Lionsgate has released the first teaser trailer for its much buzzed about big screen adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ young-adult series “Hunger Games.” Now, when I say teaser I mean just that. This trailer is like Jodie Foster dancing around and hiking her skirt up around a bunch of horny rednecks. It’s such a dirty little teaser. Just look at it. It’s totally asking for it.
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Hunger Games follows child survivors of an economically and socially collapsed America as they compete in televised games of death in a new country named Panem. Two kids from each of Panem’s 12 districts are chosen by lottery each year to participate.
Today is a good day to die … if you hate remakes. If not, then you may want to stick around to see Sony Pictures’ planned redo of director Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners, a 1990 sci-fi thriller about med-school students conducting near-death experiments to see what lies in the afterlife.
Species 3 and Species: The Awakening scribe Ben Ripley, best known these days for penning Duncan Jones’ sci-fi hit The Source Code, has been hired to write the remake. Laurence Mark (I, Robot) is attached as producer.
Despite its intriguing premise, Flatliners remains most notable for its impressive cast of then rising stars Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt. Produced for $26 million, the film grossed over $61 million domestically during its theatrical run.
Zoe Saldana has sealed a deal with Paramount Pictures to produce and star in the supernatural thriller Dominion, reports THR. The 33-year-old Dominican beauty will play a woman who is half-human/half-angel. The pitch is from writing duo Dean McCreary and Chester Hastings (You’re My Angel).
Saldana, best known for her roles as Lieutenant Nyota Uhurain in J.J. Abrams’Star Trek reboot and as Na’vi babe Neytiri in James Cameron’s Avatar, can currently be seen in Luc Besson’s (The Fifth Element) new action-oriented revenge-thriller Colombiana.
Caity Lotz, star of MTV’s new horror-comedy show “Death Valley,” stars in writer/director Nicholas McCarthy’s just-wrapped ghost story The Pact. The 24-year-old Cali girl plays a woman tormented by a malevolent force while living in the house of her deceased mother.
The film, based on MacCarthy’s short of the same name (premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival), also stars Haley Hudson (Killer Pad), Kathleen Rose Perkins (The Island), Agnes Bruckner (Vacancy 2: First Cut), Sam Ball (“The Event”) and Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers).
Lotz is an up-and-comer best known for her recurring role as Anna Draper’s niece Stephanie on AMC’s “Mad Men.” She will next be seen as Officer Kirsten Landry on MTV’s “Death Valley,” premiering Monday, Aug. 29.
Swedish stunner Katia Winter is joining Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs) and Michael McMillian (“True Blood”) in The Banshee Chapter, a trippy psych-thriller from actor Zachary Quinto’s new production shingle Before the Door. Winter will play a journalist in search of a missing friend who had been researching mind-altering chemicals for the CIA.
From the press release:
The Banshee Chapter centers on a young, female journalist (Winter) who follows the mysterious trail of a missing friend (McMillian) that had been experimenting with mind-altering chemicals developed in secret government drug tests.
Levine plays the role of a rogue counter-culture novelist with a penchant for substance abuse and firearms who leads the journalist into the mystery of dangerous chemical research.
A fast-paced blend of fact and fiction, the film is based on real documents, actual test subject testimony, and uncovered secrets about programs run by the CIA.
Winter will next be seen opposite Sam Jackson and Nina Dobrev in the upcoming sci-fi cheese-fest Arena. Her previous creds include indie-frighteners The Seer and the little seen—but very fun—Malice in Wonderland, starring Maggie Grace (“LOST”).
The Banshee Chapter is set to roll cameras this week in New Mexico.
Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated model Marisa Miller is set to make her feature film debut in Universal Pictures’ supernatural buddy-cop actioner R.I.P.D. Directed by Robert Schwentke, the film stars Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges as ghosts working paranormal crime for a police unit known as the Rest in Peace Department.
Miller, who broke Sports Illustrated sales records with her 2008 Swimsuit cover, will play Bridges’ avatar—his human form among the living. Additional costars include Kevin Bacon (X-Men: First Class), Mary Louise Parker (“Weeds”), Stephanie Szostak (Devil Wears Prada), James Hong (Blade Runner), Mike O’Malley (Deep Impact) and Bill Cosby as Ryan Reynold’s ghost dad.
MTV is set to premiere its new horror-comedy series “Death Valley” on Monday, Aug. 29. Set in the San Fernando Valley, the show follows a camera crew as it documents the containment effort put forth by the LAPD’s Undead Task Force during a supernatural uprising that finds the streets overrun by zombies, werewolves, and vampires.
The show stars Tania Raymonde (”LOST”), Caity Lotz (“Mad Men”), Vene L. Arcoraci (Minority Report), Bryan Callen (Scary Movie 4), Toby Meuli (The Craigslist Killer), Texas Battle (Final Destination 3), Bryce Johnson (“Pretty Little Liars”), and Courtney Halverson (Freaky Faron).
Dimension Extreme has set a Sept. 22 DVD release date for the ninth sequel in the Hellraiser series, the first to not star British actor Doug Bradley as Cenobite leader Pinhead. Budgeted at a reported $300,000, Hellraiser: Revelations revolves around two friends who unlock the Lament Configuration while partying in Mexico.
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Despite the fact that the new Pinhead (Steven Brand) looks like a younger version of Christopher Lloyd’s Uncle Fester with acupuncture on his face, the latest entry piqued my interest when I read that one friend attempts to get Pinhead to take the other friend’s mom in his place. Reviews, however, have been harsh and Hellraiser creator Clive Barker agrees.
Barker tweets:
Hello, my friends. I want to put on record that the flick out there using the word Hellraiser IS NO FUCKIN’ CHILD OF MINE! I have NOTHING to do with the fuckin’ thing. If they claim it’s from the mind of Clive Barker, it’s a lie. It’s not even from my butt-hole.
Hellraiser: Revelations is directed by Victor Garcia from a script by special effects guru Gary J. Tunnicliffe. Garcia’s creds include Mirrors 2and Return to House on Haunted Hill.
The original Hellraiser film is the only one in the franchise directed by Barker (it was based on his novella “The Hellbound Heart”). The 57-year-old British author regrettably sold the rights to the Hellraiser universe before the first film hit theaters in 1987.
Full Moon Features founder and director Charles Band brings back one of horror’s most outrageous—but forgotten—abominations in his new outrageous thriller Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt, a sequel to 1999’s The Killer Eye, in which a giant severed eyeball, possessed by an extraterrestrial being from the eighth dimension, looks to impregnate hot coeds on earth.
Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt follows a group of cute college coeds who while watching bad B-movies on Halloween night inadvertently unleash the horny eyeball. The film stars hotties Olivia Alexander (pictured above), Erica Rhodes (Plague Town) and newcomers Ariana Madix, Lauren Furs, and Chelsea Leigh Edmundson.
Former “Baywatch” star and Playboy Playmate Carmen Electra was photographed in the Florida Keys this weekend while on the set of her new creature-feature 2 Headed Shark Attack. While the shots don’t clue us in to what role the sexy 39-year-old is playing, they do reveal why you’ll now watch something called 2 Headed Shark Attack.
2 Headed Shark Attack follows the survivors of a Semester at Sea ship that is sunk by a mutant ocean predator. Stranded on an atoll that is quickly flooding, the ship’s students and teachers desperately search for a way to avoid the hungry beast.
The Asylum will release the film on DVD and Blu-ray on Jan. 17, 2012.
