After a career-making turn in last year’s outrageous hit comedy The Hangover, Bradley Cooper is quickly becoming the new Ryan Reynolds. The 35-year-old actor stars in this week’s high-profile, all-star rom-com Valentine’s Day and will be seen as The Face Man in this summer’s big screen adaptation of The A-Team.

This, of course, means nothing to horror fans. We’re still waiting to see how he follows 2008’s brutally violent supernatural slasher The Midnight Meat Train. Well, today, Variety reports that Cooper is in talks to star in director Joe Carnahan’s The Grey.

Budgeted at $34 million, the film follows a group of plane crash survivors as they are hunted down by rogue wolves (are there any other kind?). Ridley and Tony Scott are attached as producers through their Scott Free banner.

(Update: Cooper has been replaced by Liam Neeson)

Universal Pictures re-imagining of the The Wolfman opens in theaters today. Directed by Joe Johnston, the film stars Benicio del Toro as Lawrence Talbot, a nobleman who returns to his family estate to investigate the disappearance of his brother, but instead digs up an old family secret.

A lot has been made about The Wolfman’s rocky road back to the big screen (it was pushed back to Feb. from its originally scheduled Dec. release date due to numerous production issues), but I’m hoping the end result still has plenty of bite.

Del Toro, for one, seems happy with the production (click here to see video) and believes horror will always be popular among moviegoers.

He tells Zimbio:

As long as we are not sure what will happen after we die we will paint it in the scariest colours. That’s the point, isn’t it? If we could know, if somebody would come back from the dead and could explain it to us, all the vampires and zombies and ghosts would lose a lot of their fascination.

The Wolfman costars Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, and Anthony Hopkins.

Taylor Lautner turned 18 yesterday. The Twilight Saga star can now bang the mothers of his tween fans without getting them arrested.

Access Hollywood asked the actor what his B-day plans were. He said:

Absolutely nothing really. I mean, I’ll spend time with family and friends… I don’t like to do anything huge, but it is 18, so, it’s kind of a big one I guess.

Loosely translated, I believe that means: I’m going to snort coke out of Taylor Swift’s asshole.

In related news, Summit Entertainment has confirmed that it will adapt The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final chapter in the book series by Stephenie Meyer, as two separate films, both to be shot simultaneously this fall in Vancouver. Lautner, along with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are scheduled to reprise their roles.

Eclipse the third installment in the lucrative series will be in theaters on June 30

Alicia Silverstone is teaming up again with Clueless director Amy Heckerling on the vampire-love-story Vamps. Silverstone will costar with Krysten Ritter as New York vampires whose friendship and immortality are threatened when they each find love.

Hmm. I think Silverstone should reunite with whomever directed the 1993 jailbait-thriller The Crush. How cool would it be to see a followup to that film that presents Silverstone, 33, as an older chick obsessed with some young dude? They could call it The Cougar: Crush 2. Or, Crush Harder. I dunno. I’m an idea man not a title guy.

Vamps is set to start shooting in April.

The following is a completely unrelated PETA ad featuring a nude Silverstone (not only did it make me stop eating meat; it made me beat my meat too).

Lionsgate has acquired the North American distribution rights to the Eli Roth produced supernatural thriller The Last Exorcism, originally titled Cotton. Directed by Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death), the film employs shaky-cam techniques to capture an evangelical minister’s last exorcism in documentary fashion (think Paranormal Activity meets The Exorcist).

Lionsgate released Roth’s 2002 film debut Cabin Fever and his controversial Hostel series.

Jason Constantine, Lionsgate’s president of acquisitions and co-productions, says:

It’s always great to work with our friend Eli, who has played a key role in establishing Lionsgate in the vanguard of the horror genre. The Last Exorcism feels as close to a real exorcism as anyone would ever want to get — audiences are going to find this movie scary as, well, hell.

Australian actress Emily Browning is set to headline screenwriter Julia Leigh’s directorial debut Sleeping Beauty. The 21-year-old starlet will play the part of a student-turned-prostitute who prefers not to remember the things men do to her while she lies doped up in what is called a Sleeping Beauty chamber.

