Summit Entertainment has released the first trailer for its upcoming crime thriller I, Alex Cross, a reboot of the Alex Cross franchise launched by Paramount Pictures in 1997 with Kiss the Girls starring Morgan Freeman as Cross.
The two-minute-plus clip introduces Tyler Perry as our new Alex Cross and gives us a good look at Matthew Fox as the menacing and extremely yoked-out psychopath Michael “The Butcher of Sligo” Sullivan. The film is directed by Rob Cohen and costars Ed Burns, John C. McGinley and Rachel Nichols.
I, MadeaI, Alex Cross opens in theaters on Oct. 19.
She may not have a lot of meat on her bones, but there is something very sexy about actress Calista Flockhart. Maybe it’s the teeth. If you know that reference, you must be an “Ally McBeal” fan. And, if you’re an “Ally McBeal” fan, you’re gonna want to take a moment before taking in the next bit of news.
Flockhart is set to guest star in an episode of “Dexter’s” upcoming seventh season. No word on what role the now 47-year-old starlet (does she have a wattle now? Sorry. Bygones) will play, but I am totally pumped. Here’s hoping there’s a bar scene with Vonda Shepard on piano.
“Dexter” season seven premieres on Sept. 30. New faces include Ray Stevenson as an Eastern European crime syndicate member out for vengeance, Katia Winter as a Russian stripper, Jason Gedrick as the owner of the nudie bar where Winter shakes her money-maker and Yvonne Strahovski as a suspicious woman.
Universal Home Entertainment announced this weekend that it has greenlit Curse of Chucky, the fifth installment in its outrageous killer-doll franchise Child Play. The film, said to be a return to the series darker horror roots, goes into production in Winnipeg in September.
Moviehole broke the news and provides this synopsis:
Chucky arrives to wreck havoc within a family that’s regrouped for a funeral.
In the wake of her mother’s passing, a young woman—in a wheelchair since birth—is forced to put up with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother.
When people start turning up dead, the fearless Nica discovers the culprit might be a “strange doll” she was sent a couple of days earlier.
Curse of Chucky picks up after the events of Child’s Play 3, skipping over the more comedic sequels Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky. Don Mancini, the creator and screenwriter behind the Child’s Play films, is attached to direct. Actor Brad Dourif (Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2) will once again voice the not-so Good Guy doll.
Television actress Jena Sims just got her big break. The 23-year-old beauty queen (Miss Georgia Teen USA, 2007) is set to star in Roger Corman’s Attack of the 50-Foot Cheerleader, an EPIX original movie set to premiere Aug. 25.
Sims, a guest star on “The Vampire Diaries” and “Dexter,” plays a awkward college coed who turns to an experimental drug in the hopes of becoming popular and beautiful. Things go bad, however, when side effects kick in and she suddenly grows into a 50-foot giant (hey, it’s better than anal leakage).
Attack of the 50-Foot Cheerleader is directed by visual effects guru Kevin O’Neill and costars Hollywood psycho Sean Young, old-people actor Treat Williams, Ryan Merriman (The Ring 2) and horror hotties Ariana Madix (The Dead Want Women), Paula LaBaredas (Camel Spiders), Sasha Jackson (Tarantula), Olivia Alexander (Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt).
Caity Lotz is set to star in Content Film’s The Machine, a romantic sci-fi thriller directed by Caradog James (Little White Lies) about a scientist (Toby Stephens) who falls in love with the robotic soldier (Lotz) he’s creating for Britain’s Ministry of Defense.
The film’s official synopsis reads:
Set in the near future and with the world plunged into another cold war, Britain’s Ministry of Defense is on the verge of developing a robotic soldier. This soldier, called The Machine, looks and sounds human, but has the strength, speed, and ruthlessness beyond that of any living person.
The project is near completion when a bug in the programming, a side effect of it being too close to human coding, causes the prototype to destroy the lab and everyone in its path in spectacularly violent fashion.
Undeterred by this setback, lead scientist Vincent McCarthy obsessively continues his work on The Machine in secret, away from the prying eyes of those who seek to destroy him.
Lotz is an up-and-comer best known for her recurring role as Stephanie, Anna Draper’s niece, on AMC’s “Mad Men” and for playing Officer Kirsten Landry on MTV’s short-lived horror-comedy show “Death Valley.” She currently stars in writer/director Nicholas McCarthy’s creepy ghost story The Pact.
Charlie Sheen has won himself a role in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, a sequel to the director’s 2010 grind-house actioner Machete. The Emmy-nominated-actor-turned-tabloid-star will play the President of the United States.
Rodriguez tweeted:
I just cast Charlie Sheen in #machetekills as the President of the United States! Who better?
Machete Kills follows Machete as he’s recruited by the U.S. government to bring down a billionaire arms dealer (Gibson) plotting global warfare with a high-tech space weapon. The film is currently shooting in Austin, Texas for a 2013 release.
In the meantime, peep these BTS pics provided by Alba:
Lionsgate has released the first official trailer for Pete Travis’ Dredd, a Alex Garland-penned adaptation of the U.K. comic-strip Judge Dredd. Set in the dystopian metropolis of Mega City One, the film follows judges Joe Dredd and Cassandra Anderson as they attempt to take down drug dealer Madeline Madrigal.
Dredd stars Karl Urban as Judge Dredd and Olivia Thirlby as Judge Anderson. Lena Headey plays Madrigal (AKA: Ma-Ma). Langley Kirkwood (“Generation Kill”), Joe Vaz (Lost Boys: The Thirst), Scott Sparrow (Death Race 2), and Luke Tyler (Chronicle) round out the cast.
Magnet Releasing and The Collective, owners of horror site Bloody-Disgusting, have released a super-creepy red-band trailer for V/H/S, a five-story horror anthology bridged together by a plot involving a group of small time crooks hired to retrieve a videotape from an abandoned house.
V/H/S features the work of directors Ti West (The Innkeepers), Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (You’re Next), Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead) and David Bruckner (The Signal). The film will play on VOD on Aug. 31 and begin a limited theatrical run on Oct. 5.
House at the End of the Street follows a teen girl (Lawrence) and her mother (Shue) as they discover that the house across from their new home was the scene of a brutal murder. Things complicate further when the girl befriends the deceased family’s surviving son (Thieriot).
Youth in Revolt actress Portia Doubleday is set to star in MGM and Sony Screen Gems’ new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1974 novel “Carrie,” starring Chloe Moretzas the tormented telekinetic teen. Doubleday will play mean-girl Chris Hargensen, the bully banned from prom after assaulting Carrie at school.
Carrie tells the story of a bullied high school girl who develops deadly telepathic powers when she reaches puberty. After suffering a humiliating prank at her school’s prom, she freaks the fuck out and uses her new found skills to punish her classmates and her deranged mother.
The remake is directed by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry) and costars Julianne Moore as Carrie’s mother Margaret White, “Californication’s” Judy Greer as gym teacher Miss Collins, Gabriella Wilde as bully Sue Snell and Chronicle’sAlex Russell.
