The Box: First Preview

Based on the 1970 short story "Button, Button" by author Richard Matheson, comes a new horror film which will mark as the first time effort for Cameron Diaz to be the main cast in a horror film along with James Marsden. The film is written and directed by Richard Kelly with the production has began since November 2007 and concluded in February 2008. The film is set for release in March 2009, but in the latest update, the film has been delayed to 6 November 2009 release date. The plot is set in Raleigh, North Carolina in the year 1976. An unhappily married couple (Diaz and Marsden) receive a box from a mysterious stranger (Langella), who tells them that pushing a button on the box will award them with a large monetary sum, and simultaneously, someone the couple does not know will die. The project was funded with a budget of over $30 million by Media Rights Capital. Kelly described his intent for the film, "My hope is to make a film that is incredibly suspenseful and broadly commercial, while still retaining my artistic sensibility."