Australian model-turned-actress Courtney Eaton is set to play the female lead in Summit Entertainment’s Gods of Egypt, an epic fantasy adventure from Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow). Eaton joins co-stars Gerard Butler (300), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”), Brenton Thwaites (Maleficent) and Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean).
Penned by writing duo Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless (Dracula Untold), Gods of Egypt follows Bek, a young Egyptian thief (Thwaites) out to kill the mad god Set (Butler) when Horus (Coster-Waldau), son of murdered underworld deity Osiris, fails to avenge the death. According to THR, Eaton plays the slave girl Bek is smitten by.
The role is Eaton’s second. The sexy Shelia makes her acting debut in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth installment in the franchise made famous by Academy Award winning actor and blow-job enthusiast Mel Gibson. Eaton co-stars alongside Aussie models Megan Gale and Abbey Lee Kershaw as one of the Five Wives in need of rescue from “Mad” Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy).
Filming wrapped this week on Snoot Entertainment’s (You’re Next) new psychological thriller Faults. The film is writer an director Riley Stearns’ feature debut and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Thing) as a brainwashed cult member in need of rescue.
Winstead plays Claire, a young woman caught up in a new cult called Faults. Leland Orser (Taken) is Ansel Roth, an authority on cults and mind control, hired by Claire’s parents to abduct her from the group and deprogram her. Lance Reddick (“Fringe”) and Kellie Matteson (Odd Thomas) co-star.
Lifetime has released a trailer for Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, a biopic based on the notorious life of Lizzie Borden, the acquitted suspect in the 1892 hatchet murders of her parents Andrew and Abby Borden. The film premieres Jan. 25.
Directed by Nick Gomez (”Flash Forward”), the Lifetime Original movie stars Christina Ricci (Black Snake Moan) as Lizzie Borden and co-stars Billy Campbell (”Helix”) as Lizzie’s lawyer Andrew Jennings and Clea DuVal (Argo) as Lizzie’s older sister Emma Borden.
Emilia Clarke will play iconic heroine Sarah Connor in the Terminator reboot from Skydance, AnnaPurna, and Paramount Pictures. The part marks Clarke’s first major role since breaking out as Mother of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”
Clarke, who reportedly beat out Brie Larson (“United States of Tara”) for the part, is the first cast since Arnold Schwarzenegger was announced to be reprising his role as the T-800. Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty) is in talks to portray John Connor.
Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) is attached to direct the Terminator remake from a script by Laeta Kalogridis (Pathfinder) and Patrick Lussier (Drive Angry). The film is slated to open in theaters July 1, 2015.
Micro Bay Features has released a teaser trailer for Dead Sea, an indie creature feature from director Brandon Slagle (Black Dahlia Haunting).
The film stars a bevy of bikini-clad stunners, including Alexis Iacono (Penny Dreadful Show), Chanel Ryan (Bad Girls Go to Hell), Candace Kita (Circus of the Dead), Devanny Pinn (Wonderland), and VH1’s “Rock of Love” starlet Tawny Amber Young (pictured above).
To read Clatto’s exclusive interview with Tawny Amber Young, gohere.
Dead Sea follows a marine biologist as she heads back to the small town she grew up in to investigate stories of a serpentine monster that rises from the sea to feed on the townsfolks every 30 years.
Warner Bros. has released a trailer a for Bourne Identity director Doug Liman’s new sci-fi actioner Edge of Tomorrow (formerly titled All You Need Is Kill). Tom Cruises stars in the film as Lt. Col. Bill Cage, a military officer killed in a suicide mission and inexplicably forced to relive the death repeatedly.
While that Groundhog/Source Code scenario sounds like an awful experience for Cage to go through, he does get to hang out each day with sexy Special Forces officer Rita Vrataski, played by Emily Blunt. Edge of Tomorrow arrives in theaters June 6, 2014.
Warner Bros. has released a trailer for Matrix directors Lana and Andy Wachowski’s new sci-fi actioner Jupiter Ascending. Mila Kunis (Ted) stars as Jupiter Jones, a beautiful Russian immigrant cleaning houses for a living instead of blowing American business moguls or assassinating political targets for profit.
Things take a turn when she discovers her genetic signature puts her in line to be Queen of the Universe. Channing Tatum (Magic Mike) plays a genetically engineered intergalactic bounty hunter sent to earth to find her. The film co-stars Korean starlet Doona Bae (Cloud Atlas) and Sean Bean (“Game of Thrones”).
I’m guessing Sean Bean dies in the film. Jupiter Ascending arrives in theaters on July 25, 2014.
Production has wrapped on director C Plus Pictures’ The Confines, an urban thriller starring Martha Marcy May Marlene stunner Louisa Krause (pictured), Mark Margolis (“Breaking Bad”), and Jason Patric (Your Friends & Neighbors).
The Confines follows a single mother (Krause) as she works security detail for an abandoned luxury apartment complex with a douche-bag partner (Patric) hell bent on terrorizing her. Making matters worse are a creepy vagrant (Margolis) and the building’s catacombs, which serve as a trap for the young MILF.
The Confines marks the directorial debut of some guy named Eytan Rockaway, who co-wrote the story with some other guy named Ido Fluk (c’mon… neither of those names are real, right?). The film, which wrapped in New York, is produced by a bunch of people with money.
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have released the first trailer for Monsters director Gareth Edwards’ eagerly anticipated reboot of Godzilla. Slated for release May 16, 2014, the film stars Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Juliette Binoche, and, representing Tokyo, Ken Watanabe.
The official synopsis reads:
An epic rebirth to Toho’s iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world’s most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
Godzilla made his debut in the 1954 Japanese film Gojira. Master of disaster Roland Emmerich (2012, Independence Day) took a massive shit all over the iconic beast in his 1998 reboot Godzilla. The film still managed to earned over $376 million worldwide, a testament to Godzilla’s ongoing popularity.
Anchor Bay has released a red band trailer for what promises to be one of the most awesome revenge flicks ever: Scorned. Directed by Mark Jones (Leprechaun), the film stars AnnaLynne McCord (“90210”) as a woman who goes bat shit crazy when she discovers that her man is screwing her best friend.
A brunette Viva Bianca (“Spartacus”) plays McCord’s BFF. Billy Zane (Titanic) inexplicably completes the triangle as the object of the women’s desires. The trailer is chockful of torture and super sexy lingerie. Nods to Fatal Attraction and Misery are nicely mixed with shots of McCord and Bianca’s crotchular region.
Scorned arrives on DVD, Blu-ray, and VOD on Feb. 4.
