Director Breck Eisner will most likely follow up his remake of George Romero’s The Crazies with another, namely New Line’s long-delayed Escape from New York. Negotiations are currently underway.

Originally written and directed by horror icon John Carpenter, Eisner and screenwriter Allan Loeb’s take on New York will still find former soldier-turned-criminal Snake Plissken rescuing a government official from the outskirts of Manhattan, which has been turned into a large privately-run penal colony. The film will also add a Plissken origin story to the mix.

New Line acquired the rights to Escape from New York in 2007 and had cast actor Gerard Butler as Snake. Butler is no longer attached to star.

Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi classic The Thing is also getting the remake treatment from Universal Pictures.

Vancouver-based Twisted Twins Productions have released a new trailer for their quirky thrill-kill comedy Dead Hooker in a Trunk. Written and directed by studio heads Jen and Sylvia Soska, the film follows four friends on a ridiculously complicated quest to dispose of the body of the dead prostitute they find in their car.

The official synopsis reads:

Set in beautiful Vancouver, four friends head out on an everyday errand and end up in a fight for their lives when they discover the body of a dead hooker left in their trunk. Led by a sexy, impulsive Badass; her distant Geek twin sister; their Bible-thumping, Jesus-loving Goody Two-Shoes friend; and a chaotic, rock star Junkie pal, the group has to put aside their differences to dispose of the body before they’re next.

Thrown into their own personal purgatory, they face off against persistent police, a sleazy motel manager, chainsaw-wielding triads, and a brutal serial killer. All the while they are followed by a mysterious Cowboy Pimp who wants to claim the corpse for his own. Will they uncover the truth behind the body and be able to stand up to their demons?

Buckle up, and get ready for the ride of your life filled with gunfights, extreme violence, blood, guts, gore, and goats.

Like the Avellan sisters, Jen and Sylvia Soska are actual twins. How that fact makes this flick better I don’t know, yet it does.

They used to be triplets.

No word yet on when or if this film will hit theaters.

Serial killers, though frightening by nature, are notorious slackers. Sure, their body counts can reach double digits, but that usually takes years. Why? Because, as any legendary FBI profiler John Douglas will tell you, serial killers have cooling periods.

But, imagine if there was an unusually ambitious killer who wasn’t satisfied committing three-to-four murders a year; a killer who wanted more than just a handful of thumbs and nipples as trophies. Now, that would be truly scary.

Well, director Darren Lynn Bousman is tackling that premise in his new slasher Ninety. Written by Scott Milam (Mother’s Day), Ninety follows a serial killer determined to slaughter 90 people in 90 minutes.

Explains Bousman:

It’s psychotic and it’s crazy. I wanted to do a movie that’s fun. 11-11-11 and Mother’s Day are not fun movies. Ninety is fun. It’s 90 kills in 90 minutes. Done. Sold. Buy my ticket. We’re talking unique kills, too; it’s not like I just put ninety people in a room and dropped a bomb.

When you’re going to kill ninety people in a movie, after a while it could become monotonous. You’ll feel like, “Okay, I’ve seen this. I’m done.” To combat that, we’re going out of our way to make our killer cool and badass, like Mickey and Mallory were in NBK.

You’ll see the movie and just want to be the killer. Obviously we don’t want anyone to ever emulate being a killer as obviously that’s wrong, but we made sure our guy is just very likable. There’s two times that you’ll even want to high-five him.

Bausman creds include the end-of-days frightener 11-11-11, the eagerly anticipated, but still-delayed Rebecca De Mornay vehicle Mother’s Day, the organ-harvesting cult classic Repo! The Genetic Opera and, of course, Saw 2,3,and 4.

Brittany Snow (Prom Night) is set to star in director Aimee Lagos’ car-jack frightener 96 Minutes. The 24-year-old actress will play one of two college coeds abducted by high school gang-bangers during an initiation rite.

The film goes into production on May 17 in Atlanta.

An interesting aside I recently discovered about Snow is that her attractive figure is a direct result of anorexia. The actress told People magazine in 2006:

I always had in my mind that being skinny was better, even as a little girl. But I was never chubby or overweight.

My parents knew that I was dieting. A misconception about anorexia is that you don’t eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be easy for me to say, “Why didn’t my parents notice?” But I didn’t want them to. I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents. But then came the sadness and thinking I was a terrible person for eating the sandwich.

I’m an actress, and because of the way Hollywood is, I do have to watch what I eat. No one has told me I need to look a certain way, and that’s great. The eating disorder will always be a part of my life. Some days, I think I’d like to be a size 0, but realistically, I think, “Come on, Brit. You’re great.

Is it wrong that I find that hot? I guess I like girls the way I like cheese: Fat-free American singles.

While she’s obviously a 9 in our perverted little brain-movies, actress Teresa Palmer has been cast as alien Number 6 in the Steven Spielberg/Michael Bay produced sci-fi actioner I Am Number Four. The film is an adaptation of the upcoming HarperCollins young-adult novel of the same name written by James Frey (”A Million Little Pieces”) and Jobie Hughes.

I Am Number Four centers on nine aliens living incognito as high school students in Paradise, Ohio after their home planet is destroyed by evil extraterrestrials. “Smallville” creators Al Gough and Miles Millar penned the script.

