Lionsgate has released the first full length trailer for its eagerly anticipated big screen adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ young-adult series Hunger Games. The new clip sets up protagonist Katniss’ (Jennifer Lawrence) plight and provides a glimpse at Panem’s to-the-death competitions. It debuts on the big screen this Friday during showings of Twilight: Breaking Dawn.
We also get a look at Josh Hutcherson as tribute Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth as Katniss’ District 12 crush Gale Hawthorne, Woody Harrelson as former Hunger Games winner Haymitch, Wes Bentley as Game maker Seneca Crane, Donald Sutherland as president of Panem, and Elizabeth Banks as your grandma.
Aussie up-and-comer Sharni Vinson is set to star in director Mark Hartley’s (Machete Maidens Unleashed) remake of renowned genre filmmaker Richard Franklin’s (Psycho 2, Cloak & Dagger) 1978 Australian frightener Patrick.
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 is coming off Adam Wingard’s (A Horrible Place to Die) surprise Toronto Film Festival darling You’re Next, a violent home-invasion thriller acquired by Lionsgate to launch a franchise similar to Saw, and Russell Mulcahy and Kimble Rendall’s upcoming shark flick Bait 3-D.
Her most frightening movie to date remains Step Up 3-D.
If you thought acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky was on drugs when he made Black Swan, The Fountain and Requiem for a Dream, rest assured it probably wasn’t meth. The guy hates that stuff. He hates it so much that he stepped away from his upcoming bible-based epic Noah to shoot four anti-meth PSA videos.
The 30-second PSA’s are for The Meth Project Foundation, an organization dedicated to the prevention of meth use through outreach programs and marketing. I thought to post all four of Aronofsky’s videos, but they were kinda killing my high … so you only get the one with the camel-toe and crank-bugs.
Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman, its Rupert Sanders-directed re-imagining of the classic Snow White fairy tale in which Kristen Stewart plays the soon-to-be fairest-of-them-all as a brooding warrior princess.
The film costars Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen, Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman, Sam Claflin as the Prince, British fashion model Liberty Ross and Noah Huntley as Snow White’s mother and father, and Robert Pattinson as Sparkly the dwarf.
Snow White and the Huntsman opens in theaters on June 2, 2012.
Giselle Itié, the Mexican-born and Brazilian-raised actress who made her American feature film debut as beautiful revolutionary Sandra Garza in Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables, has jumped on board Chilean director Jorge Olguin’s ghost ship frightener Caleuche.
The film stars Itié as a terminally ill Boston-based marine biologist who sets out to visit the island of her ancestors and discovers their link to the Caleuche, a large phantom vessel known to sail the seas of Chiloé at night in search of drowned spirits.
The ship is manned by two sisters—a siren named Chilota and a water-spirit called Pincoya—and their brother Pincoyo, a male water-spirit who happens to be married to his Pincoya sister (kinky!). The $2 million ChileFilms and Olguin Films production is set to roll camera in Santiago, the capital city of Chile.
Warner Bros. has released a trailer for director Brad Peyton’s (Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore) fam-fantasy actioner Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, the sequel to the studio’s 2008 blockbuster Journey to the Center of the Earth, starring Brendan Fraser.
This time out, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson steps into Fraser’s mountain boots as Sean Anderson’s (Josh Hutcherson) step-father. Together, they set out to find Sean’s grandfather (Michael Cain) on a mysterious island with the help of a hired helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his hot daughter (Vanessa Hudgens).
OK, so this isn’t the usual dark fare we spotlight on Clatto, but there’s like a miniature elephant in the movie and it’s just so … I mean, wow check out Hudgens’ rack in that tank top.
“Battlestar Galactica” babe Tricia Helfer is playing doctor in director Eric Wostenberg’s new sci-fi thriller Bloodwork (previously titled Phase One). Helfer stars as Dr. Wilcox, the head researcher in a secret government approved human regeneration experiment masquerading as a pharmaceutical drug test trial.
Travis Van Winkle (Friday the 13th) and John Bregar (“Degrassi: The Next Generation”) play college roommates who partake in the study to earn money for a trip to Europe. Mircea Monroe, best known for her work on Showtime’s “Episodes,” also stars as test subject Stacey.
Lightning Entertainment holds distribution rights to the film and premiered a sales trailer for it at this year’s American Film Market in Santa Monica, CA. Thankfully, the crafty folks at the QuietEarth managed to snake the clip for us to vulture.
Shooting has commenced on Image Works Entertainment’s 3-D remake of Japanese filmmaker Ataru Oikawa’s creepy J-Horror frightener Apartment 1303. The film stars “The O.C.’s” Mischa Barton (pictured above), Rebecca De Mornay (Mother’s Day), and Julianne Michelle (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps).
Apartment 1303 follows a young woman, who while investigating the mysterious suicide of her sister, discovers a malevolent force that may have caused her sibling—and many women before her—to jump to their deaths from the room’s 13-story balcony.
The supernatural thriller is directed by Swedish filmmaker Daniel Fridell and costars vagina-less actors John Diehl (Stargate) and Robert Blanche (Zombie Apocalypse). Production is currently taking place in Montreal.
“Pretty Little Liar” Torrey DeVitto has landed a recurring role on the hit CW series “The Vampire Diaries.” The 27-year-old starlet will play Mary, an intelligent young doctor fascinated by the self-healing powers of history teacher and vampire hunter Alaric Saltzman (Matt Davis).
DeVitto’s first two episodes are set to air when “The Vampire Diaries” returns from hiatus on Jan. 5 (this week’s episode marks its last first-run until then). According to THR, DeVitto’s character is expected to have a multi-episode arch.
DeVitto, who is married VD’s regular Paul Wesley (known to most as The Guy Who Isn’t Ian Somerhalder), currently plays Melissa Hastings on ABC Family’s teen-mystery soap “Pretty Little Liars.” Her movie creds include I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer and this year’s exorcism tale The Rite.
She will also be seen starring opposite Radha Mitchell and Stephen Moyer in Fourth Kind director Olatunde Osunsanmi’s Evidence, a found-footage frightener that follows police detectives as they attempt to put together a portrait of a mass murderer by utilizing his victims’ camcorders, flip cams, and smart-phones.
Over the summer, Maya Entertainment promoted their psycho-bitch thriller Playing House by giving fans an opportunity to win a date with the film’s super-sexy star Mayra Leal. A gringo-square named Mark from Los Angeles won the contest and was treated to dinner with Leal at the Federal Bar in North Hollywood.
The 5-foot-3, Texas-born Latin stunner, best known for her nude role in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete, spoke during the date about her big, moist lips, going naked in movies and the effect it has had on her Facebook page, and her love of pork.
Mark asked about her zodiac sign (because favorite color is too risque on a first date), opined that she should do Telemundo (way to pigeonhole, dude), and proceeded to perform an awkward impersonation of an effeminate Latin lover. Needless to say, Leal was quick to drop the “F’ word (“We’re friends”).
