Vanessa Hudgens, best known for her role in the High School Musical films, is reported to be playing a role in an upcoming serial killer thriller alongside Nicolas Cage, called Frozen Ground.

According to a report by Deadline, Frozen Ground tells the true story of Alaska’s most infamous serial killer, Robert Hansen, played by John Cusack. Hudgens will play the role of a victim who manages to escape, after which Cage’s character, a State Trooper who is investigating the case, finds her.

The real-life Hansen was sentenced in 1984 to 461 years in prison for the murder of 17 women, most of which were prostitutes and strippers. During his trial, he also admitted to raping up to 30 women over the course of 10 years.

Hansen was at one point regarded by the community as a respectable family man. He owned a bakery, hence his nickname, “The Butcher Baker”, and had a wife and two children, all unaware of Hansen’s dark side.

Hudgens, 22, recently wrapped up filming on Gimme Shelter, due out in 2012, in which she takes on the role of a troubled teenager whose father abandons her after her decision to keep her unborn baby. Hudgens is also starring in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island alongside Dwayne Johnson and Josh Hutcherson. Journey 2 is due out this year.

There isn’t yet a release date for Frozen Ground, but it’s reported to begin filming on October 17 in Anchorage, Alaska. Scott Walker will be making his directorial debut with the film.

via On The Red Carpet

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If you’ve been on the internet for any length of time, you’ve been there.

You compose a cogent, well-written rebuttal or opinion on a message board. Or you tweet something quickly from your iPhone or cell and that pesky autocorrect kicks in. (Most embarrassing autocorrect I’ve experienced: consoling my best friend on the unexpected loss of her uncle had “anyone instead of him” corrected to “Antoine instead of Jim.” Really.) And before you have a chance to edit or re-post with a correction, someone has ignored your entire point and jumped in with a lengthy counterpoint on the correct usage of “it’s.” Grrr.

Today the New York Times has profiled what are colloquially known as “grammar nazis” on the web and their habit of irritating the hell out of everyone and anyone in the name of pedantry. John Cusack comments to the Times on the verbal abuse he’s been subjected to since joining the microblogging service:

“I’m pretty new to it, and if there’s a spell check on an iPhone, I can’t find it,” he said by telephone. “So I basically get in the general ballpark and tweet it.”

Consequently, Mr. Cusack has birthed strange words like “breakfasy” and “hippocrite” and has given a more literary title to his new movie: “Hot Tub Tome Machine.”

Cusack then poses a question we’ve all asked ourselves at one time or another:

“The vitriol was so intense that at first I didn’t think they were serious,” Mr. Cusack said. “Because, like, who would care?”

Who would care, indeed? Well, @capscop, for starters, a Twitter bot dedicated to finding and calling out people who type in all caps on Twitter:

@(redacted) Guess who’s a little caps lock happy? You

@(redacted) Any time that I see you type in all caps I imagine that Billy Mays is saying it.

@(redacted) was trying to make all of their followers deaf with that tweet. Quiet down over there!

And, oh snap:

@(redacted) This isn’t MySpace so maybe you should turn your caps lock off.

The article goes on to detail how many people will freak out and even bring in lawyers when called out for their “twettiquette.” But Cusack prefers to handle it the old fashioned way:

For his part, Mr. Cusack has refused to be silenced. In early April he issued an ultimatum, threatening to block from his account anyone who sniped at his spelling or grammar.

It didn’t work. The people he blocked would return with new account names, “and they’d behave like cranky, obsessive trolls,” Mr. Cusack said.

He has been trying a new strategy, he explained by e-mail: first, he spells things wrong on purpose to get the critics riled up, and then “I blockthem executioer style now with no warning!!”

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When a movie comes with the words “from the producer of Independence Day and the Day After Tomorrow” you just know that we’re going to see an epic disaster flick, and 2012 doesn’t disappoint.

Starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Woody Harrelson, 2012 has as its premise:

“Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. The human race is impacted by a global cataclysm, which lead to the end to the world and has survivors struggling for their lives.”

As much as the premise is obviously bollocks (hardly surprising), the trailer looks…well….epic. The aircraft carrier being washed over the White House at the end is a very nice touch as well.

2012 is due out November 13, 2009. Here’s the 2012 movie trailer:

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