Summit Entertainment hosted a Comic-Con panel today for director Patrick Lussier’s (My Bloody Valentine 3-D) supernatural road-rager Drive Angry 3-D. Joining Lussier on the stage were actors Nicholas Cage, William Fichtner, and blonde babe Amber Heard.

Drive Angry follows Milton (Cage), a damned soul, as he escapes hell to embark on a quest to run down the cult that murdered his daughter and abducted his grandchild for sacrifice. On the run from the police and Satan’s own bounty hunter (Fichtner), Milton is aided on his revenge mission by lost-soul waitress Piper (Heard).

The film, which was shot with 3-D cams (no post conversion here), wrapped two months ago and marks Cage’s first foray into the format, which the actor welcomed as an opportunity to amp up his physical performance.

Said Cage:

How could I mess with the camera. What moves could I do that would go into the 4th row of the audience? That’s what I was trying to see.

Lussier told Comic-Con attendees that the film was inspired by action films of the ’60s and ’70s including Bullitt and Vanishing Point. The director also revealed that the title was taken from a line of dialogue in the highly overrated 1993 Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day.

I'm still a prickly pear!

Drive Angry 3-D costars Billy Burke (Twilight Saga), David Morse (Disturbia), Charlotte Ross (“NYPD Blue”), Katy Mixon (The Quiet), Bryan Massey (Boggy Creek), Pruitt Taylor Vince (Captivity), Wanetah Walmsley (Vampires Suck), and Playboy model Christa Campbell (2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams).

Look for it in theaters on Feb 11, 2011.

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Director Robert Rodriguez has unleashed a “gut-ripping” red-band trailer for his grindhouse-y revenge-thriller Machete. The gleefully violent clip provides a glimpse of the film’s all-star cast including Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro, Steven Seagal, Cheech Marin, Jeff Fahey, and the hardest working Mexi-can in all of Hollywood Danny Trejo.

The trailer also features some boner-inducing nudity from someone who looks a lot like Elise or Electra Avellan. Despite jerking off to watching the damn thing over 50 times , I can’t quite tell if its one of the sisters, a body double (though face & boobs are in same shot), or a different actress all together.

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Looks like its game over for the world’s most successful and best horror movie franchise.

Saw producers Oren Koules and Mark Burg are expected to announce today at Comic-Con that Saw 3-D, the seventh chapter in the Jigsaw saga, will be the last film in the innovative horror series.

Peep the first teaser trailer (courtesy of IGN):

But, it’s not all sad news.

Guinness World Records editor-in-chief Craig Glenday will be on hand tonight to officially name Saw as the Most Successful Horror Movie Series. To date, the Saw films have earned $732 million in global box office sales.

Come Halloween, you can add my $15 to that total. Saw remains one of the very few horror series that delivers on both story and brutality. I can’t wait for the reboot!

Saw 3-D is directed by Kevin Greutert (Saw 6) and was shot in authentic 3-D. The film stars the great Tobin Bell (John Kramer/Jigsaw), Costas Mandylor (Det. Hoffman), Betsy Russell (Jill Tuck), genre babe Gina Holden (Final Destination 3) and original Saw player Cary Elwes, reprising his role as Dr. Lawrence Gordon.

Costarring are Sean Patrick Flanery (Mongolian Death Worm), Chad Donella (Final Destination), Laurence Anthony, Dean Armstrong (Repo! The Genetic Opera), Naomi Sniekus, and which ever aspiring actress won VH1’s “Scream Queens 2” reality competition.

Saw 3-D arrives in theaters on Oct. 29.

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Pictured here is the first glimpse of actress Natalie Portman dressed as ballet dancer Nina in acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky’s new supernatural thriller Black Swan. While the costume lacks the je ne sais quoi (that’s French for sluttiness) of her stripper outfit in Closer, it does make me want to bang the hell out of a bird.

Black Swan stars Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, and Kristina Anapau as dancers competing to land a role in their company’s production of “Swan Lake.” The film has generated a lot of buzz thanks in part to a reportedly graphic sex scene between Portman and Kunis.

The film also stars Barbara Hershey (Riding the Bullet) as Nina’s mother, Sebastian Stan, and Vincent Cassel (The Cross) as the ballet’s director Yevna.

Black Swan will open the Venice International Film Festival on Sept 1.

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Spanish director Rodrigo Cortes’ new Hitchcockian thriller Buried stars Ryan Reynolds as an abducted American citizen in Iraq who is buried alive in a coffin with nothing more than a lighter, a knife, and a mobile phone. The film was shot in Barcelona for $3 million and features Reynolds as the only actor onscreen.

Peep the new trailer:

Is it me or does the woman who answers Reynold’s call sound exactly like the type of unhelpful asshat hired by AOL? Well, at least it wasn’t outsourced to India.

Cortes, a self-described Hitchcock fanatic, has garnered international acclaim for his stylish and outside-the-box filmmaking, winning awards for his 2001 short 15 Dias—which starred 100 actors in 200 locations—and 2007’s Concursante. Cortes’ next project is the paranormal thriller Red Lights.

Lionsgate picked up the North American distribution rights to Buried at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for $4 million.