Stephenie Meyer – a squeaky-clean vampire queen

Profile: New Moon's chaste tale of the undead will fill the world's cinemas with teenage girls this week, yet the woman behind a publishing phenomenon to rival JK Rowling and Dan Brown has never even seen an R-rated movie

Twilight sucks up People’s Choice award nominations

Vampire love affair leads race for public's votes with six nods

Arabian Nights set for Hollywood makeover

Director of the Mummy spin-off The Scorpion King signs up to give a new spin to the classic characters of One Thousand and One Nights

Lionel Davidson obituary

Obituary: Award-winning writer renowned for thrillers such as The Rose of Tibet and The Chelsea Murders

Fashion on film

Nicole Kidman's furs, Naomie Harris's fitted suits and Ben Whishaw's battered work boots – let film be your muse this autumn, says Emma Sibbles

Wes Anderson’s urbane Mr Fox is truer to Roald Dahl than most

The vision of rural England in the new animated Fantastic Mr Fox may be Buckinghamshire channelling Berkeley, but its sensibility is unmistakably British

New film Where the Wild Things Are sends parents into a ‘rumpus’

The screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's 1963 morality tale has sparked a debate about the merits of frightening our children

Romancing the Raj

Kapil Komireddi: A new film about the end of British rule in India will focus not on the costs of colonialism but on the private lives of the elite

Polanski finishing The Ghost in jail

Author Robert Harris, who co-wrote the film, says the director is working to complete the film in time for the Berlin film festival in February

The perils of putting David Foster Wallace on film

Danny Leigh: A straight adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable work of Foster Wallace is asking for trouble. If only John Krasinski had captured the author's spirit and not the words

Carl Hiaasen adaptations would be a hoot

Saptarshi Ray: So far only two of Carl Hiaasen's books have made it to the big screen – Striptease, and a children's film about endangered owls – but his laugh-out-loud stories are surely ripe for adaptation?

Duchess of York’s children’s books to be Hollywood films

Sarah Ferguson's Little Red books for four-to-eight-year-olds have been snapped up by a US movie company

Diablo Cody to tackle Sweet Valley High

Juno writer to script film adaptation of the long-running book series about a pair of beautiful identical twins and their high-school exploits

Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting sequel is set for departure

News: The Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire director is reportedly keen to adapt Irvine Welsh's novel, Porno, as a follow-up to his 1996 drama starring Ewan McGregor