Kate Beckinsale walks the red carpet for Whiteout premiere

“Whiteout” opens in theaters today, and it looks like good thriller fun. Kate Beckinsale stars as Carrie Stetko, a U.S. Marshal who’s tracking a killer in Antarctica, just as the station is about to shut down and the sun about to set for six months. I think we can see where this is headed.

It’s funny how those U.S. marshals and detectives and fighter pilots and cops, et al are always beautiful women, isn’t it? I wonder what the real women in those jobs think of that. Who knows, maybe they really ARE beautiful women.

Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short and Alex O’Loughlin also star in this film, rated R for violence, grisly images, brief strong language, and some nudity. Here are Beckinsale and a few of the stars on the red carpet. After the jump, the trailer…