Yahoo Movies has got an exclusive interview (see below) with Universal Pictures’ new Wolfman Benicio del Toro. The Oscar-winning actor discusses the movie’s plot and his portrayal of Lawrence Talbot and and how it differs from Lon Chaney Jr’s character in the 1941 original Wolfman.
The Wolfman arrives in theaters on Feb. 12.
Kate Beckinsale will suit up once again as sexy death dealer Selene in Screen Gems’ Underworld 3-D. The 36-year-old Brit has been confirmed to star in the fourth installment of the popular vamps vs. werewolves series, slated to be in theaters on Jan. 21, 2011.
Beckinsale’s husband Len Wiseman (Underworld, Underworld: Evolution) is attached to direct from a script by John Hlavin (“The Shield”).
Rumor has it, however, that Beckinsale isn’t exactly thrilled to be back and is looking to have her character play a smaller, pass-the-torch type of role in the film. How true are the rumors? Well, the actress has gotten more prudish since the birth of her daughters, opting for parts in dull dramas such as last year’s flop Everybody’s Fine.
At a press junket held last year for the film Whiteout, she addressed the possibility of starring in a new Underworld trilogy:
God, three whole more! I don’t think my daughter needs to see my bottom in rubber for another ten years.
The fact that sentence gives me wood speaks to how much I’m looking forward to seeing Beckinsale back in rubber action. To read more about the fourth installment in the Underworld series, click here.
Clatto named Kate Beckinsale one of The Ten Hottest Horror/Sci-fi Babes of the Past Decade.
Sony Pictures has released an eight-minute clip of bloody Van Damage to promote the release of Universal Soldier: Regeneration, available on DVD today.
Directed by John Hyams for an estimated $15 million budget, Regeneration once again pits Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren at each other’s throats.
Take a look (That’s an order!):
Universal Soldier: Regeneration is the second sequel to master-of-disaster Roland Emmerich’s 1992 sci-fi actioner Universal Soldier. To learn more about the flick, click here.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays a federal marshal out to find an escapee from a mental institution for the criminally insane in Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. The long-delayed thriller is an adaptation of author Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel of the same name and marks DiCaprio and Scorsese’s fourth onscreen collaboration. It arrives in theaters on Feb. 19.
DiCaprio tells Entertainment Tonight:
People, when they see this movie, will come into the experience with a certain understanding of what they’re going to see, but I don’t think it’s anything like what they’re going to expect … and that’s a good thing.
It’s also one of those movies like every great Martin Scorsese movie that you’re going to have to see a few times to really understand all the different dynamics of what’s going on and, that to me, is the type of movie I love; that’s the type of movie I love to see.
Shutter Island costars Mark Ruffalo (Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time), Michelle Williams (Halloween: H20), Emily Mortimer (Scream 3), Patricia Clarkson (Wendigo), Max von Sydow (The Exorcist) and Jackie Earl Haley (Nightmare on Elm Street).
For more Leo Dicaprio news go here and here.
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A new international trailer for Warner Bros. upcoming remake of the 1981 fantasy-adventure Clash of the Titans has hit the web. The clip features brand new footage and plot points. It is a trailer worthy of the gods.
Take a look, mortals:
Directed by Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk), Clash of the Titans stars Sam Worthington as Perseus, Liam Neeson as the all-mighty Zeus, and Ralph Fiennes as Hades, lord of the underworld. The film arrives in theaters on March 26, 2010.
Universal Pictures The Wolfman is scratching at our doors. The Joe Johnston remake, starring Benicio del Toro as the leading lycan, arrives in theaters on Feb. 12. Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, and Anthony Hopkins costar.
The synopsis reads:
Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Oscar® winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother…and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.
Lawrence Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate.
As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself…one he never imagined existed.
The following is a gallery of images from the film:
Italian director Gabriele Albanesi (The Last House in the Woods) embraces the art of female dismemberment in his outrageous new slasher In the Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani.
The film tells the story of a young upcoming director (Giuseppe Soleri) who is given the chance to collaborate on a script with the beloved horror novelist Ubaldo Terzani (Paolo Sassanelli). The problem? Terzani draws inspiration for his work by hacking up women and, apparently, sucking cock.
Scout Taylor-Compton took part in a Stickam web-chat to discuss her future in Dimension Film’s Halloween franchise. The 20-year-old Long Beach, California native says—without any sense of irony—that she will not return for Halloween 3 unless the studio produces a “good” script.
Take a look:
Compton played Laurie Strode in Rob Zombie’s uniquely retarded remake of John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween and its even more craptacular sequel. Regardless of what she decides to do, Compton is really just a couple of flicks away from starring in her underwear in an Asylum Home Entertainment project.
According to Nielsen figures, over a million viewers tuned in last week to see the premiere episode of Starz’s swords-and-sandals series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand.” Those numbers represent an all-time high for the network, easily bumping off its other high-profile serial “Crash,” which only drew 185,000 viewers for its second season premiere.
This week’s episode “Sacramentum Gladiatorum” continues to crank out plenty of boobs and blood, cocks and chains … all within the first 10 minutes! A topless Erin Cummings (Sura) opens the episode grinding on Andy Whitfield (Spartacus). Five minutes later, Lucy Lawless (Lucretia), in her first-ever nude role, is seen getting diddled by a servant girl before dropping her top for John Hannah’s (Batiatus) groping hands.
(UPDATE: To see Lucy bathing nude with slave girls, check out this clip from episode 6)
Finally, for the ladies and/or guys who really, really like gladiator movies, there’s plenty of big bulbous penises on display during a gladiator bathhouse scene.
Once the debauchery is over, the violence kicks in. The blood spilled on the show is cartoonish, but the action—throats slashed, backs whipped, brutal hand-to-hand—is pretty cool (though nowhere near as intense as HBO’s “Rome”). You can catch the “Sacramentum Gladiatorum” episode by clicking here.
To see a gallery of the show, go here.
(Update: Lucy Lawless will reprise her role as Lucretia in Starz’s new spinoff series “Spartacus: Gods of the Arena”)
IFC has secured the U.S. distribution rights to director Michael Winterbottom’s controversial film adaptation of the Jim Thompson’s 1952 novel The Killer Inside Me.
The film caused quite an uproar over its extreme scenes of misogynistic sex and violence during its Sundance premeire last week, inciting vocal protest and walkouts—among them star Jessica Alba (click here to see the good stuff offending scenes).
IFC purchased the rights for an approximated $1.5 million with plans to release the film this summer theatrically and on VOD.
The Killer Inside Me follows the sadistic exploits of 29-year-old Texas lawman Lou Ford, played by Casey Affleck. Alba and Kate Hudson costar.