Sony Pictures has released the first official photo of its Spiderman reboot star Andrew Garfield and his green goblins tucked into his web-slinger costume (see above). The pic also gives us a glimpse at homemade web-shooters on the wrists of the outfit (see below).
The web-shooters have got comic geeks tingling with joy and anticipation. Apparently, in old-school Spidey comics, young Peter Parker designs the contraptions to compliment his newly acquired powers (unlike the Sam Raimi movies in which the webs are organic).
Directed by Mark Webb, the Spiderman reboot is an origins film based on Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley’s “Ultimate Spiderman” comics, which finds our fiendly neighborhood crime-fighter back in high school. The film is budgeted at $80 million and will be released in 3-D on July 3, 2012.
British actress Wendy Glenn has been cast as the female lead in SAW II-IV director Darren Lynn Bousman’s eagerly anticipated damnation flick 11-11-11. Now shooting in Barcelona, the film costars Timothy Gibbs, Michael Landes, Brenden Price, and Spanish actors Ángela Rosal, Salomé Jimenez, Benjamin Cook, Montse Alcoverro and Lluis Soler.
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.
The film’s official synopsis reads:
After the tragic death of his wife and child, famed American author Joseph Crone (Gibbs) travels from the United States to Barcelona, Spain to reunite with his estranged brother Samuel (Landes) and dying father, Richard. However, fate has a different plan for Joseph as his life becomes plagued with strange happenings, and the constant sightings of the number 11.
Curiosity quickly turns to obsession, and Joseph soon realizes that this number holds a horrific meaning not only to himself but possibly to all of religion. Isolated in a foreign country with only the support of his companion, Sadie (Glenn), Joseph soon realizes that 11/11/11 is more than just a date, it’s a WARNING.
Truth-be-told, I used to see the 11:11 on my clock and watches all the time. I would just happen to glance at the clock and there it was, day or night. Holy Shit! Look at the time this post went up … I’m just fucking with you. It is a cool and creepy premise though.
Wendy Glenn is perhaps best known in the States for her portrayal of pretty carpet-muncher Isabella on the Showtime lesbian drama “The L-Word.” Mystery fans may also recognize her as Pascale on Fox TV’s short-lived whodunit series “Reunion.”
Her most memorable role, however, involves planting a big wet one on Katie Cassidy’s kisser on the now canceled “Melrose Place” reboot:
Having grown up as a Hungry, Hungry Hippos kind of kid, I didn’t much care when Universal Pictures announced last summer that it was producing a $200 million big screen adaptation of the Hasbro game Battleship. My interest sank even further when thick-bottomed pop star Rhianna was cast as the flick’s eye-candy.
Well, imagine my surprise this morning when my search for Max Hardcore’s Anal Destroyer led me to discover that Battleship revolves around navy fleets fighting off an alien invasion. Not only that, but swimsuit-model-turned-actress Brooklyn Decker plays the film’s romantic lead.
Directed by Peter Berg, Battleship also stars Liam Neeson (After.Life), Alexander Skarsgard (“True Blood”), Taylor Kitsch (“Friday Night Lights”), and badass Tadanobu Asano (Ichi the Killer). The film won’t be sailing into theaters until May 18, 2012, but consider it now on Clatto’s radar.
Universal Pictures is set to roll out Death Race: Frankenstein Lives, the prequel to the 2008 remake starring Jason Stathem, on DVD and Blu-ray next week. The film stars Danny Trejo, Luke Goss, Sean Bean, Ving Rhames, and gorgeous South African model-turned-actress Tanit Phoenix.
Also along for the ride is leggy up-and-comer Lauren Cohan as Death Match host—and all-around bad bitch—September Jones. The 28-year-old stunner cut her bad girl teeth playing relic thief Bela Talbot on The CW’s “Supernatural” and 500-year-old vamp Rose on the network’s hit bloodsucker soap “The Vampire Diaries.”
Cohan also stars opposite Arielle Kebbel in director Bill Eagles’ island-frightener Disturbed.
Slovakian stunner Barbara Nedeljakova appears to be stepping up her B-game. Best known in the States for her role as Euro cock-bait Natalya in writer/director Eli Roth’s Hostel, Nedeljakova has recently completed work on low-budget frighteners The Hike and Children of the Corn: The Dweller (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
Her latest project is producer Jonathan Sothcott’s (Devil’s Playground) so-ridiculous-it-can-only-be-awesome thriller Strippers vs. Werewolves, directed by Jonathan Glendening (13 HRS). No word on what role Nedeljakova will play in the film, but my highly trained industry insider senses tells me it could very well be a stripper.
