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Has Freakshift Found Its Lead With Oscar Winner Alicia Vikander

After five years, Ben Wheatley’s Freakshift is finally proceeding. Co-written by Amy Jump, the film takes place in a world where monsters are very real and very dangerous. When night falls the monsters leave their underground homes to hunt people. “Freakshift” is a crew of misfits organized by the government to hunt down and kill the beasts. Freakshift may have finally found its lead. Deadline is reporting that Oscar winner Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) has entered negotiations to star as the lead female protagonist in the action-thriller. Filming is set to begin this August. We will update you when we know more.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 18, 2017

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Malin Akerman Joins The Film Adaption Of Rampage

Casting news has arrived for adaption of the 80’s video game, Rampage. THR reports that Malin Akerman (The Final Girls) has joined the cast to play the role of the villainess, who is the head of a tech company and the person responsible unleashing monsters on the US. Akerman will co-star alongside Jack Quaid, P.J. Byrne, Matt Gerald, Naomi Harris, Joe Manganiello, Marley Shelton, and Breanne Hill, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Johnson will play an animal-loving hero and the cities’ only hope .Oscar nominated actress, Naomi Harris co-stars as a geneticist; Shelton has been cast as a scientist, and Manganiello will play the leader of a private military group. At the moment the plot is still being kept under wraps, but if the story follows the game’s plot, Revenge will feature monsters who attack US cities and landmarks, a monstrously transformed gorilla, a crocodile, and a wolf. Johnson will be once again be working with the team behind Andreas,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 17, 2017

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Blumhouse’s Next Project To Be ‘Truth Or Dare’ Starring Lucy Hale

Blumhouse has announced their next project. The horror powerhouse is following up their hit films Get Out and Split with Truth or Dare. Deadline reports that Jason Blum with be working on the project with Bates Motel writer-director Jeff Wadlow. The script was co-written by Wadlow, Chris Roach, and Jillian Jacobs. Wadlow, Roach and Blum will executive produce. Lucy Hale will be starring in the film. Hale is no stranger to the genre. She co-starred in Scream 4 and Fear Island, as well as the hit series Pretty Little Liars (pictured below). The film centers on a college student vacationing in Mexico. She is conned into playing a game of “Truth or Dare”, a supernatural version. When she returns home she discover that the game is not over. Hopefully, we will know more soon. Stay tuned.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 17, 2017

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The Babadook Director’s Next Project To Be A Revenge Thriller

After three years, The Babadook writer-director Jennifer Kent has announced that her next project will be the revenge thriller, titled The Nightingale. Kent will direct from the screenplay she wrote. Set in Tasmania in 1825, the film centers on a 21-year-old Irish woman and convict who witnesses the murder of her husband and her child at the hands of her soldier master and his men. She and her Aboriginal guide set out on a mission of revenge through the hellish wilderness. Variety reports that productions on The Nightingale begins later this month in Tasmania, Australia. Screen Australia, Screen Tasmania, and Made Up Stories and Bron Creative will executive produce as well as co-finance the thriller that stars Aisling Franciosi, Damon Herriman, Sam Claflin, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie, Baykali Ganambarr, and Magnolia Maymurur.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 16, 2017

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John Krasinski And Emily Blunt Enter ‘A Quiet Place’

Image: eonline.com Real-life lovebirds John Krasinski (Jack Ryan, The Office) and Emily Blunt (Sicario, The Girl on the Train), will co-star for the first time together in the supernatural thriller A Quiet Place. Not only will Krasinski co-star alongside his wife, he will also write and direct the project. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods penned the first draft of the script. Platinum Dunes’ Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form will be producing A Quiet Place. Krasinski will serve as co-executive producer with and Woods and Beck, according to Variety. So far, there are no plot details, but we do know that production is scheduled for this fall.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 15, 2017

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The Fly Getting A New Remake By Fox

It has been just over thirty years since David Cronenberg unleashed The Fly, the remake of the 1958 Kurt Neumann film of the same name. Cronenberg’s version, which starred Jeff Goldblum as a scientist who transforms into a giant, mutated fly after an experiment goes wrong, was one of the greatest practical effect films of the time. It seems that every thirty years or so we get a remake of The Fly. So what’s the buzz? A new remake has just been announced. Deadline is reporting that Sleight director J.D. Dillard is in negotiations with 20th Century FOX to direct and co-write the script along with Alex Theurer who is behind 2017’s Stray. The duo has teamed up before, to pen the script for Sleight. At the moment that’s all we know. We assume that the film will stick to the same storyline as did the first two films. We will keep you updated.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 15, 2017

