Actress Erin Carufel, last seen in the Matthew McConaughey/Marisa Tomei vehicle The Lincoln Lawyer, has scored a part opposite Amanda Seyfried and Jennifer Carpenter in Lakeshore Entertainment’s new serial killer drama Gone.
Written by Allison Burnett (Untraceable), Gone is Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia’s (Adrift) American film debut and stars Seyfried as a woman who discovers that her sister has been kidnapped by the same man who attempted to murder her two years prior.
No word on what role Carufel will be playing, but Gone is the 32-year-old’s first thriller since 2008’s Untraceable.
Gone is set to shoot this month in Portland, Oregon.
TV starlet Leven Rambin (“Grey’s Anatomy”) and Jack Quaid are the latest to sign up for Lionsgate’s big screen adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ young-adult series “Hunger Games.” They join a cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class), Josh Hutcherson (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), Liam Hemsworth (Knowing), and Elizabeth Banks (The Uninvited).
Hunger Games finds child survivors of an economically and socially collapsed America competing in televised death games in a new country named Panem. Two kids from each of Panem’s 12 districts are chosen by lottery each year to participate. Rambin and Quaid will portray District One players Glimmer and Marvel, respectively.
Rambin, a 20-year-old Texas native, is best known to genre fans as Riley Dawson on the short-lived Fox series “Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles.” Quaid’s claim-to-fame is that he fell out of Meg Ryan’s vagina around the time she was hitched to Dennis Quaid.
Elizabeth Banks is set to join Lionsgate’s big screen adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ best-selling young-adult book series “Hunger Games.” The 37-year-old looker will star opposite Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class), Josh Hutcherson (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), Liam Hemsworth (Knowing), Amandla Stenberg (Colombiana) and Dayo Okeniyi.
Hunger Games finds child survivors of an economically and socially collapsed America competing in televised death games in a new country named Panem. Two kids from each of Panem’s 12 districts are chosen to participate by lottery each year.
Banks will play Effie Trinket, the District 12 bureaucrat who chaperons 16-year-old Katniss (Lawrence) and her partner Peeta (Hutcherson) throughout the games. Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) directs from a script by Billy Ray (Flightplan, Color of Night).
Banks creds include the Guard Brothers’ J-horror remake The Uninvited, James Gunn’s creature-feature comedy Slither, and Sam Raimi’s Spiderman trilogy.
After helming the 2005 Syfy original creature-feature Pterodactyl, many assumed director Mark L. Lester had swallowed some shotgun candy and called it a life. As it turns out, the man behind Class of 1984 (1982), Firestarter (1984), Commando (1985), Armed & Dangerous (1986), and Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) is only dead on the inside.
The 64-year-old filmmaker is back with a new ridiculous psycho-bitch thriller entitled Groupie. The film stars Taryn Manning (Manson Girls) as a woman out to avenge the accidental concert death of her boyfriend by killing off the members of The Dark Knights, a rock band on the comeback trail. Costars include “90210’s” Hal Ozsan as the band’s lead singer, Eric Roberts as the group’s manager, and horror hottie Betsy Rue.
Guys who watch movies with their hands down their pants will recognize Rue as My Bloody Valentine 3-D’s ill-fated motel victim who fights off her assailant in the nude for 8-minutes. Her additional creds include Rob Zombie’sHalloween 2 and guest roles on HBO’s “True Blood,” Fox TV’s “Bones,” and the CBS crime series “The Mentalist.”
Betsy Rue's the day she forgot to wear pants!
Manning and Rue’s participation in this flick automatically earn it a spot on my Netflix queue. But, also drawing me in is the possibility that screenwriters Michael Feifer and Randall Frakes may have gotten inspiration for their story from the tragic 2003 Great White concert fire at The Station nightclub in Rhode Island.
Groupie arrives on DVD on June 14 from Allegro Entertainment.
Winona Ryder is bringing crazy back to the theater in indie-writer/director Jay Anania’s recently announced psychological thriller The Stare. The film stars Ryder as a playwright haunted by strange dreams and a sensation that she’s being watched and plotted against while attempting to launch her new production.
The Stare, which goes into production on May 6 in New York, costars Oscar nominee James Franco (127 Hours) as an actor performing in Ryder’s play. Franco also serves as producer on the Waterstone-produced project.
