Word and image: my top 10 books on film
From Christopher Isherwood's 'limbo of mirror-images' to 'the projected film's best-kept secret', Michael Wood picks his favourite writing on cinema
Cannes film festival set to honour the bookworm
Coveted Palme d'Or likely to go to a screen adaptation, with many of this year's entrants borrowing from literature
Make way for the female comic geeks
Kapow! is a comic convention run by sisters – but will women ever be welcomed by the boys' club?
Happy Birthday, A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess's diabolical tale of juvenile ultraviolence is 50. Five decades on, the novel holds a lofty position as one of pop culture's most influential and enduring pieces of literature
Paddington Bear to take big-screen voyage
Michael Bond's polite bear from Peru will have to dust off his duffle coat as his live action/CGI debut, directed by Paul King, gets the go-ahead
Harry Potter theme park to open in Japan
A third Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park is to open at Universal Studios' Osaka site in 2014
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Guidebook Adaptations …
Stuart Heritage: ... But Were Afraid to Ask. Pregnancy guide What to Expect When You're Expecting is the latest self-help book to be turned into a film. Which manuals would you tout around Tinseltown?
Adrian Searle encounters … Luc Tuymans’s Allo!
The Guardian art critic journeys deep into the heart of darkness with Tuymans's Gauguin-themed painting, displayed in A Room for London, the boat perched on the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Culture coach: the week’s essential arts stories
Charlotte Higgins: Every week I'll round up the biggest arts stories from around the web, recommend a long read and look ahead at what's coming up
BBC and Arts Council launch joint digital Space for culture
Partnership set to offer hundreds of hours of new and archived arts programming online, on mobile and on digital TV. By John Plunkett
Simon Hoggart’s week: Jeremy Hunt and the art of self-deception
Simon Hoggart|Bizarre yarn with the ring of truth, paying tribute to the A303 and James Bond's switch from dry martinis to Heineken
Suzanne Collins: Hunger Games author who found rich pickings in dystopia
She's the top-selling Kindle author and the film of her book has made £300m worldwide – yet Collins remains an enigma
On her majesty’s silver service: expats dust off tuxedos for BritWeek in LA
Britons famous, once famous and perhaps to be famous again are beating the drum for the UK in Hollywood this week
Credible science fiction needs arts and sciences collaboration, say authors
A group of SF writers are calling for a body that will match scientists with creative projects needing advice
Should judges always pick a winner?
The Pulitzer prize for fiction will not be awarded this year after the jury couldn't raise a majority for any of the candidates. But is this such a bad thing? Alex Clark and Nick Fraser talk it through
Avengers Assemble – review
Joss Whedon proves himself a master plate-spinner at drawing together the meaty backstories of a half-dozen superheroes, writes Henry Barnes
Henwood and Rutherford join PPC board
Executives behind 4oD, Pottermore and Unilever join board of Picture Production Company. By Mark Sweney
What is the moral message of The Hunger Games?
Michael Rosen: Although this fantasy thriller depicts a world of human cruelty, it also offers a few uplifting clues about where power lies
Irvine Welsh: ‘I’m the same kind of writer as I am a drinker. I’m a binger’
The Trainspotting author has returned to Renton, Sick Boy and Begbie with Skagboys, a prequel to his best-selling debut novel. He explains why he continues to explore those 'dark places'
A headhunter’s view on Headhunters
Obviously, I've never contemplated stealing art, but I did see some interesting parallels with recruitment in Brown's five rules of theft, says James Callander
The Hunger Games continues box office binge
Jeremy Kay: The Hunger Games and the not unfamiliar American Reunion and Titanic 3D dominate during the long weekend at the US box office
Fly to Brittany, spring gardens break and three of the best alfresco arts events
The newly accessible French coastline, green-fingered forays and outdoor screenings and concerts at stately homes
Mirror Mirror is a poor reflection of real fairytales
Morven Crumlish: Julia Roberts's latest film is part of the trend to jazz up fairytales for modern tastes. But the original stories need no adaptation
The Woman in Black to haunt cinemas again in Susan Hill sequel
Hammer and Hill team up again on new story The Woman in Black: Angels of Death, which will be adapted by screenwriter Jon Croker
New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake’s 80th birthday
Amy Winehouse, JK Rowling, Noel Gallagher, Mick Jagger and the Monty Python foot to feature in update of 1967 original
Is the Hollywood remake dead?
David Fincher's adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is only the latest English-language version of a hit Scandi film to disappoint at the box office. Have we now got a taste for 'authentic originals'?
Five great films with terrible endings
OK, it's the most difficult part of a film to get right but there's nothing worse than letting your audience down at the last minute
The Hunger Games’ 12A classification not to the taste of concerned parents
Science-fiction thriller censured for depicting brutality and bloodshed on a scale felt to stretch boundaries of 12A rating
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 trailer: the end is nigh
Undead soap opera the Twilight Saga is nearing its demise – the final one, this time. But what's at stake for the heroine and her vampire husband in Breaking Dawn – Part 2? Let's find out …
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
The Hunger Games smashes US box office records
Sci-fi thriller takes $155m on opening weekend and could become '$1bn franchise'
The rise of ‘mommy porn’: UK writer lures Hollywood with bestselling erotic trilogy Fifty Shades
Major film deal in pipeline for EL James, whose trilogy began as fan fiction online