* Production is now underway on the Aussie crime thriller, Kill Me Three Times, and there have been some significant changes. Once slated to be directed by Greg McLean (Wolf Creek) with Abbie Cornish and Ben Mendelsohn, Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) is now at the helm with a new cast. Teresa Palmer and Luke Hemsworth (yep, he's who you think he is) are the newest additions, joining Simon Pegg, Alice Braga, Sullivan Stapleton, Bryan Brown, and Callan Mulvey. Set in an Australian surfing town, the film has Braga as a singer and the thread that connects three tales of murder. One of those stories will have Pegg as a "mercurial assassin", which should be worth the price of admission alone.
* Score another hit for Blumhouse Productions, the horror studio's Insidious Chapter 2 banking $41M in its opening weekend. While a sequel to that is already in the works, development on another potential franchise are pushing forward. Aaron Eckhart will start in the exorcism film, Incarnate, that sounds like every other exorcism film you've seen. Directed by Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) and written by Ronny Christensen, it has Eckhart as "an unconventional exorcist who can tap into the subconscious of the possessed [who] meets his match when a 9-year-old boy is possessed by a demon from his past." [Deadline]
* Broadway star Patina Miller is making her feature film debut in a big way, joining the two-part finale The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. Coming off her Tony award victory for Pippin, Miller will now take on the role of Commander Paylor in the Francis Lawrence-directed film. Paylor is the rebel leader in District 8, and plays an important role later on as the rebellion escalates. Not too much can be said about her relationship to Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) without giving anything away, but this should be a small and crucial role that could gain Miller a lot of attention. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opens this year on November 22nd, while Mockingjay begins November 2014.
