Alicia Silverstone is teaming up again with Clueless director Amy Heckerling on the vampire-love-story Vamps. Silverstone will costar with Krysten Ritter as New York vampires whose friendship and immortality are threatened when they each find love.
Hmm. I think Silverstone should reunite with whomever directed the 1993 jailbait-thriller The Crush. How cool would it be to see a followup to that film that presents Silverstone, 33, as an older chick obsessed with some young dude? They could call it The Cougar: Crush 2. Or, Crush Harder. I dunno. I’m an idea man not a title guy.
Vamps is set to start shooting in April.
The following is a completely unrelated PETA ad featuring a nude Silverstone (not only did it make me stop eating meat; it made me beat my meat too).
Lionsgate has acquired the North American distribution rights to the Eli Roth produced supernatural thriller The Last Exorcism, originally titled Cotton. Directed by Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death), the film employs shaky-cam techniques to capture an evangelical minister’s last exorcism in documentary fashion (think Paranormal Activity meets The Exorcist).
Lionsgate released Roth’s 2002 film debut Cabin Fever and his controversial Hostel series.
Jason Constantine, Lionsgate’s president of acquisitions and co-productions, says:
It’s always great to work with our friend Eli, who has played a key role in establishing Lionsgate in the vanguard of the horror genre. The Last Exorcism feels as close to a real exorcism as anyone would ever want to get — audiences are going to find this movie scary as, well, hell.
Australian actress Emily Browning is set to headline screenwriter Julia Leigh’s directorial debut Sleeping Beauty. The 21-year-old starlet will play the part of a student-turned-prostitute who prefers not to remember the things men do to her while she lies doped up in what is called a Sleeping Beauty chamber.
Browning began her acting career at the age of eight. While in her teens, she starred in Ghost Ship, Darkness Falls, and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Last year, she took the lead role in Dreamworks PG-13 thriller The Uninvited.
It will be arousing interesting to see Browning in a kink-fueled flick. Here’s hoping that Leigh’s script is as outrageously perverted as Anne Rice’s BDSM take on the Sleeping Beauty fairytale (The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty’s Punishment, Beauty’s Release).
Sleeping Beauty is budgeted at $10 million and is scheduled to start shooting in Australia come March.
Film Koncept Scandinavia’s upcoming chiller Mara stars Scandinavian Playboy model Angelica Jansson as a vacationing coed abandoned by her friends in the woods. The film had been slated for release this month, but the date seems to have been postponed.
(UPDATE: To see Angelica Jansson in new ‘Mara’ trailer & BTS photos, go here)
It’s likely that most horror fans have at some point played that fucked up game where they’re asked to pick between two terrible fates (i.e. Would you rather lose your nuts or your eyes? Save your offspring or your spouse?). That game is now going to play out in Oscar-winning F/X creator Robert Legato’s directorial debut Choose.
Insanely hot Katheryn Winnick (Amusement) headlines Legato’s twisted horror show. The 32-year-old Canadian starlet plays a journalism grad student tracking down a sadistic serial killer who forces his victims to make horrendous, life-altering choices (think a more evil Jigsaw).
Check out the following synopsis: .
The peace and tranquility of an idyllic, suburban city is suddenly broken. Behind the picket fence and manicured lawn, teenage Sara awakens startled as a rush of cold air gently pushes her bedroom door open. Across the hall her parent’s bedroom door lies ajar. She calls for her parents-no response. She enters their bedroom and as her eyes adjust to the darkness she sees her parents on the bed hog-tied and gagged. Before she can react she is grabbed roughly by the hair and slammed against the wall. “Do what I say or you die” Scarlip tells her.
He turns over an expertly crafted hourglass filled with blood and coolly instructs her, “I’m going to kill your mother or your father. You have sixty seconds to decide which one.” She begs and pleads with him, but all Scarlip tells her is that if she doesn’t choose then both parents die. And this is just the opening sequence of the chilling horror Choose.
