A new trailer has gone online for Lionsgate’s adaptation of author Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an outrageous re-imagining of the Jane Austin novel Pride and Prejudice, in theaters Feb. 5, 2016.
The film follows Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) and her sisters as they wrestle with morality, manners, and the undead in 19th century London. Co-starring as Elizabeth’s hot sisters are newcomers Ellie Bamber and Millie Brady, Bella Heathcote (Dark Shadows), and Suki Waterhouse (Insurgent).
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was published in 2009 by Quirk Books and garnered positives reviews and big sales, cracking the New York Times bestseller list. Burr Steers (Igby Goes Down) is at the helm.
Caitlin FitzGerald (“Masters of Sex”) stars in Mercy, a home invasion thriller from director and Buried scribe Chris Sparling for Netflix. She joins a cast that includes James Wolk (“Mad Men”), Tom Lipinski (“The Following”), Michael Godere (“The Affair”), and Dan Ziskie (“Treme”).
Mercy follows four estranged brothers gathered together at their childhood home to care for their dying mother. The bros get all kinds of emotional as family secrets are revealed up until the home invasion happens and things get good… we assume.
FitzGerald is best known for playing William Masters’ wife Libby Masters on Showtime’s original series “Masters of Sex.” Netflix will release the film in theaters and exclusively on their streaming service.
Let’s face it… if you’re a dad, the best part of having kids is the babysitter you hire to look after them. But what if the nanny is flat out bonkers? Not bonkers like “I want you to leave your family for me,” but really crazy and out to hurt your rugrats?
That appears to be the situation in director Michael Thelin’s upcoming thriller Emelie, starring Sarah Bolger (“Into the Badlands”) as a last-minute hire brought in to babysit a married couples’ three young children. All goes well until the kids start questioning her odd behavior.
“Spartacus” star Viva Bianca is helping us ring in the New Year with the new slasher Minutes to Midnight. Helmed by 2-Headed Shark Attack director Christopher Ray, the film follows seven friends as they’re hunted down by masked maniacs while on holiday at a ski lodge on New Year’s Eve.
Bianca is best known for playing Roman socialite Iliythia on Starz’s hit swords-and-sandals series “Spartacus.” The Aussie stunner can also be seen as a burnt-out prostitute out to do one last big trick in IFC Midnight’s X and as a tormented cheater in the revenge thriller Scorned.
Resident Evil star Li Bingbing is set to star and produce the biggest budgeted Chinese and Australian co-production in the history of movies! It’s called Nest and is a creature feature from Kimble Rendall, director of the very 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 after making a monumental discovery. Co-stars include Kellan Lutz (Twilight) and Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”).
Bingbing is a famous international actress known in North America for playing Ada Wong in Resident Evil: Retribution and Transformers factory CEO and martial artist Su Yueming in Michael Bay’sTransformers: Age of Extinction. She’ll next reprise her role as Ada Wong in Resident Evil: Final Chapter.
Production has wrapped on director Meir Zarchi’s I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu, a sequel to his controversial 1978 revenge-thriller Day of the Woman—re-released as I Spit On Your Grave in 1980. Camille Keaton reprises her role as rape-victim-turned-ball-breaker Jennifer Hills.
Zarchi said:
I always envisioned Camille Keaton returning to continue the saga of Jennifer Hills. Getting together with Camille to film the sequel was a surreal, deja-vu-like experience.
Setdecades after her acquittal for the brutal murder of the four men who gang-raped her, Jennifer is now a bestselling non-fiction author and the target of the surviving members of her “victims” families, who are hellbent on vengeance.
Model and actress Olga Kurylenko is set to star in the sci-fi thriller Android. Written and directed by White Noise scribe Niall Johnson, the film stars Kurylenko as the deceased wife of a lonely man stationed on a spaceship orbiting Neptune who brings her and their son back to life as androids.
Things go terribly wrong of course when his wife starts nagging him about his diet and his kid starts hating him for not buying him the newest iPhone, leaving him to wonder why he didn’t just build an android goldfish… or not.
Kurylenko is best known for her roles as Tom Cruise’s wife in Oblivion and revenge-seeking Bond girl Camille Montes in Quantum of Solace. The Ukrainian stunner can also be seen in Neil Marshall’s Centurion and the big-screen video game adaptations Hitman and Max Payne.
Universal and Legendary Pictures have released a first trailer for their big screen adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s hugely popular PC game World of Warcraft. Titled Warcraft, the movie is directed by Duncan Jones (Moon) and follows the battle between Orcs and humans over the kingdom of Azeroth.
Fans of the are most likely going ape shit over the trailer, but we’re not feeling the Orcs and aren’t crazy about the effects. Paula Patton (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) as Orc/human hybrid Garona does look hot though.
French actress Pom Klementieff is the first cast in Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy 2, the highly anticipated sequel to 2014’s original blockbuster. She joins returning players Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Dave Bautista, Benicio Del Toro, and stunner Zoe Saldana.
According to Deadline, Klementieff will play the key role of Avenger and Guardian of the Galaxy member Mantis, an exceptional martial artist who may be the Celestial Madonna.
Klementieff has mostly starred in international films, but genre fans may recognize her from her role as Haeng-Bok, the yellow umbrella carrying femme fatal from Spike Lee’s 2013 remake of the Park Chan-wook’s 2003 classic Oldboy.
WE tv has released a trailer for its new horror series “South of Hell,” premiering Nov. 27. Produced by fright masters Eli Roth and Jason Blum, the show stars Mena Suvari as a demon slayer possessed by an evil she must feed with the wicked souls she pulls from people.
Suvari is the star of all things American, including American Beauty, American Pie, and “American Horror Story.” She made her feature debut in Paramount’s Kiss the Girls and can be seen in 2008’sDay of the Dead and Stuart Gordon’s fact-based hit-and-run thriller Stuck.
