Anchor Bay has set a May 10 release date for WWE Studios and Pathe UK’s No One Lives, an abduction thriller directed by Ryuhei Kitamura (Midnight Meat Train) and starring Adelaide Clemens (Silent Hill: Revelations), Lindsay Shaw (”Pretty Little Liars”), Laura Ramsey (The Ruins) and America Olivo (pictured).
The story follows a young couple as they’re abducted by a criminal gang and taken to an abandoned and secluded house where one of them is murdered, sparking the other to hunt down the captors and brutally slaughter them.
No One Lives also stars vagina-less actors Luke Evans (The Raven), Lee Tergesen (The Collection), Beau Knapp (Super 8), Derek Magyar (Train) and WWE wrestler Brodus Clay. Anchor Bay picked up rights to the thriller at last year’s American Film Market.
No One Lives will play selected theaters in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia, Miami, Boston, Detroit, Houston and Baltimore.
Vineyard Haven’s Lucky Bastard is now playing a week-long engagement at Los Feliz 3 Cinemas in Los Angeles. The NC-17 rated film is a found-footage thriller set in the world of internet porn, and marks the directorial debut of veteran TV writer Robert Nathan (“Law & Order”).
Betsy Rue toplines as single mom turned adult star Ashley Saint, a performer caught at the center of a porn mope’s revenge plot after he is humiliated for ejaculating prematurely on the Lucky Bastard website, a pro-am site that pairs fans with their favorite starlets.
Rue is best known, of course, for her heart-stopping turn in 2009’s My Bloody Valentine remake, in which she attempts to escape a crazed killer while nude and in heels. She’ll next be seen opposite Taryn Manning in the psycho-bitch thriller Groupie.
MGM and Sony Screen Gems have released the first full-length trailer for Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce’sadaptation of Carrie, Stephen King’s 1974 novel first brought to the big screen by Brian De Palma in 1976.
Chloe Grace Moretz (Let Me In) stars as Carrie, a telekinetic teen tormented by high school bullies and her crazy Christian mother (Julianne Moore). The trailer provides a peek at Carrie as she goes from mousey geek to mutant avenger.
Co-stars include Judy Greer (”Californication”) as gym teacher Miss Desjardin, Portia Doubleday (Youth in Revolt) as Chris Hargenson, Gabriella Wilde (Three Musketeers) as Sue Snell and Alex Russell (Chronicle) as Billy Nolan.
Fifty women made to fight without pillows, mud or Jell-O? As unnatural as that may seem, so goes the premise behind Josh C. Waller’s directorial debut Raze: Fight or Die. Stunner Rachel Nichols and Zoe Bell topline the thriller, making its world premiere at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.
Described by producers as a cross between Fight Club and Hostel, the film’s story finds 50 abducted women fighting against each other to the death for the amusement of rich and sadistic people.
Costars include hotties Rebecca Marshall (Saw 3-D), Nicole Steinwedell (”The Unit”), Adrienne Wilkinson (”Xena: Warrior Princess”), Tara Macken (”Sons of Anarchy”), Amy Johnston, Victoria Cruz (Reach), Brianna Gage (”Bri What”), Bailey Borders (The Change-Up) and Allene Quincy.
And, suddenly, the actress in the dark suit realized that the money spent on acting classes could have gone to better use.
Addison Timlin (“Californication”) is set to topline The Town That Dreaded Sundown, a Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum produced remake of the 1976 cult film based on the true story of the 1946 Moonlight Murders, a series of homicides committed by the Phantom Killer in the Texas/Arizona border town of Texarkana.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown follows a copycat killer mimicking the murders of the original film during its annual screening at Texarkana. According to Deadline, Timlin will star as Jami, a survivor whose own history holds clues to figuring out who’s behind the grisly murders.
Timlin is best known for toplessly playing actress Sasha Bingham on Showtime’s “Californication.” The 21-year-old stunner will next be seen as Stormy Llewellyn in director Stephen Sommers big screen adaptation of horror author Dean Koontz’s bestselling novel “Odd Thomas.”
If you had 12-hours to kill, rob, rape and torture and/or illegally download movies and music without fear of consequence, would that really be enough time? So is the premise behind Universal Pictures’ The Purge in which… oh, wait, this is actually some kind of sociopolitical thriller meant to teach us a moral lesson.
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The Purge is a government sanctioned 12-hour night during which all fun criminal activity is permissible by law. Ethan Hawk and Lena Headey (pictured) star as parents on home lock down, caught in an ethical dilemma when their bleeding heart daughter provides shelter to a man wanted dead by crazed hooligans.
Production has wrapped on writer and director Brett Piper’s (Arachnia) new creature feature Queen Crab, starring people named Michelle Simone Miller, Kathryn Metz, A.J. DeLucia and sexy up-and-comer Danielle Donahue (pictured), aka the reason to watch a movie about a giant crustacean.
OK… watching a gargantuan crab rip people apart and tear shit down via old-school stop-motion may actually be reason enough to catch Queen Crab. No word on distribution yet, but updates can be found on Piper’s Facebook page.
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have released a full-length trailer for SAW and Insidious director James Wan’s The Conjuring, starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as real-life married demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, best known for their work on the infamous Amityville Horror case of 1975.
Written by Chad and Carey Hayes (Whiteout), the story—based on true events—follows the horrifying ordeal faced by the Perron family in 1970 after moving into a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse. The film co-stars Ron Livingston (Office Space) and Lili Taylor (The Haunting) as the Perrons.
The apocalypse is going to terrible for all of us, but it will be worse for those who live a life of privilege and cocaine. Columbia Pictures has released a new red band trailer for Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s This Is the End, an end-of-days comedy set during a James Franco party.
Starring along with Franco are Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson. Also caught in the mayhem are Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mindy Kaling, pop star Rhianna and Harry Potter’s Emma Watson in a very funny cameo.
A&E is looking to order to series Imagine Television and Fox 21’s “Those Who Kill,” a serial killer pilot directed by Joe Carnahan (The Grey) and starring Chloe Sevigny (“American Horror Story: Asylum”) and James D’Arcy (Hitchcock).
“Those Who Kill” follows police detective Catherine Jensen (Sevigny) and forensics profiler Thomas Schaffer (D’Arcy) as they track down vicious serial killers. The show is an adaptation of a Danish crime series based on Elsebeth Egholm’s books.
Sevigny is coming off a memorable arch on Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story: Asylum.” Previous creds include David Fincher’s Zodiac, Jonathan Liebesman’s The Killing Room and Mary Harron’s big screen adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho.