Choose costars Kevin Pollak (End of Days), Bruce Dern (Swamp Devil), Talia Balsam (Killer Instinct), Cady Huffman, and Nicholas Tucci (Undocumented) as the Scarlip killer. The film is currently seeking distribution.
Rachel Weisz joins Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts in Morgan Creek’s new thriller Dream House. Directed by Jim Sheridan, the film stars Weisz and Craig as a married couple who purchase a New England home that unbeknown to them was the site of a grisly domestic murder, namely a mother and her two kids.
Watts plays the next door neighbor who knows what really happened in the house.
Moody-tween fashion retailer Hot Topic will be hosting a meet-and-greet with “The Vampire Diaries’ stars Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, and Ian Somerhalder. The event will take place Saturday, Feb. 13 at the Hot Topic outlet located inside the Westfield Topanga Mall in Canoga Park, CA beginning at 4 p.m.
(UPDATE: If you missed this event, don’t worry. You can meet the cast of “The Vampire Diaries” at Paleyfest 2010. Click here for details.)
The autograph signing portion of the show is sold out, but a Q&A session will be open to the public. Rock outfit A Fine Frenzy will also be performing at the event.
For more info, call Hot Topic at 818-348-8440.
“The Vampire Diaries” is writer-producer Kevin Williamson’s (Scream, “Dawson’s Creek”) adaptation of L.J. Smith’s popular novel series of the same name for the CW television network. The show follows high-schooler Elena Gilbert as she’s courted by two vampire brothers.
The most frightening thing about Fox’s sci-fi/FBI procedural “Fringe” is how awful it is. Chock-full of lousy acting, lame dialogue, cliched characters, and cheesy effects, it’s hard to believe that J.J. Abrams has a hand in its production. The show does have one thing going for it: actress Anna Torv.
Torv, who plays agent Olivia Dunham, can be seen in a semi-nude pictorial in the March issue of Esquire magazine. Take a peek:
Human drug Mickey Rourke appears to be quite smitten with Megan Fox, his costar in director Mitch Glazer’s supernatural-drama Passion Play.
The 57-year-old actor tells Entertainment Weekly:
I didn’t know too much about her, except what I read. And I think the pleasant surprise was this girl who’s a world-class beauty turned out to be probably the best young actress I’ve ever worked with. I don’t know if a lot of her films have showcased her acting ability more than, say, being action-oriented, but she really stepped up the plate with this one and was very consistent and professional, beyond her years. At 23, I couldn’t do half of what she’s doing.
Rourke’s statement appears to put Fox head-and-shoulders above his Wrestler costars Evan Rachel Wood and Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei.
Rourke comments:
Well, The Wrestler was quite tough. There wasn’t much chemistry there. Uh, that’s a whole other conversation. With Megan and I, there’s a lot of chemistry and a lot of respect. We’re both comfortable with each other.
Fox is unjustly nominated for Worst Actress at this year’s Razzies Awards for her performances in Transformers 2and Jennifer’s Body(I’m guessing the Razzies are determined by fat girls and gay guys).
To see BTS shots of Rourke with Fox, click here. To peep leaked topless photos of Fox from the Passion Play set go here.
Actress Jessica Alba told MTV News that she will be playing twins in director Robert Rodriguez’s revenge-actioner Machete.
She says:
I play identical twins. One’s bad and one’s good. There’s a ton of action in it. My character does a bit. I got to do some action finally again. This movie is Robert Rodriguez, old school at its best.
Check out the interview:
In addition to kicking ass, MTV reports that Alba will also flick her bean during an on-screen bathtub masturbation scene (I’m guessing that’s the bad twin) that could possibly give her ass-spanked turn in The Killer Inside Me a run for its stroke-value.
(UPDATE: I caught Machete at the theater and Alba looks amazing, but sadly does not play twins and does not masturbate. i have no idea why she or MTV said otherwise, but they owe my penis an apology. Great flick though!)
Machete’s amazing cast includes Danny Trejo as the titular antihero, Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez, Rose McGowen, Cheech Marin, Steven Seagal, Don Johnson, and a topless Lindsay Lohan.
