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Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver | Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro

In Crimson Peak, Mia Wasikowska plays Edith, a young American writer living in the late 1800s with her industrialist father (Jim Beaver). He is approached by Tom Hiddleston’s English gentleman Sir Thomas Sharpe to invest in a motorised clay extraction machine, designed to mine the mountain of blood red clay upon which the Sharpe family home resides. Sharpe’s weird sister, Lady Lucille (Jessica Chastain) has travelled with him in their efforts to woo investors, but it’s Edith that ends up in thrall to Sir Thomas and, after a few spoilery plot happenings, they marry and return to the Sharpe country pile.

Did I mention that Edith can see ghosts? That’s important (or is it?). She has previously been haunted by her long dead mother and upon her arrival in England,...

Steal me maybe...or maybe not? Carly Rae Jepsen is seeing that success sometimes has its downside. The Canadian crooner is on the receiving end of a copyright infringement suit filed by a fellow recording artist and producer who claimed she ripped off her sexually suggestive Christmas song and used it as the basis for Jepsen's infectious hit, "Call Me Maybe." Per the complaint set to be filed today in federal court in Los Angeles, Ukrainian popster Aza accused Jepsen of borrowing elements from her tune "Hunky Santa" off her album High Speed for "Call Me Maybe," which Aza claimed was a derivative work. "I'm shocked and surprised that these people wanted...

CANNES -- Dan Ireland's Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont has turned into a bit of a sleeper market hit at Cannes, with the BBC picking up TV rights from Cineville International. Video and theatrical rights are being negotiated separately, with the film rumored to be an entry at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Rialto has acquired all rights for Australia and New Zealand as well as taking the rights for the Cineville production and Sundance official selection entry Steal Me. Gilad has picked up all rights for Israel, while Mexico's Kurt Hollander took all rights on Mrs. Palfrey and the market debuts Carambola and Justine: A Woman for Sale. Italy, Canada and the U.K. are in negotiations.

Steal Me, a family drama directed by Melissa Painter, will open the seventh annual Method Fest independent film festival April 1 at Edwards Grand Palace Stadium 6 Cinemas in Calabasas, Calif. The festival, which runs through April 8, will screen 25 films, including nine world premieres, plus 47 selected shorts. Screenings will take place at the Grand Palace Stadium 6 and the Louis B. Mayer Theatre on the Motion Picture and Television Fund's Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills. Jim Wilson's coming-of-age drama Whirlygirl will serve as the fest's centerpiece film, and its star Monet Mazur will receive the Rising Star Award. Susanne Bier's Brothers, which took home the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in January, will serve as the closing-night film. Other awards to be presented during the course of the fest include the Indie Hero Award to Jena Malone, the Maverick Award to Crispin Glover and the Family Legacy Award to the Bridges family: Jeff, Beau and their late father, Lloyd. Sean Astin and Fritz Coleman will host the closing-night awards ceremony.