A second trailer for Disney’s first standalone Star Wars feature Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has gone online. The eagerly anticipated film is directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) and tells the story of the Rebellion team tasked with stealing the plans to the Empire’s Death Star battle station.
As to be expected, the new footage is jaw-dropping. Tie Fighters, AT-ATs, Imperial Star Destroyers, the Death Star, and Darth “Oh, my God, it’s really him” Vader … the Empire is in full effect in this trailer. It’s absolutely enthralling!
Screen Gems debuted today a first trailer for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, the sixth and final installment in Paul W.S. Anderson’s blockbuster adaptation of the popular Capcom video game. Milla Jovovich toplines as resident ass-kicker Alice and Ali Larter returns as Claire Redfield, not seen since 2010’s RE: Afterlife.
The trailer promises everything Resident Evil fans expect and love: horrific monsters, big stunts, and an unhinged Alice doing what she does best – killing and surviving. Unfortunately, the use of Guns & Roses’ “Paradise City” is distracting and doesn’t mesh well with the action.
Picking up after the events of RE: Retribution, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter finds Alice returning to The Hive underground laboratory in Racoon City to fend off the Umbrella Corporation’s new attack against humanity’s survivors. Joined by new and old allies, she faces the undead and Umbrella’s army of mutant monsters. In theaters January 27, 2017.
eOne Entertainment has set a Dec. 2 VOD and home video release date for husband and wife producers Jennifer Blanc and Michael Biehn’s Hidden in the Woods, a remake of Chilean filmmaker Patricio Vallardes’ incest-fueled, rape-happy survival thriller En Las Afueras de La Ciudad.
Directed by Vallardes, the film starsElectra Avellan and Jeannine Kaspar as sisters repeatedly raped and tormented by their hooligan father until the day he’s sent to the pokey. The girls barely have time to pull up their knickers when their drug lord uncle shows up to collect the money their father owes him.
Lionsgate is set to unleash The Blair Witch on Sept. 16. Helmed by Adam Wingard (You’re Next), the film is a new sequel to 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, the groundbreaking granddaddy of found footage frighteners from co-directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez.
The Blair Witch follows James and a group of his college friends into Maryland’s feared Black Hills Forest in search of James’ sister, Heather, who disappeared there in 1994 while shooting a documentary on its legend of the Blair Witch.
Vertical Entertainment has released a trailer for The Remains, a haunted house thriller starring All Cheerleaders Die stunner Brooke Butler. Written and directed by newcomer Thomas Della Bella, the film finds a family tormented by the evil entity inhabiting their new Victorian home.
Butler made her horror debut in 2013 with All Cheerleaders Die and followed it up with the campy fright flick The Sand in 2015. The Remains released Aug. 5 and co-stars Todd Lowe (“True Blood”), Ashley Crow (“The Secret Circle”), and looker Lisa Brenner (The Patriot).
Resident Evil star Li Bingbing has wrapped the biggest budgeted Chinese and Australian co-production ever. Titled Nest, the creature feature is toplined by Bingbing and helmed by Kimble Rendall, director of the awesome shark thriller Bait.
Nest follows a group of scientists trapped in an ancient labyrinth with a swarm of man-eating funnel web spiders after making a monumental discovery. Co-stars include Kellan Lutz (Twilight) and Kelsey Grammer (”Frasier”).
Warner Bros. has reeled in Aussie actress Jessica McNamee (Loved Ones) to star alongside Jason Statham (Transporter) and Fan Bingbing (X-Men: Days of Future Past) in director Jon Turtletaub’s (National Treasure) upcoming shark thriller Meg.
Based on the 1997 Steve Alten novel “Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror,” the film follows a former Navy captain and deep sea diver (Statham) attempting to rescue scientists trapped deep in the Pacific’s Mariana Trench by a rare 70-foot Megalodon shark.
McNamee made her horror film debut in 2009’s abduction and torture thriller The Loved Ones. She’s also starred in the 2012 romantic drama The Vow and the USA television series “Sirens.” Meg arrives in theaters on March 2, 2018.
Relativity Media has released a new trailer for its long gestating supernatural thriller Before I Wake. The film centers on a child whose dreams and nightmares become reality, tormenting his adoptive parents who remain traumatized over the loss of their own child.
Kate Bosworth plays the boy’s adoptive MILF with Thomas Jane as her loving husband. Golden Glode nominee Jacob Tremblay (Room) is the boy and, wow, does he suck! Seriously, how was this kid nominated for a fucking Golden Globe, or any award? He’s terrible! The CGI is crappy too.
Blumhouse produces the Mike Flanagan (Oculus) directed and Jeff Howard (Ouija: Origin of Evil) penned frightener, co-starring Annabeth Gish (“The X-Files”), Dash Mihok (“Ray Donovan”), and stunner Scottie Thompson (Skyline). Look for it Sept.9.
“Fear the Walking Dead,” the once highly anticipated spinoff of AMC’s brilliant “Walking Dead” series, limps its way back to our screens on Aug. 21 to complete its miserable second season. The series debuted in 2015 to a promising start, but is now plagued by its unlikable characters and dull storylines.
AMC has released a trailer for the show’s mid-season premiere and unfortunately we’re still stuck with the world’s most boring and annoying protagonists. One can only hope they meet their end and we get a new batch of survivors to cheer on.
But, who are we kidding? We’ll be watching. We have to. We love TWD universe. Besides, the show is going to Mexico and those hotel scenes look sick. We also want to know more about Salazar’s (Ruben Blades) background in Salvador. And, though she’s stupidly annoying as Alicia Clarke, Alycia Debnam-Carey (pictured) is nice to look at.
A&E has announced the upcoming fifth season of “Bates Motel” as its last. The acclaimed show is a re-imagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho from producers Carlton Cuse (”LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin’s (”Friday Night Lights”).
The sad news was made during this year’s SDCC and brought with it a surprise casting announcement: pop singer Rihanna will play Marion Crane, the infamous Norman Bates victim murdered in the shower and played in the original Psycho film by Janet Leigh.
Cuse said:
We wanted to thrust the iconic role into a contemporary spotlight and redefine it in a meaningful and exciting new way. We also heard Rihanna was a fan of the show, and we were huge fans of hers, so it was the perfect collision of creativity and fate.
Well … at least it wasn’t Lady GaGa. Rihanna’s acting creds include a small role in the 2012 flop Battleship and cameos in This Is the End, Annie (2014), and Bring It On: All or Nothing. She’s sold more than 200 million records and won 8 Grammys.
