Hoffman: Broadway-bound.

Arthur Miller's American masterpiece Death of a Salesman will get yet another revival on Broadway next March. The Miller play is especially relevant today, even though it debuted in the 1940s.The story's protagonist Willy Loman is a tragic figure: after years of loyal service to his company, he is unceremoniously fired, thus leading to a series of tragic events. Lee J. Cobb, Dustin Hoffman and Brian Dennehy all triumphed on Broadway in the role of Loman. In the new production, Phillip Seymour Hoffman will try his hand at playing Loman. Andrew Garfield, star of the forthcoming Spiderman movie, will co-star. For more click here

With audiences going bananas for the new Ape flick, producers hope to bring sequels to the big screen.

Based on the hot boxoffice response to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the film's producers have let it be known that they would like to oversee at least one sequel, if not more. Click here for info

Jodie Foster is among the donors who have stepped to the fore to help save a program that monitors outer space for signs of alien life. The telescopes involved were cut off from government funding but donors, including Foster, have rescued the program. Foster, who starred in the 1997 sci-fi flick Contact about the search for alien life, wrote of parallels to the film in a statement she released in support of the program. Click here for more