The Life of Pi sells 3,141,593 copies, and counting …

There's every reason why Yann Martel's irrational novel has been catapulted back into the bestseller charts

Cloud Atlas: how Hollywood failed to put it on the map

Phil Hoad: The film's release should have been a global event, but its studio's reticence over its fragmented form has led to disappointing box office returns

Christian Bale takes on Everest in new Working Title film

Actor to star in Baltasar Kormákur's disaster movie based on real storm on Everest that killed eight climbers

The Shrinking Man set for big-screen comeback in modern reboot

Writer Richard Matheson to update classic sci-fi novel for new 'existential action movie' that will include new scientific advances

Nicholas Hoult to star in film of Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong

Actor to play lead role in a big-screen adaptation of the acclaimed first world war-set novel

The Hulk in space – is this the next move for The Avengers’ jade giant?

Ben Child: Mark Ruffalo may get his own Hulk movie, with a storyline based on Marvel's Planet Hulk. What do you think of the idea?

Rereading Stephen King: week 15 – Christine

James Smythe: This tale of a stereotypical nerd who buys a possessed car plays into the hands of those detractors who label Stephen King's work formulaic. I suspect it was the first time his fans felt cheated

Joaquin Phoenix set to star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice

Actor and director will reunite on Los Angeles noir film based on novel by Thomas Pynchon

Julian Assange attacks new WikiLeaks film

Speaking during an Oxford Union debate, the WikiLeaks founder described The Fifth Estate as a 'massive propaganda attack'

James Franco to bring American Tabloid to big screen

Adaptation of James Ellroy novel will be next directorial project, Franco tells MTV at Sundance festival. He also plans to star

Jakob Arjouni obituary

German crime writer whose private eye Kemal Kayankaya operated in Frankfurt's seedy underworld

Les Misérables: not as revolutionary as it seems

Alex von Tunzelmann: Every showtune rendered in grubby closeup does not a historically accurate film make. Just which French Revolution are we talking about here?