Laura Allen (“Awake,” “Terriers”) has joined producer Eli Roth’s, a creepy—and funny—frightener from newcomer Jon Watts about a father (Andy Powers) consumed by the clown costume he wears at his young son’s birthday party when the hired talent doesn’t show.
Allen plays the wife of the good-intentioned, but doomed dad. Production on the film is currently underway in Ottowa, Canada.
Watts and producing partner C.D. Ford first shot Clown as a faux trailer for a fake Eli Roth movie. The short caught Roth’s attention and the rest is the kind of Hollywood fairytale that pisses the fuck out of the broke and struggling screenwriters using the free wifi at Starbucks.
Screen Gems has released a trailer for its adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, the first book in her bestselling young-adult series about a teen who discovers her demon-slaying skills while attempting to rescue her mother from an evil entity.
The film is directed by Agent Cody Banks and Karate Kid 2010 director Harald Zwart and stars Lily Collins (Phil Collin’s daughter) as protagonist Clary Fray.
Costars include Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“The Tudors”), Kevin Zegers (Frozen), Jamie Campbell Bower (Twilight: Breaking Dawn), Robert Sheehan (Season of the Witch) and Kevin Durand (“LOST”).
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones arrives in theaters on Aug. 23, 2013.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for “Dr. Who” fans. A trailer for the show’s Christmas special “The Snowmen” has gone online. Star Matt Smith and series newcomer Jenna-Louise Coleman (pictured above) provide an introduction sure to make “Dr. Who” enthusiasts merry.
The episode is written by executive producer Steve Moffat and costars Neve McIntosh as Silurian Madame Vastra and Catrin Stewart as her sidekick Jenny (I don’t know who any of these people are). “Snowmen” airs on Christmas Day on BBC America.
CBS Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to 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).
The Last Exorcism was produced for less than $2 million and went on to earn more than $65 million worldwide.
Raven Banner has released a teaser for director Michael Ojeda’s gruesome rape/revenge thriller Savaged, starring Rodney Rowland (“Veronica Mars”), Kyle Morris (Age of the Hobbits), Ronnie Gene Blevins (Seven Psychopaths) and up-and-comer Amanda Adrienne as victim-turned-ass-kicker Zoe.
The savaging begins when deaf/mute backpacker Zoe stumbles upon a group of Hick Americans killing two Native American boys, and attempts to save one of them. Zoe is caught and completely Jodie Fostered by the rednecks. An Indian shaman discovers her dying body and performs a ritual to revive her.
Unfortunately for the murdering rapists, an ancient and very vengeful Apache warrior spirit possesses Zoe and sets her on her way to hunt and slaughter them one-by-one in horrific, brutally violent ways to punish male viewers for getting off to the first half of this movie.
Summit Entertainment’s Warm Bodies is a romantic comedy adapted from Isaac Marion’s debut novel about the unlikely love affair that develops between a zombie (Nicholas Hoult) and the girlfriend (Teresa Palmer) of one of his victims.
The film is written and directed by Jonathan Levine (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) and costars John Malkovich (Jonah Hex), Dave Franco (”Scrubs”), Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield) and model-turned-actress Analeigh Tipton (”Hung”).
Gotta say… this looks pretty damn funny. Come Feb. 1, I will be at the theater giggling like the school girls seated next to me. I already picked out my panties.
British actress Elizabeth Henstridge is set to join Joss Whedon and Marvel Entertainment’s eagerly anticipated ABC series “S.H.I.E.L.D.” The show is based on the secret military agency run by Nick Fury in the Marvel Comics Universe.
According to THR, Henstridge will play science Agent Gemma Simmons, a science expert with the team. She joins Ming-Na Wen as weapons expert Melinda May, Iain De Caestecker as tech-guru Leo Fitz and The Avengers’ Clark Gregg reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson.
Whedon will direct the “S.H.I.E.L.D” pilot from a script co-written by Whedon, his brother Jed Whedon and Jed’s wife Maurissa Tancharoen. If picked up to series, the show will premiere in the fall of 2013 and be cancelled one season or two later as is the case with most Whedon programs not centered on vampires (kidding! This ain’t FOX).
Open Road has released the first full-length trailer for Andrew Niccol’s (Gattaca, In Time) adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s tween sci-fi novel “The Host.” The film stars 18-year-old Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons (Red Riding Hood), Jake Abel (I Am Number Four), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) and old-people actor William Hurt.
The Host centers on an alien invasion of human minds. Melanie Stryder (Ronan) is a young woman whose thoughts of love confuse her would-be extraterrestrial body-snatcher, making it difficult to seize control of her thoughts and keep one’s lunch.
Production has begun on director Mark Hartley’s (Machete Maidens Unleashed) remake of Richard Franklin’s (Psycho 2, Cloak & Dagger) 1978 Australian frightener Patrick, starring Sharni Vinson (You’re Next), Rachel Griffiths (“Six Feet Under”) and Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”).
Patrick is the story of a man who falls into a comatose state after murdering his mother and her lover three years prior. When a beautiful nurse (Vinson) is assigned to his care, he uses psychokinetic powers to communicate with her and to destroy those who get in the way of his new found obsession.
Vinson (pictured above) is coming off Anchor Bay’s killer shark flick Bait 3-D and will next be seen in Lionsgate’s violent home-invasion thriller You’re Next, directed by Adam Wingard’s (A Horrible Place to Die).
Anne Hathaway is set to star in Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse, an adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s novel about an artificial intelligence called Archos that takes control of all machines and Terminator Skynet 2001: Space Odyssey War Games I, Robot.
Hathaway tells Empire Online:
If Robopocalypse happens I will be in it, and I believe it’s quite real, though you never want to hang your hat on anything.
Unless its a hat rack. You can hang your hat on a hat rack.
Hathaway, who was handpicked by Spielberg to play the film’s female lead, joins a cast that includes Chris Hemsworth (Avengers), Ben Whishaw (Cloud Atlas) and possibly gorgeous Brit Gemma Arterton (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters), who is currently in negotiations.
Hathaway’s genre creds are limited to the TriStar supernatural thriller Passengers, Tim Burton’s horrible Alice in Wonderland and Chris Nolan’s surprisingly disappointing The Dark Knight Rises.
