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NBC Cancels Once-Mighty Heroes

After four seasons on NBC, Heroes has been canceled, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Fall 2010 TV Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren’t?

The super-series averaged less than 5 million viewers in its latest season. The network had considered giving the Tim Kring-produced drama a few more episodes to wrap up storylines, but the cost of the show and NBC’s expanding fall slate led to Heroes’ cancelation. 

Report: NBC likely to cancel Heroes

I knew it.

Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone, upcoming X-Men: First Class), Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Abigail Breslin are all contenders for the lead role of Katniss Everdeen in Lionsgate’s adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, reports Variety. The trade says that Lawrence has generated the most interest from producers, though no offer has been made. Age is said to be an important factor as the character is described as a woman between 15 and 20. Lawrence is 20 while Steinfeld and Breslin are both 14. In The Hunger Games, a dystopic Capitol requires its twelve subjugated districts to pay tribute in the form of a teenage boy and girl who are forced to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. When Katniss Everdeen’s little sister is chosen in the lottery, Katniss volunteers to take her place. Although persevering through hardship is commonplace for Katniss, she must start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love in order to win the games and return home.  Once Lawrence signs a deal, they can begin to cast the role of Peeta, Katniss’ love interest.  I’d imagine a lot of young actors are calling their agents tonight.

Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone, upcoming X-Men: First Class), Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Abigail Breslin are all contenders for the lead role of Katniss Everdeen in Lionsgate’s adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, reports Variety.

The trade says that Lawrence has generated the most interest from producers, though no offer has been made. Age is said to be an important factor as the character is described as a woman between 15 and 20. Lawrence is 20 while Steinfeld and Breslin are both 14.

In The Hunger Games, a dystopic Capitol requires its twelve subjugated districts to pay tribute in the form of a teenage boy and girl who are forced to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. When Katniss Everdeen’s little sister is chosen in the lottery, Katniss volunteers to take her place. Although persevering through hardship is commonplace for Katniss, she must start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love in order to win the games and return home. 

Once Lawrence signs a deal, they can begin to cast the role of Peeta, Katniss’ love interest.  I’d imagine a lot of young actors are calling their agents tonight.

‘The Hunger Games’ trilogy to be made into four movies

Following the footsteps of Warner Brothers Pictures’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and Summit Entertainment’s “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn,” Lionsgate announced there will be four movies made from Suzanne Collin’s “The Hunger Games” novels.

It was an assumption that there will be three films based on the three novels in the series. However, the idea is entirely set in stone at this time.

The last book “Mockingjay” could possibly be divided to cover into two films.

“The property is generating tremendous buzz and excitement, and it all points to a major Lionsgate franchise in the making,” said Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer to an analysts’ call today.

Joe Drake, Liongate’s motion picture group president, said “The Hunger Games” is the highest-selling film offered for international sales during the Cannes Film Market.

“We have distributors who consider this as their big brand next year, the movie that can change their company,” said Drake.

This split the last book into two movies is becoming a fad nowadays, anyway, read more.

NASA announced Monday the discovery of Kepler-22b, the first planet the Kepler spacecraft has discovered in the habitable zone, an area with a distance from a star where temperatures will permit the existence of liquid water. The discovery of Kepler-22b, which is 600 light-years away from Earth, brings scientists one step closer to finding a planet that could possibly harbor life. “This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth’s twin,” Douglas Hudgins, Kepler program scientist said in a statement. “Kepler’s results continue to demonstrate the importance of NASA’s science missions, which aim to answer some of the biggest questions about our place in the universe.” Kepler-22b has several Earth-like characteristics: The new planet’s temperature is around 72 degrees Fahrenheit and its radius is 2.4 times Earth’s. The planet completely orbits its star, which is similar to our sun, every 290 days, just 75 days shy of an Earth year. Last week, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory announced the discovery of Kepler-21b, anew planet with a radius 1.6 times Earth’s. But unlike Kepler-21b, which is only about 3.7 million miles away from its sun and is therefore a scorching 2,960 degrees Fahrenheit, Kepler-22b is about 79 million miles from its sun, coming in at a pleasant 72 degrees. Still, NASA says it’s not yet clear if Kepler-22b is composed of rock, gas or liquid. Scientists use the Kepler spacecraft to discover new planets by analyzing extremely faint dips in light from far-away stars. These “dips” occur each time the planet passes between the Kepler and its sun, therefore obstructing the star’s light. In order for a planet to be confirmed, scientists must observe the celestial body orbit its sun three times. Since Kepler-22B takes 290 days to orbit its sun, it took nearly three Earth years for scientists to confirm that it was a planet.Steve Howell, a scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center who’s on the Kepler team, told The Huffington Post that scientists first noticed the a drop in light only days after Kepler was launched in 2009. “We were just real lucky,” Howell told HuffPost. “We saw the first hint of this three days after we started doing science operations right after launch.” According to CNN, the Kepler spacecraft has led to the identification of 2,326 planet candidates since its mission began. But the most thrilling discoveries are still to come. “It’s tremendously exciting,” Howell said, adding that the Kepler spacecraft continues to find planets more and more like Earth. “We’re moving out to orbital periods that are nearly and equal to the Earth, and that means very soon we’re going to be finding [planets] very near the earth, what we’d call true earth analogs. We’ll be there. We’ll be there probably within a year, very easily.”

NASA announced Monday the discovery of Kepler-22b, the first planet the Kepler spacecraft has discovered in the habitable zone, an area with a distance from a star where temperatures will permit the existence of liquid water.

The discovery of Kepler-22b, which is 600 light-years away from Earth, brings scientists one step closer to finding a planet that could possibly harbor life.

“This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth’s twin,” Douglas Hudgins, Kepler program scientist said in a statement. “Kepler’s results continue to demonstrate the importance of NASA’s science missions, which aim to answer some of the biggest questions about our place in the universe.”

Kepler-22b has several Earth-like characteristics: The new planet’s temperature is around 72 degrees Fahrenheit and its radius is 2.4 times Earth’s. The planet completely orbits its star, which is similar to our sun, every 290 days, just 75 days shy of an Earth year.

Last week, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory announced the discovery of Kepler-21b, anew planet with a radius 1.6 times Earth’s. But unlike Kepler-21b, which is only about 3.7 million miles away from its sun and is therefore a scorching 2,960 degrees Fahrenheit, Kepler-22b is about 79 million miles from its sun, coming in at a pleasant 72 degrees.

Still, NASA says it’s not yet clear if Kepler-22b is composed of rock, gas or liquid.

Scientists use the Kepler spacecraft to discover new planets by analyzing extremely faint dips in light from far-away stars. These “dips” occur each time the planet passes between the Kepler and its sun, therefore obstructing the star’s light. In order for a planet to be confirmed, scientists must observe the celestial body orbit its sun three times.

Since Kepler-22B takes 290 days to orbit its sun, it took nearly three Earth years for scientists to confirm that it was a planet.Steve Howell, a scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center who’s on the Kepler team, told The Huffington Post that scientists first noticed the a drop in light only days after Kepler was launched in 2009.

“We were just real lucky,” Howell told HuffPost. “We saw the first hint of this three days after we started doing science operations right after launch.”

According to CNN, the Kepler spacecraft has led to the identification of 2,326 planet candidates since its mission began.

But the most thrilling discoveries are still to come.

“It’s tremendously exciting,” Howell said, adding that the Kepler spacecraft continues to find planets more and more like Earth. “We’re moving out to orbital periods that are nearly and equal to the Earth, and that means very soon we’re going to be finding [planets] very near the earth, what we’d call true earth analogs. We’ll be there. We’ll be there probably within a year, very easily.”