A trailer for Magnet Releasing’s Meeting Evil is now online. The thriller is director Chris Fisher’s (S. Darko) adaptation of the 1992 Thomas Berger novel about a man in the dumps whose troubles only get worse when he befriends a mysterious stranger.
The film stars Samuel Jackson (Avengers) as Richie the stranger, Luke Wilson (Vacancy) as unlucky sap John Felton, Peyton List (“FlashForward”) as sexy temptress Tammy and Leslie Bibb (pictured above) as Felton’s hot wife.
Swedish stunner Mercedes Masöhn (“The Finder”) and Robert Buckley (“One Tree Hill”) are the latest to be cast in the ABC pilot “666 Park Avenue,” a new supernatural drama based on the book series by author Gabriella Pierce.
“666 Park Avenue” is set in a historic Manhattan apartment building where demonic forces are having their way with the tenants. Masöhn plays fashion photographer Louise. Buckley is her playwright boyfriend Brian.
Costars include Terry O’Quinn (“LOST”) as the building’s owner and Rachael Taylor (“Charlie’s Angels’) and Dave Annabel (“Brothers & Sisters”) as its new supers. The show is produced by writer David Wilcox (“Fringe”), Warner Bros. TV and Alloy Entertainment.
Masöhn last starred as a courageous flight attendant in writer/director John Pogue’s viral outbreak thriller Quarantine 2: Terminal. She can currently be seen on the Fox TV “Bones” spinoff “The Finder.”
Briana Evigan and Sean Faris better have the eye of the tiger if they hope to survive After Dark Film’s new home invasion thriller Stash House. The duo play a married couple terrorized in their newly purchased home by neighbor Dolph Lundgren.
Stash House, directed by Eduardo Rodriguez from a script by Gary Spinelli, costars Jon Huertas (“Castle”) and Alyshia Ochse (“General Hospital”). Producers describe the film as a cross between The Strangers and Panic Room.
Evigan has starred in a string of notable frighteners, including Darren Bousman’s Mother’s Day, Summit Entertainment’s Sorority Row, the Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko and the oh-shit-there’s-a-tiger-in-my-living-room thriller Burning Bright.
Mila Kunis has joined the cast of Shadowmachine’s R-rated stop-motion horror-comedy Hell & Back. The 28-year-old stunner will voice the character of Deema, a rogue demon who is also part human.
Directed by Tom Gianas, Hell & Back tells the story of two friends who embark on a journey to hell to save a buddy. Costars include Nick Swardson (“Reno 911”), TJ Miller (How to Train Your Dragon), Rob Riggle (The Lorax), Brian Posehn (Surf’s Up) and Kumail Najiani (“Franklin & Bash”).
Kunis, whose voice work can be heard on the long-running Fox series “Family Guy” and on episodes of Adult Swim’s “Robot Chicken,” will next be seen in Seth MacFarlane’s insanely hilarious comedy Ted and in Sam Raimi’s Oz, the Great and Powerful.
“Justified” star Natalie Zea is set to join Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy in the still untitled serial killer pilot set up at Fox by writer/producer Kevin Williamson (“Vampire Diaries”) and Warner Bros. TV.
If picked up, the series will follow retired FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Bacon) as he returns to the bureau to help track down Joe Carroll (Purefoy), a serial killing cult leader utilizing the internet to recruit accomplices. Zea will play Carroll’s ex-wife Claire Matthews.
Zea’s only horror creds are the snuff-themed frightener From a Place of Darkness and the psychological thriller InSight. The 36-year-old stunner is best known for her recurring roles on the TV shows “Hung,” “The Shield,” “Dirty Sexy Money,” and, of course, “Justified.”
Emmy Rossum, the naked chick on Showtime’s “Shameless,” is set to star in writer/director Richard LaGravenese’s new romantic horror film Beautiful Creatures. She joins Alice Englert, Jack O’Connell and OK-looking creatures Viola Davis and Emma Thompson.
Adapted from the 1985 novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures tells the story of two star-crossed lovers (Englert, O’Connell) who discover dark secrets about their families and town. Rossum plays an evil witch.
Rossum’s creds include Roland Emmerich’s 2004 disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow, Joel Schumacher’s 2004 Phantom of the Opera redo, the 2006 Wolfgang Petersen remake of Poseidon and James Wong’s 2009 magna adaptation Dragonball: Evolution.
Clatto’s favorite former lesbian Anne Heche is set to star in Liddell Entertainment’s The Occult. The 42-year-old looker joins costars Rufus Sewell (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) and Alycia Debnam-Carey (“Dream Life”).
Directed by Christian Christiansen (The Roommate), The Occult is set in a small commune where the shared 18th birthday of five girls and a sudden murder spree are tied to the prophesied coming of Satan’s daughter.
Heche will soon be seen in Slasher Film’s similarly plotted Nothing to Fear. Her previous genre creds include Volcano, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Gus Van Sant’s 1998 Psycho remake, the kinky psych-thriller Birth, and the 2008 outbreak thriller Toxic Skies.
Alexandra Lesch (pictured above) and her scantly clad attractive costars will make mouths water in director Frank W. Montag’s German frightener Cannibal Diner.
Lesch plays a woman whose tardiness to her younger sister’s birthday party ends up being their only hope for survival when they’re abducted in the woods by cannibals. Watch the trailer; you’ll want to eat them too.
Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) has always been a “Person of Interest” to Clatto, but now she’s piquing our curiosity with a new lead role in Screen Gems upcoming abduction thriller No Good Deed.
Directed by Sam Miller from a script by Aimee Lagos (96 Minutes), the film stars Henson as a former D.A. turned stay-at-home mom who finds her family terrorized when she takes in a stranger (Idris Elba) who’s wrecked his car in an accident.
No Good Deed goes into production next month in Atlanta.
Scarlett Johansson is portraying Janet Leigh in the Fox Searchlight adaptation of Stephen Rebello’s book “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.” She’s joined by Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as his wife Alma Reville and James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins.
Directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil) from a script by John J. McLaughlin (Black Swan), the bio-pic follows the iconic filmmaker as he overcomes various obstacles to bring Psycho to the big screen.
Johansson will next be seen in geek-mesiah Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. The 26-year-old stunner is also set to play a horny alien in director Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Michel Faber’s novel Under the Skin.
