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.