In brief: Ryder may escape jail
Plus: producer Edgar Scherick dies, Zsa Zsa Gabor in stable condition and Phillip Noyce to return to Australia for Dirt Music adaptation
Michel Faber sells rights to Crimson Petal for $1m
Kirsten Dunst reportedly lined up to play Victorian prostitute in novel adaptation
In brief: Spielberg plans Tintin adaptation
Plus: Zucker takes on Potter in Scary Movie 3, James Caan to play an elf, and Star Trek: Nemesis footage goes online
Greene on the screen
Will the latest Quiet American adaptation provoke the US right? Plus: the action hero too fat to fight
In brief: Eastwood gets SGA lifetime award
Plus: New adaptation planned of For Whom The Bell Tolls, and Orlando Bloom to sign for Petersen's Troy
In brief: Mondays in the Sun chosen as Spanish Oscar entry
Plus: Trinity College Dublin seeks legal advice over Star Wars architectural similarities, and Annette Bening signs for Somerset Maughan adaptation
In brief: Guy Fawkes film plotted
Plus: Julianne Moore signs for adaptation of US bestseller, and Israeli film triumphs at Tokyo film festival
Possession review – AS Byatt adaptation like a Ming vase in the hands of a chimp
One of the stupidest, most badly acted and clumsily directed films I have ever seen. And did I mention boring?
In brief: Eric Bana to play Hector in Trojan war epic
Plus: John Travolta does hitman with a heart, new comic snapped up for adaptation, and Harry Potter 2 tickets go on sale
Kidman considers Bewitched film
Nicole Kidman is considering mounting her broomstick for a big-screen adaptation of the hit 60s TV show Bewitched
Natural Bourne killer
As an amnesiac assassin in an adaptation of a Robert Ludlum novel, Matt Damon has a new identity as an action hero. So long as it gets Arnie and Bruce off the screen, Joe Queenan is happy
Chronicle of deaths foretold
In response to a spate of killing sprees by American students, Tim Blake Nelson thought it would be a good idea to set his Othello adaptation in a high school. Then came the Columbine massacre...
In brief: Damon plans to pen with Affleck again
Plus: Ritchie and Madonna's Swept Away gets UK spring release, Brosnan thought he was gay, hip-hop motormouth Ludacris in the seat for The Fast and The Furious 2, Kelly Preston plays mom opposite Myers' The Cat in the Hat and Julian Sands signs up for Edward Allen adaptation
In brief: Bruce Willis to star in Elmore Leonard adaptation
Plus: Anthony Hopkins visits Robert Blake in prison, Robert Redford and Helen Mirren team up, Venice announces jury line-up, and