Terry Gilliam’s ‘relief’ over Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone snub
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus director has no regrets about losing out to Chris Columbus to work on the adaptation of JK Rowling’s fantasy
Venice film festival: The Road
Review: Starring Viggo Mortensen, John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel is a slice of powerful horror well worth the wait
Classic literature can take whatever we throw at it
Jonathan Jones: Set Hamlet in space or turn Dorian Gray into a horror movie – it doesn't matter, because the classics are strong enough to bounce back
Helen Mirren and Pete Postlethwaite set for big-screen Brighton Rock
Adaptation shifts action of Graham Greene novel to 1964, amid mods and rockers' clashes, with Sam Riley as Pinkie. By Leigh Holmwood
Wolf-training follows tigers and bears for director Jean-Jacques Annaud
French director to spend 18 months training wolves for film adaptation of Chinese bestseller Wolf Totem
Trouble in Tinseltown: Budd Schulberg’s literary legacy
David Parkinson: The novelist and screenwriter wrote two of the most scathing fictional denunciations of Hollywood ever penned – and, in a genre that has long dripped with bile and venom, that's really saying something
Cronenberg to enter DeLillo’s Cosmopolis
The History of Violence and Eastern Promises director is to write and direct an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 Manhattan-set novel Cosmopolis
The Informers
In structure and location the film resembles Robert Altman's Short Cuts, though it's much inferior and far less interesting, says Philip French
Stephen Frears drawn to Tamara Drewe film
Gemma Arterton reportedly cast as title character in movie adaptation of Posy Simmonds's comic strip about a beautiful columnist who ruffles feathers in a rural writers' retreat
To boldly go where no TV producer has gone before
Jonathan Wright: There's yet another Day of the Triffids adaptation in the offing. It looks great, but what about all the science fiction concepts that have never been screened?
Chéri
A desperately creaky and stately adaptation of the Colette novels, says Peter Bradshaw
A floppy French fancy of a film
Bidisha: Stephen Frears' adaptation of Colette's novella, Chéri, does the story of a dignified woman disservice
The intelligentsia blockbuster
Bidisha: It's what the publishing world needs to prime the recovery pumps: a perfect meeting of high culture and base materialism – aka art lit
Angels and Demons follow-up film in the works
Studio plans film of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol even before Angels and Demons adaptation is released
JG Ballard: a unique vision that deserves life on film
William Leith: David Cronenberg's Crash may be the JG Ballard film adaptation that most readily springs to mind, but Super-Cannes could make a better movie