British actor Ben Barnes is set to headline director Sergei Bodrov’s Seventh Son, an adaptation of young-adult novelist Joseph Delaney’s “The Wardstone Chronicles,” the first volume of the series “The Last Apprentice.”
The 29-year-old actor, best known for his role as Prince X in The Chronicles of Narnia films Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, will play exorcist-in-training Tom Ward. He joins a cast that includes Jeff Bridges as exorcist Master Gregory (AKA: The Spook) and Julianne Moore as evil witch Mother Malkin.
The Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ production will roll cameras on Sept. 13 in Vancouver.
The Texas Killing Fields, a serial killer drama produced by Michael Mann (Miami Vice) and directed by his daughter Ami Canaan Mann, is slated for an October release. The film is inspired by a series of real-life unsolved murders discovered in a stretch of land in Galveston, Texas.
The film’s synopsis reads:
Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows a local homicide detective in a small Texan town and his partner, a transplanted cop from New York City as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims’ mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call “The Killing Fields”.
The killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. When a familiar local girl, Anne goes missing the detectives find themselves in a race against time to find the killer and save her life.
The Texas Killing Fields stars Sam Worthington (Avatar), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Tenant), Chloe Mortez (Let Me In), Stephen Graham (“Boardwalk Empire”), Jason Clarke (Death Race), Sheryl Lee (“Twin Peaks”) and Jessica Chastain (pictured above).
Stella Maeve, last seen as bad girl Zoe in MTV’s My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 2, is starring in director Gregory Orr’s creepy evil clone thriller Recreator. The pretty 21-year-old plays Tracy Bernstein, one of three friends who discover they’ve been cloned while on holiday.
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The film’s synopsis reads:
Duplicates. Doubles. Recreations. Call them what you will, they are exact copies of Craig, Tracy and Derek, three friends on a camping trip who accidentally trigger a deadly experiment left by the Recreator—a mysterious scientist with a gift for cloning.
Trapped by their captors, the teenagers are no match for their physically stronger, faster, better selves. Their only hope is to outwit them and to escape with their lives before they are replaced.
Maeve will soon be seen in director Susanna Lo’s Manson Girls, a bio-pic that follows the violent and psychosexual lives of eight female Charles Manson cult members.
Recreator costars Alexander Nifong, Jamal Mallory-McCree and John de Lancie (Gamer).
Natalie Dormer is the first actor to be cast for season two of HBO’s exceptional medieval drama “Game of Thrones.” The 29-year-old British starlet will play Margaery Tyrell, a woman from the influential House of Tyrell pledged to marry the late King Robert’s (Mark Addy) brother Renly Baratheon (Gethin Anthony).
Dormer, who stars in this summer’s Captain America, is best known for her portrayal of doomed queen Anne Boleyn on Showtime’s “The Tudors.” She was also cast in ABC’s failed pilot “Poe,” which re-imagined author Edgar Allan Poe as the world’s first detective.
HBO will host a “Game of Thrones” panel at Comic-Con on Thursday, July 21. Scheduled to appear are Emilia Clarke, Jason Momoa, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. “Game of Thrones” author—and show producer/writer—George R.R. Martin will serve as the panel’s moderator.
“Game of Thrones” season two will begin to shoot in late July.
MGM announced today that it is remaking its Oscar nominated—and just plain awesome—1983 thriller WarGames. According to Deadline, the studio has put the property in director Seth Gordon’s (Horrible Bosses) hands and is giving him a “wide berth” to update the story to better fit our hacker happy times.
I love the original. I’m a bit of a hacker fanatic, and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare. I have a real point-of-view on the material and how things have changed. And also, I think the politics of the world have changed in really fascinating ways since 1983.
There’s no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn’t exist. It’s a much more complicated, nuanced, political world we’re in, and I think that actually makes for a more interesting plot to tell. Frankly, cyber attack is a lot more real.
WarGames was originally directed by John Badham and starred Matthew Broderick as David Lightman, a computer hacker who unwittingly gets World War III underway when he hacks into a military super computer and engages it in a game of—say it with me—Global Thermonuclear War.
