Chinese starlet Bai Ling plays a warrior witch in writer and director Brian Feeney’s Demoniacs, a supernatural thriller set in Italy that pits a married couple against a coven of witches. Chase Williamson (John Dies at the End) and Ellary Porterfield (“Hidden Palms”) co-star as the couple.
According to Fangoria, Demoniacs is slated to roll camera in Rome this October. Veteran Sergio Stivaletti (Mother of Tears, Demons) is handling the film’s effects.
Ling is coming off The Asylum’s Clash of the Empires, formerly titled Age of the Hobbits up until Warner Bros, New Line and MGM sued the shit out of them. Ling is best known in the U.S. for playing psycho hooker Ria in Crank: High Voltage and bad-girl Myca in The Crow.
Good news for fans of ABC’s fairytale drama series “Once Upon a Time”: “Reba’s” JoAnna Garcia is ready to become a part of your world. According to TVGuide, the actress will play mermaid Ariel in the show’s upcoming third season.
Producers promise plenty of new back story and twists for the character while holding on to Ariel’s “charms and ambitions.” Ariel will also have a connection to one of the show’s leads. “Once Upon a Time” returns Sept. 29.
Garcia is coming off two short-lived sitcoms: NBC’s “Animal Practice” and ABC’s “Better With You.” She is best known for playing alcoholic teen mom Cheyenne Montgomery on The CW’s “Reba,” but horror fans may recognize her from Nickelodeon’s anthology series “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”
Resident Evil star Sienna Guillory toplines director Jay Alaimo’s The Wicked Within, playing a married woman who becomes demonically possessed during an ill-conceived family seance. The film is written by Stephen Wallis and co-stars Michelle Hicks (“The Shield”), Enzo Cilenti (Kick-Ass 2) and Eric Roberts.
The film’s trailer has been posted on its Facebook page and it is a doozy of a head-spinner. Guillory is both sexy and sinister, and just pretty damn frightening and mean. The clip also gives a nod to The Exorcist in a very funny and cool way.
Guillory is best known for portraying Jill Valentine in Screen Gems’Resident Evilfranchise. Additional creds include the sci-fi crime drama Big Bang, fantasy-adventure Inkheart, dragon-thriller Eragon, indie-frightener Superstitious, and the Warner Bros. adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine.
Kathleen Robertson (“Boss,” “Beverly Hills, 90210”) has checked into season two of A&E’s “Bates Motel,” a present-day prequel series to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, produced by Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin (”Friday Night Lights”).
“Bates Motel” follows an emotionally unstable Norman Bates and his controlling mother Norma as they attempt to start new lives and a motel business in the small fictional town of White Pine Bay, Oregon. According to TVLine, Robertson will play a “sexy and smart” artistic career woman named Jodi.
Robertson is coming off the recently canceled Starz program “Boss,” but is perhaps best known for playing Clare Arnold on “Beverly Hills, 90210.” Fright-wise, she’s starred in the horror-comedy Scary Movie 2 and in Mark Neveldine’s (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) upcoming exorcism tale The Vatican Tapes.
Posted above is the first image of French actress Melanie Thierry in Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem, an Orwellian-based sci-fi drama about a computer geek named Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), hired by a mysterious corporate figure (Matt Damon) to solve a mathematical formula that would reveal life’s meaning.
Thierry plays Bainsley, a seductress who repeatedly interrupts Qohen’s work. Unlike most first-look images that depict a character at their dullest to conceal plot points, this photo gets down to business, reminding us that behind this artsy-fartsy tale there is a hot and busty French chick in a sexy nurse uniform.
Thierry is best known for starring alongside Vin Diesel in Gothica director Mathieu Kassovitz’s 2008 sci-fi actioner Babylon A.D. She played Aurora, a genetically engineered breeder.
The Weinstein Company has released a trailer for Reliance Entertainment and IM Global’s Vampire Academy, an adaptation of Richelle Mead’s bestselling young-adult book series from Mean Girls director Mark Waters and Heathers scribe Daniel Waters.
Vampire Academy follows the relationship between 17-year-old Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) and her vampire BFF Lissa (Lucy Fry) as they attend St. Vladimir’s Academy, a school for vamps who wish to retain their humanity.
“Big Love” alumna Cassi Thomson has replaced Ashley Tisdale in Cloud Ten Pictures upcoming remake of Left Behind, a 2001 Rapture rejects thriller based on Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s bestselling Christian novel.
Thomson steps into the role of Chloe Steele, the daughter of an adulterous airline pilot (Nicolas Cage), looking for her mother and brother in a post apocalyptic world. What she doesn’t know is that the good have experienced the Rapture and are now sitting next to to God and Kirk Cameron in Heaven.
Chloe and her father have been left behind with the faithless for seven chaotic years, at the end of which they must decide whether to join Team Christ or Team Anti-Christ. According to Variety, production on the remake got underway on Friday in Baton Rouge, La.
Vic Armstrong (Army of One) directs from a script by Paul Lalonde and John Patus, writers of the original franchise. Co-stars include pop singer Jordin Sparks, Martin Klebba (Zombieland), Nicky Whelan (7500) and Chad Michael Murray (“One Tree Hill”) as Tribulation Force founder Buck Williams
The U.K. trailer for Noam Murro’s 300: Rise of an Empire, a companion film to the Zack Snyder-directed blockbuster 300, has gone online. Snyder produces and 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.
Dominique Swain is set to star in The Sixth Friend, an indie slasher from director Letia Clouston (“Broken Toy”) and scream queen turned writer Jamie Bernadette (Axeman at Cutter’s Creek), co-starring Jessica Morris (The Dead Want Women), Theresa June-Tao (Battle of Los Angeles) and Sadie Katz (House of Bad).
The synopsis reads:
Six best friends engage in excessive partying and drug use on the night of their college graduation. An uninvited guest commits a horrifying crime on one of the girls, and the girls seek vicious revenge on the perpetrator, which, years later, leads to disastrous results.
The Sixth Friend goes into production in October and is slated for a 2014 release.
Swain made her acting debut at the age 0f 17 in Adrian Lyne’s controversial adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and John Woo’s sci-fi actioner Face/Off. Her genre creds include mirror-witch frightener Dead Mary, the Sasha Grey pulp thriller The Girl from the Naked Eye and the awesomely bad Nazi’s at the Center of the Earth.
Scream queen Danielle Harris spoke with Mr. Skin about her successful career in horror and her one-and-only nude scene for Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake. The interview is a must-read for fans of Harris and for those hoping to see her get nekid in the movies again.
She says:
It wasn’t gratuitous. If it had been gratuitous I wouldn’t have done it. And I trusted [Rob Zombie]. I’m pretty confident anyway, and I’m not really inhibited, so for me it didn’t bother me at all.
It bothered me more that people kept wanting to talk about it after, you know like fans, that’s when it became weird, the realization that it’s not just Rob Zombie and the people on set that saw you naked, but it’s millions of people that saw you naked. That was a little bit like “Oh my god.”
So, there you have it. Stop creeping the girl out. Don’t ask her to autograph your screen capture of her nude boobs with a personalized message like “let’s go motor-boating” or “wish you were here.”
Harris got her start in horror at the age of 11 in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and returned to the franchise nine years later in Rob Zombie’s Halloween. She also starred in Zombie’s Halloween 2 and in Adam Green’s popular Hatchet series.
Harris makes her directorial debut with Among Friends, out on DVD and VOD Aug. 27.
