Paranoia, a thriller with a unique, all-star cast, has found an American distributor and a release date.  Relativity Media has acquired U.S. rights to the film based on the novel by Joseph Finder, and today the studio announced that Paranoia will hit theaters Stateside on September 27, 2013.

Liam Hemsworth, an Australian up-and-comer who last appeared as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games, leads the cast as a regular guy who finds himself blackmailed into a costly game of corporate and technological espionage with unimaginably high stakes.  Also starring in Paranoia are Academy Award nominees Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford, along with Lucas Till, who played Havoc in last summer's X-Men: First Class.

The first official clip from "The first film about our new millennium" has arrived online with a look at Cosmopolis clocking in at over one minute, complete with French subtitles.  Two weeks ago, a domestic and an international trailer gave our most extensive peek at the adaptation of acclaimed novelist Don DeLillo's 2003 book.  This clip, though, provides a sense of the heightened reality that director David Cronenberg is going for here.

Life of Pi, an adaptation of the hugely acclaimed bestseller by Yann Martel, has been in the works under several different directors since the novel was published over a decade, but the film is actually set to hit theaters at the end of this year.  As such, we now have our first look at a still from the film.  As you'd expect, it has the protagonist, Pi, a Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker, and a lifeboat.

Last week, a regrettably brief but wonderfully crazy international trailer introduced us to the first footage from Cosmopolis, the adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel.  That trailer was full of nuttiness that director David Cronenberg is perfectly equipped to bring to the screen, from abrupt splattery violence to no small amount of sexiness.  A set of four new stills from Cosmopolis don't even hint at the wackiness of that trailer, but they're worth a look nonetheless.

Since MGM found a director for the Carrie remake earlier this year, the natural question regarding the film-to-be is simply who will play the title character?  After all, Sissy Spacek was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as a telekinetic teenager in Brian De Palma's 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's first novel.  The question of just who will be covered in pig's blood at prom is close to being answered, it seems, as the candidates to play Carrie are down to two actresses: Chloe Grace Moretz and Haley Bennett.

Stephenie Meyer's supernatural novel series resulted in the massively successful Twilight Saga film franchise, so it was inevitable that Meyer's foray into science-fiction would get its own feature film.  With the vampire-centric series having made Meyer a bankable brand, The Host will be the sole new cinematic representation of her work when Breaking Dawn - Part 2 closes out the franchise this fall.  The Host is set to hit theaters in just over a year, but Open Road Films have rolled out the very first teaser trailer.

Altered Carbon, a movie based on the science fiction novel by Richard K. Morgan, has been a thing that could maybe happen since the novel was published in 2002, earning a Philip K. Dick Award and ending up a New York Times Notable Book.  Mega-producer Joel Silver owned the rights for some time, but now the newly-formed production company Mythology Entertainment has acquired the feature rights and is actively putting Altered Carbon into development.

Given the global popularity of the novel by Stieg Larsson, the marketing for the upcoming adaptation The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo could probably consist of some dudes wearing sandwich board signs saying "David Fincher made a new version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and the movie would probably still do really well.  Sony has not gone that route, however, and the marketing for this film has been appropriately stylish, unique, and generally just really cool.  Another new poster, for example, doesn't just put the standard floating heads above a title, but interestingly presents Rooney Mara's Lisbeth Salander and Daniel Craig's Mikael Blomkvist with an arresting graphic approach and the fairly ominous tagline, "What Was Hidden in the Snow Comes Forth in the Thaw."

As of late, any news on this particular site involving Scarlett Johansson invariably pertains to The Avengers, in which she reprises her Iron Man 2 role and brings a dash of leather-wearing femininity to the ass-kicking and derring-do that gets done in an ensemble superhero movie.  Today, though, we some Johansson-centric news not involving Marvel heroes, as the first set photos from Under the Skin have made their way online, all featuring Johansson in costume.  That costume may look fairly ordinary, but in the film, she plays Isserley, an alien disguised as a human, using her obvious sexuality to lure hitchhiker's into her grasp for some strange extraterrestrial purposes.  That description may have brought to mind Species, in which Natasha Henstridge played an alien just trying to get laid, but Under the Skin is adapted from the novel by Michel Faber, and promises to be far more substantial than a spoiler-free synopsis would suggest.

Last Friday, Paramount Pictures unveiled a handsome new poster for Hugo, and now on Monday the studio has followed up with an ever handsomer theatrical trailer for the first family film from director Martin Scorsese, making a sharp left turn after the oppressively dark and messed up Shutter Island.  Based on the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, Hugo is Scorsese's first foray into 3D, and everything we've seen so far has given the impression that he and cinematographer Robert Richardson have once again knocked it out of the park visually.  This trailer looks stunning, and there are a whole bunch of shots in there that imply that this may be an instance where 3D is actually an important part of the film rather than a novelty.