Magnolia Pictures has picked up distribution rights to Danish writer/director Lars von Trier’s apocalyptic thriller Melancholia. Budgeted at a modest $7 million, the film follows a group of people as they freak the fuck out upon discovering that the earth is on a collision course with the planet Melancholia.
Melancholia stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg—last seen flashing her balloon-knot in Trier’s Antichrist—as estranged sisters trying to yada yada yada Dunst goes nude and Gainsbourg (pictured above) probably does too.
A creepy teaser trailer for director Darren Lynn Bousman’s (Saw 2-4) hotly anticipated damnation flick 11-11-11 has revealed itself on the net. The film stars Timothy Gibbs (Witchboard 2) as an American novelist haunted by the numbers 11-11 while visiting his brother and terminally ill father in Barcelona.
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The premise behind 11-11-11 is rooted in the superstitious belief that celestial guardians use the numbers to warn us about the impending doom-and-gloom heading our way when the 11th gate of Heaven opens for 49 minutes and we, as a people, are too busy snorting coke, fucking whores, and/or watching HBO to care about repenting.
11-11-11 costars Wendy Glenn (“The L-Word”), Michael Landes (Final Destination 2), Ángela Rosal (El Asesino del Parking), and Salomé Jimenez (Una de Zombis).
Killer Films is sinking its teeth into the vampire genre with their big screen adaptation of author Jane Menelsohn’s young adult novel Innocence. Cougar/cub team Julianne Moore (Hannibal) and Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) are attached to star.
Innocence centers on a 14-year-old girl named Beckett (Breslin) who, after the death of her mother, is moved by her father to the Upper West Side of Manhattan to attend a hoity-toity school. The problem? The student body is comprised of vampires.
Breslin, who made her acting debut at the age of five in M. Night Shyamalan’s alien frightener Signs, is coming off Relativity’s monster hit Zombieland. Moore’s recent genre offerings include Chloe, Blindness, and Children of Men. She’ll next be seen in the Weinstein’s upcoming supernatural thriller Shelter.
Esquire magazine continues to deliver quality stroke-material for discerning pervs with its ongoing feature “Women We Love.” Their latest conquest is 29-year-old Texas rose Summer Glau, star of NBC’s “The Cape” and the ill-fated, but still popular, series “Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles” and “Firefly.”
You can read a short interview with Glau at the mag’s website, or you can just read about her dressing habits here and proceed to violating yourself :
I pretty much wear cowboy boots and jeans every day. When I moved here, I thought, I’m gonna reinvent my style, but it didn’t stick. I don’t wear anything [in bed]. Nothing belongs in the bed but bodies.
Director David Slade appears to have developed an insatiable thirst for vampire flicks. The man behind Summit Entertainment’s record-breaking tween sensation Twilight: Eclipse and Ghost House Pictures’ much more respectable gorefest 30 Days of Night is now set to shoot The Last Voyage of Demeter. He replaces Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky.
Loosely based on Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula,” The Last Voyage of Demeter details the horrific events that occurred on the ship that transported Dracula from Transylvania to London. Sir Ben Kingsley and Swedish actress Noomi Rapace are attached to star.
Rapace , who scored rave reviews for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of author Stieg Larsson’s The Millennium Trilogy (“Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Girl Who Played with Fire,” Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest”), has arrived in Hollywood on a gravy train with biscuit wheels. The 31-year-old starlet will next be seen in Guy Ritche’s Sherlock Holmes 2 and Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.
Originally written by Damon Lindelof (“LOST”) as a prequel to Scott’s 1979 classic Alien, Prometheus will star Theron as a character named Vickers. No other plot details are available at this time other than the promise of some “Alien DNA” footage hidden within the film.
Twentieth Century Fox will release Prometheus on June 3, 2012.
Theron, whose horror creds include The Road, Devil’s Advocate, and Monster (for which she won an Oscar), is also developing a new HBO crime drama based on the book Mind Hunter:Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by renowned FBI profiler John Douglas.
Tricia Helfer is bloodthirsty femme fatale Alexa Wolff in director Chris Marrs Piliero’s music video for The Black Keys Las Teclas De Negro’s chart-topper “Howlin’ for You.” Shot as a faux movie trailer, the video costars Sean Patrick Flanery, genre stars Diora Baird and Corbin Bernsen, Twilight’sChristian Serratos, Olympic gold medalist Shaun White, and Todd “You’ll never know what I’m talking about” Bridges.
The synopsis reads:
Alexa Wolff, a sexy assassin with a troubled past, unknowingly falls in love with the man who killed her father. He is not her first love, though. Two other men came before. But they would not have her. Now, all grown up with an appetite for revenge, Alexa’s leaving a trail of bloody corpses and broken hearts in her wake.
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I’m digging the nod to Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado. Here’s hoping someone runs with this and gets it on the big screen (or DVD/OnDemand).
Ever since she first hitched a ride in Platinum Dunes’ stellar 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, Lauren German has captivated horror fans with her good looks and impressive acting chops. But, despite star turns in Eli Roth’sHostel II, actor-turned-director Thomas Jane’s Dark Country, and ABC’s short-lived mystery series “Happy Town,” the 32-year-old actress’s genre offerings have been few and far between.
This year, however, German returns to horror in French director Xavier Gens’ (Hitman) apocalyptic frightener The Divide. Leading a cast that includes Michael Biehn, Rosanna Arquette and Jennifer Blanc, German plays one of eight survivors battling Hazmat teams and cabin fever while cooped up in a small New York apartment after the majority of the city’s population is wiped out by a mysterious blast.
The Divide will hold its premiere this March at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
Amanda Seyfried is set to star in Summit Entertainment’s upcoming serial-killer drama Gone. Seyfried will play a woman who comes home to find that her sister has been kidnapped by the same man who attempted to murder her two years prior.
Gone marks Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia’s (Adrift) American film debut and is written by Allison Burnett (Untraceable). Cameras are expected to roll in April.
Seyfried will next be seen indirector Catherine Hardwicke’s (Twilight) werewolf-romance Red Riding Hood and Andrew Niccol’s (Gattaca) upcoming sci-fi actioner Now. Previous genre creds include the highly underrated Jennifer’s Body and the erotically-charged lesbian thriller Chloe.
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first official trailer for director Mathew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, an origins story built around the relationship between arch enemies Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender).
The footage is cool, but doesn’t really offer a proper peek at Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique and January Jones as Emma Frost. But, if you like guys in funny helmets and bee-outfits, you’ll have no complaints.
