Ang Lee could set sail on Life of Pi
Oscar-winning director of Brokeback Mountain is in talks to direct an adaptation of Yann Martel's acclaimed novel
Movie merger mania
Adam Rutherford: Elton John's Rocket Pictures is to make Pride and Predator – an alien action movie in Jane Austen setting. Can I play this game?
Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington set for Cronenberg spy thriller
Cruise and Washington are to play rival spies in David Cronenberg's adaptation of the Robert Ludlum thriller The Matarese Circle
Aaron Eckhart tipped to join Johnny Depp on Rum Diary
Duo to play love rivals in adaptation of Hunter S Thompson's novel about boozy expat journalists in 1950s Puerto Rico
Pacino to play King Lear in new film adaptation
The actor will reunite with Michael Radford, his director on 2004's The Merchant of Venice
Reverse gear
Film-makers have turned F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button into an epic trifle, argues Wyatt Mason
Don’t you just love those marketing men?
Robert McCrum: Everyman are reporting a 30% rise in their annual sales, which they claim to be a vindication of old-style book publishing
Unhappily ever after
Is Revolutionary Road too good a novel to make a great film, asks Nick Laird
Warner Bros and Fox settle Watchmen dispute
Zack Snyder's hotly-anticipated adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel set for release on March 6
Bard behind bars
Johnny McDevitt investigates Mickey B, a new adaptation of Macbeth made in a maximum security prison
The Spirit
Frank Miller's adaptation of the antique comic strip by Will Eisner is brash, noisy and so alarmingly ill-paced that it should with a software package that allows viewers to recut it as they see fit
The Reader
Kate Winslet is good as a former Auschwitz guard, but she can't save Stephen Daldry's shallow adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel. By Peter Bradshaw
You review: Twilight
Was Catherine Hardwicke's adaptation of Stephenie Meyers' teen vampire romance bloody wonderful, or about as meaty as a nut cutlet, asks Ben Child
Luhrmann picks up film rights to The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann's planned film of the F Scott Fitzgerald book will be the fourth big-screen adaptation, the most famous one being the version by Jack Clayton in 1974 with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow
‘I did have moments where I’d say, Oh my God …’
Kate Winslet is back with two films - one directed by her husband, Sam Mendes - and she's a hot prospect for the Oscars. Kira Cochrane meets an actor at the top of her game