The Almighty Thor Interview: Cody Deal, a.k.a. “Thor”

Moviehole has an interview with newcomer Cody Deal, who plays the lead in The Almighty Thor, The Asylum’s upcoming take on the Marvel superhero.  Deal actually tried out for that other Thor flick but seems happy to be in either.  Almighty co-stars Richard Grieco, Kevin Nash, and Patricia Velasquez and drops April 26th. (In the interview, Deal indicates a television broadcast as well, but until we know the exact timing we’ll keep calling it straight-to-DVD.)

Violent Blue Interview: Director Gregory Hatanaka

Director Gregory Hatanaka’s latest film, Violent Blue, tells the twisted tale of a music school teacher (Silvia Suvadova) who is held captive by her ex-husband (Nick Mancuso). In an interview with Los Angeles Asian American Movie Examiner’s Ed Moy, Hatanaka discusses his inspiration for the film, and his attempt “to fuse the elements of an arthouse film together with that of a martial arts picture.” He also mentions casting Mancuso based, in part, on his work in Nightwing, but I’ll always remember him as Stingray. Anyone? Anyone?

Violent Blue is available now.

Glorious 39 Interviews: Bill Nighy, Romola Garai

Two curiously unedited (there are cell phone interruptions and everything) video interviews with the stars of English WWII-era thriller Glorious 39 on Tribute Movies, one with Romola Garai, who plays the lead, and one with Bill Nighy who plays her father (for the third time, by his count).  The film centers on mysterious events surrounding an upper crust British family on the eve of World War II.  The film also stars Julie Christie, Christopher Lee, David Tennant, Jeremy Northam, and Juno Temple, who plays Nighy’s daughter for only the second time here.

Watch the Bill Nighy interview.

Watch the Romola Garai interview.

Glorious 39 arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on February 15th.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 Interview: Erin Cahill

Yidio via Movie Jungle has a brief video interview with Erin Cahill, who stars in Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, coming to DVD and Blu-ray February 1st. Among the many topics they manage to rattle through in the brief (like, less than two minutes) clip are the professionalism of the dogs and her reaction to the first film.  By the way, in the I-should-have-seen-that-coming category, there will be a Spanish edition of the DVD and Blu-ray as well.

Hunt to Kill Interviews: “The Brit” and That Guy From Ally McBeal

Phase9tv has posted a couple of video interviews with the co-stars of Steve Austin’s latest direct-to-video actioner, Hunt to Kill.  First up is kickboxing champ Gary Daniels, who plays one of the bad guys and co-starred with Austin earlier this year in The Expendables as “the Brit”:

Next we’ve got Ally McBeal alum Gil Bellows who plays the leader of the bad guys:

And here’s the trailer:

ExTerminators Interview: Writer, Director, Cast

Back when ExTerminators — recently released on DVD and Blu-ray — was in the 2009 SXSW Film Festival, Film School Rejects caught up with the director, John Inwood; writer, Suzanne Weinert; and actors Farah White and Sam Lloyd.  Here’s the interview.  The dark comedy, about a group of women in an anger management class who form a side business doing away with their fellow classmates evil exes, also stars Heather Graham, Martha Coolidge, Amber Heard, Joey Lauren Adams, and Matthew Settle.

Lost Boys: The Thirst Interview: Corey Feldman

Geek Chic Daily has an interview with Corey Feldman, star of all three Lost Boys films, including the latest, Lost Boys: The Thirst.  They talk about Corey Haim and the unintentional-at-the-time shout out to him in the film as well as Feldman’s evolution from comic relief to hero throughout the franchise.  And, of course, Goonies and bobbleheads.

Read the full interview.

Colin Firth, Ben Barnes Talk Dorian Gray

Here’s a ton of video from Dorian Gray, director Oliver Parker’s adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel, starring Ben Barnes (Prince Caspian) and Colin Firth.  This is Parker’s third foray into Wilde.  Previously he helmed An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest (he also directed Kenneth Branagh and Laurence Fishburne in Othello).  Film also stars Ben Chaplin and Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona).

First up, here’s an interview with the lead, Ben Barnes:

And now his co-star, Colin Firth:

Behind-the-scenes, featuring Barnes’ Stewie impersonation:

And, of course, the trailer:

Gray had a theatrical release in Britain but just this week went straight-to-DVD in the States.

30 Days of Night: Dark Days Director, Producer Interview

ShockTillYouDrop.com has an interview with Ben Ketai and J.R. Young, director and producer respectively of 30 Days of Night sequel 30 Days of Night: Dark Days.  They talk about how closely they hew to the original graphic novel and how budgetary concerns resulted in what ended up being a welcome avoidance of CG.  30 Days of Night: Dark Days arrives October 5th and stars Mia Kirshner (appropriately enough from The Vampire Diaries) and reunites Lost stars Harold Perrineau and Kiele Sanchez (Nikki of ‘Paulo and Nikki’ infamy), who takes over for Melissa George in the role of Stella Oleson.

Shoeless Joe Directs

Home Media Magazine has an interview with D.B. Sweeney, co-writer/director/star of road comedy Two Tickets to Paradise.  The interview covers the trials and tribulations of making the indie, which chronicles the Philly-to-Florida trek of three friends with tickets to a college football national championship.  The Eight Men Out star recruited friends (John C. McGinley, Moira Kelly) and wrangled alligators to get his film made.  Tickets, which also stars Ed Harris, M.C. Gainey, Pat Hingle, and Vanna White (yup, that one), arrives September 14th.

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