“Life Unexpected’s” Brittany Robertson is stepping into writer/producer Kevin Williamson’s new “Secret Circle.” Based on the book series from “Vampire Diaries” author L.J. Smith, the show stars Robertson as a California teen who discovers she’s a witch while living with her mother in New Salem.

Williamson, the creative force behind the Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer films and the TV series “Dawson’s Creek” and “The Vampire Diaries,” is penning the pilot for The CW and will serve as executive producer. Cameras are expected to roll in Vancouver next month.

Robertson, who currently plays protagonist Lux Cassidy on The CW’s “Life Unexpected,” is coming off Wes Craven’s soon-to-be released Scream 4. The pretty 20-year-old’s only other horror cred is 2009’s supernatural teen thriller From Within.

Pretty munchkin Mila Kunis (Black Swan) is following the yellow brick road to director/producer Sam Raimi’s highly anticipated Wizard of Oz prequel Oz, The Great and Powerful. Kunis will play Theodora, the Wicked Witch of the West.

Penned as an origins story by screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire, Oz, The Great and Powerful provides backgrounds on Oz’s wizard, played by James Franco (127 Hours), and its witches Glinda (Good Witch of the North), Evanorah (Wicked Witch of the East), and Theodora.

Kunis, a self described horror and true-crime fanatic, has starred in genre offerings such as The Huges Bros. apocalyptic thriller Book of Eli, John Moore’s video game adaptation Max Payne, Christian Duguay’s teen frightener Boot Camp, and Lionsgate’s 2002 sequel American Psycho 2: All American Girl.

Looks like there’s gonna be a few more Corey Feldman movies in South African model-turned actress Tanit Phoenix’s future. The 29-year-old star of Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives and Lost Boys: The Thirst recently saw the titular role on NBC’s upcoming “Wonder Woman” series go to “Friday Night Lights” star Adrianne Palicki.

Phoenix, who also lost the part of Shia LaBeouf’s love interest in Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon to Victoria Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, really seemed to be a strong contender for the part. At 5-foot-9 and insanely hot, she definately has the sex appeal and kick-ass abilities needed to play the Amazonian heroine. What’s that? How’s her acting?

See for yourself (courtesy of MovieWeb):

British starlet Alice Eve will star opposite Will Smith and Josh Brolin in director Barry Sonnenfeld’s long-delayed sequel Men in Black 3-D. The gorgeous 28-year-old will play a young 1960’s version of new MIB head Olivia (Emma Thompson plays her in present day).

Men in Black 3-D finds Smith’s Agent J heading back in time to save the universe from an alien threat with the help of a young version of Tommy Lee Jones’ Agent K, portrayed by Brolin.

The film is Eve’s latest genre cred. She will soon be seen in David Brooks’ upcoming survival-frightener ATM and James McTeigue’s (V for Vendetta) Edgar Allan Poe based thriller The Raven. Her breasts have starred in the Harrison Ford illegal-immigrant drama Crossing Over and Sex and the City 2.

Sony Pictures will aims to release Men in Black 3-D on May 25, 2012.

“Friday Night Lights” star Adrianne Palicki is stepping into Wonder Woman’s red boots and star-spangled Underoos for writer/producer David E. Kelly’s TV re-imagining of DC Comics’ beloved Amazonian heroine. The pilot episode will reunite Palicki with her “FNL” director/executive producer Jeffrey Reiner.

Horror fans will recognize Palicki as the female lead in last year’s day-of-reckoning thriller Legion and as Sam Winchester’s doomed wife on the CW’s “Supernatural.” She is best known, however, for her portrayal of trouble-making babe Tyra Collette on NBC Universal’s high school football drama “Friday Night Lights.”

Kelly’s “Wonder Woman” will see the 27-year-old Palicki fighting crime in her underwear, running a successful corporation as Wonder Woman’s altar ego Diana Prince, and singing at the local bar with Vonda Shepard.

(UPDATE: SEE ADRIANNE IN THE NEWLY ALTERED WONDER WOMAN COSTUME HERE)

UPDATE: Pictured above is Palicki in the new Wonder Woman costume. As you can see, they’ve ditched the red boots and star spangled Underoos. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to live in a world where Wonder Woman wears pants. I can only hope this is a studio produced fake-out to keep the real deal under wraps.

Then again, we do live in a society that shamed the Kool-Aid Man into wearing khaki shorts.

Regardless, I still have faith in the Kelly’s writing. Considering his creds include “Picket Fences,” “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Public,” “The Practice,” and 1999’s creature-feature Lake Placid, “Wonder Woman” will at the very least be better than recent hero offerings “The Cape” and “No Ordinary Family.”

“Wonder Woman” will air on NBC.

Fresh on the fins of Syfy’s Sharktopus, beauty queen Shandi Finnessey (Miss USA 2004) has caught yet another bikini-clad role on the network’s latest creature-feature: Piranhaconda. The silly frightener pits Finnessey and busty genre babe Diana Terranova against a piranha/anaconda hybrid out to devour everything in its path.

Piranhaconda is produced by hack renowned B-movie icon Roger Corman and directed by Jim Wynorski (Cleavagefield). Cameras are set to roll in Hawaii next month.

Finnessey and her bikini made their acting debut in last year’s Sharktopus, a Corman produced monster flick about a half- shark/half-octopus killing machine terrorizing a Mexican beach community. That little gem arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15.

Props to HorrorAsylum for heads up.

Snootchie-bootchies!

Jason Mewes, best known as potty-mouthed dope dealer Jay in early View Askew films such as Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy, leads a cast of dudes I’ve never heard of in Spotlight Pictures’ horror-on-the-high-seas thriller The Watermen.

The synopsis reads:

When a group of young, rich friends led by the dynamic Trailor (Mewes) set out for a deep sea fishing trip aboard a million-dollar dreamboat, an electrical fire rocks the ship, destroying their electrical system and engine, leaving them marooned with no communications in the deep Atlantic. Little did they know that their actions disturbed the native folk who despise outsiders.

These watermen are the anomalous sea clan locally known as the “Guineamen” who inhabit the nearby marshy islands. They’re a preternatural and isolated community of fishermen who date back to Cornwallis’ army of 1781. They rarely interact with the outside world and are rumored to have webbed feet. And now the young friends find themselves starring into the salty eyes of these ancient clan men.

A bad situation turns worse when they are drugged and captured by the watermen. They awake horrified and confused; they realize they are trapped on a small island, and their plans for escape turn to plans of attack. It’s a fight for survival as the friends try to escape the remote island and merciless clutches of the watermen. Will they survive?

Mewes, a seriously underrated actor, has starred in David Arquette’s directorial debut The Tripper, John Gulager’s Feast, and the 2007 vampire horror-comedy Netherbeast Incorporated.

The Watermen is written and directed by Matt L. Lockhart.

Now that he knows what the insides of porn star Sasha Grey feel like, director Steven Soderbergh has gotten back to making movies people will actually watch. The Oscar winner’s upcoming viral outbreak thriller Contagion follows the outbreak of a deadly virus and the global aftermath that ensues.

The film’s narrative will reportedly share a similar structure to Soderbergh’s Traffic, presenting various character story arcs that will eventually cross. The all-star cast includes Jude Law (Repo Men), Matt Damon (Hereafter), Kate Winslet (Heavenly Creatures), Marion Cotillard (Inception), Gwyneth Paltrow (Seven), Laurence Fishburne (Predators), comedian Demetri Martin, and Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”).

Contagion has filmed everywhere from Hong Kong to London to San Francisco. Below you have the first set of images from the movie to hit the web:

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Up-and-coming Australian actress Robin McLeavy will make her American film debut in director/producer Timur Bekmambetov’s soon-to-start shooting horror-comedy Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. McLeavy has been cast in the role of Lincoln’s young mother, whose murder at the hands of a vampire sets Lincoln off on his quest for revenge.

Based on author Seth Grahame-Smith’s best-selling novel, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter re-writes history by pitting the 16th U.S. president against an army of vampires in a secret battle set against the backdrop of the Civil War.

McLeavy drew positive reviews for her portrayal of teen sociopath Lola in writer/director Sean Byrne’s award-winning TIFF darling The Loved Ones. The pretty 29-year-old starlet kidnaps and tortures Twilight’s Xavier Samual in the abduction-thriller.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter stars Benjamin Walker (Flags of Our Fathers) as Honest Abe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as his wife Mary Todd, Anthony Mackie (Real Steel) as Secretary of State and vampire killer William Seward, and Dominic Cooper (Captain America) as Lincoln’s vamp-killing mentor Henry Sturges.

The film starts shooting in March and is expected to be released in June 2012.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is part of Clatto’s 20 Hottest Women Working in Horror/Sci-fi Today.