Daily news dose: Iliadis to direct 'Cure;' three more join 'Greenberg'

Here's your dose of film news for March 13, 2009:

• Dennis Iliadis, director of "The Last House on the Left," is set to helm "Cure," a thriller centering on a woman who undergoes a special treatment that cures her terminal illness but infects her with something horrific. Beau Michael Thorne wrote the script. (Variety)

• Joe Stillman is set to write "Alien Zoo," a family comedy Variety describes as a "Jurassic Park" with aliens. The film will mix live-action and CGI. Stillman's writing credits include "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America," the first two "Shrek" flicks and the upcoming animated film "Planet 51."

• Blackfilm.com reports Columbus Short will join the cast of Sylvain White's big-screen adaptation of the DC-Vertigo comic book “The Losers." The story follows a team of black ops commandos trying to survive are after learning their own government has planned to kill them.

• Rhys Ifans, Brie Larson and Juno Temple have boarded Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg." Ben Stiller is also on board. Stiller plays a man who moves to Los Angeles, where he ends up having a relationship with his brother's assistant (Greta Gerwig). (Variety)