Tomei and Bierko Star in New Film Danika

Craig Bierko and Regina Hall have been tapped to star alongside Marisa Tomei in the film Danika, a psychological drama by Roberts/David Films Inc. and Blue Omega.

Produced by Mark Robert and Lorena David of Roberts/David ("Strangers With Candy"), Dan Bickel, and executive produced by Blue Omega's Michael Urbansky, Danika will feature a screenplay by Joshua Leibner.  As the title character, Tomei will play a woman who is racked by premonitions for the safety of her children, while Bierko has been cast as her husband and Hall will play her psychiatrist and confidante, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Tomei, best known for her film work, starred in Wait Until Dark and in the title role of Salome on Broadway; she was also involved in early readings for the current Sweet Charity revival.  An Oscar-winner for My Cousin Vinny, she has also appeared on screen in Anger Management, In the Bedroom (for which she received an Oscar nod), What Women Want, Untamed Heart, and Chaplin, among others.

Bierko has appeared on Broadway in the 2000 revival of The Music Man (for which he was nominated as Best Actor in a Musical and won a Theatre World Award) and in Thou Shalt Not, a jazzy musicalization of Zola's Therese Raquin. He currently co-stars with Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger in Cinderella Man, and his other screen credits include and I'm With Lucy, The Thirteenth Floor, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Sour Grapes.

Hall's latest film is The Honeymooners, and she has appeared in all 3 Scary Movie films.  She had a guest starring role on Ally McBeal, with her other films including Malibu's Most Wanted and Disappearing Acts.