San Diego Comic-Con attendees hoping to catch a glimpse of director Alexandre Aja’s fish-&-chicks frightener Piranha 3-D this week will have to jump ship from the convention center to the Regal Horton Plaza. According to a press release from The Weinstein Company, the decision to screen a trailer from the film away from the convention was made shortly after event organizers sunk the studio’s plan to showcase R-rated footage during its Piranha Q&A panel.

The panel will now be held on Thursday, July 22 from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Regal Horton Hotel.

Director Aja explains :

It doesn’t make sense to go to an event like Comic-Con and not show what the movie is…It’s frustrating because I was so excited to show this at Comic-Con – I made the movie for that crowd.

The offending footage in question is set at a wet T-shirt contest in the fictional spring break town of Lake Victoria which is overrun by bloodthirsty piranha after an underwater earthquake. The clip includes graphic gore and bodacious coed boobs.

Piranha 3-D opens Aug. 20 and stars Elisabeth Shue (Hollow Man), Jerry O’Connell (Mission to Mars),Ving Rhames (Day of the Dead), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Richard Dreyfus (Jaws), Adam Scott (The Return), Dina Meyer (Saw IV), Jessica Szohr (House at the End of the Drive), porn star Riley Steele, and model/actress Kelly Brook.

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Unlike your unemployed father, British actors Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton won’t be sitting around in their boxers tossing beer cans at at their loved one’s heads now that their gigs on the insanely lucrative Harry Potter franchise have come to an end. The wizarding duo have wasted no time conjuring up high profile projects.

Hammer Films announced today that Radcliffe will headline their adaptation of author Susan Hill’s best-selling novel The Woman in Black. James Watkins (Eden Lake) will direct the film from a script by Kick Ass writer Jane Goldman, who aims to introduce a J-horror vibe to the Victorian ghost story.

Daniel Radcliffe says (via press release):

I am incredibly excited to be part of The Woman In Black. Jane Goldman’s script is beautifully written – both tender and terrifying in equal measure. It is thrilling to be working with James Watkins. From his brilliant work on Eden Lake and also having met him and heard his vision for the film, I know he will make a fantastic film.

The Woman in Black follows lawyer Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe) as he arrives in a small U.K. town to settle the estate of a deceased old widow only to discover a village held captive by a vengeful ghost.

Felton, meanwhile, has signed on to star in 20th Century Fox’s eagerly anticipated Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. The 22-year-old actor is playing the son of a cruel primate sanctuary owner (Brian Cox).

Felton is the latest addition to a cast that includes lead James Franco (Spiderman), John Lithgow (“Dexter”), Brian Cox (Trick’r Treat), Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings), and the gorgeous Freida Pinto (Immortals).

Directed by Rupert Wyatt, Rise of the Apes follows a San Francisco-based scientist’s (Franco) attempt to protect an ape named Caesar (Serkis) from the doctors using him as a test subject in Alzheimer’s research. What follows sets the stage for a simian revolution.

The film goes into production this month and is slated for release on June 24, 2011.

Felton also stars in Dark Castle’s supernatural thriller The Apparition, opposite Twilight babe Ashley Greene and Friday the 13th’s Julianna Guill, and in Eyeline Entertainment’s werewolf-frightener 13HRS with British actress/glamor model Gemma Atkinson.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last entry in the beloved blockbuster saga, is being split in two with the first part set to hit theaters on Nov. 19 and the second on July 15, 2011.

Producer/director Michael Bay shut down parts of Michigan Avenue in Chicago this weekend to roll camera on a massive car accident scene from his upcoming blockbuster Transformers 3. The street, which is located in the city’s downtown, will open up again on Monday morning.

For the most part, citizens seemed to enjoy the destruction on display and dropped by the set to take pictures.

Transformers 3 stars Shia LaBeouf, John Malkovich, model-turned-actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (in her first movie role), Patrick Dempsey, Frances McDormand, Ken Jeong (the naked Asian guy from The Hangover), Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, and “Firefly’s” Alan Tudyk.

Below you’ll find shots taken from the set this weekend, as well as some photos featuring Optimus Prime from an earlier shoot in Chicago.

