Olivia Wilde Returns from Hell in First Trailer for 'The Lazarus Effect'

Apparently nobody in the new film The Lazarus Effect bothered to watch either Flatliners because they'd know things tend to badly when people are brought back from the dead. Those who turned out to see The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death over the weekend may have seen the first trailer for The Lazarus Effect starring Olivia Wilde and Mark Duplass, and now that footage has hit the web.

In one sense it's kind of funny that this horror flick about dead people is being directed by David Gelb who gave us the foodie documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, but it looks like he's made a pretty sound genre transition here. Duplass and Wilde play med students who uncover a way to bring things back from the dead, but when the experiment is performed on Wilde's character she's undergone some serious changes. From the look of it she's been brought back from Hell itself and that means people gotta start dying permanently.

Also starring Donald Glover (who seems to get killed in this too revealing trailer), Evan Peters, and Sara Bolger, The Lazarus Effect opens February 27th.


The Lazarus Effect by Teaser-Trailer.com

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Stacy Martin Joins 'The Childhood of a Leader'; 'The Martian' Adds Donald Glover; Hugo Weaving meets 'The Dressmaker'

Nymphomaniac breakout Stacy Martin will take on another sure-to-be controversial project, joining Robert Pattinson in Brady Corbet's directorial debut, The Childhood of a Leader. Written by Corbet and Mona Fastvold (The Sleepwalker), with Tim Roth and Berenice Bejo co-starring, the film is described as “a chilling fable about the rise of fascism in the 20th Century” and follows an American living in 1918 France whose experiences there give birth to a "terrifying ego". Martin will play the boy's French teacher. [ScreenDaily]

Ridley Scott has added Donald Glover (Community) to the otherwise amazing cast of The Martian. Sorry, he does nothing for me. Anyway, the film stars Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Michael Pena, Mackenzie Davis and Jeff Daniels in the story of an astronaut, one of the first to ever step foot on Mars, who is abandoned after an accident and must stay alive long enough to be rescued. Also coming aboard is Aksel Hennie, best known for starring in Headhunters. Glover will play a NASA employee while Hennie is a fellow astronaut. [TheWrap]

Perennial tough evil guy Hugo Weaving will play a cross-dressing police sergeant in Jocelyn Moorhouse's The Dressmaker. Starring Kate Winslet, Isla Fisher, Liam Hemsworth, and Elizabeth Debicki, the adaptation of Rosalie Ham's book centers on Tilly, a scorned woman who returns to the small country hometown she fled after as a child after being accused of murder. This is hardly new territory for Weaving who played a drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

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Elizabeth Banks Joins 'Magic Mike XXL' as Full Cast and Plot Revealed

Over the last couple of weeks there has been a lot of news on who is in and who is out of Magic Mike XXL. Matthew McConaughey sadly won't be returning, but what about Matt Bomer, Kevin Nash, and Joe Manganiello? Turns out they'll all be be back, along with Adam Rodriguez and Gabriel Igleasias, while Elizabeth Banks, Donald Glover, and Michael Strahan (!?!?) will be coming aboard. They'll be joining the previously announced Jada Pinkett Smith, Amber Heard, and Andie MacDowell, with Channing Tatum obviously returning to the film he's again co-writing with Reid Carolin. What, no Alex Pettyfer?

Along with that announcement, Warner Bros. has revealed the first real plot details, confirming it as a road trip movie. The story will take place three years after the last film when Mike gave up stripping for good, and it looks like his boys are ready to do the same.

"Magic Mike XXL" finds the remaining Kings of Tampa ready to throw in the towel. But they want to do it their way: burning down the house in one last blow-out performance in Myrtle Beach, and with legendary headliner Magic Mike sharing the spotlight with them. On the road to their final show, with whistle stops in Jacksonville and Savannah to renew old acquaintances and make new friends, Mike and the guys learn some new moves and shake off the past in surprising ways.

Directed by Greg Jacobs, Magic Mike XXL opens July 1st 2015.

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