Paramount Pictures has a released a trailer for its upcoming horror-comedy Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, previously titled Scouts vs. Zombies. Model-turned-actress Sarah Dumont toplines the film from director Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones).
Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse follows three high school Boy Scouts as they take on their small town’s zombie outbreak with little more than their troop skills and the help of a gorgeous cocktail waitress (Dumont). It’s outrageous fun that proves undead or not… boobs are awesome.
IFC Midnight has released a trailer for its upcoming Halloween thriller Hellions, arriving in theaters and iTunes Sept. 18. “Degrassi: The Next Generation” alumna Chloe Rose stars as a 17-year-old pregnant girl tormented by not-so fun-sized trick-or-treaters looking to take her unborn child.
The thriller is helmed by “Degrassi” director Bruce McDonald and co-stars Robert Patrick (Terminator: Judgement Day) and stunner Rachel Wilson (SAW 7). The trailer is a trip and Rose’s character reminds us of a sexier Juno.
Blake Lively is in talks to star in Sony Pictures upcoming shark thriller In the Deep from director Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, House of Wax) and screenwriter Tony Jaswinski. Described to be in the vein of 127 Hours and Gravity, the woman vs. shark project would serve as a showcase for its star.
In the Deep tells the story of a young woman coping with the death of her mother by catching some awesome waves. Some gnarly shit goes down and she ends up 20 yards away from shore clinging to a buoy and marked for lunch by a large great white shark.
Lively is coming off the romantic sci-fi drama The Age of Adaline and played Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire in Warner Bros. superhero misstep Green Lantern. She made her horror debut in 2006’s Simon Says before landing her breakthrough role as “it” girl Serena Van der Woodsen on The CW’s “Gossip Girl.”
Reese Witherspoon is set to star in Cold, a supernatural frightener from Deja Vu scribe Bill Marsilii for Lionsgate. Described as a dark thriller with supernatural elements, not much has been revealed about the project.
Witherspoon is best known for her romantic comedies and acclaimed dramatic work, including Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama, Cruel Intentions, Election, Wild, and her Oscar winning turn in Walk the Line. But, she has dabbled in some very notable horror.
Witherspoon played Patrick Bateman’s fiancée Evelyn Williams in Mary Harron’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho in 2000 and Mark Wahlberg’s obsession in the 1996 teen stalker thriller Fear. But it’s her brilliant psycho-bitch performance in 1996’s Freeway that endeared her to genre fans.
There’s a chance the folks behind Paranormal Island are counting on movie audiences to come running like Pavlov’s pooch when they get wind of their title, but the selling point here is scream queen Briana Evigan doing some award-worthy bikini acting.
Evigan plays one of three college kids taking gigs as bartenders on an island believed to be haunted. The flick is directed by guy named Marty Murray and co-stars horror icon Lance Henriksen (Aliens). It’s slated for release on DVD Sept. 1.
There’s nothing memorable about Katherine Heigl movies, so producers for the thriller Unforgettable have brought Rosario Dawson on board for veteran producer Denise Di Novi’s directorial debut. Described as female-centric, the film is written by Wrath of the Titans and Orphan scribe David Leslie Johnson.
Dawson stars as a woman whose new marriage is threatened by her husband’s psycho-bitch ex (Heigl). Cameras are set to roll on the film Aug. 17 in Los Angeles.
Dawson has starred in a string of notable genre offerings, including Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black II, D.J. Caruso’s Eagle Eye, and Danny Boyle’s Trance, in which she performs an unforgettable nude scene.
Dawson can currently be seen in Marvel’s new “Daredevil” series for Netflix.
Annabeth Gish is reprising her role as FBI Special Agent Monica Reyes in Fox’s eagerly anticipated “X-Files” event series, premiering Jan. 24, 2016. Gish played the role of Agent Reyes during the last two seasons of the show.
Gish joins returning leads David Duchovny (Fox Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Dana Skully), Mitch Pileggi (FBI Assistant Director Skinner), William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man), and Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, and Dean Haglund (The Lone Gunmen).
Gish is coming off the white-knuckle FX crime drama “The Bridge” and A&E’s miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones.” She also starred as Sheriff Althea Jarry on the final season of FX’s “Sons of Anarchy.”
HBO has released its first teaser trailer for “Westworld,” a re-imagining of the 1973 sci-fi classic about androids run amok in an adult themed amusement park where humans indulge in their lust for blood and sex. Bad Robot (”LOST”) and Jonathan Nolan (”Person of Interest”) produce.
“Westworld” stars Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, James Marsden (X-Men: Days of Future Past), Rodrigo Santoro (300: Rise of an Empire), and stunners Evan Rachel Wood (”True Blood”), Angela Sarafyan (Breaking Dawn), Thandie Newton (2012) and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (Hercules).
“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.