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Anchor Bay has set an Aug. 3 release date for the DVD and Blu-ray disc editions of its psychological thriller After.Life, starring Liam Neeson, Justin Long, and a very naked Christina Ricci. This is great news for those of us who drove out to the boonies in search of a theater playing it, but got lost and ended up spending our $15 on a pregnant stripper in a truck stop dive bar.

Check out the new home edition promo trailer (if you dropped trou the minute you read the post headline, you can skip down to peep some nude Ricci screen captures) :

After.Life, which held its premiere back in November as part of the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, is writer/director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s long-awaited feature film debut. The film’s plot centers on a young woman (Ricci), the victim of an automobile accident, who awakens to find that she is being prepped for burial by a mysterious mortician (Neeson) who insists that she is ready to crossover to the hereafter.

After.Life was released in theaters for a limited run back in April. The film was rated R for its disturbing images, language, and generous helping of Ricci nudity. Reviews have been mixed.

Bonus features on the After.Life DVD/Blu-ray include audio commentary with Vosloo, the featurette “Diving into the After.Life: The Art of Making a Thriller,” and the film’s theatrical trailer (WTF! No photo gallery?) .

Enjoy the captures:

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Colombian actress Sophia Vergara (“Modern Family”) is one of the world’s most beautiful women. But, regrettably, there may come a time when the voluptuous 38-year-old stunner will need to be put out to pasture with the likes of Kim Cattrall, Julia Roberts, and Madonna.

But, don’t worry. There is another.

Sandra Vergara is Sophia’s 24-year-old sister and the newest face in DreamWork’s upcoming remake of director Tom Holland’s classic vampire-thriller Fright Night. The aspiring starlet will play magician-turned-vampire-killer Peter Vincent’s (David Tennant) girlfriend and assistant.

This casting couch ain't much of a couch

Directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) and penned by Marti Noxon (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), Fright Night is set in Las Vegas and stars Anton Yelchin (Terminator: Salvation) as protagonist Charley Brewster, Imogen Poots as his girlfriend Amy, Colin Farrell (Ondine) as the vampire Jerry Dandridge, Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Kick Ass) as Charlie’s BFF “Evil” Ed Thompson, and Toni Collete (The Sixth Sense) as Charley’s mom.

Fright Night gets rolling this summer in New Mexico. It will arrive in theaters on Oct. 7, 2011.

The original Fright Night made Clatto’s list of 15 Vampire Movies That Won’t Make You Gay.

Dimension Films has posted promo stills featuring British model/actress Kelly Brook on their sexy Piranha 3-D viral website Wild Wild Girls. The shots showcase Brook’s natural talents … in a red bikini.

The photos are taken from a scene that finds Brook and porn star Riley Steele’s characters, Danni and Crystal, going wild in the fictional spring break town of Lake Victoria. Jerry O’Connell, who plays Joe Francis (Girls Gone Wild) parody Derrick Jones, films them as they work a crowd of horny party revelers into a frenzy.

Brook and Steele also share a nude scene together in the film. Read about it here.

Piranha 3-D is directed by Alexandre Aja and stars Elisabeth Shue (Hollow Man), Ving Rhames (Day of the Dead), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Richard Dreyfus (Jaws), Adam Scott (The Return), Dina Meyer (Saw IV) and Jessica Szohr (House at the End of the Drive).

The film arrives in theaters on Aug. 20.

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Jennifer Lawrence, the insanely attractive 19-year-old star of the award-winning indie-drama Winter’s Bone, has been cast in Mathew Vaughn’s eagerly anticipated X-Men origins reboot X-Men: First Class. Lawrence will play sexy shape-shifting mutant Mystique (played by Rebecca Romijn in the original X-Men trilogy).

Lawrence joins a cast that includes Alice Eve as Emma Frost, Nicholas Hoult as Beast, Caleb Landry as Banshee, Michael Fassbender as Magneto and James McAvoy as Prof. Charles Xavier. Kevin Bacon has also signed on to star as the film’s villain (possibly Mister Sinister according to internet rumors).

