In a relatively short amount of time, twenty-nine year old actor Cam Gigandet has established himself as one of the most sought after actors of his generation. He first gained attention for his role on the popular Fox series The O.C. before taking his talents to the big screen in films like Who’s Your Caddy? and Never Back Down. But it was his role as James in Twilight, the first installment of the extremely popular vampire series, which made him a household name. Since then, he has appeared in an array of popular and successful films such as Easy A, Burlesque, The Roommate, and last summer’s Priest. Now Gigandet returns to the big screen opposite Oscar winners Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas) and Nicole Kidman (The Hours) in Joel Schumacher’s (The Lost Boys) Trespass, which opens in theaters on October 14^th.

In the film, Cage plays Kyle; a successful diamond broker whose obsession with work is threatening his marriage to Sarah, played by Kidman. Things go from bad to worse quickly when Kyle’s family, including his only daughter, is suddenly taken hostage in their own home by extortionists who want Kyle’s diamonds. What seems like a simple home invasion becomes quite complicated when Kyle realizes that one of the attackers, Jonah (Gigandet), has a connection to his wife and possibly some other secrets of his own. Now Kyle must keep the burglars away from his diamonds, and unravel the mystery of Jonah and Sarah’s relationship, if he has any hope of protecting his family and surviving the terrible ordeal.

I recently had a chance to speak with Cam Gigandet about his work in the new film Trespass. The actor spoke candidly with me about the new film, what its like on a Joel Schumacher set, working with the extremely intense Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman’s calming effect over the cast and crew, his character’s complicated back-story, and his next project, which is a pilot for a new Western TV series on TNT.

Back in the days before audiences really gave a rat's ruby starfruit about box office grosses, conventional wisdom held that the sequel game was generally one of diminishing returns, with each new entry earning less money than the film that preceded it.  Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment of the franchise, opened with an estimated $90.1 million in its first three days.  That haul qualifies the Johnny Depp vehicle as the biggest debut weekend of 2011 so far, but it also established that the Pirates series has been performed somewhat more like an old-fashioned franchise. 

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The last few weeks have seen big summer movie debuts, with Fast Five pre-emptively cracking open the season and Thor following up with a respectable opening for a an arguably second-tier superhero.  With very little competition from other beefy superheroic types, Thor held on to the top spot for a second week, earning an estimated $34.5 million.  The big surprise this weekend was Bridesmaids; the raunchy wedding-themed comedy from Kristen Wiig exceeded all expectations in second place, with a projected $24.4 million opening gross.

Actress Maggie Q first gained a reputation for playing kick-ass characters in popular films like Rush Hour 2, Mission: Impossible III, and Live Free or Die Hard. She’s since moved her ass-kicking act to the small screen with her hit TV show Nikita, but now the actress will be kicking ass on the big screen once again when her new film Priest, hits theaters on May 13^th.

The film, which was directed by Scott Stewart (Legion), takes place in an alternate world where humans and vampires have waged war against each other for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest, played by Paul Bettany, lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. After vampires kidnap the priest's niece (Lilly Collins), he must break his vows to hunt them down. The Priest is joined by a former Warrior Priestess played by Q, who helps him on his quest for redemption.

Scott Stewart may have begun his career working in visual effects on such films as Sin City, Superman Returns, and Live Free or Die Hard, but it was his directorial debut with last year’s supernatural thriller Legion, that put him on the map as a successful Hollywood director. Now Stewart returns, and once again reunites with actor Paul Bettany, in his latest supernatural film entitled Priest, which is based on the popular Korean comic of the same name and opens in theaters on May 13th.

The movie focuses on an alternate world where humans and vampires have waged war against each other for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest (Bettany) lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. After vampires kidnap the priest's niece (Lilly Collins), he must break his vows to hunt them down. The niece's boyfriend (Cam Gigandet), who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess (Maggie Q) ultimately join him on his quest for redemption.

As the first superhero film of the season, Thor officially kicked off summer this weekend, and the Norse God brought a moderate amount of box office thunder.  The Kenneth Branagh film debuted at number one with an estimated gross of $66 million, which is right in line with the expectations for the cinematic debut of the character.  After its big opening, Fast Five naturally fell to second place, with two new romantic comedies well behind in third and fourth place.

The last time writer-director Scott Charles Stewart and actor Paul Bettany got together, Bettany played a renegade angel employing a truckload of automatic weapons to defend humanity from a heavenly apocalypse in Legion.  In Stewart's upcoming Priest, Bettany is a renegade cleric who uses crucifix ninja stars and slo-mo kung fu to fight vampires in a postapocalyptic wasteland.  A brand-spanking new, second theatrical trailer for Priest features no shortage of killer-crucifixes and vampires.

San Diego Comic-Con may be geek mecca, drawing more than 100,000 fans from around the world to Southern California every July, but WonderCon, Comic-Con's neighbor, is growing more popular every year.  Last year, the convention saw a spike of nearly 10,000 additional attendees, and given the comic and fantasy gathering's prime position just before summer, WonderCon is attracting increased presence from the genre-friendly film properties that now dominate Comic-Con. This weekend's WonderCon will include panels with Ryan Reynolds on Green Lantern, Jon Favreau talking up Cowboys and Aliens, and newly minted Superman Henry Cavill on Tarsem Singh's upcoming fantasy epic Immortals.

Based on the latest trailer for Priest, Scott Stewart's ostensible adaptation of a Korean comic by Hyung Min-woo, it seems like Stewart put a heaping of genre elements into a blender and turned it on without capping the thing, spewing forth a nasty spray of mulched post apocalyptic deserts, vampires, wire-fu, a Blade Runner-style overcrowded metropolis, 3D, speed change action, slow-mo, and warrior monks.  The film has an impressive cast, though, with Paul Bettany, Christopher Plummer, Maggie Q, and Karl Urban.  There's another trailer online now, ready to remind you of other, probably better movies.  Give it a looksie: