Rebekah Brandes (Bellflower) is set to star in Nothing to Fear, a demonic thriller directed by Anthony Leonardi III for Slasher Films, the start-up genre studio founded by Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.
Brandes joins a cast that includes Anne Heche (The Occult), James Tupper (“Revenge”), Willa Holland (Straw Dogs), Jennifer Stone (”Wizards of Waverly Place”), Ethan Peck (Mine Games) and Clancy Brown (“LOST”). She will play the daughter of Heche and Tupper’s characters.
Nothing to Fear is the story of a pastor who moves his family to Stull, Kansas, one of the seven known gateways to hell, and watches as his daughters unleash the ultimate evil. The film is based on actual town folklore that claims the devil rises once every year from the local graveyard to walk the earth.
Syfy has released the first official trailer for its upcoming Jaws meets “Jersey Shore” parody feature Jersey Shore Shark Attack. The film follows a group of guidos trying to get city officials to shut down the beach after a man is eaten alive by a sharks.
Jersey Shore Shark Attack is directed by John Shepphird (The Santa Trap) and stars Melissa Molinaro (“Making the Band 3”) as Nookie, Alex Mauriello (Forget Me Not) as J-Moni and Audi Resendez (Retribution) as BJ.
Rounding out the cast are Paul Sorvino (Repo! The Genetic Opera), Tony Sirico (“The Sopranos”), William Atherton (The Crow: Salvation), Jack Scalia (Red Eye), gay singer Joey Fatone and Vinny Guadagno (“Jersey Shore”).
Gemma Arterton could very well be one of The Wright Girls for Relativity Media and Atlas Entertainment’s upcoming remake of Japanese filmmaker Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s bad roommate thriller 2LDK.
The film’s official synopsis reads:
Vanessa and Katie are best friends and roommates who are living the Hollywood dream by starring together on a hit television show. Ambitious and eager to advance their careers, the two both set their sights on the same choice movie role.
A wicked game of sabotage begins, which soon escalates into a visceral, bloody catfight filled with violence, mutilation… and nearly murder.
The Wright Girls is scripted by Easy A scribe Bert Royal. Andy Fickman, director of such family fare as Race to Witch Mountain, The Game Plan and She’s the Man, is said to be circling the project.
Arterton will next be seen opposite Jeremy Renner in Tommy Wirkola’s (Dead Snow) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, and as Saoirse Ronan‘s mom in Neil Jordan’s (Interview with the Vampire) mother/daughter vampire drama Byzantium.
If you heathens think that Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky’sNoah project isn’t Clatto material, the casting of Jennifer Connelly should give you two reasons to reconsider … two beautiful, creamy white reasons.
Another reason is that the biblical story of Noah involves an angry God drowning humanity with a global flood, leaving Noah and his family and their zoo stranded on a big ship until Kevin Costner grows gills and swims out to discover land while Dennis Hopper chases him on a jetski.
Connelly will play Noah’s wife Naameh. The film reunites the Academy Award winning stunner with Aronofsky, who directed her in the meth drama Requiem for a Dream, in which her character performs a memorable lesbian ass-to-ass dildo scene.
Noah also re-teams Connelly with her Beautiful Mind costar Russell Crow, who plays the biblical icon. Teen up-and-comer Saoirse Ronan is also said to be on Aronofsky’s radar for a supporting role.
Paramount has set a March 28, 2014 release date for Noah with production slated to start in July.
Wild child Alessandra Torresani (“Caprica”) is set to star alongside old people actress Morgan Fairchild (The Seduction) in Echo Bridge’s new supernatural thriller Paranormal Initiation. Torresani plays one of three sorority sisters trapped inside a haunted house.
Torresani is best known for her portrayal of teen cylon Zoe Graystone on Syfy’s short-lived “Battlestar Galactica” spinoff “Caprica.” The 24-year-old starlet has also appeared on episodes of “American Horror Story,” “Warehouse 13,” “Bones” and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”
Up next for Torresani is writer/director Michael A. Nickles’ ghost story Playback, about a group of teens who pay the price for uncovering a small town’s secrets. The film is inspired by the mysterious 1888 disappearance of French inventor Louis Le Prince.
IFC Midnight has set a July 6 limited release date for writer/director Nicholas McCarthy’s feature film debut The Pact. The supernatural thriller stars “Death Valley’s” Caity Lotz (pictured) and Vacancy 2’s Agnes Bruckner as sisters haunted in the home of their deceased mother.
The Pact also stars Haley Hudson (Killer Pad), Kathleen Rose Perkins (The Island), Sam Ball (”The Event”) and Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers). It is based on the 2011 McCarthy short of the same name.
Dimension Films announced today that Sin City directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller are set to begin production on their much anticipated sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Casting will begin next week and the film is expected to shoot over the summer in Austin, TX.
Rodriguez said via press release:
The first question I am always asked is “When will you make another Sin City?
I have wanted to re-team with Frank Miller and return to the world he created since the day we wrapped the original, but have felt a duty to the fans to wait until we had something truly exceptional that would meet and exceed what have become epic expectations.
A Dame To Kill For will certainly be worth the wait.
Miller, on whose graphic novel Sin City was based on, promised that he and Rodriguez were going to “shake things up and deliver a ferocious film experience that is going to go even further than the first.”
The sequel is an adaptation of Miller’s “A Dame to Kill For” with the script co-written by Miller and Academy Award winner William Monahan (The Departed). AR Films and Quick Draw Productions are producing. Harvey and Bob Weinstein serve as executive producers.
Oh … and many from the original’s cast are said to be returning.
Leven Rambin is set to star in Twentieth Century Fox’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters, a sequel to the studio’s modest 2010 hit Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief. Both films are adaptations of Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” book series.
Sea of Monsters finds Percy (Logan Lerman) battling evils from the deep while in search for a mythical Golden Fleece. Rambin, who is coming off the Lionsgate blockbuster The Hunger Games, will play Clarisse La Rue, the smart, but hot-tempered, daughter of Ares, the God of War.
The film is directed by Thor Freudenthal (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and stars returning players Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, Jake Abel as Luke Castellan, son of Hermes, and Booker T. Washington as Percy’s friend Grover.
New faces include Nathan Fillion (“Firefly,” “Castle”) as Hermes and Anthony Head (The Host) as teacher Chiron. The film goes into production on April 16 in Vancouver, and is slated for release on March 26, 2013.
Because not all guys are Zombie Ass men, Japanese (of course) director Francois Fujimoto is set to release Zomboobies. The horror-comedy follows a group of doctors whose experiments to create perfect breasts go terribly wrong, transforming them into mammary-seeking mutants.
Fujimoto teases on his YouTube page:
You will see boobs doing things that boobs have never done before! Stay tuned. But also this is an action packed horror comedy full of crazy mutant creatures and FX!
Zomboobies stars Cathy Shim (pictured above), Diana Toshiko (Horrible Bosses), Marissa Tuyui (Balls of Fury) and Judilin Bosita (“All My Children”).
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has set a June 12 release date for Grasshopper Manufacturer’s Lollipop Chainsaw, a third-person zombie adventure written by horror filmmaker James Gunn (Slither) about an 18-year-old panty-flashing cheerleader out to slay the undead.
To promote the game, Warner Bros. hired insanely hot professional Cos-player Jessica Nigri to play a live-action version of protagonist Juliet Starling in a funny-till-squirts mock advertisement for Zom-Be-Gone detergent.
