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Jonathan Rhys Meyers Goes Insane For ‘Mortal Instruments’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 07, 2012 @ 7:52pm
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers (also starring in NBC’s “Dracula”) is in negotiations to join the cast of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, an adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s YA fantasy novel from Constantin Film and Unique Pictures, says THR.

Lily Collins leads the cast as a young woman who discovers she is the descendant of a secret cadre of half-angel warriors called Shadowhunters locked in an ancient battle to protect the world from demons. Jessica Postigo and I. Marlene King wrote the script.

Rhys Meyers will play Valentine Morgenstern, described as a powerful but insane Shadowhunter looking to make the world pure at any cost.

“Game of Thrones” actress Lena Headey and “Mad Men”’s Jared Harris and Kevin Zegers are among the cast.

Harald Zwart is directing the movie, which is due to begin production later this month in Toronto. READ MORE

[News Bites] McG Gets Behind Animated ‘Ruin’; The Mortal Instruments’ Casting; And Lifetime’s “Witches”

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 19, 2012 @ 8:48pm
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Fox is in negotiations to pre-emptively pick up the movie rights to Ruin, an eight-minute animated short by Wes Ball. THR writes that Ball is attached to direct the feature and will co-write the script with T.S. Nowlin. The two likely will work under the supervision of McG, who is negotiating to produce via his Wonderland Sound and Vision, with Steve Tzirlin, a Lucasfilm exec who oversaw story and script development for “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.” The video, which debuted on Vimeo in March (watch it above), is set in a post-apocalyptic North American city overgrown with foliage and has an I Am Legend meets Terminator 2 vibe.

“Game of Thrones” and Dredd star Lena Headey, Jared Harris of “Mad Men” and Godfrey Gao have joined the cast of The Mortal Instruments from Screen Gems and Constantin Films, reports Variety. Previously announced cast include Kevin Durand, Robert Maillet, Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower in the pic helmed by Harald Zwart. Based on Cassandra Clare’s bestselling young adult book series, “the story follows Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager who discovers she is the descendent of a demon-hunting clan.”

In some horror news that we’ll never again report on, Lifetime, which continues to delve into scripted fare, has ordered a pilot for “Witches of East End,” says Variety. Based on the Melissa de la Cruz novel, “Witches of East End” centers on a mother and her two daughters who are the family’s next generation of witches. Maggie Friedman wrote the pilot and will exec produce with Erwin Stoff.

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Plot Details, New Casting For Platinum Dunes’ ‘Vigilandia’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 13, 2012 @ 8:56pm
Category: Movies / Exclusives

Rhys Wakefield (pictured below; Sanctum ) will star opposite Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane, Edwin Hodge and Tony Oller in sci-fi thriller Vigilandia being helmed by writer-director James DeMonaco.

In addition, Bloody Disgusting exclusively scored a small taste of plot details that, until now, have been kept under wraps. The sci-fi thriller takes place in a future where a new regime, called “New Founding Fathers of America”, seek to control an epidemic of violence and crime with an experiment called “The Cure”. The Cure is a completely hypocritical “event” where, three times a year, for 12 hours, murder is completely legal. The film is said to play like a home invasion film with a heavy political theme. It’s planned to be the first film in a post-apocalyptic franchise.

Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes’ (Brad Fuller and Andrew Form) – responsible for Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes – are producing with Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity, Insidious).

Filming is currently underway in Los Angeles. READ MORE

Lena Headey Goes Blind For Magnet’s ‘The Unseen’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 07, 2012 @ 8:18pm
Category: Movies / News

300, Laid to Rest and “Game of Thrones” actress Lena Headey will play the lead in Gary Sinyor‘s new thriller The Unseen, from Ripple World Pictures and Magnet Films, reports Screen Daily.

Headey, who is also set to appear in upcoming action Dredd, plays a grieving mother who starts to suffer attacks of blindness.

Dominic Wright produces alongside Jacqueline Kerrin, with both attending the EFM to finalise funding. The script was developed at Magnet Films with executive producers David Frost and Michael Rosenberg and is set to shoot in late spring 2012 in the Balearics. READ MORE

Young Male Lead Found For ‘Vigilandia’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 04, 2012 @ 4:35pm
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Tony Oller, who played Danny on the Disney Channel’s “As the Bell Rings,” has been offered the young male lead in Universal’s upcoming horror sci-fi thriller Vigilandia, TheWrap has learned.

Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane and Edwin Hodge star in the movie, which James DeMonaco wrote and is directing.

