French model-turned-actress Léa Seydoux is set to topline writer/director Christophe Gans’ dark re-imagining of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. The 26-year-old stunner will star opposite Black Swan’s Vincent Cassel in the Eskwad and Pathé production.

Seydoux is coming off the Tom Cruise blockbuster Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, in which she played a super-sexy, diamond-loving assassin. Additional creds include roles in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Beauty and the Beast will roll camera in October. The film is Gans’ first directorial project since 2006’s creepy Radha Mitchell-starrer Silent Hill.

Universal Pictures’ remake of John Carpenter’s The Thing may have gotten the cold shoulder at the box office last year, but that isn’t keeping its star Mary Elizabeth Winstead from taking on more horror shows.

The 27-year-old looker has just signed on to star in director Daniel Stamm’s (The Last Exorcism) The Darkness, a loose adaptation of the Henry James novel “Turn of the Screw,” scripted by Megan Holley (Sunshine Cleaning).

The Darkness finds Winstead playing an American student, who while babysitting her tutor’s children in an English manor, comes to believe that they are being haunted by malevolent spirits. Production on the film will begin this summer in Europe.

Winstead will next be seen in director/producer Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Her creds include Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, Hideo Nakata’s The Ring 2 and the James Wong frighteners Final Destination 3 and Black Christmas.

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

Focus Features has released a trailer for screenwriter Lorene Scafaria’s (Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist) directorial debut Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, an apocalyptic romantic-dramedy starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley (pictured).

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The official synopsis reads:

Set in a too-near future, a man searches for a meaningful connection as humanity’s last days are at hand. Can he find his greatest love at the worst possible time? As the respective journeys of Dodge and Penny converge, the two spark to each other and their outlooks – if not the world’s – brighten.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World costars Connie Britton (“American Horror Story”), Patton Oswalt (Young Adult), William Petersen (“CSI”), Adam Brody (Scream 4), Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), Melanie Lynskey (“Two and a Half Men”) and Gillian Jacobs (“Community”).

The film arrives in theaters on June 22.

Danny Trejo is a Mexi-can, not a Mexi-can’t. That is why the tatted, 67-year-old genre legend is reprising his role as former Mexican Federale Machete Cortez in Robert Rodriguez’s recently greenlit  sequel Machete Kills.

The film, which shoots in April, follows Machete as he’s recruited by the U.S. government to bring down the Mexican cartel head and the billionaire arms dealer plotting to create global warfare by creating and utilizing a high-tech space weapon.

Posted above is the Machete Kills sales poster to be displayed at this year’s European Film Market (courtesy of Coming Soon). According to Rodriguez, a second sequel, Machete Kills Again … In Space, will complete his Machete trilogy.

“Melrose Place” starlet Jessica Lucas returns to The CW to topline its new pilot “Cult.” The 26-year-old Canadian looker will play Skye, a production assistant on the popular crime show “Cult” who teams up with a news blogger to investigate a series of disappearances linked to its fans.

Deadline reports that Alien Nation and “Farscape” scribe Rockne S. O’Bannon has penned the pilot script and will produce with Fake Empire and Warner Bros. TV.

Lucas, last seen on NBC’s short-lived comedy series “Friends with Benefits,” is best known for her portrayal of first-grade teacher Riley Richmond on Fox TV’s now defunct “Melrose Place” reboot. Horror fans, however, will recognize Lucas from her roles in producer J.J. Abrams’ Cloverfield and director Renny Harlin’s teen-warlock thriller The Covenant.

A sales trailer for Darclight Films’ upcoming shark frightener Bait 3-D has finally surfaced online. Set in Queensland, Australia, the Kimble Rendall-directed film finds a group of tsunami survivors trapped in a supermarket with violent thieves and man-eating sharks

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The synopsis reads:

In a sleepy beach community, shoppers at an underground supermarket are terrorized by a crazed bandit when the unimaginable occurs: A monstrous freak tsunami swallows the town. Now trapped, with rushing water threatening to entomb them in a watery grave, the survivors discover they are not alone.

The tsunami has brought unwanted visitors from the depths. Not only must they overcome the threat of drowning and the predator within their midst, but a threat far more deadly and far more bloodthirsty – packs of hungry tiger sharks.

Bait 3-D stars Xavier Samuel (Twilight Saga: Eclipse), Julian McMahon (Faces in the Crowd), Alice Parkinson (Sanctum), Alexander Russell (Chronicle), Lincoln Lewis (“Home and Away”) and babes Sharni Vinson (You’re Next) and Phoebe Tonkin (“Secret Circle”).

A full-length trailer for Sony Pictures’ The Amazing Spiderman has hit the web. Based on the Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley “Ultimate Spiderman” comics, the reboot serves as an origins story that finds our friendly neighborhood crime fighter back in high school.

The Marc Webb-directed film stars Andrew Garfield (Spiderman), Emma Stone (Gwen Stacy), Denis Leary (Capt. George Stacy), Rhys Ifans (The Lizard), Chris Zylka (Flash Thompson), Sally Field (May Parker), Martin Sheen (Ben Parker) and C. Thomas Howell as the Soul Man.

The Amazing Spiderman swings into theaters on July 3.

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Black Rock director and star Katie Aselton spoke with EW about the lengthy nude cat-and-mouse scenes she shares with costars Lake Bell (pictured above) and Kate Bosworth (below). The film, which was acquired at Sundance this year by LD Distribution, finds the alluring trio warming up to a group of male poachers while vacationing on a deserted island off the coast of Maine.

Trouble starts when Aselton’s character Abby flirts it up with one of the guys, but then gets all Jodi Foster/Accused on his horny ass. Shit hits the fan, and the girls are off and running with the men in pursuit. Hindered by their bodacious femininity, they fall in a lake and must quickly shed their wet clothes to avoid hypothermia.

Aselton explains:

That’s where the girls start to turn primal. That is a true animal instinct. It’s 43 degrees, you have to take those wet clothes off if you’re going to survive, and they’re vulnerable, but they’re finding their strength. That’s truly when their inner strength is taking over, and that’s exciting.

It’s me playing by the rules of the genre, and abiding by those rules on my own terms. It’s like, okay I’ll do nudity, but it’s not going to be in a super sexual way.

Black Rock will mark Aselton’s nude onscreen debut and will serve as Bell’s second (she went topless on HBO’s “How to Make It in America”). The film also provides an opportunity for Bosworth to redeem herself after starring in Rob Lurie’s neutered  remake of  Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs.

"Damn. I forgot to wear shoes."

Black Rock is written by Mark Duplass (Cyrus), Aselton’s husband and costar on the hilarious FX fanatsy-football series “The League.” Jay Paulson (“Happy Town”), Will Bouvier, and Anslem Richardson (“As the World Turns”) play the angry, blue-balled hunters.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has set an April 12 release date for Grasshopper Manufacturer’s Lollipop Chainsaw, a third-person zombie adventure written by horror filmmaker James Gunn (Slither) about an 18-year-old panty-flashing cheerleader out to slay the undead.

It’s pretty sexy stuff, but cheerleader Juliet Starling has got nothing on Mrs. Pac-Man. Sure, the ’80s queen was short, round and married … but she liked to eat balls. Stick that in your X-Box 360 (or PS3), Starling!

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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.