Jaime King to play Brigitte Bardot

Cinema Blend have come across an interview in the Australian magazine InPress with Fanboys director Kyle Newman. In it he reveals that he’s working on a Brigitte Bardot biopic.

Newman says that though the project is currently in development, he’s already found his star: his wife Jaime King, who met Newman on Fanboys and married him soon after.

King was last seen in My Bloody Valentine and The Spirit.

I'm not sure whether it will be dealing with just Bardot's early life or whether it will include the later years when she became a recluse fighting for animal rights.

Still early days on this one but how do you feel about Jaime King playing Bardot? Does she have the acting chops for it?

Discuss in the forum or leave a comment below.

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My Bloody Valentine 3D, 2009 - Movie Review

Director: Patrick Lussier
Starring: Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Betsy Rue
Running Time: 101 minutes
Score: 7 / 10

This excellent review is by Luisito Joaquín González (RareSlashersRated)

Taking a good look at the two heavily populated cinema 'lives' of the slasher genre, the most striking similarity in both is that they were started by the box office successes of two stand-out features. First Halloween in 78 launched a tidal wave of wannabes that included the much maligned but equally heavily imitated Friday the 13th series. The category had a good run, but eventually lost popularity mid-way through the eighties due to a restriction on gore and a lack of funding and creativity from production teams. Wes Craven's popular semi-parody, Scream from 1996, kicked off yet another major influx that sent the imitations crawling out of the woodwork and on to video-store shelves. Eventually, a lack of originality meant audiences and studios alike gave up on the cycle and it befell a similar fate that had sent its forefathers into obscurity.

There were thirteen years between the death of the Halloween-inspired glory days and Scream's unexpected re-birth, so a believer in destiny may indeed be forgiven for predicting the time is upon us for another run of masked killers and gratuitous gore.

It has been a good few months for fans of the original My Bloody Valentine. Not only have we learned that we will finally be able to see the full uncut version of the original, repackaged on a shiny new DVD with extras, but also we have been treated to this highly financed remake at a time when the category had pretty much sunk to the lowest of depths.

Harry Warden's name lives long in the memories of the townsfolk of a small town in West Virginia after he went on a maniacal killing spree, butchering 22 people on a cold valentine's night. Despite rumours that he was buried alive in the mines that he stalked, the body of the maniac has never been discovered. Fast forward ten years and it seems that the evil has returned, because a gas-masked maniac begins stalking the village and killing everyone that was somehow connected to the original massacre. Has Harry returned?

As the title accurately informs us, a key gimmick for the release of this remake was the fact that it is filmed in explosive 3D. Now many have tried to bring horror into the third-dimension, but the likes of Friday the 13th III, Silent Madness and Freddy's Dead had failed drastically to make the most of an ingenious tool in the creation of supreme virtual terror. So with all that was riding against it, does My Bloody Valentine 3D actually deliver??

Like hell it does! Buckle your seat belts baby and prepare yourself for a speed-train through slasher clichés that has never been taken to such extreme heights. This is a non-stop juggernaut of fast-paced gore and shock tactics that will keep your heart beating at the speed of a Japanese freeway. You can mock the brainless script and the at times overly-gratuitous exploitation, but this is a slasher movie and slasher movies exist to give you two-hours of freedom from the stress of everyday life in a virtual-world where you can leave your brains at the door.

Firstly, the film is immensely gory. So much so that even a hardened old horror-addict like myself was cowering from the screen in places. Pick-axes through faces, dismemberment, eyes popping out of their sockets; and best of all, it's all filmed in fantastic 3D. This is a car-crash of over indulgence that has the balls to drive to the borders of cinematic acceptability and then smash through them with its pedal to the medal. The pace is unrelenting and the suspense at times absolutely immense. Patrick Lussier may not be the next Hitchcock, but MBV 3D is not to be categorised alongside Psycho or Halloween. This is a film that sets out to shock in any way possible and on that level it succeeds. There's one or two tense jump out of your seat jolts and a few credibly created scares that are all the better for the stylish production.

The cast do a good enough job of keeping the plot moving fluidly and the healthy financing means that no expense has been spared in the producer's effort to unleash total mayhem on audiences. Jamie King takes us back to the Laurie Strode/Ginny Field era of brave heroines, but somewhat authentically, she also has huge character flaws. The story shares much with its predecessor and Lussier also re-uses many of the scenes that made Mihalka's hit so memorable. This may well be the first slasher remake that actually pays credit to its heritage and unlike Rob Zombie's insulting Halloween re-hash, MBV 3D can sit comfortably alongside its grandfather.

