It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about Zack Snyder’s upcoming all girl, ass-kicking fest, Sucker Punch. The last time I checked they were playing a serious game of shuffle board with it’s actors. According to Yahoo, we can expect another full blooded female to join the cast in the form of Watchmen alumni, Carla Gugino. The cast currently includes Emily Browning, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, and Abbie Cornish.

Set in the 1950’s, Sucker Punch is about a young girl committed to an insane asylum, who dreams of escaping with the help of her fellow inmates. The leader of the pack is Baby Doll (Browning), a girl who’s step-father plans on having her lobotomized in five days. Gugino will star in the role of Mrs. Schultz, one of the adults at the institution. Since the film will have a pretty heavy dose of action, the primary actresses are currently in martial arts training. Sucker Punch is expected to start shooting this fall in Vancouver.

I love how the description of Gugino’s character is kept so vague. She could be a psycho too for all we know! It would be cool to see her get in on some of the martial arts action as well. We didn’t really get to see much of it in Watchmen.

Moviegoes won’t see the mad-house girls of “Sucker Punch” until 2011, but director Zack Snyder has comely young inmates — including Abbie Cornish, right — in training already.

After the bloody hyper-reality of “300″ and the alternate-universe intensity of “Watchmen,” filmmkaer Snyder is ramping up for “Sucker Punch,” a surreal action film about a young woman who hopes to brak out of an pyschiatric unit with the help of the her four new wild-child friends, who may just be in her head.

The stars of the film are Emily Browning (“Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events”), Jamie Chung (“Dragonball Evolution”) Jena Malone (“Into the Wild”), Cornish (“Stop-Loss”) and, joltingly, Disney’s very own Vanessa Hudgens of “High School Musical” fame.

Cornish, who plays the leader-of-the-pack Sweetpea, said that Snyder (below, left) has the starlets working out like Spartan warriors.

“Sometimes,” she said, “I forget I’m an actor. We’re training so hard.” How hard? She said their five-day-a-week morning is “doing martial fighting, swords and choreography — just kicking butt with guns and everything imaginable. And then we do a training session in the afternoon. It’s like being a stunt person, really, not an actor at all. ”

Zack Cornish has been generating some Oscar buzz with her radiant turn as Fanny Brawne in Jane Campion’s “Bright Star,” which weaves a tale out of the 19th century romance between Brawne and doomed British poet John Keats. Don’t expect any corsets in “Sucker Punch,” though, which sounds like some high-octane mash-up of “Fight Club” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

“The film is a dream in a way, ” explains Cornish, which is set in the 1960s. “It operates on three levels. A reality, then a sub-reality where the psych ward world shifts into this strange high-roller’s brothel. Then there’s this dream world where it goes into these crazy action sequences that are totally removed from time and space.”

Cornish added that It’s still Sweatpea in the dream world, but “just all of a sudden she becomes a crazy killing machine and she’s decked out in a really cool outfit.”

Hi Folks! Today was the day that Emily’s movie The Uninvited was released on DVD. So make sure you go out and buy a copy! Since I received my copy this afternoon, I have been capping and adding caps to the gallery including the dvd extras. I hope you enjoy them an I am thinking about adding the dvd extras for downloads.

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Emily Browning did something that most young actresses wouldn’t after landing a major role in a big studio film. Browning, who portrayed young Violet inLemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, actually took a three-year break from acting in 2005 to finish her schooling. Now she’s getting back to work with the lead role in The Uninvited, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 28. I had the chance to speak with Browning over the phone about her new film, and here’s what she had to say.

This is the first film you’ve done in about four years or so, after taking some time off to finish school. What was it about this movie that made it your first film back after your hiatus?

Emily Browning: Well, I really wanted the first film back to be very different from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. That was a kids film so I wanted something a little bit more mature. I don’t even know if mature is even the right word, just something different and I thought a horror/thriller was the opposite end of the scale. At the time, I thought I would be easing myself in by doing a small role, because I was originally cast as Alex. It was going to be a small role in this horror film and then all of the sudden they told me they wanted me to do the lead, so it just kind of happened really quick like that. I guess that was kind of the logic behind it.

This was based off the earlier Korean film, but some of these Asian horror remakes we see these days, those movies really seem like they’re remakes of Asian horror films and this one really doesn’t. Was that kind of the intention, to really set it apart from the original film?

Emily Browning:I think so, yeah. When I first read the script, I had seen the original film and we weren’t doing an exact remake of it. I think it was just kind of based on the fact that they wanted to re-tell that story. I’m pretty sure that the basic story of the film has been around for a really long time, and I think it was just a re-telling of that story. It was totally different from the original film, for sure.

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Entertainment Weekly reports that Emily Browning (The Uninvited, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) will replace Amanda Seyfried in director Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch at Warner Bros. Pictures.

Seyfried was set to play the lead role of Babydoll, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with the fourth season of HBO’s “Big Love.” In the film, Babydoll is confined to a mental institution by her stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days. While there, she imagines an alternative reality to hide her from the pain, and in that world, she begins planning her escape, needing to steal five objects to help get her out before she is deflowered by a vile man.

Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Evan Rachel Wood and Emma Stone co-star. Sucker Punch is scheduled for an October 8, 2010 release.

The studio just passed on artwork and specs for The Uninvited. The terrifying psychological thriller THE UNINVITED makes a haunting appearance on DVD and Blu-ray April 28, 2009 from Paramount Home Entertainment. Called “creepy and intense” (Shawn Edwards, Fox-TV), the film stars Emily Browning (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) as Anna, a girl who is driven by her mother’s ghost to investigate her untimely death.

When her father (David Strathairn, The Spiderwick Chronicles) becomes engaged to Rachel (Elizabeth Banks, Role Models), her mother’s former nurse, Anna and her sister (Arielle Kebbel, The Grudge 2) look into Rachel’s past and begin to suspect that she is not what she seems. As horrifying truths are revealed, Anna becomes locked in a deadly battle with a shocking conclusion.

THE UNINVITED DVD and Blu-ray presentations include the behind-the-scenes featurette “Unlocking THE UNINVITED”, deleted scenes and a chilling alternate ending not shown in theaters.

THE UNINVITED DVD & Blu-ray
THE UNINVITED DVD is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround and Spanish 5.1 Surround and English, French and Spanish subtitles. The Blu-ray disc is presented in 1080p high definition with English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, French 5.1 Dolby Digital and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. The discs include the following special features in high definition as noted:

• Unlocking THE UNINVITED (HD)
• Deleted Scenes (HD)
• Alternate Ending (HD)

Hi Guys! I thought I would search to see if I can find anything new on Emily or her movie an I came across a still of The Uninvited that wasn’t in the gallery. It is in HQ too! Hope you enjoy!

There will be 2 private screenings of Emily’s new movie The Uninvited. If you live in the Philadelphia (screening date January 27 2009) region or the Salt Lake City (screening date January 28 2009) region, than you can register here or here to get tickets to the events. Unfortunately I do not live close enough to those spots. But maybe some of you fans can go!