This month for OBS YA Book Club we reading ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins. If you are a fan than you know that Lions Gate Entertainment had acquired the rights for the film adaptation, and we want to know who you think should play the heroine, Katniss Everdeen. Below is a list of some of the most popular candidates for the role, but if we missed someone please leave us a comment with your suggestion!

“Who would you like to see play Katniss Everdeen in the movie adaptation of ’The Hunger Games’? 

Camilla Belle

AnnaSophia Robb

Emma Roberts

Kat Dennings

Emily Browning

Jodelle Ferland

You can VOTE right here on the News Blog, just look to your right >> and under “POLLS” is the question along with the answers, just click one and view the results!!

If you would like to discuss this more, and give your reasons why you choose who you did, please come join the fun debate on the OBS Forums.

Also check back with OBS every Wednesday, and get to answer the “Poll of Week”!!

Want to view the results of our previous polls, like who was named the “Favorite True Blood Character”, “Favorite Wolf-pack member”, or “Who is your favorite Vampire”? You can check them out HERE

Source: hollywoodnews

CASTING FOR STEPHENIE MEYERS THE HOST

Auditions are being held for a feature-film adaptation of “The Host,” a novel by “Twilight” scribe Stephenie Meyer.

As Hollywood tries to keep up with the runaway train that is the “Twilight” saga, Chockstone Pictures and Nick Wechsler Productions have snapped up the right to “Host” and have hired Andrew Niccol to direct. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of “The Truman Show” also helmed “Gattaca” and “Lord of War.” He’s aiming to have “Host” in theaters in 2011.

Read more here…

Source: io9

RIDLEY SCOTT PLANS TWO ALIEN PREQUELS

Ridley Scott won’t have enough room in just oneAlien prequel to would solve the mystery behind the infamous Space Jockey and chill us all over again. He’s decided there should be two prequels, both of them in 3-D.

While director Scott has been doing his interview rounds for Robin Hood, tons of Alien prequel items have been spilling out of him.

Read more here…

Source: collider

JON FAVREAU INTERVIEW ON SET OF IRON MAN 2

Interview:

Jon Favreau: [In regards to the set]  Have you seen it?  Or just through the screen?

Question:  Just through the screen.  We’ve heard about the floor though.

Favreau: We’ll let you see the floor.  You can’t really walk on it.  Well, you can, but it’s not set up.  But [Tony Starks] environment in this one, remember how we had… you saw Iron Man right?

Yeah [Laughing].

Favreau: We were playing at the very end… we were shooting at the very end, it was in the middle or the beginning of the movie where he was doing some work with interactive holograms.  Holographs?  What do ya call it?  Holographs I guess.  But that was just something we did as an afterthought that we animated into it, it was pretty cool.  And as a matter of fact, we were contacted by, where’s Jeremy [looking for one of the guys on set]… Jeremy?  What happened with the holographs, that we were doing the holograph manipulations and we got contacted by a military contractor?

Jeremy:  Oh yeah, a company out of Austin, that has the DARPA contract called us, and they were like, ‘We would like to license the images from the movie for our presentation, because we’ve been working on this technology for seven years…’ [Laughing], ‘We can’t make it look that cool, but we want to show the Government what we want to do…’.  So we licensed them the images and they use them in their presentation now.

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How many Alien fans are excited about the upcoming Alien Prequels?

What did you think of the Favreau interview?

ZOE SALDANA ON AVATAR

Source: Future Movies

Zoe Saldana has appeared in a variety of movie genres including thrillers, comedies and action adventures with film appearances in Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl, Death At A Funeral and Vantage Point. However, it’s her sci-fi roles in Star Trek and Avatar for which she is most renowned . With Avatar about to be released on DVD, we chat to the actress about her groundbreaking blue movie…

I cannot wait to see her in The Losers and I am so hoping Uhura gets more to do in the next Star Trek. Is she your new fave action heroine?

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Resident Evil Movie Director Ready To Develop Games

Source: Kotaku

Paul W.S. Anderson is famous for two things: Being Mr. Milla Jovovich and making movies based on video games. He’s now keen to spread his wings and create video games.

“In the future,” the filmmaker told MTV News, “I want to be developing intellectual properties that will occupy both spaces simultaneously.” Anderson has brought survival horror series Resident Evil and fighting game Mortal Kombat to the big screen.

He wants to do a Buck Rogers video game – what do you think? Is that a title you would want to see as a new game? Or something that Anderson should do?

READ MORE HERE.

THE WORLD WAR Z MOVIE: STILL NOT DEAD

Source: io9.com

The author of this oral history of the zombie apocalypse, Max Brooks, confirms that the film adaptation is still very much alive — or very much undead.

One of the most anticipated book-to-film projects currently in Hollywood development, World War Z hasn’t been in the news as of late — and that absence might lead zombiphiles to question whether we’ll ever see a movie. Author Max Brooks seeks to calm those fears, even while admitting that Z isn’t a cheap nut to crack. In an interview with FearNet, Brooks said:…

Delays are never good right? I hope this title makes it, Marc Forster still wants to director so this could be a really great translation from book to screen.

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STRETCH ARMSTRONG MOVIE GETS A WRITER AND DIRECTOR

Source: about.com

Universal Pictures announced they’ve signed up Rob Letterman (co-director of Monsters vs Aliens) to direct Stretch Armstrong, the film based on the once popular Hasbro stretchy toy. And Universal also said they’ve brought Nicholas Stoller on board to do a rewrite of Steve Oederkerk’s original screenplay.

Letterman and Stoller just finished up working together on 20th Century Fox’s Gulliver’s Travels (starring Jack Black and Emily Blunt) which Letterman directed and Stoller rewrote. And Stoller recently finished writing/directing Get Him to the Greek, a spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall – another film he co-wrote and directed.

I hesitate at any movie based on a toy, but with this director and writer, there might be hope for this? What do you think?

READ MORE HERE.

TEN MOVIES THAT SHOULD NEVER GET SEQUELS

Source: io9.com

It’s a Hollywood rule: If a movie does well, make a sequel. Occasionally it works — Aliens, The Road Warrior, Dawn of the Dead — but too often it leads to disaster. Here are 10 that should be left alone.

I agree with that list SO much. Sometimes successful movies should just be left alone.

READ MORE HERE.

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Source: usatoday

Author Seth Grahame-Smith launched a phenomenon with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, his clever twist on the Jane Austen classic. (Grahame-Smith’s follow-up, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, was released this month.)

The success of Zombies has been so huge that a film adaptation is in the works. In May, Del Rey takes the franchise a step further with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel.

Read more here…

This would make for an amazing graphic novel. I will be putting this on my must get list.  I am also looking forward to reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Are you a fan of these books? Which have you read? Tell us about your thoughts on the novel. Leave a comment.