Twentieth Century Fox is drumming up further excitement for director Mathew Vaughn’s X-Men: Degrassi High First Class with a series of origin trailers for its most popular mutants. Posted here for your viewing pleasure is a look at Jennifer Lawrence as young Mystique.
While I personally can’t get past the fact that Mystique now looks an acne-riddled Na’vi with a ginormous forehead, I guess it’s cool to get a glimpse at her backstory … you know, if you actually go to superhero movies for the plots.
Actress Mayra Leal, best known for trying to kill Danny Trejo while completely nude in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete, is once again up to no good in Maya Entertainment’s psycho-bitch thriller Playing House. The 5-foot-3 Latin stunner plays a disturbed woman obsessed with a young married couple.
No word on whether Leal gets all-kinds of naked in the movie, but the trailer seems to hint so. If that’s the case, here’s hoping she beats her 7-minute nude scene in Machete. After all, actors should always challenge themselves.
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The film’s synopsis reads:
In order to afford their dream house, newlyweds Jen and Mitch McKenzie (Sarah Prikryl, Craig Welzbacher) ask their best friend Danny (Matt Lusk) to move in with them.
The plan works beautifully until Danny brings home Blair (Mayra Leal), a stunning temptress who decides she likes what the young couple has and never wants to leave.
The seductive stranger turns the friends against each other and exploits unspoken desires to achieve her own unique version of the American Dream.
Playing House is writer-turned-director Tom Vaughan’s feature film debut. Its premiere was held at this year’s WorldFest Film Festival in Houston, TX.
Cinemax has set a May 13 premiere date for its erotically-charged new anthology series “Femme Fatales.” Hosted by South African model-turned-actress Tanit Phoenix (Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives), each of the show’s 13-episodes will explore just how far a woman will go to get revenge and/or escape a dire situation.
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The official synopsis reads:
Women find extraordinary ways of coping with their problems, channeling their survival instincts and bringing out their inner guile.
The show is inspired by and styled in the tradition of pulp stories, film noir and graphic novels, and takes place in contemporary settings. Each episode features different casts and storylines, some of which are intertwined.
The show’s premiere episode is entitled “Behind Locked Doors” and stars pretty newcomer Kit Willesee as a spoiled, out-of-control Lindsay Lohan-like actress who gets thrown into a cell with a hardened felon, played by Serbian stunner Ana Alexander (Oh, please, may there be a plunger involved).
I gotta say that kicking the series off with an episode set in a woman’s prison is a great way to form a covenant between producers and viewers—a holy union that promises nudity and lesbians in exchange for ratings. I, for one, am all in.
If “Femme Fatales” looks like something you’d enjoy, don’t forget to check out Univision’s “Mujeres Asesinas,” an anthology series—now in its third season—that follows desperate, angry, and often top-heavy women as they viciously discard the men who have wronged them.
AV Pictures has released a teaser-trailer for director Dan Turner’s military-themed paranormal thriller Stormhouse. Katie Flynn, best known for falling out of Jane Seymore’s vagina 29 years ago, stars in the film alongside“Hollyoaks” player Grant Master.
The film’s synopsis reads:
Six months before the invasion of Iraq, the British military caught and imprisoned a supernatural entity at a secret base in the English countryside. This film documents the days that followed, culminating in a battle that transcends their worst nightmares.
Stormhouse will hold its world premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival in June.
Magnet Films has released a trailer for director Carl Tibbitts’ feature film debut Retreat. Set in the U.K., the thriller stars Thandie Newton and Cillian Murphy as a troubled couple tormented while vacationing on a remote island by a shifty soldier (Jaime Bell) who swears the mainland is infected by an airborne disease.
Sony Pictures is distributing the film in the U.S., but there is no word on when it will hit theaters. If you need a Newton fix, however, you can catch the 38-year-old babe in Brad Anderson’s (Session 9) post-apocalyptic chiller The Vanishing on 7th Street, now available on DVD!
Zoe Saldana is one pissed off mamasita in producer/writer Luc Besson’s (La Femme Nikita) new revenge-thriller Colombiana. The 32-year-old stunner plays an assassin out to slaughter the pricks who murdered her family in front of her when she was just ten.
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Colombiana is directed by Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3) and costars Michael Vartan (”Alias”), Lennie James (”The Walking Dead”), Callum Blue (”Dead Like Me”), Jordi Molla (Knight and Day), and Monica Acosta (Scream of the Banshee).
British model Lucy Pinder and her eye-popping 32-E’s are set to make their feature film debut in director Jonathan Glendening’s (13 HRS) outrageous new thriller Strippers vs. Werewolves. The 27-year-old sexpot will play a bloodthirsty vampire bride out to torment a vamp hunter.
Believe it or not, someone actually wrote a script for Strippers vs. Werewolves. The story, apparently, centers on a group of lap dancers as they fend off a pack of lycans determined to turn everyone in the champagne room into doggy chow.
Costarring in the film are Barbara Nedeljekova (Hostel), Sarah Douglas (Return of the Living Dead 3), Adele Silva (Doghouse), and Billy Murray (Airborne). Jonathan Sothcott (Devil’s Playground) will handle producing duties.
Lionsgate has released the first red-band trailer for director Marcus Nispel’s Conan, a reboot of the 1982 sword-and-sorcery classic that launched Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hollywood career. The remake stars Stephen Lang, Ron Pearlman, Rose McGowan, Rachel Nichols and “Stargate: Atlantis” and “Game of Thrones” regular Jason Momoa as the iconic barbarian.
“Californication’s” Natascha McElhone is starring opposite Ed Harris (The Abyss) and Andy Garcia (Smokin’ Aces) in writer/director Todd Robinson’s supernatural submarine thriller Phantom. The film centers on a Soviet sub captain who discovers a paranormal force on board that could “impact the unsuspecting world.”
The film marks McElhone return to horror since starring in the 2002 internet-themed frightener FeardotCom. That same year, she was also seen in Steven Soderbergh’s sci-fi snoozer Solaris. The 41-year-old looker, however, is best known for her role as Karen van der Beek, Hank Moody’s (David Duchovny) ex-wife, on Showtime’s awesome dramedy “Californication.”
Phantom will be shopped to distributors at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg were photographed today as they shot a scene for “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane’s debut film Ted at Charlie’s Sandwich Shoppe in Boston. The supernatural comedy tells the tale of a man (Wahlberg) who is tormented by his childhood teddy bear 25 years after it comes to life.
The film costars Laura Vandervoort (“Smallville”), Jessica Stroup (“90210”), Joel McHale (”Community”), Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar), and Patrick Warburton (Men in Black 2). Universal Pictures will release Ted in theaters on July 13, 2012.
