A new trailer for Platinum Dunes upcoming remake of the 1984 Wes Craven frightener A Nightmare on Elm Street has hit the web. The new clip features a glimpse at new footage and gives us a generous peek at Katie Cassidy.
I know it’s bad to say, but I have to admit when I had this audition, I was crazy with traveling [and] ‘Melrose Place.’ I had this audition and hadn’t seen the original. It was more of a choice that wouldn’t affect anything I’d done in my audition, which was obviously what they liked and what they responded to. So, I haven’t seen any of [Robert Englund’s performances], but I will.
Cassidy’s costar Thomas Dekker, however, is quite familiar with the entire Elm Street series.
He says:
I saw it when I was 12. I’ve seen all of them; ‘Dream Warriors’ was my favorite. I mean, c’mon: Patricia Arquette, the head through the television, ‘It’s your big break into primetime bi—!’ That’s, like, one of the best moments ever. And the Dokken song!
I have no idea what a Thomas Dekker is, but I’m a card-carrying Dream Warrior too.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 is directed by Samuel Bayer and costars Rooney Mara as Nancy Thompson, Twilight’s Kellen Lutz, and Jackie Earle Haley as child molester/killer Freddy Krueger. The film arrives in theaters on April 30
Transformers 2 babe Isabel Lucas has signed on to star as the Goddess Athena in Relativity Media’s Clash of the Titansripoff inspired fantasy adventure Immortals (previously entitled Gods of War and Dawn of War).
Lucas is the latest addition to a cast that includes John Hurt as Zeus, Mickey Rourke as King Hyperion, Twilight’sKellan Lutz as Poseidon, Stephen Dorf as master thief Stavros, and Slumdog Millionaire’sFreida Pinto as Phaedra the oracle priestess.
Immortals began shooting this month. Tarsem Singh (The Cell) directs.
“Heroes” star Kristen Bell is kicking off her heels on April 8 to raise awareness for shoeless poor kids in far off lands none of us will ever know … unless an earthquake hits them and “LOST” is preempted for news coverage.
Bell, along with fellow actresses Heather Graham (From Hell) and Brittany Snow (Prom Night), are joining California-based company Tom Shoes for a one-day campaign urging people to go barefoot in an effort to show how awesome one’s toes feel when buried naked in a big fluffy bearskin rug painful it is to walk around without shoes.
Bell says:
I’m going barefoot for one day without shoes to raise awareness about the impact a simple pair of shoes can have on a child’s life. So join me on April 8. Take off your shoes and spread the word.
You know … a lot of kids in poverty-stricken countries often go pantless too. I think Bell, Graham, and Snow should stop half-assing this campaign and go for the full Monty … Monty means vagina, right?
Indie-actress Olivia Thirlby (Juno) has locked down a role in producer Timur Bekmambetov sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour. The Summit Entertainment/New Regency film marks Thirlby’s first commercial film since Universal’s 9/11 drama United 93.
Directed by Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door), The Darkest Hour follows a group of American students while in Moscow during an alien invasion. Thirlby will play a trust fund baby forced to work with others to survive the takeover.
Production on the film is set to roll in Moscow come summer.
In the meantime, Thirlby will shoot the teenage lesbian-werewolf thriller Jack & Diane with costar Juno Temple (Year One) in May.
Ah, kids. Their smiles can warm your heart and their little bodies can serve as perfect human shields when faced with a knife-wielding psycho.
Here we have on-the-set photos of Australian actress Abbie Cornish using a child to beat up an assailant. The pics are from the upcoming sci-fi/drug thriller Limitless, costarring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.
To see shots of Cornish and Cooper on the Limitless set, click here.
While I was out hosting Easter egg hunts for the homeless and retarded, you all flocked to the movies to catch the Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros. remake of Clash of the Titans. The film earned $61.4 million at the box office, an Easter weekend record.
Not surprisingly, talk about a Clash of the Titans trilogy has begun.
I’m not saying I know what exactly will happen to Perseus in the next two movies, but I know the direction and it’s pretty exciting.
It’s ancient superheroes. You’ve got so many creatures, so many heroes, so many gods. You have Daedalus, Icarus, Percivel. Amazing stuff. You’ve got several worlds. I could spend the rest of my life directing Greek mythology movies and I would still not finish everything.
Screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi are also eager to keep their noses buried in cocaine and hooker ass. The duo have already begun brainstorming on where to take the franchise to next.
Hay says:
There are so many small stories to mine that don’t make movies on their own, but you can weave them together and create a comprehensive world. We all hope we get to do it. It would be thrilling.
UPDATE: Leterrier and his screenwriters are out. Battle: Los Angeles director Jonathan Liebesman and writers Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson are now on board Clash of the Titans 2.
Millennium Films is reportedly courting Transformers star Megan Fox to headline their much-delayed Red Sonja reboot.
Producer Robert Rodriguez, director Douglas Aarniokoski, and actress Rose McGowan, who was set to play the red-haired, bikini-clad heroine when the project was first announced in 2008, are no longer attached. McGowan, however, will have a role as an evil witch in Millennium’s upcoming Conan the Barbarian remake.
Fox’s camp has yet to comment on the Red Sonja role. The 23-year-old stunner most recently turned down an offer to play video game heroine Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot.
Up next for Fox is the Warner Bros. sci-fi-western Jonah Hex and director Mitch Glazer’s supernatural drama Passion Play.
Australian actress Jessica Marais is set to make her U.S. feature film debut in director John V. Soto’s voodoo thriller Needle. The 25-year-old stunner plays a college coed trying to survive an ancient curse.
The film’s synopsis reads:
A college student inherits an 18th Century machine with deadly supernatural powers. When the machine goes missing and his friends start dying, the student must team with his estranged brother to find the thief and stop the killings.
Fantasy fans may recognize Marais as the sexy, red-leather-clad Mistress Denna from ABC Studios’ “Legend of the Seeker,” currently on its second season.
Shia Labeouf admits to FHM that the second installment in the Transformers franchise sucked donkey balls. The 23-year-old actor blames the writer’s strike (yea, what’s part one’s excuse) for the convoluted story, but promises moviegoers that the upcoming Transformers 3 film will be on the money … so to speak.
He says:
There are a lot of people that liked the second one, but I hated it. I just didn’t enjoy it. I thought we missed the mark. I got confused, I couldn’t see what the fuck was going on, you know with certain robots… I couldn’t decipher what was happening. There were storyline paths that I just wouldn’t have gone down.
We were making our second movie in the middle of the writers’ strike. We had no script. We had to work with nothing. We literally had like 40 pages. And everything was sort of made on the fly. But I think this time we will be more concise, and in a definite direction where we want to take it.
I know that director Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg are dedicated to making the best movie we possibly can, and we’re not going to miss next time.
Hmm. Isn’t that pretty much what Megan Fox got crucified for saying a long time ago?
The Iron Man 2 marketing push is in full effect. Fans have been bombarded with trailers, photos, and posters. But, now, Marvel Pictures/Paramount have released a promo clip made especially for those of us who watch movies with our hands down our pants.
Sure, many will say the clip depicts the public spectacle Tony Stark has become after announcing that he is Iron Man and indulging in the notoriety and fame. But, personally, I think it’s a commentary on how hot women look when they dress up like superheroes.
Enjoy (via Apple):
Iron Man 2 is directed by Jon Favreau and stars Robert Downy Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke, Samuel Jackson, Don Cheadle, and Gwyneth Paltrow. The film flies into theaters on May 7.
