Cameron Diaz to Star in Horror Film

Cameron Diaz has just announced that she will be appearing in a new horror film called "The Box" that will be written and directed by Richard Kelly. The film, which is estimated to cost over $30 million, will be produced by Media Rights Capital and will begin filming this fall. It is based on a Richard Matheson story called "Button, Button" and will be aiming for a PG-13 rating. That is a shrewd marketing decision because practically every R-rated horror movie to have opened this year has bombed at the box-office; with less gore, the movie will be less likely to suffer the fate of "The Hills Have Eyes 2" and "Hostel II."

According to IGN.com, "the film casts Diaz as a young woman who is given a mysterious box by a stranger. She's told that certain things will happen depending on which buttons she presses." Kelly told Variety, "My hope is to make a film that is incredibly suspenseful and broadly commercial, while still retaining my artistic sensibility. I am especially excited to be working with Cameron Diaz, an actress I have always admired."