HBO has released a trailer for season six of its Emmy award-winning fantasy series “Game of Thrones,” premiering April 24. The trailer garnered 30 million views in less than 24 hours, breaking the network’s previous best of 27 million for the season five premiere.
The show, which hit its highest ratings last season with more than 20 million viewers an episode when including streaming, reruns, and DVR, ended with the much debated death of Jon Snow. The trailer reveals Jon is indeed dead, but still gives hope with a glimpse of the Red Woman, Melisandre of Asshai.
Of course, there’s lots more teased in the trailer – enough to eat all ten of your fingernails to the quick, maybe even those of your toes. Of particular interest for Clatto is Cersei Lannister promise of violence after surviving her shameful ordeal at the hands of the High Sparrow… oh, and look, is that a reanimated Mountain at Cersei’s command? Oh, yeah.
Hannah Kasulka has joined Fox’s small screen adaptation of William Blatty’s classic 1971 novel “The Exorcist.” Directed by Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) and written by Jeremy Slater (Lazarus Effect), the pilot introduces “two very different men” fighting to save a family from demonic possession.
Kasulka will play Casey, the shy and meek daughter of the Rance family who are all worried sibling Charlotte (Brianne Howey) may be under demonic possession after she begins to act strangely after a tragic accident.
Kasulka has starred in the teen satirical online series “Filthy Preppy Teen$” and FreeForm’s (formerly ABC Family) “The Fosters.” Horror fans will most likely recognize her from turns on “True Blood” as one of Sheriff Andy Bellefleur’s fairy daughters and an appearance in the sci-fi, time-hopping thriller Plus One.
RLJ Entertainment has set an April 5 DVD release date for the Hoarder, a cat-and-mouse slasher starring Mischa Barton (“The O.C.”) as a snoopy girlfriend who gets trapped by a serial killer in a ghetto storage facility with six others while looking through her boyfriend’s unit.
Barton, who most recently announced a comeback with a slot on ABC’s 22nd season of “Dancing with the Stars,” made her horror debut as a tween in the 1999 mind-blower The Sixth Sense and returned to the genre in 2009 with buried alive frightener Walled In and psycho-bitch thriller Homecoming.
Sony Pictures has released a first trailer for it’s long gestating Ghostbusters reboot, featuring Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids), Melissa McCarthy (Spy), Kate McKinnon (“SNL”), and Leslie Jones (Wrongfully Accused) as its new ghost hunters.
While we would have gone with Megan Fox, Margot Robbie, Scarlet Johansson, and McCarthy (what? she’s got a great personality), the trailer looks fun and, honestly, the original Ghostbusters sucked paranormal donkey balls.
Brianne Howey is the first cast in Fox’s small screen adaptation of William Blatty’s classic 1971 novel “The Exorcist.” Directed by Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) and written by Jeremy Slater (Lazarus Effect), the pilot introduces “two very different men” fighting to save a family from demonic possession.
Howey plays Charlotte, a young ballet dancer whose dreams of making it are shattered after a terrible accident. Her depression and anti social behavior becomes so extreme her mother believes she is possessed by demonic forces.
Howey first caught moviegoers’ attention in the comedy sequel Horrible Bosses 2, but horror fans will recognize her as Melanie Dorkus, the once stunning president of a prestigious sorority burnt to a crisp and forced to resign for her fugliness on Ryan Murphy’s darkly comedic series “Scream Queens.”
Jessica Szohr (“Gossip Girl”) has been tapped to topline a new paranormal series from celebrated horror producer, screenwriter, and filmmaker Kevin Williamson (Scream, “Vampire Diaries”). The show is being produced for The CW with David Nutter (“Game of Thrones”) directing.
Szohr plays the granddaughter of a voodoo priestess exploiting her heritage to sell trinkets to tourists in Baton Rouge. When she starts to experience paranormal phenomena, she seeks help from a once successful parapsychologist turned convention attraction.
Szohr is best known for playing sullen hot chick Vanessa Abrams in The CW’s “Gossip Girl,” but thrilled horror fans in 2010 with a bikini-clad role in Piranha 3D.
Carmen Ejogo co-stars in Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, a sequel to Scott’s sleep-inducing Alien prequel, Prometheus. Ejogo joins Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice), Demian Bichir (Hateful Eight), Amy Seimetz (You’re Next), Danny McBride (“Eastbound & Down”), and Michael Fassbender, back as David the android.
Alien: Covenant finds the crew of the colony ship Covenant coming upon a planet they believe to be an uncharted paradise only to discover it’s a hostile hellhole inhabited by Prometheus sole survivor David. The film is part two in Scott’s planned trilogy of Alien prequels for 20th Century Fox.
Ejogo is coming off the acclaimed drama Selma, but horror fans will know her from the white-knuckle sequel The Purge: Anarchy and James Patterson adaptation Alex Cross. She also joins Waterson in the J.K. Rowling penned Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Busty-model-turned-busty-actress Emily Ratajkowski (Gone Girl) is set to co-star alongside Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”) in director Anthony Byrne’s In Darkness, a psychological revenge thriller co-written by Dormer and Byrne.
In Darkness stars Dormer as a blind musician dragged into London’s seedy underground after hearing a murder take place in the apartment above hers. Ratajkowski plays the troubled daughter of the film’s bad guy and an important figure in Dormer’s quest for justice.
Ratajkowski rose to fame after her heart-stopping topless and thong shaking performance in Robin Thicke’s music video for the catchy-as-fuck hit “Blurred Lines” and a memorable topless turn in David Fincher’s murder mystery Gone Girl.
Indican Pictures has released a trailer for its upcoming shoe-string budgeted slasher Deadly Famous, releasing on DVD March 1. The film stars Daniel O’Meara (John Carter) as a former child actor turned acting coach and cannibalistic killer in hunt of aspiring Hollywood starlets.
Porn star Dahlia Sky (From My Asshole with Love) plays the heartbreaking role of a hot girl murdered too soon in a bathtub. Co-stars include Jackie Moore (Pernicious), Ria Huang (Nude Nuns with Big Guns), and – of course – Eric Roberts. Jim Lane and Eric Troop direct.
AMC has released a teaser trailer for season two of its “Walking Dead” prequel series “Fear the Walking Dead,” premiering April 10. The show ended its first season with its Brady Bunch gang reaching the shore and eyeballing ally Victor Strand’s yacht as safe harbor.
The trailer gives us a peek at a zombie apocalypse as it heads to sea and it appears to be anything but enchanting. But here’s hoping there’s enough down time on that boat for Madison (Kim Dickens) and Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey) to get in some mother/daughter bikini lounging in.
