Magnet Releasing’s erotic vampire drama Kiss of the Damned is now available on VOD and will play selected theaters on May 3. A featurette for the film has gone online and includes interviews with director Xan Cassavetes and stars Milo Ventimiglia (“Heroes”) and Roxane Mesquida (Rubber).
Kiss of the Damned tells the story of a beautiful vampire (La Baume) that falls in love with a human screenwriter (Ventimiglia). Their relationship is soon exposed and threatened, however, when her sexy and dangerous sister (Mesquida) unexpectedly pays her a visit.
Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle… perennial rom-com co-star Judy Greer is set to play female chimp Cornelia in Twentieth Century Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the first sequel to its 2011 blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
For so long I haven’t been able to say anything about it, so this is exciting! It’s a very different kind of work than I’m used to. I’m not going to be wearing Manolo Blahniks in this one.
Well at least she isn’t playing the monkey bride’s goofy BFF.
Greer will wear a motion-capture suit to play Cornelia, love interest to ape leader Caesar seen briefly in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. She joins co-stars Keri Russell (Dark Skies), Gary Oldman (Dark Knight), Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Kodi-Smit McPhee (Let Me In) and Andy Serkis (The Hobbit).
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a post apocalyptic story set a decade after the director Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 reboot. The sequel is directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) and co-written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes).
Lionsgate has released the first official trailer to director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett’s (A Horrible Place to Die) eagerly anticipated home-invasion frightener You’re Next, starring Aussie newcomer Sharni Vinson in her most terrifying role since Step Up 3-D.
You’re Next follows the Davison family as they’re attacked in their vacation home by a group of sadistic murderers armed with an array of shit-that’s-gonna-hurt-tools. The family’s only hope lies in their eldest son’s super-hot girlfriend (Vinson) whose mysterious past has made her hard to kill like Steven Seagal.
Costars include Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), Amy Seimetz (Bitter Feast), Nick Tucci (Undocumented), AJ Bowen (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Horrible Way to Die), indie horror directors Ti West (The Innkeepers) and Calvin Reeder (The Oregonian), and old-school scream queen Barbara Crampton.
“House” fans lusting over Karolina Wydra may finally get a shot at seeing her nude. The Polish stunner is set to star on the sixth season of HBO’s vampire soap “True Blood.” She joins newcomers Rutger Hauer (The Hitcher), Arliss Howard (“Rubicon”), Jurnee Smollett-Bell (“Friday Night Lights”) and Amelia Rose Blaire (“90210”).
TVLine reports that Wydra will play a dangerous and sexy vampire named Violet, who is as powerful as Eric Northman (Alex Skarsgård) and Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer). No word, of course, if Wydra goes nude for the part, but the show is known for its frivolous nudity and Wydra is a European model so if my Algebra is correct… x = boobs.
Wydra is best known for her role on Fox’s medical drama “House,”playing Ukraine transplant Dominika Petrova, the massage therapist that agrees to marry Dr. Gregory House to score a green card, but ends up falling for him.
“True Blood’s” new season is slated to premiere June 16.
Kate Mara (“American Horror Story”) is set to join Rebecca Hall (Iron Man 3) in Academy Award-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister’s directorial debut Transcendence, a sci-fi thriller starring Johnny Deppas a man who uploads his brain into a super computer that learns to think for itself.
Transcendence shoots in Los Angeles next month and is slated for release on April 25, 2014 from Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Geek messiah Christopher Nolan (Dark Knight Rises) serves as executive producer.
Mara made her horror movie debut in 2005’s Urban Legends: Bloody Mary. She’s since starred in mostly non-genre fair with the exceptions of Iron Man 2 and 127 Hours. Mara is best known, however, for her role on season one of Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story.”
Production has begun in Vancouver on “Human,” a sci-fi cop show pilot from J.J. Abrams (“LOST”) and J.H. Wyman (“Fringe”), starring Minka Kelly (The Roommate) and Karl Urban (Dredd) as LAPD officers working with android partners.
According to The Wrap, Kelly is playing Valerie Stahl, a uniformed cop with good morals and a puppy dogs and ice cream outlook on life. Urban co-stars as John Kennex, an embittered veteran officer critically injured during a mission gone wrong.
Kelly is coming off the failed ABC reboot series “Charlie’s Angeles.” She is best known for playing cheerleader Lyla Garrity on “Friday Night Lights” and for her leading role in Screen Gems’ psycho-bitch thriller The Roommate.
“Guiding Light” and “One Tree Hill” star Bethany Joy Lenz will be a recurring on season eight of Showtime’s “Dexter.” She joins new faces Rhys Coiro (Straw Dogs), Nick Gomez (Looper), old-people actress Charlotte Rampling (Melancholia) and Sean Patrick Flanery (SAW: The Final Chapter).
TV Guide reports that Lenz will play a sexy former finance executive named Cassie, looking for peace and quiet in Dexter’s neighborhood. The character will be introduced in the fourth episode of show’s supposed final season.
Lenz has not starred in a horror project since 1996’s Thinner, a crappy adaptation of the awesome Stephen King novel in which a fat man is cursed to die slowly through weight loss by a gypsy for running over and killing his daughter with his car while getting blown by his wife.
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first official trailer for The Wolverine, a sequel to 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. In theaters July 26, the film is directed by James Mangold (Knight and Day, 3:10 to Yuma) and written by Mark Bomback (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Total Recall).
This time out, Wolverine is in modern day Japan facing off against the Silver Samurai and sexy villainess Viper. Hiroyuki Sanada (“LOST”) plays the Silver Samurai, Russian stunner Svetlana Khodchenkova ( Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) is Viper. Hugh Jackman returns as the Wolverine.
With the news media constantly reporting on cases of fat, skinny and/or ugly kids getting bullied at school, it’s easy to forget how hard the pretty white kids have it. Sure, the misfits may find their heads dunked in school toilets or encouraged to commit suicide through social media, but the beautiful and popular must deal with being loved and wanted by everyone.
Millennium Entertainment sheds light on this often unreported issue with the DVD and Blu-ray release of Crush on April 9. Written byRoommate scribe Sonny Mallhi, the film stars Lucas Till as a high school heartthrob lusted after by a pretty shy girl and a pretty geek, played by “Teen Wolf’s” Crystal Reed and “The Tudors” Sarah Bloger, respectively.
Blackberry and Robert Rodriguez are calling on movie fans to put the finishing touches on Two Scoops, a campy short film starring sexy twins Electraand Elise Avellan (Planet Terror, Machete) as ice cream shop clerks turned monster slayers.
The movie marks the debut of Project Green Screen, an interactive venture giving fans the opportunity to participate in the movie making process, from acting to creating props for the sisters to use and a giant monster for them to fight.
Rodriguez explains:
I didn’t hear anything about green screening yourself into an Avellan Twin threesome, but this still sounds pretty cool.
The Avellan sisters broke into Hollywood as the “Crazy Twin Babysitters” in the 2007 Rodriguez/ Quentin Tarantino collaboration Grindhouse. They have since starred together in Parallel Media’s The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond and Rodriguez’s Machete and its upcoming sequel Machete Kills.
