Here’s a little catch up on Amber Heard’s upcoming projects:

• According to Fangoria, And Soon the Darkness will see a theatrical release in February 2011, with a DVD to follow; Studio Canal, which co-produced and co-financed the film, is handling foreign distribution.

• Film School Rejects is reporting that, according to Aaron Eckhart, The Rum Diary has also been pushed back to 2011. Eckhart sounded pretty unsure about the release date, and he had this to say:

“I don’t know. I heard next year that’s [when] it’s going to come out. Johnny is making Pirates of the Caribbean and I think that he’s too busy to promote something right now. He’s working in Hawaii. I think they’re going to wait to put it out next year.”

• Check out the official Ward website at TheWardMovie.com – but you might want to stay away from the synopsis, which is pretty spoilery.

• Lastly, The Joneses will be released on DVD in the UK on August 16. I have pre-ordered my copy and will be making DVD screencaps of Amber’s role as soon as I receive it.

Anchor Bay Films has acquired North American rights to Marcos Efron’s remake of the 1970 British thriller And Soon The Darkness starring Amber Heard in a reported seven-figure deal.

Odette Yustman, Karl Urban and Adriana Barraza also star in the story about two girls whose bike tour through a remote part of Argentina becomes a terrifying ordeal after one of them goes missing. Jennifer Derwingson co-wrote the screenplay with Efron.

StudioCanal is handling international sales here and co-produced and co-financed with Abandon Pictures in the parties’ first collaboration. Karen Lauder, Lizzie Friedman and Deborah Marinoff Marcus produced and Heard co-produced.

One of Amber’s upcoming movies I’m really looking forward to is And Soon The Darkness. While I didn’t love the original, I’m looking forward to some stunning locations and Amber is also taking her first stab at producing with this film.

Today on the movie’s Facebook, a new still was added. I added it, as well as some behind the scenes pics to the gallery.

And Soon The Darkness follows two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and after one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst fears are realized.

Have a look at the first stills and a detailed synopsis for Amber Heard’s upcoming film And Soon the Darkness, courtesy of Bloody Disgusting. According to the synopsis, Amber’s character is called Ellie and it is actually her character who disappears, not Odette Yustman’s Stephanie, as earlier speculated.

Hopefully a trailer and release information will soon be released for And Soon the Darkness.

Being chased and terrorized by a rage-driven psychopath around and under a house would seem to be a pretty stressful situation, even if it’s just for a movie. But for Amber Heard, the young actress who co-stars in Screen Gems’ new remake of The Stepfather, it was all in a day’s work. “You know, it’s just like any aspect of my job,” she says of taking part in such cinematic mayhem. “It could be very weird, but because it’s so weird so often, it becomes very, very…unweird, if that makes sense. My job is funny that way, in that I come to set every day and there are plenty of crazy things going on. That’s not really one of them that sticks out.”

This statement won’t surprise anyone who has been following Heard’s career over the last few years. After attracting a wealth of positive attention in the title role of the slasher opus All The Boys Love Mandy Lane—albeit largely at festivals, since a commercial U.S. release remains stalled by distributor Senator Entertainment’s money problems—she has been all over the horror scene lately. She cuddles up to Jesse Eisenberg and then tries to eat his flesh in the current hit Zombieland, just wrapped a starring role in John Carpenter’s latest chiller The Ward and not only acted but served as a producer on another recently lensed redux, And Soon The Darkness.

And Soon the Darkness, which is currently in post-production, is being promoted at the Cannes Film Festival. The festival is about to kick off and we’ve just received our first look at the film’s poster. I personally think it looks pretty cool and atmospheric. I think that this will turn out to be a good one. Hopefully we’ll hear something new about the film during Cannes because news have been rather scarce to date.

The darkness has claimed two more souls.

Karl Urban and Oscar nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel) have been cast in the thriller remake And Soon the Darkness. They join Amber Heard and Odette Yustman in an update of the 1970 thriller, directed by first-timer Marcos Efron.

Abandon Pictures and StudioCanal are financing the project. Lizzie Friedman, Karen Lauder, Deborah Marcus and Chris Clark are producing. Flora Fernandez is executive producing, and Heard is co-producing.

The Argentina-set thriller follows two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of the country. When one of them disappears, the other must find her before darkness falls and her worst fears are realized. The film is shooting on location in Argentina; the original was set in France.

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I can hardly believe it! Miss Heard has booked herself another amazing sounding project! Amber and Odette Yustman have signed on to star in And Soon the Darkness, a remake of the 1970 British thriller being co-produced and co-financed by Studio Canal.

Heard also is making her first foray into producer territory, acting as a co-producer on the film, which marks the feature directorial debut of commercials helmer Marcos Efron. How cool is that!

Set in Argentina, Darkness tells the story of two American girls on a bike-riding trip in a remote part of the country. When one of them goes missing, the other must find her before darkness falls and her worst fears are realized.

The original was set in France and tackled the idea of how vulnerable a stranger in a strange land can be.

The new Darkness will shoot in Argentina.

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