Newcomer Jane Levy is set to replace Lily Collins as the female lead in Ghost House Pictures’ upcoming Evil Dead reboot, Deadline reports. Levy will play recovering overdose victim Mia, a character meant to replace original protagonist Ash Williams, famously played by the mighty Bruce Campbell.

Fede Alverez, an aspiring Uruguayan filmmaker who caught Raimi’s attention with an ambitious four-minute-plus sci-fi short entitled Panic Attack, is directing the remake from his own script, punched up by Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body).

Levy is best known for her recurring role as Ian Gallagher’s girlfriend Mandy Milkovich on season two of Showtime’s “Shameless” and as daughter Tessa Altman on ABC’s family dramedy “Suburgatory.”

The Evil Dead reboot will be shot in New Zealand and is slated for release on April 12, 2013. Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood) costars.

Kate Beckinsale has revealed that she and Jessica Biel engage in a no-holds barred cat-fight in director Len Wiseman’s upcoming remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 sci-fi classic Total Recall. The British stunner, who can be seen this month in Screen Gems Underworld: Awakening, plays Lori Quaid.

She tells Collider:

I’m beating everyone up. Fighting with Colin [Farrell], fighting with Jessica [Biel]. The fight with Jessica is going to be great. I like the fact that it’s a proper fight.

It’s not two girls, and one of them, the shoulder is ripped off, and the bra comes out. It’s not like one of those stupid girl fights. It’s a proper fight.

Lori, if you recall, is wife to Doug Quaid, a man who is either a humble factory worker with a memory implant or a wanted super-spy. The part was memorably played in the original film by a then up-and-coming Sharon Stone.

While we all know a “proper fight” between attractive women should involve pillows, mud or Jell-O, Beckinsale’s fight scene with Biel, who plays resistance fighter Melina, sounds promising, especially by the looks of the wardrobe (click here and here).

Total Recall arrives in theaters on Aug. 3.

Open Road Films and Liddell Entertainment have released a trailer for Open Water directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau’s new thriller Silent House, an American remake of the Uruguayan haunted house film La Casa Muda.

Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy, May, Marlene) stars in the real-time, inspired-by-true-events frightener as a woman consumed by horror as she finds herself trapped inside her family’s deteriorated old lake house.

Silent House opens March 9.

Peep it:

Prepare to swallow your soul in shock.

Up-and-comer Lily Collins won’t be dead by dawn in Ghosthouse Pictures’ upcoming reboot of Sam Raimi’s 1981 classic The Evil Dead. According to Bloody-Disgusting, Collins has scored the lead role of Mia, a character meant to replace original protagonist Ash Williams, famously played by the mighty Bruce Campbell.

Fede Alverez, an aspiring Uruguayan filmmaker who caught Raimi’s attention with an ambitious four-minute-plus sci-fi short entitled Panic Attack, is directing the remake from his own script, punched up by Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body).

Collins, who starred in last year’s post-apocalyptic-vampire-frightener Priest, is also toplining Tarsem Singh’s (The Immortals) Snow White re-imagining Mirror, Mirror and Screen Gems’ The Mortal Instruments, an adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s romantic, young-adult demon-slayer book series.

The Evil Dead will rise again on April 12, 2013.

America Olivo (Bitch Slap) is joining the Alexandre Aja-produced remake of the gory 1980 slasher Maniac. Directed by Franck Khalfoun (P2), the redo stars Elijah Wood as Frank Zito, a sadistic killer haunted by hallucinations of his abusive mother who seeks women online to murder and scalp.

Olivo will have the fucked-up honor of playing Zito’s milfy mom. The film, currently shooting in Los Angeles, also stars French actress Nora Arnezeder (Safe House) as Zito’s girlfriend Anna and some people named Sal Landi, Dan Hunter, Steffinnie Phrommany and Morgane Slemp.

Olivo, who made her horror debut in Platinum Dunes’ Friday the 13th remake, will next be seen in WWE Studios’ No One Lives and Indican Pictures’ serial-killer drama Circle. Previous creds include Rick Jacobson’s (“Spartacus: Blood and Sand”) Bitch Slap and the Lionsgate thrillers Last Resort and Neighbor.

