British actress Tehmina Sunny plays an attractive TV news reporter trapped with a group of volatile New Yorkers in director Stig Svendsen’s Elevator. While sharing a confined space with folks from NY is truly a horrific premise, things are actually made worse when it’s revealed that one of the nine on-board is carrying a bomb.
Sunny has guest starred on a number of TV shows including NBC’s “Heroes” and Showtime’s “Californication.” She also portrayed an underground gang member in the dystopian sci-fi drama Children of Men.
Elevator costars Anita Briem (Journey to the Center of the Earth), John Getz (Zodiac), Shirley Knight (“Desperate Housewives”), Devin Ratray (Surrogates), Michael Mercurio (Summer of Sam) and Joey Slotnick (Hollow Man).
“True Blood” player Ryan Kwanten joins the growing league of masked bumbling movie crime fighters in Aussie actor Leon Ford’s directorial debut Griff the Invisible. Like Kick Ass, Defender, and Super before it, Griff tells the tale of a social misfit turned superhero.
The Screen Australia/Green Park Pictures film costars Maeve Dermody (Black Water), Patrick Brammall (“Canal Road”), Toby Schmitz (“The Pacific”), and Heather Mitchell (Rogue).
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The film’s synopsis reads:
By day Griff (Kwanten) is an everyday office worker, in an everyday town. He lives a secluded life, bullied by co-workers (Schmitz) – his protective brother his only friend. By night Griff assumes his other identity, roaming the dark streets protecting the innocent and the vulnerable from the dangers that lurk in the shadows – he is the hero, GRIFF THE INVISIBLE.
Increasingly concerned by Griff’s eccentric behaviour, his brother (Brammall) attempts to draw him back into the ‘real world’. In doing so he introduces Griff to Melody (Dermody) an equally eccentric and charming girl.
Fascinated by Griff’s idiosyncrasies, which are equal only to her own, Melody begins to fall for Griff. As Griff is forced to face up to realities of a mundane world, it is up to Melody to rescue GRIFF THE INVISIBLE for the sake of herself, Griff and their love for each other.
Kwanten, best known for playing Sookie Stackhouse’s brother Jason on the HBO vampire soap “True Blood,” will next join Summer Glau on the big screen in director Joe Lynch’s horror-comedy Knights of Badassdom.
Griff the Invisible opens in selected theaters on Aug. 19.
Kristina Anapau is starring opposite Michelle Rodriguez in writer-turned-director Ted Sarafian’s (Terminator: Rise of the Machines) upcoming frightener Sighting. Shot found-footage style, the film follows six ghost hunters as they document the mysterious goings-on at the King’s Ransom Winery.
Anapau is coming off Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar nominated psych-thriller Black Swan. The pretty 31-year-old’s creds include the horror indies Cornered and The Speak and Wes Craven’s 2005 werewolf thriller Cursed.
Sighting is currently in production and costars Brendan Fletcher (Bloodrayne: The Third Reich), David Weidoff (Evil Bong), and pretty newcomer Sarah Oh.
“True Blood” star Mariana Klaveno has nabbed a recurring role on the upcoming sixth season of Showtime’s hit serial killer series “Dexter.” The brunette stunner will play a Florida University professor named Carissa Morris.
She joins season six recurrings Edward James Olmos (“Battlestar Galactica”), Colin Hanks (Lucky), Mos Def (Next Day Air), Molly Parker (The Wicker Man), Josh Cooke (Quarantine 2: Terminal), Billy Brown (Cloverfield), Aimee Garcia (“Trauma”) and Brea Grant (“Heroes”).
Klaveno has guest starred on a number of popular TV shows including “Hawaii Five-O,” “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,” “ER,” and ‘Alias.” She is best known, however, for playing vampire Lorena Krasiki (Bill Compton’s maker) on HBO’s “True Blood.” She was memorably killed last season when Bill twisted her neck a full 180 during sex.
Tania Raymonde, the 23-year-old star of ABC’s “LOST” and MTV’s new horror-comedy “Death Valley,” has scored a role in director John Luessenhop’s (Takers) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3-D. She joins costars Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson), Sue Rock (Varsity Blues), and Bill Moseley (Manson Girls).
A sequel of sorts, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3-D picks up after the horrific events depicted in Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original. Raymonde will play a small town girl named Nikki who joins her best friend Heather (Daddario) on a trip to claim an inheritance that gives Heather custody of her homicidal cousin Leatherface.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3-D goes into production later this month.
Emmy Rossum, the oft-nude star of Showtime’s white trash drama “Shameless,” will be counting on your tweets and Facebook postings to help her escape director DJ Caruso’s (Disturbia) new nightmare world Inside.
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Described as a “social experiment film,” Inside finds Rossum trapped in a room with a laptop and an untraceable internet connection that she uses to mobilize her social media network in the hopes of figuring out where she is being held.
That’s where you come in:
Unlike other productions, “Inside” will engage the audience and allow them to play a role in the film by interacting on social channels.
