Lingerie model-turned-actress Kara Tointon is a good reason to hop onboard newbie director Omid Nooshin’s runaway train thriller The Last Passenger. The Pathe International production follows a mass murderer as he attempts to slaughter a train full of innocent people.
Dougray Scott (Hitman) stars as a single dad trying to protect his son from the killer on the train. Tointon plays the flirtatious passenger who befriends him. Rounding out the cast are Lindsay Duncan (“Rome”), Iddo Goldberg (The Tourist) and David Schofield (The Wolfman).
Tointon is best known for her portrayal of Dawn Swan on the British soap “EastEnders.” Her only horror cred is the 2001 asylum-set frightener Never Play with the Dead.
“Ringer” star Zoey Deutch has joined writer/director Richard LaGravenese’s big screen adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s 1985 novel Beautiful Creatures. The romantic frightener follows a teenage couple who discover dark secrets about their families and town.
Alice Englert (Singularity) and Jack O’Connell (Eden Lake) play the story’s lovers, Lena and Ethan. Deutch has been cast as Ethan popular, but nasty, ex-girlfriend, Emily Asher. Emily Rossum (“Shameless”) also stars as a witch. Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis and Emma Thompson play the film’s old people.
Deutch can currently be seen on The CW’s Sarah Michelle Gellar comeback vehicle “The Ringer.” The 17-year-old up-and-comer was also a recurring on the Disney Channel’s “Suite Life on Deck.”
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first full-length trailer to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, a stand-alone sci-fi actioner that will reveal origins to Scott’s 1979 classic frightener Alien … and Noomi Rapace in her space undies. Co-written by Damon Lindelof (“LOST”), the film follows a team of scientists stranded on a hostile planet where no one will hear them scream.
Peep it:
The official synopsis reads:
In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system’s natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team discovers an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers.
A trailer for the Oren Peli-produced radioactive ghost town thriller Chernobyl Diaries has gone online. The project, announced back in November, is the first to be fully financed by FilmNation and was shot in Eastern Europe by F/X guru-turned-director Brad Parker (Let Me In).
The film, which follows a group of friends stranded in a town long believed to be abandoned after a nuclear disaster, stars Norwegian starlet Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (Cold Prey) Olivia Taylor Dudley (Chillerama), Jonathan Sadowski (Friday the 13) and Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek).
The buzz around director Brad Anderson’s (The Vanishing on 7th Street) new serial killer drama The Hive has just gotten buzzier: Academy award-winning actress Halle Berry has officially signed on to star in the Troika Pictures’ production.
Berry will play a 911 operator attempting to help a girl survive the clutches of a sadistic murderer. The film, written by Richard D’Ovidio (Thir13en Ghosts), will shoot in Los Angeles starting in June.
Berry is coming off the John Stockwell (Turistas) shark drama Dark Tide, available now on VOD and slated for a limited theatrical run on March 30. Previous genre creds include Perfect Stranger, Catwoman, Gothika, and the X-Men franchise.
Jessica Morris (pictured above), the topless star of Senior Skip Day and Role Models, stars alongside Ariana Madix (Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt) and Eric Roberts (The Cloth) in Full Moon Features’ new horror-comedy The Dead Want Women.
Directed by Charles Band (Puppet Master: The Legacy), The Dead Want Women centers on two girlfriends (Morris, Madix) who are haunted by horny ghosts while staying at a large, isolated mansion. The film arrives on DVD and VOD on May 15.
Rodrigo Santoro (“LOST”) is set to reprise his role as Persian king Xerxes in Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ 300: Rise of an Empire (formerly titled 300: Battle of Artemisia), a companion piece to the Zack Snyder-directed blockbuster 300.
He tells Omelete:
The movie is set at the same time. The idea is to show another point of view. While that battle from the first 300 is taking place, there were others going on…
Actually, it’s all of this and then there is an intersection point with the first movie. It goes back and then goes beyond that. That was the initial concept.
Snyder returns as producer and cowriter on a script loosely based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel. “Camelot’s” Eva Green is already attached to play Artemisia, the golden goddess who leads Xerxes into battle against Athenian general Themistokles.
Noam Murro (Smart People) will direct the project, which is set to shoot early next year.
Danielle Panabaker in a movie about spree killing BFFs should be an easy sell to horror fans. Unfortunately, a douchey-sounding synopsis makes it obvious that Girls Against Boys is just another example of “Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding.”
Seriously, what wrist-cutting, arrogant ass-hat would write this crap:
Girls Against Boys is a character-driven, psychological thriller about two girls on a killing spree in New York.
With edgy and ironic humor and a darkly meditative tone that is far more European or Asian than typically American, it is also a coming-of-age story about a young woman coming to understand how the world really works.
It’s a ride for sure, and it even gets more than a little gruesome, but it’s character-driven rather than action-driven, and it has a psychological twist that’s more like a way of reading the film than a big reveal.
Don’t know about you all, but I’ll just catch Panabaker in the typically American release Piranha 3-DD instead.
“Desperate Housewives” star Vanessa Williams has found a new home at “666 Park Avenue,” a new supernatural pilot based on the book series by author Gabriella Pierce. The show is produced by writer David Wilcox (“Fringe”), Warner Bros. TV and Alloy Entertainment.
“666 Park Avenue” is set in a historic Manhattan apartment Building where demonic forces are possessing the tenants. Williams will play the wife of the building’s owner, played by Terry O’Quinn (“LOST”).
The show also stars Rachael Taylor (”Charlie’s Angels’) and Dave Annabel (”Brothers & Sisters”), as a married couple who get hired to be the apartment supers, and Mercedes Masöhn (”The Finder”) and Robert Buckley (”One Tree Hill”) as a photographer and playwright couple .
It should be noted that it took a lot of will power not to title this post Chocolate Milf.
Penthouse Pet and softcore starlet Veronica Ricci reunites with her Bloody Mary 3-D producers to tell the tale of the Snake Club: Revenge of the Snakewomen. Directed by David Palmieri, the campy thriller has something to do with a mysterious relic and the reptilian women who crave it.
No word on what role Ricci plays in the film, but she has big and beautiful breasts so … it’s already better than Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Ricci is the Penthouse Pet of the Year Runner-up 2010 and the star of such family classicsWelcome to Bondage, Veronica’s Private Tickle Hell, Girls Who Want Girls, and Sideline Sluts: Cheerleader Confessions.
