Here’s a first look at the trailer for Deborah Ann Woll’s upcoming film Catch .44. The suspense thriller will be in theaters on December 9 and will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on December 20.

Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis and Malin Akerman lead an all-star cast in this suspense thriller where everyone has an agenda… and a Magnum to back it up! For Tes (Akerman) and her two cohorts Kara (Nikki Reed, the “Twilight” franchise) and Tara (Deborah Ann Woll, “True Blood”), the job sounded simple enough: intercept a double-cross drug shipment for their crime boss Mel (Willis) at an isolated diner. But when an unstoppable chain of events unfolds, everyone soon realizes no one is who they seem and the job may be something other than eliminating the competition. What started as simple instructions has now turned into a deadly cat-and-mouse game – with large guns pointed at everyone.

Brett Ratner may be out as Oscar producer, but he’s still making deals: Anchor Bay Films has acquired the horror film “Mother’s Day,” which Ratner and Richard Saperstein produced with Jay Stern, Brian Witten, Jessie Rusu, Curtis Leopardo and Shara Kay.

Darren Lynn Bousman directs what Anchor Bay describes as a loose remake of the original Troma film of the same name directed by Charles Kaufman. Rebecca DeMornay, Jamie King, Deborah Ann Woll and Shawn Ashmore star.

Anchor Bay made the announcement Wednesday, the final day of the American Film Market — and a day after Ratner exited as producer of the Academy Awards over the use of an anti-gay slur during a screening of “Tower Heist” last week.

“Mother’s Day” centers on a bank robbery gone wrong with three brothers heading for home, only to discover that their mother lost the house in a foreclosure. The new owners and their guests, gathered for an ill-timed birthday party, become the brothers’ unwitting hostages.

Deal was negotiated by Josh Thomashow and Kevin Kasha for Anchor Bay Films and Ben Weiss from Paradigm for the film.

Roberto Faenza’s adaptation of Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You was also very nice. It’s a delightful upbeat movie and probably the closest thing to an adaptation of The Catcher in the Rye we’re ever gonna get, as the lead character is basically a gay Holden.
It’s a strange movie though – I’m not even that familiar with Faenza’s Italian works, but from that little I’ve seen this movie doesn’t look like a Faenza movie at all. Of course Faenza was one of those hopeless directors who tried to buy the rights to The Catcher in the Rye for years so maybe he accepted this adaptation because of that, despite it not really being a good fit for his style.
Very good cast too – Marcia Gay Harden is hilarious and the kid is quite remarkable.

Oh, and Deborah Ann Woll is gorgeous. So is Zhang Ziyi. And Noomi Rapace is very pretty too.

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Deborah was today at Rome Film Festival promoting her new movie “Un Giorno Questo Dolore Ti Sara Utile” (aka Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You) and I have a few mq pictures for you:

Best known as sulky, slump-shouldered Jessica in True Blood (default posture: “Being a vampire sucks!”), in the flesh Deborah Ann Woll is smart, funny and drop-undead gorgeous. Alas, most of our slack-jawed conversation in London’s Soho Hotel today is PR-superinjunctioned until next year when season four comes out on Blu-ray and DVD. But given that the interview was taking place on Halloween, we felt it only appropriate to share a few seasonal tricks and treats on the subject of what to dress up as, Ghoul-gling herself and the best outfit she’s seen at Comic-Con…

GQ.com: Joe Manganiello told us that working on True Blood was “like being a kid on Halloween every day”. Is that accurate?
Deborah Ann Woll: Less candy, but just as much blood probably. I love it. I would go on set every day if they let me. But I’d probably just get in the way.

Do you see many people dressed up as Jessica for Halloween?
I do! People often will send pictures of their Jessica costumes to the Facebook fan page that we run. They do a good job. A lot of people are dying their hair – go redheads! It’s interesting too to see that they pick. Some will do the Merlotte’s waitress uniform, a lot will do the yellow dress from season two and this year we got one of a girl who wore this great plaid shirt over a little bustier from season four. You’ll see…

Do you know you’ve made it when you’re inspiring Halloween costumes?
I guess so. I sort of knew I’d made it when Google stopped autocorrecting my name. It used to change “Woll” into “Wool”. Suddenly, one day Google recognised me and I knew everything was good.

Yesterday the first pictures of Catch .44 was finally released! Also, the Blu-Ray release was also announced:

In an early announcement to retailers, Starz/Anchor Bay is working on ‘Catch .44′ for Blu-ray on December 20.
In the tradition of ‘Pulp Fiction,’ ‘Traffic’ and ‘Go,’ and from the producers of ‘Machete’ and ’16 Blocks,’ Oscar® winner Forest Whitaker (‘The Last King of Scotland,’ “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior”), Bruce Willis (the ‘Die Hard’ films, ‘Red,’ ‘The Expendables’) and Malin Akerman (‘Watchmen,’ ‘The Proposal,’ ‘Couples Retreat’) lead an all-star cast in this suspense thriller where everyone has an agenda…and a Magnum to back it up!

The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack, and a filmmakers’ commentary.

Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $29.99.

Hailee Steinfeld, Dave Franco, and Deborah Ann Woll have been offered the leads in Rosaline, a retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet that’s told from the perspective of the girl Romeo ditches to be with Juliet. Michael Sucsy is directing from a script by by (500) Days of Summer writers Scott Neustader and Michael H. Weber, which in turn is an adaptation of Rebecca Serle‘s forthcoming debut novel When You Were Mine. The comedy will use modern-day dialogue in a 16th-century Verona setting.

Woll would play the title character, while Franco and Steinfeld could play Romeo and Juliet, respectively. If Steinfeld signs on it’ll be her second time playing the iconic character, as she’s also lined up to play Juliet for Carlo Carlei’s more straightforward adaptation. Much as I like Steinfeld, her casting here strikes me as a bit off since she’s eleven years younger than Woll and Franco — but maybe that’s part of the story? /Film