What's next for Lisa Cholodenko?

Adapting a popular children's book, according to Variety:

On the heels of earning an Oscar nom for co-writing The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko is in negotiations to direct a live-action adaptation of the children's picture book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for 20th Century Fox.

Fox could not be reached for comment.

Shawn Levy's 21 Laps banner is producing the high-concept family comedy with the Jim Henson Company. Levy and Dan Levine will produce for 21 Laps, while Lisa Henson and Jason Lust will produce for Henson Co.

Story follows a young boy who endures a frustrating day that begins with him waking up to find gum in his hair and ends with him threatening to move to Australia. Other characters include Alexander's two older brothers and their parents.

Just how much of an endurance test is the Best Picture race?

Variety goes on to tell us as much breaking down the road to a nod for each of the 10 nominees:

Now that the Oscar race for best picture is a 10-deep scenario, securing a spot in the nominees' circle is less about clawing one's way there than keeping a spotlight on the qualities that initially put a pic in contention.

"The Social Network" didn't need 500 million friends -- to quote its memorable ad language -- to land its spot, but instead a richer, media-friendly nexus of reviewer praise, solid box office, zeitgeisty controversy, a handful of creative names enjoying their biggest moment (Jesse Eisenberg, David Fincher, Aaron Sorkin) and rafts of awards, from critics' groups to the top Golden Globe prize. All it had to do was avoid an Academy-wide unfriending.

From the feel-good side of the aisle is "The King's Speech," a movie pegged as Oscar material from early on, delivering a beloved actor (Colin Firth) in full bloom raking in awards (SAG, Globe, critics' groups), an admired screenplay and that sometimes elusive intangible: audience uplift.

Well-received summer blockbusters like "Inception" and "Toy Story 3," meanwhile, repped the biggest brains and hearts, respectively, in today's studio system. Christopher Nolan's taut mind-bender gave Academy voters who snubbed his equally acclaimed "The Dark Knight" a chance to rectify that omission, while Pixar showed that its creative attention to a threequel merited extra recognition outside the animation category.