Sony Pictures has released a first trailer for its Ghosthouse reboot of the 2004 box office hit The Grudge. In theaters Jan. 3, the thriller is helmed by Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes of My Mother) from a script by Jeff Buhler (Midnight Meat Train).
Andrea Riseborough (Oblivion) stars as a detective investigating the strange goings-on inside what appears to be a haunted house. Things go from spooky to deadly when the entity cursing the house follows her home, threatening to unleash its wrath on her family.
Co-starring alongside Riseborough in the reboot are Lin Shaye (Insidious), Demian Bichir (“The Bridge”), John Cho (“The Exorcist”), Jacki Weaver (Stoker), and busty stunner Betsy Gilpin (“Glow”).
The original Grudge, a remake of Japanese director Takashi Shimizu’s 2002 ghost thriller Ju-On, starred Sarah Michelle Gellar (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) as an American nurse in Tokyo tormented by an evil birthed from rage.
Disney has released an amazing new trailer for “The Mandalorian,” the eagerly anticipated original Star Wars series from producer, writer, and creator Jon Favreau premiering Nov. 12 on Disney +. The show follows a Mandalorian gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy after the fall of the Empire and before the rise of the First Order.
Mandalorians are a multi-species of warriors from the planet Mandalore known for their work as mercenaries and bounty hunters and their distinctively cool armor — the most infamous in the Star Wars universe being Boba Fett. Pedro Pascal, of “Narcos” and “Game of Thrones” fame, stars as the titular Mandalorian.
“The Mandalorian” co-stars Nick Nolte, Carl Weathers, Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”), and Gina Carano (Haywire). Notable directors include Taika Waititi (Thor: Rangarok), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Deborah Chow (”Better Call Saul”), Jurassic World star Bryce Dallas Howard, and Dave Filoni (”Star Wars: The Clone Wars”), who helms the pilot.
Cuban stunner Ana de Armas is set to star opposite Ben Affleck in celebrated Fatal Attraction, Indecent Exposure, and Unfaithful director Adrian Lyne’s new erotic thriller Deep Water, based on renowned novelist Patricia Highsmith’s book of the same name.
Ana de Armas will play a beautiful wife in a loveless marriage who’s made a a willing cuckold out of her husband (Affleck) to keep their wedded facade going. When he grows resentful and bodies of her former lovers start popping up, she soon must find a way out before death do they part.
“True Detective” stunner Michelle Monaghan is set to star in the Blumhouse reboot of the 1996 teen witch thriller The Craft. Executive produced by original writer/director Andrew Fleming, the new film is written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, who also starred in the highly underrated CBS comedy series “Life In Pieces.”
The Craft will once again center on a new student at a Catholic high school recruited by a group of young, misfit witches eager to curse anyone who wrongs them. No word on what role Monaghan is playing.
Best known for her ongoing role as Agent Ethan Hunt’s wife/ex-wife in the Mission Impossible series and a butt-flashing turn on season one of HBO’s “True Detective,” Monaghan has also starred in noteworthy thrillers Source Code, Eagle Eye, and Gone Baby Gone.
Fox Searchlight has released a new trailer for Antlers, a creepy supernatural thriller from producer Guillermo del Toro and director Scott Cooper (Black Mass). Keri Russell stars as a hot Oregon schoolteacher who takes an interest in a freakish young boy harboring a horrifying and deadly secret.
Slated for release April 17, 2020, Antlers co-stars Jesse Plemons (El Camino), Grahame Greene (Dances with Wolves), Rory Cochrane (White Boy Rick), Jeremy T. Thomas (“Lore”) and Amy Madigan (Uncle Buck).
Disney and Lucasfilm have released a final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the final chapter in the beloved series that introduced us to noble Jedi masters, evil Sith lords, and the mysterious energy known as The Force.
Set to release Dec. 20, The Rise of Skywalker is once again in the capable hands of the very talented J.J. Abrams and will see the return of original Star Wars heroes Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C3P0, R2D2, Chewie, and Lando Calrissian, played by Billy Dee Williams for the first time since 1983.
Redheaded stunner Holland Roden is set to star in Escape Room 2, the sequel to this year’s fun, sleeper hit about a group of strangers trapped in a deadly maze of real life-or-death escape rooms.
Roden joins a cast that includes newcomer Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan) and returning players Taylor Russell and Logan Miller. Escape Room director Adam Robitel and screenwriter Bragi F. Schut are once again at the helm.
Holland is best known for her work in MTV’s teen soap remake of the far superior Michael J. Fox comedy “Teen Wolf” and the Syfy horror anthology series “Channel Zero.” “LOST” fans will also recognize her as John Locke’s teen mom in the episode “Cabin Fever.”
Paramount Pictures released this week a new red-band trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate, a reboot of the franchise set immediately following the events of Terminator: Judgement Day. Dead Pool director Tim Miller is at the helm with James Cameron producing and Linda Hamilton reprising the iconic role of Sarah Conner.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back too as the T-800—now apparently retired from his killer cyborg gig and living the peaceful life of an outdoorsman named Carl up until Sarah and her new uppity pals show up at his door. Edward Furlong is also in the mix as Sarah’s son and onetime T-800 BBF, John Conner.
Terminator: Dark Fate holds a lot of promise for returning the franchise to its former glory, but what this trailer really reveals is the missed opportunity of scrapping all that action and time traveling business to focus on the quiet life of a former killing machine from the future as it lives among us.
Zoe Kravitz (Divergent) is set to star as Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, in director Matt Reeves’ (Let Me In) The Batman, a reboot of the DC Comics hero for Warner Bros., starring Robert Pattinson (Twilight Saga) as the Caped Crusader.
Kravitz, best known for HBO’s “Big Little Lies” and roles in the Divergent series, X-Men: First Class, and Mad Max: Fury Road, is said to have beat out stunners Eiza Gonzalez (“From Dusk Till Dawn) and Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) for the part.
The Batman is slated for release June 25, 2021. Cameras are expected to roll later this year or early next. None of this matters, of course, without Todd Philips at the helm to create a Batman on par with his mind-blowing Joker.
Imagine being stuck with Ukrainian stunner Olga Kurylenko in a room where you’re every wish—no matter how wild and demented—can come true. Chances are you wouldn’t wish for a baby, but The Room is a horror film and terrible things must happen.
The Room stars Kurylenko as a wife to a struggling comic-book artist who has grown disillusioned with her own career. They leave their life in New York for an old home in upstate New Hampshire and discover it has a secret room capable of granting them their wishes, but only within its walls.
Kurylenko is best known for her roles as Tom Cruise’s wife in Oblivion and revenge-seeking Bond girl Camille Montes in Quantum of Solace. The Ukrainian stunner can also be seen in Neil Marshall’s Centurion and the big-screen video game adaptations Hitman and Max Payne.
