Twentieth Century Fox has released the first trailer for director Thor Freudenthal’s Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, a sequel to 2010’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief, both adaptations of Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” book series..
Sea of Monsters finds Percy battling evils from the deep while in search for a mythical Golden Fleece. The film stars Logan Lerman as Percy, Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, Jake Abel as Luke Castellan, son of Hermes and Booker T. Washington as Percy’s friend Grover.
New faces include Nathan Fillion (”Firefly,” “Castle”) as Hermes, Anthony Head (The Host) as teacher Chiron and Leven Rambin (Hunger Games) as Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares, the God of War. The film arrives in theaters on Aug. 16.
CBS has shot a behind-the-scenes featurette for its upcoming 13-episode miniseries “Under the Dome.” Produced by Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, the show is based on King’s post-apocalyptic novel of the same name and premieres June 24.
“Under the Dome” follows the havoc caused by a mysterious force field that drops over the small New England town of Chester Mill. The miniseries is directed by Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and is currently shooting in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Cast includes Brittany Robertson (”Secret Circle”), Aisha Hinds (”True Blood”), Natalie Martinez (”CSI: New York”), Rachelle Lefevre (Twilight), Collin Ford (”Supernatural”), Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) and Dean Norris (”Breaking Bad”).
Spanish soap star Angelica Celaya is starring in Origin Releasing’s recently acquired horror-western Cowboys vs. Vampires, slated for home release this spring.
Written and directed by Douglas Myers, the film follows a theme park cowboy as he discovers that the park’s new Halloween event is being run by vampires.
Celaya made her English language debut last year on USA’s ongoing hit private eye series “Burn Notice.” She is best known for starring in the popular international soaps “Gabriel” and “Perro Amor.”
Cowboys vs. Vampires co-stars Jasen Wade (Amber Alert), Emily Pelzer (Is This a Date?) and Shannon Whirry (“Mike Hammer, Private Eye”).
Magnet Releasing’s erotic vampire drama Kiss of the Damned is now available on VOD and will play selected theaters on May 3. A featurette for the film has gone online and includes interviews with director Xan Cassavetes and stars Milo Ventimiglia (“Heroes”) and Roxane Mesquida (Rubber).
Kiss of the Damned tells the story of a beautiful vampire (La Baume) that falls in love with a human screenwriter (Ventimiglia). Their relationship is soon exposed and threatened, however, when her sexy and dangerous sister (Mesquida) unexpectedly pays her a visit.
Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle… perennial rom-com co-star Judy Greer is set to play female chimp Cornelia in Twentieth Century Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the first sequel to its 2011 blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
For so long I haven’t been able to say anything about it, so this is exciting! It’s a very different kind of work than I’m used to. I’m not going to be wearing Manolo Blahniks in this one.
Well at least she isn’t playing the monkey bride’s goofy BFF.
Greer will wear a motion-capture suit to play Cornelia, love interest to ape leader Caesar seen briefly in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. She joins co-stars Keri Russell (Dark Skies), Gary Oldman (Dark Knight), Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Kodi-Smit McPhee (Let Me In) and Andy Serkis (The Hobbit).
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a post apocalyptic story set a decade after the director Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 reboot. The sequel is directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) and co-written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes).
Lionsgate has released the first official trailer to director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett’s (A Horrible Place to Die) eagerly anticipated home-invasion frightener You’re Next, starring Aussie newcomer Sharni Vinson in her most terrifying role since Step Up 3-D.
You’re Next follows the Davison family as they’re attacked in their vacation home by a group of sadistic murderers armed with an array of shit-that’s-gonna-hurt-tools. The family’s only hope lies in their eldest son’s super-hot girlfriend (Vinson) whose mysterious past has made her hard to kill like Steven Seagal.
Costars include Wendy Glenn (11-11-11), Amy Seimetz (Bitter Feast), Nick Tucci (Undocumented), AJ Bowen (The Signal), Joe Swanberg (Horrible Way to Die), indie horror directors Ti West (The Innkeepers) and Calvin Reeder (The Oregonian), and old-school scream queen Barbara Crampton.
“House” fans lusting over Karolina Wydra may finally get a shot at seeing her nude. The Polish stunner is set to star on the sixth season of HBO’s vampire soap “True Blood.” She joins newcomers Rutger Hauer (The Hitcher), Arliss Howard (“Rubicon”), Jurnee Smollett-Bell (“Friday Night Lights”) and Amelia Rose Blaire (“90210”).
TVLine reports that Wydra will play a dangerous and sexy vampire named Violet, who is as powerful as Eric Northman (Alex Skarsgård) and Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer). No word, of course, if Wydra goes nude for the part, but the show is known for its frivolous nudity and Wydra is a European model so if my Algebra is correct… x = boobs.
Wydra is best known for her role on Fox’s medical drama “House,”playing Ukraine transplant Dominika Petrova, the massage therapist that agrees to marry Dr. Gregory House to score a green card, but ends up falling for him.
“True Blood’s” new season is slated to premiere June 16.
Kate Mara (“American Horror Story”) is set to join Rebecca Hall (Iron Man 3) in Academy Award-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister’s directorial debut Transcendence, a sci-fi thriller starring Johnny Deppas a man who uploads his brain into a super computer that learns to think for itself.
Transcendence shoots in Los Angeles next month and is slated for release on April 25, 2014 from Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Geek messiah Christopher Nolan (Dark Knight Rises) serves as executive producer.
Mara made her horror movie debut in 2005’s Urban Legends: Bloody Mary. She’s since starred in mostly non-genre fair with the exceptions of Iron Man 2 and 127 Hours. Mara is best known, however, for her role on season one of Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story.”
Production has begun in Vancouver on “Human,” a sci-fi cop show pilot from J.J. Abrams (“LOST”) and J.H. Wyman (“Fringe”), starring Minka Kelly (The Roommate) and Karl Urban (Dredd) as LAPD officers working with android partners.
According to The Wrap, Kelly is playing Valerie Stahl, a uniformed cop with good morals and a puppy dogs and ice cream outlook on life. Urban co-stars as John Kennex, an embittered veteran officer critically injured during a mission gone wrong.
Kelly is coming off the failed ABC reboot series “Charlie’s Angeles.” She is best known for playing cheerleader Lyla Garrity on “Friday Night Lights” and for her leading role in Screen Gems’ psycho-bitch thriller The Roommate.
“Guiding Light” and “One Tree Hill” star Bethany Joy Lenz will be a recurring on season eight of Showtime’s “Dexter.” She joins new faces Rhys Coiro (Straw Dogs), Nick Gomez (Looper), old-people actress Charlotte Rampling (Melancholia) and Sean Patrick Flanery (SAW: The Final Chapter).
TV Guide reports that Lenz will play a sexy former finance executive named Cassie, looking for peace and quiet in Dexter’s neighborhood. The character will be introduced in the fourth episode of show’s supposed final season.
Lenz has not starred in a horror project since 1996’s Thinner, a crappy adaptation of the awesome Stephen King novel in which a fat man is cursed to die slowly through weight loss by a gypsy for running over and killing his daughter with his car while getting blown by his wife.
