Emma Donoghue: ‘I have only from 8.30am to 3.30pm to work. It’s a very healthy discipline’

The author on her ‘regime’, research and adapting her work for the screen

Ralph Fiennes and Hugh Laurie join Will Ferrell’s Holmes and Watson

The actors are to play as-yet-unspecified canonical roles in the comedy, which features Ferrell and John C Reilly in the leads

This year’s biggest book adaptations – and which ones are worth reading first

From Margaret Atwood to Stephen King, a host of great authors will see work adapted for film and TV this year. Here’s our guide to which to read before you watch

Brexit: The Movie in works as Warner Bros set to option Arron Banks’ memoir

Leave campaign likely to be turned into a film as studio considers adapting Ukip donor’s book, The Bad Boys of Brexit

Literary quiz 2016: the year in books – and who said what?

From pro-Brexit bookworms to Björk, test your knowledge of this year’s literary landmarks

The most exciting film adaptations of 2017

In the latest in our 10-part series, we run through the films we are most looking forward to next year (in alphabetical order!). Today: adaptations

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger to be subject of biopic

Film based on Ellen Feldman’s novel about birth control pioneer to be masterminded by Jennifer Lawrence’s production partner

The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: No 9 The Handmaiden

As our countdown moves into the final fortnight, Peter Bradshaw welcomes a dazzling and sexy adaptation of Sarah Waters’s story about lesbian love

Amy Schumer set for title role in Barbie movie

Comedy star in late-stage talks to rewrite and then take lead in big-screen debut for Mattel’s iconic doll

Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy to script Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta film

Nagy has taken on writing duties for the movie, which will be the first big-screen outing for the forensics specialist and hero of 24 crime novels

First trailer released for Martin Scorsese’s Oscar contender Silence

Scorsese’s study of Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan stars Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver alongside Liam Neeson

Tom Hiddleston and Ben Wheatley to reunite for Frank Miller adaptation

High-Rise actor and director to collaborate on big-screen version of Miller and Geof Darrow’s comic Hard Boiled

Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow to film Zadie Smith’s Swing Time

Project is first major announcement for company since it hired former BBC Films head Christine Langan as CEO

Poop, peepee and creepy rabbits: kids’ books that should never become movies

Not all children’s books are heartwarming and inspirational. Here are five that ought never to get near a film camera

Arrival lands in top spot at UK box office, but no space for American Pastoral

Denis Villeneuve’s smart sci-fi epic starring Amy Adams soars, as Ewan McGregor’s Philip Roth adaptation stumbles