“Twin Peaks” alumna Mädchen Amick is set to co-star in “American Horror Story: Hotel,” the fifth season in the acclaimed anthology series from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Amick joins Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Wes Bentley, Lily Rabe, Naomi Campbell, and Chloe Sevigny.
Set to premiere Oct. 7, the new 13-episode season of “American Horror Story: Hotel” is inspired by the mysterious 2013 death of a Canadian tourist in L.A.’s haunted Cecil Hotel. The story made headlines when surveillance video of the terrified hotel guest hiding in an elevator went viral. She was found dead soon after.
Amick is coming off the short-lived Lifetime supernatural series “The Witches of East End.” She can be seen in Screen Gems’ 2011 vampire-frightener Priest, the 1992 Stephen King-penned Sleepwalkers, and 1993’s psychological thriller Dream Lover.
Those with grey on their nutsack will know her best as abused waitress Shelly Johnson on David Lynch’s groundbreaking TV series “Twin Peaks.”
AMC has released a four minute featurette for “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman’s prequel series “Fear the Walking Dead.” Written by Kirkman and showrunner Dave Erickson, the show is set in Los Angeles and centers on two single parent families attempting to survive the zombie apocalypse.
The featurette includes interviews with leads Kim Dickens and Cliff Curtis, director Adam Davidson, producer Gale Anne Hurd, and effects guru and executive producer Greg Nicotero. There’s also plenty of peeks at footage from the show, which premieres Aug. 23.
Twentieth Century Fox has released a red-band trailer for Marvel Entertainment’s Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds plays the titular antihero in visual effects artist Tim Miller’s feature film debut, releasing Feb. 12, 2016.
Those worried Marvel wouldn’t have the balls to produce an R-rated movie adaptation true to the comic’s tone can now rest easy knowing the film is loaded with irreverent humor, outrageous action, and naked stripper ass!
Deadpool is an unstable, foul-mouthed mercenary with regenerative healing powers acquired after an experimental medical procedure to cure his cancer gets botched. Co-stars are Morena Baccarin (“Gotham”), Gina Carano (Fast & Furious 6), newcomer Brianna Hildebrand, and T.J. Miller (“Silicon Valley”).
Ali Larter is reprising her role as Claire Redfield in the sixth and final installment of Screen Gems hugely successful Resident Evil franchise. Paul W.S. Anderson is once again at the helm with Milla Jovovich toplining as resident ass-kicker Alice.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter shoots in September in South Africa. The sequel picks up after the events of Resident Evil: Retribution and finds Alice and crew attempting to stop the Red Queen from destroying humanity.
Larter made her horror debut in 1999’s House On Haunted Hill. She starred in Final Destination the following year and its first sequel in 2003 before landing the NBC series “Heroes” in 2006 and Resident Evil: Extinction in 2007.
Posted above is our first look at Lucy Lawless in the new Starz series “Ash Vs. Evil Dead.” The show is produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, reprising his role as boomstick bad boy Ashley J. Williams.
“Ash Vs. Evil Dead” picks up 30-years after Ash’s last battle with the Deadites and finds the reluctant hero forced out of hiding to stop a new uprising. Lawless plays Ruby, a mysterious woman out to nix the source of the evil, who she happens to think is Ash.
“Ash vs. Evil Dead” will feature 10 half-hour episodes and premieres this Halloween. Raimi co-wrote and directed the pilot episode.
Lawless is coming off the Starz original series “Spartacus” and can be seen on season two of WGN’s “Salem.” She is, of course, best known as “Xena: Warrior Princess.”
AMC’s “The Walking Dead” is returning to Halloween Horror Nights, the annual haunt at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort. Named “Wolves Not Far,” the new maze is based on the show’s newly introduced band of sadistic and homicidal survivors, The Wolves.
The maze at Universal Studios Hollywood will be the longest maze constructed in the event’s history. Last year’s Terminus maze was absolutely enthralling so this is exciting news.
The skinny on the maze:
Guests will begin their journey at the Terminus safe-haven compound, where an unspeakable hunger has consumed the demented souls of those dwelling within.
As the chaos ensues, guests will encounter even greater atrocities as they stumble upon dismembered ‘W’ walkers, witness the horror of victims besieged by the living dead, and step onto the loading dock of the Del Arno Food warehouse to face hordes of ‘W’ walkers.
XLrator Media has released a trailer forAmnesiac, a psychological thriller from Michael Polish (The Astronaut Farmer). The film stars Kate Bosworth as a woman who may or may not be the wife of a man waking up with amnesia after an accident.
Wes Bentley (Hunger Games) plays the husband who despite his memory loss begins to suspect things aren’t right when his wife goes bonkers and takes him prisoner in his own home. In selected theaters and VOD on Aug. 14.
Anchor Bay has released a trailer for the long gestating movie adaptation of of author Micheal Hornberg’s 2001 novel Downers Grove. Directed by Derick Martini (Hick) and written for the screen by novelist Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), the slasher was first announced in 2010 with Hayden Panettiere attached.
Bella Heathcote now toplines the film as Chrissie Swanson, an angst-filled high school student convinced she’ll be one of the victims of a curse that makes schoolmates die bizarre deaths every year before graduation.
Heathcote’s creds include Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, Andrew Niccol’s In Time, and serial killer drama Acolytes. She’ll soon be seen in the big screen adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an outrageous re-imagining of the Jane Austin novel Pride and Prejudice.
In limited theaters Aug. 21 and on home video Sept. 1.
NBC is looking to reboot 90’s fantasy series “Xena: Warrior Princess.” Original producers Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert are involved in the project, slated for release in 2016. Lucy Lawless, who played Xena for the show’s six seasons, will most likely play a role in front of the camera and behind the scenes, says THR.
Described as a “modern reboot” with a protagonist who is parts Xena and parts Katniss of Hunger Games fame, the project is in the early stages and seeking a writer.
Lawless has teased a potential reboot for years. The show debuted in 1995 and has only grown in popularity since it ended its run in 2001. Lawless has also stayed on top of her game with a number of high profile roles, including that of ill-fated Lucretia on the Starz original series “Spartacus,”
If you need Further reason to attend Halloween Horror Nights, the annual haunt at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort have announced mazes based on the Insidious franchise from Blumhouse and Focus Features.
Event goers will be transported into some of the most sinister scenes from all three films in the Insidious franchise. Guests will investigate unexplained phenomena in the Lambert family’s eerie Victorian home and find themselves at the ghastly séance that unleashes chaos and horror.
They’ll journey into “The Further” – a supernatural realm that houses tormented spirits – and face deadly ghosts and demons like the Woman in Black and Red-Faced Demon, who will stop at nothing to infiltrate the world of the living.
