Maine-born actress and Clatto favorite Rachel Nichols recently spoke with PopWrap about her new gig on the long-running CBS crime show “Criminal Minds” and her role as warrior Tamara in Lionsgate’s upcoming Conan reboot. The 31-year-old stunner says nice things about her new TV show and its cast, but the big reveal involves her Conan costar Rose McGowan.

She says:

[Rose McGowan] is Marique—the bad girl to my good girl. We have a fight scene and she is after my blood. Let me tell you, her make-up is unreal. I mean, Rose is barely recognizable under all these prosthetics. It’s quite cool.

No disrespect to the very hot McGowan, but I’m pretty sure she’s been wearing those “prosthetics” long before Conan. But, I digress. Me likes cat-fight between barbarian babes Nichols and McGowan. Me buy ticket opening day.

Rose McGowan

Nichols also spills about Conan lead Jason Momoa and what she says would make most male moviegoers feel a little insecure about their bodies (bet you’re glad you don’t have a girlfriend now).

She says:

He’s a large individual. I’m just shy of 5’ 10” and I still felt dwarfed by him. My dad is 6’ 6” but Jason is massive – which was nice because you could go anywhere with him and no one would screw with you, which is helpful since we were filming in Bulgaria.

Nichols creds include Platinum Dunes 2005 Amityville Horror remake, Summit Entertainment’s underrated P2 thriller (her first starring role), and 2009’s blockbuster G.I. Joe. She also held a memorable role as black-ops agent Rachel Gibson on the final season of J.J. Abrams’ “Alias.”

Conan muscles its way into theaters on Aug. 19.

Looks like Twilight Saga star Rachelle Lefevre (pictured above in white) and “True Blood’s” Stephen Moyer have rung up interest in director Matthew Parkhill’s new supernatural thriller The Caller. North American rights for the film have been picked up by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions.

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The official synopsis reads:

When troubled divorcee Mary Kee (Lefevre) begins to receive mysterious phone calls from an unknown caller, she quickly begins to feel haunted in her own home. When she discovers that the person is calling from the past, Mary realizes that she will have to kill her in order to survive, but how do you kill someone living in the past, and what will happen if she fails?

Man, once you’re on a telemarketers list, you’re really screwed. The Caller costars Luis Guzman (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), Lorna Rayer (Drag Me to Hell), Ed Quinn (“Eureka”), and Marise Alvarez (Che).

Natalie Scheetz, Katie Stegeman, and Joanna Sotomura make their feature film debuts in 22-year-old director Eric England’s indie-slasher Madison County. My inability to surf the web without stopping to sign up for interracial sex sites at every pop-up kept me from digging up any info on the girls, but they are hot and do a damn good job of screaming.

Budgeted at around $75,000, Madison County follows five college kids as they investigate the small mountain town’s history of grisly murders at the hands of one Damien Ewell. England describes his film on his blog this way:

I wanted to tell a very classic story and take it back to the roots. The same way Ti West did with House of the Devil. I wanted to make a movie that I would like to see.

Is there a place for big tits and tons of over the top gore? Yeah.. but not in Madison County. This is a raw, gritty, very real type of film.

We’re pushing for a THEATRICAL RELEASE. The characters in this film have a voice, and a purpose, and just when you think they’re cliched.. they’re not.

I’m going to forgive England’s dismissal of big tits this one time because the trailer looks pretty fucking sweet (peep it below).

Madison County costars Ace Marrero, Colley Bailey, Adrienne Harrell, Matt Mercer, and Laid to Rest’s resident killer Nick Principe as Damien Ewell.

NBC has lassoed in British model/actress Elizabeth Hurley to face-off against Adrianne Palicki on their new small-screen adaptation of DC Comics’ Wonder Woman. No word on which character the 45-year-old stunner will be playing, but she will be bad and she will be hot.

She Tweets:

Thrilled to be doing the NBC pilot Wonder Woman. I’ll be playing the evil villain. Can’t wait.

Created by writer/producer David E. Kelly, the Wonder Woman reboot finds the Amazonian princess fighting crime in her underwear, running a successful corporation as altar ego Diana Prince, and Ouga-Chaka-Ouga-Chak-a-ing with dancing babies to Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling.”

Hurley, of course, is best known for her role as secret agent/fembot Vanessa Kensington in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and its sequel Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. She also played a sexy little devil in the underrated comedy Bedazzled.

Diane Lane has been cast as Martha Kent, Superman’s adoptive mother, in director Zach Snyder’s upcoming Man of Steel reboot for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. At 46-years-old, Lane is the youngest actress to play the role (Eva Marie Saint was 80 in the 2006 Bryan Singer redo Superman Returns; Phyllis Thacker 57 in the 1978 original).

Lane tells USAWeekend:

It’s going to be a wild ride… I love [director Zack Snyder’s] 300 and I’m very flattered to play Martha Kent and live up to his vision. It’s pretty cool… I’ve always wanted to raise a good man. I thought that was the biggest challenge a woman could have, and so I get the embarrassment of riches.

Lane is the first to be cast in the film since the studios announced “Tudors” star Henry Cavill as their Superman. (Update: Hollywood vet Kevin Costner will play Jonathan Kent in the Christopher Nolan-produced project).

Lane’s recent genre creds include Doug Liman’s (The Bourne Identity) teleporting sci-fi thriller Jumper and Gregory Hoblit’s (Fallen) internet-killer drama Untraceable. Additional creds include Judge Dredd (1995), Knight Moves (1992) and Lady Beware (1987).  However, it’s her Oscar-nominated performance in the erotically-charged drama Unfaithful (2002) that continues to haunt my penis to this very day.

Syfy has set an April 23 air date for Roadkill, its creature-feature collaboration with RH1 Entertainment. The film stars Clatto fav Kacey Barnfield and Stephen Rea (Interview with the Vampire) as siblings terrorized by a giant bird-like monster after flattening an old gypsy with an RV while on a roadtrip with friends.

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The official synopsis reads:

Kate (Barnfield) and her brother Joel (Rea) have gathered their five best friends for a scenic RV road trip to their high-school reunion. But their cross-country adventure is about to take an unexpected turn for the worst when an ancient curse takes wing by way of a massive creature.

It’s called the Simuroc, and this gigantic bird of prey has found the perfect, helpless quarry in Kate and company. Stranded in the backwoods of the predator’s territory, there’s little chance for escape.

Directed by Johannes Roberts, the film was shot in Ireland and costars Eliza Bennett (Inkheart), Colin Maher (“Camelot”), Oliver James (Without a Paddle: Nature’s Calling), Ned Dennehy (Reign of Fire), Diarmuid Noyes, Eve Macklin and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

Barnfield is best known for her performances in Sony Screen Gems’ Resident Evil: Afterlife—her American film debut—and Syfy’s Lake Placid 3, in which she goes full-frontal nude. Up next for the 22-year-old British babe is Steven Monroe’s (I Spit On Your Grave) man-vs-beast period piece Jabberwocky.

Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Hulkamania runs wild on you and makes you look guilty of double homicide?

That is the question that Clayton Elie, played by wrestler “Diamond” Dallas Page, will be asking himself when he moves into a small Midwest town and faces off against a vicious serial killer (Hulk Hogan) in Rock On Films’ Black River.

The wordy synopsis reads:

After losing his son to a tragic accident, Clayton Elie’s life was destroyed by alcohol abuse and violence that ended his marriage. When he moves to the small Midwestern town of Black River in an attempt to begin again, he finds himself at the center of a series of murders that echo a long dormant secret from the town’s past.

After several sleepless nights that lead to a long night of heavy drinking and a subsequent blackout, Clayton awakens the next morning to find his neighbor and her small child brutally murdered and the murder weapon inside his apartment.

When he is forced to hide the evidence by the untimely arrival of an FBI profiler, Clayton’s life rapidly deteriorates into a storm of violence, murder and small town intrigue. Is Clayton a cold-blooded killer, or the victim of a malevolent force that has descended upon the town of Black River?

I’m not a wrestling fan, but I think the Hulkster could totally play a convincing bad guy, provided he leaves his Mr. Nanny pink tutu behind and administers the dreaded butt-drag move.

Black River is directed by Joe Eckardt, whose previous work includes the 2005 documentary Champion, a biographical look at actor Danny Trejo’s vida loca.

Seven years after stalling out with his feature film debut Torque, director Joseph Kahn is now taking a stab at the horror genre with his quirky Breakfast Club-meets-Scream slasher Detention. Premiering at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, Detention follows a group of high school troublemakers as they fend off aliens, a serial killer named Cinderhella, and one very angry pooch.

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Horror fans will probably recognize 19-year-old actress Spencer Locke as “K-Mart” from the Resident Evil sequels Extinction and Afterlife. Locke has also appeared as Amber Bradley on The CW’s “Vampire Diaries (‘Miss Mystic Falls’)” and as Travis Cobb’s girlfriend Kylie on Courteney Cox’s hilarious ABC show “Cougar Town.”

Detention also stars Josh Hutcherson (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), Dane Cook (Mr. Brooks), Walter Perez (“Friday Night Lights”), Erica Shaffer (Puppet Master: Axis of Evil), Parker Bagley (Nightmare On Elm Street), Alison Woods (Superhero Movie), and newcomers Aaron David Johnson and Shanley Caswell.

Kahn has directed music videos for U2, Garbage, Britney Spears, and Blink 182.

Pop-singer-turned-rom-com-actress Mandy Moore is making her leap into the horror genre in Buried writer Chris Sparling’s directorial debut Falling Slowly. Joining the 26-year-old babe will be “LOST” and 300 star Rodrigo Santoro.

The duo will play a a couple haunted by a demonic force squatting in their new apartment. While this premise is definitely old-hat (like using the term “old-hat”), I can only hope Sparling draws inspiration from the 1985 classic ghost story School Spirit and shows us the poltergeist yanking Moore’s towel away when she steps out of the shower.

In Moore news, the busty vocalist’s throat will next be voicing the character of Mara in Disney XD’s new animated series “Tron: Uprising.” The show is set to debut sometime next year and will also include the vocal talents of Elijah Wood, chronic-masturbator Paul Reubens, and genre icon Lance Henriksen.

Sparling, whose Buried script won the National Board of Review award for Best Original Screenplay, also penned director David Brooks’ upcoming  feature film debut ATM, starring the lovely Alice Eve.

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Big news for 19-year-old British actress Eleanor Tomlinson. The barely legal up-and-comer has scored the lead female role in director Bryan Singer’s (X-Men, Usual Suspects) much buzzed about 3-D fantasy-adventure Jack the Giant Killer.

Tomlinson will play Princess Isabella, a royal runaway who is abducted by giants shortly after meeting her would-be hero Jack (Nicholas Hoult). The film, a dark and frightening take on the classic “Jack and the Beanstalk” fable, begins production this month in London.

Costars in the Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures release include Ewan McGregor as head of the king’s elite guard, Stanley Tucci as the king’s evil advisor, and Bill Nighy and John Kassir as the two-headed giant ruler Fallon.

Tomlinson is best known in the States for her performance as Fiona Chattaway in Tim Burton’s awful Alice in Wonderland redo. She also starred as young Duchess Sophie von Teschen in the 2006 period-thriller The Illusionist.