Tribeca Film has acquired distribution rights to Hansel & Gretel Get Baked, a stoner re-imagining of the classic Grimm brothers fairy tale, starring Lara Flynn Boyle as an evil witch who lures teens into her house with pot, and then eats them to maintain her youthful appearance.
Joining Boyle in the project as siblings Hansel and Gretel are Twilight Saga star Michael Welch and 19-year-old “Castle” cutie Molly Quinn. Duane Journey directs from a script by David Tillman (I don’t know who those dudes are either, but this shyte is genius!).
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has set a Feb. 19 DVD release date for the Syfy original feature Lake Placid: The Final Chapter, the end of the killer-croc franchise introduced in 1999 by screenwriter David E. Kelly and director Steve Miner.
Directed by Don Michael Paul (Half Past Dead), the sequel stars “Heroes” babe Elisabeth Rohm as Black Lake’s newest sheriff, Robert Englund as poacher Jim Bickerman (a member of the film series’ sinister Bickerman clan) and Yancy Butler reprising her role as sassy croc-hunter Reba.
“Heroes” fans will recognize Rohm as CIA agent Lauren Gilmore from season four of the now defunct NBC series. The 39-year-old German-born stunner also starred as LAPD detective Kate Lockley on the popular Joss Whedon series “Angel.”
Epic Pictures has released a trailer for Castlight Pictures’ new supernatural romance Into the Dark, starring Mischa Barton as a woman willing to die to be with the lover who helped her get over the trauma of losing both her parents tragically.
Into the Dark is written and directed by Mark Robinson (The Levenger Tapes) and costars the very sexy Leah Pipes (Sorority Row) and the less sexy Ryan Eggold (”90210″) and Jaz Martin (The Shattering).
After stalling out numerous times, everyone’s favorite road warrior is set to ride again as production wraps on George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth installment in the franchise made famous by Academy Award winning actor and blow-job enthusiast Mel Gibson.
Mad Max: Fury Road stars Tom Hardy as the iconic “Mad” Max Rockatansky and Charlize Theron (pictured) as Furiosa, a leader in need of Max’s aid to get across the Wasteland in a War Rig. The film picks up soon after the events in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
Mireille Enos (“The Killing”) is set to join Ryan Reynolds (“Two Guys, a Girl & a Pizza Place”) and Scott Speedman (The Strangers) in Atom Egoyan’s (Chloe) new abduction thriller Queen of the Night, set to shoot next year in Ontario.
Enos and Reynolds play parents whose daughter was abducted eight years ago. When they discover a series of disturbing clues and messages, they become convinced that their now 17-year-old girl is still alive. Speedman portrays the detective on the case.
Enos is best known for her role as homicide detective Sarah Linden on AMC’s mind-numbingly dull, but cultishly popular crime drama “The Killing.” She’ll next be seen opposite Brad Pitt in Paramount Pictures’ adaptation of author Max Brooks’ zombie novel “World War Z.”
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).
