Europa has released a trailer for Fifth Element director and screenwriter Luc Besson’s new sci-fi epic Valerianand the City of a Thousand Planets, starring Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) and British stunner Cara Delevingne (Suicide Squad).
The trailer reveals a pretty fun looking ride complete with colorful landscapes and an odd and whimsical array of aliens, robots, and monsters. The only thing it appears to lack is a Leeloo-like outfit for model-turned-actress Delevingne. Here’s hoping they’re just keeping that under wraps.
A new trailer has gone online for Underworld: Blood Wars, the fifth installment in Screen Gems popular franchise pitting werewolves against vampires. Anna Foerster (”Outlander”) directs with Kate Beckinsale reprising her role as death dealer Selene.
Underworld: Blood Wars finds Selene protecting the coven of vampires that once exiled her as a criminal from a growing army of lycans under the leadership of a more powerful nemesis. Armed with her Blue Steele stare and shapely bottom, Selene goes to new lengths to defeat her enemy.
Scarlett Johansson stars in director Rupert Sanders’ (Snow White and the Huntsman) big screen adaptation of the Japanese manga Ghost in the Shell. Johansson plays The Major, a sexy special ops cyborg who in the manga has no qualms about killing people while nude.
Unfortunately, Paramount Pictures has squashed all hope of seeing a nude Johansson assassin with the release of a 13-second teaser revealing the fugly thermoptic suit Johansson will be wearing in place of going gloriously nude.
Peep the horrific suit:
Producer and asshole Avi Arad believes audiences will be satisfied to see Johansson in the suit and tells Collider blah, blah, blah.
Avi Arad said:
She’s not actually naked. This is a whole suit she’s wearing. The thermoptic. We’re not actually trying to pretend she’s naked. Some of the stuff she wears in the anime and the manga, when you make a movie things become much more literal.
If you’re in a world with someone walking around in a thong, we’re not in a world where that was going to feel natural. So we didn’t do it. But in cases when you’re being born… that’s why they call it the birthday suit.
Don’t know about you, but we don’t want to live in a world where beautiful women walking around in a thong isn’t natural. In fact, we think women in thongs should not only walk, but run, jump, stretch, do cartwheels, jump some more, fight, drive, fly, crawl, stand, sleep, and scoop ice cream.
Arad added:
We weren’t going to have Scarlett or The Major character running around naked in the action scene for a million reasons. It would be strange. It was also cool as there is a vulnerability wearing something like [the thermoptic suit].
No, Arad, it’s not cool. It’s not strange and it’s not cool. It could have been cool… but now it’s not.
Writer and director Shane Black will follow up his God awful and stupidly dull The Nice Guys with a new sequel in the often-lame-but-nowhere-near-as-lame-as-The-Nice-GuysPredator franchise for Twentieth Century Fox. Thankfully, he’s already made one awesome decision: Olivia Munn.
Olivia Munn has been cast to play a super-sexy scientist in The Predator, which Black co-wrote with Monster Squad and Night of the Creeps writer and director Fred Dekker. All other details are being kept under wraps, but here’s hoping Munn outlives them all or at least survives long enough for a shower scene.
Munn is coming off X-Men: Apocalypse as hot bad girl mutant Psylocke and co-starred in the exorcism drama Deliver Us From Evil in 2014. Her best and most frightening work remains Ghost Tits, the story of a man married to a woman with large breasts who awakens one morning to discover that her ample boobs never existed.
Warner Bros. released a second trailer for its eagerly anticipated Wonder Woman movie this week, immediately triggering more boring and bullshit feminist discussion over the character and her mission. Lord forbid she fall in love with a man or rely on help from his filthy penis-wielding kind to open a jar .
Wonder Woman will always be a hot chick in a hot shorts kicking lots of ass in the name of justice. That’s all she needs to be. That’s enough to inspire impressionable young women everywhere to be like her… at hot Halloween costume contests.
Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect) stars alongside Al Pacino (Scarface) and Karl Urban (Dredd) in Hangman, a serial killer drama from director Johnny Martin (Delirium), who said Snow brings “a fresh, instinctual presence to the production.”
Hangman stars Snow as a crime journalist following a decorated homicide detective (Pacino) and a criminal profiler (Urban) on the trail of a serial killer whose M.O. involves inspiration from the childhood game of Hangman. Cameras roll Nov. 17 in Atlanta.
Hangman marks Snow’s return to horror since 2012’s Would You Rather. She’s also starred in 2008’s remake of Prom Night, but is best known for her role in musical comedy franchise Pitch Perfect.
Sony Pictures and Skydance Media have released a trailer for Life, a star-studded sci-fi thriller from director Daniel Espinosa (Safe House) and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool). Cast includes Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine), and stunner Rebecca Ferguson (The Girl On the Train).
The film follows the crew of an international space station on the brink of discovering life on Mars. Unfortunately for them, that life is intelligent and deadly. The footage has a very cool Alien meets Gravity vibe. Reynolds is funny and Ferguson (pictured above) is always interesting to watch (did that sound creepy). Movie arrives May 26, 2017.
The 16th annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival came to a close last week with the announcement of its Skully Award Show winners. The Pierce Brosnan produced thriller My Father Die took home Best Picture and Best Director honors for writer/director Sean Brosnan.
“Big Bang Theory” star Johnny Galecki won Best Actor for his role in writer/director Babby Miller’s The Master Cleanse and Mimosa Williamo (tastiest name ever) earned Best Actress honors for acclaimed Finnish true-crime thriller Lake Bodom.
We were beyond bummed not to see Richard Bates Jr.’s Trash Fire recognized. Not only did the film feature powerful performances by leads Adrian Grenier (”Entourage”) and Angela Trimbur (The Final Girls), it arguably had one of the best dark comedy scripts in festival history.
The winners are:
Best Short – A Nearly Perfect Blue Sky Best Student Short – Pigskin – Jake Hammond Best Editing – Jason Eric Perlman & Sean Brosnan – My Father Die Best Actor – Johnny Galecki – The Master Cleanse Best Musical Score – Justin Small & Ohad Benchetrit – My Father Die Best Actress – Mimosa Williamo – Lake Bodom Best Makeup – Naomi Bakstad – The Master Cleanse Best Cinematography – Joe Dietsch – Happy Hunting Best Special FX – Nicholas Podbrey, Werner Pretorius & Creature FX Artists – The Master Cleanse Best Visual FX – George A. Loucas – The Master Cleanse Best Unproduced Screenplay – Plum Island – Matthew Lee Blackburn Best Director – Sean Brosnan – My Father Die Best Picture – My Father Die
Busty model Amber Jean is generating a healthy dose of buzz for Full Auto Films and Code 3 Films’ Christmas themed horror show, Massacre On Aisle 12. The movie follows a hardware store employee’s night when he discovers a dead body and a duffel bag of money on the job.
Massacre on Aisle 12 appears to be Jean’s movie debut. Aside from being a contestant on Latino network Telemundo’s sexy matchmaker game show “12 Corazones,” Jean’s creds are mostly of the modeling variety and can be perused on her website.
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has set a Dec. 20 release date for DVD and Blu-ray editions of Rob Zombie’s 31, a Halloween-set survival frightener pitting a group of abducted carnie folks against murderous clowns hired to hunt and slaughter them by their mysterious abductors.
The 31 Blu-ray and DVD includes the two-hour making-of documentary, “In Hell Everybody Loves Popcorn: The Making of 31,” and audio commentary from writer and director Rob Zombie.
The 31 cast is made up of Sheri Moon Zombie (Lords of Salem), Jeff Daniel Phillips (“Westworld”), Meg Foster (They Live), Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (”Welcome Back Kotter”), Richard Brake (Hannibal Rising), and Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork Orange).
