The buzz around director Brad Anderson’s (The Vanishing on 7th Street) new serial killer drama The Hive has just gotten buzzier: Academy award-winning actress Halle Berry has officially signed on to star in the Troika Pictures’ production.
Berry will play a 911 operator attempting to help a girl survive the clutches of a sadistic murderer. The film, written by Richard D’Ovidio (Thir13en Ghosts), will shoot in Los Angeles starting in June.
Berry is coming off the John Stockwell (Turistas) shark drama Dark Tide, available now on VOD and slated for a limited theatrical run on March 30. Previous genre creds include Perfect Stranger, Catwoman, Gothika, and the X-Men franchise.
Jessica Morris (pictured above), the topless star of Senior Skip Day and Role Models, stars alongside Ariana Madix (Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt) and Eric Roberts (The Cloth) in Full Moon Features’ new horror-comedy The Dead Want Women.
Directed by Charles Band (Puppet Master: The Legacy), The Dead Want Women centers on two girlfriends (Morris, Madix) who are haunted by horny ghosts while staying at a large, isolated mansion. The film arrives on DVD and VOD on May 15.
Rodrigo Santoro (“LOST”) is set to reprise his role as Persian king Xerxes in Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ 300: Rise of an Empire (formerly titled 300: Battle of Artemisia), a companion piece to the Zack Snyder-directed blockbuster 300.
He tells Omelete:
The movie is set at the same time. The idea is to show another point of view. While that battle from the first 300 is taking place, there were others going on…
Actually, it’s all of this and then there is an intersection point with the first movie. It goes back and then goes beyond that. That was the initial concept.
Snyder returns as producer and cowriter on a script loosely based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel. “Camelot’s” Eva Green is already attached to play Artemisia, the golden goddess who leads Xerxes into battle against Athenian general Themistokles.
Noam Murro (Smart People) will direct the project, which is set to shoot early next year.
Danielle Panabaker in a movie about spree killing BFFs should be an easy sell to horror fans. Unfortunately, a douchey-sounding synopsis makes it obvious that Girls Against Boys is just another example of “Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding.”
Seriously, what wrist-cutting, arrogant ass-hat would write this crap:
Girls Against Boys is a character-driven, psychological thriller about two girls on a killing spree in New York.
With edgy and ironic humor and a darkly meditative tone that is far more European or Asian than typically American, it is also a coming-of-age story about a young woman coming to understand how the world really works.
It’s a ride for sure, and it even gets more than a little gruesome, but it’s character-driven rather than action-driven, and it has a psychological twist that’s more like a way of reading the film than a big reveal.
Don’t know about you all, but I’ll just catch Panabaker in the typically American release Piranha 3-DD instead.
“Desperate Housewives” star Vanessa Williams has found a new home at “666 Park Avenue,” a new supernatural pilot based on the book series by author Gabriella Pierce. The show is produced by writer David Wilcox (“Fringe”), Warner Bros. TV and Alloy Entertainment.
“666 Park Avenue” is set in a historic Manhattan apartment Building where demonic forces are possessing the tenants. Williams will play the wife of the building’s owner, played by Terry O’Quinn (“LOST”).
The show also stars Rachael Taylor (”Charlie’s Angels’) and Dave Annabel (”Brothers & Sisters”), as a married couple who get hired to be the apartment supers, and Mercedes Masöhn (”The Finder”) and Robert Buckley (”One Tree Hill”) as a photographer and playwright couple .
It should be noted that it took a lot of will power not to title this post Chocolate Milf.
Penthouse Pet and softcore starlet Veronica Ricci reunites with her Bloody Mary 3-D producers to tell the tale of the Snake Club: Revenge of the Snakewomen. Directed by David Palmieri, the campy thriller has something to do with a mysterious relic and the reptilian women who crave it.
No word on what role Ricci plays in the film, but she has big and beautiful breasts so … it’s already better than Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Ricci is the Penthouse Pet of the Year Runner-up 2010 and the star of such family classicsWelcome to Bondage, Veronica’s Private Tickle Hell, Girls Who Want Girls, and Sideline Sluts: Cheerleader Confessions.
A trailer for Magnet Releasing’s Meeting Evil is now online. The thriller is director Chris Fisher’s (S. Darko) adaptation of the 1992 Thomas Berger novel about a man in the dumps whose troubles only get worse when he befriends a mysterious stranger.
The film stars Samuel Jackson (Avengers) as Richie the stranger, Luke Wilson (Vacancy) as unlucky sap John Felton, Peyton List (“FlashForward”) as sexy temptress Tammy and Leslie Bibb (pictured above) as Felton’s hot wife.
Swedish stunner Mercedes Masöhn (“The Finder”) and Robert Buckley (“One Tree Hill”) are the latest to be cast in the ABC pilot “666 Park Avenue,” a new supernatural drama based on the book series by author Gabriella Pierce.
“666 Park Avenue” is set in a historic Manhattan apartment building where demonic forces are having their way with the tenants. Masöhn plays fashion photographer Louise. Buckley is her playwright boyfriend Brian.
Costars include Terry O’Quinn (“LOST”) as the building’s owner and Rachael Taylor (“Charlie’s Angels’) and Dave Annabel (“Brothers & Sisters”) as its new supers. The show is produced by writer David Wilcox (“Fringe”), Warner Bros. TV and Alloy Entertainment.
Masöhn last starred as a courageous flight attendant in writer/director John Pogue’s viral outbreak thriller Quarantine 2: Terminal. She can currently be seen on the Fox TV “Bones” spinoff “The Finder.”
Briana Evigan and Sean Faris better have the eye of the tiger if they hope to survive After Dark Film’s new home invasion thriller Stash House. The duo play a married couple terrorized in their newly purchased home by neighbor Dolph Lundgren.
Stash House, directed by Eduardo Rodriguez from a script by Gary Spinelli, costars Jon Huertas (“Castle”) and Alyshia Ochse (“General Hospital”). Producers describe the film as a cross between The Strangers and Panic Room.
Evigan has starred in a string of notable frighteners, including Darren Bousman’s Mother’s Day, Summit Entertainment’s Sorority Row, the Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko and the oh-shit-there’s-a-tiger-in-my-living-room thriller Burning Bright.
Mila Kunis has joined the cast of Shadowmachine’s R-rated stop-motion horror-comedy Hell & Back. The 28-year-old stunner will voice the character of Deema, a rogue demon who is also part human.
Directed by Tom Gianas, Hell & Back tells the story of two friends who embark on a journey to hell to save a buddy. Costars include Nick Swardson (“Reno 911”), TJ Miller (How to Train Your Dragon), Rob Riggle (The Lorax), Brian Posehn (Surf’s Up) and Kumail Najiani (“Franklin & Bash”).
Kunis, whose voice work can be heard on the long-running Fox series “Family Guy” and on episodes of Adult Swim’s “Robot Chicken,” will next be seen in Seth MacFarlane’s insanely hilarious comedy Ted and in Sam Raimi’s Oz, the Great and Powerful.
