Retromedia Entertainment and Synthetic Filmwerx have released a trailer for After Midnight, a supernatural stripper mystery from director Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers), starring Catherine Annette (Lucky Bastard), Jeneta St. Clair (pictured), Tawny Kitaen (“Celebrity Rehab”) and Richard Grieco.
After Midnight follows a television newscaster (Annette) as she goes undercover as a stripper at the downtown nudie bar where her sister (St. Clair) was shot to death. Things get strange when—much like Grieco—the dead lapdancer continues to pop up when least expected.
I have known for what seems like FOREVER and have been busting to tell people. I was very excited to have been asked back!
[Hannah] is coming back to shake things up for Dexter a little… just to add to the turmoil.
Hannah McKay became romantically involved with Dexter Morgan after learning about his Dark Passenger in an almost fatal manner. By the season’s finale, she had been arrested for the murder of a true crime author out to expose her, but faked a seizure at the courthouse to escape from going to prison.
Strahovski, best known for her role as CIA agent Sarah Walker on the NBC comedy “Chuck,” will next be seen in Lakeshore Entertainment’s I, Frankenstein, a futuristic re-imagining of Mary Shelly’s classic novel adapted from Kevin Grevioux’s (”Underworld”) graphic comic.
Academy Award-winner Anne Hathaway is set to close a deal that will find her starring opposite Matthew McConaughey in Christopher Nolan’s new time travel drama Interstellar. Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. are co-producing the film, written by Nolan and his brother Jonathan.
No information has been officially released about the film or the roles Hathaway and McConaughey play, but Deadline reports that it will “depict a heroic interstellar voyage to the farthest borders of our scientific understanding.”
Interstellar will mark Hathaway’s first project since winning an Oscar this year for her performance of wretched hooker Fantine in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables. The film reunites her with Nolan, for whom she played Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises.
TriStar Pictures and Media Rights Capital have released the first official trailer for Elysium, director Neil Blomkamp’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed 2009 feature film debut District 9. The film stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, William Fichtner, Diego Luna, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga and Ona Grauer.
Set in the year 2159, Elysium is a man-made space station where the wealthy live prosperous, crime and disease free lives far above the earth, where the poor are left to die in squalor. In dire need of medical care, working-man Max (Damon) sets out to infiltrate Elysium and overthrow Secretary Delacourt (Foster).
Geek goddess Olivia Munn (“The Newsroom”) will join Eric Bana (Star Trek) an Edgar Ramirez (Wrath of the Titans) in Beware the Night, an exorcism drama from Jerry Bruckheimer Films, co-written and directed by Scott Derrickson (Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose).
Beware the Night follows an Irish Catholic cop (Bana) working with a rogue priest (Ramirez) on a case that may be demonic in nature. Munn plays the cop’s insanely hot wife, who is also linked to the case. Shooting will begin in the Bronx on May 20. Screen Gems is looking at the project as a potential franchise.
Bruckheimer tells Deadline:
Beware The Night is a project we’ve been developing for many years, confident that a story which combines the paranormal with a gritty New York City police story is both original and strongly appealing to audiences.
We’re also thrilled to have Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, and Olivia Munn, three really fine actors whose strongly defined roles in Beware The Night will allow them to give full range to their skills.
British actress Kaya Scodelario (“Skins”) has scored the female lead in director Wes Ball’s adaptation of James Dashner’s young adult novel “The Maze Runner.” Set in a dystopian future, the story follows a group of teenage boys stuck in the Glade, a mysterious space where they must survive a shifting maze.
Scodelario will play Teresa, the first girl to ever arrive at the Glade. Unfortunately for the boys who believe their wet dreams have been answered, Teresa reveals that she is the last to be sent to the Glade and quickly falls into a coma.
Earlier this week, Scodelario tweeted that she was excited to be a part of the film and assured Maze Runner fans that Ball is “seriously a don/dude/legend/hero/good-bloke… your movie is in very safe hands.”
Scodelariois best known for her portrayal of socially awkward high school student Effy Stonem on the British teen series “Skins.” Her genre creds include roles in Duncan Jones’ critic’s darling Moon and the Legendary Pictures’ blockbuster Clash of the Titans.
Posted above is the first image from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ 300: Rise of an Empire, a companion film to the Zack Snyder-directed blockbuster 300. The shot provides a peek at an at-sea battle sequence, one of six fight scenes featured in the fantasy-actioner directed by Noam Murro (Smart People).
[Rise of an Empire] happens over time in many different locations. The opportunities for the six distinct battles are even greater with different locations and tactics.
The few against the many is still here. It’s hundreds vs. hundreds of thousands. It’s about taking on the mightiest power of all with wisdom and tactics.
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.
Murro adds:
Themistokles is battle-scarred and a warrior, but at the same time he’s a politician. He’s not the king. He has to rule in a democracy. It’s a different complexity of character.
These people don’t want to fight, they even say that they are not Spartans. They are common people who have to do this to not be in under the rule of a dictator.
This is not a duplicate movie or a cookie-cutter. It’s a very different story to tell in keeping with the original flavor of 300.
Rise of an Empire is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel and is adapted for the screen by Kurt Johnstad (300, Act of Valor) and Snyder, who also serves as producer. It arrives in theaters on Aug. 2.
Universal Pictures is set to release Jurassic Park IVon June 13, 2014. Paleontologist Jack Horner, the inspiration behind the trilogy’s Dr. Alan Grant character (Sam Neil), returns to the franchise as technical adviser.
While promoting the 3D re-release of Jurassic Park, Horner told USA Today that a new and never-seen-before dinosaur will be at the center of the sequel’s story.
He tells the site:
I can’t actually tell you who that will be. But you’ll want to keep the lights on after you see this movie.
Safety Not Guaranteed director Colin Trevorrow will helm the Steven Spielberg-produced 3D sequel, the first entry in the series since 2001’s Jurassic Park 3. The franchise has earned more than $2 billion worldwide.
Illuminati Films and Eros International have released a trailer for India’s first zombie comedy Go Goa Gone. Written and directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, the Hindi-language “zom-com” stars Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Vir Das and Miss India Universe 2007 Puja Gupta (pictured).
Go Goa Gone follows a group of vacationing friends as they attempt to survive an undead outbreak with the help of a mysterious zombie slayer. The film premieres in India on May 10. The trailer’s popularity on YouTube (just under 2.5 million views in 2 weeks) should help secure its distribution worldwide.
A very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story. It will allow me to play with the conventions of the genre I know and love, and at the same time subvert the old rules.
Crimson Peak is co-written by Del Toro and Matthew Robbins (Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Mimic) and produced by Legendary Pictures. Cameras are slated to roll in January 2014. Warner Bros. is expected to distribute.
Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. will also release Del Toro’s mecha-inspired robot movie Pacific Rim (starring Hunnam) on July 12.