"I hope no one remembers this movie when I'm cast in a Spielberg flick"

Palmer creds include Disney’s upcoming The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Takashi Shimizu’s The Grudge 2, and the 2008 erotic thriller Restraint, for which she went nude.

I Am Number Four is directed by DJ Caruso (Disturbia) and costars Sharlto Copley (District 9) and Alex Pettyfer (Beastly) as the titular hero Four. It’s slated for release on Feb. 18, 2011.

(UPDATE: Teresa Palmer talks about her Warm Bodies)

Actress Gemma Arterton has quickly assembled an army of fan-boys by taking roles in Warner Bros’ Clash of the Titans remake and Jerry Bruckheimer’s upcoming Prince of Persia adaptation. But, her part in director J. Blakeson’s (The Descent 2) abduction-thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed will deliver what those of us who take hand lotion to the theater have truly been waiting for … Arterton in the buff.

The 24-year-old stralet was recently photographed during the red carpet premiere of the film at Southhampton Union Cinema located on the campus of the University of Southhampton in the U.K. The college got the opportunity to host the gala after winning a Facebook contest.

Surprisingly, Arterton arrived to the event looking about as sexy as your gay aunt.

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Australian actress Rose Byrne will star opposite Patrick Wilson (Watchmen) in Saw director James Wan’s new frightener Insidious (formerly titled The Further). The film is scripted by go-to Wan collaborator Leigh Whannell (Saw 1-3).

Insidious centers on a married couple (Byrne, Wilson) that discovers that the body of their comatose son is hosting evil spirits. Paranormal Activity’s Oren Peli and Jason Blum are attached as producers.

Byrne’s horror/sci-fi creds include Knowing, 28 Weeks Later, Sunshine, and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (she played Queen Amidala’s handmaiden Dorme). The 30-year-old starlet is best known for her current role as Ellen Parsons on the Emmy award-winning FX show “Damages.”

If you’ve been holding your breath till your blue in the face in hopes that producer/director/asshole James Cameron would shoot a sequel to his blockbuster hit Avatar, go ahead and breathe. Cameron has announced plans to turn the film into a trilogy, beginning with a sequel set in Pandora’s ocean.

He tells the LA Times:

We created a broad canvas for the environment of film. That’s not just on Pandora, but throughout the Alpha Centauri AB system. And we expand out across that system and incorporate more into the story – not necessarily in the second film, but more toward a third film.

I’ve already announced this, so I might as well say it: Part of my focus in the second film is in creating a different environment – a different setting within Pandora. And I’m going to be focusing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative, but it just won’t be a rain forest. I’m not saying we won’t see what we’ve already seen; we’ll see more of that as well.

Cameron also discussed plans for a theatrical re-release of Avatar in August, citing a loss of potential income due to limited  IMAX theater availability during the film’s initial run as motivation.

He explains:

We’re working on finishing an additional six minutes of the film — which includes a lot of Weta work — for a theatrical re-release in August. We were sold out of our Imax performances right up to the moment until they were contractually obligated to switch to “Alice in Wonderland,” so we know we left money on the table there.

And the 3-D really helped “Avatar” right up until the moment that it hurt it. And it hurt it at the moment “Alice” and then “How to Train Your Dragon” and “Clash of the Titans” came in and sucked up all the 3-D screens. We went from declining 8% a week to declining 50%.

Clearly, it wasn’t market forces directly; it was the availability of theaters. So we’re going to wait until there’s a time to come back in, inject the new footage into the mix and see if we can interest people in the “Avatar” experience in theaters.

Avatar is the highest earning film of all time and sparked the 3-D craze that has given theater owners the gall to raise prices on 3-D showings. Personally, I recommend picking up the Avatar bootleg.

When ten-year-old mama’s boy Sheldyn Conley discovered illustrations of nude women in his “Spectre” comic, he didn’t share it with his buddies nor hide it under his mattress for later use. No … he told his mom.

In an interview with ABC 4 in Layton, Utah, Conley explains:

I seen the naked lady and I got mad. I just turned the page and I seen the naked ladies so I handed it to a grownup and said, ‘Look at this.’

The boy’s mother immediately called field reporter Annie Cutler to investigate the Dollar Tree store where the offending comic was purchased as part of the “Superhero Comic Book Spectacular” family-pack. The comic has since been pulled from shelves.

This is the kid that always rats out the hot thirty-something teacher that’s willing to suck tween nut-sac after school in the parking lot. No wonder his father walked out on him. If my kid ever said titties made him angry, I’d beat him senseless with a rolled-up copy of Hustler magazine. It’s called tough love, people.

Here come the Men in Black.

Director Barry Sonnenfeld has confirmed to Showbiz 411 that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones will reprise their respective roles as Agent J and Agent K in Sony Pictures upcoming sequel Men in Black 3-D.

Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) and Jemaine Clement (“Flight of the Conchords”) are said to be in the running to play a villainous alien named Yaz. Josh Brolin (Jonah Hex) is also rumored to play a part in the film, though nothing has been officially announced.

My only question: Where is Lara Flyn Boyle?

The Men in Black franchise has earned over $1 billion in worldwide gross.