ABC has picked up “666 Park Avenue,” a new supernatural drama from producer/writer David Wilcox (“Fringe”), Warner Bros. TV and Alloy Entertainment. The show is an adaptation of the Gabriella Pierce book series.
Peep it:
“666 Park Avenue” is the address of The Drake, a historic Manhattan apartment community where demonic forces are possessing the tenants.
The program stars Terry O’Quinn (”LOST”) and Vanessa Williams (”Desperate Housewives”) as the building’s owners and Rachael Taylor (”Charlie’s Angels’) and Dave Annabel (”Brothers & Sisters”) as its new supers.
Rounding out the cast are Mercedes Masöhn (”The Finder”) and Robert Buckley (”One Tree Hill”) as a photographer and playwright couple and Swedish actress Helena Mattsson, best known for her nude turn in Species: The Awakening.
Fox is bringing home the Bacon this year with a new serial killer series from “Vampire Diaries” and Scream creator Kevin Williamson. “The Following” stars Kevin Bacon as a retired FBI profiler out to catch a sociopath who enlists accomplices via the internet.
Question: why does the Bureau alway have to turn to its retired agents to solve cases? What kind of jokers do they currently employ?
“The Following” costars James Purefoy as the serial killer Joe Carroll, Natalie Zea as his ex-wife Claire Matthews, Jeananne Goossen as Agent Jennifer Mason, Shawn Ashmore as Agent Mike Weston and Maggie Grace as a survivor.
Lionsgate has released the first official trailer for Ghost House Pictures’ The Possession, a creepy curse story inspired by an old internet urban legend brought to light by a 2004 Los Angeles Times piece entitled “A Jinx in a Box.”
According to the Times’ story, an Oregon antiques collector sold an old Jewish wine cabinet box on EBay when he realized that it was haunted by a dybbuk (a Yiddish poltergeist). Like the box’s previous owners, he had suffered sudden and inexplicable misfortunes.
The last time I wrote about Ghost House’s adaptation of the dybbuk urban legend I inexplicably spilt a can of Diet Coke on my keyboard and forgot the passwords to all my favorite interracial porn sites. For that reason, I will no longer post on Sam Raimi’s The Possession.
Anchor Bay has released an official trailer for writer/director Richard Bates Jr.’s feature film debut Excision. The film generated a buttload of buzz this year at Sundance for its gory imagery and powerful performances from AnnaLynne McCord (“90210′) and one-time porn star Traci Lords.
Peep it; it’s good:
The film’s synopsis reads:
Life sucks when you’re seventeen. Alienated teen Pauline (McCord) struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her parents and a burning desire to lose her virginity.
With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon…that is if she doesn’t go mentally insane first.
Excision costars Malcolm McDowell (Silent Night, Deadly Night), Ariel Winter (“Modern Family”), Roger Bart (Hostel 2), Ray Wise (“Twin Peaks”), Jeremy Sumpter (Soul Surfer), Matthew Gray Gubler (“Criminal Minds”), Marlee Matlin (Hear No Evil) and director John Waters.
Anchor Bay has released the first official trailer for director Kimble Rendall’s new Aussie shark thriller Bait 3-D. The story finds a group of tsunami survivors trapped in a flooded supermarket with a great white shark (clean up on aisle five!).
Bait 3-D stars Sharni Vinson (You’re Next), Xavier Samuel (Twilight Saga: Eclipse), Phoebe Tonkin (“Secret Circle”), Alex Russell (Chronicle), Cariba Heine (“Dance Academy”), Alice Parkinson (Sanctum), Julian McMahon (“Nip/Tuck”) and one adorable Pomeranian.
Dimension Films has chummed the internet with photos from its upcoming fish-&-chicks frightener Piranha 3-DD. The shots give us a peek at some of the film’s mayhem and stars (i.e. Danielle Panabaker, Katrina Bowden, Christopher Lloyd, The Hoff).
They also provide a look at the movie’s heart, namely the ridiculously busty brunette in the green bikini seen bouncing around in its trailer. While her name remains a mystery, it’s obvious that she’s the one person in the entire cast moviegoers will clearly be rooting for.
I, for one, don’t want to see any harm come to those beautiful floaties.
Syfy has released a trailer for American World Pictures’ silly new creature-feature Piranhaconda. Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Jim Wynorski (Not of This Earth), the film revolves around a mutant piranha/anaconda monster out to devour a beachside community.
Texas-born starlet Olivia Hardt has been toiling around tinseltown for a few years now, playing small, but eye-popping, roles such as Hot Girl on HBO’s “Entourage,” Sexy Girl #3 on NBC’s “Las Vegas” and Pretty Lady on the telepic “The Beast.”
This year, however, Hardt is poised for superstardom with a new breakout part in Swamp Shark and Lake Placid 3 director Griff Furst’s new Syfy creature-feature Arachnoquake. OK … so it won’t be a blockbuster, but Hardt’s character does have a name this time (Petra) and the flick sounds like a blast.
Arachnoquake finds giant albino spiders on a feeding rampage in the city of New Orleans after being set free from the earth’s core by a massive earthquake. Hardt stars alongside Edward Furlong (Terminator: Judgement Day), Bug Hall (Mortuary) and Tracey Gold (“Growing Pains”).
Heather Graham (Boogie Nights) and Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) will butt pretty heads in director Egidio Coccimiglio’s Compulsion, an American remake of the South Korean horror-comedy 301, 302.
The sexy duo will play feuding next door neighbors who are worlds apart in personalities. One is an antisocial recluse; the other an optimist and idealist. A confrontation occurs between the two and all hell breaks loose.
Compulsion is written by Floyd Byars (Masterminds) and costars Kevin Dillon (“Entourage”), Jean Yoon (Dream House), John Tokatlidis (Sweet Karma) and Joe Mantegna (“Criminal Minds”). The film is currently shooting in Canada.
An uncensored trailer for Periscope Entertainment’s Would You Rather has gone online. Directed by Periscope CEO David Guy Levy, the film stars Brittany Snow (Prom Night), Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) and Sasha Grey (Anal Cavity Search 6).
The slasher finds Snow playing a woman who competes in a wealthy psychopath’s deadly game of Would You Rather to win money to pay for her cancer-stricken brother’s medical bills. Lawrence Gilliard Jr. (”The Wire”), John Heard (”Prison Break”) and Eddie Steeples (“My Name Is Earl”) costar.
