Posted above is the first image of French actress Melanie Thierry in Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem, an Orwellian-based sci-fi drama about a computer geek named Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), hired by a mysterious corporate figure (Matt Damon) to solve a mathematical formula that would reveal life’s meaning.
Thierry plays Bainsley, a seductress who repeatedly interrupts Qohen’s work. Unlike most first-look images that depict a character at their dullest to conceal plot points, this photo gets down to business, reminding us that behind this artsy-fartsy tale there is a hot and busty French chick in a sexy nurse uniform.
Thierry is best known for starring alongside Vin Diesel in Gothica director Mathieu Kassovitz’s 2008 sci-fi actioner Babylon A.D. She played Aurora, a genetically engineered breeder.
The Weinstein Company has released a trailer for Reliance Entertainment and IM Global’s Vampire Academy, an adaptation of Richelle Mead’s bestselling young-adult book series from Mean Girls director Mark Waters and Heathers scribe Daniel Waters.
Vampire Academy follows the relationship between 17-year-old Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) and her vampire BFF Lissa (Lucy Fry) as they attend St. Vladimir’s Academy, a school for vamps who wish to retain their humanity.
“Big Love” alumna Cassi Thomson has replaced Ashley Tisdale in Cloud Ten Pictures upcoming remake of Left Behind, a 2001 Rapture rejects thriller based on Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s bestselling Christian novel.
Thomson steps into the role of Chloe Steele, the daughter of an adulterous airline pilot (Nicolas Cage), looking for her mother and brother in a post apocalyptic world. What she doesn’t know is that the good have experienced the Rapture and are now sitting next to to God and Kirk Cameron in Heaven.
Chloe and her father have been left behind with the faithless for seven chaotic years, at the end of which they must decide whether to join Team Christ or Team Anti-Christ. According to Variety, production on the remake got underway on Friday in Baton Rouge, La.
Vic Armstrong (Army of One) directs from a script by Paul Lalonde and John Patus, writers of the original franchise. Co-stars include pop singer Jordin Sparks, Martin Klebba (Zombieland), Nicky Whelan (7500) and Chad Michael Murray (“One Tree Hill”) as Tribulation Force founder Buck Williams
The U.K. trailer for Noam Murro’s 300: Rise of an Empire, a companion film to the Zack Snyder-directed blockbuster 300, has gone online. Snyder produces and adapts the Frank Miller graphic novel with screenwriter Kurt Johnstad (300, Act of Valor).
Rise of an Empire follows Athenian general Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) as he battles Persian king Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his vengeful navy commander Artemesia (Eva Green). The events occur at the same time that King Leonidas is leading his 300 Spartans into the Battle of Thermopylae.
Dominique Swain is set to star in The Sixth Friend, an indie slasher from director Letia Clouston (“Broken Toy”) and scream queen turned writer Jamie Bernadette (Axeman at Cutter’s Creek), co-starring Jessica Morris (The Dead Want Women), Theresa June-Tao (Battle of Los Angeles) and Sadie Katz (House of Bad).
The synopsis reads:
Six best friends engage in excessive partying and drug use on the night of their college graduation. An uninvited guest commits a horrifying crime on one of the girls, and the girls seek vicious revenge on the perpetrator, which, years later, leads to disastrous results.
The Sixth Friend goes into production in October and is slated for a 2014 release.
Swain made her acting debut at the age 0f 17 in Adrian Lyne’s controversial adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and John Woo’s sci-fi actioner Face/Off. Her genre creds include mirror-witch frightener Dead Mary, the Sasha Grey pulp thriller The Girl from the Naked Eye and the awesomely bad Nazi’s at the Center of the Earth.
Scream queen Danielle Harris spoke with Mr. Skin about her successful career in horror and her one-and-only nude scene for Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake. The interview is a must-read for fans of Harris and for those hoping to see her get nekid in the movies again.
She says:
It wasn’t gratuitous. If it had been gratuitous I wouldn’t have done it. And I trusted [Rob Zombie]. I’m pretty confident anyway, and I’m not really inhibited, so for me it didn’t bother me at all.
It bothered me more that people kept wanting to talk about it after, you know like fans, that’s when it became weird, the realization that it’s not just Rob Zombie and the people on set that saw you naked, but it’s millions of people that saw you naked. That was a little bit like “Oh my god.”
So, there you have it. Stop creeping the girl out. Don’t ask her to autograph your screen capture of her nude boobs with a personalized message like “let’s go motor-boating” or “wish you were here.”
Harris got her start in horror at the age of 11 in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and returned to the franchise nine years later in Rob Zombie’s Halloween. She also starred in Zombie’s Halloween 2 and in Adam Green’s popular Hatchet series.
Harris makes her directorial debut with Among Friends, out on DVD and VOD Aug. 27.
The August issue of New York Magazine ushers in fall fashion with Black Rock actress Lake Bell on its cover and, by the looks of it, birthday suits are gonna be all the rage. Bell’s, adorned by a temporary tattoo created by her tattoo artist husband, is particularly enticing.
The pictorial is most likely meant to coincide with the release of Bell’s feature directorial debut In a World, but it serves as a better companion piece to Katie Aselton’s girls-in-peril thriller Black Rock, in which Bell goes nude with co-star Aselton.
We also think the pic posted above makes Bell look like a sexy Jedi.
Genre babe Scout Taylor-Compton tweeted this week that October would finally see the release of 7500, a ghosts-on-a-plane thriller from Japanese director Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge) and screenwriter Craig Rosenberg (“LOST”).
Compton tweeted:
7500 hits theaters in October! Good day for news.
7500 follows a group of passengers faced with paranormal events after a passenger dies mysteriously on Vista Pacific Flight 7500.
Anchor Bay and Cinetel Films’ have released a second trailer for I Spit On Your Grave 2, a sequel to Steven R. Monroe’s 2010 remake of the controversial 1978 Meir Zarchi rape-revenge thriller. Monroe helms the film, scripted by Thomas Fenton (Saw IV, Chain Letter) and Neil Elman (Mongolian Death Worm).
I Spit On Your Grave 2 stars Jemma Dallender (”Hollyoaks”) as an aspiring model lured to a photo shoot in New York to be raped, tortured and taken to a foreign country where she endures more horrors before being buried alive and left to dead.
The new trailer continues to focus on the penis-friendly portion of the film, which means a ball-chopping trailer can’t be far behind. I Spit On Your Grave 2 will play Los Angeles on Sept. 20 and hit DVD, Blu-ray and VOD on Oct. 7.
Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man) is set to star in Warner Bros’ Midnight Special, a sci-fi drama written and directed by Jeff Nichols (Mud) that finds a father and his eight-year-old son on the run when they discover that the boy has special powers.
Dunst joins a cast that includes Michael Shannon (Man of Steel) and Joel Edgerton (The Thing). Details over the role she plays remain under wraps, but Deadline reports the part as being that of female lead.
Dunst is coming off Lars Von Trier’s apocalyptic thriller Melancholia and Juan Diego Solanas’ sci-fi romancer Upside Down. Her genre creds include Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, The Crow: Salvation, Joe Johnston’s Jumanji and Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire, in which she played child vamp Claudia.
