Brittany Murphy, seen on the set of the yet-to-be released film Abandoned in June, died suddenly on Sunday. A DVD rental company is pulling morbid promotional images of the young actor for a recent horror title, Deadline. (Hybrid Productions/Associated Press) A U.S. movie rental chain is pulling promotional artwork for a new horror film featuring Brittany Murphy after the young Hollywood actor died in her home last weekend.

Rental chain Redbox confirmed on Wednesday a plan to remove all posters and box cover artwork for the direct-to-DVD thriller Deadline by Jan. 1.

The title, which the company began offering on Dec. 1, stars the late Murphy as a screenwriter who stays in a haunted mansion in an attempt to finish a script.

In the morbid promotional images, the actress is posed, ashen-faced and seemingly lifeless, in a bathtub.

"We will continue to carry her film, but we will not be featuring the box art," a Redbox spokeswoman told media.

The company operates a website and thousands of kiosks and locations across the U.S., and had also advertised the film with large outdoor posters in some regions.

Discovered in bathroom by family

On Sunday, the actress collapsed in the bathroom of her Hollywood-area home and was later pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles officials cited cardiac arrest in her death and an autopsy was conducted on Monday. The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office is awaiting the results of toxicology and other tests in the coming weeks before it releases an official cause of death.

A funeral for Murphy is to be held Thursday, and she will be laid to rest at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills cemetery, according to a spokesman for her husband. The funeral will be by invitation only.

A larger memorial service may be held next year.

Murphy rose to fame with a key role in the teen comedy Clueless and as the voice of the dim-witted but kind Luanne Platter on TV's long-running animated series King of the Hill.

Murphy also appeared in the films 8 Mile, Girl, Interrupted, Sin City, Just Married and Happy Feet, and had recently completed a handful of films that have yet to be released, including the action title The Expendables, the thriller Abandoned and mystery film Something Wicked.