VH1 has released an action-packed, shriek-heavy trailer for its upcoming reality show “Scream Queens 2.” Hosted by actress Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine 3-D), acting coach John Homa, and genre director Tim Sullivan (2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams), the show will once again pit 10 sexy wannabe starlets against each other in horror-inspired challenges for a chance to win a speaking role in Saw 7.
Check it out:
“Scream Queens” debuted in October of 2008 and was originally hosted by Homa, director James Gunn (Slither), and Saw’sShawnee Smith. Acting novice Tanedra Howard dominated the season and went on to win a memorably gruesome part in last year’s criminally overlooked Saw 6.
“Scream Queens 2” premieres on VH1 on August 2 at 10 p.m.
Universal Studios Hollywood and director/rocker Rob Zombie are urging all aspiring horror filmmakers to enter their scariest short in the “Halloween Horror Nights – Rob Zombie Film Competition.” The winner will have their film premiere on Chiller TV, collect a $1000, and receive a trip for two to the opening night of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Entries must be submitted on DVD and be anywhere from 90-seconds to 3-minutes long (sorry, guys, sex videos with your wife/girlfriend don’t count, no matter how short and frightening).
To find out all the important info and rules, check out the press release:
The “Halloween Horror Nights – Rob Zombie Film Competition” offers filmmakers an opportunity to have their scariest short film judged by a panel led by the multi-media horror auteur, rewarded with a premiere showing on Chiller TV, a posting on SyFy.com, a $1,000 cash prize and a trip for two to the opening night of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Contest entries will be accepted from July 7 through August 14, 2010. Prospective filmmakers are invited to submit short films from 90 seconds to three minutes in length on DVD (two copies of each film must be submitted). Selected films will be judged by Rob Zombie, members of Universal Studios Hollywood’s “Halloween Horror Nights” team and horror industry professionals. Criteria will be storytelling skill, originality and the degree of a “good scare.” The top 10 shorts will be posted online at Halloween Horror Nights from September 3–17, 2010 for public voting.
The winning film will be announced on September 17. In addition to the prize and the broadcast of the film, the winning filmmaker will be honored in front of celebrities, studio executives and media at the Eyegore Awards ceremony, which will kick off the 2010 Halloween Horror Nights event at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Entries should be sent to “Halloween Horror Nights – Rob Zombie Film Competition,” 100 Universal City Plaza, Building 5511, Universal City, CA 91608.
What are thought to be nude photos of actress Anna Feris on the set of her new rom-com What’s Your Number? have been circulating the web faster than your sister’s upskirt pics. Reps for the Scary Movie star say that the naked girl in the shots is not Faris, but her body double.
I believe the reps because Feris, who has never done a nude scene on camera and has seen her career skyrocket after 2008’s The House Bunny, won’t need to show her pink sink until the only call on her agent’s machine is from Dimension Films looking to cast Scary Movie 20.
So, until then, let’s just roll with the fantasy and pretend Faris is a dirty little slut who would totally bang you if you were an extra on the set … an extra with a big cock and lots of cocaine.
Disney held the world premiere for Jerry Bruckheimer’sThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice yesterday at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City. Joining producers Jerry and Linda Bruckheimer on the red carpet were director JonTurteltaub and stars Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Teresa Palmer, and Alfred Molina.
To my penis’ discontent, Monica Bellucci, who plays Sorceress Veronica in the film, was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's Bellucci, dude?"
Other celebs spotted at the event included veteran actress Helen Mirren, new Twilight Saga star Xavier Samuel, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, Laura Michelle Kelly, “Top Chef Masters” host Kelly Choi, and a guy in a Mickey Mouse costume who was probably there to get close to Sorcerer’s 12-year-old actors Peyton List and Robert Capron.
Hub Productions held a huge “Vampire Diaries” convention on Sunday, July 4th in Melbourne, Australia. The event hosted raffles, auctions, and plenty of vendors selling highly coveted show-inspired merch.
For the thousand of fans in attendance, however, the day’s big score came in the form of a meet-&-greet with the series stars Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev, and that other guy who isn’t Ian Somerhalder, all of whom skipped out on celebrating the good ole’ U.S. of fucking A to be with their diehard fans from down under.
Along with signing autographs and posing for pictures, the actors shared anecdotes about the show, playfully ribbed each other, and even hinted at upcoming plot developments.
(Update: To see a new “Vampire Diaries” promo trailer showcasing Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore, click here)
“The Vampire Diaries” is writer-producer Kevin Williamson’s (Scream, “Dawson’s Creek”) adaptation of L.J. Smith’s popular novel series of the same name for the CW television network. The show follows high-schooler Elena Gilbert (Dobrev) as she’s courted by two vampire brothers (Somerhalder & that other guy).
If you’re a horror/sci-fi fan in your thirties, you’ll recognize actress Virginia Madsen from a number of genre classics including the 1984 big screen adaptation of Dune, Clive Barker’s 1992 frightener Candyman, Dimension’s 1995 rogue-angel thriller The Prophecy, and last year’s supernatural hit A Haunting in Connecticut.
