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Adapting the work of Chuck Palahniuk is no easy feat. With his violent and dark prose filled with twisted humor and a tortured playfulness pulsating through his work, it's difficult to translate that to the screen. David Fincher managed to capture the fierce essence of the testosterone-driven psychological odyssey that is Fight Club but since, others have fallen short. Choke received mild reviews—nothing awful but a mere blip compared to the cult-phenomenon that was Fight Club. And other works like Surviror and Invisible Monsters have been rumored to be in the works for years, but Hollywood seems to be having a tough time making them come to fruition.

More than just possessing the best in international, avant-garde, rare, and classic cinema, the Criterion Collection provides us with an artifact. We get to enjoy a beautiful mastering of a film, bonus materials and critical analysis of the work, with the actual casing of the film a treasure in itself.

With his new series House of Lies premiering next week, it looks like David Fincher has some other exciting non-feature film projects in the works. The Playlist confirms for us that yes, the man who brought us Fight Club, Zodiac, Seven, etc. will now be directing the video for Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie," the first single off his new album. Apparently J.T. and Fincher must have gotten pretty chummy while filming The Social Network and are collaborating once again with production already underway. No stranger to the world of music, not only did Fincher got his start on videos and commercials—with Nine Inch Nails' "Only" his last hand at cinema for the sonic—but music always plays such a key role in his films.

Chuck Palahniuk opens up about his writing process and the decision to reissue his 1993 novel 'Invisible Monsters' with a brand-new twist.

On his webseries "Tales From the Darkside," Fat Joe tells a tale about going to "Chi-town" (alert: never, ever call it "Chi-town") to visit his buddy R. Kelly, only to learn that the R&B singer had his own fight club.

We’ve got proof that Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are the latest actors who should moonlight as musicians. We see Pitt as a straight power rocker, the result of a Chris Daughtry/David Cook gene experiment gone terribly right. Norton, on the other hand, has always reminded us of Clay Aiken, without the tooth whitener and skin darkener. But the two of them together make us swoon, like Jason Castro redoing "What A Day For A Daydream" in his signature sleepy twang. But because "American Idol" doesn’t allow contestant duets, Pitt and Norton will unfortunately be relegated to performing on YouTube and singing about penis in their bids for musical stardom—serenade after the jump.