X-Men: First Class will go into production next month in London. Twentieth Century Fox has scheduled the film for release on June 3, 2011.

Lawrence is also set to headline A Bigger Boat’s new frightener House at the End of the Street. She plays a teen girl caught up with a boy whose family was murdered.

Burlesque troupe Devil’s Playground returned to the stage on July 10th to perform their popular Star Wars themed striptease show at The Music Box theater in Hollywood, CA. However, a disturbance in the force—namely a cease-and-desist letter from Lucasfilms’ antipiracy department—has strong-armed troupe founder Courtney Cruz into making some notable changes to the act.

For starters, the Star Wars costumes have now been feminized with touches of glitter and pink. Names have been changed as well (i.e. Princess Leia is now Princess Slaya, Chewie is now Chunky). The stage show also features girlier props such as giant lipstick canons and the addition of an intergalactic smuggler named Juan Cholo.

I’m not sure if the show’s new tweaks will get Lucasfilms off the dancers’ tattooed asses, but it’s a hell of a Wampa step in the right direction. Watching Sith Lords, wookies, and Imperial stormtroopers strip down to their frilly panties is just not my cup of blue milk.

Everyone loves TIE chicks!

That said, I would totally buy a 2-for-1 lap dance from that TIE Bomber! Just look at those Twin Ion Engines. They gotta be real.

Don’t forget to check out the Devil’s Playground dancers on video. To see former Playboy Playmate of the Year Sarah Jean Underwood do Star Wars right in the sexiest Princess Leia car wash ever, click here.

Now, enjoy some solo time (photos courtesy of LA Weekly):

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Dimension Films have updated their Piranha 3-D viral marketing website, Wild Wild Girls, with nude photos of porn-star-turned-almost-actress Riley Steele in a brilliantly shameless effort to bait chronic masturbators moviegoers to see director Alexandre Aja’s remake of Joe Dante’s 1978 original.

(UPDATE: SEE RILEY MOTORBOAT KELLY BROOK HERE)

Of course, seeing nude pictures of a porn star is like seeing your sister naked—you’ve seen it all before, but it’s nice to know it’s there. But, I digress.

Steele and costar Kelly Brook are  profiled on the site as their party-girl characters Crystal and Danni, respectively. The gorgeous duo also share a nude underwater scene in the flick.

In June of ’09, Riley told AVN:

Kelly Brook is hot. She’s a brunette with natural boobs—she plays Danni. We’re Wild, Wild Girls, but her character is tamer than mine. I’m the crazy girl always out to have fun.

I was nervous when I got this role because I’m not an actress; I’m a porn star. But, luckily, everything that I say is very natural. Crystal is a Girls Gone Wild type of personality. She’s always trying to get girls naked with her and have fun. It’s a very comfortable role for me.

Piranha 3-D stars Elisabeth Shue (Hollow Man), Ving Rhames (Day of the Dead), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Jerry O’Connell (”Sliders”), Richard Dreyfus (Jaws), Adam Scott (The Return), Dina Meyer (Saw IV), Jessica Szohr (House at the End of the Drive), and Hostel director Eli Roth.

The film arrives in theaters on Aug. 20.

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Warner Bros. held the Los Angeles premiere for director Chris Nolan’s Inception earlier this week at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA. Sadly, I was unable to attend as I was too busy purchasing my 2-for-1 Sorcerer’s Apprentice tickets at Fandango (Yeah, it’ll probably blow, but nothing in Inception will be as eye-popping as Monica Bellucci, baby).

Joining Nolan on the red carpet were the film’s stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard (in an insanely hot formfitting dress), Ellen Page, Joseph Gordan-Levitt, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Lukas Haas, blonde stunner Telulah Riley and Ken Watanabe.

Other celebs on hand included a bra-less AnnaLynne McCord, Twilight’s Kellan Lutz, Matrix babe Carrie-Ann Moss, Djimon Hounsou, a pregnant Winnie Cooper (Danica McKellar), “The Bachelor’s” Erica Rose and her enormous breasts, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons’ Asian ex-wife Kimora Lee, and soap star Sharon Case.

Peep the gallery (courtesy of Zimbio):

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