IFC Midnight has set a Feb. 8 VOD release date for Periscope Entertainment’s new torture show Would You Rather, starring Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect), Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) and former porn star Sasha Grey (pictured).
Would You Rather is directed by David Guy Levy and stars Snow as a woman who competes in a wealthy psychopath’s (Combs) deadly game of torture and terror to win money to pay for her cancer-stricken brother’s medical bills.
The film marks Snow’s return to horror since toplining Screen Gems 2008 remake of Prom Night, and is the first in a string of frighteners lined up by Grey that include the rape/revenge actioner Skinny Dip, the Scribbler, starring Katie Cassidy andNacho Vigalondo’s (Time Crimes) abduction thriller Open Windows.
Sony/TriStar has released a two-minute-plus trailer for its new Halle Berry thriller The Call (formerly titled The Hive). Berry stars in the film as a 911 operator trying to help an abducted teenage girl—played by Abigail Breslin—escape from a sadistic murderer.
The film is directed by Brad Anderson (Vanishing on 7th Street) and written by Richard D’Ovidio (Thir13en Ghosts). Co-stars include Morris Chestnut (“American Horror Story: Asylum”), Michael Imperioli (“The Sopranos”), Roma Maffia (“Nip/Tuck”) and Ella Rae Peck (“Gossip Girl”).
Is it me, or does Berry look like she showed up to a Whitney Houston biopic?
Universal Pictures announced on Friday that it will release the fourth installment in its Jurassic Park franchise on June 13, 2014. Steven Spielberg is attached to produce. Safety Not Guaranteed director Colin Trevorrow will helm the 3D sequel, the first entry in the series since 2001’s Jurassic Park 3.
Joe Johnston, director of Jurassic Park 3, said in 2010 that a new Jurassic Park trilogy would soon be underway, adding that it would break away from the original to present a new story. Universal never confirmed Johnston’s remarks and nothing more was said until now.
Spielberg is coming off the Academy Award nominated Lincoln and last year’s nominated War Horse, neither of which featured velociraptors or Jeff Goldblum, regrettably. The Jurassic Park films have earned more than $2 billion worldwide.
By Jupiter’s cock, if it’s January, it must be time for a new season of “Spartacus,” the swords-and-sandals series created by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert for Starz. Titled “Spartacus: War of the Damned,” the series comes to an end as Sparty leads his army of slaves into battle against Rome and a young Julius Caesar.
I haven’t seen the show since Netflix dropped it after “Spartacus: Gods of the Arena,” but I’m sure it still includes buckets of blood, outrageous dialogue and plenty of full-frontal nudity… some of it even female!
OK… it also stars Dustin Clare, Manu Bennett, Daniel Feuerriegel, Simon Merrells, Todd Lasance, Christian Antidormi and Liam McIntyre as Spartacus. The new season kicks off Jan. 25.
South African model and actress Tanit Phoenix is set to make hearts race on Jan. 22 when Universal Studios Home Entertainment releases Death Race 3: Inferno—the second sequel in its successful Death Race franchise—on VOD, Blu-ray and DVD.
The synopsis reads:
Repentant convict Carl Lucas — aka Frankenstein— is a legendary driver in the brutal prison blood sport known as Death Race. Only one victory away from winning freedom, Lucas is plunged into his most vicious competition yet: the first ever Desert Death Race.
Through South Africa’s infernal Kalahari Desert, Lucas is pitted against ruthless adversaries and powerful forces at work behind the scenes to ensure his defeat.
Joining Phoenix for the ride are Danny Trejo (Machete), Ving Rhames (Piranha 3D), Fred Koehler (Death Race), stunners Tanya van Graan (Lost Boys: The Thirst) and Roxane Hayward and Luke Goss (Death Race 2) as Frankenstein.
British actress Jaime Murray is set to star in Fox Home Entertainment’s Fright Night 2, a remake of the recently remade Tom Holland vampire thriller, masquerading as a sequel. The film — directed by Eduardo Rodriguez — is currently shooting in Bucharest, Romania.
No word on what role Murray will play, but she joins a cast that includes Will Payne (Elfie Hopkins) as aspiring vampire slayer Charlie Brewster, Chris Waller (Inbred) as his BFF “Evil” Ed Bates and Sean Power (“Lead Balloon”) as showman Peter Vincent.
Murray is best known for her turn as Capua socialite Gaia in “Spartacus: Gods of the Arena” and as arsonist Lila Tournay on Showtime’s “Dexter.” She also starred on the short-lived Sarah Michelle Gellar series “The Ringer” and currently plays “the real” H.G. Wells on Syfy’s “Warehouse 13.”
CBS Films has released the first trailer for StudioCanal’s The Last Exorcism Part II, an R-rated sequel to producer Eli Roth’s 2010 sleeper hit about a priest who encounters a real demon-possessed soul while shooting a documentary meant to debunk exorcisms.
Slated for release March 1, The Last Exorcism Part II picks up immediately after the events of the original film and finds lead Ashley Bell reprising her role as the possessed Nell Sweetzer. Ed Gass-Donnelly (This Beautiful City) directs the project from a script he co-wrote with Damien Chazelle (Grand Piano).
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Looper) and Josh Brolin (Gangster Squad) have joined Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s long-awaited Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For. Gordon-Levitt will play degenerate gambler Johnny—a character created for the movie— while Brolin steps in as private dick Dwight McCarthy.
Those wondering why Clive Owen isn’t back in the role of Dwight this time out will find answers in the synopsis:
In Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Dwight is hunted down by the only woman he ever loved, Ava Lord, and then watches his life go straight to hell.
Chronologically, this story takes place prior to “The Big Fat Kill” (featured in the film Frank Miller’s Sin City) and explains how Dwight came to have a dramatically different face.
XLrator Media has released a trailer for its new thriller Riddle, starring “CSI” hottie Elisabeth Harnois, fat Val Kilmer, Diora Baird and Diora Baird’s breasts. The film premieres on VOD on Jan. 10 and on DVD and Blu-ray on Feb. 12.
Harnois stars as a college student attempting to find her missing brother in the town of Riddle, Pennsylvania. Her search soon uncovers a terrifying mystery tied to an abandoned asylum. Kilmer plays Riddle’s portly sheriff and Baird is his busty daughter Amber Richards.
Anchor Bay has released a trailer for its new revenge thriller Girls Against Boys, starring Danielle Panabaker (Piranha 3-DD) as a college girl so fed up with the abuse of men that she joins crazy beyotch Nicole LaLiberte’s (Kaboom) on an increasingly violent and deadly male-bashing spree.
Girls Against Boys costars Lauren Ashleigh, Teena Byrd (“Blue Bloods”), Reyna de Courcy (Coming Up Roses), Liam Aiken (Killer Inside Me), Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield) and Andrew Howard (I Spit On Your Grave). It arrives in theaters on Feb. 1.
