Andrew Garfield has been cast as Sony Pictures new Spiderman!

::Crickets::

Says director Marc Webb:

Though his name may be new to many, those who know this young actor’s work understand his extraordinary talents. He has a rare combination of intelligence, wit, and humanity. Mark my words, you will love Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker.

Mark Webb?

::Crickets::

Just joshing! Webb directed the very cute rom-com 500 Days of Summer.

Garfield has starred in director Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and will next be seen in Mark Romanek’s sci-fi drama Never Let Me Go and David Fincher’s Facebook story The Social Network.

Sony made the announcement today during an international press event in Cancun, Mexico. From the press release:

After a comprehensive worldwide casting search, Andrew Garfield has been chosen to portray Peter Parker when Spider-Man swings back onto the screen in 3D on July 3, 2012. The new film will begin production in early December directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt. Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad will produce the film from Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios.

Today’s confirmation culminates what has been one of the most eagerly anticipated casting announcements in recent memory. Bloggers, pop culture speculators, and everyday fans have pored over and analyzed every conceivable online rumor in an attempt to discover the identity of the next actor to play Peter Parker. Garfield will immediately begin preparing for the coveted role.

The Spiderman reboot is an origins film based on Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley’s “Ultimate Spiderman” comics, which finds our web-slinging hero back in high school. The film is budgeted at $80 million and will be released in 3-D on July 3, 2012.

Garfield is reportedly being paid $500,000 to play the beloved web-slinger. That may not seem like a lot of money until you realize that you’re making $13 an hour and will never meet a hot girl who will want to screw you while you wear your Hot Dog on a Stick uniform.

Check out Garfield and Webb at today’s press event:

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The international trailer for Hammer Films’ Let Me In, a remake of the 2008 Swedish vampire-drama Let the Right One In, has hit the web. Directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield), the film appears to being staying true to the original’s vibe.

Take a look:

Let Me In stars 14-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) as a bullied schoolboy and 13-year-old Chloe Moretz (Kick Ass) as his vampire girlfriend and guardian. The film is based on the best selling Swedish novel Lat den Ratte Komma.

Let the Right One In is included in Clatto’s prestigious 15 Vampire Movies That Won’t Make You Gay list.

The film arrives in theaters on Oct. 1.

Sony Pictures’ direct-to-DVD label Stage 6 Films is looking towards August to start production on Hostel: Part III, the second sequel to Eli Roth’s 2006 genre game-changer Hostel. Scott Spiegel, who served as executive producer on Hostel 1 & 2, is attached to direct from a script by Michael Weiss (Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D).

Roth, who was said to to be producing, is not involved in the project at all.

He tweets:

Rumor Control: not producing Hostel 3, but it’s in the VERY capable hands of director Scott Spiegel & producers Mike Fleiss & Chris Briggs.

There was a huge demand to continue the series and they are the right team to do it. They’re very smart, creative, and really get it.

Personally, I believe the Hostel movies are the best horror flicks of all time. I’m disappointed that Roth won’t be writing/directing Hostel: Part III and can’t help but think his decision was influenced by Hostel 2’s low box office take and the media’s portrayal of the film’s as “torture porn.”

In my opinion, Hostel 2’s gross suffered due to a poor release date. Whereas the original Hostel film hit theaters in January of ‘06, going on to earn over $80 million worldwide, the sequel was dropped smack in the middle of summer, opposite a grip of family fare and tent-pole releases.

Since then, Roth appears to be gun-shy, taking on only producing gigs (The Last Exorcism) and acting roles in films such as Alexandre Aja’s upcoming Piranha 3-D and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Death Proof.  The loss of his movie-making mojo even appears to have taken its toll on the caliber of chicks he bangs.

But, I digress.

According to the exclusive-happy kids at Bloody-Disgusting, Hostel: Part III will be set around a bachelor party in Las Vegas that goes terribly wrong.

Other Stage 6 Films productions include the upcoming 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, The Grudge 3, Vacancy 2, Boogey Man 3, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, and the Jenna Jameson vehicle Zombie Strippers.

Actress Marley Shelton is off to Ann Arbor, Michigan to take on a new Ghostface killer and replace starlet Lake Bell in director Wes Craven’s now-shooting Scream 4. Shelton will play a deputy sheriff who knew Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) back in high school.

The sexy 36-year-old blonde knows a thing or two about scary movies.

She has starred in such brutal frighteners as last year’s Milla Jovovich vehicle A Perfect Getaway, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse mash-up, Rodriguez’s own Sin City, and Warner Bros. 2001 revenge-slasher Valentine.

Scream 4 is written by original franchise scribe Kevin Williamson (“The Vampire Diaries”) and costars Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, Adam Brody, Erik Knudsen, Nico Tortorella, and old-schoolers Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Araquette.

“Gilmore Girl” Lauren Graham had signed on to star in the film as well, but is now rumored to have backed out.

Scream 4 will be in theaters on April 15, 2011.