Lionsgate has set an Aug. 27 DVD and VOD release date for scream queen Danielle Harris’ directorial debut Among Friends. Set in the ’80s, the horror-comedy centers on a dinner party that goes terribly wrong when embittered friends turn on each other.
Harris produced the film with co-stars Jennifer Blanc-Biehn (The Victim) and Athena Lobit. Additional co-stars include Alyssa Lobit (The Things We Carry), Brianne Davis (ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2), Dana Daurey (Lucky), Tanya Newbould (Skyline)and Kamala Jones (”Good Christian Belles”).
Anchor Bay has released a trailer for its upcoming viral outbreak thriller The Demented. It opens with shots of hot chicks in bikinis. Well played, Anchor Bay, well played.
The Demented centers on six college friends attempting to survive a viral outbreak caused by a terrorist missile attack on a town near the vacation home they happen to be staying at.
The film marks Christopher Roosevelt’s directorial debut and stars stunners Kayla Ewell (”The Vampire Diaries”), Brittney Alger (21 jump Street) and horror-fav Sarah Butler (I Spit On Your Grave). It arrives on DVD July 30.
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have released the first trailer for Noam Murro’s 300: Rise of an Empire, a companion film to the Zack Snyder-directed blockbuster 300. The film is produced by Snyder, who adapts the Frank Miller graphic novel with screenwriter Kurt Johnstad (300, Act of Valor).
Rise of an Empire follows Athenian general Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) as he battles Persian king Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his vengeful navy commander Artemesia (Eva Green). The events occur at the same time that King Leonidas is leading his 300 Spartans into the Battle of Thermopylae.
A trailer for Sony Pictures’ new psychological frightener Magic Magic has appeared online. Set in a remote part of Chile, the film’s story revolves around a girl’s mental breakdown while vacationing with friends too drunk on life to notice.
Magic Magic is helmed by Chilean director Sebastian Silva and stars Juno Temple (Killer Joe), Emily Browning (Sucker Punch), Catalina Sandino Moreno (Twilight Saga: Eclipse) and Michael Cera (“Arrested Development”) as a sadistic creep.
Going by the trailer, Magic Magic looks pretty solid. Temple and Browning are excellent nude actresses and Cera, last seen in This Is the End having his salad tossed while getting blown in a bathroom, is doing an impressive job of embracing darker roles. Magic Magic arrives on DVD Aug. 6.
“Following” and “Justified” star Natalie Zea is set to go “Under the Dome,” a 13-episode miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, and based on King’s post-apocalyptic novel of the same name.
Executive producer Neil Baer tells TVGuide:
We’ve cast the beautiful Natalie Zea as a woman who makes an alarming appearance in a few episodes beginning in Episode 9. She plays Maxine, and if you think [the show’s big baddie] Jim Rennie (Dean Norris) is trouble, you haven’t seen trouble yet. And she’ll be connected to a number of our characters.
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), “Under the Dome” follows the havoc caused by a mysterious force field that drops over the small New England town of Chester Mill.
“Under the Dome’ premieres June 24 on CBS.
We’ve cast the beautiful Natalie Zea as a woman who makes an alarming appearance in a few episodes beginning in Episode 9. She plays Maxine, and if you think [the show’s big baddie] Jim Rennie (Dean Norris) is trouble, you haven’t seen trouble yet. And she’ll be connected to a number of our characters.” – See more at: http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/the-followings-natalie-zea-going-under-the-dome#sthash.uH5K32Ym.dpuf
Warner Bros. released today a trailer for The Desolation of Smaug, part two in Peter Jackson’s new Hobbit trilogy. The two-minute clip provides a glimpse at elf hero Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and introduces new woodland elf Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly). The dragon Smaug is also teased.
All-in-all, The Desolation of Smaug looks far more exciting than last year’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Snorefest. The film opens in 3D and once again at 48 frames-per-second on Dec. 13.
Christina Ricci is set to star in Lifetime’s upcoming biopic based on the notorious life of Lizzie Borden, the acquitted suspect in the 1892 hatchet murders of her parents Andrew and Abby Borden. The film is directed by Nick Gomez (“Flash Forward”) and produced by Sony Pictures Television.
Ricci’s last genre project was 2009’s After.Life, in which she toplessly played the victim of an automobile accident who wakes up in the morgue, but is told by the mortician that she is dead.
Ricci’s creds include a string of memorable frighteners and thrillers, including Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, Wes Craven’s Cursed, the sexy abduction drama Black Snake Moan and the biopic Monster, based on serial killer Aileen Wuornos and her lesbian lover.
Lionsgate has released a new trailer for writer/director Scott Walker’s Frozen Ground. In theaters Aug. 23, the film is based on the true story of Robert Hansen, an Anchorage-based serial killer who over a 12-year span murdered 24 women by hunting them down like game in the Alaskan wilderness.
Frozen Ground stars John Cusack as Hansen, Nicolas Cage as the detective who brings him to justice, Radha Mitchell as his wife and Vanessa Hudgens as the teen stripper/prostitute who managed to escape from Hansen after being abducted, raped, and sexually assaulted with a hammer.
According to Clatto informants who caught early screenings of the film, Frozen Ground is a solid thriller but sadly shies away from exploring the sexual depravity fueling Hansen’s crimes. Personally, I blame your immaturity over nudity for the filmmakers decision to deprive of us of boobies.
Genre stunner Jacqui Holland is toplining director John Kearns’ Dead Ringer, an erotic horror thriller about a psychotic, hopefully hyper-sexual, woman obsessed with an up-and-coming actor who resembles her deceased husband (Timothy Woodward, Jr.).
The film co-stars Kelly Ryan (Grindhouse) and Ross Bagley (Independence Day) and features cameos by Todd Bridges (“Diff’rent Strokes”) and Eric Roberts (The Expendables).
Peep the poster:
Holland is best known for her role as the kindly topless stripper in the Lionsgate rom-com My Best Friend’s Girl. Her genre creds include the Full Moon Features horror-comedy Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver and the slashers Sorority Party Massacre and Monsters in the Woods, in which she goes nude.
Anchor Bay has set a July 30 release date for writer and director Christopher Roosevelt’s feature film debut The Demented, an outbreak thriller starring stunners Kayla Ewell (“The Vampire Diaries”), Brittney Alger (21 jump Street) and horror-fav Sarah Butler (I Spit On Your Grave).
The Demented centers on six college friends attempting to survive a viral outbreak caused by a terrorist missile attack on a town near the vacation home they happen to be staying at. Making matters worse are the infected townsfolk out to feast on survivors.
