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I love me a good sci-fi thriller and this one sounds like it has the makings to kick some serious ass. According to Variety, Ben Ripley (Source Code) is working on the script for the movie 7th Day, with Shane Abbess directing the feature.

The Dino De Laurentis Co. will produce 7th Day and Martha De Laurentis has described 7th Day as The Shinning set on board a spaceship.

The story follows a ship which is on a voyage to begin a new colony in outta space.

Not much else is known at this time, but I’m intrigued by those simple words.

What do you guys think?

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Ruairi Robinson the director of the short film Blinky, which looks awesome by the way, which follows the strange relationship between a boy and his robot (that’s Blinky to the right, doesn’t he look cute!), only the robot goes a little bit sinister. You can check out the trailer for Blinky below.

Anyway QWERTY Films were so impressed with Robinson’s Blinky short that they hired him to direct the big budget sci/fi horror movie The Animators which is written by Clive Dawson from an adaptation of Sydney J. Bounds’ short story.

The Animators is said to follow “a group of astronauts who touch down on martian soil and discover bacterial life. Things go awry from there. It is very reminiscent of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”

This is yet another story that proves, people in high places to pay attention to the little guy, so if you’ve got the talent, the heart and the passion then go for it, as you never know. Just look at the guys who created Hobo With a Shotgun or the guys who created the faux Eli Roth trailer Clown. They are now headed for big things, so keep at it as you never know.

Check out the Blinky teaser below:

Source: STYD

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I knew it, from the moment that news broke that Catherine Hardwicke was helming a new adaptation of Red Riding Hood; I knew that the trailer folks would be completely daft if they didn’t have From The Director of Twilight emblazoned somewhere in the trailer.  The strength of that alone will probably give the film some business.

Apple has a look at the trailer and it’s what I expected from Hardwicke; a fairly young cast and highly stylish camera work.  I didn’t like Twilight; but even in that film Hardwicke has talent with the camera.  No sign of the wolf in the trailer spare for an almost pure black flash at the very end of the trailer.  

Plot:  Valerie is a beautiful young woman in love with an outsider named Peter.  However her family desires her to marry the wealthy Henry.  So they do not lose each other, Peter and Valerie plot to run away together, however before they do Valerie’s sister is killed by the werewolf.  The village has lived with an uneasy peace with the creature, giving it animal sacrifices but now the beast seems to be craving human flesh.  The village calls in famed werewolf hunter Father Solomon to slay the beast, who states that the creature could be anyone in the village.  As the death toll mounts, Valerie suspects the creature could be a someone she loves and that she shares a bond with the creature which makes her a suspect…and bait. 

Red Riding Hood arrives in theaters on March 11, 2011.   

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THR says Vadim Perelman is in negotiations to develop MGM’s Poltergeist remake as a potential directing gig. The deal would bring the helmer together with writers Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, who were hired last week to revamp the 1982 classic.

The original, a haunted-house movie full of literalized children’s nightmares, was directed by Tobe Hooper from a script co-written by Steven Spielberg. The film’s exploration of an ordinary family’s reaction to an extraordinarily intense situation likely appealed to Perelman, who delved into similar dynamics in his debut, 2003′s “House of Sand and Fog,” and last year’s “The Life Before Her Eyes.”

The Ukraine-born Perelman, who is repped by CAA and Rumble Media, once was attached to Spielberg’s endlessly developing “Talisman” project, adapted from the Stephen King-Peter Straub novel. Bloody-Disgusting.com first reported this possibility last week.

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Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego is attached to direct the Paramount Vantage project “A Jealous Ghost,” which Kirsten Dunst is starring in and producing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Screenwriter Megan Holley, who adapted the A.N. Wilson novel, is doing another short pass on the script before it goes into production.

Wilson’s 2005 novel describes a young American woman who travels to London to write a dissertation on Henry James’ classic ghost tale, “The Turn of the Screw,” only to find that her own circumstances begin to reflect the strange happenings of the story.

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The Hollywood Reporter says Jimmy Hayward, who directed the animated Horton Hears a Who! will make his live-action debut with Jonah Hex, the Warner Bros. weird western based on the DC Comics character.

Josh Brolin is attached to star in the film, which previously had Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (“Crank”) on board as directors. The duo, who also wrote the script, bowed out over creative differences in November. The studio, which hopes to put the movie into production in March or April, went on a fast-track search, putting together a short list that included such names as Andy Fickman and McG before narrowing it down to Hayward.

The character of Hex, known for having the right side of his face disfigured and wearing a Confederate army uniform, was a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter whose adventures always ended in blood. One incarnation of his comic book series saw the Western genre combined with supernatural elements, and it’s this aspect that was featured in Neveldine and Taylor’s script. The studio will likely keep the script, though it’s expected that Hayward will put his stamp on it.

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