Shawn Ashmore is joining The Boys season 2 cast as Lamplighter, a pyrokinetic superhero and original member of the Seven, the league of superheroes.
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If X-Men: Days of Future Past wasn't a simple summer comic book movie, people would probably be talking about it having one of the greatest casts ever assembled. Multiple Oscar-winners, Tony-winners, Emmy-winners, from top to bottom, Bryan Singer's cast for the fifth X-Men film, out May 23, is simply insane. Many of those stars -…
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How about we take a quick break from Sundance and Star Wars for some good old fashioned superhero casting, okay? Director Bryan Singer has revealed that Anna Paquin, Ellen Page and Shawn Ashmore have been cast in X-Men: Days of Future Past, 2014's follow up to X-Men: First Class. Paquin, Page and Ashmore are all series…
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Entertainment news over the past week has been dominated by one facepalm-worthy Brett Ratner remark after another, finally resulting in his stepping down from his Oscar-producing gig. But there's no need to worry -- everyone's favorite walking PR blunder is doing just fine, with one '80s remake in the works and another one about to…
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Yesterday I highlighted one of the films announced for the Midnight Madness program at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America. Today we're back with another MM offering: The Day, a post-apocalyptic thriller that stars Ashley Bell, Dominic Monaghan, Shawn Ashmore, Cory Hardrict, and Shannyn Sossamon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXzVgMihvs This is actually the…
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This isn't exactly an official trailer, but Bloody Disgusting has stumbled upon your best look yet at Darren Lynn Bousman's horror/thriller/reimagining Mother's Day starring Rebecca De Mornay, Jamie King and Shawn Ashmore. And as we wait for Bousman's next film, 11-11-11, this one is scheduled to open on April 1. Check out the near 2…
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Hatchet writer/director Adam Green's Frozen is a single-room thriller set on a ski-resort chairlift. The story follows three college students (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers) who are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, and are "forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death." Last week we posted…
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Hatchet writer/director Adam Green's Frozen is a single-room thriller set on a ski-resort chairlift. The story follows three college students (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers) who are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, and are "forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death." [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"]…
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Saw and Repo! The Genetic Opera director Darren Lynn Bousman twittered a confirmation recently of a load of new casting for his remake of the Troma grindhouse shocker Mother's Day. "Ton's [sic] of casting news... Briana Evigan, Alexa Vega, Shawn Ashmore, Jamie King Mothers Day is going to be INSANE!!!!" "What we're trying to do…
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Bloody Disgusting has a snapshot of the new poster for Carter Smith's adaptation of Scott Smith's bestselling novel The Ruins (you can watch the previously released movie trailer here). As always, we cleaned the snapshot photo up in photoshop for your viewing pleasure. I'm really digging the one-sheet. The Ruins follows two American couples, just…
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DreamWorks has released a movie trailer for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Scott Smith's bestselling novel The Ruins. Smith is of course the critically-acclaimed author and screenwriter of A Simple Plan. The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico , who become entangled…
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"The book of the summer. . . . No quietly building, Ruth Rendell-style suspense here; Smith intends to scare the bejabbers out of you, and succeeds. There are no chapters and no cutaways-The Ruins is your basic long scream of horror. It does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches in 1975.…
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