Taking a Journey With ‘Interstellar’ Director and Cast, Will Biopics Reign Supreme at the Oscars?, A Master Class With George R.R. Martin, ‘Hateful Eight’ Courts Distribs

SSN ORIGINALS

Nolan, McConaughey, Chastain and Hathaway Take SSN On a Journey Through ‘Interstellar’

Says the director: “It’s time to get back to looking outwards from the world. We have to be exploring the universe.” (SSN)

With ‘Theory of Everything,’ ‘Wild’ and More Coming, Biopics Could Reign Supreme at This Year’s Oscars

The Academy Awards have been enamored with biopics since the early days of cinema, and this year appears to be no different, with a number of options from which the Academy can choose. (SSN)

A Master Class With ‘Game of Thrones’ Creator George R.R. Martin, and Why It’s Taking So Long to Finish ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Pen Densham shares with SSN his conversation with the author, as well as some insights about comics and how they helped him get his start. (SSN)

TODAY’S HEADLINES

When It Comes to Distributing ‘The Hateful Eight,’ Studios Need Not Apply

Quentin Tarantino’s latest, which is being produced by the Weinsteins, is looking for a distributor, but the two-time Oscar-winning writer-director only wants to work with an indie. (CB)

Warner Bros. Believes In Russell Crowe’s ‘The Water Diviner’

Star’s directorial debut is a period piece in which he plays an Aussie farmer who, four years after World War I’s Battle of Galipoli, travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his MIA sons. (VAR)

ABC Shows Faith In One Of Its New Shows By Ordering a Full Season …

Immortal medical examiner show Forever, starring Ioan Gruffudd, gets the coveted order for the back nine, raising its rookie season total to 22 episodes. (THR)

… But Loses Faith In Another and Announces Its Cancelation

Selfie doesn’t recover from bad reviews and weak ratings and joins its time slot partner Manhattan Love Story as the network’s first two cancelled shows of the season. (DH)

It Appears That There Is, In Fact, Going To Be a ‘Hunger Games’ Stage Show

Lionsgate is joining with Imagine Nation and Triangular Entertainment to launch a “theatrical experience,” based on the movies, which will open doors in the U.K. in summer, 2016. (SF)

ABC Wants To See More of ‘Little Women’ in the Present Day

Alphabet network to air a mini-series based on the Louisa May Alcott classic, with Natasha McElhone both starring and exec producing a modern take on the age old tale. (WAH)

New Clip Buzz: ‘Horrible Bosses 2’

The latest look at the New Line comedy sequel, starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Christoph Waltz, Chris Pine, Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Spacey, hitting theaters November 26th. (COL)