Lionsgate has released the first official full-length trailer for its upcoming sequel Saw 3-D. Directed by Kevin Greutert, the seventh entry in the franchise Guinness World Records named the Most Successful Horror Series of all time is said to be its last.
The trailer plays up the 3-D angle, but I’m eager to find out what Det. Hoffman is going to do after being left for dead by Jill Tuck at the end of part six. I’m also eager to see the return of Dr. Gordon (Carey Elwes) and the scene teased on the Saw 6 Blu-ray featuring Amanda Young warning a captive Corbett (test subject Jeff’s tween daughter in Saw 3) about the man who will eventually show up to save her, namely Hoffman.
TV starlet Reagan Dale Neis (“A Minute with Stan Hooper”) stars in award-winning filmmaker Drew Daywalt’s new horror-short Doppelganger. The 33-year-old actress plays a woman who receives a disturbing call from someone who is either her husband or his evil double.
Take a look:
Sadly, Doppelganger’s payoff didn’t really do much for me. I’m especially disappointed because—up until the end—I was really creeped out and expected to see some kind of disturbing conclusion along the lines of Daywalts’ Suicide Girl and the truly chilling Bedfellows. That said, I really can’t wait to see a full-length feature film from this guy.
Daywalt is one of the founding members behind the indie-horror troupe Fewdio. He recently completed a 17-episode web series entitled Camera Obscura for MGW Entertainment.
Photos of actress January Jones on the set of director Mathew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class have hit the web. The shots feature the “Mad Men” star in her Emma Frost costume while shooting a scene in a helicopter and enjoying a juicy slice of melon (pictured above).
Jones beat out British babe Alice Eve for the part in an eleventh hour casting decision. She joins a cast that includes James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw, Rose Byrne as Moira, Nicholas Hoult as Beast, Caleb Landry as Banshee, and Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique.
Twentieth Century Fox plans to have the film in theaters on June 3, 2011.
French actress Zoe Felix is headlining director Yann Gozlan’s new abduction-thriller Captifs. The 33-year-old starlet plays a nurse taken captive while doing humanitarian work in Eastern Europe.
Take a peek:
The film’s official synopsis reads:
Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons.
Held captive, cared for and kept alive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners soon discover with horror what their kidnappers truly have in store for them.
I don’t care if this movie is about croissants and snails. If there’s a woman in a cage, I’m there.
Captifs, which was originally entitled Caged, arrives in France on Oct. 6. No word yet on a U.S. release date.
British actress Gemma Arterton was recently photographed in a bikini while on holiday at the beach. The 24-year old starlet caught some sun and fun on a boat with a guy who isn’t nearly as cool as you.
Who am I kidding? That dude totally got some Arterton nookie … and by nookie I mean anal sex and the kind of sexual high jinks seen in her erotically-charged abduction thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed.
Mexican actress Patty Navidad is best known in Latin America for her starring roles in a string of Spanish soaps including “La Fea Mas Bella,” which was adapted for American TV as ABC’s half-hour comedy “Ugly Betty.”
So, what is she doing on your beloved Clatto?
Well, aside from the fact that many of these posts are written by my penis (it majored in English Lit at UCLA), Navidad starred in an episode of Univison’s “Mujeres Asesinas,” Mexican producer Pedro Torres procedural about bloodthirsty, homicidal women that kill over feelings of scorn, jealousy, greed, fear, and/or pure evil.
A cross between “Desperate Housewives” and “CSI,” the show is on its second season and features many of Latin America’s sexiest starlets.
Navidad (which translates to mean Christmas) is featured in the September issue of H: Para Hombres magazine. Below, you’ll find some of the more provocative shots from the layout.
Indie starlet Olivia Thirlby has been booked to star in director Pete Travis’ (Vantage Point) adaptation of the U.K.’s Judge Dredd comic series. Thirlby will play Dredd’s telepathic rookie partner Judge Cassandra Anderson.
The film—entitled Dredd—stars Karl Urban in the titular role and is written by Alex Garland (28 Days Later). Unlike the 1995 Sly Stallone vehicle, Dredd aims to be grittier and more faithful to the source material.
The official synopsis reads:
DREDD takes us to the wild streets of Mega City One, the lone oasis of quasi-civilization on Cursed Earth. Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is the most feared of elite Street Judges, with the power to enforce the law, sentence offenders and execute them on the spot – if necessary.
The endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Pete Travis bring DREDD to life as a futuristic neo-noir action film that returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra’s revered comic strip.
Dredd is budgeted at $45 million and will be shot in 3D. Cameras are set to roll later this year in South Africa.
Thirlby also stars in producer Timur Bekmambetov sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour.
A gleefully gory and just plain fucked up trailer for newcomer Jason Eisener’s eagerly anticipated bloodbath actioner Hobo with a Shotgun has hit the web. The film stars iconic mofo Rutger Hauer as a homeless Travis Bickle-type out to wash the trash off the sidewalk with some buckshot.
Take a look, scumbags:
The film’s synopsis reads:
A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city’s crime boss reigns.
Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how – with a 20-gauge shotgun.
Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice will indeed prevail.
Like Robert Rodriguez’s Machete, Hobo with a Shotgun was first produced as a faux-trailer in 2007 by Eisener for a SXSW competition held to promote Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s collaborate effort Grindhouse.
Warner Bros. have released the first images from director Chris Peckover’s timely and sure-to-be controversial thriller Undocumented. Written by Peckover and Joe Peterson,the film follows a group of young filmmakers forced to document the torture and murder of the captured immigrants by a group of vigilante “patriots” in New Mexico.
I was fortunate enough to have crashed a screening of Undocumented back in December. While the film has the potential to make Arizona governor Jan Brewer and her supporters wet, most moviegoers will be horrified by the film’s premise, enthralled by its execution, and thrilled by the performances.
“Dexter” star Michael C. Hall was photographed this week while filming what appears to be a sleight-of-hand scene for the critically acclaimed Showtime series. The action takes place at a beach side hotel in Miami and finds Dexter attempting to distract a fed’s attention from a black luggage bag.
Unfortunately, the actor playing the fed does not have a vagina and, therefore, makes it difficult for me to feel motivated enough to put in the research time to identify him. But, hey, he looks like fine thespian.
“Dexter” returns this fall for season 5 with plenty of new faces including Julia Stiles (The Omen), Peter Weller (RoboCop), April Lee Hernandez (”ER”), Maria Doyle Kennedy (”The Tudors”), Johnny Lee Miller (Mindhunters), and Shawn Hatosy (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans).