Interesting aside: Sothcott recently bragged to Dread Central that he is “pals” with insanely gorgeous British actress/model Gemma Atkinson and got the idea to hire Glendening as director after watching her in 13HRS. Let’s hope he still wants to bang her bad enough to offer her a part in the flick as well.
Here you see the first image of actress Rooney Mara (Nightmare on Elm Street) as pissed-off hacker-punk Lisbeth Salander in Columbia Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s bestselling novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”
W Magazine scored the shot along with a lengthy interview with director David Fincher, who reveals that he put Mara through an audition test that required her to “kick a dildo” up some guy’s ass. Fincher also discusses his previous films, including Zodiac, Seven, and Alien 3.
The interview offers no explanation, however, for Fincher’s decision to make Mara as fugly as the chick in the original Swedish film (see gallery below). Isn’t the point of a remake to make things look better? Fucking Hollywood. Never gets it right.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo costars Robin Wright (Unbreakable), Joely Richardson (“Nip/Tuck”), Stellan Skarsgard (Melancholia), Christopher Plummer (Priest), and Daniel Craig in the role of journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
Columbia Pictures will also adapt the other two entries in Larsson’s widely popular Millennium Trilogy: “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.” Collectively the novels have sold over 40 million copies worldwide.
Sony Pictures has released the first full-length trailer for director Jonathan Liebesman’s (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Begining) alien-invasion feature Battle: Los Angeles … and it is good. The film stars Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight), Michelle Rodriguez (Machete), Michael Pena (Love Object), Jim Parrack (“True Blood”), Noel Fisher (Breaking Dawn), sexy newcomer Taryn Southern, and R&B pop artist Ne-Yo.
Described as Independence Day meets Black Hawk Down, the film takes its name from a supposed massive UFO sighting in Santa Monica, California said to have taken place on Feb. 25, 1942, just weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. According to UFO enthusiasts, the alien ship was attacked by the U.S. military under the belief that it was Japanese aircraft (read more about it here).
Hammer Films has set a Feb. 17 limited theatrical release date for its Hilary Swank thriller The Resident. To ensure folks show up, the studio has released a steamy trailer featuring a half-naked Swank in a bathtub.
While my brain sees through this obvious and cheap marketing ploy, my penis is holding its breath until I agree to take it to a showing. Well played Hammer. Well played.
Lena Headey is set to face off against Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby in director Pete Travis’ Dredd 3-D, a big screen adaptation of the U.K. comic-strip Judge Dredd. Headey is reportedly playing sinister gang-leader Madeline Madrigal (AKA: Ma-Ma).
The film, penned by Alex Garland (28 Days Later), is currently shooting in South Africa on a reported budget of $45 million and stars Urban and Thirlby as Mega City One judges Joe Dredd and Cassandra Anderson.
Headey is best known for her performances as the topless Queen of Sparta in Zach Snyder’s 300 and as Sarah Conner on the short-lived Fox series “Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles.” She has also starred in such notable frighteners as Laid to Rest, After Dark’s The Broken, Screen Gems’ The Cave, and Terry Gilliam’sThe Brothers Grimm.
Chloe Sevigny (“Big Love”) has made a career out of starring in art-house flicks made for college kids in skinny jeans and Wavves t-shirts and chain-smoking women with excessive body hair. Her indie chi is so strong that even a graphic blow-job scene in director/actor Vincent Gallo’s The Brown Bunny did nothing to harm her rep as a legitimate actress.
All Flowers in Time appears to be yet another “avant-garde” film for Sevigny, but calls to mind the “Twilight Zone” episode “It’s a Good Life,” in which a six-year-old boy named Anthony has the power to control the world and everyone in it by simply willing it.
Peep the trailer:
The film’s Sundance synopsis reads:
“I am not from this place” declares a French cowboy. An old toothless man asks, “Do you know why you’re here?”
These shape shifting personalities infect young children with an evil signal in the form of a Dutch TV show. The red eyed girls and boys believe they can now become other people and monsters much to their delight.
A French cowboy? OK, on second thought, this reminds me of the “South Park” episode “Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding.” In any case, this post was really just an excuse to post surprisingly hot bikini pics of Sevigny in Miami:
