iTunes Movie Trailers has a first look at the trailer for Anchor Bay Films' After.Life , starring Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson and Justin Long.

Tribeca Enterprises announced today the launch of their new alternative marketing and distribution branch Tribeca Film, which plans to acquire and distribute independent films across multiple platforms including Video on Demand launching concurrently with the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival on April 21 with day-and-date screenings of seven of the 10 feature titles on their roster. Two days later, on April 23, Tribeca Film will kick off the first-ever Tribeca Film Festival Virtual (TFFV) with the premiere of the new film from filmmaker Edward Burns, Nice Guy Johnny , which will be available online at the same time as its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Tim Burton ( Alice in Wonderland ) and Timur Bekmambetov ( Wanted ) are teaming to produce a big screen adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's new book "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," which was released in stores today. Lionsgate previously picked up the film rights to the author's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , which Natalie Portman is attached to star in and David O.Russell is circling to direct.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has come on to star alongside Seth Rogen in Summit Entertainment and Mandate Pictures' untitled comedy . The studio says that Levitt has replaced James McAvoy "as he has left the production due to unrelated circumstances beyond his control."

ComingSoon.net has received exclusive photos from mystery-thriller Stolen , starring Jon Hamm ("Mad Men"), Josh Lucas, James Van Der Beek, Jimmy Bennett, Jessica Chastain, Rhona Mitra and Joanna Cassidy. The film will be available on VOD tomorrow and is opening in New York on March 12th and in Los Angeles on March 19th.

Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has been arrested by security forces in his Tehran home, according to reports from an opposition website.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York is to pay tribute to late filmmaker Allan King, maker of Warrendale and A Married Couple, in a retrospective this March.

Justin Timberlake has joined the cast of Columbia Pictures' comedy Bad Teacher starring along with Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, and Lucy Punch, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. Eric Stonestreet from "Modern Family" and Molly Shannon have also joined the cast of the comedy, which centers on an irreverent middle school teacher.

Nicholas Chartier, one of four producers of the Oscar-nominated The Hurt Locker, has come under fire for flouting a rule prohibiting direct lobbying of Academy members.

Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley is dissociating herself from her latest film, slated to air in Canada during the upcoming Academy Award broadcast.