Mr Men and Little Miss feature film in the works from Paddington producers
David Heyman has joined the French media company StudioCanal with plans to bring one of the bestselling children’s book series of all time to the screen
Dreamers review – deep sense of empathy powers emotionally vivid refugees’ drama
A traumatised Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Britain meets a kindred spirit in Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s evocative tale
Paddington: The Musical review – they’ve looked after this bear quite splendiferously
State-of-the-art animatronics, imaginative staging, fabulous performances and some marvellous songs about marmalade make for an evening that will fill you with joy and melt your heart
Where to start with Tom Stoppard: from Brazil to Leopoldstadt
The great playwright had a 60-year career in the theatre and also wrote scripts for radio and the screen – here are some of his very best
New film adaptation of Camus’s L’Étranger opens old colonial wounds
François Ozon’s handling of classic novel draws both praise and criticism, including from the author’s daughter
Primitive War review – it’s Green Berets vs dinosaurs in cheerfully cheesy Vietnam war gorefest
Set to an on-the-nose soundtrack of Creedence Clearwater, an elite squad of soldiers are suitably unprepared for their large-toothed assailants in this jungle thriller
Wicked forever: the enduring appeal of The Wizard Of Oz
Musical sequel Wicked: For Good, enchanting audiences across the world, arrives as the 1939 fantasy continues to dominate pop culture
From The Death of Bunny Munro to Wicked: For Good: the week in rave reviews
Matt Smith is the ultimate bad dad in a Nick Cave novel adaptation, and the Oz prequel musical reaches the end of the road. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews
The Thing With Feathers review – well-intentioned adaptation of Max Porter novella about grief
Benedict Cumberbatch gives an honest performance, but this is too self-conscious to challenge or work through loss with same power as the book
Daniel Radcliffe writes supportive letter to Harry Potter successor in new TV series
The actor said he wrote wishing 11-year-old Dominic McLaughlin ‘an even better time’ growing up in the role than he had
‘So weird, but cute’: Bridget Jones immortalised as London welcomes statue of Britain’s favourite singleton
Helen Fielding and Renée Zellweger gather in Leicester Square as a new bronze marks 30 years of the diary-writing everywoman who redefined the romcom heroine
Epic movie: Christopher Nolan uses 2m ft of film for adaptation of The Odyssey
The director has revealed suitably grand scale of his forthcoming Homeric adventure, which was shot with Imax cameras and stars Matt Damon as Odysseus
The Wild Geese review – Richard Burton and Roger Moore lead cast of amigos in preposterous African caper
Reactionary boy’s own adventure sends craggy gentlemen mercenaries Burton, Moore and Richard Harris into somewhat implausible action
Future Boy by Michael J Fox review – secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie
The actor’s account of his big Hollywood break – and how it almost never happened
Wuthering Heights: bold new trailer for Emerald Fennell’s epic adaptation
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi lead the Saltburn writer-director’s Charli xcx-soundtracked take on Emily Brontë’s novel, referred to as ‘the greatest love story of all time’