Sin City sitting pretty

Robert Rodriguez's dark comic book adaptation comfortably beat Beauty Shop at the US box office this weekend

Mr Cool? He’s Mr Smug

John Travolta comes over all confused in yet another less than satisfying Elmore Leonard adaptation.

Affleck takes the director’s chair

The winding career of Ben Affleck has taken another twist: he is to direct a film adaptation of Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River

Kenneth the fifth

Shakespeare veteran Branagh is set to start work on his fifth big-screen adaptation of the Bard

Rumble in the jungle

He was the hottest young director in Hollywood - before he'd even made a film. But Orson Welles' first movie, an adaptation of Heart of Darkness, collapsed even before the cameras rolled. Clinton Heylin on the story behind the greatest film never made.

The good old days

The adaptation of The Rotters' Club was an essential antidote as the anniversaries of two very different disasters were marked.