The film was a box office success and went on to earn Academy Award nominations for Best Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best Cinematography. It also launched the careers of Broderick and costar Ally Sheedy (Short Circuit).
It’s too early to know who will star in the WarGames reboot, but here’s hoping Broderick and Dabney Coleman (Cloak & Dagger), who played NORAD engineer Dr. John McKittrick, get a cameo. Coleman’s still alive, right? Or is he dead like Sheedy?
Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) is currently in New Zealand filming the eagerly anticipated big screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. The film, which will be released in two parts, has a shooting schedule of 254 days.
Entertainment Weekly managed to score the first three images from the film’s set. The photos showcase actors Martin Freeman as hobbit Bilbo Baggins and Ian McKellen as Gandalf the wizard.
HBO held the season four premiere for its hit vampire soap “True Blood” last night at the Arclight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, CA. Attending the shindig were show creator Alan Ball and stars Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgard, Deborah Ann Woll, Rutina Wesley, Kristin Bauer, Carrie Preston, Nelsan Ellis, Sam Trammell, and Ryan Kwanten.
Also on hand were season three players Brit Morgan, Lindsay Pulsipher, Evan Rachel Wood, Laura-Pulver and Joe Manganiello. Making the scene from the upcoming new season were Paola-Turbay, Verdette-Lim, the very hot Courtney Ford and the even hotter Janina-Gavankar.
Actress Riki Lindhome is the latest treat to be added to director Josh Schwartz’s Halloween-set comedy Fun Size. She joins a cast that includes Victoria Justice (“iCarly”), Jane Levy (“Shameless”), Chelsea Handler (“Chelsea Lately”), Johnny Knoxville (“Jackass”), and Josh Pence (The Dark Knight Rises).
Fun Size, described as a cross between Super Bad and Adventures in Babysitting, follows a teenage girl named Wren (Justice) as she attempts to find her little brother after losing him on Halloween night. Lindhome will play “a graphic comic book character.”
Lindhome’s played Krug’s degenerate girlfriend in Rogue Pictures’ 2009 better-than-the-original remake of Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left. Additional creds include the 2006 American redo of the J-horror frightener Pulse and Clint Eastwood’s underrated serial killer drama Changeling.
Big screen bad-ass Jason Patric is looking to make his foray into television by starring as the male lead in the FX superhero pilot “Powers.” The 45-year-old actor joins a cast that includes Lucy Punch (Bad Teacher) and Charles Dutton (Alien 3).
“Powers” is the name of the civilian police force assigned to investigating crimes involving people with super powers. The pilot, directed by Michael Dinner (”The Wonder Years”) and penned by Charles Eglee (”Dark Angel”), is based on the comic book series created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.
Patric will play Christian Walker, a detective working the case of a murdered super-being with rookie partner Deena Pilgrim (Punch). Sony Pictures Television and Circle of Confusion (“The Walking Dead”) are producing.
Up until now, this project sounded about as lame as “The Cape” to me. Patric’s involvement really amps up its potential. Hopefully his role will be on par with the intense characters he’s played in the films Your Friends and Neighbors, Downloading Nancy, The Losers, Narc, Rush, and, of course, The Lost Boys.
Set in London on New Year’s Eve, Liars All centers on a game of truth-or-dare that spins out of control for a group of friends. The film is directed by newcomer Brian Brightly and stars knockouts Tiffany Mulheron (“Hollyoaks”), Sara Paxton (Shark Night 3-D), Gillian Zinser (Manson Girls), and Alice Evans (“LOST”).
The official synopsis reads:
It’s New Year’s Eve in London and a group of friends are playing a provocative game that spins out of control and ends in murder. Despite an immediate police investigation, the true killer remains elusive amidst conflicting testimony and hidden motives.
A night of shared secrets and newfound intimacies takes unexpected turns, resulting in an explosive outcome that will change their lives forever. LIARS ALL is a haunting, psychosexual thriller about desire…and how far some will go to win.
A sales trailer for the Indie Entertainment and Sundial Pictures’ production has hit the web.