Aussie up-and-comer Sharni Vinson is set to star in director Mark Hartley’s (Machete Maidens Unleashed) remake of renowned genre filmmaker Richard Franklin’s (Psycho 2, Cloak & Dagger) 1978 Australian frightener Patrick.

Patrick is the story of a man who falls into a comatose state after murdering his mother and her lover three years prior. When a beautiful nurse (Vinson) is assigned to his care, he uses psychokinetic powers to communicate with her and to destroy those who get in the way of his new found obsession.

Vinson is coming off Adam Wingard’s (A Horrible Place to Die) surprise Toronto Film Festival darling You’re Next, a violent home-invasion thriller acquired by Lionsgate to launch a franchise similar to Saw, and Russell Mulcahy and Kimble Rendall’s upcoming shark flick Bait 3-D.

Her most frightening movie to date remains Step Up 3-D.

Shooting has commenced on Image Works Entertainment’s 3-D remake of Japanese filmmaker Ataru Oikawa’s creepy J-Horror frightener Apartment 1303. The film stars “The O.C.’s” Mischa Barton (pictured above), Rebecca De Mornay (Mother’s Day), and Julianne Michelle (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps).

Apartment 1303 follows a young woman, who while  investigating the mysterious suicide of her sister, discovers a malevolent force that may have caused her sibling—and many women before her—to jump to their deaths from the room’s 13-story balcony.

The supernatural thriller is directed by Swedish filmmaker Daniel Fridell and costars vagina-less actors John Diehl (Stargate) and Robert Blanche (Zombie Apocalypse). Production is currently taking place in Montreal.

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Behind his sweet Hobbit facade, Elijah Wood may just be a nasty little gremlin. The affable 4-foot star (just a guess) of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and upcoming Hobbit films has officially signed on to star as sadistic serial killer Frank Zito in the Alexandre Aja-produced remake of the 1980 slasher Maniac.

Directed by Franck Khalfoun (P2), the redo finds antique mannequin salesman and deranged murderer Frank Zito (Wood) seeking women online to kill and scalp as revenge against his abusive mother whom he’s still haunted by in disturbing hallucinations.

The role is Wood’s second as a vicious serial killer. He played Kevin, an eerily quick-moving cannibalistic killer, in Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City (pictured above). BD, who first broke this story, also reports that French actress Nora Arnezeder (Safe House) will costar as journalist Anna D’Antoni, Frank’s love interest.

Gotta Love Them Old Romantic Comedies!

William Lustig’s original Maniac got feminist panties in a bunch when it was first released in 1980. Movie critics, including Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, were disturbed by the film’s violence against women and  called for its boycott at theaters.

To see a trailer and/or pick up a copy of Blue Underground’s 30th Anniversary Edition of Maniac on DVD and Blu-ray, go here.

Josh Brolin has scored the lead in Spike Lee’s American remake of South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s revenge thriller Oldboy. Written by Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend), the Mandate Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment production will roll camera next March.

Oldboy tells the tale of a man (Brolin) who is abducted and held captive in a crappy hotel room for 15 years for no apparent reason. When he is finally released, he sets out to find and take vengeance on the people who ruined his life.

Oldboy is one of those films that people keep telling me I have to see, but that I keep pushing down my Netflix queue in favor of English-speaking movies—even those starring Nic Cage. Needless-to-say, I’m thrilled this is happening.

Brolin just wrapped Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black 3. His previous genre creds include Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, Guillermo Del Toro’s Mimic, Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man, and last year’s unfortunate misstep Jonah Hex.

Today is a good day to die … if you hate remakes. If not, then you may want to stick around to see Sony Pictures’ planned redo of director Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners, a 1990 sci-fi thriller about med-school students conducting near-death experiments to see what lies in the afterlife.

Species 3 and Species: The Awakening scribe Ben Ripley, best known these days for penning Duncan Jones’ sci-fi hit The Source Code, has been hired to write the remake. Laurence Mark (I, Robot) is attached as producer.

Despite its intriguing premise, Flatliners remains most notable for its impressive cast of then rising stars Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt. Produced for $26 million, the film grossed over $61 million domestically during its theatrical run.