In today's Callbacks -- your daily roundup of casting news from Deal Central -- John Carpenter sinks his teeth into Hilary Swank, "Flypaper" stars Patrick Dempsey and Ashley Judd make friends and enemies, Jennifer Lawrence and Max Thieriot enter a scary home, Stephen Schiff gets Albert Einstein, DreamWorks lands a heist pitch, and Fox moves up the Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz movie "Knight and Day."
• John Carpenter will direct two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank in "Fangland," an adaptation of John Marks' 2008 novel, which is described as a 21st century reworking of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," with a dash of Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" thrown in for good measure.
Swank will play a TV news producer named Evangeline Harker who travels to Romania to investigate and interview the Balkan crime king Ion Torgu. Things inevitably go bump in the Transylvanian night.
Sriram Das and Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions are behind the project.
Carpenter has "The Ward" opening in September, starring Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Mamie Gummer and Jared Harris. He last directed two episodes of Showtime's "Masters of Horror," both written by the writing team of Drew McWeeny and Scott Swan.
• Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited has announced the supporting cast of Rob Minkoff's romantic comedy "Flypaper," which stars Patrick Dempsey and Ashley Judd.
Joining them will be Mekhi Phifer, Tim Blake Nelson, Jeffrey Tambor, Rob Huebel, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Octavia Spencer, John Ventimiglia, Matt Ryan, Greg Germann, Adrian Martinez and Curtis Armstrong, who will forever be known as Booger from "Revenge of the Nerds" here at Deal Central.
The story, written by "The Hangover" team of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, follows two groups of bank robberts who assault the same bank at the exact same time, and have to decide whether to kill each other or join forces to steal the bank's money. Dempsey plays a man caught in the middle of the simultaneous stick-ups who tries to protect the teller (Judd) with whom he's secretly in love.
Damon and Dempsey will produce with Peter Safran, while Joannie Burstein, Greg Walker, Tamara Stuparich De La Barra and Gudrun Giddings will exec produce.
Foresight is currently in post-production on Matthew Chapman's "The Ledge," which stars Liv Tyler, Charlie Hunnam, Patrick Wilson and Terrence Howard.
• Jennifer Lawrence and Max Thieriot will star in Mark Tonderai's horror-thriller "House at the End of the Street," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
FilmNation and A Bigger Boat are behind the project, which follows a teenage girl (Lawrence) who moves with her mom to a new town and learns that a brutal double murder was committed in the house across the street. She soon befriends the massacre's sole survivor (Thieriot), after which, things get a little weird.
The project is hoping to be to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" what "Disturbia" was to "Rear Window." I'm not sure whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but the comparison should help sell the film, whose title is a little too close to the recently remade "Last House on the Left."