It's not fashionable to give a slasher movie a good review and I can see without looking the piles of one-star write-ups that are cluttering up column-space in the self-righteous brigade's film magazines. I bet that Egbert is having a field day ripping this particular movie to shreds. Agreed, this is not an intellectual film. To be fair, in some places it doesn't even do the basics right and there's some shockingly poor plot holes towards the climax.For a fan of splatter flicks however, this is an hour and a half in paradise and I really enjoyed every moment of this long-overdue gore-soaked extravaganza.

This is not the next Shawshank Redemption and it has no intention of trying to be, so it should be judged on its merits as a gore film and on that level it is everything that you want it to be. Full frontal nudity, buckets of gore and all the things that your mama warned you about rapped up in a tense and riveting thriller with the added bonus of an intelligent twist (Was the killer really the only bad guy? I wouldn't call the 'hero' good...) Prepare for the next invasion folks.
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The Devil's Commandos - Thomas Jane faces down Satan's Army

I mentioned this in a Random a few days ago but now I've got the poster and a bit more info from ShockTillYouDrop.

Screenwriter Todd Farmer (Jason X, My Bloody Valentine 3D, Messengers 2: The Scarecrow) is developing Devil's Commandos for Thomas Jane (The Mist, Mutant Chronicles, The Punisher, Give 'em Hell Malone) to star.

"Devil's Commandos is a Tim Bradstreet (artist on The Punisher, Hellblazer) story," said Farmer "Turns out, not only can Timmy draw, his noodle churns out some rockin' ideas. Who knew? But I told him if I wrote the thing he wouldn't get any credit. He'd end up as a footnote somewhere. So I suggested he write it with me. Tom will star and direct in 3-D to follow his Dark Country debut. Plan is to start after Tom wraps Hung."

Farmer and Jane previously collaborated in 2007 when the former wrote the comic book series Alien Pig Farm 3000. "Devil's Commandos is about a WWII commando unit sent on a rescue mission. Pretty straight forward. Except for the part where hell opens up and they have to fight Satan's army."

Sounds like an excellent concept for a film. Fingers crossed it ends up better than Mutant Chronicles.

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My Bloody Valentine Trailer

Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, however, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame (King) is the only one will believes he's innocent.

What do you think of that?

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My Bloody Valentine 3D - Poster

In George Mihalka's 1981 original slasher film, a killer by the name of Harry Warden (a miner driven mad) wreaks havoc on a small town during their Valentine's Day celebrations.

The remake stars Jaime King, Jensen Ackles, Kerr Smith, Edi Gathegi, Kevin Tighe, Megan Boone and Betsey Rue.

What do you think about the poster?

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Sci-Fi have a cracking video that shows the effects people turning Billy Crudup into the all knowing Dr Manhatten for the Watchmen movie. The video is called Blue Monday and shows Rorschach talking to a giant Dr Manhatten. Looks amazing but could be a bit spoilerish if you've not read the comic.

Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter have been cast in Tim Burton's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. They will be the White Queen and the Red Queen.

The Steve Carrell comedy, Get Smart, made $226 Million worldwide so no surprise that there is going to be a sequel.

Screenwriter Travis Wright (Eagle Eye) talks about the rumours he was writing Blade Runner 2.

AICN spoke to TR2N director Joseph Kosinski who revealed that, not only was the Comic Con test footage filmed in steroscopic 3D, the final film will also be filmed and released using the latest in 3D technology. It's due out in 2010.

The first photo of Jensen Ackles in the My Bloody Valentine 3D remake.

Some early billboards for Universal's remake of the horror classic The Wolfman.

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"Favreau admits that a 'Swingers' sequel might happen - "Maybe a Swingers sequel in another 10 years. Like the Sunshine Boys"..." (full details)

Kevin Spacey will return as Lex Luthor in the next Superman film according to a recent interview with the actor..." (full details).

io9 spoke Ridley Scott about Brave New World and delved into some details about the story and casting. "I didn't choose to do it, someone came to me with it. In fact it was [Leonardo DiCaprio's] production company that came to me with that." In addition to confirming that he's attached, he mentions that "the hardest single thing is getting it on paper" because it's "a very hard adaptation."
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