Lionsgate has released the first trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The clip finds Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss embarking on her “Victor’s Tour” after winning Panem’s 74th annual Hunger Games. It also hints at the upcoming Quarter Quell games which will pit her against past winners in a new tournament of death.
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. It opens in theaters on Nov. 22.
“Arrow” star Katie Cassidy posed in swimwear for Canadian publication Sharp For Men. While any opportunity to see Cassidy in some stage of undress is appreciated, if this layout was truly “for men” the vintage swimsuits would have given way to Wicked Weasel bikinis and micro-slings.
But, nice try Canada.
Cassidy, daughter of ’70s teen idol David Cassidy, has starred in a string of notable genre projects including Platinum Dunes’ A Nightmare On Elm Street, Dimension’s Black Christmas, Screen Gems’ When a Stranger Calls and the short-lived CBS mystery series “Harper’s Island.”
Cassidy currently stars as Dinah “Laurel” Lance, aka Black Canary, on The CW’s “Arrow,” an adaptation of DC Comics’ “Green Arrow,” starring Stephen Amell as the vigilante superhero. She is also featured on Clatto’s esteemed list of The Hottest Women Working in Horror.
Anchor Bay has released a red band trailer 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.
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 on May 10 will play selected theaters in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia, Miami, Boston, Detroit, Houston and Baltimore.
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.
