Fallen women
Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Wife fights
Visconti's Ossessione (1942)
Fincher to do up Fitzgerald’s Button
Fight Club director linked to adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's Curious Tale of Benjamin Button
There is something about cleaners
Chabrol's La Cérémonie (1995)
Track record
Jiri Menzel's Closely Observed Trains (1966)
In brief: London calling film-makers
Plus: Jackson mulls Lovely Bones adaptation, and Peter Weir tackles cyberpunk
The principle of Good
David Lean's Oliver Twist (1948)
Tarantino tips himself as Bond director
Quentin Tarantino is lobbying to direct an adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel with Pierce Brosnan making his fifth and final appearance as 007
Hellboy rules US box office
Comic book adaptation Hellboy powered its way to the top of the US box office this weekend, knocking Scooby-Doo 2 into third place
Harry Knowles gets a place on the studio lot
Harry Knowles, the guerilla film reporter behind website Ain't It Cool News, has taken the studio shilling and is teaming up with director Robert Rodriguez on a sci-fi adaptation
When Peter saw Harry meet Sally
Our film critic Peter Bradshaw took a busman's holiday to evaluate the West End stage adaptation of When Harry Met Sally ...
Smith stung by comic book bug
Kevin Smith has abandoned his own dogma of never doing a superhero film to direct a new adaptation of the Green Hornet
WGA plumps for indie originals
Nominations for Writers Guild awards favour independents for best original screenplay and blockbusters for best adaptation
Sam gees up for directorial role
Sean Astin is poised to trade in his faithful hobbit guise for a new role: directing a bid budget Fantastic Four comic book adaptation