My Girl and “Veep” star Anna Chlumsky will guest star on NBC’s “Hannibal,” an hour-long crime drama chronicling the early days of Hannibal Lecter, the notorious cannibal/serial killer first introduced in the Thomas Harris novels “Red Dragon” and “Silence of the Lambs.”
Chlumsky will play FBI trainee Miriam Lass. She joins a cast that includes Lawrence Fishburne as Jack Crawford, Hugh Dancy as FBI agent Will Graham, Aaron Abrams as forensic investigator Brian Zeller, Caroline Dhavernas as profiler Dr. Alana Bloom and Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
“Hannibal” is written by Bryan Fuller, creator of the ABC Emmy Award-winning series “Pushing Daisies” and Showtime’s highly underrated “Dead Like Me.”
Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson are set to reprise their roles as tormented parents Renai and Josh Lambert in FilmDistrict’s eagerly anticipated sequel Insidious: Chapter 2. James Wan is once again attached to direct with Leigh Whannell writing and Jason Blum producing through his Blumhouse Productions.
Plot details are currently hush-hush, but THR is reporting that production on the film will begin on Jan. 15 in Los Angeles for an Aug. 30 release.
Insidious, about a young married couple attempting to save their comatose son from demonic possession, was produced for $1.5 million and earned more than $97 million at the box office, making it the most profitable film of 2011.
Megan Fox was the guest star on Saturday night’s episode of the TBS comedy series “Wedding Band.” The show, about four musician friends who perform at weddings, is toplined by Fox’s husband and “Beverly Hills 90210” alum Brian Austin Green.
Fox played an actress on an immensely popular sci-fi show titled “Nebutopia” that is set to end its six-year run. While having sex with Green’s character, she blurts out how the series will end. Green inadvertently leaks the info and immediately becomes the target of angry bloggers and sci-fi fans.
It’s then up to Fox to save Green from geek-terrorism by appealing to the webmaster of “Nebutopia’s” biggest fan site. Things turn out for the best and Fox celebrates by tossing Green’s salad… yup, you read that.
Laura Allen (“Awake,” “Terriers”) has joined producer Eli Roth’s, a creepy—and funny—frightener from newcomer Jon Watts about a father (Andy Powers) consumed by the clown costume he wears at his young son’s birthday party when the hired talent doesn’t show.
Allen plays the wife of the good-intentioned, but doomed dad. Production on the film is currently underway in Ottowa, Canada.
Watts and producing partner C.D. Ford first shot Clown as a faux trailer for a fake Eli Roth movie. The short caught Roth’s attention and the rest is the kind of Hollywood fairytale that pisses the fuck out of the broke and struggling screenwriters using the free wifi at Starbucks.
Screen Gems has released a trailer for its adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, the first book in her bestselling young-adult series about a teen who discovers her demon-slaying skills while attempting to rescue her mother from an evil entity.
The film is directed by Agent Cody Banks and Karate Kid 2010 director Harald Zwart and stars Lily Collins (Phil Collin’s daughter) as protagonist Clary Fray.
Costars include Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“The Tudors”), Kevin Zegers (Frozen), Jamie Campbell Bower (Twilight: Breaking Dawn), Robert Sheehan (Season of the Witch) and Kevin Durand (“LOST”).
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones arrives in theaters on Aug. 23, 2013.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for “Dr. Who” fans. A trailer for the show’s Christmas special “The Snowmen” has gone online. Star Matt Smith and series newcomer Jenna-Louise Coleman (pictured above) provide an introduction sure to make “Dr. Who” enthusiasts merry.
The episode is written by executive producer Steve Moffat and costars Neve McIntosh as Silurian Madame Vastra and Catrin Stewart as her sidekick Jenny (I don’t know who any of these people are). “Snowmen” airs on Christmas Day on BBC America.
CBS Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to StudioCanal’s The Last Exorcism Part II, an R-rated sequel to producer Eli Roth’s 2010 sleeper hit about a priest who encounters a real demon-possessed soul while shooting a documentary meant to debunk exorcisms.
Slated for release March 1, The Last Exorcism Part II picks up immediately after the events of the original film and finds lead Ashley Bell reprising her role as the possessed Nell Sweetzer. Ed Gass-Donnelly (This Beautiful City) directs the project from a script he co-wrote with Damien Chazelle (Grand Piano).
The Last Exorcism was produced for less than $2 million and went on to earn more than $65 million worldwide.
Raven Banner has released a teaser for director Michael Ojeda’s gruesome rape/revenge thriller Savaged, starring Rodney Rowland (“Veronica Mars”), Kyle Morris (Age of the Hobbits), Ronnie Gene Blevins (Seven Psychopaths) and up-and-comer Amanda Adrienne as victim-turned-ass-kicker Zoe.
The savaging begins when deaf/mute backpacker Zoe stumbles upon a group of Hick Americans killing two Native American boys, and attempts to save one of them. Zoe is caught and completely Jodie Fostered by the rednecks. An Indian shaman discovers her dying body and performs a ritual to revive her.
Unfortunately for the murdering rapists, an ancient and very vengeful Apache warrior spirit possesses Zoe and sets her on her way to hunt and slaughter them one-by-one in horrific, brutally violent ways to punish male viewers for getting off to the first half of this movie.
Summit Entertainment’s Warm Bodies is a romantic comedy adapted from Isaac Marion’s debut novel about the unlikely love affair that develops between a zombie (Nicholas Hoult) and the girlfriend (Teresa Palmer) of one of his victims.
The film is written and directed by Jonathan Levine (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) and costars John Malkovich (Jonah Hex), Dave Franco (”Scrubs”), Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield) and model-turned-actress Analeigh Tipton (”Hung”).
Gotta say… this looks pretty damn funny. Come Feb. 1, I will be at the theater giggling like the school girls seated next to me. I already picked out my panties.
British actress Elizabeth Henstridge is set to join Joss Whedon and Marvel Entertainment’s eagerly anticipated ABC series “S.H.I.E.L.D.” The show is based on the secret military agency run by Nick Fury in the Marvel Comics Universe.
According to THR, Henstridge will play science Agent Gemma Simmons, a science expert with the team. She joins Ming-Na Wen as weapons expert Melinda May, Iain De Caestecker as tech-guru Leo Fitz and The Avengers’ Clark Gregg reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson.
Whedon will direct the “S.H.I.E.L.D” pilot from a script co-written by Whedon, his brother Jed Whedon and Jed’s wife Maurissa Tancharoen. If picked up to series, the show will premiere in the fall of 2013 and be cancelled one season or two later as is the case with most Whedon programs not centered on vampires (kidding! This ain’t FOX).
