Kiele Sanchez is set to star in the sequel to Blumhouse Productions’ sleeper hit The Purge. Sanchez joins a cast that includes Frank Grillo (The Grey), Michael K. Williams (“Boardwalk Empire”), Zach Gilford (Last Stand), and Carmen Ejogo (Alex Cross).
According to THR, original Purge writer and director James DeMonaco returns to helm the sequel. No word on an official synopsist, but it will build on the plot introduced in the first.
The Purge is a government sanctioned 12-hour night during which all criminal activity is permissible by law. The original starred Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey as parents put in peril when their young son shelters a victim in their home. It was produced for $3 million and went on to earn more than $89 million worldwide.
Sanchez is coming off the A&E crime series “The Glades.” Horror fans will recognize her from roles in the vampire sequel 30 Days of Night: Dark Daysand the island thriller A Perfect Getaway. The blonde stunner also recurred as actress wannabe Nikki Fernandez on ABC’s “LOST.”
“Friday Night Lights” and Legion star Adrianne Palicki joins the cast of “From Dusk Till Dawn,” a small screen re-imagining of the 1996 Robert Rodriguez film about fugitive brothers trapped by vampire strippers while on the lam in Mexico.
The 10-episode series stars D.J. Cotrona (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) and Zane Holtz (Vampires Suck) as brothers Seth and Richie Gecko. Palicki plays Vanessa Styles, a mysterious woman from Seth’s past.
The abducted Fuller family is portrayed by Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) as preacher and patriarch Jacob, Madison Davenport (Noah) as his teen daughter Kate, and Brandon Soo Hoo (Ender’s Game) as adopted son Scott.
Rounding out the cast are Don Johnson as Sheriff Earl McGraw, Jesse Garcia (“Sons of Anarchy”) as Texas Ranger Freddie Gonzales, Lane Garrison (“Prison Break”) as Benny’s World of Liquor clerk Pete, and Eiza González as Titty Twister stripper and vampire-queen Santánico Pandemonium.
A trailer has gone online for the indie Canadian thriller Dead Rivalry. Directed by Garret Henry and written by Jeremy Thornhill, the film is inspired by the crimes of serial killer Edmund Kemper, dubbed the Coed Killer after slaughtering six female hitchhikers during 1972-1973.
If that isn’t fucked up enough to whet your interest, the plot synopsis offers up a wicked twist:
Two serial killers end up in the same car on an old deserted road. Brendan, hitchhikes and kills the people who pick him up, while Winston picks up hitchhikers to torture and murder them.
Dead Rivalry stars Evan Stern, Stephen Davis, Mark Buck, Jon Ambrose, and stunner Alysa King (pictured above). Keep up with the film by following its Facebook and Twitter pages.
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.
