X-Men ahead in race for sci-fi Oscars
Bryan Singer's movie adaptation of the famous comic strip has been nominated for ten awards at the Saturn Awards, which honour the best science fiction, fantasy and horror films
Cannes Film Festival plans Coppola tribute
Plus: Hannibal hangs on for third week at US box office; Grinch team to work on another Dr Seuss adaptation
Vietnamese beauty falls for Greene’s real Quiet American
Work has started on an Australian adaptation of Graham Greene's eerie prophecy of the US debacle in Indochina, The Quiet American.
Henry Thomas
It isn't, needless to say, a comeback. As far Henry Thomas is concerned, he has never been away. As far as the rest of us are concerned, he is still cute little Elliot, ET's friend. 'I hope eventually that people remember other roles when they think of me, but I am really mostly concerned with putting my best foot forward right now. Indictment was one of my best films. My favourites are Raggedy Man and Niagara, Niagara.' The problem is, of course, that everyone in the world saw ET, and very few saw Niagara, Niagara. But more will see All The Pretty Horses, the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's gruff Western best seller, in which Thomas co-stars with Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz.
Requiem for a Dream review – agonising and unflinchingly grim portrait of drug abuse
Hubert Selby Jr's parable of drug addiction has been made into an extraordinary movie
Arthur Miller makes movie acting debut at 85
The award-winning playwright is to star in a film adaptation of his short story, Homely Girl, a Life, opposite Samantha Morton
Drugs scandal hits Harry Potter film
Security has been increased at the studios where the film adaptation of JK Rowling's best-selling novel is being made after two syringes were found on a disused set
Declaration of Waugh
Any adaptation of Evelyn Waugh inevitably evokes images of aristocratic languor, Brideshead-style. But Sword Of Honour, a Channel 4 two-parter, is a far grittier affair. Mark Morris spoke to its down-to-earth star, Daniel Craig.
Depp admits to criminal fixation on Fast Show
Plus: Cameron Diaz uses lung power to see off thief; Jeremy Irons set to join Wells adaptation; and Spielberg project to get boost from industrial action
Scooby-Doo scribe sees stars over adaptation
Plus: Al Pacino to stomp on New York streets again, web bootleggers sued by Motion Picture Association of America, and Dark Horizons website hosts teaser poster for Harry Potter movie
Nick Hornby and Emma Thompson collaborate on new film script
As an adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy goes into production, the British novelist teams up with Emma Thompson to write an original film script
Jarvis Cocker set to go behind the camera
Jarvis Cocker, the flamboyant frontman of Pulp, is rumoured to be about to fulfil a dream by directing a screen adaptation of the novel Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty, by Harland Miller
First sight of Tolkien films draws ‘oohs’
Online spy reports register a cautiously enthusiastic response after the first major screening of footage from Peter Jackson's eagerly awaited film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Ellen Burstyn: a life in film
An Oscar-winner for Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More, and one of 70s Hollywood’s most admired actresses, Burstyn can be seen in no fewer than three films at this year’s London film festival. She spoke to LFF deputy director Sandra Hebron about her life in film
The Golden Bowl
Uma Thurman emerges triumphant from Merchant Ivory’s splendid adaptation of Henry James