If you only take your hands out of your pants once this year, make sure it’s to play The Evil Within, a new survival horror game from Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami and producers Bethesda Softworks and Jango Gameworks. The game will available for Xbox 360, PS3, PCs and next generation consoles.
Synopsis reads:
Shinji Mikami, the father of survival horror, is back to direct The Evil Within™ – a game embodying the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story weave together to create an immersive world that will bring players to the height of tension.
Beautiful Creatures star Alice Englert stars alongside “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” actor Iain De Caestecker in StudioCanal’s road trip thriller In Fear. Directed by Jeremy Lovering, the film finds the couple terrorized while en route to a music festival held in the English countryside.
The synopsis reads:
Trapped in a maze of country roads with only their vehicle for protection, Tom and Lucy are terrorized by an unseen tormentor exploiting their worst fears. Eventually they realize they’ve let the evil in – it’s sitting in their car.
It’s her. I bet she stops for too many pee breaks and fucks with the stereo and A/C.
A trailer for writer and director Dan Walton’s new thriller Bind has gone online. The film stars Edward Furlong (Terminator 2: Judgement Day), Kane Hodder (Hatchet III), Playboy model and scream queen Christa Campbell (Drive Angry) and SAW II stunner Emmanuelle Vaugier (pictured).
The synopsis reads:
A family move into an abandoned orphanage and they soon learn that their charming orphanage has a disturbing history and is convinced they aren’t alone.
Vaugier is best known to genre fans for her roles on The CW’s “Smallville,” Showcase’s “Lost Girl,” the CBS crime procedural “CSI: NY” and the horror sequels Mirrors 2, House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim, SAW II and SAW IV.
Dark Sky Films and ArieScope Pictures have released a red-band trailer for Hatchet III, the second sequel in the popular slasher franchise created by Adam Green and starring Danielle Harris (Halloween) as protagonist Marybeth and Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th) as supernatural backwoods killer Victor Crowley.
Written by Green and directed by BJ McDonnell, Hatchet III follows a search and recovery team as they set out to investigate Crowley’s murders at Honey Island Swamp. Marybeth, meanwhile, seeks for the truth behind the killer’s immortality.
I’ve always found the Victor Crowley character to be lame and goofy-looking, but the first two films’ kills were totally creative and fun. Judging by its new trailer, Hatchet III is going to be nuts. The film will play selected theaters on June 14 and arrive on DVD and Blu-ray on Aug. 13.
Walmart announced today that it has partnered up with Warner Bros. to provide customers with an exclusive opportunity to watch an early screening of Zach Snyder’s upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill as the son of Jor-El , Amy Adams as Lois Lane and Michael Shannon as General Zod.
The press release reads:
Tickets for the exclusive screening of Man of Steel will go on sale in more than 3,700 Walmart stores starting at 8 a.m. on May 18.
Customers will be able to purchase up to four tickets per visit, and have the option to choose between 2D or 3D showings, where applicable.
The advance screening will take place in selected local theaters nationwide at 7 p.m. on June 13.
The deal is the first of its kind and sounds pretty cool except for the fact that you’ll be sitting next to Walmart customers so don’t be surprised if your neighbor’s arm flab spills into your seat or if you get stabbed in the throat with a meat thermometer for shushing the tattooed parents of eight seated in front of you.
If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll just end up sitting next to an old man who’s crapped his pants.
Gemma Arterton (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect) are joining Ryan Reynolds (R.I.P.D.) in Voices, a psychological thriller from Iranian director Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and screenwriter Michael R. Perry (Paranormal Activity).
Voices tells the story of a bathtub factory employee (Reynolds) who falls for a woman working in accounting only to have homicidal issues later threaten their union. As for the voices, they belong to factory employee’s evil cat and his morally sound dog. No word on what roles Arterton and Kendrick play.
Deadline broke the story and reports that the project is set to shoot in Berlin.
Arterton is coming off Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. and will next be seen in Neil Jordan’s mother-daughter vampire thriller Byzantium. Kendrick’s creds include the Twilight Saga and Universal’s ParaNorman. She stars in the upcoming end-of-days comedy Rapturepalooza.
Marvel Studios has released the first trailer for Thor: The Dark World, the eagerly anticipated sequel to Kenneth Branagh’s 2011 blockbuster Thor. Helmed by “Game of Thrones” director Alan Taylor, Dark World looks far more epic and exciting than Branagh’s meh original.
Thor: The Dark World finds the Norse god bringing the hammer down on Malekith the Accursed, ruler of the dark Elves of Svartálfaheimr.
The film sees the return of Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Natalie Portman as his girl Jane Foster, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Anthony Hopkins as Odin, stunner Jaimie Alexander as Sif and Kat Dennings as busty researcher Darcy Lewis. Christopher Eccleston (The Others) joins the cast as Malekith.
XLrator Media has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Banshee Chapter, a mind-bending thriller from actor/producer Zachary Quinto’s Before the Door Pictures shingle, starring Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs), Michael McMillian (“True Blood”) andSwedish stunner Katia Winter (“Dexter”).
Quinto said:
In keeping with our commitment to foster first-time feature directors, Before the Door is proud of our collaboration with The Banshee Chapter writer/director Blair Erickson.
He has created a movie that is as scary as it is intelligent and rooted in a fascinating and factual historical context.
We’re excited about partnering with XLrator Media to bring this unique vision to audiences this fall.
The Banshee Chapter follows a female journalist as she searches for a friend who has gone missing after experimenting with “mind-altering chemicals developed in secret government drug tests.” The film, based on true accounts, is described as a fast-paced blend of fact and fiction.”
The deal was announced last week. No word yet on a release date.
Back in February, news dropped that American Pie starlet Tara Reid had scored a dramatically challenging role in a tsunami thriller that Clatto was sure would rival Naomi Watts’ Oscar-nominated performance in The Impossible. Today, it becomes apparent how right we were.
Reid is starring in Sharknado.
Originally titled Dark Skies, the story was said to follow a divorced Venice Beach bar owner as he searches for his estranged family after a flood drowns his city. Making the quest more difficult are the man-eating sharks hunting the flooded streets.
Pretty good, right? Well, good wasn’t enough for director Anthony C. Ferrante and writer Thunder Levin. They’re out for genius. That is why they’ve thrown a tornado into the mix… a tornado that scoops up the sharks and hurls them at flood survivors jaws first.
Sharknado is everything you had hoped The Impossible had been. Here’s hoping Reid is as committed to the role as Watt’s was to hers and shows off a buoy or two. No word yet on when the Asylum-produced epic will release.
“Cold Case” star Kathryn Morris is set to join director Dante Tomaselli’s remake of the 1976 slasher Alice, Sweet Alice. Morris will play Catherine Spages, a single mom to two daughters, one of which is emotionally disturbed and suspect in the death of the other.
In keeping with the spirit of the original, Kathryn’s character will look and feel similar, strikingly beautiful, perfectly sculpted dark hair, fiercely protective of her children and plagued by deep Catholic guilt.
Morris has starred in a string of notable genre films, including the Steven Spielberg sci-fi thrillers Minority Report and A.I. Artificial Intelligence, John Woo’s Paycheck, Renny Harlins underrated serial killer actioner Mindhunters, The Prophecy II opposite Christopher Walken and the sex-comedy Cougars, Inc.
She is best known, however, for playing Det. Lily Rush for seven seasons on the hit CBS crime procedural “Cold Case.”
