The buzz around pretty 25-year-old actress Alexandra Daddario just got louder. The star of last year’s fantasy-actioner Percy Jackson and the Olympians is in final negotiations to play the female lead in director John Luessenhop’s (Takers) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3-D, a reboot of the popular franchise.
A sequel of sorts, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3-D is said to pick up after the horrific events depicted in Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original and will reportedly find Daddario playing Leatherface’s cousin. Production on the film is set to start this month in Shreveport, La.
Daddario first cut her teeth in the horror genre with Mary Lambert’s (Pet Sematary) haunted house thriller The Attic, but it’s her intense performance in director Stevan Mena’s gruesome indie-slasherBereavement that has made horror fans take note of the sexy New Yorker.
Former “Mad Men” starlet Abigail Spencer is heading down the yellow brick road to partake in director Sam Raimi’s Wizard of Oz prequel Oz, the Great and Powerful. Joining her on that journey are James Franco and hotties Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis.
Oz, the Great and Powerful tells the tale of how a lost snake oil salesman and illusionist (Franco) defeats evil witches Theodora (Kunis) and Evanora (Weisz) with the help of their sister Gilda (Williams) to rule the land of Oz.
Heat Vision exclusively reports that Spencer will play “a young woman who is a willing subject of Oz’s magic tricks which the erstwhile magician is performing in Kansas.” Filming is set to begin later this month in Michigan.
Spencer, best known for her portrayal of Don Draper cock-accessory Suzanne Farrell on AMC’s “Mad Men,” will be seen later this month in DreamWorks’ Cowboys & Aliens. The pretty 29-year-old will also star opposite Katee Sackoff in the Lionsgate sequel A Haunting in Georgia.
Pop singer Joan Osborne may have once made us wonder “what if God was one of us,” but producer-turned-director Marc Turtletaub (Little Miss Sunshine) is going to paint us a picture with his big-screen adaptation of British author Marie Phillips’ novel “Gods Behaving Badly.”
The film’s synopsis reads:
The film tells the story of the Greek Gods, alive and well and living in a brownstone in New York City, as they cross paths with a young couple, Kate and Neil. The intersection of the Gods and the mortals threatens not only the couple’s budding relationship, but the future of everything else.
Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (“Damages”) will star as the New York couple. Greek Gods include Christopher Walkin (Zeus), Sharon Stone (Aphrodite), Edie Falco (Artemis), Oliver Platt (Apollo), John Turturro (Hades), Rosie Perez (Persephone), and “True Blood’s” Nelsan Ellis (Dionysus).
Gods Behaving Badly will roll camera later this month in New York.
Model-turned-actress Rebecca Da Costa is set to star in director Kevin Carraway’s (Fear Chamber) time warp thriller Seven Below. She joins a cast that includes Ving Rhames (Piranha 3-DD), Luke Goss (Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives), and fat Val Kilmer (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call—New Orleans).
Seven Below centers on four strangers trapped in a house in the woods by a powerful storm that threatens to bring with it a horrible event from the past. The film, once scheduled to shoot in New Mexico, goes into production next month in Cincinnati.
Da Costa has a handful of creds under her garter belt, including last year’s silly horror-indie Trick of the Witch. The 5-foot-11 Latin looker played a fashion model trapped during a shoot in a mansion by malicious supernatural forces.
Jessica Biel (pictured above) and Colin Farrell were recently photographed in Toronto while on the set of director Len Wiseman’s (Underworld) remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 sci-fi classic Total Recall. The duo play prostitute/resistance fighter Melina and protagonist Doug Quaid.
Former “Criminal Minds” star Rachel Nichols takes her big beautiful breasts to the beach in the August issue of Maxim magazine. Along with showcasing her bikini-wearing talents, the publication scores an interview that reveals the kind of man the gorgeous 31-year-old is looking for (Spoiler Alert: It’s not you).
She says:
Confidence and sense of humor? Excuse me, but fuck that! My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who’s going to be your friend—yeah, yeah, yeah.
