Model-turned-actress Sarah Dumont is set to star in Paramount Pictures’ Scouts vs. Zombies, a horror-comedy from director Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) and screenwriters Emi Mochizuki and Carrie Evans (College Road Trip) and Lona Williams (Drop Dead Gorgeous).
Scouts vs. Zombies follows three high school Boy Scouts as they take on their small town’s zombie outbreak with little more than their troop skills. Dumont plays a sexy and mysterious high school dropout who inspires the boys to fight. Cameras roll this month in Los Angeles.
Dumont made her big screen debut in actor/director Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s hilarious porn addiction comedy Don Jon. She is currently coming off the indie actioner Bad Asses, a sequel to the surprise Danny Trejo home video hit Bad Ass.
Holy origins stories, Batman fans! Fox TV has released the first official trailer for its eagerly anticipated new series “Gotham.” The show chronicles the rise of Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) from rookie detective to Police Commissioner of the notoriously crime-riddled city.
Along with setting up Gordon’s story, the trailer introduces troubled tween Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz), a young and sassy Catwoman (Camren Bicondova), and super villains to-be The Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor) and Riddler. We also got a peek at new but hot gangster Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkette Smith).
Zoe Saldana speaks about NBC’s “Rosemary’s Baby” in a new five-minute featurette. The show is a four-hour event miniseries based on the 1967 Ira Levin horror novel about a young expectant mother who suspects her husband and new apartment neighbors are plotting to abduct and sacrifice her baby to Satan.
Agnieszka Holland (The Secret Garden) directs the series from a script by Scott Abbott (Queen of the Damned) and genre hero James Wong (Final Destination). Saldana (Star Trek) toplines the show as Rosemary Woodhouse.
“Rosemary’s Baby” premieres on Mother’s Day, May 11.
All right… everyone survive these past two days of festivities? From hitting the Algarine to celebrate Star Wars Day on May 4 to slamming shots of Don Julio for Cinco de Mayo, Clatto’s been drunk off its ass. We hope you’ve been too… that way you didn’t notice we forgot to post the “Star Wars: Rebels” trailer.
Disney and LucasFilm have released a full-length trailer for the new animated series “Star Wars: Rebels.” Set between the events of “Revenge of the Sith” and “A New Hope,” the show follows the growing rebellion against the Empire.
“Star Wars: Rebels” premieres as a one-hour special on the Disney Channel and will be followed by the series on Disney XD.
A trailer has gone online for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines writer Tedi Sarafianian’s directorial debut Altergeist. Originally titled Sighting, the long gestating film stars Kristina Anapau as one of six ghost hunters documenting the strange goings-on at the haunted King’s Ransom Winery.
Anapau is best known best known for playing Sheriff Andy Bellefleur’s faerie lover, Maurella, on HBO’s “True Blood.” She has also starred in Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar nominated psych-thriller Black Swan, and Wes Craven’s 2005 werewolf thriller Cursed.
Fox Home Entertainment has released a trailer for Joy Ride 3: Road Kill, the newest installment in the franchise first launched in 2001 by director John Dahl (The Last Seduction) and screenwriter J.J. Abrams (yes, that J.J. Abrams). The new sequel is written and directed by Declan O’Brien (Wrong Turn 3, 4, 5).
Joy Ride 3: Road Kill finds a group of young rally racers chased down by sadistic serial killer and truck driver Rusty Nail (so he’s a good guy in this one?). The film stars Kirsten Prout (Twilight: Eclipse), Gianpaolo Venuta (“Being Human”), Leela Sevasta (Black Christmas) and Ken Kirzinger as Rusty Nail.
Tricia Helfer (“Battlestar Galactica”) is set to star in Syfy’s new original event series “Ascension.” Created by executive producer and showrunner Philip Levens (“Smallville”), the six-hour drama tells the story of people sent by the US government into space to populate a new world.
The synopsis reads:
In 1963 the U.S. government launched a covert space mission sending hundreds of men, women, and children on a century-long voyage aboard the starship Ascension to populate a new world.
Nearly 50 years into the journey, as they approach the point of no return, the mysterious murder of a young woman causes the ship’s population to question the true nature of their mission.
Helfer plays Viondra Denniger, the beautiful and conniving, very dangerous, wife of the Ascension’s captain, a status that allows her to have great power and privilege over everyone as the ship’s Chief Steward. “Ascension” is slated to premiere in November.
CBS released this week a trailer for the Steven Spielberg-produced summer sci-fi series Extant, starring Halle Berry as a MILF-y astronaut who discovers she’s with child after returning home from a 13-month solo space mission. Making matters worse, the government is just as curious about her pregnancy as she is.
Co-starring alongside Berry are Camryn Manheim (“The Practice”), Goran Visnjic (“ER”), Grace Gummer (“The Newsroom”), Michael O’Neil (“Bates Motel”), and Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine). Extant premieres July 9 on CBS.
“Dollhouse” star Eliza Dushku is set to drive horror fans crazy in Eloise, an insane asylum thriller from Academy Award winning visual effects artist-turned-director Robert Legato (Hugo). The film was shot on location at the actual Eloise mental institution in Michigan.
Written by Christopher Borrelli (The Vatican Tapes), Eloise stars Dushku as one of four friends who break into an abandoned madhouse in search of a deceased relative’s death certificate, but find only… death! Chayce Crawford (“Gossip Girl”) and Brandon T. Jackson (Tropic Thunder) co-star.
Dushku came to fame as “Scooby Gang” member Faith on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and its spinoff “Angel,” but is also known for her roles in 2003’s hillbilly classic Wrong Turn and the popular, but short-lived sci-fi series “Dollhouse,” which reunited her with “Buffy” creator Joss Whedon.
Is that a lightsaber in your pocket or are you just happy to see the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII: Adam Driver (“Girls”), Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings), John Boyega (Attack the Block), Oscar Isaac (Sucker Punch), Domhnall Gleeson (Dredd), Max von Sydow (The Exorcist) and Brit TV actress Daisy Ridley.
The newcomers join original Saga stars Harrison Ford (Han Solo), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Anthony Daniels (C3PO), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), and Kenny Baker (R2D2). J.J. Abrams directs the film from a script he wrote with Empire Strikes Back screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan.
Abrams said:
We are so excited to finally share the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again. We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud.
Clatto thoughts: looking forward to Adam Driver, who is reportedly playing a villain. Wish they would have cast more women. Holding judgement on Daisy Ridley’s hotness until we see her in some kind of galactic catsuit. Hope Carrie Fisher doesn’t wear a metallic bikini this time out. Can’t freaking wait till its release on Dec 18, 2015.
Oh, yeah, the photo above is from the very first table read. Pretty awesome.
