Mary Elizabeth Winstead (10 Cloverfield Lane) is set to play Huntress opposite Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and and Jurnee Smollett-Bell’s Black Canary in director Cathy Yan’s (Dead Pigs) eagerly anticipated adaptation of DC Comics’ Birds of Prey.
Huntress is a former mafia princess who turns vigilante when her parents are murdered in a mob hit and goes on to join Birds of Prey, a sexy group of colorful female antiheroes. Together they face off against Gotham City crime lord Black Mask in Yan’s film.
Winstead made her horror film debut in 2005’s The Ring 2 and went on to star in a string of notable frighteners, including Final Destination 3, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, underrated remakes Black Christmas and The Thing, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and most recently 2016’s 10 Cloverfield Lane.
Twentieth Century Fox has released a first trailer for its eagerly anticipated X-Men film, The Dark Phoenix. Sophie Turner (“Game of Thrones”) plays mutant Jean Grey, who while on a rescue mission in space is struck by a cosmic force that gives her god-like powers she can barely control.
Making matters worse, Jean starts to hang with a bad crowd and transforms into Dark Phoenix, lashing out against her X-Men family and just being an asshole all around. Vehicles soon get tossed around and a bunch of X-Meny things happen as they try to work shit out and fight some other aliens too.
The Dark Phoenix arrives in theaters Feb. 14, 2019.
Blumhouse and Universal Pictures have set a Feb. 14 2019 release date 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.
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. New faces include Suraj Sharma (Life of PI) as a science geek and coder and Sarah Yarkin (”American Horror Story”) as his tomboy, nerdy cohort.
The original Happy Death Day has earned $123 million in worldwide coin.
A fun and final trailer has gone online for Hell Fest, a promising new slasher from director Gregory Plotkin (Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension) and producer Gale Anne Hurd (“The Walking Dead”) for CBS Films and Lionsgate.
Amy Forsyth (“Channel Zero”) plays a college coed visiting old friends who take her to a Halloween haunt, unaware there’s a masked maniac slaughtering the event’s patrons at will. The trailer is grindhouse-y and makes you wish the movie was too! Oh, well, at least it’s rated R.
Universal Pictures has released a thrilling new “heritage” trailer for the Blumhouse reboot of John Carpenter’s Halloween. David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) is at the helm and co-writes with longtime collaborator and actor Danny McBride (”Eastbound & Down”).
Halloween creator John Carpenter is an executive producer on the film and Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as iconic final girl Laurie Strode. Judy Greer (War for the Planet of the Apes) plays Strode’s daughter, Karen, and Andi Matichak (”666 Park Avenue”) is her hot granddaughter, Allyson.
The new film is set 40 years after the events of the original and finds Michael Myers escaping the asylum and returning to the small town where he massacred Strode’s friends on Halloween night. This time, however, she’s ready and waiting!
MGM wasn’t kidding about rebooting Child’s Play without Don Mancini, the film’s writer and helmer of its six sequels, and actor Brad Dourif, the voice of Chucky. The studio has announced sexy funny-girl Aubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West) as its star and tapped Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) to direct.
Most intriguing, however, is the first image revealed of Good Guy doll-gone-bad Chucky, now rumored to be a hacked AI programmed doll run amok (think homicidal Hello Barbie). It looks all right and the revamped story line sounds cool. It could all very well appeal to a new generation of fright fan raised on Annabelles.
But, if you prefer classic Chucky, don’t fret. Universal will continue to release the Don Mancini/Brad Dourif home edition sequels, which continue to get more outrageous and fun, and a ten-episode TV series.
Having helmed comedy classics Road Trip, Old School, and The Hangover franchise, writer/director Todd Phillips knows a thing or two about jokers. so, it’s with great enthusiasm that we wait to see his standalone Joker movie, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the iconic Batman villain.
Images and video of Phoenix in Joker makeup leaked this week and peeps are divided about the look. Why so serious? It’s not a dramatic makeover — underwhelming for some, exciting for others thrilled by its old school appeal.
Joker is set in New York City during the 70s and offers up an origins story not rooted in previous DC Comics lore, but presented as a “character study and cautionary tale” of a disregarded man.
Bella Thorne (The Babysitter) is taking us for a Ride on Oct. 5 with writer/director Jeremy Ungar’s feature film debut about a ride share driver who picks up a hot chick and convinces her to join him and another fare for an evening of partying. Shit hits the fan, however, when the second passenger pulls a gun on them.
Thorne, currently co-starring in the Purge-like, girls-with-guns satire Assassination Nation, is coming off McG’s dark comedy The Babysitter and Dimension Films Amityville: The Awakening, a reboot of the chilling 1979 classic. She also thrilled in MTV’s adaptation of Wes Craven’s Scream.
Netflix has released a trailer for its new original series The Haunting of Hill House, a supernatural drama about a group of siblings forced by a tragic event to return to the haunted house they grew up in and face the ghosts of their past both figuratively and literally.
Set to premiere Oct. 12, the series is helmed by Mike Flanagan, director of such notable horror hits as Ouija: Origin of Evil, Oculus, Absentia, Hush, and Gerald’s Game. Stunner Carla Gugino stars along with Timothy Hutton (The Falcon and the Snowman), Henry Thomas (E.T.), and Lulu Wilson, the creepy girl from Ouija: Origins of Evil.
Marvel Studios has released the first official trailer for its eagerly anticipated superhero epic Captain Marvel, starring Academy award winner Brie Larson (Room) as U.S. Air Force fighter pilot turned smoking hot heroine Carol Danvers (in the comics anyway).
Regrettably, the film has outfitted Larson in a costume resembling motocross gear, perpetuating the awful notion that women can’t be sexy and super. If that weren’t bad enough, the flick appears to be loaded with seizure inducing CGI.
