HBO has released a full-length trailer for season three of “Westworld,” a re-imagining of the 1973 Michael Crichton novel about androids run amok in an amusement park designed for humans to indulge in their lust for blood and sex.
The new season finds more pesky cyborgs pooping on everyone’s parade with their newfound awareness. Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), a host-controlled Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson), and Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) are creating chaos in the real world while Maeve (Thandie Newton) raises hell in a WWII-themed park.
Marvel Studios has set a May 1, 2020 release date for its standalone Scarlett Johansson superhero pic, Black Widow. Set prior to the events of 2012’s The Avengers, the spinoff depicts Natasha Romanoff’s rise from troubled, sexy Soviet spy to sexy and righteous superhero.
Johansson said:
I get to play Natahsa as a fully realized woman and in all of her many facets. I’m excited for fans to see the flawed side of her, what she perceives to be the flawed side of her.
Co-starring alongside Johansson are David Harbour (“Stranger Things”), O-T Fagbenle (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Rachel Weisz (The Mummy), and Florence Pugh (Midsommar), who plays Black Widow nemesis-turned-ally and Black Widow successor Yelena Belova.
Cate Shortland, the Aussie director behind the suspenseful Teresa Palmer abduction thriller The Berlin Syndrome, is at the helm.
The photo above is altered to reflect how Scarlett Johansson’s wardrobe should have been worn as Black Widow. Here’s hoping the new film finally gets it right!
Universal Pictures and Blumhouse announced this week back-to-back sequels for their highly successful 2018 reboot of John Carpenter’s Halloween. Halloween Kills arrives Oct. 16, 2020 and Halloween Ends on Oct. 15, 2021.
David Gordon Green (Halloween) is once again at the helm and co-writes with longtime collaborator and actor Danny McBride (”Eastbound & Down”). Halloween creator John Carpenter also returns as executive producer.
Biggest treat of all? Jamie Lee Curtis will be back as iconic final girl Laurie Strode, Judy Greer (War for the Planet of the Apes) as Strode’s daughter Karen, and Andi Matichak (”666 Park Avenue”) as Strode’s hot granddaughter Allyson.
American Beauty stunner Thora Birch is set to join the season 10 cast of AMC’s revamped zombie drama “The Walking Dead.” Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd made the announcement at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego.
Birch will play Gamma, a busty and devoted Whisperer who is fiercely protective of Whisperer leader Alpha (Samantha Morton).
Birch, who is coming off Lucky McKee’s Kindred Spirits, has only starred in a handful of horror projects, including The Hole, Dark Corners, Train, and the Brittany Murphy vehicle Deadline. She is, of course, best known for her topless tour de force in the Oscar-winning 1999 dramedy American Beauty.
AMC has released a four minute trailer for season 10 of its recently revamped zombie drama “The Walking Dead.” Set to premiere Oct. 6, the new footage is absolutely the shit so get your shitting pants back on! The dialogue is crisp, the danger palpable, the zombies terrifying, the Whisperers more terrifying, and our heroes are looking more intimidating than they ever have…Judith still sucks though and deserves to die horrifically.
Universal Pictures has released a cheekily stylish teaser for its upcoming survival thriller The Hunt, starring “Glow’s” Betty Gilpin (pictured) as the bustiest of 12 abducted strangers forced to participate as prey in an inaugural hunting match for rich elitists eager to claim their poor, dead carcasses as trophies.
Craig Zobel, director of the wonderfully fucked up Compliance, is at the helm for superstar producers Jason Blum and Damon Lindelof (“LOST”), who co-wrote the script with Nick Cuse (“The Leftovers”).
Co-starring with Gilpin are Emma Roberts (“American Horror Story”), Ike Barinholtz (“Mindy Project”), Ethan Suplee (“My Name Is Earl”), Justin Hartley (“This Is Us”), and Oscar-winner Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby). The Hunt arrives in theaters Sept. 27.
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has set an Oct. 1 DVD and Blu-ray release date for Doom: Annihilation, a sequel to the doomed 2005 big screen adaptation of the groundbreaking first person shooter from id Software, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Karl Urban, and Rosamund Pike.
Doom: Annihilation follows a group of space marines answering a distress call on a Martian moon base overrun by demonic creatures. Amy Manson (“Once Upon a Time) and Danish model/actress Nina Bergman (pictured above) star and kick ass.
Francesca Eastwood, daughter of Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood, is feeling lucky in serial killer drama Awake. That’s why she’s confident Jonathan Rhys Meyers is not a murderer… that and the fact that he looks like a retired Hollister model. Seriously, would her character feel the same way if he looked like Clint Howard?
Awake stars Eastwood as a hospital nurse who helps a car accident victim (Meyers) suffering from amnesia and wanted by police for the sadistic slaughter of many young women escape capture in the hopes of proving his innocence.
Eastwood, who made her nude debut in the 2017 revenge thriller M.F.A., is played mutant Molly Walker on NBC event series “Heroes Reborn” and co-starred in controversial photographer and then boyfriend Tyler Shield’s Final Girl. She is best know for burning a $100K Birkin bag in a photo shoot for Shields.
Awake arrives on VOD Aug. 16 and on Blu-ray and DVD Sept. 24.
Jurassic World the Ride is now open at Universal Studios Hollywood and the fun-loving folks at SoCal Attractions 360 have got complete footage of the experience in 4K goodness. The ride replaces the original Jurassic Park the Ride, which launched in 1996 and closed last year, and provides encounters with deadly Jurassic World dinos such as Mosasaurus and the Indominus rex hybrid.
Warner Bros. and New Line released today the final trailer for IT: Chapter Two, the eagerly anticipated sequel to its 2017 blockbuster adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel. Picking up 27 years after the events of the first film, the new chapter reunites an all growns up Losers Club to foil the return of Pennywise the Dancing Clown to Derry, Maine.
Andy Muschietti is once again at the helm and is joined by a new cast of adult losers: James McAvoy (Glass), Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Bill Hader (“Barry”), James Ransone (Sinister), Jay Ryan (“Terra Nova”), Andy Bean (“Swamp Thing”), and Isaiah Mustafa (“Shadow Hunters”). Bill Skarsgard returns as Pennywise…and is more frightening than ever!
