When I heard that pop star Phil Collins had a daughter, I imagined her to be short, bald, and an excellent drummer. Imagine my surprise when I discovered she actually looked human (see above). Well, the surprises keep coming for yours truly.
Turns out Lily Collins is an actress and has just been cast as the lead in director Scott Charles Stewart’s (Legion) adaptation of author Cassandra Clare’s romantic teen-demon-slayer book series The Mortal Instruments. Collins will play Clary Fray, a 15-year-old girl with undiscovered supernatural powers who falls in love with a bad-boy “Shadowhunter” while attempting to rescue her mother from demons.
If that’s not enough to get tween girls’ hearts aflutter, Clare’s book cover looks like this:
“City of Bones” is the first book in “The Mortal Instruments” series.
Collins will next star in Stewart’s upcoming vampire-apocalypse frightener Priest. Her only other horror cred is last year’s white-woman-helps-black-kid-be-more-white update The Blind Side.
For those of you under the age of 25: Lily’s father, Phil Collins, ruined Genesis for hippies in the ’70s, but was embraced by generations to come with hits such as “In the Air Tonight,” “Sussudio,” and the R&B classic “Easy Lover” with Philip Bailey.
DreamWorks said knock you out. I’m gonna knock you out … with the first teaser trailer for the studio’s upcoming robot-boxing actioner Real Steel.
Set in a future where human boxing is no longer legal, the film stars Hugh Jackman as a former boxer-turned-fight-promoter who reunites with his estranged 11-year-old son to build a dueling robot for a tournament.
Evangeline Lily (“LOST”) costars in the movie as Jackman’s attractive friend with breasts. If you look closely, you can see her cheering in the audience. It’s a brief moment, but she does have her mouth open look pretty.
The photos do provide first looks at “Deadwood’s” Ian McShane as the notorious pirate Blackbeard and Penelope Cruz as his daughter Angelica (pictured above). Johnny Depp is also showcased as Capt. Jack Sparrow in a series of humorous predicaments.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Rob Marshall, the man behind such lavish productions as Memoirs of a Geisha, Nine, and the Oscar-winning musical Chicago.
DreamWorks has released a two-minute-plus teaser trailer for Michael Bay’s eagerly anticipated sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon, arriving in theaters on July 1, 2011.
Word from middle aged asthmatic men who have never felt a woman’s insides is that the Transformer found on the moon is mechanoid Alpha Trion, one of the original 13 Transformers created by Tranny god Primus.
Peep it up:
So, is it Alpha Trion? I grew up on Kenner Star Wars toys so I’m obviously too cool to know.
Fans of French cinema and femme fatals will remember actress Anne Parillaud as the titular assassin in director Luc Besson’s 1990 actioner La Femme Nikita. Parillaud’s emotionally and physically balls-out performance quickly launched her career in the Hollywood, leading to roles in the 1992 John Landis vampires-vs-gangsters offering Innocent Blood and the 1998 Randall Wallace adventure The Man in the Iron Mask.
Parillaud, still very hot at 50, continues to work in mostly French productions. In Their Sleep, written and directed by Caroline and Eric du Potet, is no exception. Thankfully for those of us in the States, IFC Midnight is making the horror thriller available via VOD (Time Warner, Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Bright House) on Friday.
The film’s official synopsis reads:
After the brutal death of her 18 year-old son, Sarah’s (Parillaud) life is in pieces. Late one night, her car accidentally hits Arthur, a young man the same age as her boy, who suddenly emerges out of the forest and onto the road. Wounded and frightened, he is running from a mysterious assailant, hunting him down after Arthur caught him red handed in the act of burglary…
Sarah sympathizes with him, taking him in, only to be tracked down by the burglar whose murderous rage towards Arthur forces her to take action. Unbeknownst to Sarah, things aren’t quite the way they seem… but by the time she finally realizes, it is too late to turn back.
“Friday Night Lights” star Aimee Teegarden will be playing haunted house with Dennis Quaid in director Martin Guigui’s Beneath the Darkness. The film is currently shooting in Smithville, Texas and costars Tony Oller, Stephen Lunsford, Devon Werkheiser, the very sexy Amber Bartlett, and Melody Chase (A Scanner Darkly).
Beneath the Darkness follows a 16-year-old boy struggling with the death of his best friend as he sets out to expose the “secrets” of a local haunted house.
