Sony Pictures has released a teaser for director Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spiderman. Based on Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley’s “Ultimate Spiderman” comics, the reboot finds Spidey, now played by Andrew Garfield and his very tall hair, back in high school.
Costarring are Emma Stone (Zombieland), Rhys Ifans (Hannibal Rising), Dennis Leary (Demolition Man), Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now), Sally Field (Forrest Gump), Embeth Davidtz (Army of Darkness), Campbell Scott (Exorcism of Emily Rose), Irrfan Khan (Hisss) and Chris Zylka (Shark Night 3-D).
The Amazing Spiderman arrives in theaters on July 3, 2012.
Dutch actress Carice Van Houten has been cast for season two of HBO’s Emmy-nominated fantasy drama “Game of Thrones.” The 34-year-old looker will play sorceress Melisandre from the eastern kingdom of Asshai.
Van Houten’s genre creds include Relativity Media’s underrated organ-harvesting actioner Repo Men and director Christopher Smith’s (Severance) bubonic plague thriller Black Death, in which she played a vicious necromancer.
She’ll next star opposite Clive Owen (Children of Men) in Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s (28 Weeks Later) creepy new ghost story Intruders, in theaters Oct. 7.
“Game of Thrones” begins to shoot its second season at the end of the month.
Fright fans who think they’ve seen it all at Universal Studio’s Halloween Horror Nights have got another thing coming. Universal announced today that a maze based on the studio’s upcoming prequel/remake The Thing will be featured at its Orlando and Hollywood theme parks.
A collaborative effort between park designers and the film’s producers, the maze replicates the sets, monsters, sounds and music featured in the new thriller, which stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and opens on Oct. 14.
Halloween Horror Nights runs on selected nights from Sept. 23-thru-Oct. 31. Mrs. Muertos and I have attended the last four and highly recommend y’all check it out (but go Front-of-the-Line to avoid ridiculous waits and to have a laugh at those less fortunate than you ). You can see some of our pics here.
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The new haunted house will offer guests an unprecedented first-hand preview of the much-anticipated thriller in advance of its October 14 release. Guests will find themselves in a series of face-to-face encounters with “The Thing,” an alien creature that can transform itself into an exact replica of any living being.
“The Thing” maze will recreate the spine-chilling suspense from the film, confronting guests with the paranoia and fear that comes from being trapped inside the film’s Antarctic Thule station. The shape-shifting alien could be anywhere or anything. Will they survive?
Eerily authentic, “The Thing” maze will feature elaborately designed and disturbingly real alien creatures and sets. They will match the film’s terrifying intensity and provoke both a memorable and disturbing experience.
Universal’s theme parks have partnered with the film’s producers, Strike Entertainment’s Marc Abraham and Eric Newman to create an experience that is authentic to the film. The sets, audio, musical score, creature and character references are all based on the thriller.
I tried watching “Fringe” when it debuted on Fox in ’08, but was turned off by John Noble’s annoyingly cliched and over-the-top mad scientist character Dr. Walter Bishop. I’ve heard great stuff about the ratings-challenged show since, especially something about an alternative reality, but I just can’t get past the Doc.
Anna Torv, the 32-year-old Aussie who plays FBI agent Olivia Dunham, however, seems like a pretty good actress and a very nice lady—and by that I mean she’s living a whole other alternate reality in my mind when I’m showering in the morning.
Aimee Garcia, the pretty 32-year-old star of the short-lived series “Trauma” and “Off the Map,” has scored a recurring role on season six of Showtime’s award-winning serial killer drama “Dexter.”
The Mexican-Puerto Rican babe will play Jamie Batista, Sgt. Angel Batista’s (David Zayas) younger sister and Dexter’s (Michael C. Hall) new nanny hire for his now two-year-old son Harrison.
Garcia, who was also a recurring on “George Lopez,” joins season six newcomers Edward James Olmos, Colin Hanks, Mos Def, “True Blood’s” Mariana Klaveno, Molly Parker, Josh Cooke, Billy Brown and “Heroes'” Brea Grant.
Those who would rather wait to see the preview online rather than risk sitting next to a fat person (Not you. You’re just big-boned) in a robe and pointy hat, your patience has paid off.
Scream queen Danielle Harris is set to make her directorial debut with screenwriter Alyssa Lobit’s (The Things We Carry) new ’80’s inspired horror-comedy Among Friends. The film follows a group of friends gathered together for a dinner party that goes terribly wrong.
According to Dread Central, which broke the news, Harris and Lobit will star alongside Jennifer Blanc Biehn (The Victim), Brianne Davis (ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2), Dana Daurey (Lucky), Tanya Newbould (Skyline), Chris Backus (Elevator), AJ Bowen (Hatchet 2), Chris Meyer and Kamala Jones.
Harris, who got her start in horror at the age of 11 in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, has starred in Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 & 2, supernatural thriller The Black Waters of Echo Pond, Adam Green’s Hatchet 2, indie-slasher Blood Night: the Legend of Molly Hatchet, and Urban Legend.
The prolific 34-year-old starlet will also be seen in ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2, Michael Biehn’s The Victim, Jim Mickle’s vampire-roadtrip Stake Land, Julian Richard’s serial-killer drama Shiver, and Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3-D, an animated update of the George Romero classic.
Sci-fi queen Summer Glau (“Firefly”) stars as a live-action role player in director Joe Lynch’s (Wrong Turn 2) upcoming horror-comedy Knights of Badassdom. Photos of the 29-year-old stunner in costume—with costars Ryan Kwanten (“True Blood”) and Steve Zahn (Perfect Getaway)—have the web, courtesy of EW.
Knights of Badassdom centers on a group of role playing geeks who unwittingly conjure up a powerful succubus that sets her eyes on their newest member. The film also stars Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Danny Pudi (”Community”), and Margarita Levieva (Adventureland) as the sexy demon.
Looks like the upcoming sixth season of Showtime’s “Dexter” is going back to basics. According to executive producer Sara Colleton, “Dexter” will pick up a year after the events from season five and find our bloodthirsty hero over the loss of murdered wife Rita (Julie Benz) and vigilante girlfriend Lumen (Julia Stiles).
Colleton tells TV Guide:
We wanted to jump ahead a year and find that Dexter has gotten his groove back. He’s gotten over Rita and Lumen… There are things in life that Dexter’s dealing with and one of them is that Harrison is now 2 years old and he has to go to school.
There are things that he has to start thinking about with his son, and he’s become keenly aware of what it is that he doesn’t want to pass on to Harrison, namely his Dark Passenger. But Dexter has no idea what it is that he does want to pass on.
“Dexter” returns in the fall. New faces include Edward James Olmos (“Battlestar Galactica”), Colin Hanks (Lucky), MC-turned-Actor Mos Def, Mariana Klaveno (“True Blood”), Molly Parker (The Wicker Man), Josh Cooke (Quarantine 2: Terminal), Billy Brown (Cloverfield), Aimee Garcia (”Trauma”) and Brea Grant (”Heroes”).
Universal Pictures has released the first official trailer for their prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi classic The Thing (both films share the same title). Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Kate Lloyd, a paleontologist assisting a team of Norwegian scientists who have found an alien ship in Antarctica.
The film is directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and costars Joel Edgerton (Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones), Eric Christian Olsen (“Community”), and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (“LOST”), Kim Bubbs (Flesh Offering) and Ulrich Thomsen (Season of the Witch).
