Universal released a trailer for Blumhouse Productions’ The Purge: Anarchy, a sequel to the studio’s surprise hit The Purge. Once again written and directed by James Demonaco, the film stars Frank Grillo (The Grey), Carmen Ejogo (Alex Cross), Michael K. Williams (”Boardwalk Empire”), and Kiele Sanchez (“LOST”).
The Purge is a government sanctioned 12-hour night during which all criminal activity is permissible by law. The original starred Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey as parents put in peril when their young son shelters a victim in their home. This time out, the action picks up outside where all hell’s breaking loose. The Purge: Anarchy opens June 20.
“Mad Men” star January Jones is set to topline The Shuddering, a supernatural thriller from director George Ratliff (Joshua) and screenwriter David Coggeshall (The Haunting in Connecticut: Ghosts of Georgia). Jones plays a woman investigating the origins of the frightening visions that haunt her.
According to THR, production on The Shuddering begins in the summer.
Jones, best known for playing Betty Draper on AMC’s “Mad Men,” is coming off Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, in which she portrayed sexy mutant Emma Frost. She’s also starred in the Liam Neeson psychological thriller Unknown.
Evangeline Lilly (“LOST”) is in talks to star in writer/director Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man adaptation for Marvel Studios. Lilly will play Ant-Man Scott Lang’s (Paul Rudd) love interest and the daughter of his creator Hank Pym (Michael Douglas). The character is not part of the comic, but created by Wright for the film.
According to THR, Lilly’s role will not be a “one-off”… so don’t, like, worry about her when you watch the film. Production on Ant-Man begins in April for a July 17, 2015 release date.
Lilly, best known for playing fugitive Kate Austen on ABC’s Emmy-winning series “LOST,” is coming off Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. She will reprise her role as woodland elf Tauriel in The Hobbit: There and Back Again.
Director Toby Osborne’s feature film debut Virginia Obscura will be made available on VOD, streaming and digital download on Feb. 24. To give you an idea of what you’re in for, a trailer has been released that is just as intriguing and creepy as the slasher appears to be.
The official synopsis reads:
A voyeur peeps through a pinhole into a snowbound farmhouse where a masked knife-wielding psychopath dishes out bloody revenge at a twisted family reunion between a young woman and the despicable men who could be her “deadbeat dad.”
Virginia Obscura is topline by scream queen Jessica Cameron (Silent Night) and costars Matt Mitler (Basket Case 2), Ken Abraham (Creepozoids), Christopher Marrone (Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies) and horror legend Linnea Quigley (Silent Night, Deadly Night, Night of the Demons).
“30 Rock” star Katrina Bowden goes nude in the Lionsgate psycho-sexual thriller Nurse 3D. Directed by Douglas Aarniokoski (The Day), the film stars Bowden as a young nurse who becomes the obsession of a homicidal RN (Paz de la Huerta) after a night of drinking and lesbian date-rape.
Bowden bares her healthy bottom in a locker room shower scene, while Huerta watches on. It’s kinda short, but pretty damn remarkable. Bowden definitely out-nudes Huerta—not in quantity of nude scenes, but just in wow factor.
A&E has released its first trailer for season two of producer Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin’s (“Friday Night Lights”) hit series “Bates Motel.” The show is a present-day prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, and stars Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga as his controlling mother Norma.
Peep it:
The synopsis reads:
Norman is fixating on Miss Watson’s death while Norma’s mysterious past starts to haunt the family with the introduction of her brother. Meanwhile, Norman’s brother Dylan (Max Thieriot) gets more entrenched in the familial drug war that fuels White Pine Bay and finds himself right in the middle of the danger as Bradley (Nicola Peltz), who remains on the hunt to uncover her father’s killer, is driven to precarious extremes.
Marilyn Manson announced this week that production has begun on Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, a Manson penned and directed horror film starring the antichrist superstar as the tormented author of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
Manson tweeted:
Happy that my PHANTASMAGORIA screenplay, with me portraying Lewis Carroll, is in production. His diaries inspired the best horror film ever.
Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll has been gestating since 2010 when Manson girls Evan Rachel Wood (“True Blood”) and Dita Von Teese were attached to costar. The film finds Carroll in an isolated castle haunted by visions of a girl named Alice.
Phoebe Tonkin, star of The CW’s vampire drama “The Originals” and its short-lived witch series “The Secret Circle,” is set to star in I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jim Gillespie’s Take Down, an abduction thriller written by Ransom scribe Alexander Ignon.
Take Down follows a group of spoiled international rich kids who are abducted while at a secluded camp in the wilderness for troubled teens. Held for ransom, the kids must plot their own escape and survival when their billionaire parents don’t come through.
Tonkin played she-wolf Hayley Marshall on The CW’s “Vampire Diaries” and has reprised the role on its spinoff “The Originals.” On the big screen, she starred in the Aussie shark frightener Bait. Take Down is set to roll camera in April.
From miniature dog breeds to bite-size candy bars to midget porn, people love tiny things. But, small packages don’t always bring good things. That’s the lesson learned in Piranha Sharks, an outrageous creature-feature starring pretty up-and-comer Jessica Sonneborn (Bloody Bloody Bible Camp).
Piranha Sharks follows a group of New Yorkers terrorized by great white sharks bio-engineered to be the size of piranhas. Originally created for rich people to enjoy as pets, things go horribly wrong when the mutant man-eaters escape into the city’s sewer system.
As if Alexandra Daddario’s wonderfully long and graphic nude scene on HBO’s “True Detective” didn’t already rock your world, her new film San Andreas is set during the aftermath of a massive California earthquake. The gorgeous brunette has been cast as the female lead opposite Dwayne Johnson.
San Andres stars Johnson as a helicopter pilot searching for his estranged daughter in the wake of a deadly quake. The film is directed by Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) from a script by Allan Loeb (Here Comes the Boom), polished by Carlton Cuse (“LOST”).
Daddario cut her teeth in horror with Mary Lambert’s (Pet Sematary) haunted house thriller The Attic, and won fright fans over with her intense performance in Stevan Mena’s gruesome indie-slasherBereavement and Lionsgate’s Texas Chainsaw. She’s best known for starring in the Percy Jackson films.
