Gordon Brown killed my movie

Figures released this week show that the number of films made in Britain dropped by 40% this past year after the withdrawal of tax incentives for film-makers. One of the movies to cease production was Tulip Fever, an adaptation of a novel by Deborah Moggach. Here the author recounts her experience.

Soho noir

Jules Dassin's Night and the City (1950)

Fortune smiles on Snicket adaptation

Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events, the film adaptation of Daniel Handler's dark children's tales, has toppled The Incredibles off the No 1 spot at the UK box office

Deicide dropped from Pullman adaptation

The director employed to adapt Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials has admitted the anti-religious elements of the story will be toned down to appease the US Christian right

Menace in Venice

Film of the week: Al Pacino is superb as Shylock in a stylish and dark adaptation

In brief: Hanks to star in Da Vinci Code

Plus: studios fight to sign Usher, Damon to step in as Good Shepherd, gangster remake finds director, Potter wins kids' Baftas, and Madonna plans adaptation of her novel

Love will tear us apart

Film of the week: Crumbling and fractured relationships lie at the heart of this impressive adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel

Death count

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Nosferatu (1922)