RADiUS-TWC, a digital division of The Weinstein Company, has acquired the U.S. rights to Warm Bodies director Jonathan Levine’s feature film debut All the Boys Love MandyLane. The film, which stars Amber Heard in the titular role, had been stuck in distribution limbo for seven-years.
Levine said in a press release:
I am thrilled that Mandy Lane has been rescued and is back where it belongs with Harvey and Bob. Hard to believe it’s been seven years, but then again I’ve always perceived myself as a misunderstood artist who was light years ahead of his time, so I am thrilled the world has finally caught up.
Seriously, I am incredibly proud of the film and of the hard work that my cast and collaborators put into it, and I am so happy the world will finally get a chance to see it.
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane tells the story of a wholesome high school plain-Jane (Heard) who grows into her looks over the summer and becomes the “object of everyone’s affections.” Things get crazy when she attends a weekend party at a secluded ranch where someone is killing off the student body one at a time.
All the boys who would love to see Heard nude in the flick won’t get their wish, but will be pleased to know that stunner Whitney Able—the female lead in Magnet Releasing’s critically acclaimed 2010 frightener Monsters—totally does (she’s the blonde in the clip below).
RADiUS-TWC will release the film on multiple platforms this summer.
Posted above for your viewing pleasure is Colombian knockout Sofia Vergara’s poster for Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, a sequel to his 2010 grind-house actioner Machete. Vergara plays Madam Desdemona, a leather-clad femme fatale with a deadly bullet bra.
Vergara’s boobs don’t need to shoot ammunition to bring a man down to his knees, but the image is striking and exactly what one would expect from the guy who replaced Rose McGowen’s leg with a machine gun in Planet Terror.
Machete Kills finds the ex-federale (Danny Trejo) recruited by the U.S. government to take down Mexico’s biggest drug cartel leader (Demián Bichir). Set to open on Sept. 13, the film co-stars Mel Gibson as an eccentric billionaire, Charlie Sheen as the U.S. President, Michelle Rodriguez as rebel leader Shé, Jessica Alba as ICE agent Sartana Rivera and Alexa Vega as hit-woman KillJoy.
Aussie stunner Melissa George is set to star in the upcoming ABC pilot “Gothica.” She joins co-stars Janet Montgomery (Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead), Emma Booth (Blood Creek), Tom Ellis (“Miranda”) and Chris Egan (Resident Evil: Extinction).
“Gothica,” a modern day re-imagining of the lives of horror icons, stars Montgomery as Grace Van Helsing, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from New York who takes over her family’s small town newspaper.Additional residents include Dorian Grey (Egan) and Frankenstein (Ellis).
George is coming off the A&E small-screen adaptation of the Stephen King bestseller “Bag of Bones.” She made her acting and nude debuts in New Line Cinema’s 1998 sci-fi mind-bender Dark City. Her first starring role came in 2005 in the Platinum Dunes remake of The Amityville Horror.
Additional creds include David Slade’s 30 Days of Night, John Stockwell’s Turistas, Christopher Smith’s acclaimed time-loop thriller Triangle and Julian Gilbey’s survival frightenerA Lonely Place to Die.
Keri Russell (“Felicity”) will play the female lead in Twentieth Century Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, a sequel to its 2011 blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes. She joins co-stars Gary Oldman (Dark Knight), Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Kodi-Smit McPhee (Let Me In) and Andy Serkis (The Hobbit).
Directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) and co-written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a post apocalyptic story set a decade after the director Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 reboot. Details about Russell’s role in the film are mum, Variety reports.
Russell can currently be seen on the FX spy series “The Americans” and Blumhouse Productions’ exceptionally creepy alien thriller Dark Skies.
Russell also starred in the gay cannibal drama Grimm Love, based on the true story of Armin Meiwes, a German homosexual man sentenced to life imprisonment after slaughtering and eating Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, a willing victim he met in an internet chatroom.
