Aussie actress the female lead in "Daybreakers"
Popular Australian actress
Claudia Karvan has won the female lead in the
Spierig Bros' new feature, "
Daybreakers".
The film, starring
Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and
Sam Neill, starts filming on the Gold Coast on July 16.
Karvan will play the object of
Hawke's character's affection, a human, Lucy.
"
Daybreakers", set In the year 2017, tells of a plague that has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher (
Hawke) works with a covert group of vamps to save humankind, just when a band of humans fight back.
Karvan is best known to Aussie audiences as the star of TV hits "
The Secret Life of Us" and "
Love My Way".
American audiences may have spotted her in the "
Star Wars" prequels or the kids' pic "
Aquamarine".
Universal announces Two New Classic Collections on DVD
Universal will be releasing two exciting DVD box sets in time for Halloween as “Best Buy” Store exclusives.
A “
Horror Collection” set will include
- MAN-MADE MONSTER,
- HORROR ISLAND,
- CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN,
- NIGHT MONSTER and
- THE BLACK CAT (1941).
A second “
Sci-Fi Collection” set will include
- DR. CYCLOPS,
- THE DEADLY MANTIS,
- THE LAND UNKNOWN,
- THE LEECH WOMAN and
- CULT OF THE COBRA.
No release date has been set yet, but Best Buy's press contact confirms that the sets will arrive before Halloween with retail prices of around $20 a piece.
Top Secret Project "Cloverfield" opens Official Website
Paramount's really serious about keeping
J J Abrams' tentatively titled
Cloverfield project top secret, but those who caught the trailer - attached to prints of
Transformers - is that a website was launched for the film, which features nothing more than the release date and two terrified girls caught on camera.
The girls are looking at something terrifying... could they be checking out this so-called giant 'parasite', or maybe they've just seen the Statue of Liberty's head roll down the street?
Head on over to
the official website to check it out and watch for as much info as possible, which should be nil until closer to the January release.
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