Exciting update today! Dimension Films has released the official ‘Piranha 3DD’ video interview with Danielle Panabaker. She talks about the story, her character Maddy, about the movie being a fun ride, and about her co-stars David Hasselhoff, David Koechner and Chritopher Lloyd. And not only that but you can also enjoy a 2-part b-roll after the jump!

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‘Piranha 3DD’ debuted in eighth place at the UK Box Office, pulling in £242k. Here’s the Top 10 list:

1. The Avengers £4,169,087
2. American Pie: Reunion £2,546,626
3. Dark Shadows £2,404,029
4. The Lucky One £431,576
5. Beauty and the Beast 3D £422,924
6. Safe £298,201
7. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen £259,550
8. Piranha 3DD £242,889
9. How I Spent My Summer Vacation £152,728
10. The Hunger Games £143,542

Those are bad numbers compared to the £1.33m debut of ‘Piranha 3D’ in August 2010. But even if we don’t compare both films, ‘Piranha 3DD’ still didn’t have a good outcome. Although it was in fact the second best opening of the weekend, only being topped by ‘Dark Shadows’.

We finally have some fresh information about Danielle’s upcoming episode in Season 2 of TNT’s “Franklin & Bash”!

Here’s the official episode description and air date:

“Voir Dire” – Tuesday, July 10, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT)
Peter and Jared are working on a case in which a former chop-shop worker is accused of a pre-meditated attack. As they start selecting jurors for the case, the duo begin to receive a lot of unsolicited advice. Infeld-Daniels’ summer associate program partners a young law student (Danielle Panabaker) with lawyers at the firm. Peter and Jared have the try the case against a powerful D.A. who has a not-so-friendly history with Peter (Brian Howe).

Directed By: John Landis
Written By: Kevin Falls & Bill Chais
Created by: Bill Chais & Kevin Falls

Check out the first clip featuring lovely Danielle Panabaker!  She plays Maddy, a smart marine biology student, and co-owner of the Big Wet water park. Naturally, being so smart and remaining fully-clothed, Maddy’s the one who discovers Piranha’s have entered the park!

Danielle Panabaker offers enough serious enthusiasm to keep her thinly written role interesting enough – even though the love triangle with her, Kyle and Barry never really works…

Read more at ScreenDaily.

‘Piranha 3DD’ is already playing in UK cinemas, but it’ll make a splash into US theaters and VOD on June 1st!

A few more reviews have surfaced for Danielle’s latest chiller ‘Piranha 3DD’, which started in UK cinemas today. Sadly, it isn’t getting the same awesome critics the 2010 film got. Still, I’m sure it will be an enjoyable flick for any Danielle Panabaker fan, let’s not forget she’s the lead of the film, and so far critics have not attacked her performance in any way.

Maddy (Panabaker) is at war with her stepfather Chet (Koechner). Together they own a water park, and Chet has fired all the lifeguards, replaced them with strippers, and invented the world’s first strip club swimming park… It’s utterly ridiculous stuff that channels directly into the spirit of Roger Corman’s original.

- Read more at Sky Movies HD

Aesthetically, things remain pretty much the same as the original, with splatter effects and jiggling breasts very much the major focus. Something, however, clearly hasn’t translated. This one feels tamer and less sure of itself. Yes, the boobs bounce right on cue and half-chewed faces are given extreme close-ups, yet not even a smirk is raised.

- Read more at Little White Lies

Contrary to what we might sometimes feel, you can’t just throw a few tit shots and a bit of gore onto any old piece of shit and wind up with a great B-movie. We have to earn those money shots. Look at Piranha 3D; we’re given time to get to know Jerry O’Connell, Kelly Brook and Riley Steele, every successive scene making us that bit more anxious to see the girls getting naked and Jerry suffering a hideous death; subsequently, it’s a reward when those sights are delivered. Here, with Danielle Panabaker, Katrina Bowden, Meagan Tandy; yes, they’re all lovely to look at, but it’s evident early on that none of them will actually be disrobing, and in a film of this nature that is simply breaking the rules. Throwing in a few anonymous naked extras now and then, no matter how visually striking they may be, simply won’t make up the difference.

- Read more at Brutal As Hell

The very first review of the film is in! With a 3/5 rating, here’s what WhatCulture.com had to say:

“Piranha 3D” was a film that, for all intents and purposes, probably should not have succeeded, yet it ably demonstrated that if a director fully commits themselves to an idea, no matter how unappealing, the results can impress. Indeed, Alexandre Aja’s remake of Joe Dante’s 1978 B-movie classic gleefully revelled in its boobs-and-blood modus, while delivering action both tense and smart, and, well, featuring Kelly Brook wearing absolutely nothing for most of her screen time. It follows that this sequel – directed by the relatively unknown John Gulager – lacks the bawdy confidence of its predecessor, but still manages to deliver the gory goods and cavorting, naked bodies that its target audience desires.

Piranha 3DD follows the schematic of the previous film to a T, a lazy move perhaps, albeit one which still works, if with lessening effect. Again, one of the opening scenes has a former, now obscure film star – this time Gary Busey in place of Richard Dreyfuss – bite the bullet at the teeth of a swarm of piranhas, before we’re introduced to the attractive teen lead, Maddy (Danielle Panabaker) and all Hell starts to break loose.

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Today is the day if you’re lucky enough to live in the UK, go ahead and check your local listings for screening times of ‘Piranha 3DD’ everywhere! And as soon as you get to see it be kind enough to let us know your opinion through the comments section or on Twitter, but please keep your review spoiler-free because most of us won’t be able to see the film until June or later!

