The Hunger Games devours Twilight box-office records
Jeremy Kay: The Hunger Games' $155m opening haul was the third-biggest debut in US cinema history. And there's more to come
Parent files police complaint after teacher reads Ender’s Game to pupils
A teacher in South Carolina is on adminstrative leave after the parent of a 14-year-old complained that Orson Scott Card's classic novel was 'pornographic'
Never mind The Hunger Games – is The Host the new Twilight?
Ben Child: The debut teaser trailer has arrived for the big-screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's novel about an alien race who take over human bodies
The Hunger Games review – enjoyable futurist adventure, presented with a compelling, beady-eyed intensity
There's a tang of satire in this televised survival-contest thriller that allows it to outrun the Twilight comparisons
Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four forecast for Hollywood remake
An American consortium that includes director Ron Howard has secured the film rights to George Orwell's highly influential novel
John Carter set to lose Disney $200m
Muddled marketing and lukewarm reviews blamed for bad performance of space epic, which opened with just $30m in US
The Hunger Games takes seven-second cut to get 12A rating
Makers of futuristic teen film starring Jennifer Lawrence agree to changes requested by British Board of Film Classification
The Dark Tower film project picked up by Warner Bros
Ron Howard's proposed adaptation of Stephen King's fantasy series would star Javier Bardem and begin shooting in 2013
Trishna – review
Michael Winterbottom transplants Hardy perennial Tess of the d'Urbervilles to Jaipur, but she fails to bloom, writes Peter Bradshaw
John Carter – review
The fantasy-romance adventures of a civil war veteran transported to Mars made for a giant, suffocating doughy feast of boredom, writes Peter Bradshaw
Mark Kermode’s DVD round-up
Steven Soderbergh isn't afraid to kill off his big-name stars in the fast-moving Contagion, writes Mark Kermode
Scarlett Johansson to play Janet Leigh in the Making of Psycho
Johansson to star opposite Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren in Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
Sam Raimi to bring The Day of the Triffids to the big screen
Evil Dead creator will produce film version of John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic tale of angry plants
Fictional hacks – from Maupassant to Larsson
Journalists have been glamorous social climbers and bumbling fools in fiction – sometimes they've even been feminists and righters of wrongs, says John Dugdale