British babe Hermione Corfield (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) plays a hot marine biology student fighting a deadly creature aboard a fishing trawler in the deep Atlantic in first-time director Neasa Hardiman’s eco-thriller Sea Fever.
The film held its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and is seeking U.S. distribution.
Corfield has appeared in a string of notable films, including Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s re-imagining of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice, as a sexy siren in Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur, and as an A-wing pilot in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
The USA Network has released a full-length trailer for season two of “The Purge,” a small-screen companion series to the Blumhouse hit movie franchise. Set to premiere in the fall, the new season is 10 episodes long and explores the aftermath of Purge night on a handful of participants for the remainder of the year.
Among those survivors is Rochelle Aytes, familiar to horror fans for her role in the cult classic Trick ‘r Treat and best known for co-starring in sexy, long-running ABC series “Mistresses.” Aytes plays the hot wife of an ambitious professional (Derek Luke) who must come to grips with what he did on Purge night.
Annabelle Wallis is set to star in Malignant, a new original horror film from director and producer James Wan for New line Cinema. The movie is Wan’s first fright flick since 2016’s The Conjuring 2 and reunites Wallis with The Conjuring universe creator.
Details on what role Wallis plays in the film remain under wraps, but Wan co-wrote the script and promises a film worthy of a hard R rating.
Wallis first caught buzz on Showtime’s “The Tudors” before breaking out into film in 2004’s Annabelle. She has since starred in Guy Ritchie’s The Legend of King Arthur and the Tom Cruise fronted reboot of Universal’s The Mummy.
Kyle Richards (“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”) is set to join Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween Kills, the first of two back-to-back sequels to director David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween reboot for Universal Pictures and Blumhouse.
Richards is onboard to play an adult version of Lindsey Wallace, a neighboring kid Laurie Strode (Curtis) babysits in the 1978 original slasher.
Slated for release Oct. 16, 2020, Halloween Kills puts Green back in the director’s chair working off a script he co-wrote with actor and longtime collaborator Danny McBride (“Eastbound & Down”). Halloween creator John Carpenter also returns as executive producer.
Warner Bros. has released the final trailer for Joker, a standalone origins story for the most infamous villain in DC Comics history. Joaquin Phoenix toplines the film as Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill man pushed to sociopathy.
Set in New York City during the 70s, Joker veers away from previous DC Comics lore to present a portrait and cautionary tale of a disregarded man who only wanted to make people laugh. Todd Phillips (The Hangover) is at the helm. In theaters Oct. 4.
Indian stunner Priyanka Chopra (“Quantico”) is set to star in We Can Be Heroes, a kiddie superhero flick from director Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn) for Netflix. The film follows the children of Earth’s superheroes as they attempt to rescue their super parents from alien abduction.
We Can Be Heroes is written y Rodriguez and co-stars include Pedro Pascal (“The Mandalorian”) and Christian Slater (Heathers). Cameras are already rolling on the project.
Chopra, a former Miss Universe winner, is an international star, but is best know in the U.S. for her starring role as a hot FBI recruit on the ABC glammed up crime series “Quantico” and as a hot drug smuggler in the 2017 movie adaptation of Baywatch.
Disney has released a trailer for “The Mandalorian,” the eagerly anticipated original Star Wars series from producer, writer, and creator Jon Favreau premiering Nov. 12 on Disney +. The show follows a Mandalorian gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy after the fall of the Empire and before the rise of the First Order.
Mandalorians are a multi-species of warriors from the planet Mandalore known for their work as mercenaries and bounty hunters and their distinctively cool armor — the most infamous in the Star Wars universe being Boba Fett. Pedro Pascal, of “Narcos” and “Game of Thrones” fame, stars as the titular Mandalorian.
“The Mandalorian” co-stars Nick Nolte, Carl Weathers, Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”), and Gina Carano (Haywire). Notable directors include Taika Waititi (Thor: Rangarok), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Deborah Chow (”Better Call Saul”), Jurassic World star Bryce Dallas Howard, and Dave Filoni (”Star Wars: The Clone Wars”), who helms the pilot.
Twentieth Century Fox has released a first trailer for its upcoming sea monster thriller Underwater. Kristen Stewart (Twilight) stars as a research scientist forced to abandon her subterranean laboratory when a powerful earthquake hits.
The underwater tremor sets free a deadly threat that Stewart must combat to survive. Fortunately, she’s got a butchy hairdo which tells us she’s tough as nails! William Eubank (The Signal) directs from a script by Brian Duffield (Insurgent) and Adam Cozad (The Legend of Tarzan). In theaters Jan. 10, 2020.
Maika Monroe, star of the maybe-just-a little-bit overrated It Follows and the regrettably disappointing ID4 sequel Independence Day: Resurgence, returns in the indie thriller Villains, set to release in selected theaters Sept. 20.
Monroe plays a hot chick who robs a gas station with her boyfriend (Bill Skarsgard) only to have their car breakdown on the road. They seek shelter in what they believe to be an abandoned house, but end up in a dangerous couples’ (Kyra Sedgwick, Jeffrey Donovan) deadly lair.
Stunner Michelle Williams (“Dawson’s Creek”) is set to return in Venom 2, the eagerly awaited sequel to Sony’s adaptation of the Marvel comic based on the popular Spiderman villain, played in the 2018 film by Tom Hardy.
Williams will reprise her role as Annie Weying, wife to Eddie Brock/Venom and now symbiote sexpot She-Venom (c’mon, you’d hit that). Motion capture actor-turned-director Andy Serkis (Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle) is at the helm.
Williams made her horror film debut playing young Sil in the 1995 classic sci-fi thriller Species and co-starred in 1998’s Halloween H2O with Jamie Lee Curtis prior to making a name for herself on the hit 90s teen soap “Dawson’s Creek.” She has since starred in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and numerous weepy dramas.
