Toronto cancels London Fields premiere after director Mathew Cullen sues producers

Makers of star-studded mystery thriller based on Martin Amis’s classic 1989 novel imposed ‘false, distorted and perverted associations’ on director and cast members Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and Billy Bob Thornton, claims suit

Ice Cube to play Scrooge in Christmas Carol movie Humbug

Rapper-turned-actor reunited with Ride Along director Tim Story, and could pocket $10m for role of Dickens’s miserly curmudgeon in wake of success for NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton

Jennifer Lawrence in line for spy thriller Red Sparrow with Hunger Games director

Oscar-winner would play a Russian agent trained against her will in the art of seduction in adaptation of Jason Matthews’ New York Times bestseller

Poets speak out for refugees: ‘No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark’

Five young London poets who have written about displacement and identity reflect on the refugee experience

Bear necessities: short but sweet first trailer for Disney’s Jungle Book remake hits web

Tiny ‘mancub’ Mowgli fights for survival against a lush subcontinental backdrop teeming with photo-real CGI beasts in Jon Favreau’s fantasy

Toronto 2015: Room adaptation doesn’t directly reference Fritzl case, say film-makers

Although both Emma Donaghue’s novel and the well-received film adaptation recall the horrifying Fritzl case, the film-makers said they stayed away from the story in the making of the drama.

Iraq war translator memoir from American Sniper co-writer heading to cinemas

The film based on the bestselling memoir about an Iraqi who helped US Navy Seals, and adapted by Straight Outta Compton screenwriter Alan Wenkus, will be touted to buyers at this week’s Toronto film festival

The Audacious Ascetic by Flagg Miller review – banality of evil, Al-Qaida style

The huge cache of audio cassettes left behind by Osama bin Laden show him and his supporters to have been disturbingly mundane

Black Earth: The Holocaust As History and Warning review – evil explained in detail

Timothy Snyder’s examination of the Holocaust is chilling, timely and instructive

Tom Hiddleston proves he can sing in first clip from Hank Williams biopic

British actor releases footage of himself performing Move It on Over in I Saw the Light in advance of Toronto film festival premiere

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war

Even if lawful, the test is whether military action is effective

Innocence of Memories review – Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul rendered strange and beautiful

British film-maker Grant Gee has got together with Turkey’s Nobel prize-winning novelist, and the result is a mesmerising, original meditation on love and the city

Smashing melons and juggling chainsaws: Guinness World Record breakers tell their stories

As the annual compendium of bizarre human feats celebrates its 60th anniversary, the world’s tallest man and a man who smashes melons with his head, among others, explain what drew them to compete

The Guardian view on Podemos: rage against austerity is not enough

Editorial: Protests against austerity propelled Podemos to the forefront of Spanish politics. The fate of Syriza in Greece shows some of the problems ahead

Despite decades of exile, I still feel the pull of my homeland

In 1982 I fled the Kenyan dictatorship’s threats on my life. But I can never forget the feelings of hope and of mutual care that I experienced in my childhood village