I’ve updated the gallery with a gorgeous new portrait shoot Danielle Panabaker did to promote The Ward during the Toronto International Film Festival, earlier this month. I’m in love with these photos!

Check out the 12 pics by clicking on the thumbnails below:

Final round of Shark screencaptures! The last 3 episodes of the season have been updated. Remember that Season 2 Screencaptures are also available here.

Episode 20: Fall from Grace (more information)

Episode 21: Strange Bedfellows (more information)

Episode 22: Wayne’s World 2: Revenge of the Shark (more information)

Click on the thumbnails below to see the full-size images:

The Ward will have two screenings during the SITGES International Film Festival as part of the Offical Fantastic Selection Specials:

Sunday October 10 – 02:00 PM – RETIRO

Sunday October 10 – 06:15 PM – AUDITORI

More information on the film can be found here.

Check out the new promo for NBC’s Law & Order: Los Angeles. The series is set to premiere next wednesday, with episode “Hollywood.” Danielle Panabaker will guest star as Chelsea Sennett (some new footage of her featured here) so you can’t miss it!

And here’s a short clip from the episode featuring Danielle Panabaker as Chelsea and Shawnee Smith as Trudy. It’s not spoilery at all:

The 17th Austin Film Festival is gearing up to kick-off next month.

The annual event takes place from October 21-28 in Austin, Texas and Weakness is now officially part of its Narrative Feature Competition! No premiere date has been announced yet but we’ll keep you updated.

Directed by Michael Melamedoff, Weakness is a drama about a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.  The film stars Bobby Cannavale, Danielle Panabaker and June Diane Raphael.

More information can be found here.

I believe it’s always important to go see a film without any prejudices or noise coming from other people’s opinion, and instead enjoy it and judge it under your own terms. So here’s a rather neutral review of The Ward, with very good foundation to help counteract the negative ones we posted earlier this week:

“John Carpenter’s The Ward” is a genial, entertaining ghost story, featuring a strong cast, a great environment, and some genuinely scary sequences.  Is it a new masterpiece from the master?  Nope.  It’s not personal enough for that to even be a possibility  But it’s character-driven, it’s a slow-burn, and when the big reveal finally comes, it’s not particularly fresh, but it’s also not a cheat.  It makes sense in the context of everything else we’ve seen in he film.  I was relieved to be enjoying the film, but not surprised.  This may not be an “OMG! Forget about ‘The Thing’!” moment, but neither is it an “OMG! Remember ‘Village of The Damned’?!” moment, either.

“The Ward” tells the story of Kristen (Amber Heard), a girl who is picked up by the police outside of a house she’s just burnt down.   She’s taken to a mental hospital where she’s placed under the supervision of Dr. Stringer (Jared Harris), who is known for his work with adolescent girls with emotional difficulty.  He is determined to help her, and the film is smart enough to play his motives ambiguous.  Kristen meets the other girls on the ward, each of them saddled with their own issues.  Iris (Lyndsy Fonseca), Sarah (Danielle Panabaker), Emily (Mamie Gummer), and Zoey (Laura-Leigh) may be types, but where this movie succeeds while something like “It’s Kind Of A Funny Story” fails is in making us believe that these are people who are actually damaged enough to be in a hospital ward.  Mamie Gummer bears a striking resemblance to her mother, Meryl Streep, and she gives perhaps the most dedicated performance in the film.  Her Emily is the one who is constantly pushing buttons, testing everyone else, trying to see if she can cause blow-ups.  Each of the girls makes a strong impression, and Carpenter manages to do a nice job of creating a sense of community among them.

Read the whole review here.

Today our favorite actress, Danielle Panabaker, turns 23 years old! I would like to wish her a very, very happy birthday, filled with joy, friends, family and a lot of cake =P

Feel free to leave a message for Danielle here, we can’t guarantee she will read it, but it’s worth the shot!

Also, in celebration I’ve created a very small, very basic video dedicated to the birthday girl. My video editing skills are not good, but I hope it’s enjoyable at the very least:

NBC has released an exclusive glimpse into Danielle Panabaker‘s character, Chelsea Sennett in the new Law & Order: Los Angeles. You can check it out by clicking HERE! (Thanks a lot to Dieterbale for the heads up!).

Here’s a video of The Ward world Premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival. The whole cast gets interviewed, Danielle Panabaker talks about working with director John Carpenter. Check it out!

Check out the second preview of NBC’s Law & Order: Los Angeles, this time we get more of Chelsea‘s bitchy attitude. Danielle looks good as a bad girl. Remember the episode premieres Wednesday, September 29th!