Lionsgate premiered at SDCC today its first full-length trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The sequel finds Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) embarking on her “Victor’s Tour” after winning Panem’s 74th annual Hunger Games, and prepping for the Quarter Quell games which will pit her against past winners.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) and co-stars Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Sam Claflin, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Jena Malone, Amanda Plummer and Elizabeth Banks.
A 30-second clip showcasing Michelle Rodriguez as rebel leader Shé in Robert Rodriguez’s star-studded sequel Machete Kills has gone online. The footage finds Rodriguez talking tacos, shooting a massive weapon and getting jiggly in a tight vest and booty shorts.
Machete Kills finds ex-federale Machete (Danny Trejo) recruited by the U.S. government to take down Mexico’s biggest drug cartel leader (Demián Bichir). The Open Road and Quickdraw Productions’ film swings into theaters on Oct. 4.
Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment announced today at SDCC that pre-production has begun on a new superhero movie that will bring DC icons Superman and Batman together onscreen for the first time. Man of Steel director Zack Snyder is attached to helm the project from a script by David S. Goyer.
DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson said:
Superman and Batman together on the big screen is a dream come true for DC fans everywhere. All of us at DC Entertainment could not be more excited for Zack’s continuing vision for the DC Universe.
The new film will have Man of Steel actors Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane reprising their roles. Batman will be played by Ben Affleck, steps in for Christian Bale, who played the Caped Crusader in Warner Bros. recent Dark Knight trilogy, but opted out of playing the role in future projects.
Zack Snyder said:
I’m so excited to begin working again with Henry Cavill in the world we created, and I can’t wait to expand the DC Universe in this next chapter. Let’s face it, it’s beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off, since they are the greatest Super Heroes in the world.
Production on the Superman/Batman film is slated to begin in 2014 for a summer 2015 release.
Picturehouse is set to release Metallica Through the Never in IMAX 3D on Sept. 27 and expand it into theaters everywhere on Oct. 4. A full-length trailer for the Nimród Antal-directed film—a mix of concert film and narrative feature—was debuted at SDCC .
Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) toplines the film as a Metallica roadie sent to recover a mysterious item for the band in the midst of a sold-out show. An automobile accident strands him on the city streets where a violent and massive riot has broken out. Making matters worse: a horseman is out to kill him.
Universal Pictures premiered today at Comic-Con a new extended red band trailer for Kick Ass 2, the Jeff Wadlow-directed sequel to Matthew Vaughn’s 2010 original about misfit costumed crime fighters with no special powers.
Reprising their Kick Ass roles in the sequel are Chloe Grace Moretz as Hit Girl, Clark Duke as Marty/Battle Guy, Christopher Mintz-Plasse s Red Mist/Mother Fucker and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Kick Ass.
New faces include Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes, John Leguizamo (The Happening) as Javier, Donald Faison (“Scrubs”) as Dr. Gravity, Morris Chestnut (The Call) as Sergeant Marcus Williams, Russian bodybuilder Olga Kurkulina as Mother Russia and sexy redhead Lindy Booth (Wrong Turn) as Night Bitch.
I’m rooting for this sequel, but the extended trailer makes Vaughn’s absence behind the camera pretty notable.
AMC has set an Oct. 13 premiere date for season four of its zombie drama “The Walking Dead.” A four-minute-plus trailer played Comic-Con this afternoon during the show’s panel which included “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman, showrunner Scott Gimple and cast members Andrew Lincoln (Rick), Norman Reedus (Daryl), Danai Gurrira (Michonne), Steven Yeun (Glenn), Lauren Cohan (Maggie) and more.
Kirkman described the new season:
The world is getting worse, the people are getting more ragged and it’s gonna keep progressing if you can believe it.
Universal Pictures premiered today at Comic-Con the red band trailer for Vin Diesel’s Riddick, the third entry in the David Twohy directed sci-fi franchise that includes 2000’s Pitch Black and 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick.
In theaters Sept. 6, the new sequel finds Riddick teaming up with the mercenaries hunting him down on a desert planet to fight against its alien creatures. “Battlestar Galactica’s” Katee Sackhoff plays one of the Nordic mercs eager to catch Riddick.
Action star and former MMA fighter Gina Carano is teaming up with “Avengelyne” creator Rob Liefeld to produce a film adaptation of the 1995 comic for Carano to topline as the fallen angel cast to battle demons on earth as punishment for questioning God’s love of humans and because he’s kind of a stinker that way.
According to THR, the project will be in the vein of Sony Screen Gems’ Underworld franchise, starring Kate Beckinsale. Carano and Liefeld are set to look for a writer or a writer-director next week.
Carano made her acting debut in Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded 2011 action-drama Haywire. She co-stars alongside Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez in this year’s Fast & Furious 6 and will next be seen in Turistas director John Stockwell’s island-terror thriller In the Blood.
Anchor Bay and Cinetel Films’ have released a 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 returns to helm the project, scripted by Chain Letter scribe Thomas Fenton.
Newcomer Jemma Dallender (“Hollyoaks”) toplines the film as an aspiring model lured to a photo shoot in New York only to be raped, tortured and taken to a foreign country where she endures more horrors before being buried alive and left to die.
I Spit On Your Grave 2 will play Los Angeles on Sept. 20 and hit DVD, Blu-ray and VOD on Sept. 24.
Monroe’s I Spit On Your Grave starred newcomer Sarah Butler as Jennifer Hill, a young novelist on a mission to maim, dismember, and murder the men who brutally and repeatedly raped her while on holiday in the woods. The film grossed just under $100,000 in its limited theatrical run, but was a hit on home video.
Anchor Bay Films premiered on Fandango today the first trailer for Nothing Left to Fear, a demonic thriller directed by Anthony Leonardi III for Slasher Films, the start-up genre studio founded by Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash.
Nothing Left to Fear (previously titled Nothing to Fear) is the story of a pastor who moves his family to Stull, Kansas, one of the seven known gateways to hell. The film is based on actual town folklore that claims the devil rises once every year from the local graveyard to walk the earth and demand sacrifice.
