Keiko Agena in “I Hate LA”

Keiko Agena (Lane Kim on Gilmore Girls) stars in one of 10 interlocking vignettes in the indy horror film, I Hate LA. The film aims to highlight the “flawed monsters” of Hollywood by featuring 10 interlocking horror vignettes written and directed by 6 women directors. Each short story is set in a different part of LA – Keiko’s segment is of Downtown LA.

Unlike the beautiful city of light, love, and culture, Los Angeles is perhaps the most hated and berated metropolis in the world. From the gnarled traffic, pervading loneliness and narcissism of its residents to the constant loss, rejection, and cruelty of tinsel town…each area of Los Angeles proper has a figurative and sometimes literal monster lurking near its sidewalks paved with stars.

Let these acclaimed Mistresses of Horror provide their uniquely devastating, no holds barred opinion of what makes the city of angels and hidden devils so profoundly effed up.

You can see a short scene with Keiko at 56 seconds into this trailer. Please note, the video is disturbing and not appropriate for younger viewers.

The film is currently screening on the indy circuit.

“The Conspirator” on DVD August 16

Alexis Bledel stars as Frederick Aiken’s sweetheart Sarah Weston in her newest film, The Conspirator. The movie opened in April and comes to DVD on August 16th. To promote the release, a number of new stills of the film, including of Alexis, have been released.

And here’s a scene of Alexis in the movie, as well as more photos:

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Billy Burke “Made the [wedding] scene” on Twilight

Billy Burke (Alex Lesman on Gilmore Girls) has been starring as Charlie Swan in the Twilight saga, and his co-stars have been raving about his upcoming role in the latest film, Breaking Dawn, where he walks daughter Bella down the aisle to marry her vampire boyfriend. Co-star Robert Pattinson says:

“I think [Billy Burke] made that scene really great because he had to walk her down the aisle, and I think he really did a great job.”

Billy also had nothing but nice things to share about his on-screen daughter, actress Kristin Stewart, sharing this funny story of how they met:

“I met her for the first time on the plane up to Portland. I tapped her on the shoulder and said ‘Hi. I’m your dad.’ She thought I was a stalker. Despite that, since then I think we’ve gotten along pretty well. I think she’s an extremely rare talent.”

Here’s the first teaser trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn:

Alexis Bledel’s “The Kate Logan Affair” Trailer

Alexis Bledel‘s (Rory Gilmore on Gilmore Girls) stars in the independent film, The Kate Logan Affair, a film about a young psychologically unstable young police woman named Kate Logan and a married Frenchman who find themselves caught up in a dramatic twisted affair.

It’s quite an adult role for Alexis, and it exciting to see how the film unfolds. It’s taken two years for us to finally see this trailer!

There were also some positive reviews out there for the film when opened in Montreal.

Melissa McCarthy Joins Judd Apatow’s Next Movie

Melissa McCarthy (Sookie on Gilmore Girls) has been tapped to join the new comedy, as yet untitled, being written and directed by Judd Apatow, whom Melissa worked with on Bridesmaids.

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The details of the film are being kept hush hush for now, but we do know that fellow cast members include Ryan Lee, Megan Fox, John Lithgow, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. The film currently has the working title of This is Forty.

Some people are calling this film a Knocked Up spin-off.

Production on the film has just begun.

Marion Ross in “Keeping Up With The Randalls”

Marion Ross (Lorelai ‘Trix’ Gilmore on Gilmore Girls) stars in the upcoming tv movie on Hallmark, Keeping Up with the Randalls. She stars as Grandma Dorie, someone not quite as sweet as she looks (sound familiar?). The film will make its first premiere on July 16th.

Summary: Alicia Crosby is a hugely successful children’s fashion designer based in Los Angeles. Her personal life is equally successful as Alicia suspects her boyfriend Will Randall is going to pop the question any day now. But first, Alicia must survive meeting Will’s family, which means getting down and dirty in their family’s annual ‘Reunion Races’ where she is up against everyone from Will’s mom, Barb, his dad, Doug, his seemingly sweet Grandma Dorie, to even Will’s ex-girlfriend, Kris

Here’s the trailer for the film:

Tanc Sade Completes “Medallion” Filmin

Tanc Sade (Finn on Gilmore Girls) has completed filming a film with Nicholas Cage called Medallion. It looks like he had fun.

Medallion tells the story of a former thief who frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi. Apparently she remains there for a good deal of the movie.

Tanc plays the role of Pete in the film. Filming took place in New Orleans. As a big budget film ($35 million), we should see some good press for this one!