A social casting call will result with one lucky participant cast to play a role via a YouTube video that will then be incorporated into one of the film’s episodes.
Others can join in the project during the live social experience by posting on the main characters Facebook wall or tweeting which then has the chance of being incorporated into the next film episode.
The film wrapped production yesterday in Los Angeles. It will be released through various social media outlets one piece at a time up until its full-length release on Aug. 14 (complete with your tweets and YouTube videos).
Australian director Richard Grey is making a time-bending thriller for your penis. Entitled Mine Games, the film stars Briana Evigan, Julianna Guill, and Rebecca Da Costa as part of a group of vacationing friends who discover while exploring an abandoned mine that someone’s past actions will kill them all.
Evigan, daughter to Greg Evigan (“B.J. and the Bear”), has starred in such frighteners as Sorority Row, the Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko, and the oh-shit-there’s-a-tiger-in-my-living-room thriller Burning Bright. She’ll next be seen in Darren Lynn Bousman’s Mother’s Day remake and screenwriter W. Peter Iliff directorial debut Rites of Passage.
Guill’s creds include Platinum Dunes Friday the 13th reboot (for which she went topless), MTV’s My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Parts 1 & 2, the in-flight frightener Altitude, and Dark Castle Entertainment’s upcoming Ashley Greene/Sebastian Stan vehicle The Apparition. Both Guill and Evigan made Clatto’s list of The 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-fi Today.
Mine Games also stars vagina-less actors Joseph Cross (Untraceable), Ethan Peck (The Sorceror’s Aprentice), Rafi Gavron (“Life Unexpected”), and Alex Meraz (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn). The film is currently in production.
Some people believe that when they lose a loved one they should celebrate that person’s life rather than mourn their passing. That is why some memorial services may include parties, parades, and even live entertainment such as gospel singers.
That’s bullshit. When I die, I want to see tears. Lots of tears. I want to see my family and friends pulling their hair out as they drop to their knees in hysterics and curse the Gods in the sky. I’ll haunt any mofo that just stands around in the background grubbing on mini tacos, sharing embarrassing tales about me.
So imagine my outrage when I discovered that the folks in Taiwan actually hire strippers as a way of saying goodbye to their dead. The service is provided by something called the Electric Flower Car, a troupe of sexy female dancers who strip down to their unmentionables on a neon, mobile stage.
Marc L. Moskowitz, a University of South Carolina anthropologist, documents the EFC events in his new film Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan, currently available for purchase on Amazon.
One of the things that I found to be really interesting about this practice was that people’s explanations for why people hired Electric Car Performers varied tremendously.
One person I interviewed told me that it was because a new ghost would get picked on by older ghosts so the performance was to distract the older ghosts to give the newer ghost time to get used to his environment without being harassed.
Other people told me that the lower gods liked this kind of entertainment so that it was for them. Yet others said that the deceased liked that kind of activity when living so they wanted to send him off in style.
OK, I gotta admit, this is actually pretty fucking awesome. I still want tears and agonizing grief at my funeral service. But, next time I find myself in Taiwan with friends, maybe I’ll accidentally push one of them into traffic. What … I’m broke. I can’t afford Cali strippers.
Jennifer Lynch, daughter of renowned director David Lynch (“Twin Peaks”), is currently in Regina, Canada shooting a new serial killer drama entitled Rabbit. Starring in the film are Vincent D’Onofrio, Julia Ormond (pictured above), and newcomer Eamon Farren.
The film’s synopsis reads:
Tim (Farren) is abducted as a young child by a serial killer (D’Onofrio). Now a teenager, Tim learns the only way he may be able to survive is if he follows in the killer’s footsteps. He must make his move to escape before he becomes like the monster that now considers himself his father.
D’Onofrio is best known for his role as Det. Robert Goren on the long-running, recently-ended crime procedural “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” and for his portrayal of emotionally unstable Marine recruit Leonard Lawrence (aka: Gomer Pyle) in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket.
Ormond’s genre creds include the Lindsay Lohan thriller I Know Who Killed Me and Lynch’s Surveillance. She will next star as Superman’s biological mom in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. Farren most recently appeared in the Viva Bianca hooker-thrillerX.
Unlike Lynch’s Hisss, which got stuck in distribution hell, Rabbit has already locked a deal with Anchor Bay.
The former “Spartacus” star is currently on the mean streets of Los Angeles slaughtering the undead with a Katana sword for The Asylum’s new horror-cheapie Zombie Apocalypse. The film, directed by Nick Lyon (Species: The Awakening), costars Ving Rhames (Piranha 3-D), Eddie Steeples (“My Name is Earl”), and Taryn Manning (Manson Girls).
The film’s synopsis reads:
Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.
To see BTS shots from the project (including the one seen above), make sure you visit Brandt’s Facebook page.
Brandt, best known for her portrayal of beautiful—and oft nude—house slave Naevia on Starz’ “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” and its prequel “Gods of the Arena,” can also be seen as a recurring on the CBS crime procedural “CSI: NY.”
Zombie Apocalypse is slated for release later this year.
