Loved but not lost: David Lean’s Brief Encounter and Dr Zhivago

Brief Encounter was laughed at by audiences when first released, and Dr Zhivago was scorned by critics. Now, argues Michael Newton, we can appreciate them as two of the greatest love stories committed to film

Cate Blanchett set for Richard Linklater comedy Where’d You Go Bernadette?

Blue Jasmine star would play another troubled middle-class matriarch in adaptation of Maria Semple’s acclaimed novel

The Room, ‘Citizen Kane of bad movies’, could be remade in 3D, says original director

Tommy Wiseau floats 3D remake and China release ahead of James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, about the making of cult movie The Room

Chloe Moretz set to star in Richard Curtis-scripted Little Mermaid

The actor has signed on to take the lead in a new live-action version of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, with Love, Actually writer tackling the screenplay

Five things we learned about JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander is a beastie-carrying eccentric, while there’s a reason America’s Muggles have been renamed ‘No-Majs’

Hunger Games ride brings District 12 to Dubai theme park

Visitors will be able to wander around recreation of Katniss Everdeen’s neighbourhood, complete with downtrodden inhabitants and rundown buildings – with more tie-ins planned for China and the US

Nick Hornby: ‘I couldn’t write Fever Pitch now. One of the things that made it was its lack of perspective’

The acclaimed author on writing for film, fate versus chance, and losing the obsessive side of his nature

Agincourt in literature – the list

The 600th anniversary of the battle will provide a cue for screenings of Henry V. Yet many writers have found other aspects of the hundred years war more compelling

James Cameron recruits Robert Rodriguez to direct manga adaptation Battle Angel Alita

Working on live-action version of 90s comic-book series has left Avatar director and Sin City film-maker ‘like two kids building a go-kart’, says Cameron

Alan Bennett: ‘It was weird to film The Lady in the Van in my old house’

Maggie Smith says her starring role was a relief after the rigours of playing Lady Violet in Downton Abbey

Charlize Theron to take Brad Pitt part in The Gray Man

Actor to take rejigged role in thriller originally about a CIA operative-turned assassin, amid increase in use of gender-swapping to give women access to more interesting roles

Pan: big budget turkey heading for $150m nosedive

Joe Wright’s prequel to JM Barrie’s Peter Pan stories has so far failed to capture the imagination of audiences across the globe following derisive reviews

Colm Tóibín on filming his novel Brooklyn: ‘Everyone in my home town wanted to be an extra’

John Crowley’s new film gives Enniscorthy more glamour, but also perfectly captures the place Tóibín grew up in

David Cook obituary

Actor and writer who adapted his novels for the big and small screen

Petition demands Maze Runner cast apologise for ‘thefts’ from Native American burial site

More than 28,000 people sign up after Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials star Dylan O’Brien suggests actors took artefacts from New Mexico location