Anne Hathaway is set to star as the Grand High Witch in director Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of the 1983 British children’s novel “The Witches” for Warner Bros. Coming off his criminally underrated Welcome to Marwin, Zemeckis will also write the film’s screenplay and produce alongside Alfonso Cuaron (Roma) and Guillermo del Toro.
Envisioned as an American period piece, The Witches is set in the Gothic South during the 60s and follows a young, orphaned boy taught to identify witches by his grandmother, a former witch hunter. The Grand High Witch rules over all witches and orchestrates a plan to turn children into mice to be killed like vermin.
Hathaway is coming off Nacho Vigalondo’s trippy sci-fi comedy Colossal. Her notable genre creds include the 2008 thriller Passengers, Tim Burton’s awful Alice In Wonderland, and Chris Nolan’s Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar.
HBO has released its first official teaser for the eighth and final season of its beloved fantasy series “Game of Thrones.” Set to run only six lengthy episodes, the show premieres April 14 and is described by producers as “an incredibly emotional haunting bittersweet final season.”
No new footage provided in the teaser, but the promo reminds us of the ordeal the Starks have suffered and the struggles still to come as the voices of Ned and Lyanna Stark speak to Jon Snow and Sansa and Arya Stark about…about…well, dammit, I don’t remember anymore! It’s been two years!
Sarah Michelle Gellar is dipping her foot back into the horror pool with the psychological thriller Sometimes I Lie, an adaptation of the international bestselling novel by Alice Feeney written for the screen by Robin Swicord (Curious Case of Benjamin Button).
Gellar plays a woman who wakes up in the hospital paralyzed and unable to speak nor open her eyes, but can hear those around her and suspects her husband is responsible for her condition. The show alternates between her present state, childhood memories, and the week before her accident.
Gellar, best known for her iconic turn as Buffy Summers in Joss Whedon’s hit series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” made quite a splash in horror early in her career, starring in blockbuster films The Grudge 1 & 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Scream 2. Maybe this is a step back in the right direction?
Netflix has set a Jan. 25 premiere date for its new original movie Polar, an adaptation of the Dark Horse graphic novel “Polar: Came from the Cold.” Mads Mikkelsen (“Hannibal”) continues his transformation into Liam Neeson, playing a retired hitman attempting to survive an onslaught of young assassins eager to collect the price on his head.
Vanessa Hudgens co-stars as his mousey neighbor out in the snowny woods where he’s taken refuge. She becomes a liability when she’s abducted by the killers in a ploy to draw him out. Hudgens has looked better, but it’s good to see the Machete Kills and Springbreakers stunner getting back to thrillers.
A new trailer has gone online for The Prodigy, a bad seed thriller from director Nicholas McCarthy (The Pact) and writer Jeff Buhler for Orion Pictures. Set to release Feb. 8, the film stars Taylor Schilling (“Orange Is the New Black”) as the tormented mother of a seemingly malicious eight-year-old boy, played by Jackson Robert Scott (IT).
Mads Mikkelsen has already achieved one impossible feat: reinventing Anthony Hopkins’ Oscar-winning role as Hannibal Lecter as an even more terrifying and memorable villain. Now…he faces polar bears and nature’s wrath in Bleeker Street’s Arctic.
Mikkelsen plays an airplane crash survivor who must risk his life on a perilious journey across the arctic in search of rescue. The film is slated for release on Feb. 1.
Anita Briem first stole our pervy little hearts in the extremely underrated 2008 Brendan Fraser hit Journey to the Center of the Earth. The Icelandic stunner played the film’s female lead, Hannah Ásgeirsson, a sexy and ass-kicking guide who takes Fraser on the adventure of a lifetime.
Now, a little more than a decade later, Briem returns in Zombeavers director Jordan Rubin’s new horror-comedy The Drone—about a newlywed couple tormented by a sentient drone driven by the sinister urges of a serial killer. Briem plays a sexy neighbor.
Blumhouse and Universal Pictureshave released a new trailer for Happy Death Day 2U, a sequel to its hit doom-loop thriller about a college student reliving the day of her murder and attempting to identify the masked killer responsible.
Set to release Feb. 2019, Happy Death Day 2U will reveal the mystery behind the time loop while delving into time travel. Christopher Landon returns to helm with star Jessica Rothe reprising her role—and showing off a killer bikini bod!
Netflix has set a July 4 premiere date for season three of its hit original series “Stranger Things.” The highly anticpated show wrapped filming some time ago, but its creators are making us wait because we rightfully hated the horrible seventh episode (“The Lost Sister”) of an otherwise stellar season two.
That’s our theory anyway and, yes, we’re pulling it out of our ass. Regardless of why the long wait, we most likely will forgive once the action starts and we find ourselves with the gang battling the evils of the upside down. Speaking of which…peep the thrilling new teaser premiered during New Year’s Eve.
The very best in female nude acting is once again celebrated in Clatto’s list of The 5 Hottest Nude Acting Performances of 2018. There were plenty of impactful nude roles for women this year that captured our hearts, imagination, and balls.
We salute these nude thespians and welcome you to comment, complain, and/or contribute in the comments. And, peep our lists for 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014.
5. MADELINE BREWER – CAM
Madeline Brewer plays a webcam girl who discovers a doppelgänger has taken over her show and online persona in CAM. Rather than get a real job, she sets out to solve the mystery. Brewer’s portrayal of a hot young woman desperately trying to avoid responsibility is so spot on it’s difficult to care for the misguided hooker. Fortunately, her boobs are nice enough to root for!
4. YVONNE STRAHOVSKI – THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Imagine a society where women have no rights and live solely as the property of men. That is the happy concept behind Hulu’s feel-good series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a small screen adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s delightful fairy tale…we kid!!!
Yvonne Strahovski stole the show this year with an episode that finds her sweet bottom mercilessly whipped by her husband for disobeying his wishes. Making the performance hotter…Yvonne describes it as “devastating to film. It was a real feeling of degradation that came over me as we shot that.”
Yes, we’re aware the scene isn’t nude…but the 2019 Emmy nominated performance is so gripping and disturbingly hot it transcends nudity and takes you straight to post climax guilt.
3. RILEY KEOUGH – THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
Elvis Presley’s granddaughter has had us itching like a man on a fuzzy tree since we peeped her in Mad Max: Fury Road and Starz’s “The Girlfriend Experience.” This year, she shook us up as the hot, unfortunate victim of a brutal serial killer in Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built.
Keough plays a girl who doesn’t believe Jack when he tells her that he’s a killer…not until he’s got her topless and plotting her demise!
2. JACQUELINE WRIGHT – EAT ME
Writer and actor Jacqueline Wright plays a hot and suicidal cougar who experiences rape, sodomy, golden showers, puppy-play, and just about all kinds of degradation at the hands of a grimey home invader, who’s surprised to discover she’s more fucked up than he is! Adding heat to this performance is the fact that all the perverse lunacy on display sprung from Wright’s mind—the film is an adaptation of her play!
1. DICHEN LACHMAN – ALTERED CARBON
Dichen Lachman made her nude debut this year on Netflix’s dystopian sci-fi series “Altered Carbon,” in which people can live forever so long as they can afford to upload their persona to clones and/or storage satellites.
Lachman goes completely nude for a sword fight between her character, Reileen Kawahara, and Martha Higareda’s Det. Kristin Ortega with the help of eight additional hot and nude female clones!
