Raven Banner has released a teaser for director Michael Ojeda’s gruesome rape/revenge thriller Savaged, starring Rodney Rowland (“Veronica Mars”), Kyle Morris (Age of the Hobbits), Ronnie Gene Blevins (Seven Psychopaths) and up-and-comer Amanda Adrienne as victim-turned-ass-kicker Zoe.
The savaging begins when deaf/mute backpacker Zoe stumbles upon a group of Hick Americans killing two Native American boys, and attempts to save one of them. Zoe is caught and completely Jodie Fostered by the rednecks. An Indian shaman discovers her dying body and performs a ritual to revive her.
Unfortunately for the murdering rapists, an ancient and very vengeful Apache warrior spirit possesses Zoe and sets her on her way to hunt and slaughter them one-by-one in horrific, brutally violent ways to punish male viewers for getting off to the first half of this movie.
Summit Entertainment’s Warm Bodies is a romantic comedy adapted from Isaac Marion’s debut novel about the unlikely love affair that develops between a zombie (Nicholas Hoult) and the girlfriend (Teresa Palmer) of one of his victims.
The film is written and directed by Jonathan Levine (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) and costars John Malkovich (Jonah Hex), Dave Franco (”Scrubs”), Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield) and model-turned-actress Analeigh Tipton (”Hung”).
Gotta say… this looks pretty damn funny. Come Feb. 1, I will be at the theater giggling like the school girls seated next to me. I already picked out my panties.
British actress Elizabeth Henstridge is set to join Joss Whedon and Marvel Entertainment’s eagerly anticipated ABC series “S.H.I.E.L.D.” The show is based on the secret military agency run by Nick Fury in the Marvel Comics Universe.
According to THR, Henstridge will play science Agent Gemma Simmons, a science expert with the team. She joins Ming-Na Wen as weapons expert Melinda May, Iain De Caestecker as tech-guru Leo Fitz and The Avengers’ Clark Gregg reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson.
Whedon will direct the “S.H.I.E.L.D” pilot from a script co-written by Whedon, his brother Jed Whedon and Jed’s wife Maurissa Tancharoen. If picked up to series, the show will premiere in the fall of 2013 and be cancelled one season or two later as is the case with most Whedon programs not centered on vampires (kidding! This ain’t FOX).
Open Road has released the first full-length trailer for Andrew Niccol’s (Gattaca, In Time) adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s tween sci-fi novel “The Host.” The film stars 18-year-old Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons (Red Riding Hood), Jake Abel (I Am Number Four), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) and old-people actor William Hurt.
The Host centers on an alien invasion of human minds. Melanie Stryder (Ronan) is a young woman whose thoughts of love confuse her would-be extraterrestrial body-snatcher, making it difficult to seize control of her thoughts and keep one’s lunch.
Production has begun on director Mark Hartley’s (Machete Maidens Unleashed) remake of Richard Franklin’s (Psycho 2, Cloak & Dagger) 1978 Australian frightener Patrick, starring Sharni Vinson (You’re Next), Rachel Griffiths (“Six Feet Under”) and Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”).
Patrick is the story of a man who falls into a comatose state after murdering his mother and her lover three years prior. When a beautiful nurse (Vinson) is assigned to his care, he uses psychokinetic powers to communicate with her and to destroy those who get in the way of his new found obsession.
Vinson (pictured above) is coming off Anchor Bay’s killer shark flick Bait 3-D and will next be seen in Lionsgate’s violent home-invasion thriller You’re Next, directed by Adam Wingard’s (A Horrible Place to Die).
Anne Hathaway is set to star in Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse, an adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s novel about an artificial intelligence called Archos that takes control of all machines and Terminator Skynet 2001: Space Odyssey War Games I, Robot.
Hathaway tells Empire Online:
If Robopocalypse happens I will be in it, and I believe it’s quite real, though you never want to hang your hat on anything.
Unless its a hat rack. You can hang your hat on a hat rack.
Hathaway, who was handpicked by Spielberg to play the film’s female lead, joins a cast that includes Chris Hemsworth (Avengers), Ben Whishaw (Cloud Atlas) and possibly gorgeous Brit Gemma Arterton (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters), who is currently in negotiations.
Hathaway’s genre creds are limited to the TriStar supernatural thriller Passengers, Tim Burton’s horrible Alice in Wonderland and Chris Nolan’s surprisingly disappointing The Dark Knight Rises.
Wolves is screenwriter David Hayter’s (The Scorpion King) directorial debut. It stars “Game of Thrones” bad ass Jason Momoa and sexy up-and-comer Merritt Patterson. The story revolves around an 18-year-old orphan (Lucas Till) who ends up in the middle of a werewolf war while looking for answers to his ancestry.
While any of that is enough to spark interest in the project, what makes Wolves a must-see for genre fans is the casting of America’s new sci-fi sweetheart Kaitlyn Leeb. The Chinese and Irish stunner played the iconic role of Mary the three-breasted hooker in this summer’s Total Recall remake.
No word on Leeb’s character, but how cool would it be if she kept the three-boob prosthetic in every film going forward? Yes, I coulda been an agent.
Ashley Greene (Twilight Saga) is in talks to join Haley Bennett (The Haunting of Molly Hartley) in The Weinstein Company’s recently announced frightener Satanic. Oliver Blackburn (Donkey Punch) is attached to direct from a script by Anthony Jaswinski (Vanishing on 7th Street).
Satanic follows a group of college kids as they’re attacked in their dormitory during the Thanksgiving Day holiday by what I assume are satanic hooligans. The film shoots this month in New Orleans and is slated for release on Aug. 30, 2013.
Greene, best known to Twi-hards as Alice Cullen—Edward’s adopted little sister—in Summit Entertainment’s Twilight Saga, was last seen in this summer’s impressively stupid, not-so-supernatural thriller The Apparition.
The force is strong with Academy Award winning screenwriter Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine). Along with penning the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller Oblivion and adapting Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games: Catching Fire for Lionsgate, Arndt will now write the script for Star Wars: Episode VII.
In case you’ve been in a coma or are a Star Trek geek, Disney purchased Lucasfilm LTD in October for $4.05 billion in stocks and cash. Plans for a new Star Wars trilogy, beginning with Episode VII to be released in 2015, soon followed.
Arndt made his Oscar-winning screenwriting debut in 2006 with the irreverent comedy Little Miss Sunshine (Best Original Screenplay). He followed that up with the Academy Award nominated Toy Story 3 (Best Adapted Screenplay).
Spy Kids child star Alexa Vega plays whore house hit-woman KillJoy in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, a sequel to the director’s 2010 grind-house actioner Machete. The 24-year-old Latina posted the above image on her Instagram to tease the sexy new role.
Many say Rodriguez is exploiting Vega—an actress he first hired at age 13—by stripping her down to lingerie and chaps. Vega, however, has told the media that she took the part to “own her sexuality.” I’m just wondering if that’s the same outfit Jessica Alba wore in Rodriguez’s Sin City… think about that for a minute.