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Akira Kurosawa’s Adaption Of Poe’s Masque Of The Red Death Entering Production

A movie adaption of Edgar Allen Poe’s terrifying tale, The Masque of the Red Death, is entering production. Originally adapted by Akira Kurosawa and set in Russia, it was set to be filmed back in 1998, but was never made due Kurosawa’s stroke, followed by his death. Chinese Studio’s Huayi Brothers in conjunction with CKF Pictures will breathe new life into the project by producing the film from Kurosawa’s screenplay. There is no word who will direct. Cinephilia & Beyond featured an English translation of the film’s plot, “humanity is faced with a deadly contagion, and people’s characters, resilience and survival are being tested as society is pushed well into the brinks of despair and possible annihilation.” Poe’s short story finds Prince Prospero as he attempts to avoid a plague, known as the “Red Death”, by seeking refuge in his abbey. As he hosts a masquerade ball with many wealthy nobles in attendance, a mysterious figure arrives disguised as a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 15, 2017

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Jamie Kennedy Is In A Tight Spot In This Behind The Scenes Photo From Tremors VI

The next installment of the Tremors franchise is currently filming in Cape Town, South Africa. The first images are already beginning to come in. Director Don Michael Paul just shared a new behind the scenes image on his instagram account of Jamie Kennedy in a sticky, gooey, tight spot, inside a Graboid. Yuck. The Graboids have continued to evolve throughout the ‘Tremors’ franchise. This time, they are going high-tech, they are being weaponized. Not only will Burt and Travis have a new threat to handle, they will be doing it in the snow, which is a first for the franchise. In Tremors VI, Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) and his son Travis Welker (Jamie Kennedy) find themselves up to their ears in Graboids and Ass-Blasters when they head to Canada to investigate a series of deadly giant-worm attacks. Arriving at a remote research facility in the artic tundra, Burt begins to suspect that Graboids are secretly being weaponized, but before he

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 14, 2017

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Steven Yeun Gets Bloody In The First Images From ‘Mayhem’

While Steven Yeun‘s character died on The Walking Dead, Yeun’s still very much alive and kicking ass in Joe Lynch’s upcoming film Mayhem, penned by Matias Caruso. Yeun stars alongside Australian actress Samara Weaving (The Babysitter). Dallas Mark Roberts, Caroline Chikezie, Mark Stewart Frost, Kerry Fox, Lucy Chappell, and Steven Brand co-star. In the film, “After being framed for corporate espionage on the same day that a mysterious virus is unleashed on his company, attorney Derek Cho (Yeun) is forced to savagely fight tooth and nail for not only his job but his life. Lynch told Heat Vision: “It’s not every day you get to throw action, sci-fi, horror, drama and even satire in the genre blender and hit puree, but Matias’ script, combined with a gung-ho cast and crew – especially Steven and Samara – will make for a deliciously dangerous and exciting cinematic smoothie…with a hell of a kick.” Mayhem, filmed in Belgrade, Serbia, is making it’s world

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 13, 2017

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Godzilla VS. Kong Is Coming!

With Kong: Skull Island now in theaters and Godzilla: King of Monsters already in production with casting underway, it was just a matter of time before got our first news on Godzilla vs. Kong and today is the day. News comes via THR that development has officially begun on Godzilla vs. Kong. Legendary has gathered a team of great writers to plan the film featuring epic battle between clash between the two giants. Pirates of the Caribbean’s Terry Rossio will head the writers’ room that includes Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne of Star Trek Beyond, Lindsey Beer (Dungeons & Dragons), T.S. Nowlin (Maze Runner), J. Michael Straczynski (World War Z), and Cat Vasko (Queen of the Air). As soon the story is outlined a writer will be hired to penn the script. We will keep you posted. Be sure to catch Kong: Skull Island currently playing in theaters nationwide. It will be followed by the release of Godzilla: King of

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Mar 12, 2017

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