“Human Target” and “Entourage” star Janet Montgomery has scored the female lead on ABC’s “Gothica,” a modern day re-imagining of the lives of horror icons Dracula, Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde… think ABC’s “Once Upon a Time” with the Universal Monsters.

Montgomery plays Grace Van Helsing, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from New York who inherits her family’s small town newspaper. Chris Egan (Resident Evil: Extinction) plays Dorian Gray, a wealthy friend to Grace while Tom Ellis (“Miranda”) steps into the role of Victor Frankenstein, Grace’s one-time lover.

Horror fans will recognize Montgomery from slashers Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead and Hills Run Red. She also co-starred in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. The British stunner is best known for playing thief Ames on FOX’s “Human Target” and Eric Murphy’s gorgeous assistant on HBO’s “Entourage.”

Laura Ramsey is set to topline NBC’s “The Sixth Gun,” a Carlton Cuse-produced pilot based on the Oni Press graphic novel of the same name. The supernatural western follows a farmer’s daughter (Ramsey) who becomes the target of undead outlaws when she comes upon a mythical pistol with paranormal powers.

Deadline reports that Jeffrey Reiner (“Friday Night Lights”) will direct the pilot from a script by Ryan Condal, writer of MGM and Paramount Pictures’ upcoming epic Hercules, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Ramsey’s horror creds include Renny Harlin’s The Covenant, Jim Gillespie’s New Orleans-based frightener Venom and the 2005 horror-comedy Cruel World (starring Jaime Presley). She is best known, however, for her gruesomely tragic turn in 2008’s The Ruins and that Maxim layout hidden in your bathroom.

Michael Bay thrilled movie-going penises around the world this week when he announced that Megan Fox would star as the female lead in director Jonathan Liebesman’s reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, set to go into production in April for a May 16, 2014 release.

Bay posted on his site:

TMNT: we are bringing Megan Fox back into the family!

TMNT, first published as a comic by Mirage Studios in 1984, centers on four turtles that mutate into humanoids after being exposed to radioactive slime. A giant rat trains them in martial arts and they become crime fighters who yada yada yada Megan Fox!

Fox will play computer programmer and Turtle ally April O’Neil. The role reunites her with Bay, who famously fired her from Transformers: Dark of the Moon after she compared him to Hitler in the press. Bay has since revealed that the order came from producer Steven Spielberg, who was far more offended by the comment.

According to Variety, Fox beat out actresses Jane Levy, Anna Kendrick and Elizabeth Olsen for the part. Bay is producing TMNT through his Platinum Dunes shingle for Paramount Pictures.

HBO has released the first full-trailer for the eagerly anticipated third season of its critically acclaimed fantasy series “Game of Thrones,” premiering March 31. The clip warns that “death coming for everyone and everything,” and judging from the looks on all the players’ faces, it ain’t coming in their sleep.

The one-minute trailer teases some pretty exciting stuff, including a look at Mance Rayder, the King Beyond the Wall (Ciaran Hinds) and onee of Daenerys Targaryen’s (Emilia Clarke) dragons, looking all growns-up and fierce.

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Severin Films is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Jim VanBebber’s true-crime drama The Manson Family with a limited 20-city theatrical run and a special edition Blu-ray release. The controversial film will play in selected Landmark theaters beginning on March 22, and arrives on Blu-ray on May 7.

The press release reads:

The Manson Family delivers an uncompromising, brutal vision of the collapse of the “Love Generation.” On a ranch outside of LA, the hippie dream is perverting into something evil. What was once an oasis of free love and acid trips has become ground zero for a madman’s paranoid visions.

An average group of kids, the “Family,” become engulfed in a delusional world where torment and slaughter are considered the path to righteousness. The Manson Family is a dizzying, rapid-fire vision of the sex and violence that unifies the misguided group and, at the direction of their leader, ends in a brutal spree leaving seven people dead in 48 hours.

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Swedish stunner Katia Winter is set to star in the new FOX pilot “Sleepy Hollow,” a re-imagining of Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek Into Darkness) and directed by Len Wiseman (Underworld).

“Sleepy Hollow” finds Ichabod Crane working with a small town female sheriff in an effort to protect the community from the forces of evil. Winter will play Crane’s wife Katrina, a nurse with the 37^th Regiment in the Revolutionary War.

Joining Winter in the pilot are Nicole Beharie (Shame) and former 7Up pitchman Orlando Jones as Lt. Frank Williams, a homicide detective sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a double murder. The role of Crane has yet to be cast.

Winter is coming off season seven of Showtime’s “Dexter,” in which she toplessly played Russian stripper Nadia, and the Sam Jackson and Nina Dobrev sci-fi actioner Arena. She will next be seen in The Banshee Chapter, a drug-thriller from actor Zachary Quinto’s new production shingle Before the Door.

A&E has released the first official trailer for its new drama “Bates Motel,” a prequel series to Hitchcock’s Psycho from Carlton Cuse (“LOST”) and Kerry Ehrin (”Friday Night Lights”). The show follows the twisted relationship between a high school-aged Norman Bates and his controlling mother.

“Bates Motel” stars Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga (Source Code) as his mom, Norma Louise.

Co-stars include Nicola Peltz as Norman’s love interest Bradley Martin, Olivia Cook as his nerdy friend Emma Decody, Keegan Connor Tracy as his teacher Miss Watson, Max Thieriot as Norman’s half-brother Dylan Massett and Nestor Carbonell as sheriff Royce Romero.

“Bates Motel” premieres March 18 on A&E.

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Canadian actress Rachelle Lefevre is set to topline “Under the Dome,” a 13-episode miniseries from producers Steven Spielberg and Stephen King. The series, based on King’s post-apocalyptic novel of the same name, debuts June 24 on CBS.

“Under the Dome” follows the havoc caused by a mysterious force field that drops over the small New England town of Chester Mill. THR reports that Lefevre will play Julia, a Chicago transplant living with her doctor husband in Chester Mill, where she works as an editor for the local newspaper.

Lefevre is best known for her portrayal of evil vampire Victoria Sutherland in Summit Entertainment’s Twilight and its first sequel Twilight: New Moon. She was replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard in Twilight: Eclipse after a fall-out with producers.

“Under the Dome” is directed by Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and co-stars Brittany Robertson (“Secret Circle”), Aisha Hinds (“True Blood”), Natalie Martinez (“CSI: New York”), Collin Ford (”Supernatural”), Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) and Dean Norris (“Breaking Bad”).

A red-band trailer for Magnet Releasing’s erotic vampire drama Kiss of the Damned has gone online. The film is directed by some chick named Xan Cassavetes and stars “Heroes” regular Milo Ventimiglia and French stunners Josephine de La Baume (pictured above) and Roxane Mesquida (Rubber).

Kiss of the Damned tells the story of a beautiful vampire whose secret love affair with a human screenwriter is exposed when her bloodsucking sister visits them. Magnet will premiere the film on VOD on March 28 and release it in selected theaters on May 3.

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A trailer for Wrekin Hill Entertainment’s Gallowwalkers has gone online. The horror-western stars tax evading action star Wesley Snipes (Blade, Passenger 57) as a cursed gunman whose victims come back from the dead for a showdown.

The film is directed by some dude named Andrew Goth and co-stars Kevin Howarth (The Seasoning House), Riley Smith (“90210”), wrestler Dallas Page, hot Canadian model Alyssa Pridham, Czech stunner Simona Brhlikova and sexy Death Race alumna Tanit Phoenix (pictured above).

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