Cinedigm has set a Jan. 25 VOD and limited theatrical release date for Dead Ant, a horror-comedy from writer-director Ron Carlson about an aging hair-metal band battling giant ants while on the road to a big music festival in the hopes of pulling off the comeback performance of a lifetime.
Dead Ant stars Tom Arnold (True Lies), Jake Busey (”From Dusk Till Dawn”), Rhys Coiro (“Entourage”), Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings), Leosha Hailey (”L-Word”), Cameron Richardson (Open Water 2: Adrift), Cortney Palm (Zombeavers), Joi Liaye (Prom Ride), and stunner Sydney Sweeney (“Handmaid’s Tale”).
The film held its world premiere at Sceamfest 2017. Read our review (spoiler alert: it rocks hard!) here.
Sony Pictures has released a trailer for Brightburn, a dark super villain origins tale from producer and beloved Hollywood degenerate James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) and director David Yarovesky (The Hive). It is slated for release May 24, 2019.
Stunner Elizabeth Banks (Hunger Games) and David Denman (“The Office”) topline the film as a rural couple who find an abandoned alien baby who doesn’t grow up to become Superman but an evil bastard with tremendous super powers.
Petite stunner Lucy Hale is set to star in the Blumhouse big screen adaptation of ABC’s classic late-70s/early-80s iconic series Fantasy Island. Slated for release Feb. 28, 2020, the film is helmed by Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2) from a script he wrote with Jillian Jacobs (Truth or Dare) and Christopher Roach (Truth or Dare).
“Fantasy Island” centered on a magical island where visitors are granted their wildest wishes often to devastating results. Hale will play a guest to the island who is eager to have her fantasy fulfilled. She co-stars with Michael Pena (“Narcos: Mexico”), who plays the iconic Mr. Roarke – made famous by Ricardo Montalban.
Hale, best known for her role on teen soap “Pretty Little Liars,” is coming off the modest Blumhouse hit Truth Or Dare. She also co-starred in Wes Craven’s Scream IV.
A first trailer has gone online for Blumhouse and Universal Pictures‘ Happy Death Day 2U, a sequel to its hit doom-loop thriller about a college student reliving the day of her murder and attempting to identify the masked killer responsible.
Setto release Feb. 2019, Happy Death Day 2U will reveal the mystery behind the time loop while delving into time travel. Christopher Landon returns to helm with star Jessica Rothe reprising her role. New faces include Suraj Sharma (Life of PI) as a science geek and coder and Sarah Yarkin (”American Horror Story”) as his tomboy, nerdy cohort.
Louisa Krause (“Girlfriend Experience”) co-stars alongside Val Kilmer (Tombstone) in The Super, a new thriller from Black Swan screenwriter John J. McLaughlin and “Law & Order” franchise producer Dick Wolf, arriving on DVD/Blu-ray Dec. 18.
The movie follows a retired and widowed cop and his bratty daughters as they move into the old New York apartment where dad will begin his new gig as superintendent. It’s not a bad deal until dead bodies start popping up and creepy Val Kilmer acts guilty as sin. Krause plays a hot tenant.
Horror fans may know Krause from the underrated thriller The Abandoned, in which she played a single MILF working night security at an abandoned luxury apartment complex to regain custody of her kid. Hooker fans may know her from STARZ’s “Girlfriend Experience,” in which she played a hot high-end prostitute.
Keri Russell (Dark Skies) is set to star in Antlers, a recently announced supernatural thriller from producer Guillermo del Toro and director Scott Cooper (Black Mass) for Fox Searchlight. Russell plays a hot Oregon schoolteacher who takes an interest in a freakish boy with a deadly secret about the town.
Russell joins a cast that includes Jeremy T. Thomas (“Lore”), Jesse Plemons (“Breaking Bad”), Grahame Greene (Dances with Wolves), Rory Cochrane (White Boy Rick), and Amy Madigan (Uncle Buck). Cameras are currently rolling on the project.
Russell, best known for her breakthrough series “Felicity” and her most recent FX show “The Americans,” has starred in a small handful of genre films, including the blockbuster Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and the lesser known, but awesome, Blumhouse alien thriller Dark Skies.
Eiza Gonzalez, the Mexican stunner who courageously stepped into Salma Hayek’s stilettos to play Satanico Pandemonium in Robert Rodriguez’s small screen adaptation of his 1996 vampire crime thriller From Dusk Till Dawn, is set to co-star in director Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong.
Gonzalez joins a cast that includes Rebecca Hall (The Gift), Millie Bobby Brown (“Stranger Things”), and Alexander Skarsgard (“True Blood”). The eagerly anticipated grudge match arrives in theaters May 22, 2020.
Birds of Prey producer and star Margot Robbie has revealed the complete title to the eagerly anticipated Warner Bros. adaptation of the DC Comic about hot female crime fighters and antiheroes: Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).
Robbie, who plays Harley Quinn, leads a cast that includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead (10 Cloverfield Lane) as Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary, and Ewan McGregor (Star Wars Saga). Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs) directs from a script by Christina Hodson (Bumblebee). In theaters Feb. 7, 2020.
You’re luck just ran out… especially if you’re a college coed! Lionsgate has announced a Dec. 11 VOD release date for Leprechaun Returns, the seventh installment in the horror-comedy series that has become a cult favorite. This time out, the sinister mischief maker is out to murder and maim the sorority sisters standing in the way of his gold.
Warwick Davis, who famously played the Leprechaun in the first six films, is regrettably MIA again, but Linden Porco of Channel Zero acclaim steps into his pointy shoes. The series is also known for launching Jennifer Aniston’s career with the original Leprechaun in the early 90s. Taylor Spreitler (Amityville: Awakening) is the one to watch this time out.
Katie Aselton (“The League”) is a porn star dropped in the middle of a slasher in Deep Murder, a horror-comedy set in the world of porn in which life-and-death events force change among its archetypal characters, helping them evolve from sex-crazed tropes into real people.
Aselton plays a hotwife making a cuckold out of her husband by banging his brother. Stunner Jessica Parker Kennedy (“Black Sails”) co-stars as the hot babysitter. Why they felt the need to add a more plot is beyond us. Screen Media will do a multi-platform release for the flick early next year.
Aselton, best known for her comedic role as Jenny MacArthur on FX’s fantasy-football series “The League,” doesn’t really do horror, but has two notable creds: twisted psychological thriller The Gift and cat-and-mouse survival frightener Black Rock, which she also directed.
