A new trailer for the horror thriller House at the End of the Street has been released.  Jennifer Lawrence stars as Elissa, a teenager who moves to a small, rural town with her mother, Sarah (Elisabeth Shue).  Against her mother’s wishes, Elissa begins a relationship with the reclusive Ryan (Max Thieriot), the last surviving family member of a brutal murder years earlier.  I was intrigued by the film’s second trailer that delved a bit deeper into the plot, but this latest clip nearly spoils the entire movie.  If you’d like to go into House at the End of the Street with, you know, suspense, I’d suggest skipping this latest clip.  Moreover, the studio will be reaping the benefits of Lawrence’s starpower, as she’s billed in the trailer as “The Hunger Games’ Jennifer Lawrence.”

Hit the jump to watch the trailer.  House at the End of the Street opens on September 21st.

A new trailer has been released for the horror film House at the End of the Street.  Jennifer Lawrence plays a young woman who moves with her mother to a new house that’s next door to the home where a grizzly murder took place years before.  I actually found this trailer more appealing than the first Memento-style teaser that was released.  The story is intriguing enough, director Mark Tonderai seems to be using some interesting camera techniques, and Lawrence is an instant draw.  That said, I’m hoping that the “twist” doesn’t end up being as obvious as it looks from this clip.

Hit the jump to watch the trailer.  The film also stars Max Thierot, Elizabeth Shue, and Gil Bellows.  House at the End of the Street opens on September 21st.

A couple more casting stories for you today. Firstly, Elizabeth Shue and Abigail Spencer (Mad Men) are set to star in Curtis Hanson’s surfing pic Of Men and Mavericks. The real-life story stars Gerard Butler as a local surfing legend and mentor to Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston), a world champion surfer who died in a diving accident at 22. THR reports that Shue will play Moriarty’s mother, while Spencer will take on the role of Butler’s character’s wife. The film will chronicle Butler’s transformation from reluctant mentor to father figure through the training of the young Moriarty. Leven Rambin also stars. Fox 2000 will co-finance and distribute with Walden Media. Jim Meenaghan and Mark Johnson penned the script.

Hit the jump for the casting news regarding Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

The first trailer for the drama Janie Jones has been released. The film centers on a musician whose life is turned upside down when a daughter he never knew he had is left in his custody. Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola star as the daughter and father, with Elizabeth Shue and Peter Stormare in supporting roles. Breslin looks to be in fine form here, and the tone seems like a cross between Crazy Heart and Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere. It doesn’t appear to be as interesting as those two films, and the trailer’s fairly predictable, but the performances look to be promising.

Hit the jump to watch the trailer. The film opens nationwide and VOD on October 28.

While at Comic-Con, I was given the chance to interview the cast and crew of this summer’s bloodiest 3D horror film, Piranha 3D. After screening roughly six minutes of footage the night before, I was eager to see what everyone had to say as I was blown away by what I had witnessed. During the interviews I had access to three groups. The first was Jerry O’Connell, Kelly Brook, and Paul Scheer. The second group was director Alexandre Aja and producer Mark Canton. The third and final group featured Elizabeth Shue, Adam Scott, and Steve McQueen. Hit the jump for all three videos and to find more of our coverage of Piranha 3D, which hits theaters this Friday.

“Get ‘em in a body bag, Johnny!” is probably the greatest ADR line in cinema history. It comes from The Karate Kid, the 1984 film that transposed a Rocky sensibility to young adults and kicking people in the face. The film was so successful it spawned a franchise and now a reboot. At the time, the story of Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio) and his teacher Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) was a phenomenon in that it was a legitimate word of mouth hit and it’s easy to see why. The first sequel capitalized well on that goodwill, delivering a similar but different take on the first film. After that, not so much, but my review of The Karate Kid and The Karate Kid Part II on Blu-ray after the jump.