As if Alexandra Daddario’s wonderfully long and graphic nude scene on HBO’s “True Detective” didn’t already rock your world, her new film San Andreas is set during the aftermath of a massive California earthquake. The gorgeous brunette has been cast as the female lead opposite Dwayne Johnson.
San Andres stars Johnson as a helicopter pilot searching for his estranged daughter in the wake of a deadly quake. The film is directed by Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) from a script by Allan Loeb (Here Comes the Boom), polished by Carlton Cuse (“LOST”).
Daddario cut her teeth in horror with Mary Lambert’s (Pet Sematary) haunted house thriller The Attic, and won fright fans over with her intense performance in Stevan Mena’s gruesome indie-slasherBereavement and Lionsgate’s Texas Chainsaw. She’s best known for starring in the Percy Jackson films.
A new trailer has gone online for veteran TV writer Robert Nathan’s (“Law & Order) directorial debutLucky Bastard, a found-footage thriller set in the world of internet porn. The NC-17 rated film is set to premiere in New York on Feb. 14 before making its way to Los Angeles on March 7.
Betsy Rue (My Bloody Valentine) plays a single mom turned adult star Ashley Saint, a performer caught at the center of a porn mope’s revenge plot after he is humiliated for ejaculating prematurely on the Lucky Bastard website, a pro-am site that pairs fans with their favorite starlets.
In what is arguably the best marketing push for a film ever, Lionsgate has posted a series of sexy GIFs and nude photos featuring Paz de la Huerta on its /2/” target=”_blank”>Nurse 3D website. The site also includes the official trailer, posters, still gallery, and theater listings. It arrives in limited release and VOD on Feb. 7.
Huerta toplines Nurse 3D as Abby Russell, a psychotic day nurse with lesbian tendencies who seduces and murders men by night. When her affections for fellow nurse Danni, played by Katrina Bowden, are rejected after a night of date rape, Abby loses her shit and unleashes her rage.
Jessica Alba (Machete) is stepping in for Gemma Arterton (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) in Relativity Media and Atlas Entertainment’s The Wright Girls, an upcoming remake of Japanese filmmaker Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s bad roommate thriller 2LDK.
“Entourage” actor Kevin Connolly is attached to direct, replacing Andy Fickman (Race to Witch Mountain). Penned by Easy A writer Bert Royal, the story follows two actress roommates as they go from close girlfriends to bitter enemies while competing for the same movie role.
Alba is coming off the Robert Rodriguez sequel Machete Kills and will be seen in the Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For. The Wright Girls will shoot in Los Angeles in April.
Phase 4 Films has released a trailer for Mark Hartley’s Patrick, a remake of Richard Franklin’s (Psycho 2, Cloak & Dagger) 1978 Australian frightener about a man who falls into a comatose state after murdering his mother and her lover, and begins to use psychokinetic powers to communicate with his hot nurse.
Sharni Vinson (You’re Next) toplines the thriller as Nurse Kathy Jacquard. Co-stars include Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”), Rachel Griffiths (”Six Feet Under”), and Jackson Gallagher as Patrick. It arrives in selected theaters and VOD on March 14.
Christina Cole joins NBC and Lionsgate TV’s upcoming remake of “Rosemary’s Baby,” 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 complex neighbors are plotting to abduct and sacrifice her baby to Satan.
Agnieszka Holland (The Secret Garden) is attached to direct the series from a script by Scott Abbott (Queen of the Damned) and genre hero James Wong (Final Destination). Zoe Saldana (Star Trek) plays Rosemary Woodhouse.
Cole will co-star as Rosemary’s friend Julie. She joins a cast that includes Patrick J. Adams as Rosemary’s husband Guy Woodhouse and Jason Isaacs and Carole Bouquet as Rosemary’s married neighbors Roman and Margaux Castevet.
Gillian Jacobs (“Community”) joins Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers), Jim Parsons (“Big Bang Theory”) and old-people actress Ellen Barkin in Visions, a new micro-budgeted frightener from Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity, The Purge).
Visions stars Fisher as a pregnant woman who starts to have disturbing visions while with her husband at his vineyard home. Jacobs plays a young neighborhood woman who befriends Fisher. The film is directed by Kevin Greutert (SAW 6) from a script by Lucas Sussman (Below).
Jacobs, best known for her role as Britta Perry on NBC’s “Community,” is coming off the horror-comedy Milo. Notable creds include the apocalyptic comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, The Box, Gardens of the Night and the Chuck Palahniuk adaptation Choke.
Twilight Saga star Nikki Reed is set to star in Email, a supernatural thriller from Singaporean director Kelvin Tong (The Maid). Reed will play a journalist investigating the mysterious death of her sister in Singapore, who uncovers a string of odd murders tied to a cursed email.
The film, described by producers as a cross between The Ring and The Grudge, will shoot in Singapore in May.
This won’t be the first time Reed is tormented by electronic mail. In 2010, she starred in the indie slasher Chain Letteras a popular high school senior, who along with her friends is stalked by a sadistic killer known as the Chain Man when they fail to pass along a chain email.
You’re going to need a bigger TV to fully enjoy the experience that is Syfy’s Sharknado 2: The Second One. The sequel shoots Feb. 13 in New York for a July premiere, and features the return of original lead Tara Reid (pictured).
Reid will reprise her role as April Wexler, the busty and estranged wife of a Venice beach bar owner who rescues her from a shark-hurling twister dubbed a Sharknado. The part is Reid’s most notable since starring in the American Pie franchise.
Sharknado 2: The Second One reunites Reid with Ian Ziering (“Beverly Hills 90210”), who plays her husband. Together they set out to save New York from a new sharknado. The film is directed by Anthony Ferrante and written by Thunder Levin, the creative masterminds behind last year’s Sharknado.
Brain Damage Films has set a Feb. 4 DVD and VOD release date for Slaughter Daughter. The indie slasher is described by the filmmakers as the “heartwarming tale of a psychotic daughter who teams up with a jailed murderer to slay her mother on her wedding day.”
Slaughter Daughter features an interesting cast: Leesa Towland (Return to Nuke ‘Em High Vol. 1), Nicola Fiore (Ms. Cannibal Holocaust), Ruby Larocca (Call Girl of Cthulhu), and Tim Dax, the facially-tatted gay porn actor who inadvertently starred in the anti-Islamic YouTube short The Innocence of Muslims.
The Innocence of Muslims portrayed the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a hypersexual child molester. The film was said to have provoked the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya that left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead on Sept 11. That turned out to be bullshit.
