Warner Bros. and MGM have set a March 16, 2018 theatrical release date for director Roar Uthaug’s Tomb Raider reboot, starring Alicia Vikander as iconic video game treasure hunter Lara Croft. This is fabulous news as I’m getting my hair washed on March 15, 2018 and would have missed the premiere!
Based on Square Enix’s 2013 reboot of the Tomb Raider video game, the new adaptation finds Vikander as a young and inexperienced, small-breasted Croft on her first big adventure. The Croft role was famously played by Angelina Jolie for Paramount in 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and 2003’s Cradle of Life sequel.
Vikander won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar this year for her role in The Danish Girl, but was actually seen by movie audiences in the sexy A.I. thriller Ex Machina. She also co-starred in the awesome, but overlooked, Man From U.N.C.L.E. remake andwill next be seen in this summer’s Jason Bourne.
Kiefer Sutherland is set to star in Sony Pictures’ remake of director Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners, a 1990 sci-fi thriller about med-school students conducting near-death experiments to see what lies in the afterlife. Sutherland, who starred in the original, will play a seasoned doctor in the redo reports Deadline.
Niels Arden Oplevscribe (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2009) is at the helm, working off a script by Ben Ripley(The Source Code). Joining Sutherland are Ellen Page (Juno), Diego Luna (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), James Norton (Rush), Kiersey Clemens (Neighbors 2), and Nina Dobrev (“Vampire Diaries”).
Despite its intriguing premise, Flatliners remains most notable for its impressive cast of then rising stars, including Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt. Produced for $26 million, the film grossed over $61 million domestically during its theatrical run.
Starz has released a trailer for season two of “Ash vs Evil Dead,” its hit small screen adaptation of Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead. The show is produced by Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, reprising his role as beloved antihero Ashley J. Williams.
Season one picked up 30 years after Ash’s last battle with the Deadites and sees him inadvertently conjuring them back during a sexual escapade. The new season finds our heroes healing from the trauma they’ve suffered while taking out demon scum one mutilation at a time.
Bond girl and “Narcos” actress Stephanie Sigman is starring in Annabelle 2, a James Wan produced sequel to the original Conjuring spinoff that saw the demonically possessed doll wreck havoc on a young family in 1969 Los Angeles.
Sigman plays Sister Charlotte in the film, an orphanage nun who takes refuge with her girls at a doll maker’s home when her facility is shut down. Things go from bad to worse when she and the orphans catch Annabelle’s attention.
Sigman first caught Hollywood’s eye in the Mexican crime thriller Miss Bala, in which she played an abducted beauty pageant contestant used as a mule by drug runners. A recurring role on the regrettably short-lived FX series “The Bridge” followed and led to Netflix’s Pablo Escobar drama “Narcos.”
Annabelle 2 marks the Mexican stunner’s second major movie release, having appeared as the first Mexican Bond girl in last year’s Spectre.
Radius TWC has released a trailer for outbreak thriller Viral. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Paranormal Activity 3 & 4) helm the film for Blumhouse and Dimension Films. “Gossip Girl” Sofia Black-D Elia (pictured) and Analeigh Christian Tipton (Warm Bodies) topline as sisters caught in a viral epidemic.
Viral follows sisters Emma and Stacey as a night of partying gets pooped on by “worm flu” carrier. They soon discover the outbreak of the parasitic virus has spread across their town and barricade themselves in their home. Unfortunately, one of them has fallen ill.
Sharni Vinson has faced her share of horror villains, from the brutal home invaders of You’re Next to a man-eating shark in Bait and she’s not taking it anymore! The Aussie stunner plays a hooligan hottie in From a House On Willow Street, a new frightener from director Alastair Orr (Indigenous).
From a House On Willow Street finds Vinson as part of a kidnapping duo who abduct the daughter of wealthy diamond distributor only to discover she’s possessed by an evil entity.
Horror fans were first introduced to Vinson in director Kimble Rendall’s awesome shark thriller Bait. Crossover recognition came soon after in Adam Wingard’s critically acclaimed home invasion thriller You’re Next. Vinson also starred in Mark Hartley’s underrated remake of Richard Franklin’s Patrick.
Model and actress Melissa Bolona stars in The Neighbor, a new thriller from director Marcus Dunstan and writer Patrick Melton, the talented and twisted duo behind white-knuckle frighteners Feast, The Collector and The Collection.
Set in Cutter, Mississippi, The Neighbor tells the terrifying tale of a man who finds his missing girlfriend in a neighbor’s house along with a group of kidnap victims and attempts to lead them to safety. Things get dicey when the neighbor gets home.
Joining Bolona in The Neighbor are Dunstan and Melton regular Josh Stewart (The Collector, The Collection) and stunners Alex Essoe (Starry Eyes), Jaqueline Fleming (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), and Heather Williams (Sorrow).
Kids are annoying little shits, but never more so than when they’re demonically possessed. Ugh, they’re insufferable… and powerful! A kid you can’t smack around or toss in a dumpster is truly a nightmare come to life.
That is why Ouija: Origin of Evil looks pretty damn frightening. A sequel to the 2014 original, the new film is set in 1965 Los Angeles and follows a single mom and the two young daughters she employs to run a seance scam. The youngest gets possessed and becomes a twitching, face-distorting brat.
The visuals are seriously disturbing and far more creepy than the original. Arrives Oct. 21.
HBO has released a full-length trailer for “Westworld,” a re-imagining of the 1973 sci-fi classic about androids run amok in an amusement park for humans to indulge in their lust for blood and sex. Noble endeavors are available too, but who would stand in line for that? Get us a FastPass to the brutality!
Bad Robot (”LOST”) and Jonathan Nolan (”Person of Interest”) produced. All-star cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, James Marsden, Rodrigo Santoro, and stunners Evan Rachel Wood (”True Blood”), Angela Sarafyan (Breaking Dawn), Thandie Newton (2012) and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (Hercules).
A new trailer has gone online for Sony Pictures’ Inferno, the third film in the Robert Langdon franchise based on the chart-topping novels by Dan Brown. Ron Howard returns to the helm with Tom Hanks reprising his role as the beloved Harvard symbologist. In theaters Oct. 28.
Inferno is adapted by David Koepp (Angels and Demons) and finds Langdon suffering from amnesia in Italy. Felicity Jones (Rogue One) plays Dr. Sienna Brooks, a roguish rebel out to destroy the Death Star … oh, wait, scratch that. She’s Langdon’s ally, helping him stop a plague inspired by Dante’s “Inferno.”
