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Saving Mr Banks trailer hits web – with Tom Hanks starring as Walt Disney

The making-of-Mary Poppins movie features Emma Thompson as author PL Travers and Colin Farrell as her real-life father

Ben Affleck in line for David Fincher’s Gone Girl adaptation

Actor to star as Nick, who becomes a suspect in his wife's disappearance, in film of Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel

Johnny Depp to play another eccentric: art dealer Charlie Mortdecai

Actor in talks for role of character who 'must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks' to recover Nazi treasure

Akira: the future-Tokyo story that brought anime west

The cult 1988 anime taught western film-makers new ideas in storytelling, and helped cartoons grow up, writes Phil Hoad

Hobbit profits at centre of The Butler title row, says Harvey Weinstein

Spat over film's title rights escalates as Harvey Weinstein accuses Warner Bros of bullying on morning TV

Disney to make live action Jungle Book

Studio to return Rudyard Kipling's tale to big screen – at same time as Warner Bros plans rival adaptation

Charlie Kaufman ‘perfect’ to adapt Slaughterhouse-Five for screen

Director Guillermo del Toro wants the screenwriter to work on his film of Kurt Vonnegut's novel

Activists call for Ender’s Game boycott over author’s anti-gay views

US group Geeks Out launches 'Skip Ender's Game' website, citing novelist Orson Scott Card's opposition to gay marriage

Steven Spielberg eyes Grapes of Wrath

Director poised to produce new film adaptation of John Steinbeck novel for DreamWorks, according to reports

Fantastic Mr Fox recap: Wes Anderson reworking well worth another look

Roald Dahl's vulpine classic is transformed into an Ocean's Eleven-style heist caper. Weirdly, it works

Keira Knightley to star in The Other Typist

British actor will produce and take leading role in adaptation of Suzanne Rindell's jazz-age novel

The Counselor: first trailer for new Ridley Scott film released

Watch Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem in new thriller based on Cormac McCarthy's debut screenplay

Jim Carrey condemns violence in his own movie Kick-Ass 2

Actor, who filmed role one month before Newtown shootings, tweeted that 'now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence'

Fifty Shades of Grey the movie – could it maybe, just maybe, be good?

Mathilda Gregory: With Sam Taylor-Johnson directing, an artist who knows a thing about female desire, the film of the hit book could surprise us all

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