And, suddenly, the actress in the dark suit realized that the money spent on acting classes could have gone to better use.
Addison Timlin (“Californication”) is set to topline The Town That Dreaded Sundown, a Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum produced remake of the 1976 cult film based on the true story of the 1946 Moonlight Murders, a series of homicides committed by the Phantom Killer in the Texas/Arizona border town of Texarkana.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown follows a copycat killer mimicking the murders of the original film during its annual screening at Texarkana. According to Deadline, Timlin will star as Jami, a survivor whose own history holds clues to figuring out who’s behind the grisly murders.
Timlin is best known for toplessly playing actress Sasha Bingham on Showtime’s “Californication.” The 21-year-old stunner will next be seen as Stormy Llewellyn in director Stephen Sommers big screen adaptation of horror author Dean Koontz’s bestselling novel “Odd Thomas.”
If you had 12-hours to kill, rob, rape and torture and/or illegally download movies and music without fear of consequence, would that really be enough time? So is the premise behind Universal Pictures’ The Purge in which… oh, wait, this is actually some kind of sociopolitical thriller meant to teach us a moral lesson.
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The Purge is a government sanctioned 12-hour night during which all fun criminal activity is permissible by law. Ethan Hawk and Lena Headey (pictured) star as parents on home lock down, caught in an ethical dilemma when their bleeding heart daughter provides shelter to a man wanted dead by crazed hooligans.
Production has wrapped on writer and director Brett Piper’s (Arachnia) new creature feature Queen Crab, starring people named Michelle Simone Miller, Kathryn Metz, A.J. DeLucia and sexy up-and-comer Danielle Donahue (pictured), aka the reason to watch a movie about a giant crustacean.
OK… watching a gargantuan crab rip people apart and tear shit down via old-school stop-motion may actually be reason enough to catch Queen Crab. No word on distribution yet, but updates can be found on Piper’s Facebook page.
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have released a full-length trailer for SAW and Insidious director James Wan’s The Conjuring, starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as real-life married demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, best known for their work on the infamous Amityville Horror case of 1975.
Written by Chad and Carey Hayes (Whiteout), the story—based on true events—follows the horrifying ordeal faced by the Perron family in 1970 after moving into a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse. The film co-stars Ron Livingston (Office Space) and Lili Taylor (The Haunting) as the Perrons.
The apocalypse is going to terrible for all of us, but it will be worse for those who live a life of privilege and cocaine. Columbia Pictures has released a new red band trailer for Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s This Is the End, an end-of-days comedy set during a James Franco party.
Starring along with Franco are Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson. Also caught in the mayhem are Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mindy Kaling, pop star Rhianna and Harry Potter’s Emma Watson in a very funny cameo.
A&E is looking to order to series Imagine Television and Fox 21’s “Those Who Kill,” a serial killer pilot directed by Joe Carnahan (The Grey) and starring Chloe Sevigny (“American Horror Story: Asylum”) and James D’Arcy (Hitchcock).
“Those Who Kill” follows police detective Catherine Jensen (Sevigny) and forensics profiler Thomas Schaffer (D’Arcy) as they track down vicious serial killers. The show is an adaptation of a Danish crime series based on Elsebeth Egholm’s books.
Sevigny is coming off a memorable arch on Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story: Asylum.” Previous creds include David Fincher’s Zodiac, Jonathan Liebesman’s The Killing Room and Mary Harron’s big screen adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho.
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first trailer for director Thor Freudenthal’s Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, a sequel to 2010’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief, both adaptations of Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” book series..
Sea of Monsters finds Percy battling evils from the deep while in search for a mythical Golden Fleece. The film stars Logan Lerman as Percy, Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, Jake Abel as Luke Castellan, son of Hermes and Booker T. Washington as Percy’s friend Grover.
New faces include Nathan Fillion (”Firefly,” “Castle”) as Hermes, Anthony Head (The Host) as teacher Chiron and Leven Rambin (Hunger Games) as Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares, the God of War. The film arrives in theaters on Aug. 16.
CBS has shot a behind-the-scenes featurette for its upcoming 13-episode miniseries “Under the Dome.” Produced by Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, the show is based on King’s post-apocalyptic novel of the same name and premieres June 24.
“Under the Dome” follows the havoc caused by a mysterious force field that drops over the small New England town of Chester Mill. The miniseries is directed by Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and is currently shooting in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Cast includes Brittany Robertson (”Secret Circle”), Aisha Hinds (”True Blood”), Natalie Martinez (”CSI: New York”), Rachelle Lefevre (Twilight), Collin Ford (”Supernatural”), Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) and Dean Norris (”Breaking Bad”).
