A Hijacking and The Reluctant Fundamentalist announce a new narrative order

Phil Hoad: Film has moved on from the non-linear jigsaws once used to depict our globalised state. Mira Nair's thriller dynamic and the subtlety found in Danish counterpart A Hijacking point the direction things are going

Tobey Maguire: ‘I always knew I’d be successful’

Tobey Maguire grew up on food stamps and struggled with drink and drugs in his teens. Yet, The Great Gatsby star tells Emma Brockes, he always knew he was going to succeed

Which literary novels should daredevil film directors adapt next?

John Dugdale: The same daredevil spirit that has informed many an apparently insane film or TV version over the past decade has seen adaptations of literary novels

50 Shades of Grey: Joe Wright set for director’s chair

Atonement director reportedly frontrunner for film adaptation of EL James's notorious knee-trembler

As The Great Gatsby opens, what makes a good book adaptation, anyway?

Alan Yuhas: Baz Luhrmann is the latest to try translating a celebrated book to the big screen, but there's danger in being too faithful to the text

Tom Cruise confirmed for Mission: Impossible 5

Actor returns for fifth Mission after success of Ghost Protocol – reportedly with Jack Reacher's Christopher McQuarrie in tow

Iron Man 3 makes second-biggest US debut of all time

Marvel Studios' latest Tony Stark instalment opens with colossal $175.3m, putting it second only to 2012's The Avengers

Judy Blume helped a generation of young women to grow up

Morven Crumlish: Fans will whoop to hear Tiger Eyes has been made into a film. For many she was the first writer to make sense of the world

Steven Spielberg and Bradley Cooper join forces to adapt American Sniper

Film based on autobiography of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American military history, who was shot dead at a firing range in February

John Grisham to publish A Time to Kill sequel

Author's next thriller Sycamore Row will see heroic lawyer of Grisham's 1988 bestseller 'fight for justice' once again

Iron Man 3 international cut angers Chinese bloggers

Internet users in China who have seen international cut of new superhero movie dismayed at lack of airtime for Chinese stars and China-set sequences

Fifty Shades of Grey: Gus van Sant makes steamy bid for director’s chair

Van Sant has reportedly shot sex scene – with Alex Pettyfer as Christian Grey – in hopes of tying himself to forthcoming film

Me and You – review

Me and You has warmth and a tell-tale Bertolucci touch, but it's not among his greatest films, writes Peter Bradshaw

Robert Downey Jr hints Iron Man film role may have lost its sheen

Star of superhero movies suggests forthcoming sequel Iron Man 3 may be his last, as novelty wears off

Tom Cruise to star in Japanese sci-fi saga Yukikaze

Ben Child: After success with Oblivion, the 50-year-old actor is to take on another dystopian-future tale, this time an adaptation of Chōhel Kamayashi's novels