Before Watchmen: DC Comics publisher defends prequels
Dan DiDio says Watchmen prequels are a 'love letter' to Alan Moore's creation, as graphic novel's co-creator continues to censure the project
Carlos Fuentes obituary
Mexico's most celebrated novelist
Paddington Bear to take big-screen voyage
Michael Bond's polite bear from Peru will have to dust off his duffle coat as his live action/CGI debut, directed by Paul King, gets the go-ahead
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Guidebook Adaptations …
Stuart Heritage: ... But Were Afraid to Ask. Pregnancy guide What to Expect When You're Expecting is the latest self-help book to be turned into a film. Which manuals would you tout around Tinseltown?
Suzanne Collins: Hunger Games author who found rich pickings in dystopia
She's the top-selling Kindle author and the film of her book has made £300m worldwide – yet Collins remains an enigma
What is the moral message of The Hunger Games?
Michael Rosen: Although this fantasy thriller depicts a world of human cruelty, it also offers a few uplifting clues about where power lies
The Hunger Games continues box office binge
Jeremy Kay: The Hunger Games and the not unfamiliar American Reunion and Titanic 3D dominate during the long weekend at the US box office
Antonio Tabucchi obituary
Italian writer and academic with a deep love of the culture and language of Portugal
The Woman in Black to haunt cinemas again in Susan Hill sequel
Hammer and Hill team up again on new story The Woman in Black: Angels of Death, which will be adapted by screenwriter Jon Croker
Is the Hollywood remake dead?
David Fincher's adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is only the latest English-language version of a hit Scandi film to disappoint at the box office. Have we now got a taste for 'authentic originals'?
Five great films with terrible endings
OK, it's the most difficult part of a film to get right but there's nothing worse than letting your audience down at the last minute
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 trailer: the end is nigh
Undead soap opera the Twilight Saga is nearing its demise – the final one, this time. But what's at stake for the heroine and her vampire husband in Breaking Dawn – Part 2? Let's find out …
The Hunger Games devours Twilight box-office records
Jeremy Kay: The Hunger Games' $155m opening haul was the third-biggest debut in US cinema history. And there's more to come
Parent files police complaint after teacher reads Ender’s Game to pupils
A teacher in South Carolina is on adminstrative leave after the parent of a 14-year-old complained that Orson Scott Card's classic novel was 'pornographic'
Never mind The Hunger Games – is The Host the new Twilight?
Ben Child: The debut teaser trailer has arrived for the big-screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's novel about an alien race who take over human bodies
Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four forecast for Hollywood remake
An American consortium that includes director Ron Howard has secured the film rights to George Orwell's highly influential novel
John Carter set to lose Disney $200m
Muddled marketing and lukewarm reviews blamed for bad performance of space epic, which opened with just $30m in US
The Hunger Games takes seven-second cut to get 12A rating
Makers of futuristic teen film starring Jennifer Lawrence agree to changes requested by British Board of Film Classification
The Dark Tower film project picked up by Warner Bros
Ron Howard's proposed adaptation of Stephen King's fantasy series would star Javier Bardem and begin shooting in 2013
Trishna – review
Michael Winterbottom transplants Hardy perennial Tess of the d'Urbervilles to Jaipur, but she fails to bloom, writes Peter Bradshaw
John Carter – review
The fantasy-romance adventures of a civil war veteran transported to Mars made for a giant, suffocating doughy feast of boredom, writes Peter Bradshaw
Scarlett Johansson to play Janet Leigh in the Making of Psycho
Johansson to star opposite Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren in Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
Sam Raimi to bring The Day of the Triffids to the big screen
Evil Dead creator will produce film version of John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic tale of angry plants
Fictional hacks – from Maupassant to Larsson
Journalists have been glamorous social climbers and bumbling fools in fiction – sometimes they've even been feminists and righters of wrongs, says John Dugdale
Brian Selznick: how Scorsese’s Hugo drew inspiration from his magical book
In an exclusive interview the American artist talks to Ed Vulliamy about working with Scorsese his love of cross-hatching – and why he always keeps a mirror on his desk
Rebecca remake in the works
DreamWorks and Working Title plan new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel, made famous by Hitchcock's 1940 film
Who would want to be an author in film?
John Dugdale: Jason Reitman's Young Adult is only the latest in a long line of films which portray authors as helpless, or vindictive, or both
WG Sebald film takes journey to cliff’s edge
David Newnham: The author's The Rings of Saturn starts as travelogue and ends in melancholy and horror – a new film, Patience (After Sebald) captures its mood admirably
Harrison Ford ‘in talks’ for Blade Runner sequel
Actor set to reprise role as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's forthcoming follow-up to his 1982 sci-fi classic, reports say
Bridget Jones’s Baby due date pushed back
Working Title still expected to deliver third instalment in series despite concerns over the script
The Reader author sues the Weinstein Company over film payments
Bernhard Schlink, whose 1995 novel was turned into a film starring Kate Winslet, claims he has not received a penny from the studio
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo cancelled in India
Oscar-nominated thriller withdrawn from release in India after director David Fincher refuses to cut 'unsuitable' sex scenes
Elmore Leonard: the great American novelist
Elmore Leonard is regarded as the greatest American crime writer, surpassing even Raymond Chandler. But it is time to drop the qualification of genre, argues Philip Hensher
Patience (After Sebald) – review
Grant Gee's likably loquacious documentary elegantly re-traces WG Sebald's steps through the Suffolk countryside, writes Xan Brooks