Kate Winslet to seek revenge with needles in The Dressmaker
Rosalie Ham's award-winning Australian gothic novel coming to screen, co-starring Judy Davis as Winslet's mother
Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep to reunite for The Good House adaptation
Hollywood titans, who have five Oscars between them, to play ex-lovers in film version of Ann Leary's bestselling novel
Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling shortlisted to play Batman in Man of Steel 2
Joseph Gordon-Levitt also tipped for Bruce Wayne role in Zack Snyder sequel, which will feature Batman battling Superman
Happy birthday, Hannibal: The Silence of the Lambs turns 25
David Barnett: It's been a quarter of a century since Thomas Harris's cultured cannibal exploded on the thriller scene, winning fictional killers a place in our hearts for ever
Weinsteins to work with Disney on Artemis Fowl film
Ben Child: Brothers Bob and Harvey are to collaborate once more with Disney, with whom they had an acrimonious falling out in 2004
The Birth of a Nation: a gripping masterpiece … and a stain on history
Xan Brooks: DW Griffith's silent epic lionised the Ku Klux Klan and depicted black Americans as ignorant rapists, but cinema still owes a debt to the director's pioneering techniques
The Private Eye: Detectives in the Movies by Bran Nicol – review
An insightful survey of gumshoes of the silver screen including Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, writes PD Smith
JK Rowling’s crime novel at centre of bidding war for film rights
Several Hollywood studios seeking to buy The Cuckoo's Calling after 'Robert Galbraith' revealed to be Harry Potter author
Natalie Portman to move into directing with of A Tale of Love and Darkness
Black Swan actor will fly to Israel in September to begin work on film of Amos Oz's bestselling novel about his early years
JK Rowling’s pseudonymous novel pursued by Hollywood studios
The Cuckoo's Calling by 'Robert Galbraith' is subject of interest from a number of big-hitters including Warner Bros
Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor join Johnny Depp on Mortdecai
Andrew Pulver: New cast members announced for upcoming Depp film, a comic crime thriller based on books by Kyril Bonfiglioli
Vincenzo Cerami obituary
Italian screenwriter, novelist and poet who formed a successful partnership with film director Roberto Benigni
12 Years a Slave: first trailer hits web
Steve McQueen's historical drama, based on a true story, stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as a free man tricked into bondage in the 1840s
Milk writer brands Ender’s Game boycott ‘misguided’
Ben Child: Award-winning writer and LGBT campaigner Dustin Lance Black has criticised activists' campaign against science fiction film
Will Seventh Son bear only a faint family resemblance to the books?
Ben Child: Hollywood has worked its magic on Joseph Delaney's source material, infusing its Lancashire setting with swords-and-sorcery glitz. Diehard fans are reading t' riot act