Genre babe Mary Elizabeth Winstead has finally secured her first starring role in a studio film. She, along with Joel Edgerton, will headline Universal Pictures upcoming remake of John Carpenter’sThe Thing, set to start shooting on March 15 in Toronto.
Winstead will play a PH.D. candidate who ventures to Antarctica to join a Norwegian research team’s investigation of a frozen spaceship trapped under ice. When an alien organism attacks the crew, she and Edgerton’s helicopter pilot character are left to fend for themselves.
Winstead has starred in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, Final Destination 3, The Ring 2, and the Dimension Films remake Black Christmas.
Amanda Fuller has been acting on television since she was about 10-years-old, appearing on such shows as “Walker Texas Ranger,” “Two of a Kind,” and “Touched by an Angel.” Now 25, the fledgling actress is showing off how much she’s grown in director Simon Rumley’s dark psychological creep-show Red, White, & Blue.
From what I gather, the film follows three losers with a knack for bad decision-making. Fuller plays human cum-receptacle Erica, an emotionally unstable runaway prone to drinking and group sex.
It appears that Fuller, who goes nude in the film, needs to believe that Red, White, & Blue is complex and artistic and not just pretentious masturbation fodder for those who peruse straight-to-DVD indie fare in search of B-list, maybe even C-and-D-list, Hollywood T&A. So, let’s humor her and watch as she explains why the nudity and violence in Rumley’s movie is a bold cinematic statement of yada yada.
I wasn’t going to post about Suicide Girls Must Die, an indie-horror with a “reality-based” slant, because I don’t like tattooed ugly chicks. But, then I realized that some of you guys are probably tattooed and ugly too.
If you have a donkey wheel you can spin to go back in time, make sure you head to the year 2003. Why? Because that’s the year you could call Live Links and hook up with “Lost” star Evangeline Lilly. At least, that’s what the phone sex company would have you believe in the following ads:
Lilly, of course, is known to millions as Kate Austin on ABC’s hit sci-fi series “Lost,” now on it’s sixth and final season.
Of course, had you called, chances are the gal on the line would actually look more like Hurley than Lilly’s Kate.
Logan Lerman is either a big fat liar or a clever self promoter. The 18-year-old tween-idol told entertainment reporter Billy Bush that he was in the running for the role of Peter Parker in Sony Pictures’ recently announced Spiderman-in-high-school reboot. Sony, however, denies Lerman’s claims.
During an interview with Access Hollywood, Lerman told Bush:
There have been a few discussions, it’s definitely something I’m looking into. It’s one of my favorite characters ever and I’m a huge fan of the series. I’d love to have more conversations about it. I’m definitely very interested in it. It’s just, you know, conversations are starting. It’s a long process with the studio and the producers and everything. But it’s definitely a project that I’m really interested in, of course. I’d love to focus on the human element a little bit more. It’d be such a fun experience.
Lerman’s announcement quickly set the internet abuzz.
Sony, in response, released the following statement:
No offers have been made, nor have any business discussions been made with Lerman.
So was Lerman just talking out of his ass or was he getting his name out there to promote his upcoming fantasy-epic Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief? I’m not sure, but I gotta admit—that Percy Jackson (hate the title) looks pretty damn entertaining.
Actress Sigourney Weaver first spilled the beans on Ivan Reitman’s plans to shoot Ghostbusters 3 back in December (read here). Among the details the actress told the UK’s Channel 4 News was that Bill Murray would return to the franchise as a ghost.
Murray recently confirmed Weaver’s announcement during an interview with MailOnSunday.
The actor says:
I said to them, ‘I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.’ So now they are going to have me as a ghost in the film.
I’m not a 45-year-old pot-smoking hippie so I’ve never really found Murray to be funny. I think Stripes, Groundhog Day, and Lost in the Translation all sucked donkey balls. I will admit, however, that Murray’s performance in the Farrelly Bros. Kingpin comedy was sheer genius.
As previously reported here, the cast of Jimmy Hayward’s supernatural-western Jonah Hex has been hard at work filming 12 pages worth of re-shoots. These are leaked on-the-set shots of actress Megan Fox. The 23-year-old stunner plays a prostitute (yay!) in the film. Unfortunately, these photos don’t really capture the essence of that type of role, but at least she’s not sucking face with Mickey Rourke.
By Eddie Muertos on February 6th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
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Amber Heard is in talks to star opposite Nicolas Cage in director Patrick Lussier’s Drive Angry 3-D. The 23-year-old Texas stunner was last seen in Screen Gem’s The Stepfather remake and Columbia Pictures surprise monster hit Zombieland.
The Drive Angry 3-D synopsis reads:
The story centers on a man (Cage) driven by rage who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. The vendetta/rescue spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway.
The film is written by Lussier and Toff Farmer, the team behind last year’s slasher hit My Bloody Valentine 3-D, and produced by Mike De Luca (Priest, GhostRider).
It’s a hard R. Car parts and body parts flying at you in 3-D. These are the writers and the same directors of My Bloody Valentine, so it’s designed to … we’re not the high minded 3D of James Cameron. We’re the low 5, very fun, in your face kind of exploitation 3D.
Wow, they had me at Amber Heard, but this could be everything Death Race promised to be, but wussed out on.
Drive Angry 3-D is set to shoot in Shreveport, Louisiana come March. The Summit Entertainment release is slated to be in theaters on Feb. 11, 2011.
Jessica Lowndes (Autopsy) and Julianna Guill (My Super Psycho Sweet 16) headline director Kaare Andrews’ in-flight frightener Altitude. Ryan Donowho, Landon Liboiron, and Jake Weary costar in the Darclight release.
(Click here to see Guill’s topless Friday the 13th sex scene)
The synopsis reads:
Lost in a mysterious cloudbank, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends must contend with a freak mechanical failure that first sends their small plane climbing to an impossible height, and then plummeting through endless mist.
After regaining control, the survivors are confronted with a horrifying realization – the very ground beneath them has vanished and a malevolent force lurking in the clouds wants them dead.
A promo trailer for the film was revealed at last year’s American Film Market.
Writer/director/carb-lover Kevin Smith is soliciting money from fans to fund his next box office failure. The man who once managed to give us one of the greatest comedies of all time—Clerks—by maxing out his own credit cards is currently setting up a website to accept donations for his pet horror project Red State.
We’re kind of creating this website. We’re seeing if it works to set up and collect donations. It becomes a weird tax nightmare, though…It sounded like such an easy thing online…but now there’s lots of checks and balances to make sure we can do it, but if that’s the case, I would be into it, and I’ll match it. Whatever you raise on line, like fuck it, you put it up, I’ll put it up.
We’re gonna make it. It’s gonna happen. By hook or by crook, with my pennies or the pennies of the audience. God bless them. Motherfuckers want to see the movie so badly that they’re willing to pay for it with their own money? Absolutely, put their name in the credits and that movie will be a reality.
OK, Smith, tell ya what. The way I see it, you owe me $40 for Zack & Miri, Jersey Girl, Dogma, and Mallrats. Keep it. Consider it my donation to Red State, you cheap rich bastard.
