In 2009, as the Twilight books were just beginning their billion-dollar assault on theaters and Hollywood's current thirst for YA franchises was still mostly a tickle in Harry Potter's throat, novelist Gayle Forman scored a critically lauded bestseller with If I Stay, the story of a girl who finds herself forced to choose between life and death after her seemingly perfect existence is shattered by sudden tragedy.

MGM scored a casting coup when they hired Oscar-winner Javier Bardem to play the bad guy in Skyfall, and now it sounds like they're close to pulling off another one with the 24th entry in the well-traveled James Bond franchise: Variety reports that Chiwetel Ejiofor is the frontrunner for the job.

When last we saw the Pink Panther franchise, it was making young children laugh (and critics groan) with a pair of Steve Martin-led efforts to resuscitate the bumbling Inspector Clouseau character who was played so memorably by Peter Sellers in the original Panther films. The new-look Panther movies made money, but nobody was really all that excited about them, so the series went back into storage -- until recently, when MGM decided to hit the reboot button one more time.