Dimension Films and Blumhouse Productions have released a trailer for director Scott Charles Stewart’s (Priest) upcoming alien abduction thriller Dark Skies, starring Keri Russell (“Felecity”), Josh Hamilton (“Third Watch”) and kid actors Dakota Goyo and L.J. Benet.
Russell and Hamilton play parents who, after a series of horrifying and unexplained occurrences, come to believe that aliens have targeted their youngest son for abduction. I caught a screening of this film last month and can honestly say it’s one of the creepiest alien abduction thrillers of all time.
A new trailer for Bryan Singer’s (X-Men) 3-D fantasy-adventure Jack the Giant Slayer has gone online. The Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures production is a dark re-imagining of the classic “Jack and the Beanstalk” fable.
Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies) plays Jack, the young farmhand who inadvertently opens a gateway to a world of giants eager to take control of the earth. Eleanor Tomlinson (Alice in Wonderland) is the runaway princess he falls for and must rescue from the behemoths.
Jack the Giant Slayer arrives in theaters on March 1. 2013.
Posted above is the first image from A&E’s “Bates Motel,” a prequel series to Hitchcock’s Psycho from Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin (”Friday Night Lights”). The photo captures a young Norman Bates hanging out in front of the iconic Psycho house with his very MILFy mother Norma Louise.
“Bates Motel” follows Norman from childhood through adolescence and examines how his twisted relationship with his overbearing mother shaped him into a psycho killer. The series stars Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Norman and Vera Farmiga (Source Code) as Norma Louise.
Costars include Nestor Carbonell (“LOST”) as the sinister sheriff Royce Romero, Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) as sadistic deputy Zach Shelby and Keegan Connor Tracy as as Norman’s teacher and adviser Miss Watson.
“Bates Motel” is currently shooting in Vancouver and is slated to premiere on A&E in 2013.
My Girl and “Veep” star Anna Chlumsky will guest star on NBC’s “Hannibal,” an hour-long crime drama chronicling the early days of Hannibal Lecter, the notorious cannibal/serial killer first introduced in the Thomas Harris novels “Red Dragon” and “Silence of the Lambs.”
Chlumsky will play FBI trainee Miriam Lass. She joins a cast that includes Lawrence Fishburne as Jack Crawford, Hugh Dancy as FBI agent Will Graham, Aaron Abrams as forensic investigator Brian Zeller, Caroline Dhavernas as profiler Dr. Alana Bloom and Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
“Hannibal” is written by Bryan Fuller, creator of the ABC Emmy Award-winning series “Pushing Daisies” and Showtime’s highly underrated “Dead Like Me.”
Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson are set to reprise their roles as tormented parents Renai and Josh Lambert in FilmDistrict’s eagerly anticipated sequel Insidious: Chapter 2. James Wan is once again attached to direct with Leigh Whannell writing and Jason Blum producing through his Blumhouse Productions.
Plot details are currently hush-hush, but THR is reporting that production on the film will begin on Jan. 15 in Los Angeles for an Aug. 30 release.
Insidious, about a young married couple attempting to save their comatose son from demonic possession, was produced for $1.5 million and earned more than $97 million at the box office, making it the most profitable film of 2011.
Megan Fox was the guest star on Saturday night’s episode of the TBS comedy series “Wedding Band.” The show, about four musician friends who perform at weddings, is toplined by Fox’s husband and “Beverly Hills 90210” alum Brian Austin Green.
Fox played an actress on an immensely popular sci-fi show titled “Nebutopia” that is set to end its six-year run. While having sex with Green’s character, she blurts out how the series will end. Green inadvertently leaks the info and immediately becomes the target of angry bloggers and sci-fi fans.
It’s then up to Fox to save Green from geek-terrorism by appealing to the webmaster of “Nebutopia’s” biggest fan site. Things turn out for the best and Fox celebrates by tossing Green’s salad… yup, you read that.
Laura Allen (“Awake,” “Terriers”) has joined producer Eli Roth’s, a creepy—and funny—frightener from newcomer Jon Watts about a father (Andy Powers) consumed by the clown costume he wears at his young son’s birthday party when the hired talent doesn’t show.
Allen plays the wife of the good-intentioned, but doomed dad. Production on the film is currently underway in Ottowa, Canada.
Watts and producing partner C.D. Ford first shot Clown as a faux trailer for a fake Eli Roth movie. The short caught Roth’s attention and the rest is the kind of Hollywood fairytale that pisses the fuck out of the broke and struggling screenwriters using the free wifi at Starbucks.
Screen Gems has released a trailer for its adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, the first book in her bestselling young-adult series about a teen who discovers her demon-slaying skills while attempting to rescue her mother from an evil entity.
The film is directed by Agent Cody Banks and Karate Kid 2010 director Harald Zwart and stars Lily Collins (Phil Collin’s daughter) as protagonist Clary Fray.
Costars include Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“The Tudors”), Kevin Zegers (Frozen), Jamie Campbell Bower (Twilight: Breaking Dawn), Robert Sheehan (Season of the Witch) and Kevin Durand (“LOST”).
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones arrives in theaters on Aug. 23, 2013.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for “Dr. Who” fans. A trailer for the show’s Christmas special “The Snowmen” has gone online. Star Matt Smith and series newcomer Jenna-Louise Coleman (pictured above) provide an introduction sure to make “Dr. Who” enthusiasts merry.
The episode is written by executive producer Steve Moffat and costars Neve McIntosh as Silurian Madame Vastra and Catrin Stewart as her sidekick Jenny (I don’t know who any of these people are). “Snowmen” airs on Christmas Day on BBC America.
CBS Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to StudioCanal’s The Last Exorcism Part II, an R-rated sequel to producer Eli Roth’s 2010 sleeper hit about a priest who encounters a real demon-possessed soul while shooting a documentary meant to debunk exorcisms.
Slated for release March 1, The Last Exorcism Part II picks up immediately after the events of the original film and finds lead Ashley Bell reprising her role as the possessed Nell Sweetzer. Ed Gass-Donnelly (This Beautiful City) directs the project from a script he co-wrote with Damien Chazelle (Grand Piano).
The Last Exorcism was produced for less than $2 million and went on to earn more than $65 million worldwide.