Teegarden most recently completed work on Wes Craven’s upcoming sequelScream 4. She also guest starred as a teenage confessor in the “Touched” episode of ABC Studios’ fantasy TV series “Legend of the Seeker.”
The MPAA has banned the poster for director Stevan Mena’s indie-slasher Bereavement over its depiction of a six-year-old boy carrying a very big knife alongside the serial murderer who abducted him (shown above). The film is a prequel to Mena’s 2005 feature film debut Malevolance.
He tells Fangoria:
The MPAA has banned the poster for depicting a child holding a weapon. It’s hugely disappointing, because that poster really encapsulated the plot of the film with an intriguing image. It’s a real setback for us, considering the challenges we already face competing for attention with a small budget.
The film’s synopsis reads:
In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors. Chosen at random, his victim’s screams were drowned out by the rural countryside.
For five years, Martin’s whereabouts have remained a mystery, until 17 year old Allison Miller (Alexandra Daddario) comes to live with her Uncle, Jonathan (Michael Biehn). While exploring her new surroundings, Allison discovers things aren’t quite right at the farmhouse down the road. Her curiosity disturbs a hornet’s nest of evil and despair that once torn open, can never be closed.
Personally, I think the MPAA have read the poster all wrong. Yes, it conveys the film’s horrific plot, but it also speaks to how rewarding it is to mentor children. Sure, teaching a kid how to gut a hot chick isn’t going to provide much of a future for that kid, but it would boost the killer’s self esteem, something they commonly lack. Just saying.
Albanian born actress Alma Saraci is set to star in writer/director John Regan’s Robin Hood-inspired vampire thriller Sherwood Horror. The 26-year-old upstart will play the vampire maiden Marion.
The synopsis reads:
Ex-con Rob Locksley returns home after a six-year absence to find his town under the rule of vampires. He must join forces with his old roughneck hunting buddies to wage war against the evil Sheriff and his horde of blood-sucking minions.
Saraci will take on the role of Marian, an elitist vampire, who is taken hostage by Locksley and his companions and begins to see Rob as someone worthy of being by her side.
Cameras are expected to roll on this disaster next year in Virginia.
To see Saraci in action, check out the direct-to-DVD releases Don’t Look Up, Diary of a Serial Killer, and 666: The Beast.
A creepy new trailer for director Brad Anderson’s (Sessions 9) The Vanishing on Seventh Street has appeared online. The film stars Hayden Christensen (Jumper), Thandie Newton (2012), John Leguizamo (The Happening), and pretty newcomer Jordan Trovillion as survivors of a mysterious event that appears to have disintegrated most of the earth’s population.
Peep it:
The footage is definitely engaging and the plot seems intriguing (kind of like ABC’s “FlashForward” minus the unionized extras). I also like the shot of Christensen stepping on a pair of eyeglasses as he exits a building to find that he is alone in the city, and imagine that it is a nod to the “Twilight Zone” episode “Time Enough at Last.”
Horror movie queen Amber Heard dropped some unexpected news this weekend while walking the red carpet at GLAAD’s 25th anniversary party in Hollywood: She likes girls.
I think GLAAD is one of the many reasons that I, as a 24-year-old, can come out. I think that organizations like GLAAD make that possible because if it weren’t for opinions being changed, people being influenced, people being engaged to do the right thing, then there would be no prerogative for anyone to come out.
I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but I’m with who I’m with, I love who I love and I’m if not a better actress than I was yesterday and my personal life should have no effect on that. I think that the injustice of people staying in the closet is more than I can bear with a clear conscience and I couldn’t sleep at night if I was a part of that problem, if I was part of the lies.
I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you’re inadvertently admitting it’s wrong. I don’t feel like I’m wrong. I don’t feel like millions of people are wrong because they love who they love or they were born how they were born.
If your penis is like mine (large and bulbous), Heard’s revelation has probably caused it to have mixed feelings. But, rather than focus on the defection of Heard’s vagina to tuna town, we should instead imagine Heard making sweet, sweet love to someone like Odette Yustman underneath a waterfall while little birds chirp Linda Perry songs (that’s how lesbians have sex right?).
Oops. There goes that fantasy:
Amber Heard & Girlfriend Tasya van Ree
Heard will play it straight next year in the Nicolas Cage supernatural-actioner Drive Angry 3-D. She can also be seen this month opposite Yustman in Studio Canal’s abduction thriller And Soon the Darkness. Her additional horror creds include Zombieland, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, The Stepfather, and John Carpenter’s upcoming all-girl thriller The Ward.