Browning began her acting career at the age of eight. While in her teens, she starred in Ghost Ship, Darkness Falls, and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Last year, she took the lead role in Dreamworks PG-13 thriller The Uninvited.

It will be arousing interesting to see Browning in a kink-fueled flick. Here’s hoping that Leigh’s script is as outrageously perverted as Anne Rice’s BDSM take on the Sleeping Beauty fairytale (The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty’s Punishment, Beauty’s Release).

Sleeping Beauty is budgeted at $10 million and is scheduled to start shooting in Australia come March.

Film Koncept Scandinavia’s upcoming chiller Mara stars Scandinavian Playboy model Angelica Jansson as a vacationing coed abandoned by her friends in the woods. The film had been slated for release this month, but the date seems to have been postponed.

(UPDATE: To see Angelica Jansson in new ‘Mara’ trailer & BTS photos, go here)

(Go here and here to see more of Jansson.)

To hold you over during this time of uncertainty, I have compiled a gallery of nude and semi-nude Jansson photos.

Enjoy:

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It’s likely that most horror fans have at some point played that fucked up game where they’re asked to pick between two terrible fates (i.e. Would you rather lose your nuts or your eyes? Save your offspring or your spouse?). That game is now going to play out in Oscar-winning F/X creator Robert Legato’s directorial debut Choose.

Insanely hot Katheryn Winnick (Amusement) headlines Legato’s twisted horror show. The 32-year-old Canadian starlet plays a journalism grad student tracking down a sadistic serial killer who forces his victims to make horrendous, life-altering choices (think a more evil Jigsaw).

Check out the following synopsis: .

The peace and tranquility of an idyllic, suburban city is suddenly broken. Behind the picket fence and manicured lawn, teenage Sara awakens startled as a rush of cold air gently pushes her bedroom door open. Across the hall her parent’s bedroom door lies ajar. She calls for her parents-no response. She enters their bedroom and as her eyes adjust to the darkness she sees her parents on the bed hog-tied and gagged. Before she can react she is grabbed roughly by the hair and slammed against the wall. “Do what I say or you die” Scarlip tells her.

He turns over an expertly crafted hourglass filled with blood and coolly instructs her, “I’m going to kill your mother or your father. You have sixty seconds to decide which one.” She begs and pleads with him, but all Scarlip tells her is that if she doesn’t choose then both parents die. And this is just the opening sequence of the chilling horror Choose.

Choose costars Kevin Pollak (End of Days), Bruce Dern (Swamp Devil), Talia Balsam (Killer Instinct), Cady Huffman, and Nicholas Tucci (Undocumented) as the Scarlip killer. The film is currently seeking distribution.

Rachel Weisz joins Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts in Morgan Creek’s new thriller Dream House. Directed by Jim Sheridan, the film stars Weisz and Craig as a married couple who purchase a New England home that unbeknown to them was the site of a grisly domestic murder, namely a mother and her two kids.

Watts plays the next door neighbor who knows what really happened in the house.

Dream House is slated for release in 2011.

Moody-tween fashion retailer Hot Topic will be hosting a meet-and-greet with “The Vampire Diaries’ stars Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, and Ian Somerhalder. The event will take place Saturday, Feb. 13 at the Hot Topic outlet located inside the Westfield Topanga Mall in Canoga Park, CA beginning at 4 p.m.

(UPDATE: If you missed this event, don’t worry. You can meet the cast of “The Vampire Diaries” at Paleyfest 2010. Click here for details.)

The autograph signing portion of the show is sold out, but a Q&A session will be open to the public. Rock outfit A Fine Frenzy will also be performing at the event.

For more info, call Hot Topic at 818-348-8440.

“The Vampire Diaries” is writer-producer Kevin Williamson’s (Scream, “Dawson’s Creek”) adaptation of L.J. Smith’s popular novel series of the same name for the CW television network. The show follows high-schooler Elena Gilbert as she’s courted by two vampire brothers.