Thrillers

Here’s that 3-D movie poster from The Final Destination

Warner Brothers aimed to bring viewers to complete visual meltdown with the release of the movie The Final Destination, so they partnered with Virtual Images to promote it. The creative team at Virtual Images, consisting of 3-D artists and 3-D designers, worked with the studio to create visually stunning art that depicts a human skull ….

Star Trek’s “Bones” McCoy to become a vampire and piss off a Priest

Karl Urban, who most recently played “Bones” McCoy in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot, is attached to play the villain in Screen Gems’ post-apocalyptic horror thriller Priest, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Written by Cory Goodman and based on a TokyoPop comic, Priest, which is being directed by Scott Stewart, is set in a world ….

Robert Redford to direct historical crime drama The Conspirator

Robert Redford is developing and will direct a film titled The Conspirator, a historical crime drama about Mary Suratt, according to THR. Suratt was one of the conspirators convicted of plotting President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. James Solomon (The Bronx is Burning) wrote the script. According to official history, widow and boarding house owner Mary Suratt ….

Hurt Locker star headed to The Adjustment Bureau

Anthony Mackie, who most recently appeared in The Hurt Locker, has been cast in Universal Pictures’ sci-fi thriller The Adjustment Bureau, which Matt Damon and Emily Blunt are currently attached to star, according to Variety. George Nolfi, who’s making his directorial debut, will helm the movie from his own script, and produce alongside Chris Moore ….

New images from Thomas Jane’s directorial debut Dark Country

Thomas Jane makes his directorial debut with the horror Dark Country, which follows the story of two honeymooners (Jane and Lauren German) rescue a mysterious car crash survivor in the Las Vegas desert. But their decision to save the man becomes increasingly regrettable when he turns on them, forcing the newlyweds to do the unthinkable. ….

Midnight, Mass. comic being adapted into weekly NBC series

NBC has picked up a live-action series adaptation for John Rozum’s comic book series Midnight, Mass., which is published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint. That’s according to a report by THR. Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts will write and produce the project for Warner Bros. television, which revolves around Adam and Julia Kadmons, a sophisticated, ….

New behind-the-scenes images emerge from comic adaptation The Losers

ComingSoon nabbed the above photo of Idris Elba and Jeffrey Dean Morgan shooting an action scene in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico for Stomp the Yard director Sylvain White’s comic book adaptation The Losers, which will be in theaters on April 9, 2010. Hancock director Peter Berg wrote the script for The Losers, based on Andy ….

Trailer for the fact-based thriller The Fourth Kind

Sci-Fi Wire posted this exclusive trailer for the upcoming sci-fi thriller The Fourth Kind, which will be in theaters on November 6, 2009. The Fourth Kind stars Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Elias Koteas and is directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi (WIthIN, Etat), based on his own screenplay. In 1972, when a scale of measurement was apparently ….

Gerard Butler is no Law Abiding Citizen in this new trailer with Jamie Foxx

Overture has released the first trailer for the crime thriller Law Abiding Citizen, which tells the story of a brilliant sociopath (played by Gerard Butler) who orchestrates a series of high-profile murders that grip the city of Philadelphia – all from inside his jail cell – and the prosecutor (Jamie Foxx) assigned to his case ….

Writer of The Usual Suspects to pen Wolverine sequel script

Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote scripts for Bran Singer’s The Usual Suspects as well as X-Men, has been tapped to write the screenplay for Fox’s sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, according to THR. Hugh Jackman will return as Logan, the mutant with healing powers and an adamantium-dipped endoskeleton. Jackman will again produce the film, along with ….