The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies review – exactly what it promised to be

Andrew Pulver: The final section of Peter Jackson’s monumental Tolkien trilogy rounds off the story of Bilbo Baggins with the monumental confrontation its title suggests

Hunger Games could continue feeding film-goers after books consumed

Francis Lawrence, director of three of the four adaptations of Suzanne Collins’s books, has confirmed that plans are afoot for more movies set in the Hunger Games world

Matthew McConaughey to take The Stand for Stephen King adaptation

Oscar-winning actor tipped to play villain in four-film version of King’s epic novel, directed by The Fault in Our Stars’s Josh Boone

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 review – Jennifer Lawrence still engages in this operatic nightmare

The YA drama seems to be evolving toward superheroism, showing Katniss Everdeen’s development into a sleek, black-robed ninja, writes Peter Bradshaw

Paul Greengrass eyes 1984 movie

British director attached to long-gestating Hollywood take on George Orwell’s dystopian classic

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy screenwriter to adapt The Goldfinch

News: Donna Tartt’s bestselling, Pulitzer-winning novel about grief, love and art theft makes its next step towards the big screen

Stake and chips: Aaron Sorkin to write movie about ‘poker princess’ Molly Bloom

The screenwriter is to adapt the memoirs of skier turned poker entrepreneur who shares name with Ulysses heroine

Caitlin Moran novel How to Build a Girl reinvented as film adaptation

Moran to work on script for comic tale of teenage sex, drugs and music criticism that mirrors writer’s own rise through ranks of pop journalism

Jack O’Connell to tilt at lead role in Terry Gilliam’s revived Don Quixote film

The former Skins star is the latest lead in a film beset by problems and delayed for 17 years

Michael Bay to direct drama about killing of US ambassador in Benghazi

Transformers director to take on adaptation of Thirteen Hours: A Firsthand Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, which tells of the killing of four men on 11 September 2012

Erotic Harry Styles-inspired fan-fiction set for big screen

Online hit After, which takes its cues from Fifty Shades of Grey and the One Direction singer, has been optioned for a movie version by Paramount

Paul Greengrass heading into the Berlin Wall tunnels for real-life escape drama

British director’s next movie to be adaptation of forthcoming 1960s-set novel about west Germans trying to smuggle relatives from the east with the help of US TV crews

Forget Goliath: rival King David movies in the works

Warner Bros optioning book by Los Angeles rabbi about the life of biblical legend, while Ridley Scott also has a King David movie cooking

How The Maze Runner points to a new direction in film adaptations

The YA movie is storming cinemas the world over. Its success paves the way for a new role behind the scenes in Hollywood: the literary-agent-cum-producer

Lena Dunham to get medieval with film of YA novel Catherine, Called Birdy

The Girls creator is to adapt Young Adult story set in 13th-century England