Ryder is coming off director Darren Aronofsky’s critically acclaimed psych-thriller Black Swan. Her genre creds include such notable films as Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien: Resurrection, Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula.
Gorgeous “Hollyoaks” star Tiffany Mulheron is joining hot up-and-comers Sara Paxton (Last House On the Left, Shark Night 3-D) and Gillian Zinser (Manson Girls, “90210”) in writer/director Brian Brightly’s feature film debut Liars All (previously entitled Truth or Dare).
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 Indie Entertainment and Sundial Pictures production is set to roll camera on Monday in Los Angeles.
Mulheron’s genre creds include the rock-and-roll nightmare Dark Journey and the horror-comedy Lesbian Vampire Killers. She is best known, however, for her role as mean-bitch Natalie Osborne on the outrageously sexy British soap “Hollyoaks.”
Liars All costars Matt Lanter (The Roommate), Torrance Combs (“The Tudors”), Randy Wayne (Grizzly Park), and Alice Evans, who played a young Eloise Hawking on ABC’s “LOST.”
Against all odds, director Srdjan Spasojevic’s porn-snuff frightener A Serbian Film is set to hit the U.S. for a limited run in selected theaters on May 13. The controversial film will play in R and NC-17 rated edits, but an unrated version will be available on FlixFling.com on the same day.
A Serbian Film follows a downtrodden ex-porn star trying to make ends meet for his family by taking on a role in a privately funded fetish video that involves acts both immoral and illegal. The film’s most controversial scenes include machete sex, eye-socket rape, torture, and—wait for it—newborn rape.
“LOST” star Tania Raymonde (pictured above) and “True Blood’s” Brit Morgan will make their nude debuts in director Susanna Lo’s Manson Girls, a bio-pic that follows the violent and psychosexual lives of eight female Charles Manson cult members. The sexy duo partake in an orgy and share a girl-on-girl sex scene.
Raymonde and Morgan play convicted murderers Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel, respectively. In an interview with Lo for the website StayThirsty, the starlets reveal the lies they told themselves to justify going butt-nekid for the roles.
Raymonde says:
You can’t make a movie about the Manson girls without showing how the girls related to one another. They shared sexual connections as well as emotional ones. They were coerced and brainwashed into group sex situations that they more or less enjoyed.
Sex was the glue that held their family together. It’s important to show how these girls lived. I’m only portraying a character as accurately as I can, as I would with any role. As far as the nudity is concerned, I’ll get over it.
Morgan echoes Raymonde’s sentiment:
I have been avoiding nudity, for almost everything, so far in my career as well. So the sex scenes are new territory for me, but I am not as concerned as I imagined I’d be.
Probably because this is one of the only films I’ve read where it seems like it’s necessary and integral to the authenticity of the story. Sexuality was such an important factor in the 1960’s and in the lives of these girls, so I am willing to express that part of myself.
A horse is a horse, of course of course, unless that horse is making your nipples hard.
Suggestive portrait photos of “Life Unexpected” star Arielle Kebbel and her horse have hit the web. The shots present the 26-year-old stunner in a variety of come-hither poses while going bra-less in a slinky white dress (see gallery below).
Kebbel, a 2002 Miss Florida Teen U.S.A. beauty pageant contestant, has starred in a number of frighteners, including The Uninvited, The Grudge 2, and the horror-spoof Vampires Suck. She’s also appeared on The CW’s “The Vampire Diaries” and HBO’s “True Blood.”
Now, before you run off to get a bucket of KY Warming Gel and sit down to enjoy the photos, my self-imposed blogger’s code of ethics forces me to inform you that the horse in the pictorial is actually a mare named Breezy. Of course, your penis doesn’t need to know that.
Actress A.J. Cook has signed a two-year contract to reprise her role as Special Agent Jennifer “J.J.” Jareau on the CBS crime-drama “Criminal Minds.” The 32-year-old starlet was written off the show last season, replaced by Rachel Nichols and her beautiful large breasts.
Cook, who appeared in two season six episodes to tie up loose ends, will also appear on the season finale. CBS has not yet officially renewed “Criminal Minds,” but this bit of news—along with the fact that the show is ridiculously popular with TV viewers—bodes well for the possibility of a season seven and eight.
Horror fans know Cook from such projects as Final Destination 2, Ripper, Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell, The House Next Door, Bloodsuckers, Night Skies, and the Fox television series “Tru Calling.”
