Jennifer Lawrence has been offered the lead role of Katniss in Lionsgate adaptation of author Suzanne Collins beloved book series “Hunger Games.” The 20-year-old starlet, who scored a Best Actress nom for her performance in the indie drama Winter’s Bone at this year’s Oscars, reportedly beat out 14-year-old’s Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) for the part.

Hunger Games finds survivors of an economically and socially collapsed America competing in televised death games in a new country named Panem. Two citizens from each of Panem’s 12 districts are chosen to participate by lottery each year. When 16-year-old Katniss’ younger sister is selected, Katniss volunteers to take her place.

Lawrence will next be seen as young mutant Mystique in director Mathew Vaughn’s  X-Men: First Class and as a teen who befriends a suspected killer in Mark Tonderai’s new thriller House at the End of the Street.

Lionsgate has released a teaser trailer for director Marcus Nispel’s upcoming Conan the Barbarian reboot. Not much is seen in the footage provided, but Jason Momoa–who stars as Conan–appears to look the part well enough to inspire caveman fantasies in your girlfriend.

Conan costars Stephen Lang, Ron Pearlman, Rose McGowan, Rachel Nichols, and Rachel Nichol’s large, beautiful breasts.  The film arrives in 2-D and 3-D in theaters on Aug. 19.

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Pictured above (via VR Shoots) is the first image of leather-clad actress Kate Beckinsale on the set of Sony Screen Gems eagerly anticipated Underworld 4: New Dawn. From the looks of it, she’s about to perform one of Selene’s signature kick ass escapes out a window.

The film’s synopsis reads:

After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter, Nissa, and when she finds her, they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them all.

Underworld 4: New Dawn is directed by Swedish filmmakers Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein (Shelter). John Hlavin (”The Shield”) is attached as screenwriter. The film arrives in theaters in 2-D and 3-D on Jan. 20, 2012.

Clatto named Kate Beckinsale one of The Ten Hottest Horror/Sci-fi Babes of the Past Decade.

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Former “House” star Jennifer Morrison has scored the lead role of Anna on ABC’s new fairy tale themed pilot “Once Upon a Time.” The 31-year-old actress joins a cast that includes Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming, Jamie Dornan as a Sheriff of Storybrooke, Jared Gilmore as Anna’s son Henry, and Lana Parilla as the Evil Queen.

Created by “LOST” executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, the show follows Anna as she’s beckoned to the small town of Storybrooke by her biological 10-year-old son Henry to break the spell the Evil Queen has cast upon them.

Morrison, who starred as Dr. Allison Cameron for six seasons on the Fox medical drama “House,” made her horror film debut in the 1999 supernatural frightener Stir of Echoes. Her first lead role came a year later in the slasher Urban Legends: Final Cuts. She was most recently seen as Captain James T. Kirk’s wife on J.J. Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek reboot.

Former “Smallville” star Kristin Kreuk has booked a role on NBC’s new supernatural cop-show pilot “17th Precinct.” Produced by “Battlestar Galactica” showrunner Ron Moore, the series follows a group of police officers in the fictional town of Exelsior as they fight and solve crimes rooted in magic and the paranormal.

Kreuk will play Susan Longstreet, wife to a crime scene expert played by Jaime Bamber (“BSG”). The beautiful 28-year-old Canuck joins a cast that includes hottie Tricia Helfer (“BSG”), Eamonn Walker (Unbreakable), Stockard Channing (Practical Magic), and James Callis (“FlashForward”).

Kreuk, best known for playing Clark Kent’s first crush Lana Lang on The CW’s long-running Superman series “Smallville,” will next be seen opposite Rachael Leigh Cook and Adelaide Clemens in Japanese director Iwai Shunji’s American film debut Vampire.

If you’re tired of the Twilight Saga’s vampire-werewolf-human love triangle and would rather swallow some shotgun candy than watch MTV’s upcoming “Teen Wolf “ soap or director Jonathan Levine’s recently greenlit zombie-romancer Warm Bodies, you’re gonna enjoy the fuck out of Funny or Die’s “Mummy” skit.

Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield), Adam Scott (Piranha 3-D), and Martin Starr (“Freaks and Geeks”) do a hilarious job of spoofing horror’s ongoing trend of hooking up humans with supernatural lovers in this heartbreaking tale of an adulterous and decomposing mummy’s forbidden love for a “Fleshie.”

