Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer released
Ben Child: Jennifer Lawrence returns to the deadly arena in the latest instalment of Suzanne Collins's sci-fi post-apocalyptic series – this time with ultra-nasty, extra-vicious supergames
Was Stephen King right to hate Stanley Kubrick’s Shining?
Hollywood has always played fast and loose with novels – risking the author's wrath by changing plot and characters. Joe Dunthorne looks back on some memorable film cheats
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala obituary
Novelist and screenwriter known for her work on Merchant Ivory films, including A Room with a View and Heat and Dust
Iron Man 3: the superhero sequel suits up for a cinematic smash
Ben Child: New armour, new villains and a nasty new nemesis in the shape of Ben Kingsley – preview footage of the next Iron Man film shows a franchise on the warpath
Wolverine trailer shows superhero giving yakuza claws for thought
Superhero film The Wolverine takes Hugh Jackman to Japan in the latest big-screen comic-book adaptation
Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman to enter The Secret Service
Director and screenwriter behind Kick-Ass to return with big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar's comic book
The Servant: a 60s masterwork that hides its homosexuality in the shadows
Peter Bradshaw: Joseph Losey's superb 1963 film about class and sex is once again in cinemas – but to locate its elusive gay gene, you have to revisit its source in Robin Maugham's extraordinary and disturbing novella
Mohsin Hamid: ‘Pakistan and India are incredibly similar’
The author on why his novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a 'secular Sufi love poem' and why some fans of The Reluctant Fundamentalist would like more 'drugs and sex'
Robert Redford lined up for Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Actor's role as M-style senior agent in superhero sequel would be Redford's first comic-book film to date
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – a sneak preview of first footage
Ben Child: Peter Jackson's preview of the sequel to the Rings prequel shows filmmaker taking fresh liberties with Tolkien's work
Gone Girl: what makes Gillian Flynn’s psychological thriller so popular?
A tale of marital meltdown has Hollywood hot under the collar and is up for its first literary award – and deservedly so, writes Alex Clark
Jurassic Park IV snaffles Colin Trevorrow to direct
Director of 2012 Sundance hit Safety Not Guaranteed will steer fourth instalment of Steven Spielberg's dinosaur saga
Final Hobbit film pushed back to December 2014
Third instalment in Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's novel moved to align with release strategy for Lord of the Rings
Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe set for starring roles in two classic tales
Former Hogwarts alumni in line for two new films: Watson for Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella and Radcliffe for Frankenstein
Brighton festival 2013 takes off, with Michael Rosen at helm
Programme for May's three-week arts celebration – released today – will feature Emil and the Detectives, Judith Kerr and Michael Rosen's orchestral work for kids, The Great Enormo