Quick Takes: Host’s medical leave near

Friday will be Robin Roberts’ last day on “Good Morning America” before she goes on medical leave to receive a bone-marrow transplant, the show confirmed Monday.

“I can’t imagine not getting up and being here,” Roberts said in a discussion with co-anchors George Stephanopoulos and Lara Spencer. The donation is coming from her sister, Sally.

In advance of Roberts’ departure, “Good Morning America” this week is featuring stories of people afflicted by MDS, the rare blood disorder Roberts was diagnosed with this spring. She battled breast cancer in 2007.

Roberts, 51, had just returned to the ABC morning show Aug. 20 after taking an abrupt vacation. She’s been an anchor on the program since 2005.

—Meredith Blake

Scott certificate of death released

Film director Tony Scott has been cremated, and his widow will keep his remains at their Los Angeles-area home.

The information was included on Scott’s death certificate, which was released Monday.

The document didn’t include a formal determination of Scott’s cause of death. Coroner’s officials expect it will take several weeks to finalize their investigation, but they are treating his case as a probable suicide.

The “Top Gun” director jumped from a bridge into the Los Angeles Harbor on Aug. 19. Family and close friends gathered over the weekend to honor the British-born director at a private memorial.

His family also announced Monday that it has created a memorial scholarship at the American Film Institute to help future filmmakers and honor his creative legacy.

—Associated Press

Genre draws female directors

Women are a distinct minority in the directing ranks of big-budget Hollywood movies, but they are far more prevalent in the world of independently produced documentaries, according to a report being released Tuesday by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University.

The study of independent feature-length movies that screened between August 2011 and August 2012 at 23 major U.S. film festivals found that women constituted 39% of the directors working on documentaries and 18% of directors working on narrative films.

Martha M. Lauzen, executive director of the center and author of the study, termed the results stunning considering that only 5% of the top-grossing films of 2011 featured female directors.

On the same group of documentaries surveyed, women accounted for 35% of the producers, 32% of the writers, 27% of the editors and 16% of the cinematographers, the report said.

—Lee Margulies

Romance for superheroes

Wonder Woman and Superman are an item, locking lips in a passionate embrace as the pair realize that there’s no one out there like them.

The couple’s kiss is the culmination of a dramatic story in “Justice League” No.12, out Wednesday, which marks the first full year since DC Comics relaunched its stable of heroes with new stories, new costumes and revised origins.

In the 1980s, the pair had a brief fling, but Superman went on to marry Lois Lane. They also kissed in Frank Miller’s “Dark Knight Strikes Again” a decade ago. In a 2006 epilogue to 1996’s “Kingdom Come,” the couple asked Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. Batman, to stand as godfather to their unborn child.

Since DC relaunched its characters and universe, some of the origins have changed — Wonder Woman is now the daughter of Zeus — and the costumes have too.

One aspect that did not survive the relaunch: Lois Lane’s role as Superman’s love. She’s still around, but the two have never dated, nor are they likely to.

—Associated Press

‘2016’ top new film of weekend

This recount worked out well for the right wing.

With final ticket sales tallied Monday, the documentary “2016: Obama’s America” was the top new movie of the past weekend, selling $6.5 million worth of tickets in the U.S. and Canada.

Estimates compiled by studios Sunday morning had shown Sony Pictures’ thriller “Premium Rush” with a slight lead at $6.3 million, compared with $6.2 million for the anti-Obama film, directed by conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza.

But Monday’s figures put “2016” ahead — a remarkable achievement for the movie, distributed by Rocky Mountain Pictures, given that it played at only 1,091 theaters, compared with 2,225 for “Premium Rush,” which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a New York City bike messenger in danger.

—Ben Fritz and Amy Kaufman