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Movie monster Pumpkinhead has fallen on hard times. The eponymous star of the Stan Winston 1988 classic creature-feature and its many DVD sequels can be seen pitching Kellog’s Raisin Bran Crunch cereal on British TV. Though he’s taken on the alias Miles Melman, there’s no mistaking good old Pumpkie.
Clare Grant (“Sexy Nightmare Slayers”) and Jillian Murray (Forget Me Not) play sisters out to survive a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in comic artist-turned-director Brian Pulido’s debut horror feature The Graves, set to premiere on Jan. 29 as part of After Dark Horrorfest’s fourth annual “8 Films to Die For” film festival.
The synopsis reads:
In The Graves, two inseparable sisters, Megan and Abby Graves, are taking one last wild road trip before Megan has to start a new job. The journey includes a trip through remote Arizona in search of a kitchy roadside attraction. Instead, Megan and Abby happen on Skull City Mine, a weather-beaten, abandoned mine town converted into a self-guided tour. What seems like a fun day in the sun turns into a mind-bending fight for survival against menaces both human and supernatural.
Costarring with Grant and Murray’s awesomely bouncy boobs are horror icon Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects), Lamb of God vocalist D. Randall Blythe, and Tony Todd (Candyman), who remains the world’s most giftless actor (why does this guy keep getting hired?).
Check out the boobies trailer:
Director Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park 3) has announced that there will be a fourth Jurassic Park movie and that it will most likely kickoff a new trilogy.
He tells Boxoffice:
There is going to be a Jurassic Park IV. And it’s going to be unlike anything you’ve seen. It breaks away from the first three—it’s essentially the beginning of the second Jurassic Park trilogy. It’s going to be done in a completely different way. That’s pretty much all I can tell you.
If they keep working—and if audiences keep going to them—there’s no reason why there wouldn’t be. We just want to make them justified in their own right. We don’t want to make sequel after sequel just because there’s a market for it. We want to tell different, interesting stories. You don’t want to just sell hamburger.
Johnston first hinted at the possibility of a fourth installment in Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur-adventure series last November when he expressed interest in directing the film. Universal Pictures has yet to officially confirm the project.
In the meantime, you can catch Johnston’s reboot of The Wolfman, starring Benicio del Toro and Emily Blunt, on Feb. 12.
Jennifer Love Hewitt is the star of the CBS program “Ghost Whisperer,” a paranormal-themed show for the over 80 demographic. The perky actress was on the Lopez Tonight show on Tuesday night to promote her new book The Day I Killed Cupid. Decked out in a hot pink mini-dress, Hewitt discussed her big ass and the joys of vaginal bling.
Hewitt tells George Lopez:
After a breakup, a friend of mine Swarovski-crystalled my precious lady. It shined like a disco ball so I have a whole chapter in there on how women should vagazzle their vajayjays.
Check out the interview:
There may be more than meets the eye when Transformers 3 makes its way to theaters in 2011. Production on the epic sci-fi actioner begins in May and could very well be in shot in 3D if Paramount Pictures and executive producer Steven Spielberg have their way. Director Michael Bay, however, isn’t a big fan of the whole 3-D craze and is said to be holding off on the idea.
At last year’s ShoWest theater owners’ convention, Bay said:
The way I shoot is too aggressive for 3D cameras. It’s a time consuming thing. Who knows… It might be a fad. I’m kinda old school. I’m old school because I like to shoot on film. I like anamorphic lenses, and that is old school.
While a script is yet to materialize, it’s reported that Shia Labeouf will reprise his role as Optimus Prime’s BFF. Also returning to the fold is Megan Fox, whose highly publicized criticism of Bay and the Transformer films stirred up speculation of an inevitable early onscreen demise (a nasty open-letter rebuttal from Bay’s production team to Fox fanned the flames further).
Transformers 1 & 2 have earned a combined cume of over $1.5 billion worldwide. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen was also named the bestselling DVD/Blu-ray of 2009.
Transformers 3 is tentatively slated for release on July 1, 2011.
“Dexter” star Michael C. Hall made his battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma public today in a surprising statement to the press.
Hall says:
I feel fortunate to have been diagnosed with an imminently treatable and curable condition, and I thank my doctors and nurses for their expertise and care.
A spokesperson for the 38-year-old actor says the cancer is in complete remission and that Hall will continue treatment as planned. It was not made known when Hall was diagnosed nor at what Los Angeles based hospital.
Hall will begin to shoot season five of the hit Showtime show “Dexter” later this year. He is nominated for a Golden Globe award for his portrayal of serial killer Dexter Morgan and is scheduled to attend the ceremony on Sunday with his wife and costar Jennifer Carpenter.
Director Eli Craig flips the script on the hillbilly genre to give us the hilarious and unique horror-comedy Tucker and Dale VS Evil. The film centers on two good-natured country hicks trying to survive the wrath of vacationing college kids who have mistaken them for killers. Tucker and Dale premieres this month at the Sun Dance Film festival, but you can pee your pants watching this clip right here:
Tucker and Dale VS. Evil stars Alan Tudyk (“Firefly”), Tyler Labine (“Reaper”), Katrina Bowden, Chelan Simmons (Final Destination 3, Malibu Shark Attack), Brandon Jay McLaren (Tron: Legacy, “Harper’s Island”), Christie Laing (Scary Movie 4), and Sasha Craig (Dark Wolf). To see a gallery, click here.
Ivan Reitman ain’t afraid of no ghosts. The veteran director is stepping up to helm the long-awaited third chapter in the Ghostbusters series. Writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky have completed and submitted a first draft of the script and are currently working with Reitman on a second.
Reitman told MTV today:
They have delivered a draft. We are working our way through another draft… good work is being done and all of us have our fingers crossed.
Details about the first draft were leaked in December by Ghostbusters alum Sigourney Weaver, who spilled the beans on Bill Murray returning as a ghost among other plot points.
To that, Reitman said:
I’m not going to comment on what’s in the script and on what Sigourney may or may not have said. There’s some very cool things in the new draft, let’s just put it that way. I hope to start shooting in this next year.
The original Ghostbusters was released in 1984 and grossed over $290 million worldwide. Ghostbusters 2 grossed over $215 million worldwide in 1989. Both films were directed by Ivan Reitman and starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, and Sigourney Weaver.
Mama Mia!
Amanda Seyfried has left Jennifer’s Body behind and is moving on to Julianne Moore’s in the Studio Canal psychological thriller Chloe, a remake of the French film Nathalie. The 24-year-old actress plays a call-girl hired by Moore, 49, to seduce her husband and, consequently, report back on their kinky sexual escapades. Liam Neeson stars as Moore’s husband.
Seyfried—God bless her for not being prudish like Natalie Portman—goes nude for the part, showing off both her tit-tays and tush. She also gets freaky with a very milfy Moore in an emotionally intense lesbian scene.
Chloe is directed by Atom Egoyan and penned by Erin Cressida Wilson, writer of the outrageous and sexually-charged cult classic Secretary. Check out the followin trailer to get a sneak peek at a nude Seyfried:
Coincidentally, this is the film Liam Neeson was working on when his wife Natasha Richardson died after suffering a head injury while skiing in Quebec.
The 57-year-old Irish bastard is having an impressive run of roles opposite hot, young actresses willing to lose their clothes in indie fare. Prior to Chloe, Neeson starred as a creepy mortician out to torment a naked Christina Ricci in Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s After.Life.
Chloe is slated for release in early 2010. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group holds the North American rights.