The Los Angeles premiere for Warner Bros. new provocative sci-fi frightener Splice was held last night at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA.

Among those in attendance were director Vincenzo Natali (Cube), producer Guillermo del Toro, and stars Adrien Brody and Delphine Chanéac (the hot hybrid chick).

Other celebs on hand included Robert Downey Jr., “True Blood’s” Mehcad Brooks, producer Joel Silver, skateboarder Tony Hawk, and Kenny G. (who looks like Brody in a bad wig).

Pictured: Vincenzo Natali, Delphine Chaneac, Guillermo del Toro

Splice stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as ethically-compromised geneticists who successfully splice human and animal DNA to create a hybrid female named Dren.

The film opens in theaters tomorrow.

Photos courtesy of Zimbio.

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The Broken Bells have released a music video for their song “The Ghost Inside,” starring “Mad Men’s” Christina Hendricks.

The sci-fi themed video follows a busty android (Hendricks) looking to retire at an intergalactic resort community after having spent years doing android-ey things.

Take a look:

Hmm. I like the concept. And, the production looks very cool. However, there are a couple of changes that I feel would benefit the video tremendously, namely replacing that gay-ass song with something by Slayer or Rob Zombie and putting Hendricks’ giant breasts in a tiny sling-bikini.

Personally, I don’t understand why the Broken Bells would keep Hendrick’s rack under wraps? This would never happen in a Motley Crue video. Fuck the Bells!

Sir Ben Kingsley took a moment out of promoting Prince of Persia and his other knightly duties to clown big-titty, wannabe-actress Heidi Montag on Funny Or Die.

The bit, a parody of Montag’s unsolicited Transformers 3 audition video, features Kingsley nervously addressing Michael Bay as he too pleads for a role in the highly-anticipated sequel while juggling a gun and, of course, a cup of tea.

Enjoy:

Kiefer Sutherland is in talks to join his “24” costar Katee Sackhoff (“Battlestar Galactica”) in director Sxv’leithan Essex’s (pronounced: douche-bag) feature film debut Growl.

The film revolves around a group of underground brawlers who meet their match when they encounter a family of werewolves while traveling through a ghost town in the Colorado Rockies.

Essex explains to ShockTillYouDrop:

It’s Fight Club versus werewolves. Two of my favorite things thrown in the ring to see what will come out alive.

But what I love most about it is its completely character driven. I started writing and wanting to direct after seeing Aliens in theaters and how James Cameron made you care about the characters who would eventually be in peril.

I love the characters in Growl like they are my family and it sucks to have to kill some of them off. But they do die some glorious deaths.

Growl is currently shooting in Los Angeles. The film costars Jennifer Lee Wiggins (Bled), Josh Kelly (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), Paul Bean, and Mark Sherman.

Sutherland, meanwhile, is wrapping up director Lars Von Trier’s (Antichrist) end-of-the-world sci-fi thriller Melancholia with costar Kirsten Dunst.

The 43-year-old actor’s notable genre creds include Alex Proyas’ surreal sci-fi-thriller Dark City, Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors, D.J. Caruso’s Taking Lives, the 1993 remake of The Vanishing, and, of course, Joel Schumacher’s 1987 vampire classic The Lost Boys.

Sutherland also turns in a memorably deranged performance in Mathew Bright’s twisted Little Red Riding Hood re-imagining entitled Freeway (a must-see).

Milla Jovovich tweeted a very special valentine to fans of Sony Screen Gems’ insanely popular Resident Evil franchise.

She tweets:

So to answer many of your questions in one fell swoop, yes! The gorgeous and talented Sienna Guillory is back as Jill Valentine in RE4!!!

Guillory first played Jill Valentine in 2004’s Resident Evil: Apocalypse, her first lead role in a major American film. Other creds include New Line Cinema’s fantasy-adventure Inkheart, 20th Century Fox’s dragon-thriller Eragon, indie-frightener Superstitious, and Warner Bros’ adaptation of H.G. Wells’ ‘The Time Machine.

Resident Evil: Afterlife 3-D was shot by original RE director Paul W.S. Anderson utilizing the same “3-D  fusion camera system” used by James Cameron on Avatar. The film arrives in theaters on Sept. 10.

TV actress Olga Fonda (“Entourage,” “Nip/Tuck”) has been cast in DreamWorks’ upcoming sci-fi-actioner (and terribly named) Real Steel. She joins a cast that include Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lily, Anthony Mackie, Hope Davis, James Rebhorn, and Kevin Durand.

Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as a former boxer-turned-fight-promoter who reunites with his estranged 11-year-old son to build a robot to compete in a robot-boxing tournament. The film is set in the future where human boxing matches are no longer legal and have been replaced by combating machines.

No word on what role Fonda plays, but the film is one of two high-profile projects for the sexy upstart (Little Fockers is the other).

Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum). It swings into theaters on Nov. 18, 2011.

Victoria’s Secret has released a video congratulating its model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley on scoring the female lead in director Michael Bay’s Transformers 3. Whiteley replaces Megan Fox as Shia LaBeouf’s love interest in the film.

I’m getting the feeling that Transformers 3 is going to look like an underwear commercial with Chevy trucks. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Maybe even Labeouf will like this entry in the blockbuster franchise.

Transformers 3 is currently in production.

Say whatcha will about Tom Cruise, but the couch-hopping, Scientology-loving, non-aging megastar stole Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., and Jack Black’s (Tropic) Thunder in 2008. Now, he’s reprising the role of foul-mouthed Hollywood mogul Les Grossman in a series of MTV Movie Awards promos.

The latest spot finds Grossman spitting mad truth to Twilight Saga star Robert Pattinson in regards to his grooming.

Take a look:

The 2010 MTV Movie Awards air on Sunday, June 6 (check local listings for times).

Fashion model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was recently announced as Shia LaBeouf’s new love interest—replacing Megan Fox—in Michael Bay’s Transformers 3. Other than pretending to enjoy action star Jason Statham’s scrotum on her chin, Whiteley has zero acting experience.

So, what swayed Bay to cast her?

I don’t know, but the 23-year-old British babe did display some natural talent in January as the cover-girl for Spanish magazine “DT.”

Take a look:

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MGM’s money woes (the studio is up for sale) continues to delay production on Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. As a result, director/writer Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) has now officially departed from the project.

del Toro tells theonering.net:

In light of ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming The Hobbit, I am faced with the hardest decision of my life. After nearly two years of living, breathing and designing a world as rich as Tolkien’s Middle Earth, I must, with great regret, take leave from helming these wonderful pictures.

I remain grateful to Peter, Fran and Philippa Boyens, New Line and Warner Brothers and to all my crew in New Zealand. I’ve been privileged to work in one of the greatest countries on earth with some of the best people ever in our craft and my life will be forever changed.

The blessings have been plenty, but the mounting pressures of conflicting schedules have overwhelmed the time slot originally allocated for the project. Both as a co-writer and as a director, I wish the production nothing but the very best of luck and I will be first in line to see the finished product. I remain an ally to it and its makers, present and future, and fully support a smooth transition to a new director.

The Hobbit, which will be released as two separate films, was scheduled to begin production in the summer with part one tentatively slated for a December 2012 release.