Gemma Arterton (Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) star in Oscar winning director Neil Jordan’s (Interview with the Vampire) new vampire frightener Byzantium. Written by Jane Eyre scribe Moira Buffini, the film details the lives of a mother/daughter bloodsucking team.
An international trailer for the film has gone online and it does a great job of showing the scope of the characters’ story arc and the emotional weight of Arterton’s full, bouncy breasts. I bought my ticket the moment after Ronan says her mother “paid for my upkeep on her knees and on her back.” She was a mechanic, right?
MILF lovers will need a cold shower after viewing A&E’s newest teaser for its new drama “Bates Motel,” a prequel series to Hitchcock’s Psycho from Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin (”Friday Night Lights”). The show follows the twisted relationship between a high school-aged Norman Bates and his controlling mother.
The series stars Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Norman and Vera Farmiga (Source Code) as his mom, Norma Louise. Costars include Nicola Peltz as Norman’s love interest Bradley Martin, Olivia Cook as his nerdy friend Emma Decody, Keegan Connor Tracy as his teacher Miss Watson, Max Thieriot as Norman’s half-brother Dylan Massett and Nestor Carbonell as sheriff Royce Romero.
Magnolia Pictures has released a trailer for The Brass Teapot, a dark comedy that plays like The Box as if written by the Jackass crew. Juno Temple (Killer Joe) and Michael Angarano (Red State) star as a young married couple that discover a brass teapot that magically gives them money when they hurt themselves.
Co-stars include stunner Alexis Bledel (“Gilmore Girls”), Billy Magnussen (“As the World Turns”), Alia Shawkat (“Arrested Development”) and Bobby Moynihan (“Saturday Night Live”). Director Ramaa Mosley makes her feature film debut with the project, which pops into theaters on April 5.
Looks like Japanese director Noboru Iguchi (Machine Girl) is finally poised to achieve his big American breakthrough with the eagerly awaited DVD release of Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead, a scat-happy tale of parasites, flatulence and the undead.
Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead follows five city kids on a camping trip to the woods, where the model among them consumes a parasite they find inside a fish in the hopes of staying skinny. Meanwhile, a mad-doctor sets his sights on the group to conduct a series of dangerous experiments.
Described as “the most crap-tastic zombie movie ever to emerge from the sewers of low-budget film-making,” Zombie Ass stars 18-year-old newcomer Arisa Nakamura (ABCs of Death), Mayu Sugano (Stop the Bitch Campaign), Asami (Rape Zombies), Yuki (Paradise Kiss) and big-boob model Asana Mamoru.
“Merlin” and Scream IV star Katie McGrath is set to appear opposite Jessica De Gouw (”Arrow”) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (”The Tudors”) on NBC’s “Dracula,” a ten-episode miniseries built around the legendary vampire and his quest for blood.
Set in 1890’s London, the show follows Dracula (Meyers) as he plots vengeance on the descendants of the people who ruined his life many centuries ago. Masquerading as American entrepreneur Allen Grayson, he wreaks havoc up until he meets Mina Murray (De Gouw), a dead-ringer for his deceased wife.
TVLine.com reports that McGrath, best known for her role as evil priestess Lady Morgana Pendragon on the BBC’s recently ended “Merlin” fantasy series, will play Mina’s BFF, a sexy bad-girl socialite named Lucy Westenra.
Former Bond Girl Eva Green has signed on to play femme fatal Ava Lord in Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s long-awaited Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For. The gritty actioner is based on the Miller comic of the same name, published in 1993 by Dark Horse Comics.
Rodriguez and Miller said in a press release:
We’ve been wanting to tell this story for a very long time. Ava Lord is one of the most deadly and fascinating residents of Sin City.
From the start, we knew that the actor would need to be able to embody the multifaceted characteristics of this femme fatale and we found that in Eva Green. We are ecstatic that Eva is joining us.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For co-stars Mickey Rourke as Marv, Bruce Willis as Hartigan, Rosario Dawson as Gail, Jaime King as twins Goldie/Wendy and Jessica Alba as stripper Nancy. New faces include Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Brolin, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Christopher Meloni, Jamie Chung, Alexa Vega, Juno Temple and Playboy model Crystal McCahill.
Green, best known for playing Bond girl Vesper Lynd in Casino Royal and sorceress Morgan Le Fay on the Starz short-lived series “Camelot,” played witch Angelique Bouchard in last year’s Dark Shadows. She’ll next be seen in producer Zack Snyder’s 300 sequel 300: Rise of an Empire. She plays Artemisia, the golden goddess who leads Persian king Xerxes into battle against Athenian general Themistokles.
Dimension Films will release Sin City: A Dame to Kill For on Oct. 4.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has set a Feb. 12 DVD release date for Wrecked director Michael Greenspan’s Kill for Me, a girls-vs.-boys revenge story co-written by Wrecked writers Greenspan and Christopher Dodd and Albino Alligator scribe Christian Forte.
Kill for Me stars stunners Katie Cassidy (“The Arrow”) and Tracy Spiridakos (“Revolution”) as college roommates—each with an abusive past—who make a pact to support each other come hell or ex-boyfriends.
Cassidy, daughter of ’70s teen idol David Cassidy, has starred in a string of notable genre projects including Platinum Dunes’ A Nightmare On Elm Street, Dimension’s Black Christmas, Screen Gems’ When a Stranger Calls and the short-lived CBS mystery series “Harper’s Island.”
Tracy Spiridakos
Cassidy currently stars as Dinah “Laurel” Lance, aka Black Canary, on The CW’s “Arrow,” an adaptation of DC Comics’ “Green Arrow,” starring Stephen Amell as the vigilante superhero.
Canadian actress Spiridakos broke into Hollywood in 2007 on an episode of “Supernatural” and made her feature film debut in 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes. She played a mental patient in last year’s Mortal Kombat: Legacy webseries and werewolf Brynn McLean on Syfy’s “Being Human.”
Spiridakos stars as annoying, but pretty, idealist Charlie Matheson on NBC’s post-apocalyptic series “Revolution.”
Anna Paquin (“True Blood’) and Ellen Page (Inception) are set to reprise their X-Men roles for director Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, a sequel to Mathew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class that finds present day mutants traveling in time to warn the old guard about a dystopian future.
Paquin and Page will once again suit up as Rogue and Kitty Pryde, respectively.
They join cast that includes O.G.’s Ian McKellan (Magneto), Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier), Shawn Ashmore (Iceman) and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), and First Classers Michael Fassbender (Young Magneto), James McAvoy (Young Xavier), and Jennifer Lawrence (Young Mystique).
X-Men: Days of Future Past arrives in theaters on July 18, 2014.
There’s some creepy shit going on in director David Chirchirillo’s found-footage frightener 616:Paranormal Incident. The story involves a government agent sent to an abandoned prison to rescue survivors of a demonic event.
Judging from the trailer, the film is a modestly budgeted indie production, yet it appears to have some disturbing make-up effects and a stunning co-star in Tahitian hottie Vai Au-Harehoe (pictured). Look for it on Redbox and DVD on Feb. 5.
A NSFW trailer (hello, nudity!) has gone online for Tulpa, Italian director Federico Zampaglione’s new giallo offering. The film stars Claudia Gerini as a powerful stock broker who frequents the Tulpa sex club to let out some steam in the kinkiest manner possible.
Things get ugly when she discovers that her lovers are all being slaughtered in gruesome ways. Rather than quit the sex club and watch interracial porn online like normal people, she sets out to find the killer to “nightmarish consequences.”
