Lionsgate has released the first trailer for The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, a sequel to its 2009 sleeper hit about a family tormented by supernatural forces after moving into a house that was once a mortuary.
Ghosts of Georgia stars Abigail Spencer (“Mad Men”) and Chad Michael Murray (House of Wax) as a married couple whose young daughter begins to see black people when they move into a new home that once served as a plantation. Katee Sackoff (“Battlestar Galactica”) costars as Spencer’s sassy sister.
I enjoyed the original quite a bit, but am not so sure the sequel’s premise is frightening enough. I mean… C’mon… dead black people? Everyone knows black people are only scary when they’re alive. Ghosts of Georgia arrives in limited theatrical release and VOD on Feb. 1.
A&E has released a trailer and featurette 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 milfy, but 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, Nestor Carbonell as sheriff Royce Romero and Mike Vogel as Deputy Zack Shelby.
The featurette part of the teaser promises a major reveal in the premiere episode. Coincidentally, the 2:11 mark has Farmiga flicking the bean while Norman appears to watch. Is it trick editing or greatest show ever?
I want to believe… that NBC’s “Hannibal” will be a good show. The casting of “X-Files” star Gillian Anderson for a multi-episode arc bodes well for the hour-long drama, chronicling the early days of Hannibal Lecter, the notorious cannibal/killer introduced in the Thomas Harris novels “Red Dragon” and “Silence of the Lambs.”
EW reports that Anderson, who had taken a 10-year hiatus from acting in television, will play Lecter’s personal psychologist, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier. The series is written by showrunner Bryan Fuller, creator of the ABC Emmy Award-winning series “Pushing Daisies” and Showtime’s highly underrated “Dead Like Me.”
Fuller tells EW:
Every therapist needs their own head examined and we are ecstatic that Gillian Anderson has chosen Hannibal to mark her return to American television after 10 years to portray Dr. Lecter’s personal psychiatrist.
Her intelligence and sophistication, not to mention her pedigree of ground-breaking TV, make her the perfect actress to match wits and psychological manipulations with one of the greatest villains of pop culture. I couldn’t be more excited.
“Hannibal” stars Lawrence Fishburne as Jack Crawford, Hugh Dancy as FBI agent Will Graham, Anna Chlumsky as FBI trainee Miriam Lass, Aaron Abrams as forensic investigator Brian Zeller, Caroline Dhavernas as profiler Dr. Alana Bloom and Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have released the first trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s eagerly anticipated mecha-inspired robot movie Pacific Rim, starring Charlie Hunnam (“Sons of Anarchy”) and Academy Award-nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel).
Pacific Rim finds humans manning huge two-people robots to combat an invading species of giant sea monsters. When the battle takes a turn for the worse, a troubled former pilot (Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Kikuchi) set out to fight the beasts with an older robot model.
Costars include Idris Elba (Prometheus), Ron Perlman (“Sons of Anarchy”) and Charlie Day (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”). Pacific Rimmarks Del Toro’s return to directing since helming 2008’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army. It arrives in theaters on July 12.
XLrator Media has secured the U.S. distribution rights to American Mary, the story of a broke and disenchanted med school student who starts to work the underground surgeries circuit for profit and thrills. Twin filmmakers Jen and Sylvia Soska wrote and directed the thriller, which stars Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps).
American Mary costars Paula Lindberg (”Eureka”), Antonio Cupo (Saint Sinner), David Lovgren (Cool Runnings), Twan Holliday (Pathfinder), and Tristan Risk. XLrator Media will release the film in Fall 2013, but I say fuck that. Let’s fly to the U.K. where it opens on Jan. 11.
What’s that? You’re not a big pimping horror blogger with skrilla to spare? Yeah, me neither. Let’s watch the disturbingly sexy U.K. trailer instead (via the lads at Empire).
Eighteen-year-old up-and-comer Nicola Peltz (“Bates Motel”) is set to join Mark Wahlberg (Ted) in producer and director Michael Bay’s Transformers 4. Peltz will play Wahlberg’s daughter, a high school senior dating biker Brenton Thwaites (Oculus).
According to THR, Peltz beat out stunner Gabriella Wilde (The Three Musketeers), Alex Frnka (“The Inbetweeners”), Abbie Cornish’s sister and Andie MacDowell’s daughter. She and Thwaites will reportedly be locked in for three sequels.
Peltz big break came in 2010 when she was cast by M. Night Shyamalan in his much maligned fam-fantasy The Last Airbender. She will next be seen as Norman Bates’ love interest in A&E’s upcoming Psycho prequel series “Bates Motel.”
Transformers 4 will pick up four years after the events of Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon. Shooting will begin in the spring with the slated release date of June 27, 2014.
Warner Bros. has released the first full-length trailer for its upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill as the son of Jor-El and Amy Adams as Lois Lane. The film is directed by Zach Snyder (300), written by David S. Goyer (Dark Knight Trilogy) and co-produced by Chris Nolan (Dark Knight Trilogy).
Man of Steel costars Russell Crowe as Jor-El, Julia Ormond as Lara Lor-Van, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Antje Traue as Faora, Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, and Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as Martha and Jonathan Kent. It arrives in theaters on June 14, 2013.
ARC Entertainment has set a Dec. 18 DVD and VOD release date for The Frozen, a psychological thriller starring “True Blood” alumna Brit Morgan as a woman stalked by a stranger in the woods after being separated from her husband following a snowmobile accident.
Morgan is best known for playing the now deceased werewolf Debbie Pelt on HBO’s vampire soap “True Blood.” That could all change, however, when she makes her nude debut in director Susanna Lo’s biopic Manson Girls. Unless, of course, The Frozen is better than naked boobies.
Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion, a Wall-E like sci-fi thriller set in a future where people live in cloud cities above the earth, which remains uninhabitable after decades of war against extraterrestrial beings called Scavs.
Tom Cruise stars as Jack Harper, a repairman taxed with fixing the drones that collect resources from the earth and keep the Scavs at bay. Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) is a beautiful stranger who crash lands on the planet and changes Harper’s outlook on humanity with her vagina… OK, I’m guessing that part.
Oblivion opens in IMAX on April 12 and in conventional theaters on April 19.
Magnet Releasing has set a Feb. 8 limited theatrical release date for Chinese director Ching Siu-Tung’s The Sorcerer and the White Snake, an adaptation of an ancient Chinese legend that asks the age-old question: could you love a girl who is literally a cold blooded reptile?
Before you answer, make sure to check out the 1:37 mark on the trailer.
The Sorcerer and the White Snake stars martial arts actor Jet Li as the hero and Shengyi Huang as the White Snake. Costars include Charlene Choi as the Green Snake and Vivian Hsu as a snow goblin… what’s going on with the women in China???
