Sissy Spacek’s performance in the 1976 film earned her a Best Actress nomination at the Oscars the following year.

Kimberly Peirce, who garnered critical acclaim for her 1999 film Boys Don’t Cry, will be directing the remake. The script was written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

Advocate reports that Jodie Foster and Julianne Moore are among the actresses being considered for the role of Carrie’s abusive mother, Margaret, played by Piper Laurie in the 1976 film.

Empire has the full line-up of character posters on their website. Check them out here.

Dark Shadows hits theaters on May 11, 2012.

Martin Scorsese’s Hugo led the list, with 11 nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Best Achievement in Art Direction, Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Costume Design, Best Achievement in Film Editing, Best Achievement in Sound Editing, Best Achievement in Sound Mixing, and Best Achievement in Visual Effects.

The 2012 Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, will air on February 26 on ABC.

The full list of nominees can be found here.

The drama centers around Luli (Moretz), “a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes her under her wing,” according to The Playlist.

Hick, based on Andrea Portes’ novel of the same name, will be featured at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

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The 14-year-old actress not only won one popcorn statue at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards – she won two!

She won Biggest Badass Star for her work as ‘Hit Girl’ in Kick-Ass and Best Breakout Star for Kick-Ass and Let Me In.

Check out the video below of Chloe in London – she’s overseas filming Tim Burton’s new gothic-horror tale Dark Shadows alongside Johnny Depp.

“Thank you soo much to everyone who voted for me at the @MTV #MovieAwards <3," Chloe tweeted. “i love my fans sooo much and can’t thank you all enough! xoxoxox.”

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He’s continuing that trend in a major way with his next feature film Dark Shadows, an adaptation of the 1960s supernatural soap opera. Aside from Depp, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, chameleon Michael Sheen, and Jackie Earle Haley who have already signed on to the film, this week Burton added probably the biggest under-16 star, Chloe Grace Moretz, to the impressive cast that just keeps growing and growing.

Moretz just wrapped up Hugo Cabret with legend Martin Scorsese and is in production on Hick with Alec Baldwin and Blake Lively. Not that we haven’t already been seeing a lot of Moretz, she even appeared on NBC’s 30 Rock a few weeks ago, but it’s safe to say she won’t be going anywhere for a while and that’s alright with me.

Dark Shadows goes into production later this month (moved from its original January start date) and without a doubt is a perfect fit for Burton and Johnny Depp, who has been trying to usher this project to the big screen for quite some time. Described as being “vividly melodramatic”, Shadows should be a perfect fit for the cast as well as Burton whose films always have an over-the-top flare to them. Even the original score has been called “overly adventurous” which plays perfectly into the style of Danny Elfman who will undoubtedly score Burton’s film once again. Expect big, big fun from Dark Shadows upon its release next year.

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The 13-year-old breakout star is making enough headlines to book a Martin Scorsese project, I Am Hugo Cabret.

Chloe shares with W magazine, “I was on the computer upstairs and the phone rang, and my mom went, ‘Chloë, come down here, your agent—your people—want to talk to you.’ When they told me, I was like, ‘Oh, my God! No way! This can’t be real right now!’ There I was in pajamas and my dad’s big shirt, and I booked a Martin Scorsese project.”

Martin’s admiration for Chloe is mirrored. “It doesn’t seem like—how should I put it?—a child acting. It doesn’t matter the age. She is an actor, above all. And a very, very good one,” he reveals

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