Paramount Pictures and MGM have released a red-band trailer for Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, a steam-punk version of the classic fairy tale that finds the siblings hunting down supernatural forces for profit.
Jeremy Renner (Bourne Legacy) and Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans) are toplining the film, which opens on Jan. 25. Costars include Famke Janssen (X-Men), Zoe Bell (Death Proof) and Norwegian actress Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (Cold Prey) as evil witches.
A&E has set a March 18 premiere date for its new drama “Bates Motel,” a prequel series to Hitchcock’s Psycho from Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin (”Friday Night Lights”). The show follows the twisted relationship between a high school-aged Norman Bates and his milfy, but controlling mother.
The series stars Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Norman and Vera Farmiga (Source Code) as his mom, Norma Louise.
Costars include Nicola Peltz as Norman’s love interest Bradley Martin, Olivia Cook as his nerdy friend Emma Decody, Keegan Connor Tracy as his teacher Miss Watson, Max Thieriot as Norman’s half-brother Dylan Massett, Nestor Carbonell as sheriff Royce Romero and Mike Vogel as Deputy Zack Shelby.
A new red-band trailer for Ghost House Pictures upcoming reboot of Sam Raimi’s 1981 classic Evil Dead has gone online… and this fucker is nasty. Jane Levy (“Suburgatory”) plays one of five friends who awaken an evil force after reading from the Book of the Dead while stranded at a cabin in the woods.
Fede Alverez, the aspiring Uruguayan filmmaker who caught Raimi’s attention with an ambitious four-minute-plus short titled Panic Attack, is directing the remake from his own script, punched up by Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body).
Playboy model Crystal McCahill is set to costar in directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s long-awaited Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For. No word on what role the busty (36-DDs!), 5-foot-7 stunner will play, but it does involve this outfit.
A Dame to Kill For is based on Miller’s comic of the same name, published in 1993 by Dark Horse Comics. The story is adapted for the screen by Miller and Rodriguez. Production began on Oct. 29 at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas.
McCahill, the May 2009 Playboy Playmate of the Month and former recurring on E!’s Playboy reality series “The Girls Next Door,” joins a cast that includes returning cast members Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Mickey Rourke and newcomers Jaime King and Jamie Chung.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is slated for release Oct. 4.
Horror hero Eli Roth cameos in Chilean director Nicolás López’ upcoming comedy Que Pena Tu Familia (gringo translation: Shame About Your Family). Roth plays Dr. Zacarias, a character on “Ataque Al Corazón (“Attack of the Heart”),” a gory telenovela watched by the family in the film.
A trailer for the faux soap finds Roth treating a woman with a pipe lodged in her head, facing off with co-workers and peers and copping some hot nalgas (ass) from the hospital’s sexy nurses. The stint marks Roth’s second collaboration with López’ since producing and starring in Aftershock.
