Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight follow-up will be James Baldwin adaptation

The Academy Award-winning director is set to begin work on a version of the author’s 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk

Murder on the Orient Express: watch Johnny Depp and Kenneth Branagh in first trailer

Branagh both directs and takes on the role of Hercule Poirot in a star-filled version of Agatha Christie’s detective drama

The Beguiled review – Sofia Coppola contrives hilariously fraught feminist psychodrama

Colin Farrell plays a wounded soldier who throws himself on the mercy of a ladies’ seminary during the American civil war – and sets them all of a decorous flutter

War Machine review – Brad Pitt goes over the top in Afghan war satire

Based on real-life events, David Michôd’s take on the war in Afghanistan plays for laughs and misses the mark

‘Show me the money!’: the self-published authors being snapped up by Hollywood

After the success of self-published authors like Andy Weir and EL James, Hollywood is scooping up the rights to books as fast as it can. But why – and is it always good for the author?

Hellboy to be rebooted with Stranger Things star – but without Guillermo del Toro

David Harbour to replace Ron Perlman as the demonic superhero in an ‘R-rated reboot’ of the franchise, with Game of Thrones director Neil Marshall

The Tony awards: who are the best and worst onscreen Blairs?

From The Queen to The Journey and even The Simpsons, Labour’s divisive former PM has been a frequent figure in film and TV over the years. Here’s how his fictional counterparts have fared

Jonathan Demme: ‘A storyteller of bold and muscular force’

The Silence of the Lambs director, who has died aged 73, was an artist of brilliance and intuition as well as a master craftsman of great character dramas

Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme dies aged 73

Oscar winning film-maker emerged from the American independent scene, and went on to direct a string of major social-issue films

Heal the Living review – heart-rending tale of organ donation

Katell Quillévéré’s polished mosaic of interconnected lives is intelligently acted and visually arresting

Lissa Evans: how my novel about film-making was turned into a film

My wartime story, Their Finest Hour and a Half, has been adapted for the big screen – watching actors playing actors and a fake film crew being directed by a real one was surreal

Mahabharata epic set to become India’s most expensive movie ever

Randamoozham, starring veteran actor Mohanlal, will cost Rs 1,000-crore (£120m) and is to be funded by UAE-based billionaire BR Shetty

Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it’s true to my novel’

Waters’ hit novel Fingersmith, about a lesbian love affair in Victorian England, has been transported to 1930s Korea for a new film. The author explains how it remains faithful to her original

The Sense of an Ending review – an upscale bit of Britfilm hardback cinema

Jim Broadbent gives a droll, well-judged performance in this adaptation of Julian Barnes’s Booker-winner about a blast from the past of a grumpy divorcee

Digital love: why cinema can’t get enough of cyberpunk

Ghost in the Shell is part of a cult subgenre whose lineage stretches back to the 1920s – and whose visions have never seemed so prescient