High School Musical alumna Ashley Tisdale is set to join Nicolas Cage in Cloud Ten Pictures long-delayed remake of Left Behind, a 2001 end-of-days thriller based on Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s bestselling Christian novel about Rapture rejects.

Tisdale will play Chloe Steele, daughter of Rayford Steele, an adulterous airline pilot (Cage). When the good people in the world are taken by the Rapture to join God and Kirk Cameron’s army against Satan, the Steele’s are shit out of luck and forced to live on earth with the faithless for seven chaotic years.

At the end of those seven years, they must decide between joining Team Christ or Team Anti-Christ, a decision that’s probably not so hard to make if you know the Almighty exists and turning your back on him means taking a cannonball into a lake of hell.

Left Behind has a budget of $15 million and is slated to go into production this year. Vic Armstrong is attached to direct from a script penned by Paul Lalonde and John Patus, writers of the original franchise, which starred Kirk Cameron.

Paramount Pictures and MGM have released a red-band trailer for Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, a steam-punk version of the classic fairy tale that finds the siblings hunting down supernatural forces for profit.

Jeremy Renner (Bourne Legacy) and Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans) are toplining the film, which opens on Jan. 25. Costars include Famke Janssen (X-Men), Zoe Bell (Death Proof) and Norwegian actress Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (Cold Prey) as evil witches.

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A&E has set a March 18 premiere date 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 milfy, but controlling mother.

The series stars Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Norman and Vera Farmiga (Source Code) as his mom, Norma Louise.

Costars 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, Nestor Carbonell as sheriff Royce Romero and Mike Vogel as Deputy Zack Shelby.

A new red-band trailer for Ghost House Pictures upcoming reboot of Sam Raimi’s 1981 classic Evil Dead has gone online… and this fucker is nasty. Jane Levy (“Suburgatory”) plays one of five friends who awaken an evil force after reading from the Book of the Dead while stranded at a cabin in  the woods.

Fede Alverez, the aspiring Uruguayan filmmaker who caught Raimi’s attention with an ambitious four-minute-plus short titled Panic Attack, is directing the remake from his own script, punched up by Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body).

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Playboy model Crystal McCahill is set to costar in directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s long-awaited Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For. No word on what role the busty (36-DDs!), 5-foot-7 stunner will play, but it does involve this outfit.

A Dame to Kill For is based on Miller’s comic of the same name, published in 1993 by Dark Horse Comics. The story is adapted for the screen by Miller and Rodriguez. Production began on Oct. 29 at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas.

McCahill, the May 2009 Playboy Playmate of the Month and former recurring on E!’s Playboy reality series “The Girls Next Door,” joins a cast that includes returning cast members Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Mickey Rourke and newcomers Jaime King and Jamie Chung.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is slated for release Oct. 4.

Horror hero Eli Roth cameos in Chilean director Nicolás López’ upcoming comedy Que Pena Tu Familia (gringo translation: Shame About Your Family). Roth plays Dr. Zacarias, a character on “Ataque Al Corazón (“Attack of the Heart”),” a gory telenovela watched by the family in the film.

A trailer for the faux soap finds Roth treating a woman with a pipe lodged in her head, facing off with co-workers and peers and copping some hot nalgas (ass) from the hospital’s sexy nurses. The stint marks Roth’s second collaboration with López’ since producing and starring in Aftershock.

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Kristen Stewart will reprise her role as the fairest of them all in Universal Pictures upcoming sequel to director and adulterer Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsman.

Stewart tells IndieWire:

It’s gonna be fuckin’ amazing. No, I’m so excited about it, it’s crazy.

The other day I said that there was a strong possibility that we’re going to make a sequel, and that’s very true, but everyone was like, “Whoa, stop talking about it.”

So no, I’m totally not allowed to talk about it.

Snow White and the Huntsman, a dark re-imagining of the classic fairy tale that finds Snow White (Stewart) taking up arms to battle an evil queen, grossed more than $400 million in worldwide coin.

The film costars Charlize Theron as the Queen, Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman, Sam Claflin as the Prince, British fashion model Liberty Ross and Noah Huntley as Snow White’s mother and father, and Robert Pattinson as Sparkly the dwarf.

Universal Pictures will release on Jan. 18 the new supernatural thriller Mama from producer Guillermo Del Toro (Pacific Rim) and director Andy Muschietti, and starring Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”) and kid actors Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nélisse.

Mama tells the story of two young sisters (Charpentier, Nélisse) found five years later after disappearing from their suburban neighborhood by their Uncle Lucas (Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend Annabel (Chastain), who fears that a malicious force is haunting the girls.

To get us further pumped for this mother, Del Toro has released the short that inspired the film, along with an introduction.

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The only thing more terrifying than mother nature is human nature mother fuckers. That is the lesson being taught in producer Eli Roth’s Aftershock, a disaster flick set during the aftermath of the 2010 Chilean earthquake.

Chilean director Nicolás López (Que Pena Tu Vida) helms the project that stars Roth, Ariel Levy and Nicolás Martínez as dudes whose efforts to get laid by sisters Lorenza Izzo and Andrea Osvárt and their Russian model girlfriend Natasha Yarovenko (pictured) are thwarted when an earthquake hits.

Things go from bad to muy malo when the group digs its way out of the rubble to find that the entire city has gone ape shit—looting, killing, raping and littering.

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Dimension Films has released a trailer for its eagerly anticipated by no one sequel Scary Movie 5. Directed by Malcolm Lee (Undercover Brother) and co-written by producer David Zucker (Airplane), the horror-comedy spoofs Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and, of course, Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity.

While it’s easy to slam Scary Movie 5, it does have one thing going for it: a cast of hotties that includes Lindsay Lohan (Machete), Ashley Tisdale (High School Musical), Audrina Patridge (Sorority Row) , Heather Locklear (“Melrose Place”) and former Playboy Playmate Kendra Wilkinson (Scary Movie 4).

But be warned… all the black people will be at Marlon Wayan’s Haunted House spoof, which means you’ll be able to hear every bad joke Scary Movie 5 throws at you on April 12.

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