 30. The film is an American remake of the French erotic thriller Love Crime and tells the story of a beautiful business woman’s ill-fated manipulation and seduction of her naive protégé.
Passion stars Rachel McAdams as boss bitch Christine and Noomi Rapace as her seemingly weak assistant. The duo share a lesbian love scene in which Rapace goes nude. Co-stars include Dominic Cooper (Devil’s Double), Karoline Herfurth (We Are the Night) and Rainer Bock (Inglourious Basterds).
