Television actress Jena Sims just got her big break. The 23-year-old beauty queen (Miss Georgia Teen USA, 2007) is set to star in Roger Corman’s Attack of the 50-Foot Cheerleader, an EPIX original movie set to premiere Aug. 25.
Sims, a guest star on “The Vampire Diaries” and “Dexter,” plays a awkward college coed who turns to an experimental drug in the hopes of becoming popular and beautiful. Things go bad, however, when side effects kick in and she suddenly grows into a 50-foot giant (hey, it’s better than anal leakage).
Attack of the 50-Foot Cheerleader is directed by visual effects guru Kevin O’Neill and costars Hollywood psycho Sean Young, old-people actor Treat Williams, Ryan Merriman (The Ring 2) and horror hotties Ariana Madix (The Dead Want Women), Paula LaBaredas (Camel Spiders), Sasha Jackson (Tarantula), Olivia Alexander (Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt).
Caity Lotz is set to star in Content Film’s The Machine, a romantic sci-fi thriller directed by Caradog James (Little White Lies) about a scientist (Toby Stephens) who falls in love with the robotic soldier (Lotz) he’s creating for Britain’s Ministry of Defense.
The film’s official synopsis reads:
Set in the near future and with the world plunged into another cold war, Britain’s Ministry of Defense is on the verge of developing a robotic soldier. This soldier, called The Machine, looks and sounds human, but has the strength, speed, and ruthlessness beyond that of any living person.
The project is near completion when a bug in the programming, a side effect of it being too close to human coding, causes the prototype to destroy the lab and everyone in its path in spectacularly violent fashion.
Undeterred by this setback, lead scientist Vincent McCarthy obsessively continues his work on The Machine in secret, away from the prying eyes of those who seek to destroy him.
Lotz is an up-and-comer best known for her recurring role as Stephanie, Anna Draper’s niece, on AMC’s “Mad Men” and for playing Officer Kirsten Landry on MTV’s short-lived horror-comedy show “Death Valley.” She currently stars in writer/director Nicholas McCarthy’s creepy ghost story The Pact.
Charlie Sheen has won himself a role in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, a sequel to the director’s 2010 grind-house actioner Machete. The Emmy-nominated-actor-turned-tabloid-star will play the President of the United States.
Rodriguez tweeted:
I just cast Charlie Sheen in #machetekills as the President of the United States! Who better?
Machete Kills follows Machete as he’s recruited by the U.S. government to bring down a billionaire arms dealer (Gibson) plotting global warfare with a high-tech space weapon. The film is currently shooting in Austin, Texas for a 2013 release.
In the meantime, peep these BTS pics provided by Alba:
Lionsgate has released the first official trailer for Pete Travis’ Dredd, a Alex Garland-penned adaptation of the U.K. comic-strip Judge Dredd. Set in the dystopian metropolis of Mega City One, the film follows judges Joe Dredd and Cassandra Anderson as they attempt to take down drug dealer Madeline Madrigal.
Dredd stars Karl Urban as Judge Dredd and Olivia Thirlby as Judge Anderson. Lena Headey plays Madrigal (AKA: Ma-Ma). Langley Kirkwood (“Generation Kill”), Joe Vaz (Lost Boys: The Thirst), Scott Sparrow (Death Race 2), and Luke Tyler (Chronicle) round out the cast.
Magnet Releasing and The Collective, owners of horror site Bloody-Disgusting, have released a super-creepy red-band trailer for V/H/S, a five-story horror anthology bridged together by a plot involving a group of small time crooks hired to retrieve a videotape from an abandoned house.
V/H/S features the work of directors Ti West (The Innkeepers), Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (You’re Next), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead) and David Bruckner (The Signal). The film will play on VOD on Aug. 31 and begin a limited theatrical run on Oct. 5.
House at the End of the Street follows a teen girl (Lawrence) and her mother (Shue) as they discover that the house across from their new home was the scene of a brutal murder. Things complicate further when the girl befriends the deceased family’s surviving son (Thieriot).
Youth in Revolt actress Portia Doubleday is set to star in MGM and Sony Screen Gems’ new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1974 novel “Carrie,” starring Chloe Moretzas the tormented telekinetic teen. Doubleday will play mean-girl Chris Hargensen, the bully banned from prom after assaulting Carrie at school.
Carrie tells the story of a bullied high school girl who develops deadly telepathic powers when she reaches puberty. After suffering a humiliating prank at her school’s prom, she freaks the fuck out and uses her new found skills to punish her classmates and her deranged mother.
The remake is directed by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry) and costars Julianne Moore as Carrie’s mother Margaret White, “Californication’s” Judy Greer as gym teacher Miss Collins, Gabriella Wilde as bully Sue Snell and Chronicle’sAlex Russell.
Red Letter Cinema has released a trailer for End Of The World’s Blood Soaked, a potentially brilliant low-budget thriller about college lesbians terrorized by Nazi dykes. The flick is written and directed by some guy named Peter Grendle and stars these people: Heather Wilder, Laina Grendle, Lauren Myers and Rachel Corona.
You can keep up with upcoming mayhem by visiting the film’s Facebook page.
Victoria Secret model-turned-actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is set to star in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth installment in the franchise made famous by Academy Award winning actor and blow-job enthusiast Mel Gibson.
According to JustJared.com, the 25-year-old stunner will play one of the “Five Wives,” an endangered group of women that also includes Aussie supermodel Abbey Lee Kershaw, Lenny Kravitz’s daughter Zoe Kravitz (X-Men: First Class) and Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough (Jack & Diane).
Mad Max: Fury Road stars British actor Tom Hardy as the iconic “Mad” Max Rockatansky. Charlize Theron is also attached as the female lead. The film picks up after the events last seen in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
When I first heard that a pair of twin sisters had drank donkey semen and urine while competing on NBC’s short-lived “Fear Factor” reboot earlier this year, I assumed what that meant was that host Joe Rogan had gotten blown backstage. I was wrong. Turns out the girls actually did drink some donkey dick snot!
Regrettably, the show never aired and Fear Factor was soon cancelled. But, just as it was looking as if we’d all have to head back to Tijuana for our donkey thrills, the episode was broadcast in Denmark and tabloid website TMZ scored the clip.
While it’s obvious that allowing Claire and Brynne Odious to drink from the tap would have made for better TV, the girls still do an impressive job of downing the donkey punch and should be applauded. The only downside to the whole scene are the annoying asses standing next to the girls.