Madsen is now set to star in director Catherine Hardwicke’s (Twilight) upcoming werewolf-thriller Red Riding Hood, a romantic re-imaging of the Brothers Grimm’s classic fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood.” The 48-year-old milf will play mother to Amanda Seyfried’s character.
Red Riding Hood (formerly entitled The Girl with the Red Riding Hood) is written by Orphan scribe David Leslie Johnson and costars Lukas Haas, Shiloh Fernandez, Julie Christie and Gary Oldman.
The film is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way for Warner Bros and is slated for a March 11, 2011 release.
Madsen's bust out role was in 1983's 'Class'
Madsen’s other notable genre creds include Electric Dreams (1984), Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), The Haunting (1999), and The Number 23 (2007). Your penis (if it’s in its 30’s) will also remember her from the 1983 teen-sex comedy Class, in which she made her major motion picture debut.
Madsen currently stars on ABC’s soon-to-be-canceled TV series “Scoundrels.”
Victoria Secret model-turned-actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was photographed in Los Angeles while on the set of Michael Bay’s Transformers 3. The shots, though not very exciting, do prove that Whiteley has got the talent to fill out a form-fitting mini-dress convincingly, which will make the plot of this toy-based movie all the more realistic.
Whiteley also rocks what appears to be a President Obama apron in some of the shots, suggesting the film is looking to make reparations for last year’s Revenge of the Fallen’s highly controversial blackface Autobots Skid and Mudflaps.
Whiteley replaces Megan Fox as Shai LeBeouf’s love interest in the film. Transformers 3 is slated for release on July 1, 2011.
Erika Christensen stars as a mother out for revenge in Twisted Pictures (Saw) first ever family film The Tortured. The film will have its world premiere at the 11th Annual Film4 Frightfest film festival in London (Aug. 26-30).
Directed by Rob Lieberman (Fire in the Sky), The Tortured stars Christensen and Jesse Metcalfe as a young married couple out to punish the murderer (Bill Moseley) who abducted their son. The movie’s trailer was debuted at last year’s AFM convention in Los Angeles.
The film marks a return to horror for Christensen, who currently stars on NBC’s family drama “Parenthood.” The pretty 27-year-old starlet’s fright credits include the 2005 thriller Flightplan and 2002 teen obsession-thriller Swimfan.
The day I finally overdose on cocaine (or Pixy Stix), I hope the last post I put up on this site is the most interesting, funniest, inspiring, sexiest, informative piece ever. I would hate to be eternally linked to a post about Lucy Lawless’ freakishly big areolas.
That said …
Anchor Bay Entertainment has set an Aug. 24 release date for the DVD and Blu-ray editions of director Michael Feifer’s low-budget thriller Abandoned. The film marks the final performance of late actress Brittany Murphy, who met her unfortunate drug-induced doom last Christmas at the age of 32.
Abandoned stars Murphy as a woman frantically trying to find her boyfriend after he disappears from a hospital during a routine procedure. The film costars Dean Cain (”Lois & Clark”), Kristen Kerr (Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane), and busty straight-to-DVD queen Mimi Rogers (Penny Dreadful).
No word from rental service Redbox on whether they will carry Abandoned at their crime-riddled kiosks locations, but chances are they will considering the box art isn’t quite as disturbing as Murphy’s second-to-last final movie Deadline.
Best know for her role as Lt. Blair Williams in 2009’s Terminator: Salvation, actress/model Moon Bloodgood has never fared too well on TV. The 34-year-old star of NBC’s time-traveling drama “Journeyman” and ABC’s time-altering thriller “Day Break” saw both series rapidly canceled (the latter after airing only six episodes) in ’06 and ’07 respectively.
Regardless, Bloodgood is making her return to television this year as child therapist Anne Glass in the Steven Spielberg produced TNT alien-invasion series “Falling Skies.” The show costars “ER’s” Noah Wyle, Jessy Schram, Drew Roy, The Fourth Kind’s Will Patton and The Last Airbender’s Seychelle Gabriel.
The official synopsis reads:
In FALLING SKIES, Wyle stars as a former college professor who becomes the leader of a group of soldiers and civilians struggling against an occupying alien force. Bloodgood co-stars as Anne Glass, a therapist who works with the surviving children to help them cope with the traumatic situation.
The series also Seychelle Gabriel as Lourdes, an orphaned teenager who helps run the group’s commissary. Will Patton plays a fierce leader of the resistance.
FALLING SKIES is executive-produced by Steven Speilberg along with DreamWorks Television heads Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank and screenwriter Robert Rodat.
Rodat, who earned an Oscar® nomination for his screenplay for Saving Private Ryan, wrote the pilot from an idea he co-conceived with Spielberg. Verheiden and Greg Beeman (Heroes, Smallville) are co-executive producers.
The pilot was directed by Carl Franklin (One False Move, Out of Time).
Bloodgood and Wyle will be part of a “Falling Skies” Q&A panel at Comic-Con on July 23.
TNT released a number of promotional stills from the show. Here you have some of the more interesting shots:
