Cameron Diaz Joins Richard Kelly's the Box

Actress Cameron Diaz (Charlie's Angels, Shrek) has joined Donnie Darko Director Richard Kelly's horror film "The Box" says Coming Soon.

The film is about a young woman who is given a mysterious box by a stranger. She's told that certain things will happen depending on which buttons she presses. Diaz will play the young woman.

Cameron Diaz is a four-time Golden Globe-nominated American actress and former fashion model. She is perhaps best known for her roles in blockbuster movies such as The Mask, There's Something About Mary, My Best Friend's Wedding, Charlie's Angels, Shrek, Gangs Of New York, The Sweetest Thing, and In Her Shoes. Diaz is the second of two actresses (the other being Julia Roberts) to join the coveted "$20 Million Club" after receiving this salary for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

The film is written and directed by Richard Kelly, who wrote and directed the 2001 cult film "Donnie Darko". His next film after that, Southland Tales has yet to released and is undergoing additional FX work and editing. The released date should be sometime in early 2008.

Richard Kelly is an American film director and writer. Kelly grew up in Midlothian, Virginia where he attended Midlothian High School before getting a scholarship and moved to Southern California to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television, where he made two short films, The Goodbye Place and Visceral Matter, before graduating in 1997.

The movie is based on a short story by Richard Matheson (I am legend) called "Button, Button".

In the original short story, Norma Lewis is the wife of a down-and-out loser named Arthur One day, a smartly-dressed stranger comes to their door and hands them a special box. He says that if they press the button, they will receive a large sum of money - but someone elsewhere in the world will die; someone they don't even know.

The story was also made into a Twilight Zone episode in 1986.

According to Coming Soon, the budget for the film will be around $30 million and it will be entirely bankrolled by Media Rights Capital, who did the same with such films as Babel and Bruno.