The Directors Guild of America will be giving its Lifetime Achievement Award to filmmaker Norman Jewison early next year, Variety reports.

Jewison will be the 33rd artist to receive the award and will be joining a prestigious lineup of past recipients, including Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood.

December 1 is World AIDS Day, established by the World Health Organization in 1988 to raise awareness and attention about the global AIDS epidemic. In honor of the day, we offer up these five documentaries, courtesy of SnagFilms, which serve to put a human face on this international crisis.

Sometimes, on weekends, I stay home with a rented film. On weekends here in LA, the bars are overly packed and filled with people harbouring a double agenda, making them doubly annoying. They're looking both to 'pick up' and to promote themselves. Pick-up lines in most cities range from, "Haven't we met before?" to "So, what's your sign?" In Los Angeles, pick up lines include, "You should read my screenplay. Why don't you come over and edit the third act with me tonight?" (I am not kidding. This was said to me at a pizzeria.) and "My buddy who knows Chris Rock has a house in the Hollywood Hills. Give me your number and I'll take you there sometime."

When I was a younger lass, I felt compelled to go out on a Saturday night just because it was Saturday night. Gone are the days when I feel obligated to be social just because it's the weekend. Now, I prefer to go out during the week when there aren't any crowds.

As old boys clubs go, the collection of people who've either won the Oscar for best directing, or have at least been considered, is not a very inclusive group, with only three female directors getting nominated for the prize in Academy Awards history.

As Variety noted Monday, that number could increase significantly this year, with at least half a dozen movies with women directors being promoted by their respective studios for Oscar consideration.

Are you a fan of 'The Office'? More importantly, do you need some dating advice? Fret not -- there's a feature in the works just for you. 'Office' star-writer-executive producer Mindy Kaling and writer-producer-director Brent Forrester have linked up with the team who brought us 'Juno' to write the romantic comedy 'The Low Self Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie.'

The 'Harry Potter' franchise may be a massive cash cow for Warner Bros., but the studio is not resting on its laurels when it comes to looking for its successor. With 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II' bringing that venerated series to a close in late 2012, WB execs have already signed on a new fantasy saga that they hope will rake in more green: 'Beautiful Creatures,' the first in a five-book series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

The rain in Spain might fall on the plains for director John Madden.

The Brit director, perhaps best known for 1998's 'Shakespeare in Love,' could take on George Bernard Shaw if he does indeed direct the Columbia Pictures remake of 'My Fair Lady,' as reported by Variety. Madden is in talks to come on board the reboot, which does not have a Prof. Higgins or an Eliza Doolittle attached. Keira Knightley's name has been oft repeated to play Eliza, but -- as she told Moviefone earlier this year -- nothing so far has been signed.