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As Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote stalls again, Disney plans rival movie

Screenwriter Billy Ray reportedly working on adaptation of classic novel about the delusional, romantic knight

The Girl on the Train: twists, booze and relocation – discuss the film with spoilers

The eagerly anticipated adaptation of Paula Hawkins’s bestseller is now in cinemas – here’s your chance to talk about every aspect without worrying about ruining it for others

Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams to star in adaptation of Disobedience

Alderman’s novel charts the love affair between a woman from an Orthodox Jewish background and the wife of her cousin

The Girl on the Train review: red herrings on the tracks signal problems

Emily Blunt doesn’t have nearly as much fun as she ought to in Tate Taylor’s adaptation of Paula Hawkins’s bestseller – and nor do the commuters who studiously ignore the hot couple having sex in full view of their carriage

David Mamet to direct movie version of his play Speed-the-Plow

The playwright is to return to big-screen directing duties for the first time in eight years as he takes over from Michael Polish

Harry Potter again tops poll of best book-to-film adaptations

JK Rowling’s series remains cinemagoers’ favourite ahead of multiple works by Stephen King and JRR Tolkien

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children review: mordant British YA X-Men is Tim Burton’s best in 20 years

That this adaptation is highly stylish is hardly surprising; that it’s quite so charming and funny is. Plus, Samuel L Jackson eats a whole bowl of children’s eyeballs

Curtis Hanson: a thrilling film-maker and effective exponent of mainstream Hollywood style

Hanson got Meryl Streep whitewater rafting, Eminem to act and brought James Ellroy’s cult novel LA Confidential brilliantly to life on film

Their Finest review – Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy struggle with a duff script in wartime drama

An Education director Lone Scherfig goes period again with this account of British women on the home front during the Blitz – but it’s all a bit predictable

Fifty Shades Darker – the first trailer deconstructed

From painfully ejaculatory fireworks to dry-humping in the shower, Stuart Heritage provides a handy guide to the highlights of the new Fifty Shades film

First footage of Fifty Shades Darker released in 20-second teaser

Second helping of EL James erotic bestseller promoted by ultra-short trailer ahead of full trailer release on Tuesday

The Limehouse Golem review – an upturned Victorian murder mystery

Lurid beheadings aside, this unlikely feminist Jack the Ripper-esque thriller cleverly unpicks late-Victorian London’s social strictures

James Franco to play Mystery, top pickup artist, in adaptation of The Game

The actor has signed up for the film version of Neil Strauss’s memoir about infiltrating a secret society of seducers with questionable methods

Tom Ford on Nocturnal Animals: ‘Believe it or not, I’m not just about style’

The fashion director turned auteur explained the thinking behind the most attention-grabbing sequences in his new film, at its gala screening in Venice

Liz Jensen: Seeing The Ninth Life of Louis Drax on screen is like meeting an eerie stranger

Fourteen years after my kid in a coma first appeared at the kitchen table, the film – starring Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon and Aaron Paul – is to appear at last

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