Zoe Saldana is joining I Kill Giants, an adaptation of Joe Kelly’s graphic novel about a young girl (Madison Wolfe) battling monsters real and imagined. The film is directed by Anders Walter and goes into production early next year.
Saldana will play Mrs. Mollé, a psychologist who forms a tight bond with the troubled child while helping her confront the horrors that haunt her.
Saldana is coming off last year’s massive blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy and stars in the Star Trek franchise and James Cameron’s Avatar series. Earlier this year, she played the iconic role Rosemary Woodhouse in NBC’s pooply reviewed “Rosemary’s Baby” event series.
British newcomer Clementine Nicholson is set to make her feature film acting debut in Screen Gems Underworld 5, the newest entry in the successful franchise pitting vampires against werewolves. Anna Foerster (“Outlander”) is at the helm, working off a script by Cory Goodman (Priest).
Nicholson will play Lena, the Nordic Coven’s greatest warrior and daughter of Vidar. We don’t remember what any of that means, but are totally on board with watching Nicholson face-off or get friendly with Kate Beckinsale, returning as death dealer Selene.
Underworld 5 shoots in Prague next month with an Oct. 21, 2016 release date.
The 15th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival is set to run Oct. 13 – Oct. 22 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theater in Hollywood, California. The event will host the premiere of Paramount Pictures’ Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, one day before its official release.
We are thrilled to have the Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension premiere close this year’s festival. We are so proud of Oren Peli and his success with the franchise. It’s great to have him back in the festival where it all began.
Paranormal Activity debuted at Screamfest in 2007. The film was written and directed by Oren Peli on a budget of $15,000 and went on to become a blockbuster success, raking in over $140 million and ushering in a new wave of found-footage films.
Oren Peli said:
It’s incredibly exciting, and somewhat surreal, to premiere the final installment of the Paranormal series at Screamfest where the first film premiered eight years ago. These films continued to be made because of the incredible fans that supported them from the very beginning, so I look forward to bringing the series back to its roots to honor them.
Screamfest is the biggest and longest-running horror film festival in the U.S. Every year it premieres oa variety of features and shorts from around the world. The show is a star-studded event where it’s easy to see actors and directors talking horror with each other and the public. An opening night party kicks off the event, and it ends with the Skully Awards.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the Screamfest website.
A trailer has gone online for Revolver and Unbroken Pictures’ new supernatural thriller February. Osgood Perkins, son of Anthony Perkins, makes his directorial debut with the film, starring Emma Roberts (“Scream Queens”), Kiernan Shipka (“Mad Men”), Lucy Boynton, and MILFy Lauren Holly (“Picket Fences”).
February follows two schoolgirls (Shipka, Boynton) stranded at their prestigious prep school when their parents fail to pick them up for winter break. The youngest of the two soon begins to have nightmarish visions of a demonic nature as a third girl (Roberts) makes her way across a frozen landscape to reach the school.
Myriad Pictures announced it will begin production on Jeepers Creepers 3, the long gestating sequel in the popular horror franchise from writer and director Victor Salva. Cameras roll early next year in Vancouver with Jonathan Breck reprising his role as The Creeper and Brandon Smith as Sergeant Davis Tubbs.
If you’re a little hazy on either of those characters and/or the plot, it’s okay. It’s been 12 years since Jeepers Creepers 2. The new sequel is set during The Creeper’s final day of feeding and finds police task forces attempting to figure out monster’s origins to kill it.
Salva said:
Writing and directing a new Jeepers film, the first in over a decade, is incredibly exciting for me and I believe for Jeepers fans all over the world that have been asking for more.
FX has released a full-length trailer for “American Horror Story: Hotel,” the fifth season in the acclaimed anthology series from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Premiering Oct. 7, the show runs 13 episodes and is inspired by the mysterious 2013 death of a Canadian tourist in L.A.’s haunted Cecil Hotel.
The story made headlines when surveillance video of the terrified hotel guest hiding in an elevator went viral. She was found dead soon after.
“American Horror Story: Hotel” stars Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Wes Bentley, Lily Rabe, Naomi Campbell, Mädchen Amick, Chloe Sevigny and—inexplicably— Lady GaGa, putting this season on track to be worse than the third, featuring Stevie Nicks.
HBO has released a new trailer for season two of its rapture series “The Leftovers.” Created by Damon Lindelof (“LOST”) and Tom Perrotta, author of the novel it’s based on, the show follows the lives of those left behind on earth to deal with the pain of losing loved ones and not being chosen for the Sudden Departure.
The new season moves from New York to the town of Jarden, Texas where not a single soul was taken during the Sudden Departure. Returning are Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Margaret Qualley and Chris Zylka as the Garvey family.
Also back are Christopher Eccleston as Reverend Matt Jamison and Carrie Coon as Slayer fan Nora Durst. “The Leftovers” premieres Oct. 4. The new trailer has balls… no, really, at the 1:13 mark. Big, hairy balls.
Father Christmas is gonna do some serious slaying this yuletide season when his archenemy Krampus comes to town to slaughter naughty children in the RLJ Entertainment anthology A Christmas Horror Story. People named Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban and Brett Sullivan helm the three interconnecting stories.
The trailer is pretty awesome and teases an epic showdown between the jolly fat one and the humbugging demon Krampus. There’s an appearance from William Shatner and zombified elves! A Christmas Horror Story arrives in theaters, VOD, and iTunes on Oct. 2.
Sony Pictures has released an international trailer for its adaptation of young-adult author Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave, an alien invasion thriller detailing the fall of humanity to its extraterrestrial overlords in five deadly phases. Chloë Grace Moretz toplines the sci-fi drama as a survivor searching for her little brother.
The 5th Wave is directed by J. Blakeson (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) and co-stars Liev Schreiber (“Ray Donovan”), Ron Livingston (Office Space), Alex Roe (Sniper: Legacy), and stunner Maika Monroe (It Follows). The film opens in theaters Jan. 15, 2016.
Serbian stunner Ivana Korab (pictured in black bikini) faces off against a polar bear who is deadlier than the average bear in director Hank Braxton’s Unnatural. Korab plays a bikini model on assignment in the Alaskan wilderness where a genetically engineered bear is on a killing spree.
Korab’s co-stars include Sherilyn Fenn (“Twin Peaks”), James Remar(“Dexter”), Ray Wise (“Twin Peaks”), Graham Greene (Poltergeist 2), Q’orianka Kilcher (“Sons of Anarchy”), and Allegra Carpenter (Last Witch Hunter). Unnatural arrives in theaters Oct. 16 as part of After Dark Film’s 8 Films to Die For.
