Universal debuted a new trailer during Superbowl XLIX for Jurassic World, the eagerly anticipated third sequel in producer Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park franchise. Set 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park, the Jurassic World amusement park fully functional and open to the public on Isla Nublar.
So about that trailer… Pterodactyls! What more needs to be said? Well, except maybe that they’re swooping in to feed on park attendees!
Jurassic World is directed and co-written by Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) and stars Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Bryce Dallas Howard (Spider-Man 3), Jake Johnson (“New Girl”), Vincent D’Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket), Judy Greer (Carrie), and Katie McGrath (“Dracula”). It opens June 12.
Lauren Cohan, our beloved Maggie Green on AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” makes her feature film debut as leading lady in Lakeshore Entertainment and Vertigo Entertainment’s new frightener The Boy. Cohan will play a nanny looking after a lifelike doll resembling the deceased son of a mourning couple.
According to THR, Cohan’s character is not only creeped out by the doll, but feels it is possessed by the dead boy’s malevolent spirit. Production on the film begins in March in British Colombia. William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside) is directing.
Cohan joined “The Walking Dead” during season two and remains one of its most popular stars. Horror fans first caught a glimpse of the sexy stunner on NBC’s “Chuck,” The CW series “Supernatural” and “The Vampire Diaries,” and Universal’s “Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives.”
Rachael Taylor is set to join “Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones,” the studio’s new superhero series for Netflix. The 13-episode show stars Krysten Ritter as Jones, a retired costumed heroine whose post-traumatic stress disorder leads her to open a detective agency to aid other superheroes.
“Jessica Jones” is one of four new superhero shows Marvel is producing for Netflix, which include “Daredevil,” “Ironfist,” and “Luke Cage,” leading to a “Defenders” miniseries.
Taylor will play Jessica’s best friend Trish Walker, a radio talk show host and former model/kid actor fighting crime under the alias Hellcat. Genre fans will recognize Taylor from Transformers, The Darkest Hour, Shutter, the failed ABC series “666 Park Ave.,” and Greg Dark’s See No Evil.
She currently stars in Open Road’s sexually charged who-done-it The Loft.
The first trailer for season five of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” has gone online and it is thrilling, nerve-wracking, and epic! Set to premiere April 12 (finally!!!), the show promises more brutality and heartbreak. Tyrion Lanister is on the lam. Mother of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen is on the move. Sansa Stark is… plotting revenge with Littlefinger’s help?
Twentieth Century Fox has released the trailer for Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four. The reboot marks Chronicle director Josh Trank’s leap into the big-budget superhero big time. It stars Miles Teller as Mr. Fantastic, Kate Mara as the Invisible Woman, Michael B. Jordan as Human Torch, and Jamie Bell as Thing.
The synopsis reads:
Four young outsiders teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
The trailer hints at a serious and purposeful hero movie, and looks beautiful in the way that all superhero movies look now. Will be interesting to see what twists Trank brings to the table. Fantastic Four arrives in theaters on Aug. 7.
Faster than a speeding bullet, CBS announces Melissa Benoist (“Glee”) as its “Supergirl.” The hour-long show is from Warner Bros. and the producers of the hit, tween-centric superhero shows “Arrow” and “The Flash” on CBS sister station The CW.
“Supergirl” finds Superman’s hot 24-year-old cousin, Kara Zor-El, living on earth since the destruction of her planet Krypton. Bearing the same superpowers and weakness to Kryptonite as the man of steel, Kara decides to become the hero she was meant to be.
Unfortunately, the Supergirl costume is designed by Colleen Atwood, designer of the outfits for “Arrow” and “The Flash”… so kiss goodbye any possibilities of seeing Supergirl in a hot little red mini and go-go boots. Somewhere Helen Slater is spinning in her grave.
Anchor Bay has released a trailer for Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard, starring Billy Zane (Titanic) and Mischa Barton (The Sixth Sense). The zombie apocalypse thriller is written and directed by Harrison Smith and arrives on home video Feb. 3.
Barton made her horror debut as a tween in the 1999 M. Night Shyamalan mind-blower The Sixth Sense. She returned to the genre in 2009 with roles in the buried-alive frightener Walled In and the psycho-bitch thriller Homecoming, and starred most recently in the horror satire L.A. Slasher.
NBC has released a trailer for season three of “Hannibal,” its hour-long crime drama chronicling the early days of Hannibal Lecter, the notorious cannibal/serial killer first introduced in the Thomas Harris novels “Red Dragon” and “Silence of the Lambs.”
The new season will find FBI profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) chasing down Hannibal Lecter in Europe, while also exploring his past. Memorable parts from the books “Red Dragon” and “Hannibal Rising” will serve as inspiration. The show returns this summer.
Eli Roth dropped a short but very sweet teaser this week to promote the Sundance premiere of his new psycho-sexual thriller Knock Knock. Keanu Reeves stars as a happily married man who regrettably allows two hot young girls into his home while his family is away.
Roth wrote Knock Knock with his Aftershock collaborators Nicolas Lopez and Guillermo Amoedo. The hot psycho chicks are played by Cuban stunner Ana de Armas (El Callejon) and Chilean model/actress Lorenza Izzo (Green Inferno).
Milla Jovovich took to her Facebook account to announce that cameras are set to roll in August on the sixth and final installment of Screen Gems hugely successful Resident Evil franchise. Slated for a Sept. 2, 2016 release, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter has been on hold since Jovovich’s pregnancy last August.
Jovovich said:
I’m really proud of myself for not gaining the same amount of weight that I did with our first child (75 lbs.) because I have to be ready to start filming Resident Evil- The Final Chapter in August of this year and I will also be nursing an infant simultaneously.
The announcement thrilled fans of the series hoping to get another go-around with Alice (Jovovich), Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), and Ada Wong (Li Bingbing), while inadvertently shaming your fat-ass mom who can barely walk much less scissor-kick a pack of zombie Dobermans.
