Are Cosmopolis and Robert Pattinson en route to Cannes?
With a 23 May release date revealed in its teaser trailer, David Cronenberg's adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel must surely be on this year's Cannes film festival lineupThe teaser trailer for Cosmopolis opens with a semi-naked Robert Pattinson lollin...
The Hunger Games – review
This compelling, lightly satirical tale is that rarest of beasts: a Hollywood action blockbuster that is smart, taut and knottyEliza Doolittle's transformation has nothing on that of Katniss Everdeen, the hardscrabble heroine of The Hunger Games, who f...
Stephen Fry joins The Hobbit pub’s fight with Hollywood
The Hobbit star criticises attempt by production's lawyers to force Southampton pub to change its nameThe battle between Hollywood and The Hobbit gained an unexpected new recruit as the British performer Stephen Fry threw his weight behind a campaign t...
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 PsychoScarlett Johansson will step into the shower to play Janet Leigh in a behind-the-scenes drama about the making of Psycho. Based on the 1990 book by ...
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 plantsSam Raimi is set to water and tend a big-screen version of The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic tale about mankind's struggle against...
Persepolis trial in Tunisia is postponed again
Trial of Tunisian TV station accused of 'insulting sacred values' of Islam for screening Marjane Satrapi's animated film is adjourned until April following further altercationsA trial of a Tunisian TV station charged with "insulting sacred values" by s...
Patience (After Sebald) – review
Grant Gee's likably loquacious documentary elegantly re-traces WG Sebald's steps through the Suffolk countrysideIn the summer of 1992, the author WG Sebald, "irradiated by melancholy", set off on a physical and philosophical wander through the Suffolk ...
Sarah Polley to direct adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace
Canadian actor will direct version of Atwood's bestselling true-crime tale, while James Franco signs debut novel dealSarah Polley is poised to direct an adaptation of Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood's 1996 novel about a double murder in the wilds of Canad...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – review
David Fincher directs Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in an icebox-fresh take on this familiar thrillerDavid Fincher turns the film noir white with this steely, stealthy adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Taking the thriller genre's staple ing...
John Hodge: from Trainspotting to Bulgakov
Does Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge's play, Collaborators – about an author forced to work for Stalin – echo his own Hollywood nightmare? Not quite, he tells Xan BrooksOne of the upsides to being a writer is the ability to write yourself out...
Daniel Radcliffe eyes role of Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings
Harry Potter star expected to swap potions for poetry in forthcoming John Krokidas thriller, in which he'll play beat poetDaniel Radcliffe's frantic attempts to kill off Harry Potter continue apace. The 22-year-old actor is reportedly in talks to play ...
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