Gia Coppola: keeping it in the family
Sofia Coppola is her aunt and Francis her granddad, but the third generation of directors in the family has James Franco to thank for her debut feature, Palo Alto
Iggy Pop and Dario Argento seek crowdfunding for Sandman horror film
Donors who contribute towards $250,000 target on Indiegogo, for ETA Hoffmann’s The Sandman, will get perks including possible roles opposite Iggy
The Maze Runner’s James Dashner: Movies are my first love. And that’s how I write
How does it feel to have your best selling novel turned into a Hollywood movie? Site member Patrick Sproull gets to ask James Dashner, as movie version of his book The Maze Runner hits the screens across the UK
I Am Legend 2: time for a new species of sci-fi film?
Ben Child: Warner are rebooting their 2007 post-apocalyptic vampire thriller without Will Smith’s Robert Neville. Will there be space for the source novel’s radical comment on interspecies understanding?
Gone Girl review – David Fincher thrills with portrait of love gone wrong
Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck are today’s Bergman and Boyer in a twisted tale of murder, misogyny and love gone wrong, writes Peter Bradshaw
Angry Birds movie: Peter Dinklage and Maya Rudolph revealed in cast announcement
Peter Dinklage, Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph among those confirmed for big screen adaptation of popular computer game
Tetris the movie falls into place
‘A very big, epic sci-fi movie’ planned for console-to-cinema adaptation of block-stacking classic
Quiz: Can you identify the film adaptation from the book’s cover?
From manuscript to the screen: do you recognise the book covers that spawned film adaptations?
First look at Paul Thomas Anderson’s Pynchon adaptation, Inherent Vice
Joaquin Phoenix stars alongside Josh Brolin and Reese Witherspoon in a marked change in tone from Anderson’s previous film with Phoenix, The Master
David Fincher on Gone Girl: ‘Bad things happen in this movie…’
The cult director of The Social Network refashions Gillian Fynn’s gripping bestseller into a macabre meditation on married life in the modern age
Human Capital review – a shrewd portrait of status anxiety and avarice
Stephen Amidon’s novel of greed and family consequences is skilfully transplanted to Milan for this caustic drama, writes Peter Bradshaw
Beat the Devil: ‘It was a hell of a lark doing it’
Truman Capote wrote it on the hoof, Humphrey Bogart lost his teeth in a car crash during production, and director John Huston fell off a cliff … the chaos and carousing on set made 1953’s Beat the Devil a delirious cult classic, writes Thirza Wakefield
The Drop by Dennis Lehane review – bars, baseball and gangsters
In his final role, James Gandolfini stars in the film version of this smart, grubby and enjoyable novel set in a Boston bar used for money drops by Chechen gangsters, writes James Smart
Ang Lee to enter the huddle with Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Ben Child: Life of Pi director to adapt Ben Fountain’s award-winning novel, hailed as a ‘Catch 22 for the Iraq war’
Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 will need all J-Law’s superpowers
If the new trailer is anything to go by, the final instalments will need Arena-style tech to overcome the source material, writes Ben Child