She may only be 19, but Selena Gomes is getting proactive about her career and adding a producer credit to her resumé. According to Deadline, her production company, July Moon, has optioned Jandy Nelson’s novel The Sky Is Everywhere, with the former Disney Channel star planning to both produce and star in a movie adaptation.
She will play 17-year old Lennie Walker, a bookworm and band geek who plays clarinet and lives in the shadow of her extroverted older sister, Bailey. When Bailey dies suddenly, her younger sibling is left to take centre stage and balance not one boy but two. One is his sister’s grieving boyfriend, the other a musically inclined Parisian. Her whole world threatens to collapse all over again as she tries to juggle both guys.
It’s early days on the adaptation yet, so there’s no info on when it might shoot.
Twilight has given quite a lot of young actors and actresses a moment to shine, but how many of them will manage to turn that into lasting success is difficult to gauge. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Anna Kendrick seem to be doing okay, and now Nikki Reed is hoping to further her post-Twilight career with a psychological thriller called Snap.
Bong Joon-Ho’s English-language debut is getting more and more interesting with each cast announcement. Chris Evans is taking the lead role, with Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell joining him soon after. Now they have some illustrious company in the form of John Hurt, according to 
Jane Lynch may get a lot of praise for playing Sue Sylvester in TV’s Glee, but now she’s getting an honour of a different kind from the National Center for Lesbian Rights in the US, who are giving her its Vanguard Award.
Last week the organisation 
After the cult success of Roger Dodger and P.S., you wouldn’t have thought it would take eight years for director Dylan Kidd to plot a follow-up, but it’s only just now that he’s got around to putting together Get A Job, for which he’s currently busy casting.