MOVIE NEWS AUGUST 5: GUY PIERCE & MAGGIE GRACE IN LOCK OUT, ALICIA SILVERSTONE’S VAMPS & MORE

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GUY PIERCE AND MAGGIE GRACE IN LUC BESSON’S LOCK OUT

Before we get too far into this, Luc Besson is not directing, but he co-wrote the script and is producing the film just like he did with Taken. The Wrap reports that EuropaCorp has cast Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare and Tom Hollander in an upcoming sci-fi action movie called Lock Out. The film takes place in a prison orbiting 50 miles above Earth, housing 500 of the most dangerous prisoners who are kept asleep by sophisticated methods until they suddenly awaken, causing all hell to break loose. It sounds like one of those sci-fi “supermax” prison movies, like they tried with DC Comics, but without any supervillains.

The budget for Lock Out is expected to be in the $30 million range, and production is scheduled to begin at the end of next month in Belgrade.

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ALICIA SILVERSTONE’S VAMPS GETS MANY MORE MEN

Wow, it has been five solid months since we’ve heard any significant news on Amy Heckerling’s newest film “Vamps,” which starsAlicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as two beautiful vampire BFFs named Goody and Stacy who live in the Big Apple. Fortunately, our patient waiting has paid off with a whole slew of new casting news.

It’s by now old news that Sigourney Weaverjoined the cast as vampire queen, Ciccerus, and Todd Barry has signed on board to play her assistant, Ivan.

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ALI LARTER INTERVIEW: RESIDENT EVIL: AFTER LIFE

MoviesOnline sat down at Comic Con with Ali Larter to talk about her role in the upcoming “Resident Evil: Afterlife.” The 3D science fiction action horror film, written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Milla Jovovich, is the fourth installment in a series of film adaptations based on Capcom’s survival horror video game series Resident Evil.

Ali plays Claire Redfield, a survivor of the worldwide virus infection that has turned its victims into the Undead.

In this latest installment of the sci fi franchise, she suffers from amnesia and is unsure whether the man who is working for an unnamed military organization combating the infected is actually her older brother Chris Redfield (Wentworth Miller).

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Lock Out sounds like an interesting concept. Do you think it will be a hit or a miss? What are your thoughts on today’s Movie News?