A sales trailer for Missionary was cooked up in anticipation of Cannes and we now have it for you to watch after the jump.

The film is about a single mother (House of Lies' Dawn Olivieri) who gets romantically involved with a Mormon missionary (Mitch Ryan). When she decides to get back with her ex-husband (Kip Pardue), she discovers that the missionary is not who he seems, and will stop at nothing to get her back.

"Missionary is a film I'm extremely proud of and can't wait for the public to see. Today we have a couple unofficial things leaking on line from Cannes, and as foreign sales goes, sometimes those things are not exactly representative of the film itself but made to sell the film for an international market," DiBlasi told us.

Empire landed some new images from Only Lovers Left Alive - the next Jim Jarmusch (Down By Law, Dead Man).

This vampire offering stars Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt and Anton Yelchin.  

According the UK outlet, the film is "set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?"

A trailer for Kill List director Ben Wheatley's latest film, A Field in England, has made its debut, offering the first footage we have ever seen since the project was announced.

Billed as “a psychedelic trip into magic and madness,” A Field In England follows a group of English Civil War soldiers in the 17th century who are captured by an alchemist and led into a vast mushroom field, where they fall victim to violent and nightmarish forces.

A theatrical and VOD release is planned for 2013.  Drafthouse Films will distribute.

Two pieces of casting news to share...  Mia Maestro has been cast to play opposite Corey Stoll in The Strain, the upcoming horror series in development at FX based on the novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.  Del Toro is directing the pilot.  Maestro is also joining Kevin Durand, who was cast in the pilot last month.  Carlton Cuse (Bates Motel) is acting as showrunner.

The UK-based Death Waltz Records has revealed its vinyl plans for the smokin'-hot Maniac soundtrack.  Of course, we're talking about the 2013 remake starring Elijah Wood.  The synth-driven score is by Rob and, so far, it's our favorite score of the year.  Death Waltz will be releasing some packaging options, they include:

500 180g flesh coloured vinyl with transparent blood splatter housed in a gatefold casebound (tip on) sleeve with mirror effect silver UV anti scratch lamination & 12 x 12 print of the cover art. (Death Waltz webstore exclusive)

Earlier this month, I took the chance to hop on board a film tour.  In addition to hosting some screening Q&As on that tour, I interviewed some of those involved in the movie, well in advance of the usual press junket madness.  That film is The Purge, a solid, thought-provoking and vicious lil' home invasion thriller opening June 7th that stars Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey.  The tour took me to New York City, then Chicago, then Estes Park, Colorado just outside of Denver where the film opened the Stanley Film Festival.

The tour had already been well underway when I dropped in.  Producer Jason Blum, of Blumhouse Productions, was showing it off to various college towns.  To me, this maneuver evoked a rather old school spirit - a time when filmmakers and distributors would take their film reels and move from city to city showing their picture off.

The much-anticipated Ghostbusters 3 is getting closer and closer to becoming a reality. Leading man Dan Aykroyd spoke today on "Larry King Now," revealing new details about the sequel's plot.

"It's based on new research that's being done in particle physics by the young men and women at Columbia University," he tells King. "...Basically, there's research being done that I can say that the world or the dimension that we live in, our four planes of existence, length, height, width and time, become threatened by some of the research that's being done. Ghostbusters -- new Ghostbusters -- have to come and solve the problem." 

Warner Bros. and Legendary have released the first TV spot for Pacific Rim.  Guillermo del Toro's latest is getting a lot of coverage here at Shock, so we'll keep this brief.  The film opens July 12th.  Get excited.

Producer Ant Timpson and Greg Newman (EVP of MPI/Dark Sky Films) and New Zealand Film Commission CEO Graeme Mason announced today the return of "Make My Movie," the highly successful New Zealand feature film project. 

The New Zealand Film Commission and MPI/Dark Sky Films are financing a low budget feature film scheme in which the entire budget will be given away to any individual/team who can come up with a synopsis and poster that wows the public and the in-house gurus. The first round resulted in the critically acclaimed kiwi peeping-tom rom-com How to Meet Girls from a Distance. That film was conceived and delivered in less than six months, it was then sold to Madman Entertainment after a highly successful festival run in New Zealand. 

This time around Exec Producer Ant Timpson sought support from Greg Newman and MPI and upped the stakes calling it "Make My Horror Movie" with a focus entirely on the horror genre.