Oller most recently starred alongside Dennis Quaid in Beneath the Darkness. Before that, he was one of the stars of the Nickelodeon series, “Gigantic.”

Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are producing through Blum’s Blumhouse and Bay’s Platinum Dunes. Why Not Productions also is producing.

The movie is scheduled to begin shooting on February 13. READ MORE

Platinum Dunes’ Sci-Fi Horror ‘Vigilandia’ Casts Up

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 01, 2012 @ 5:36am
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Max Burkholder, the 14-year-old actor who plays Max Braverman in NBC’s “Parenthood,” has been offered the role of Charlie in Universal’s sci-fi thriller Vigilandia, TheWrap has learned. Also, Adelaide Kane (pictured below), an Australian actress who has appeared in “Power Rangers R.P.M.” and “Neighbors,” has landed the role of Zoey.

Ethan Hawke stars, along with Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister on “Game of Thrones.”

James DeMonaco wrote and is directing the movie. DeMonaco previously worked on Assault on Precinct 13, starring Hawke and Laurence Fishburne. He also is the creator/executive producer of Spike TV’s mini-series “The Kill Point.”

Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are producing through Blum’s Blumhouse and Bay’s Platinum Dunes. Why Not Productions also is producing.

Details of the story remain under wraps, although Bloody confirmed it IS horror. The movie is set to begin shooting on February 13. READ MORE

Lena Headey Joins Ethan Hawke In Platinum Dunes ‘Vigilandia’!

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Posted by EvanDickson on January 24, 2012 @ 11:16pm
Category: Movies / News

LenaHeadeyLand12412 Lena Headey Joins Ethan Hawke In Platinum Dunes Vigilandia!

Lena Headey (300, “Game Of Thrones”, “The Sarah Connor Chronicles”) will join previously announced lead Ethan Hawke in Universal/Platinum Dunes’ Vigilandia.

It’ll be interesting to see how Fuller and Form handle smaller budgets and original material. I wasn’t always a fan of their remake stuff (hated Nightmare On Elm Street but absolutely loved Friday The 13th) but they kind of make for interesting old-school producers in the sense that they really actively call the shots on their sets.

Per Variety, ““Game of Thrones” star Lena Headey as landed the female lead in Universal’s “Vigilandia,” starring Ethan Hawke. James DeMonaco will direct from a script he penned. Plot details of the sci-fi thriller are being kept under wraps.

Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form will produce through Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes along with Why Not Prods. Sebastien Lemercier exec produces. Universal recently came on producer of the pic, the first film under its first-look deal with Blumhouse. While Platinum Dunes has been known for making films at a price, the pic reps its first foray into really low-budgeted fare. Sources say the budget would be similar to that of FilmDistrict’s “Insidious” or the upcoming “Sinister.” READ MORE

Tell-Tale (V)

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on May 25, 2010 @ 12:00am
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Inspired by the classic Edgar Allan Poe story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the contemporized adaptation sees Lucas starring as a single father whose recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor’s killer before a similar fate befalls him.

Laid to Rest (V)

Posted by Tex Massacre on April 21, 2009 @ 12:00am
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“Laid to Rest” is a terrifying story of a young girl who wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a Deranged Serial Murderer and in an isolated rural town she must survive the night and outsmart the technologically inclined killer who is hellbent on finishing what he started.

The Broken (Horrorfest 09) (V)

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on March 31, 2009 @ 12:00am
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“The Broken” is a psychological horror project, starring Lena Headey as a woman whose life descends into nightmare after she sees an apparent double of herself driving by in her own car.

The Brøken

Posted by Bloody Disgusting Staff on November 15, 2008 @ 12:00am
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After spending an evening with her family at which a large mirror breaks for no apparent reason London radiologist Gina McVey (Lena Headly) begins to sense she has a doppelganger. When she sees herself drive past on the street, she follows the doppelganger to an apartment, the outcome of which the viewer doesn’t see. Immediately afterward she wrecks her car and while recuperating at her boyfriend’s apartment comes to believe that he too has been replaced by an evil doppelganger. From her dreams it becomes clear that the doppelgangers gain access to the world through broken mirrors. Unknown to Gina, first her sister-in-law and then her father are replaced. When she finds the corpse of her boyfriend which has been left behind by his doppelganger, she returns to the apartment where it all started – her apartment though she has forgotten this – and finds her own corpse there. The memory of what she is, which had been erased by the accident, returns to her and she takes her place in a doppelganger London being taken over person by person.

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