Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett added to cast for Jungle Book: Origins
Actors will voice Bagheera and Kaa in Andy Serkis's directorial debut, alongside Naomie Harris and Benedict Cumberbatch
Tiger fight: Benedict Cumberbatch’s Shere Khan to battle Idris Elba’s rival cat in Andy Serkis’s Jungle Book
Cumberbatch is to voice the purring baddie in Andy Serkis’s version of The Jungle Book, which competes with Jon Favreau’s alternate take, in which Elba plays Mowgli’s arch-enemy
Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort boss movie section of Teen Choice awards
Stars of Divergent and The Fault in Our Stars clean up in both action and drama categories of the awards show that attracted over 160m votes
Terry Gilliam says he will finally get his Don Quixote film off the ground
Director says he will begin shooting late this year, but the concept behind the film has radically altered to a modern-day, self-referential fable
Why I’d like to be… Michael Caine in The Quiet American
Michael Pattison: Caine gives a definitive, jaded, lovelorn performance in Phillip Noyce's 2002 version of Graham Greene's stunning 1955 novel
The Goldfinch: who should direct and star in the movie?
Warner Bros has bought the rights to film Donna Tartt’s bestseller. Who do you think would be perfect to play Theo Decker and company – and who should direct?
Fifty Shades of Grey trailer most viewed of 2014
Promo for Sam Taylor-Johnson's film of EL James's erotic novel has notched up 36.4m views on YouTube so far, writes Ben Child
Jeff Bridges tells Comic-Con of struggle to get Lois Lowry’s The Giver filmed
Carys Herz: Bridges' father, whom the actor had hoped to direct in the title role, died before plans for the film could came to fruition
Why I’d like to be … Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird
Even from a small English village, Atticus Finch, the lawyer defending a wrongly accused African American in the deep south of America, seemed the epitome of quiet decency, fatherly tenderness and physical courage, writes Neil Mitchell
Harper Lee: should Marja Mills’ memoir have been published?
A war of words broke out this week following the publication of a memoir featuring To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee. So what are the ethics of telling someone else's life story, asks Aida Edemariam
Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes – first picture
The actor has tweeted a picture of himself in costume as the aged sleuth in a film adaptation of Mitch Cullen's novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, writes Ben Child
Appreciation: Mary Rodgers’s Freaky Friday made adolescence seem cool
Despite its 1970s setting, Freaky Friday has continued to entertain readers into the 21st century
John Niven: a writer’s adventures in cinema land
When John Niven, the cult author of Kill Your Friends, was approached about turning his tale of greed, venality and excess in Britpop's 90s heyday into a film, he thought it would be a doddle. Here he explains how wrong he was
JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts to shoot in UK at home of Harry Potter
Adaptation of Rowling's 'magizoology' compendium to be produced at Warner Bros's complex in Leavesden, Hertfordshire