“Dollhouse” star Eliza Dushku is set to drive horror fans crazy in Eloise, an insane asylum thriller from Academy Award winning visual effects artist-turned-director Robert Legato (Hugo). The film was shot on location at the actual Eloise mental institution in Michigan.
Written by Christopher Borrelli (The Vatican Tapes), Eloise stars Dushku as one of four friends who break into an abandoned madhouse in search of a deceased relative’s death certificate, but find only… death! Chayce Crawford (“Gossip Girl”) and Brandon T. Jackson (Tropic Thunder) co-star.
Dushku came to fame as “Scooby Gang” member Faith on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and its spinoff “Angel,” but is also known for her roles in 2003’s hillbilly classic Wrong Turn and the popular, but short-lived sci-fi series “Dollhouse,” which reunited her with “Buffy” creator Joss Whedon.
Is that a lightsaber in your pocket or are you just happy to see the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII: Adam Driver (“Girls”), Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings), John Boyega (Attack the Block), Oscar Isaac (Sucker Punch), Domhnall Gleeson (Dredd), Max von Sydow (The Exorcist) and Brit TV actress Daisy Ridley.
The newcomers join original Saga stars Harrison Ford (Han Solo), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Anthony Daniels (C3PO), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), and Kenny Baker (R2D2). J.J. Abrams directs the film from a script he wrote with Empire Strikes Back screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan.
Abrams said:
We are so excited to finally share the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again. We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud.
Clatto thoughts: looking forward to Adam Driver, who is reportedly playing a villain. Wish they would have cast more women. Holding judgement on Daisy Ridley’s hotness until we see her in some kind of galactic catsuit. Hope Carrie Fisher doesn’t wear a metallic bikini this time out. Can’t freaking wait till its release on Dec 18, 2015.
Oh, yeah, the photo above is from the very first table read. Pretty awesome.
Image Entertainment has released a new trailer for its upcoming horror-comedy All Cheerleaders Die, a remake of the 2001 Lucky McKee (The Woman) slasher, written and directed by McKee and Chris Sivertson (I Know Who Killed Me). It arrives on VOD May 8 and plays selected theaters June 13.
All Cheerleaders Die stars Caitlin Stasey (I, Frankenstein) as a rebellious teen who joins her high school cheerleading squad after experiencing a tragic event. Her decision pisses off the popular cheerleaders and her loner, witchy ex-girlfriend, played by Sianoa Smit-McPhee (“Hung”).
Disney has released a two-minute featurette of Maleficent, a re-imagining of the Sleeping Beauty tale told from the perspective of the iconic villainess. Angelina Jolie plays Maleficent in Academy award-winning art director Robert Stromberg’s directorial debut.
The featurette includes a glimpse at new footage and interviews with Joli, Stromberg, screenwriter Linda Woolverton (Alice in Wonderland) and Elle Fanning (Super 8), who stars as Aurora, the sleepiest of them all. Maleficent opens in theaters May 30.
Li Bingbing is set to reprise her role as sexy corporate spy and deadly assassin Ada Wong in Sony Screen Gems’ Resident Evil: Rising, the sixth installment in the lucrative franchise from producer/director Paul W.S. Anderson and star Milla Jovovich.
Anderson confirmed the news while at the Beijing International Film Festival:
As you know, Bingbing is in the last movie and she will be there again… After ‘Resident Evil’ I want to come to China and shoot film again.
Bingbing is a famous international actress known in North America for playing Ada Wong in Resident Evil: Retribution and Ni-Chang, the White-Haired Witch, in the Jackie Chang fantasy-adventure The Forbidden Kingdom. She will next be seen in Michael Bay’sTransformers: Age of Extinction.
Canadian starlet Emily Tennant (Jennifer’s Body) stars alongside Christian Slater (Heathers) and Vinnie Jones (Snatch) in Way of the Wicked, a supernatural thriller from director Kevin Carraway (7 Below) and writer Matthew Robert Kelly (Transparency).
Way of the Wicked tells the story of a priest (Slater) and a police detective (Jones) who team up to battle a demonic force targeting the cop’s young daughter (Tennant) through a troubled boy. Image Entertainment releases the film on DVD and Blu-ray on May 20.
Writer and director Lowell Dean’s Wolfcop is meant to be campy fun, but as far as Clatto is concerned it is a work of genius. Take its plot: an alcoholic cop accustomed to blacking out discovers he’s a werewolf when the crime scenes he investigates start to look all too familiar.
It’s like Dirty Harry… but hairier. One cop’s quest to become a better man… one transformation at a time. These are just some of the fun teases whetting our appetite for the CineCoup horror-comedy, starring Leo Fafard as the Wolfcop and Sarah Lind (pictured) as stunning barkeep Jessica.
Peep the website for info and the trailer for fun:
Lionsgate has released a trailer for Jessabelle, a terrifying new frightener from director Kevin Greuter (SAW VI, VII) and Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity, Sinister). Arriving in theaters Aug. 29, the film stars Sara Snook (Sleeping Beauty), Joelle Carter (”Justified”), and Amber Stevens (Amazing Spider-man).
Snook toplines the film as Jessie, a wheelchair-bound widow forced to live with her father in his decrepit Louisiana manor while she heals. In the house, she discovers video tapes made long ago by her deceased mother (Carter), warning her of an evil out to consume her.
TNT has set a June 22 premiere date for its Michael Bay-produced sci-fi action series The Last Ship. Based on William Brinkley’s post apocalyptic novel of the same name, The Last Ship finds the crew of a U.S. Navy destroyer coming home to a world that has been wiped out by a viral outbreak.
Rhona Mitra (“The Practice”) plays humanity’s last hope Dr. Rachel Scott, a sexy virologist looking to create a vaccine to help mankind bounce back. Co-stars include Eric Dane (“Grey’s Anatomy”) as the ship’s captain and Adam Baldwin (Serenity) as his executive officer.
Mitra has starred in a string of notable frighteners, including Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Doomsday, The Number 23, and Skinwalkers. Her most memorable role remains her horror debut in Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man, in which she’s raped by an invisible man.
Midnight Releasing has set a July 1 release date for its new psycho-sexual thriller Scavenger Killers. Playboy model and actress Rachael Robbins toplines the film as a lascivious and cunning attorney caught up in a deadly and perverse game with a degenerate judge, played by Robert Bogue (“Guiding Light”).
Scavenger Killers is directed by Dylan Bank and co-stars Robert Loggia (Scarface), Eric Roberts (Expendables), Suzi Lorraine (Pinup Dolls On Ice), Angela Little (American Pie Presents Band Camp), and Kim Allen (“Army Wives”).
Robbins has starred in a string of fright flicks and sexy horror-comedies, including Vampire Lesbian Kickboxers, Methodic, Screaming Dead, Bikini Bloodbath Christmas, and Bikini Bloodbath Car Wash. OK-OK… her Playboy issues are: “Natural Beauties” “Sexy Girls Next Door” and “Barefoot Beauties.”
