Reese Witherspoon to play Tinker Bell in Disney live action fairytale
New version of the story of the mischievous fairy announced six months after Twentieth Century Fox leaked details of rival project starring Melissa McCarthy
A Royal Night Out: as fluffy and sugary as a Victoria sponge
The tale of Princess Elizabeth and Margaret’s sortie among the wild nighttime celebrations of commoners on VE Day loses the facts in the crowd – except for that conga
Carol review – Cate Blanchett captivates in woozily obsessive lesbian romance
Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt has become an entrancing Cannes premiere directed by Todd Haynes, beautifully made and outstandingly intelligent
A Tale of Love and Darkness review – Natalie Portman’s love letter to Israel
Andrew Pulver: Natalie Portman has gone back to her home country for her directorial debut, a serious, well-made adaptation of Amos Oz’s memoir of the early years of Israel’s statehood
The Avengers: Age of Ultron holds on to UK box office top spot with £8.59m in second week
Thomas Vinterberg’s Thomas Hardy adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd takes second place in market free of major players
Reese Witherspoon options SJ Watson mystery thriller Second Life
Gone Girl producer hoping to emulate thriller’s success with an adaptation of the latest book from Before I Go to Sleep author
Jennifer Garner to headline faith film Miracles from Heaven
The Elektra and Dallas Buyers Club star will play the mother of a Texan girl ‘healed by God’
My favourite Cannes winner: Apocalypse Now
Alex Hess views Francis Ford Coppola’s triumph at the 1979 festival as vindication of the film-maker’s own journey into the heart of darkness
Andrew Lesnie obituary
Cinematographer awarded an Oscar for his work on The Lord of the Rings
Liam Neeson to produce IRA sniper film
The romantic thriller A Mad and Wonderful Thing will be an adaptation of the story of a Real IRA sniper
British directors could still make a splash at Cannes, says festival director
Thierry Frémaux hints that Ben Wheatley’s High Rise and Terence Davies’ Sunset Song are still in the mix for the festival, which still has places to fill for the official selection
Captain Marvel: women writers hired for first female-fronted superhero movie
The women behind Guardians of the Galaxy and Inside Out have been hired to pen script for forthcoming comic-book adaptation about female pilot with ‘energy projection’ superpowers
Brett Ratner to direct Oligarchs movie
Warner Bros options book about the rise of Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich with Hercules director set to take reins
Need for Speed the Plow: David Mamet to adapt stage satire for big screen
The playwright will script a movie version of his Hollywood-set drama, which was recently revived in London starring Lindsay Lohan
The Longest Ride review: stop the wooing, I want to get off
The 10th Nicholas Sparks film adaptation mashes up a college girl meets bull-rider romance with the long drawn-out life story of a childless war veteran – to gruesome effect