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
Double punch
Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997)
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.
Sibling rivalry
Jean-Pierre Melville's Les Enfants Terribles (1950)
Carmen gets date with Golden Bear
The Berlin festival's top award, the Golden Bear, went to a Carmen adaptation set in a South African township
Purefoy and Portman for Wachowski project
James Purefoy will partner up with Natalie Portman for the Wachowski Brothers' comic book adaptation V for Vendetta
Miller’s A View From the Bridge gets big-screen treatment
Barry Levinson is to direct a big-screen adaptation of the Arthur Miller play A View From the Bridge.
In brief: Star Wars actor signs up for medieval epic
Plus: Breakfast at Tiffany's heroine voted most stylish, and a Brit inventor gets an Oscar win
It’s Grimm upstate
Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Heresy, he wrote
Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose (1986)
The good old days
The adaptation of The Rotters' Club was an essential antidote as the anniversaries of two very different disasters were marked.
Noir valley
John Boorman's Point Blank (1967)