Check out a TV spot, and if you’re hungry for some more click on “Read the rest of this entry” to watch a clip featuring David Hasselhoff doing a heroic rescue in the film.

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We are less than a month away from the US release of ‘Piranha 3DD’ (not to mention it will open in UK theaters THIS FRIDAY!) and it’s only natural that interviews start popping up everywhere. FearsMag.com also talked to director John Gulager about the film. Here’s what he had to say:

FEARS: Part of the plot for PIRANHA 3DD is that the owner of the water park has replaced the lifeguards with strippers. So I have to ask, what was the casting process like?

John Gulager: I think you just set it! (Laughs) Well, you know… it was an interesting casting process. I was led to a small, weird, little room. Then rose of women would come in and take their clothes off, and this was at the water park where we were shooting. The weird thing was that the name of the little room was the Rumpus Room. It was called that because man who would donated the money for the room was named rumpus. At this room was for the kids, the little children to play in while their parents were in the water park. The room was filled with little children’s toys and little children’s pictures and so on the walls. (Laughing) it was very wrong. I brought one of the producers, JoelSoisson, into the room with me. I didn’t feel totally comfortable being the only guy in the room, though there were casting women and stuff with me. Joel just turned completely red and he never went back with me. But in all honesty that was just a bit of the casting process. It was very interesting all at the same time it was very strange.

FEARS: In all fairness, I should point out that PIRANHA 3DD has a great cast. Just to drop a few names you have Christopher Lloyd, Ving Rhames…

John Gulager: I should point out that we didn’t cast Christopher Lloyd that way, you got to keep his close on doing the casting session. (Laughs)

FEARS: So PIRANHA 3DD sounds like it was a lot of fun. It also reunites the dream team from the last season of Project Greenlight, Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton, and yourself. How did all you guys become involved in this sequel?

John Gulager: I just don’t know because we just seem to keep getting involved in stuff. It all starts with the call (whispers) from Bob! It goes something like, “Gulager, Piranha sequel, you want to do it?” Kind of like that. Then Marcus, Patrick, and myself it together in a room and start talking about it. We kind of all got our start professionally on Project Greenlight. I think sometimes people have the thought that we should get those guys together again. That was the thinking here I guess. But with friends… Marcus, Patrick, and I are friends and all that kind of stuff. That kind helps the whole situation too. I don’t have to fight with them.

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Upcoming-Movies talked to John Gulager, director of Danielle’s latest flick, ‘Piranha 3DD’. Here’s what he had to say:

Upcoming-Movies.com: So, how does one book a gig, directing the sequel to “Piranha 3D?”

John Gulagar: I think it came off of the “Feast” movies. In my world, they called everyone else and they turned it down, but no, I got a phone call, from Bob Weinstein. ‘Piranha? You want to do it?’ And I was like, ‘okay, sure.’ I liked the first one, the one that came out a couple of years ago. I had no idea I was going to do the sequel. I saw it at Chinese and watched it, and ironically, that’s where we’re going to play. It was kind of weird that I ended up doing the sequel.

What I liked about the first one is that it’s totally unapologetic, and it knows exactly how kind of a movie it is.

John Gulagar: Also, that one girl, the French girl, was such a good actress. And she got naked. It was so great. But they killed her.

Do you feel like it’s in the same spirit or vein?

John Gulagar: Yeah, I’d say so. I mean, you could look at that one and go, ‘well, it’s ludicrous, the piranha coming up from the earthquake, blah blah blah.’ We actually had piranhas in the drainpipe, so possibly you could even say that ours is a little more kooky. But then again, we take the kookiness and we try to play it straight, which is, in my mind, what they did. I don’t want to think about how awful it could be. You take a kooky premise, and, like a comedian does a crazy thing with a straight face, that to me becomes funny and watchable.

So, when you get brought on to a project like this, the sequel to what was a seriously profitable venture, how much latitude do you have to make it your own?

John Gulagar: I’ll just say, straight out, this is obviously the biggest film I’ve ever worked on. In that, the studio becomes more involved. That’s just the way it is. I think maybe when you become Quentin or one of these other guys, it’s not like that. But for me, doing “Piranha,” it’s on the radar.

Well, it’s a huge opportunity for you, too.

John Gulagar: Sure, it’s a big opportunity, but everything like this is an opportunity for the studio and the actors. Everybody has a stake in it. This is something people are going to see, at the theater, on TV, on DVD. It’s going to be here.

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These are all details about ‘Piranha 3DD’ that aren’t directly linked to Danielle, so I decided to group them all into one single update for those who are interested. Here you go:

Running Time

The official running time of the film is 82 minutes and 31 seconds, according to the British Board of Film Classification.

Soundtrack

Lakeshore Records has announced the details of the soundtrack album for ‘Piranha 3DD’. The album features the songs from the movie by artists including Marcus Latief Scott, Twirl, Automatic Music Explosion, The One & Only’s, All The Right Moves, Sarah Khula, Cellphish and The Limousines. The soundtrack will be released digitally on May 22, 2012 and physically on May 29. You can now pre-order the CD on Amazon.

Score Album

In addition to the soundtrack, Lakeshore Records will also be releasing the score of the film. The film’s original music is composed by Elia Cmiral (Ronin, Stigmata). The album will be released digitally on May 22, 2012 and physically on June 19, 2012. The CD is now available for pre-order on Amazon.

First clip: The Love Hunter

Watch the first clip of ‘Piranha 3DD’ featuring non other than David Hasselhoff at CraveOnline.

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