AMC has released a four-minute featurette for the mid-season premiere of “The Walking Dead.” The video includes interviews with creator Robert Kirkman and stars Andrew Lincoln (Rick), Norman Reedus (Daryl), Steven Yeun (Glenn), Lauren Cohan (Maggie), and Danai Gurira (Michonne).
“The Walking Dead” returns Feb. 9.
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The official mid-season synopsis reads:
With the destruction of the prison, we see the group of survivors broken apart and sent on divergent paths, unsure of everyone else’s fate.
What was a challenging life behind fences and walls grows that much more perilous and precious as they are exposed to new dangers, new enemies, and heartbreaking choices.
They will have their faith thoroughly tested — a faith that breaks some of them and redeems others.
Margot Robbie, the beautiful and very nude star of Martin Scorsese’s awesome Wolf of Wall Street, is set to join Christopher Pine (Star Trek) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) in Z for Zachariah, an adaptation of Robert C. O’Brien’s post apocalyptic novel from Craig Zobel (Compliance).
Robbie will play an American woman who is the sole survivor of a nuclear war up until she is visited by a stranger. No word if she’ll do full-frontal for this role, but Zobel is the director behind the awesomely pervy drama Compliance, which saw Dreama Walker (“Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23”) make her nude debut.
Prior to her breakthrough role as Leonardo DiCaprio’s wife in Wolf of Wall Street, Robbie starred in Richard Curtis’ time-traveling rom-com About Time, on NBC’s short-lived drama “Pan Am” and in the Australian horror film I.C.U.
Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill) is set to star in Sacrifice, a cult-thriller from Flightplan writer and Stag Night director Peter A. Dowling. Based on the novel by S.J. Bolton, the film finds Mitchell playing an obstetrician who discovers under her new home the mutilated body of a woman buried shortly after giving birth.
Sacrifice will shoot in Dublin in March. Co-stars include Rupert Graves (“Sherlock Holmes”) as Mitchell’s husband and Colm Meany (“Hell on Wheels”).
Mitchell is coming off the serial killer dramas Frozen Ground and Evidence. She’s also starred in the Silent Hill franchise, the sci-fi actioners Pitch Black and Surrogates, Greg Mclean’s giant-croc thriller Rogue and 2010’s remake of George Romero’s classic viral outbreak thriller The Crazies.
Relativity has released a trailer for Blumhouse’s new ghost story Oculus… and it is creepy. Directed and co-written by Mike Flanagan (Absentia), the film stars Karen Gillan (“Dr. Who”), Brenton Thwaites (Gods of Eygpt), and Katee Sackhoff (“Battlestar Galactica”).
Oculus follows a twenty-something brother and sister (Gillan, Thwaites) duo orphaned as children after the mysterious murder of their parents. The brother was charged for the crime by authorities, but his sister still believes that a haunted antique mirror is truly responsible for their deaths.
Entertainment One Films has released a trailer for actress Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut The Babadook. The supernatural thriller stars Essie Davis (Matrix ReLoaded) as the widowed mother of an emotionally trouble six-year-old who is convinced a storybook boogeyman is out to kill them.
This is why reading to children is bad. It makes them think. It makes their imaginations run wild. Sit them down in front of the PS4 and toss Hot Pockets at them every so often instead… OK, Lean Pockets. You don’t want to be an irresponsible parent #endchildobesitynow.
Katharine Isabelle will bring romance to the table on season two of NBC’s “Hannibal,” its superb, but ratings-challenged, 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.”
Isabelle will play a lesbian named Margot, whose relationship to her serial killer twin brother has led her to Hannibal Lecter’s (Mads Mikkelsen) couch. According to TVLine, she will serve as a love interest for FBI profiler and basket case Will Graham (Hugh Dancy).
Isabelle is coming off as the lead in the Jen and Sylvia Soska’s critically acclaimed medical frightener American Mary. Her creds include the Ginger Snaps franchise, Freddy Vs. Jason, and Chris Nolan’s Insomnia.She’ll next be seen in the Soska’s See No Evil 2, a sequel to Gregory Dark’s 2006 slasher.
Ambyr Childers (We Are What We Are) is set to star in Vice, a new sci-fi thriller from Lone Survivor producers Emmett/Furla Films. Childers plays a sexy android used by rich people to live out there most sexually deviant fantasies at an exclusive resort.
Bruce Willis plays the resort owner, where numerous hot cyborgs are used and abused and later rebooted to wipe their memory. Childers character, however, suffers a glitch and is suddenly overloaded with recollections of donkey punches and Dirty Sanchez-fueled sex, triggering a need for vengeance.
Writing duo Jeremy Passmore (Red Dawn) and Andre Fabrizio (The Prince) wrote the script. A director is yet to be attached. Childers is coming off the cannibal drama We Are What We Are and the actioner 2 Guns.
Lionsgate has released a trailer for Hammer Films’ creepy new supernatural thriller The Quiet Ones. The film is directed by John Pogue (Quarantine 2: Terminal) and stars Olivia Cooke (“Bates Motel”), Sam Claflin (Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Jared Harris (“Mad Men”), and Erin Richards (Open Grave).
The Quiet Ones finds a unorthodox college professor (Harris) and a group of his best students experimenting on an emotionally disturbed young woman (Cooke) with the purpose of using her negative energy to create a poltergeist. What they summon is pure evil (DOH!)
The first trailer for season two of NBC’s “Hannibal” has gone online. The footage teases the dangerous mind games between Dr. Hannibal Lector (Mads Mikkelsen) and FBI profiler Will Graham (Huge Dancy), and strained relationship between Graham and FBI chief Jack Crawford.
The imagery remains spine-tingling and beautiful, and the trailer’s music—a haunting cover of Ben E. King’s classic “Stand by Me” by Mona—adds the eeriness.
“Hannibal” is an 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 series was created by Bryan Fuller (“Dead Like Me”).
Annabelle Wallis (“The Tudors”) is set to star in New Line’s Annabelle. No that’s not a bio-pic on the British babe; it’s a spinoff to James Wan’s blockbuster ghost tale The Conjuring, centering on the film’s creepy Annabelle doll. Wan produces the John Leonetti-directed thriller, which begins production on Jan. 27.
Wallis is best known for playing queen Jane Seymour on Showtime’s period drama “The Tudors.” Her additional creds include X-Men: First Class, The Lost Future, and Snow White and the Huntsman.
The Conjuring starred Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as real-life married demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, best known for their work on the infamous Amityville Horror case of 1975. The plot—based on true events—follows the horrifying ordeal faced by the Perron family in 1970 after moving into a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse.
The Annabelle doll is one of the haunted artifacts collected by the Warren’s during their ghost busting adventures.
