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 Kormákur, 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)

Director Bong Joon-ho, who last title was the awesome genre-quaking monster movie "The Host," has a new film in development (after international multi-director triptych "Tokyo!"). It will apparently be called "Mother" and will focus on a woman who tries to prove her son's innocence after he's accused of a terrible crime. [KFCC]

Lars von Trier claims that his next film won't be "Wasington," the follow-up to "Dogville" and "Manderlay":

Instead, his next feature is Antichrist, a "psychological thriller that evolves into a horror film". It features one man and one woman, yet to be cast, will be shot in Germany and in English this summer and deals with the favourite Von Trier topic of cruelty between the sexes: "You have to guess who is the Antichrist," says its producer, Meta Louise Foldager, mischievously. Von Trier is testing ways of manipulating the image in it. [Telegraph, hat tip to Anthony Kaufman]

Tucked into Brooke Hauser's interview with David Gordon Green at the LA Times: "He's also remaking Dario Argento's 'Suspiria,' a horror film about a coven of witches at a ballet school in Germany. It's all part of Green's plan to branch out into new territory." [LA Times]

Paul Dano heads from the bowling alley to the... mattress store? His next film, "Gigantic," will be a quirky rom-com in which he plays a mattress salesman who gets involved with a woman he meets in his store (Zooey Deschanel ). [Hollywood Reporter]

Lovers of the shakycam can rejoice — Jason Bourne will move efficiently and dizzyingly onward. According to E!, "Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass have reportedly committed to add a fourth film to the critically acclaimed action franchise." [E! Online]

Acquired: "Transsiberian," the transit-borne thriller from "Next Stop Wonderland " director Bran Anderson, has been picked up by First Look Studios for a late summer release. The film, which stars Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer and Ben Kingsley, premiered at Sundance last month to solid reviews. [Variety]

Another Sundance title, and one I'd pegged to have gotten picked up much faster, has finally acquired distribution: "Sunshine Cleaning," the Amy Adams/Emily Blunt dramedy about sisters who hope to earn their way up a rung or two on the social ladder by starting a crime scene clean-up company, has gone to Overture Films for a release late this year or early next. The film had such strong aspirations to be this year's [title redacted] that, beyond its own title, it also features Alan Arkin as an irascible grandfather doling out love and inappropriate information to a young charge. [Variety]

"XXY," an Argentinean coming-of-age drama about a teenage hermaphrodite, has been picked up by Film Movement to open in New York in May. The film won the Critics Week Grand Prize at Cannes last year. [Hollywood Reporter]

And Magnolia's Magnet Releasing arm will be bringing Swedish horror film "Let The Right One In" to American theaters. The film is about a 12-year-old boy who befriends a girl who may be a vampire. [Hollywood Reporter]

[Photo: Bong Joon-ho on the set of "The Host," Magnolia Films, 2007]

+ Bong Joon-ho, the director of 'The Host', returns with 'Mother' (KFCC)
+ Lars Von Trier's funny turn (Telegraph)
+ David Gordon Green, mainstream director? (LA Times)
+ Dano signs for 'Gigantic' (Hollywood Reporter)
+ New Bourne to Make Four (E! Online)
+ First Look takes 'Transsiberian' (Variety)
+ Overture nabs 'Sunshine Cleaning' (Variety)
+ Film Movement picks up 'XXY' (Hollywood Reporter)
+ Magnet attracts 'Right One' rights (Hollywood Reporter)

I'd never want to encourage the "I'm Fucking _________" video trend, which looks to be making its way along the sharp downhill grade to Overkillsville right... about... now, but Kevin Smith, whose current film in production, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," is, well, about the act in question, has turned in his own version featuring leads Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen. The two are charming enough to make an already old joke work, particularly in when Banks casts the song as a tale of trying to get ahead in Hollywood, and when Rogen extols his skill at improvising scenes in "40 Year Old Virgin." You can see it here.

[Photo: "I'm Fucking Seth Rogen," Quickstop Entertainment, 2008]

+ I'm F***cking Seth Rogen (YouTube)