Monsters and Godzilla director Gareth Edwards has been tapped by Disney and Lucasfilm to direct the first stand-alone Star Wars feature film, slated for release Dec. 16, 2016. Which movie Edwards will helm remains top secret, but if rumors are correct it would be based on Boba Fett, Han Solo, or Yoda.
Edwards said:
Ever since I saw Star Wars I knew exactly what I wanted to do for the rest of my life — join the Rebel Alliance! I could not be more excited and honored to go on this mission with Lucasfilm.
The Star Wars stand-alone film will be penned by Book of Eli and After Earth screenwriter Gary Whitta, who described the Saga as “the single most profound inspiration to my imagination and to my career as a writer.”
Said Whitta:
[Star Wars] is deeply special to me so to be given the opportunity to contribute to its ongoing legacy, especially in collaboration with a film-maker as talented as Gareth, is literally a dream come true. I’m still pinching myself.
The force, meanwhile, is strong with Edwards, who is confirmed to return to the director’s chair for Legendary Pictures’ Godzilla 2 and 3. He also serves as executive producer on Monsters: Dark Continent, a sequel to his 2010 feature film debut Monsters.
Star Wars: Episode VII arrives in theaters Dec. 18, 2015.
Imagine one night a year when all crime is legal for 12 hours, allowing people to rape, pillage, murder, and double-park to their heart’s content. What would you do? Kill your boss? Loot a new TV? Bum-rush Kate Upton’s home with a tube of KY Warming gel and a camera?
No, you wouldn’t do any of those things. Like most pain and death fearing people, you’d cower at home waiting for daylight. Don’t believe it? Then check out The Purge: Breakout attraction, touring across the country to promote the Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions sequel The Purge: Anarchy.
The Purge: Breakout is an interactive experience in which peeps are taken hostage 30-minutes before the annual Purge, and must work together to escape the madman responsible. The attraction kicks off in Atlanta on May 30 and wraps in Los Angeles July 11-20. Click here for additional cities and dates.
Blumhouse founder Jason Blum says:
Our goal with The Purge: Breakout is to bring the universe of The Purge films directly to the audience. This experience allows fans across the county the chance to immerse themselves in the intricate world that the series’ writer-director, James DeMonaco, has so painstakingly crafted. We hope that they enjoy being scared out of their minds.
Having experienced Blumhouse’s The Purge: Fear the Night Halloween event last year, we are more than certain the new attraction is going to be insane. To read our Fear the Night review, go here.
HBO has released a full-length trailer for the seventh and final season of its vampire soap “True Blood,”starring Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse, a small town waitress and faerie whose love affair with vampires Bill Compton and Eric Northman brings death and misery to everyone she’s ever known.
Well, that’s how I saw it anyway.
“True Blood’s” final season picks up in the midst of the Hep-V outbreak that is turning vampires into the undead undead or something… honestly, I haven’t kept track of the plot since season three. Still, I’m gonna miss Paquin and her female costars frivolous nude scenes and Lafayette’s quips.
Vertigo Films has released a new trailer for Monsters: Dark Continent, a sequel to Godzilla director Gareth Edwards’ 2010 feature film debut Monsters. The film is directed by Tom Green (not the one-balled comedic actor) and written by Jay Basu (The Dinosaur Project). Edwards serves as executive producer.
Monsters: Dark Continent is set seven years after the events of the original film and finds American soldiers deployed to infected zones worldwide to protect the country’s interests against monsters. A soldier named Noah is sent to the Middle East to kill a rogue commando hiding in an infected zone.
A sales trailer for Vantage Media International’s newly acquired supernatural thriller Pernicious has gone online. The film is toplined by a foursome of sexy starlets: Ciara Hanna (“Power Rangers”), Jackie Moore (Atlantic Rim), Sara Malakul Lane (Sharktopus), and Emily O’Brien (“Young and the Restless).
Written and directed by James Cullen Bressack (Unmimely Demise), Pernicious follows a group of American girlfriends in Thailand for the summer to teach English and party hard. Things go terribly wrong when the spirit of an abused eight-year-old latches on to them, looking to unleash its anger.
Eye-popping images have gone online for director Victor Matellano’s remake of recently deceased Spanish fright master José Ramón Larraz’s 1974 classic Vampyres, a kink-fueled tale centered on a pair of lesbian vampires and the victims they lure to their lair with promises of hot orgy sex.
Spanish stunners Marta Flich (Omnivores) and Almudena Leon (Wax) play the lesbian bloodsuckers. They meet their match when a group of tourists they target includes a man with a mysterious past. The screenplay is written by Matellano and Larraz, who passed in the fall of 2013.
RLJ Entertainment and Image Entertainment have released a new trailer for Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, a prequel in the Cabin Fever franchise releasing on VOD June 26 and in selected theaters Aug. 1. Kaare Andrews (Altitude) directs from a script by Jake Wade (Amusement, The Hitcher).
Patient Zero follows a group of friends plagued by a flesh-eating disease while on holiday in the Caribbean. A mysterious stranger unaffected by the outbreak holds the key to their salvation or demise. Cast includes Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings), model/actress Lydia Hearst, and Graves stunner Jillian Murray (pictured).
Like the ending to all of our college dates, Oblivion star and Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko is topless and in tears in French photographer Stephane Coutelle’s new portrait. It’s unclear what the meaning behind the arty, black-and-white shot is, but at least you can feel cultured while rubbing one out.
Kurylenko is coming off director Mark Waters (Mean Girls) and screenwriter Daniel Waters’ (Heathers) adaptation of Richelle Mead’s bestselling young-adult book series, The Vampire Academy.
Up until Oblivion with Tom Cruise, Kurylenko was best known for her portrayal of revenge-seeking Bond girl Camille Montes in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace. The Ukrainian stunner can also be seen in Neil Marshall’s Centurion and the big-screen video game adaptations Hitman and Max Payne.
Fox has released a trailer and a first-look featurette for its new event series “Wayward Pines,” a ten-episode mystery from Chad Hodge (”Playboy Club”) and M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), based on the Blake Crouch novel “Pines.”
Peep the trailer:
“Wayward Pines” follows Secret Service agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) on assignment to find two missing federal agents in the Idaho town of Wayward Pines. What he discovers instead are mysterious and sinister happenings that threaten the very core of who he is as a person.
The all-star cast includes stunner Carla Gugino (Sin City), Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Terence Howard (Iron Man), Shannyn Sossamon (”Mistresses”), Greta Lee (“Girls”), Toby Jones (The Girl), and Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers).
Aussie stunner Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies) is set to star alongside Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) in director Paul Currie’s psychological thriller 2:22. Cameras will roll on the film in October in Australia.
Written by Currie and Nathan Parker (Moon), 2:22 tells the story of a man (Walker) whose life is tormented by a series of events that replay every day in the same Groudhog’s Day, Source Code, Edge of Tomorrow. Palmer plays a woman whose life is in danger unless the mystery is solved.
Palmer is coming off last year’s romantic zomedy Warm Bodies, and has starred in a string of notable genre offerings including I Am Number Four, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Grudge 2, Wolf Creek, and Restraint, in which she goes nude.