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While you steal a few minutes away from your shitty, soul-killing job to surf the net in search of hot chicks, masturbating animals, and/or an amazing Groupon offer, “Hellcats” star Aly Michalka is earning obscene amounts of money to prance around in frilly outfits. If you’re lucky enough to have an office window, read no further and jump out.

Michalka, a former Disney Channel star (“Phil of the Future”), scored a surprised hit at the box office earlier this year with her horror film debut The Roommate. Not surprisingly, the sexy 21-year-old up-and-comer is now popping up in various magazines, the latest of which is Zooey.

Peep it … and get back to work, losers:

British actress Natalie Dormer has joined the cast of the ABC mystery pilot “Poe.” The 29-year-old former “Tudors” star will play Celeste, the owner of the newspaper that employs an eccentric writer by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.

Set in 1840’s Boston, the series presents the iconic horror author as a young moonlighting detective with a knack for solving crimes of a macabre nature. Aussie actor Chris Egan (Resident Evil: Extinction) has been tapped to play the famed novelist.

Alex Graves (”Journeyman”) will direct the Warner Bros. produced pilot from a script by TV writer Christopher Hollier. Cameras are set to roll in Toronto on March 14.

Dormer, best known for her portrayal of doomed queen Anne Boleyn on Showtime’s “The Tudors,” will also be seen this summer in Marvel Studios eagerly anticipated Captain America: The First Avenger, opening July 22.

“Dexter” player Jennifer Carpenter has been cast opposite Amanda Seyfried in Summit Entertainment’s new serial killer drama Gone. The film marks Carpenter’s return to big screen horror since her star turns in 2008’s Quarantine and 2005’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

Written by Allison Burnett (Untraceable), Gone is Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia’s (Adrift) American film debut and stars Seyfried as a woman who discovers that her sister has been kidnapped by the same man who attempted to murder her two years prior.

Gone is set to shoot in April. Costars include Wes Bentley (Rites of Passage) and Emily Wickersham (I Am Number Four).

Got some news that will give you the hippie hippie shakes! Looks like sex and nudity will be a big part of Junction Films’ soon-to-start-shooting bio-pic Manson Girls. So reveals director Sussana Lo in her interview with stars Taryn Manning (8 Mile) and Monica Keena (Night of the Demons), posted on StayThirtsy.com.

In the interview, Manning and Keena, who play Charles Manson cult followers Sandra Good and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, respectively, assure the director that the sex and nudity to be shot in Manson Girls is not gratuitous and will—in all actuality—cure cancer, save whales, and feed a Haitian family of five for three weeks (what? I’m reading between the lines).

Says Manning:

I personally don’t have any issues with sex and nudity in art if its done in a manner which respects the female anatomy and sheds the most beautiful light on the species of the lady. I think the nudity required in Manson Girls is needed to tell an accurate story of how these people lived everyday lives, full of love and open hearts and minds.

Beautiful light has been respectfully shed on Manning’s anatomy many times before, most notably in 2003’s American Civil War drama Cold Mountain and 2005’s pimptastic Hustle & Flow. Keena, however, has managed to pay her rent without dropping trou. Thankfully, it appears that she has chosen Lo’s film to make her nude debut.

Says Keena:

Sex is a necessary part of this story. As is the nudity aspect of it. And no, I don’t think they will be shot in a gratuitous fashion. I’ve never done a sex scene or nudity in a film before, and I’ve always said I never would unless the movie was absolutely brilliant and the story really called for it and was necessary to move the piece along and was not shot in a gratuitous way. So there is your proof.

I don’t know about you folks, but I think Keena is a 100% correct. I always have trouble following a film’s story when there isn’t any nudity to help it move along (usually because I’m thinking ‘where the titties at’ shortly after the opening creds roll).

Monica Keena

Manson Girls follows the lives of eight violent female Charles Manson cult followers. The film costars Heather Matarazzo (Hostel 2), Tania Raymonde (“LOST”), Brit Morgan (“True Blood”), Gillian Zinser (“90210”), Jennifer Landon (“As the World Turns”), Estella Warren (Planet of the Apes), Stella Maeve (“My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 2″), Laura Harring (One Missed Call), and Bill Moseley as Charlie Manson.

Manson Girls is slated to start production next month in Los Angeles.