Lionsgate has released a red-band trailer for director Paul Middleditch’s end-of-days comedy Rapturepalooza. The very pretty Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect) and an all-growns-up John Francis Daley (“Freaks and Geeks”) star as a couple left behind to battle the devil after the Rapture hits.
Rapturepalooza co-stars Rob Corddry (Warm Bodies), Thomas Lennon (“Reno 911”), Ana Gasteyer (“Suburgatory”), Paul Sheer (Piranha 3DD), Ken Jeong (Hangover) and Craig Robinson (Hot Tub Time Machine) as Beelzebub.
The film premieres in selected theaters and VOD on May 10.
Welsh actor Tom Ellis may be playing Dr. Victor Frankenstein on ABC’s upcoming “Gothica” pilot, but its Aussie model and actress Emma Booth’s build that will make you feel alive… alive! The oft-nude actress has been tapped to play Frankenstein’s bride, Madeline Usher.
“Gothica,” a modern day re-imagining of the lives of horror icons, stars Janet Montgomery (Wrong Turn 2: Left for Dead) as Grace Van Helsing, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from New York who takes over her family’s small town newspaper. She is also Frankenstein’s former flame.
Booth is coming off a nude turn in FilmDistrict’s Jason Stathem actioner Parker. Horror fans, however, may recognize her from Joel Schumacher’s 2009 Nazi cult thriller Blood Creek, starring Michael Fassbender (Prometheus) and Henry Cavill (Man of Steel).
Rebecca Hall (The Town) is set to join Academy Award-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister’s directorial debut Transcendence, a sci-fi thriller starring Johnny Depp (The Lone Ranger) as a man who uploads his brain into a super computer that learns to think for itself.
Transcendence will shoot in Los Angeles in April and is slated for release on April 25, 2014 from Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Geek messiah Christopher Nolan (Dark Knight Rises) serves as executive producer.
Hall’s credits include Nolan’s magician mystery The Prestige, the fantasy thriller Dorian Gray and the British ghost story The Awakening. She will next be seen in Marvel Studios/Disney’s Iron Man 3.
New Line Cinema released a trailer this week for James Wan’s (Insidious, SAW) new supernatural thriller The Conjuring, starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as real-life married demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, known for working the infamous Amityville Horror case of 1975.
Written by Chad and Carey Hayes (Whiteout, House of Wax), the story—based on true events—follows the horrifying ordeal faced by the Perron family in 1970 after moving into a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse. Ron Livingston (Office Space) and Lili Taylor (The Haunting) portray the Perrons.
Hollywood stuntman Jesse V. Johnson is looking for a gig that doesn’t involve being lit on fire or kicked in the balls (aren’t we all). Looking to helm a major studio project, Johnson—who has directed a string of indie actioners—has shot a proof of concept trailer for his take on DC Comics’ Wonder Woman.
It was my manager / producing partner Kailey Marsh’s idea to shoot the trailer. She really believes I should be a studio director, and thought shooting Wonder Woman would be a great way to show off my skills in a fun way that people could get excited about.
The trailer was produced for some $3,500 and finds Wonder Woman high-kicking the shit out of Nazis. Sporting the iconic golden tiara and star-spangled Underoos is Danish stunner Nina Bergman. The concept poster (posted above) was created by Robert Sebree.
Jena Malone is set to star in Teeth director Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Angelica, a Victorian ghost story adapted from the 2007 Arthur Phillips’ novel of the same name. Set in 1880 London, the story revolves around a new mom haunted by horny specters looking to go hump in the night.
Malone plays Constance, a young married woman told to remain celibate by her doctor after the difficult childbirth of her daughter Angelica. The doc’s orders don’t sit well with her husband and their marriage is soon strained. Things only worsen when supernatural forces arrive and make themselves at home.
Malone’s notable genre creds include the 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko, Paramount’s 2008 frightener The Ruins and Zach Snyder’s 2011 girl-power, fantasy-actioner Sucker Punch. She will next be seen in opposite Jennifer Lawrence in the Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire.