I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don’t like.
Short? Athletic? Really young? I’m guessing Nichols is looking for a guy like this:
Nichols creds include Platinum Dunes 2005 Amityville Horror remake, Summit Entertainment’s underrated P2 thriller (her first starring role), and the horrible blockbuster G.I. Joe. She also starred as black-ops agent Rachel Gibson on the final season of J.J. Abrams’ “Alias” and played FBI Agent Ashley Seager on the hit CBS series “Criminal Minds.”
Nichols will next be seen in director Marcus Nispel’s upcoming Conan reboot, in theaters Aug. 19. She plays a busty warrior monk who gets into what promises to be an intense cat-fight with costar Rose McGowan’s evil witch character.
Photos from director Matthew Spradlin’s big-screen adaptation of his and Barry Wernick’s comic book “Bad Kids Go to Hell” have hit the web. Seen in the shots are Ali Faulkner as Tricia Wilkes, Augie Duke as Veronica Harmon, Chanel Ryan as Mrs. Gleason, Cameron Dean Stewart as Matt Clark, and the awesome Judd Nelson as Headmaster Nash.
Described as The Breakfast Club meets “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,”Bad Kids Go to Hell follows the mysterious murders of six privileged private school students during an eight-hour Saturday morning detention. Rounding out the cast are Amanda Alch as Megan McDurst, Marc Donato as Tarek Ahmed, Roger Edwards as Craig Cook and Eloise DeJoria as Governor Wilkes.
Bad Kids Go to Hell is slated for release next year, but fans can keep up on the project by checking out its Facebook page.
Those who can’t wait to visit Kate Beckinsale in the Underworld next January may want to stop by San Diego’s Comic-Con. The beautiful 37-year-old Brit will be front-and-center at the Underworld 4: New Dawn panel, taking place at Hall H on Friday, July 22, from 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm.
Joining Beckinsale on stage will be costars Michael Ealy (“FlashForward”) and Theo James (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger); directors Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein (Shelter); and producer/hubby Len Wiseman. Rumor has it attendees will get a sneak peak at the film, which opens wide in theaters on Jan 20. 2012.
Underworld 4: New Dawn finds vampire Selene (Beckinsale) awakening from a 15-year coma to discover that she is mother to a 14-year-old half-vamp/half-lycan daughter. Together, they take on an evil corporation hellbent on creating super lycans.
MTV has set an August 29 premiere date for its new horror-comedy series “Death Valley.” Set in the San Fernando Valley during a supernatural uprising that finds the streets overun by zombies, vampires, and werewolves, the show follows a camera crew as it documents the LAPD’s efforts to contain the chaos through their Undead Task Force.
The show stars “Mad Men” starlet Caity Lotz (pictured above), Tania Raymonde (“LOST”), Vene L. Arcoraci (Minority Report), Bryan Callen (Scary Movie 4), Toby Meuli (The Craigslist Killer), Texas Battle (Final Destination 3), Bryce Johnson (“Pretty Little Liars”), and Courtney Halverson (Freaky Faron).
Pretty 22-year-old up-and-comer Kayden Rose is set to star in Canadian director Éric Falardeau’s disturbingly sick feature film debut Thanatomorphose (a french word meaning the visible signs of an organism’s decomposition caused by death).
The film’s synopsis reads:
One day, the young and beautiful Laura wakes up and finds her flesh rotting…
A strange and claustrophobic tale of sexuality, horror and body fluids…
THANATAMORPHOSE.
Oh, man, and you thought that itchy rash you got from last week’s hook-up was bad. Let this movie serve as a warning. Don’t hop in the sack with French people. You never know what kind of diseases and parasites they’ve caught from eating snails all day (Sorry … seen too many episodes of “Monsters Inside Me”).
Thanatomorphose costars Davyd Tousignant, Émile Beaudry, eryka L. Cantieri, Karine Picard, and Roch-Denis Gagnon. It is slated for release late next year. To learn a little more about Rose, go here.
