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)

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Ben Stiller will replace Mark Ruffalo in "Greenburg," a dramedy written and directed by Noah Baumbach, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

No official reasons have been given to explain Ruffalo's exit. The trade says Amy Adams, who was originally expected to star alongside Ruffalo, also had to drop the project.

Plot details are strictly kept under wraps, although the story may focus on relationships between characters similar to those of Baumbach's previous flicks.

Baumbach earned an Oscar nomination for "The Squid and the Whale." He most recently directed "Margot at the Wedding," and he also wrote the script for Wes Anderson's "The Fantastic Mr. Fox."

Stiller, who was last seen in "Tropic Thunder," will next star in "Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian."