The film is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and serves as the fifth installment in the globally successful franchise based on the best selling Capcom video games.
Costars include Oded Fehr as Carlos Oliviera, Colin Salmon as James ‘One’ Shade, Boris Kodjoe as Luther West, Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker, Kevin Durand as Barry Burton, and Johann Urb as Leon S. Kennedy.
“Arrested Development” and “Ally McBeal” stunner Portia de Rossi is the latest actor to join NBC’s “Mockingbird Lane,” a reboot of the ’60s sitcom “The Munsters.” The 39-year-old will play matriarch Lily Munster.
The Munster clan includes Jerry O’Connell as Herman, Eddie Izzard as Grandpa, Mason Cook as Eddie and Charity Wakefield as “homely” cousin Marilyn. Show creator Bryan Fuller (“Pushing Daisies”) describes the program as “an ‘American Horror Story’ that the whole family can watch.”
Rossi, best known these days for her comedic turns in the TV shows “Better of Ted” and “Arrested Development,” does have some notable genre creds, including the Wes Craven frighteners Cursed and Scream 2, Rupert Wainwright’s Stigmata and her very nude debut Sirens.
“Chuck” actress Yvonne Strahovski is set to star in season seven of Showtime’s award-winning serial killer drama “Dexter.” The leggy, 29-year-old Aussie will play a “strong and independent woman with a murky past” named Hannah McKay.
TVLine.com reports that the Hannah McKay character will be part of a multi-episode arc that finds her helping Miami Metro Homicide with a murder case, but whom Dexter (Michael C. Hall) suspects as having a secret agenda.
Strahovski joins a cast of newbies that includes Ray Stevenson as an Eastern European crime syndicate member visiting Miami to avenge the death of an associate, Katia Winter as a Russian stripper and Jason Gedrick as the owner of the nudie bar where Winter shakes her money-maker.
MGM is courting Abbie Cornish to play Alex Murphy’s wife in director Jose Padilha’s remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi classic Robocop. So far the cast includes “The Killing’s” Joel Kinnaman as Robocop, Gary Oldman as his creator and Sam Jackson as a media mogul.
Robocop tells the story of a veteran police officer named Alex Murphy who is brutally gang-murdered by street thugs only to be brought back to life as a cyborg crime fighter for the force. Things get complicated when he starts to remember his previous life.
Cornish is coming of Neil Burger’s mind-bending, dope-thriller Limitless and Zack Snyder’s criminally underrated girl-powered, fantasy-actioner Sucker Punch. She also voiced the character of Otulissa in Snyder’s animated feature Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole.
Brazilian porn star Adriana Sephora makes her horror movie debut in Full Moon Features’ campy frightener Zombies vs. Strippers, available on Redbox July 10. Sephora, whose previous work includes Stripper Diaries 2 and Stripped and Hogtied, plays one of the lap dancers in the film.
Written and directed by Alex Nicolaou, Zombies vs. Strippers finds a group of nude dancers fending off the undead at the seedy Tough Titty strip club. Costars include Eve Mauro (Wicked Lake), Circus-Szalewski (The Dead Want Women) and newcomers Victoria Levine and Brittany Vaughn.
The Dread boys scored the exclusive trailer. Peep it:
As anyone over 50 will tell you, it’s good to be regular.
Canadian actress Kristen Hager (Alien vs. Predator, Wanted) is now a series regular on Syfy’s supernatural drama “Being Human.” Hager, who plays sexy werewolf Nora on the show, has been a recurring throughout the program’s first two seasons.
“Being Human” centers on a trio of supernatural entities—a ghost (Meaghan Rath), a vampire (Sam Witwer) and a werewolf (Sam Huntington)—living together in a Boston loft. Every week a misunderstanding makes their landlord, Mr. Furley, believe that they are all having sex.
Poster and images from Lionsgate’s Dredd, an adaptation of the U.K. comic-strip Judge Dredd, are now online. The film stars Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby as Mega City One judges Joe Dredd and Cassandra Anderson and Lena Headey as heavy Madeline Madrigal (AKA: Ma-Ma).
Directed by Pete Travis and penned by Alex Garland (28 Days Later), the dystopian actioner follows the judges as they set out to take down Madeline Madrigal and her gang of drug dealers in Mega City One.
The CW has released a trailer for its upcoming superhero series “Arrow,” an adaptation of DC Comics’ “Green Arrow,” starring Stephen Amell as the vigilante superhero and Katie Cassidy as his former flame Dinah “Laurel” Lance, aka Black Canary.
The footage shows off some promising action, reveals a formidable villain in Deathstroke and provides a good look at a brunette Cassidy, who regrettably doesn’t seem to go shirtless as often as Amell (stupid writers).
Amazon Studios has tapped iconic horror novelist and filmmaker Clive Barker to rewrite Zombies vs. Gladiators, a genre mash-up built around a Roman gladiator’s quest to defeat an history’s first ever zombie apocalypse.
Barker said:
I’m excited by the opportunity to interweave two very rich narrative threads. One of them concerns itself with the reality of the decadence of Rome and its rise and fall. The other is a fantastical narrative element—the living dead.
My brief to myself on this project is to give the audience not only zombies they have never seen before but also a Rome they have never seen before.
Barker, of course, is the author of such horror classics as “The Hellbound Heart,” the novella that inspired Hellraiser, “Damnnation Game,” “Weaveworld,” “The Thief of Always,” “Imagica,” “Cabal,” on which the 1990 film Nightbreed was based on and “The Books of Blood” anthologies.
On the big screen, he’s written, directed and/or produced the must-see frighteners Dread, Midnight Meat Train, Book of Blood, Lord of Illusions, Rawhead Rex, Nightbreed, Candyman and Hellraiser I-III.
Amazon Studios launched in November 2010. It is the movie producing arm of Amazon.com.
High School Musical alumna Ashley Tisdale is set to star in Dimension Films’ Scary Movie 5. Malcolm Lee (Undercover Brother) is attached to direct the horror-comedy from a script co-written by producer David Zucker (Airplane).
Scary Movie 5 goes into production this summer. Unlike previous entries in the series, which poked fun at a variety of horror movies, part five will only spoof Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar-nominated film Black Swan.
The first—and only funny—Scary Movie earned more than $270 million worldwide and helped launch Anna Faris‘ career. Since then the franchise has gone on to rake more than $750 million in global coin.
