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Strong reviews and a $10 million opening was enough for Dimension Films to get working on a sequel of Piranha 3-D. The studio confirmed today that plans for another bloody gore fest are in the works with director Alexandre Aja and producer Mark Canton re-teaming with Dimension. “We are thrilled that audiences are not just loving Piranha 3-D, but cheering for it,” says Canton. “And it’s fantastic that so many critics are really getting the movie and recommending it. We can’t wait to get to work on the sequel.”

What would said sequel look like? No plotline has yet been decided, but Aja, when interviewed a couple weeks back, said the team has been throwing around a lot of different story lines. “We had many ideas, like the full moon party in Thailand — a huge event with like 200,00 young people from all around the world taking mushrooms and partying on the beach.” Ahh, a perfect environment for man-eating fish. [Source]

Hopefully Jess can return for the sequel! I haven’t seen the film yet so I have no clue about her character’s fate.

Aja: “Jessica is trying to fight the piranha and I had to give her some direction, because the piranha are CGI. She had to fight invisible fish jumping out of the water, so she had to use a lot of imagination. I had to spend so much time in the water. And not only me, the whole crew. We were all in wetsuits. It was cold even in the desert in the summer. Because no matter how hot it is, when you’re in the water past five, six hours, you get cold. So everyone was in wetsuits, and it was almost night, and Jessica was very tired. She’d fought imaginary piranha all day long.”

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source: dreadcentral.com The two lead kids, “The Vampire Diaries”‘s Steven R. McQueen (yes, there is a relation) and “Gossip Girl”‘s Jessica Szohr (as Jake and Kelly, respectively), while usually irritating in this kind of film, are tolerable and have some rather good scenes together.

source: e!online Casting nearly every role with familiar faces of TV/film is the quickest way to forego time-wasting character development. If Ving Rhames is onscreen, he’s gonna throw down with power tools a la Pulp Fiction. It’s easy, and it kinda works. No one sees a film called Piranha 3D for dialogue.

source: northjersey.com Mere words cannot describe how awesomely gnarly “Piranha 3D” is, how hugely entertaining, and how urgently you must get yourself to the theater to see it. Like, now.

Thanks to Karla for the videos!

I’ve added 26 photos of Jessica looking ravishing in red at the premiere of her movie “Piranha 3D” in Hollywood, California. Be sure to watch the video of Jessica and the cast on the red carpet from tonight, thanks to Karla for the video!

EDIT: Added another 117 additional photos. HQ’s should be up tomorrow, stay tuned!

Gallery Link:
- 08-18-10 – Premiere Of The Weinstein Company “Piranha 3D”

Watch the cast make their case in this hilarious ‘Funny Or Die’ video

To film “Piranha 3D” you must have spent a lot of time in a lake. Are you a good swimmer?
I can save myself, but I’m not the best swimmer. I’m from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer. I love going to the beach and laying out, but I’m always like, “What’s underneath me? What’s going to happen?” Lakes are very eerie, because you can’t see what’s underneath the water, especially when you’re filming at two in the morning. There were times when I was really freaking scared. I didn’t know what was going on; it was dark and cold.

You weren’t in the water with real piranhas, so what did the director do to imitate the fish?
There were times when the fish were grabbing me and so they put people with green gloves on underneath the water and had them grab at my ankles. They were actually really grabbing me. There’s also a scene where I’m in a boat that’s sinking and I have to fight these piranhas off with a frying pan. A couple of stunt guys shot water guns at me so I knew where to aim with the pan.

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Jessica Szohr has a lot going for her. The 25-year-old avtress is gorgeous (People magazine named her among their list of 2010′s Most Beautiful People in the World), she plays Vanessa on TV’s hit show “Gossip Girl” and she has a movie – Piranha 3D – out this month.

iheartradio sat down with Jessica to talk about her new film, hit show, what she’s afraid of, shooting make-out scenes and much more!

On whether Piranha 3D is a horror film or a comedy:

“You will definitely laugh a lot, you will cover your eyes a few times, you will be on the edge of your seat. So, it’s kind of all that put into one.”

On horror films:

“I like horror films… it’s fun when you’re scared and you jump into your friends lap screaming. I get scared pretty easily… When that music starts and you don’t know what’s behind the corner and you’re anticipating it, but you don’t want to…”

On what she’s afraid of:

I’m terrified of rats. When I first moved [to New York] and my call time for work would be like 4:00 in the morning – so it’s still dark out – I lived on a small street so the van couldn’t come pick me up in front. I’d have to walk to the corner and I’d put my iPod on and stomp down the street because I’d be so scared that they’d running out. I’m deathly scared of them. I don’t know why because they are more scared of us, but they freak me out. I think they’re gross.”

On working with an all-star cast that includes Elisabeth Shue, Christopher Lloyd, Jerry O’Connell, Richard Dreyfuss:

“It was amazing to work with this incredible cast. Most of my scenes were with Jerry O’Connell, who is just hilarious the entire time. There were scenes I couldn’t get through because I was laughing so hard. Back to the Future I loved, so I’m like, ‘Oh my God! That’s the Doc!’ Adventures in Babysitting, I was a big fan of. It’s a classic, so it was neat to work with Elisabeth Shue.”

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