Fox is in talks with Chris Carter to reboot the “X-Files” for a limited series run. David Duchovny is already on board to reprise his role as FBI agent Fox “Spooky” Mulder… just as long as Carter and Gillian Anderson return (duh) and the show does not run a full season.

Duchovny tells USA Today:

I’m more than happy and excited to bring it back and do it again with Gillian and Chris. I’m assuming that it will happen sooner rather than later now. We’ll see what form, how many (episodes).

Certainly I can’t nor would I be interested in doing a full season. It will be in some kind of limited form. We’re all old, we don’t have the energy for a full season.

Duchovny is coming off the hilarious Showtimes series “Californication,” and will next be seen in “Aquarius” as a Los Angeles police sergeant in the 1960’s investigating a young hooligan and charismatic cult leader named Charles Manson.

Italian actress Matilda Lutz is reportedly tapped to play the female lead in Paramount Pictures’ second full-length sequel to its horrifying 2002 blockbuster The Ring. Directed by Spanish filmmaker F. Javier Gutierrez (Before the Fall), the new entry is titled Rings and will feature a new cast.

Rings shares the title of the 2005 Jonathan Liebesman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) movie short bridging The Ring and The Ring 2, both starring Naomi Watts. In the short, cults called Rings have emerged and challenge each other to watching the cursed videotape.

Lutz is best known for her international film and television work. No word yet on what her role calls for, nor on a release date for the sequel. The first two Ring films have grossed more than $400 million worldwide, and remain pretty damn frightening to this day.

Lea Michele is bringing the pipes that made her a star on Ryan Murphy’s tween musical series “Glee” to Murphy’s new Fox show “Scream Queens.” Described as a horror-comedy, the first season of the anthology series will run 15 episodes and is toplined by horror icon Jamie Lee Curtis and Emma Roberts.

“Scream Queens” is set on a college campus plagued by a series of brutal murders. Cameras roll in spring with a fall premiere in the cards. Co-stars include Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”), Keke Palmer (Animal), and—this being a Ryan Murphy show—a retard of some kind.

Michele’s only other horror outing was in 2011’s Glee: The 3D Concert Movie in which a generally good mix of songs were butchered by the cast of “Glee”… in 3D. “Scream Queens” is Ryan Murphy’s followup to his rightfully acclaimed horror anthology series “American Horror Story.”

Cabin in the Woods starlet Kristen Connolly is joining the new CBS series “Zoo,” a 13-episode adaptation of the bestselling 2012 James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge novel about a mysterious wave of animal attacks. Connolly plays a passionate journalist looking to uncover the cause for the animal uprising.

Directed by Brad Anderson (The Call), “Zoo” stars James Wolk as an American zoologist who believes animals are plotting to take back dominion over the world, one kill at a time. He saves the life of beautiful French ecologist Nora Arnezeder on safari, and together they set out to prove that animals hate us.

Connolly made her horror film debut in 2008 with a bit part in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening. But what put her on fright fan’s map was the impressive one/two punch of starring in Barry Levinson’s The Bay and producer Joss Whedon’s fuck-you to the horror genre The Cabin in the Woods.

Well it looks like Poltergeist fans can thank Sam Rockwell for saving them a few bucks at the box office this July when producer Sam Raimi and director Gil Kenan’s remake of Tobe Hooper’s brilliantly horrifying 1982 original arrives in theaters.

Sam Rockwell is playing the role of the dad in the film about a family tormented by malicious and angry spirits. The part originally played by Craig T. Nelson. In a chat with Collider, Rockwell admits that the remake is nothing more than a kid flick now.

Rockwell said:

The 10-year-old boy is really the protagonist this time.  JoBeth Williams was the protagonist for the most part in the first one and now the kid, it’s really through his point-of-view.  So it’s more of a kids’ movie so I don’t know if it’s gonna be like rated-R scary. It’s not like The Conjuring type of scary.

If that isn’t bad enough, Rockwell doesn’t even appear remotely confident that the remake is any good at all! In fact, he seems worried.

I hope it’s good.  I really don’t know.  I really wish I could tell you.  I’m praying that it’s – I mean, it’s gonna be hard to live up to the first one.  The first one’s pretty damn good.  This one’s gonna be in 3D though, I can tell you that.

So… there you have it from one of the film’s leads: it’s un-scary garabage, but you can watch it in 3D with whatever group of tweens haven’t figured out how to stream movies illegally on their iPhones yet.

Fox has released a trailer for “The Last Man on Earth,” a new comedy from writer/producer Will Forte (Nebraska) and directors/producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord (21 Jump Street). Forte toplines the show as Phil, a family man and bank employee left all alone in the world after a mysterious event in 2022.

Phil has traveled across the U.S. and to Mexico and Canada in search of survivors to no avail. He makes the best out of being alone, enjoying the freedom of walking around in his underwear and breaking all kinds of stuff. But, he’s lonely and holds out hope for meeting someone with a vagina.

Enter co-star January Jones. Sadly she’s not in the trailer, but the show looks fun enough to watch anyway.

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Disney has released a new trailer for Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Joss Whedon is once again at the helm with all key players reprising their roles, including Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Mark Ruffalo as HULK, Chris Evans as Captain America, and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow.

Unfortunately, there ain’t a lot of Scarlett Johansson in the trailler, which frustrates us. We’re tired of the angry green guy and rich red guy and the goofy blue guy and the worthless brown archer. Give us more Black Widow!

Synopsis:

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected.

Universal Pictures has released a trailer for Unfriended, a modern day I Know What You Did Last Summer thriller from visual mastermind Timur Bekmambetov, producer/director of Wanted and NightWatch. Directed by Levan Gabriadze, the film centers on high school kids hunted down by a malevolent spirit online.

Told from “a young girl’s computer screen,” Unfriended follows the mysterious demise of a group of teens responsible for triggering the suicide of a shamed mean girl. The film was previously titled Cybernatural.

Unfriended stars stunners Renee Olstead (pictured above), Heather Sossaman (”Days of Our Lives”), Courtney Halverson (”Death Valley”), and Miss Teen Louisiana Shelly Hennig (”Secret Circle”). The film opens in theaters April 17.

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Scarlett Johansson has been tapped to star in Rupert Sanders’ (Snow White) adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s manga Ghost in a Shell for DreamWorks. She will play Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg super agent fighting cyber terrorist who hack half-human/half-android beings to do crime.

Margot Robbie, the beautiful and very nude star of Martin Scorsese’s awesome Wolf of Wall Street, was said to be the front runner for the role, but Johansson ain’t chopped liver so penises everywhere will be like “what the… oh okay; that’s cool” when they hear the news.

Johansson is coming off the awesomely fun Luc Besson sci-fi actioner Lucy, Marvel’s blockbuster The Avengers, and Jonathan Glazer’s artsy-fartsy sci-fi drama Under the Skin, listed as number one in Clatto’s list of The Sexiest Horror Films of 2014.

A trailer has gone online for the Feb. 8 mid-season premiere of season five of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” Season five has been an enthralling, heartbreaking doozey so far, and promises to get more intense as Rick Grimes and the gang continue on the road, knowing there is no actual cure waiting in Washington.

When it comes to a show like “The Walking Dead,” there’s no need to ramble on and on. Hell, most of you have already clicked play on the trailer by now. I could finish this post with my grocery list and you wouldn’t notice: bottle of Chopin, ice, popcorn, Advil.

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