The new horror remake "When a Stranger Calls" connected with young thrill-seekers at the weekend box office in North America, but moviegoing generally took a back seat to Sunday's Super Bowl showdown. Meanwhile, last week's Oscar nominations propelled several contenders up the charts, with front-runner "Brokeback Mountain" jumping two places to No. 4, a new high.

"When a Stranger Calls," a remake of a 1979 B-movie about a teenage baby-sitter terrorized by menacing phone calls, sold a better-than-expected $22 million worth of tickets for the three-day, Friday-to-Sunday period, according to distributor Screen Gems.

"Stranger" cost just $15 million to make, and its audience was primarily women (55 percent) and aged under 21 (58 percent).

Penn to direct again

Sean Penn has agreed to direct Into the Wild. The project is based on Penn's adaptation of Jon Krakauer's bestseller.

Emile Hirsch will portray Christopher McCandless, who graduated from college in 1992, abandoned his possessions and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness and return to nature. He died four months later in an abandoned bus at a remote campsite reports Variety. Penn hasn't directed a film since 2001's The Pledge.

Director signs up for Narnia sequel

Narnia director Andrew Adamson has signed a deal to direct the sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.The principal cast is also coming back, as is producer Mark Johnson, says the Hollywood Reporter. A screenplay is not yet written but production is scheduled to begin this year with a release planned for Christmas 2007.Prince Caspian is the second book in the seven-book series written by C.S. Lewis. It finds the children pulled back into the land of Narnia, where 400 years have passed since they left.

They must struggle to overthrow a usurping king named Miraz and restore the rightful heir to the throne, the young Prince Caspian.The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, has earned a massive Ł360 million worldwide so far.

Full canvas for 'Anamorph' thriller

Scott Speedman, Peter Stormare and Clea DuVall have joined Willem Dafoe in the in! die psychological thriller "Anamorph."Dafoe plays a detective haunted by a serial-killer case, who returns to his job five years later with a rookie partner (Speedman). When he discovers that his new case might have been perpetrated by a killer emulating the previous "Uncle Eddie" murders, the detective's flashbacks begin to get the better of him, leading him to question his earlier conclusions.

Stormare will play an art gallery owner, and DuVall will play an ex-junkie and former prostitute befriended by Dafoe's character. The film's title and plot line are derived from the term "anamorphic," used to describe a painting where two perspectives can be seen on one canvas from different viewpoints.

Kilmer and Washington to go back in time

Val Kilmer and Denzel Washington have agreed to play time-travelling FBI agents in new movie Deja Vu.Kilmer and Washington's characters step back in time to stop a terrorist from blowing up a ferry.

The film will shooting next month in New Orleans, Louisiana reports Teen Hollywood.

Sarandon playing wicked queen in Disney fairy tale

Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon will star as a wicked queen intent on destroying true love in "Enchanted," a Walt Disney Pictures fairy tale that will blend animation and live action.

Sarandon has signed on to play Queen Narissa opposite a star-crossed princess (Amy Adams of "Junebug") and prince (James Marsden).The story centers on a princess-in-waiting who is banished from a classical animation world by a vainglorious queen and dumped into a modern-day, live-action Manhattan.

Daniel Day-Lewis puts 'Blood' on track

Daniel Day-Lewis is set to play a pioneering Texas oil prospector in "There Will Be Blood," a sprawling period piece that filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson has spent several years writing.

Anderson, whose most recent film was 2002's Adam Sandler vehicle "Punch-Drunk Love," is in advanced talks to produce and direct the project. The story is loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "Oil!"Budgeted at more than $25 million, "Blood" will be jointly financed and distributed by Paramount's newly minted specialty films division and Miramax Films, according to Paramount specialty division president John Lesher.

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