
Shock Till You Drop offers an interview with actress Jena Malone on the eve of The Ruins release. Malone, who starred back in the day in Donnie Darko, has much to say. If you're in a hurry, here are the highlights:
• She likes films that make her skin crawl like those by David Lynch and David Cronenberg.
• Yet she says the film is a combination of Rosemary's Baby and The Lord of the Flies in that it's psychological horror.
• The shoot in Australia was tough because it dealt with different kinds of deprivation, including "hyperventilation and overexhaustion and heat depravation and starvation."
• She likes singing and touring, but it's a part of her life she doesn't completely understand yet.
Posted by Harold Goldberg
April 1, 2008 1:05pm
Filed under: Rumors
Tags: jena malone ruins

Could the lead role in the Suspiria remake be the film that revives Lindsay Lohan's career? Or will it make a fool out of Lohan? Check out what Fangoria has to say on the what may be either the savviest or dumbest casting move of the decade.
Will she play young ballet wannabee Suzy Banyon? Or will she be more suited as one of the witches? Lohan's career has been on a steep slide since she took days off from the set on Georgia Rules after partying all night. But now that she's been in rehab and is 'well' again, you have to ask the question: Will Suspiria help her career or hurt it?
Posted by Harold Goldberg
April 1, 2008 12:21pm
Filed under: Rumors
Tags: lindsay lohan, suspiria

When Variety announced today that Paramount would option New Yorker writer David Grann's Lost City of Z, it was clear it has the full commitment of Brad Pitt. Pitt will not only produce the movie, he'll likely star in it. The book, based on Grann's article, will be a literary adventure about "Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, who was attempting to find the so-called City of Z when he and his party disappeared in 1925." It's been a great mystery nearly 100 years: How and under what circumstances did Fawcett disappear? Was he murdered? Or did something unknown and unexplainable occur?
One thing Variety didn't mention is that the movie will likely have a distinct horror element. If you read the original story in the New Yorker, you'll recall that Fawcett had a voracious, even dark, interest in mysticism. There's some speculation in the article that Fawcett indeed found Z, and as the theory goes, walked through that door and never returned.
Posted by Harold Goldberg
April 1, 2008 11:01am
Filed under: Rumors
Tags: brad pitt, lost city