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Eliza Dushku Named This Year’s Hottest Babe in Horror!
The Piranha 3D (now on DVD and Blu-ray everywhere) sponsored “Hottest Babes in Horror” playoffs have come to an end with the stunning 30-year-old Eliza Dushku coming from behind to defeat goddess Diora Baird. Most moviegoers probably know Dushku best as spunky “bad girl” Missy Pantone in fluffy cheerleader movie Bring It On, but horror fans will always remember her for her role in 2003’s underrated backwoods slasher flick Wrong Turn, which had the olive-skinned sexpot running around in a clingy white tank top for the duration. Since then she’s remained close to the genre, by parlaying her television success as the rebellious “Faith” on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” into roles in two “horror-adjacent” Fox series, “Tru Calling” and Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse”. More recently she has taken lead roles in strictly B-level fare like serial murderer flick The Alphabet Killer and “killer board game” movie Open Graves, and will next appear in the recently-announced horror-thriller Zoe with Freddie Prinze Jr. and James van der Beek.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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