Twentieth Century Fox has unveiled an unrated trailer for producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The Bekmambetov-directed film is an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s best selling novel in which the 16th president of the United States is revealed to have been a vampire slayer.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter stars Benjamin Walker (Flags of Our Fathers) as Honest Abe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Thing) as his wife Mary Todd, Anthony Mackie (Real Steel) as Secretary of State/vampire killer William Seward and Dominic Cooper (Captain America) as Lincoln’s vamp-killing mentor Henry Sturges. It arrives in theaters on June 22.
Zoe Saldana will star in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, a sequel to the director’s 2010 grind-house actioner Machete. The Puerto Rican stunner’s casting was made known today in an interview with Machete star Danny Trejo.
Machete Kills is going to be a lot more over-the-top than Machete. We’ve got Sofia Vergara, who is a star in her own right, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, and Zoe Saldana – and guess what? I get to kiss all of ‘em.
Machete Kills finds Machete recruited by the U.S. government to bring down a Mexican cartel leader and a billionaire arms dealer plotting global warfare with a high-tech space weapon. Amber Heard, Demian Bichir and Mel Gibson also star.
Saldana is best known for her roles as Lieutenant Nyota Uhurain in J.J. Abrams’Star Trek series reboot and as Na’vi babe Neytiri in James Cameron’s Avatar. She also toplined the Luc Besson-produced revenge actioner Colombiana.
Warner Bros. has released a trailer for Dark Castle Entertainment’s The Apparition, starring Ashley Greene (Twilight Saga) and Sebastian Stan (Black Swan) as a young couple haunted by an evil specter released during an ill-fated parapsychology experiment conducted at their university.
The Apparition is writer/director Todd Lincoln’s feature film debut and costars Tom Felton (Harry Potter) as a wheelchair bound supernatural expert and Julianna Guill (Friday the 13th) as a hot chick with enormous breasts. It appears in theaters on Aug. 24.
Little Miss SunshineAbigail Breslin is going dark for her starring role in Tyler Shields’ Final Girl. Scripted by Adam Prince, the story follows Breslin as she sets out to even the score with the gang of street kids that assaulted her as part of their initiation.
The film marks Shield’s directorial debut.
Breslin, now 16, made her feature film acting debut at the age of 5 in M. Night Shyamalan’s alien invasion thriller Signs. She’s since gone on to star in 2009’s Zombieland and the upcoming sci-fi actioner Ender’s Game opposite Harrison Ford and Hailee Steinfeld.
It’s still a bit of a crawl until “Walking Dead” fans get to see the show’s season three premiere, but AMC is already whetting appetites with a new two-minute-plus behind-the-scenes featurette.
The BTS includes commentary from stars Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes), Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon), Steven Yeun (Glenn), Laurie Holden (Andrea) and Lauren Cohan (Maggie Greene). Director Ernest R. Dickerson also chimes in about the upcoming season.
New Artists Alliance has released a trailer for director Todd Levin’s feature film debut Static. The supernatural thriller stars Sara Paxton (Shark Night), Sarah Shahi (”The L-Word”) and Milo Ventimiglia (”Heroes”).
Static follows a bereaved couple (Shahi, Ventimiglia) teetering on divorce after the death of their child. The arrival of a mysterious young visitor (Paxton) soon changes their outlook, but at an unearthly cost.
Summit Entertainment has released images from its upcoming crime thriller I, Alex Cross, a reboot of the Alex Cross franchise first launched by Paramount Pictures in 1997 with Kiss the Girls starring Morgan Freeman as Cross.
The shots provide a first look at Tyler Perry wearing pants as Alex Cross, Ed Burns as his partner Det. Tommy Kane and Matthew Fox as the very ripped and menacing psychopath Michael “The Butcher of Sligo” Sullivan (a much more frightening look than Jack’s beard on “LOST”).
I, Alex Cross finds the detective tracking down an escort-murdering serial killer whose victims include a beloved relative of Cross. The film is directed by Rob Cohen (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) and costars Rachel Nichols as Kane’s busty girlfriend. It opens on Oct. 26.
Elizabeth Banks is set to topline “True Blood” producer Alan Ball’s new serial killer comedy What’s the Matter with Margie? Directed by Dan Minahan from an original script by Ball, the story finds Margie murdering the asshole work colleagues that have made her job unbearable.
Production on What’s the Matter with Margie? will begin early next year in Los Angeles. Myriad Pictures is handling foreign distribution. U.S. and Canadian rights are being shopped at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Banks is coming off the Lionsgate blockbuster The Hunger Games, in which she played Effie Trinket, the District 12 bureaucrat who chaperons 16-year-old Katniss and Peeta through Panem’s death games.
Banks previous genre creds include the Guard Brothers’ J-horror remake The Uninvited, James Gunn’s creature-feature comedy Slither, and Sam Raimi’s Spiderman trilogy.
While its not a spin-off of the popular Naked Gun comedies staring Leslie Nielsen, David Ren’s The Girl from the Naked Eye looks every bit as ridiculous and fun. The long gestating flick will finally be released by Archstone Distribution on June 15 in selected theaters and VOD.
A ’40s-inspired pulp thriller, The Girl from the Naked Eye follows an escort service bodyguard (Jason Vee) as he sets out to avenge the murder of his prostitute girlfriend (Samantha Streets). If that’s not enough to pique your interest, the film also stars former anal queen Sasha Grey.
Images from writer/director Scott Walker’s movie debut Frozen Ground have gone online. The film is based on the true story of Robert Hansen, an Anchorage-based serial killer who murdered 24 women over a 12 year span by hunting them down like game in the Alaskan wilderness.
Frozen Ground stars John Cusack as Hansen, Nicolas Cage as the detective who brings him to justice, Radha Mitchell as his wife and Vanessa Hudgens as the teen prostitute who managed to escape from Hansen after being abducted, raped, and sexually assaulted with a hammer.
The film, shot in Anchorage, Alaska, is slated for release on December 1.
