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That's right. Kate Bosworth finally has someone to bury her in After.Life, the film she was negotiating to star in earlier this year. In January, I alerted you to her involvement in the project, and in February, Chris Ullrich shared the film's ghostly poster. Now iF Magazine says that Alfred Molina is her co-star, and we're all assuming that makes him the funeral director who buries her. What originally seemed like a possible movie-to-ignore has just gotten a little sweeter. I'm still not big on Bosworth Boos, but a good director (Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo) and a little Oc can definitely change my mind. Look at those eyes -- they're crazy!

With the cast in place, the search is on for the ideal, creepy funeral home in upstate New York. What they're looking for: "Preferably brick or aged stone - the house should be stately and old (e.g. Second Empire of Gothic Revival) with a sense of timelessness, history and permanence. It should be tall (at least two stories) with interesting architectural details (e.g. gables, mansard roof). The house should feel masculine with gravitas and understated elegance. It should be semi-secluded with a prominent front door and driveway. Surrounding large grounds a plus." Okay, now I'm not sure how many of you readers have traveled through upstate New York, but there is one house that is just screaming to be the IT locale.

Skene Manor. It is a sinister-as-hell house that is perched up on a hill. It's definitely got the architectural details and all the creepiness needed for a ghost story. Hell, it has its own eerie tale as well. While it was built by a Judge Potter in the 1860's, it became synonymous with the famous Skene family. Years ago, I had dinner there when it was a restaurant, and there's an old legend that Mrs. Skene was a woman with money and that after her death, her husband Philip would only continue to receive money if her remains were kept "above ground." To cash in, the restaurant created a fake coffin behind the bar, with a hand sticking out. After struggling to bring it back to its glory after it fell into disrepair in the '90's, I think some good, Hollywood money is just the thing the Manor needs. And really, is any place more perfect?

Kate Bosworth is slowly staking out her piece of Hollywood as she wracks up a film or two a year. She's had a number of fictional turns from surfer babe in Blue Crush to winning a date with Tad Hamilton. At the same time she's also taken a little bit of yin and yang in the biopic world, having both starred as Sandra Dee in Kevin Spacey's Beyond the Sea, and as Dawn Schiller, John Holmes' teen paramour, in Wonderland. And, obviously, she took on the famous Lois Lane for Superman Returns.

Now the flaxen-haired actress is zeroing in on a deal to star in After.Life, the first feature film for Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, which Erik Davis first mentioned in August. The film follows a woman who is somehow stuck between life and death, but is about to be buried by a funeral director. If she's not alive, nor dead, I'm not sure how she can fight to not be buried. However, considering the strangeness that is Wojtowicz-Vosloo's short film, Pâté, which is like a mash-up of David Lynch and Baz Luhrman, I'm sure there will be some sort of other-worldly logic to be applied. The film already has a cinematographer in two-time Oscar nominee John Mathieson, whose work I particularly like in Plunkett & Macleane. Production will begin later in the year, and I'm sure in the upcoming months we'll have more information on the film, and if Bosworth seals the deal. Honestly, for all the quirk of Pâté, I'm not sure how Bosworth fits in a surreal world. She seems a bit to, for lack of a better word, vanilla for a strange landscape, unless this will be a much more subdued cinematic offering.