“Californication’s” Camilla Luddington has staked a recurring role on season five of HBO’s vampire soap “True Blood.” The 28-year-old British stunner will play Claudette, a faerie confidant for Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin).
Luddington joins newcomers Kelly Overton (The Ring Two), Lucy Griffiths (“Robin Hood”), Peter Mensah (“Spartacus”), Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone), Louis Herthum (Last Exorcism), Carolyn Hennesy (“Cougar Town”) and Scott Foley (“Scrubs”).
Luddington has toiled around Hollywood for about two years, guest starring in a number of forgettable TV projects. This year, she’s taken on the breakthrough role of Lizzie, Charlie Runkle’s nanny-turned-lover, on Showtime’s hilarious hit series “Californication.”
If picked up, the series will follow retired FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) as he returns to the bureau to help track down Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), a serial killing cult leader utilizing the internet to recruit accomplices. Grace will play a doctor who is the killer’s only surviving victim.
Grace, best known for her portrayal of spoiled rich girl Shannon Rutherford on ABC’s Emmy-winning drama “LOST,” made her major horror film debut in the 2005 remake of John Carpenter’sThe Fog.
Additional genre creds include Malice in Wonderland, a clever retelling of the “Alice in Wonderland” fable, and parts one and two of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. The 28-year-old stunner will next be seen in producer Luc Besson’s Lockout.
Swedish actress Helena Mattsson, best known for her nude turn in Species: The Awakening, is the latest to check into “666 Park Avenue,” a new supernatural pilot based on the book series by author Gabriella Pierce. The show is produced by writer David Wilcox (“Fringe”), Warner Bros. TV and Alloy Entertainment.
“666 Park Avenue” is set in a historic Manhattan apartment building where demonic forces are possessing the tenants. Other than her character’s name—Alexis—no details have been given about Mattsson’s role.
Costars include Rachael Taylor (”Charlie’s Angels’) and Dave Annabel (”Brothers & Sisters”), as the apartment supers; Terry O’Quinn (“LOST”) and Vanessa Williams (“Desperate Housewives”) as the building’s owners; and Mercedes Masöhn (”The Finder”) and Robert Buckley (”One Tree Hill”) as a photographer and playwright couple .
Jessica Biel is set to star in Fox Searchlight’s upcoming bio-pic “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.” She joins an all-star cast that includes Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as his wife Alma Reville, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh and James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins.
Directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil) from a script by John J. McLaughlin (Black Swan), the film follows Hitchcock as he overcomes various obstacles to bring Psycho to the big screen. Biel plays Vera Miles, the actress who starred as Lila Crane, sister to Leigh’s Marion Crane.
Biel, who made her genre debut in the 2003 Platinum Dunes remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, will next be seen in French director Pascal Laugier’s (Martyrs) English language feature debut The Tall ManandLen Wiseman’s (Underworld) upcoming Total Recall reboot.
“GCB” starlet Leslie Bibb is set to star alongside Hot Tub Time Machine’s Rob Corddry in Hell Baby, the feature directorial debut of “Reno 911” writers Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. The horror-comedy is produce by Darko Entertainment.
Bibb and Corddry will play an expectant couple living in a haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans. The duo look to the Vatican for help when they realize that a demon spawn is growing inside Bibb’s womb.
Bibb’s genre creds include the Clive Barker-produced Midnight Meat Train, Michael Dougherty’s beloved Halloween anthology Trick r’ Treat, and Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 1 & 2. She will next be seen in Takashi Shimizu’s (The Grudge) new airline frightener 7500.
Lingerie model-turned-actress Kara Tointon is a good reason to hop onboard newbie director Omid Nooshin’s runaway train thriller The Last Passenger. The Pathe International production follows a mass murderer as he attempts to slaughter a train full of innocent people.
Dougray Scott (Hitman) stars as a single dad trying to protect his son from the killer on the train. Tointon plays the flirtatious passenger who befriends him. Rounding out the cast are Lindsay Duncan (“Rome”), Iddo Goldberg (The Tourist) and David Schofield (The Wolfman).
Tointon is best known for her portrayal of Dawn Swan on the British soap “EastEnders.” Her only horror cred is the 2001 asylum-set frightener Never Play with the Dead.
“Ringer” star Zoey Deutch has joined writer/director Richard LaGravenese’s big screen adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s 1985 novel Beautiful Creatures. The romantic frightener follows a teenage couple who discover dark secrets about their families and town.
Alice Englert (Singularity) and Jack O’Connell (Eden Lake) play the story’s lovers, Lena and Ethan. Deutch has been cast as Ethan popular, but nasty, ex-girlfriend, Emily Asher. Emily Rossum (“Shameless”) also stars as a witch. Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis and Emma Thompson play the film’s old people.
Deutch can currently be seen on The CW’s Sarah Michelle Gellar comeback vehicle “The Ringer.” The 17-year-old up-and-comer was also a recurring on the Disney Channel’s “Suite Life on Deck.”
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first full-length trailer to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, a stand-alone sci-fi actioner that will reveal origins to Scott’s 1979 classic frightener Alien … and Noomi Rapace in her space undies. Co-written by Damon Lindelof (“LOST”), the film follows a team of scientists stranded on a hostile planet where no one will hear them scream.
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The official synopsis reads:
In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system’s natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team discovers an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers.
A trailer for the Oren Peli-produced radioactive ghost town thriller Chernobyl Diaries has gone online. The project, announced back in November, is the first to be fully financed by FilmNation and was shot in Eastern Europe by F/X guru-turned-director Brad Parker (Let Me In).
The film, which follows a group of friends stranded in a town long believed to be abandoned after a nuclear disaster, stars Norwegian starlet Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (Cold Prey) Olivia Taylor Dudley (Chillerama), Jonathan Sadowski (Friday the 13) and Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek).
The buzz around director Brad Anderson’s (The Vanishing on 7th Street) new serial killer drama The Hive has just gotten buzzier: Academy award-winning actress Halle Berry has officially signed on to star in the Troika Pictures’ production.
Berry will play a 911 operator attempting to help a girl survive the clutches of a sadistic murderer. The film, written by Richard D’Ovidio (Thir13en Ghosts), will shoot in Los Angeles starting in June.
Berry is coming off the John Stockwell (Turistas) shark drama Dark Tide, available now on VOD and slated for a limited theatrical run on March 30. Previous genre creds include Perfect Stranger, Catwoman, Gothika, and the X-Men franchise.
