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Amy Smart and Ryan Kwanten Book Flight ‘7500’
Bloody Disgusting received exclusive word that Amy Smart (pictured inside) and Ryan Kwanten (above) are both in talks to land lead roles in CBS Films’ 7500 (formerly Flight 7500), the claustrophobic thriller to be directed by Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge, Marebito).
The project’s based on a pitch from Shimizu and “is set on a transpacific airliner from Los Angeles to Tokyo where the passengers encounter what seems to be a supernatural force.”
Smart would play a passenger flight attendant “Laura Baxter” if cast. She has starred in genre films such as The Butterfly Effect, Seventh Moon and Mirrors. Kwanten is coming off “True Blood” and also Joe Lynch’s The Knights of Badassdom. He also toplined Saw director James Wan’s Dead Silence.
Taka Ichise (The Grudge, Shutter) and Roy Lee (The Ring, The Departed, Pacific Rim) produce. 
A bedtime lullaby soothes an unsettling newborn in our exclusive clip from Nightborn, from Hatching filmmaker Hanna Bergholm.
The dark fable makes its debut on Shudder on July 31.
Seidi Haarla (Compartment No. 6) and Rupert Grint (Knock at the Cabin, “Servant”) star as new parents in Nightborn, and this exclusive clip highlights mom’s harrowing transition into motherhood.
In Nightborn, “With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But as soon as their baby is born, despite the reassurance of all around her, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong with her son. As their marriage starts to crack, Jon struggles to support his wife, but only Saga suspects the terrible truth about her newborn.”
Pamela Tola, Pirkko Saisio, Rebecca Lacey and John Thomson also star.
Bergholm teased of her maternal horror movie, “In Nordic countries, there’s a long-standing mythology of trolls living in the forests. In ancient times, people truly believed that trolls inhabited the woods and had a kind of control over nature. And in Nightborn, the forest reflects Saga’s emotions and the animalistic, primitive physical side of humankind.”
“Hanna Bergholm’s audacious sophomore follow up to Hatching delivers tension and shocking moments surrounding parenthood and self discovery — with a touch of humor,” said Emily Gotto, senior vice president of acquisitions and production at Shudder. “We are thrilled to share Nightborn with audiences.”