In the works: Curses, organ harvesting.

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By Alison Willmore on 03/04/2008

Filed under: In the works

A look at who's starring in what, what's in the works and what's going to make it to theaters:

[Photo: Alison Lohman in "Delirious," Peace Arch, 2007]

Slightly less shiny indieish starlet Alison Lohman will step into the role of a woman under curse (recently vacated by "Juno"'s Ellen Page) in Sam Raimi's horror film "Drag Me to Hell." The film is Raimi's first return to the genre since 2000's "The Gift." [Hollywood Reporter] And Dermot Mulroney will star in "Run for Her Life," a thriller about a D.A. who tries to buy his ailing daughter onto the Mexican organ transplant list. Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar KormÃ¡kur, whose murder mystery "Jar City" opened in theaters last Friday, will direct. [Hollywood Reporter]

Two new entries in that inexhaustible "We Never Asked for This" genre: "Crazy on the Outside" will be the (indie!) directorial debut of Tim Allen, who'll also star as a parolee who discovers life outside jail is stranger than it was within it. [Variety] And Simon Cowell is developing "Britain's Got Talent"'s answer to "Billy Elliot" in a planned biopic of Paul Potts, an awkward one-time cell phone salesman who won the show last year with his rendition of the aria "Nessun Dorma" from "Turandot." The clip that convinced studio execs can be found on YouTube. [Variety]

And the Weinstein Company has optioned the rights to Rita Marley's "No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley," aiming for a release late next year, which would beat out Martin Scorsese's planned Marley doc, which the director and his co-producer Ziggy Marley hope to have in theaters Feb. 6, 2010 — Marley's 65th birthday. [Variety]

Acquired: Sister company IFC Films has picked up the rights to "Fear(s) of the Dark," a black and white French animated film made up of six spooky tales from six different animators. [Hollywood Reporter]

Magnolia has snagged Chris Bell's "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*," which I liked quite a bit at Sundance, for a release later this year. [indieWIRE]

And Film Movement has acquired Eric Guirado's "The Grocer's Son," which screens this week as part of Rendez-Vous With French Cinema. [Hollywood Reporter]

+ Lohman takes Page's place in 'Hell' (Hollywood Reporter)
+ Mulroney to star in 'Run' (Hollywood Reporter)
+ Tim Allen's 'Crazy' gig (Variety)
+ Paramount developing tenor's tale (Variety)
+ TWC options 'No Woman No Cry' (Variety)
+ IFC not afraid of the 'Dark' (Hollywood Reporter)
+ Magnolia Gets "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*" (indieWIRE)
+ Film Movement gets 'Grocer's Son' (Hollywood Reporter)