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"And you have the record for frowning." AHAHAHAHAHA.

Also, the Jasper stuff.

Okay. I didn't see Eclipse, so I just Googled "edward cullen tambourine" to make sure that there wasn't actually a tambourine scene. There wasn't, right? Because if there was, clearly I'm going to have to watch it.

From Screen Daily:

Chloe Grace Moretz will star in the studio’s YA adaptation The 5th Wave that Graham King and Tobey Maguire are producing.

Regardless, this news gives merit to my hypothesis that ChloMor, JLaw, and ShaiWood are currently the only actresses working in YA Hollywood.

Oh, my. THAT MOVIE IS GOING TO BE A SOBFEST.

I'm just going to go ahead and let Jeremy speak for himself:

Well, then. Glad to know I wasn't missing anything!

From an interview about Chronicles of Riddick:

I was literally playing Dungeons and Dragons with Judi Dench and Karl Urban at nights after shooting. I will tell you that I was showing her Dungeons and Dragons books and showing her the different properties of Elementals.

Picturing that scene is just so adorable that I can't even.

Speaking of Karl Urban, WHAT THE HELL, FOX, WHY WON'T YOU JUST RENEW ALMOST HUMAN ALREADY??

From Reuters:

Moonbot Studios announced today that it will acquire film rights to the Olivia Kidney trilogy of young adult books by award-winning author Ellen Potter. The series is published by Philomel (a division of Penguin/Putnam). Moonbot plans to develop Olivia’s Alice in Wonderland-like adventures as a live action film with significant animation sequences. The film rights deal was handled by David Lipman and Michael Siegel for Moonbot and for Ellen Potter by Alice Tasman and Jennifer Weltz of Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency.

If the movie happens, hopefully the books will finally get the attention that they deserve. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

...and yes, some of it is in black and white:

I'm still feeling EXTREMELY skeptical. It just looks way... flashier than I ever pictured the book.

Almost at the first goal, eeeeeeeeee!

(Via Adam)

OH MY GOD I CAN'T WAIT I'M DYINGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

Oh, man. It's going to be a gory spring.

From EW:

“The book is uniquely structured in that one chapter is told by Eleanor and one chapter is told from Park’s perspective, and they alternate,” Bario points out. “So we’re trying to figure out how to do that in a movie. There are all storts of groovy stylistic things you could do with voice over, or words on the screen, but we want something that’s real Rainbow.”

With that in mind, Rowell – who is repped by UTA — has also been hired to write the screenplay. “She’s in the middle of writing another book, so we’re patiently waiting for her,” Bario said.

At the NYT:

That is when Warner announced that Ms. Rowling had agreed to adapt for the big screen her “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” a 2001 book billed as one of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts textbooks. Three megamovies are planned. The main character will be a “magizoologist” named Newt Scamander. The stories, neither prequels or sequels, will start in New York about seven decades before the arrival of Mr. Potter and his pals.

At the Atlantic:

More importantly, Star Wars encapsulates a pop-culture tradition of space operas that can easily invent spaceships and robots and aliens, but that helplessly acquiesce to old, stereotypical treatments of gender and race. Why does that matter? Sci-fi is at least in part a dream of a different world and a different future. When that future unthinkingly reproduces current inequities, it seems like both a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.

Riveting:

Previously.

...and yet.

From Deadline:

After completing its adaptation of the John Green novel The Fault In Our Stars, Fox 2000 has made a deal for the 2008 Green novel Paper Towns, and it is working on bringing bring back together not only the producers and the screenwriters for another go but also one of the stars. Paper Towns will be built around actor-singer Nat Wolff, who co-stars in The Fault In Our Stars and stars in the upcoming Palo Alto. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber are going to adapt, and Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen are producing. The scribes will be exec producers along with Green.

I lost hours to this game over the weekend. 

HOURS.

(So far, my top score is 6212. BUT I WILL IMPROVE IT, BY GEORGE.)

Hrrrrrrrrrm.

• The 2014 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist has been released, and HEAVENS TO BETSY, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF LADIES ON IT.
• At the Guardian: Sofia Coppola to direct live-action Little Mermaid adaptation. And yes, they're going with the original, depressing, tragic-ass ending.
• Book trailer: William Shakespeare's Star Wars: The Empire Striketh Back!
• Lots of YA in the third Humble Bundle eBook Bundle, including Holly Black, Cory Doctorow, Scott Westerfeld, and the Zombies vs. Unicorns anthology.
• Speaking of good YA, dirt cheap: the Kindle version of Terry Farish's The Good Braider is $1.99 today.
• Mashable: The 25 Best Tumblr Accounts for Book Nerds.
• Yet another March Madness Event: the Tournament of Sidekicks. LAUNCHPAD MCQUACK!
• I really loved Midwinterblood, but Mac Barnett's takedown of it is hilarious. (And his reasoning is both sound and convincing.)
• Want a Doctor Who Lego set?
• New fave Pinterest board: Pointlessly Gendered Products. Fairy Hearts... SAUSAGES. Also, Diva vegetables. I don't even.

From the Guardian:

Best-selling American author Kevin Trudeau, whose name became synonymous with late-night TV pitches, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for swindling consumers through infomercials for his book about weight loss.

As he imposed the sentence prosecutors had requested, district judge Ronald Guzman portrayed 50-year-old Trudeau as a habitual fraudster from early adulthood. So brazen was Trudeau, the judge said, he once even used his own mother's social security number during a scam.

At BBC Radio:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game - 30th Anniversary Edition.

Oh, man.

I played this game SO MANY TIMES in elementary school—in speech therapy, of all places, while the teacher tried to help me get rid of my GINORMOUS LISP—but I never succeeded in beating it.

Ah, good times.

• Rose Doctors: A Summary of Events Surrounding Tom Milsom and Subsequent Revelations.
• The Fangirl: Don't Forget To Be A Sexual Predator! The YouTube/DFTBA Sexual Abuse Scandal!
• The Fangirl: The Youtube/Nerdfighter Sexual Abuse Scandal Update!
• Carrie Mesrobian: This Is Very Upsetting. "Hank Green’s video, “Sex, Consent & Culture” is way too glib to be of much help when it comes to a) consent b) sexual abuse and its complicated cultural components."
• A Chair, A Fireplace & a Tea Cozy: Power and Policies and Ages. "I could write about so many parts of this: power dynamics, sexuality, emotional growth. Instead, I urge you to follow the links to read the stories of the teenage girls, in their own words, as they grew up and realized the manipulation and abuse that was happening."
• And there's a HUGE round-up of related links at Unpleasant Myles.
• Another one at Erika Lynae.

Previously.