Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige said females heroes “already play major roles.”

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Oscar voters will have extra time to ponder their nomination ballots and final voting choices next year. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC announced Monday that next year’s 86th Annual Academy Awards will take place Sunday, March 2. While recent Oscars shows have been held on the last Sunday of February, that date next year already has been taken by the Closing Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. So rather than move ahead on the calendar, the Academy is shifting to March as it did to avoid the 2010 Olympics closer.

NEWSWIRE || BY: JULIE MILLER || AUGUST 24, 2011 01:00 PM EDT

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Wes Bentley is in negotiations to join the all-star cast of Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi movie Interstellar.

Bentley’s casting fills the final vacant slot in the Interstellar lineup, which already includes Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck and Topher Grace.

The script, by Nolan and his brother Jonathan Nolan, involves time travel and alternate dimensions and sees a group of explorers travel through a wormhole.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, as is Bentley’s character description, though insiders describe it as a meaty supporting role.

Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. are teaming on the big-budget tentpole that will be produced by Nolan, Emma Thomas and Lynda Obst. Jordan Goldberg is exec producing.

Bentley, who played Seneca in The Hunger Games, has quietly become one of the busiest actors in film. He appeared in eight films in 2012, including the mystery thriller Gone. He also co-stars in the upcoming Lovelace, which premiered at Sundance.

Last month, he was cast as the lead role Ryan Murphy’s new HBO pilot Open.

Bentley is repped by WME, Untitled Entertainment and Morris Yorn Barnes.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

By Adi Robertson on July 22, 2013 07:09 pm

Chuck Palahniuk is working on a comic book sequel to his era-defining novel Fight Club. Palahniuk confirmed the news on his official site today, saying he was in the early process of figuring out the best way to create and publish a series of graphic novels set ten years after the events of the first book. “Nowadays, Tyler is telling the story, lurking inside Jack, and ready to launch a comeback,” he wrote. “Jack is oblivious. Marla is bored. Their marriage has run aground on the rocky coastline of middle-aged suburban boredom. It’s only when their little boy disappears, kidnapped by Tyler, that Jack is dragged back into the world of Mayhem.” The news was first revealed at a panel at Comic-Con last week.

Palahniuk wasn’t specific about when we’ll see the first installment of the sequel, but he said it could be a while due to contractual obligations. However, “since the Fight Club sequel will appear serialized in graphic form, my book publisher might allow me to launch it earlier than 2015." Artist Gabor Kiss has adapted two Chuck Palahniuk novels into online comics, but this would be the first time Palahniuk has created an original work in the medium, though he’s expressed interest in comics before. It would also follow up a largely self-contained novel that, along with its film adaptation, became a major cultural touchstone at the turn of the 21st century. Which isn’t to say there’s no precedent: Stephen King will soon publish a sequel to his early novel The Shining, and Bret Easton Ellis' Lunar Park commented on the writing of cult classic American Psycho decades after the fact.

Source: The Verge