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Matthew Vaughn set to film Jonathan Ross comic

Kick-Ass director wants to adapt TV presenter's forthcoming graphic novel The Golden Age for the big screen

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood to score We Need to Talk About Kevin

Third film from Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, adapted from Lionel Shriver's novel, will feature music by Radiohead guitarist

How Never Let Me Go gave up and died

David Cox: This beautiful film misfires by failing to understand that its heroes' fate is in the hands of others, not uncontrollable forces

Rabbit Hole burrows into our ideals

David Cox: As this psychologically accurate child-loss drama suggests, the nuclear family isolates the grieving when they most need support

Brighton Rock’s themes are too big for the screen

Robert McCrum: The new film can't capture the novel's spiritual struggles, but it should send readers back to the book

Joaquin Phoenix could rise again in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Star of I'm Still Here has reportedly been offered acting return in mashup about 16th US president's battles with the undead

Did Barney need another version?

Don't let Hollywood's sugary adaptation put you off reading Mordecai Richler's acid novel, Barney's Version

WG Sebald: Darkness on the edge of Anglia

In 1992, WG Sebald turned a walk through Suffolk into an extraordinary book. As a film inspired by the work is premiered, Stuart Jeffries retraces his steps

It’s time to stop this obsession with works of art based on real events

Dramas based on real lives are a mainstay of film and books. But are they destroying the art of storytelling, asks William Skidelsky

Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man revealed in first shot from new film

British actor appears as brooding figure in photographic peek at prequel that deals with Spider-Man Peter Parker's teenage years

Bond 23 confirmed: Daniel Craig back as 007 in new film

James Bond returns to mark 50th anniversary of Dr No after surviving his toughest test ever: the bankruptcy of MGM Studios

Sir Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis sign up for The Hobbit

Lord of the Rings stars to return as Gandalf and Gollum in Peter Jackson's two-part Tolkien prequel, The Hobbit

Trent Reznor to score The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Nine Inch Nails frontman to showcase 'limited skills at stringed instruments' for David Fincher's film of Stieg Larsson novel

Ricky Gervais to voice Mole in The Wind in the Willows adaptation

'I had Ricky in mind for this role from the inception of the project,' says director behind new take on Kenneth Grahame's classic

Robert Pattinson to star in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis

Ben Child: RPattz meets the Baron of Blood as teen idol and horror supremo collaborate on adaptation of Don DeLillo novel

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