Dungeons and popcorn

The casting for the Dungeon Siege movie has been completed with Snatch/Italian Job actor Jason Statham joining John Rhys-Davies and Burt Reynolds(!) in the film based on the PC Diablo clone. I'm still amazed that this film is going ahead - Dungeon Siege was hardly a narrative tour de force. There's no news yet on whether the pack mule will be appearing.

Music industry victory will spark file-sharing lawsuits

The entertainment industry yesterday scored a landmark victory in its effort to crack down on the illegal file-sharing of music and films. By David Teather.

Hollywood crisis as summer hits dry up

'Zipped lip' marketing may not be enough to save War of the Worlds.

Video games: Hollywood’s new art

Oscar winners are making movie spin-offs for PlayStation fans as gaming enjoys a £17bn boom, reports David Smith in Los Angeles.

Coming to a hard disk near you

You may never have heard of BitTorrent, but it made the latest Star Wars movie available six hours before its official release, it can get you 24 or the OC months before they're on TV and it accounts for a third of all internet traffic. No wonder the entertainment industry has declared it public enemy number one. By Simon Waldman.

Gamers get to grips with Hollywood

Electronic upstarts seek a piece of cinema action.

War games

In offices created by an ex-Star Trek designer and using techniques and technology from movies and gaming, some of Hollywood's top creative talents are helping the US military to train for war in the 21st century. James Verini gets to play.

Coppola criticises Godfather videogame

Francis Ford Coppola has disowned EA's forthcoming videogame conversion of The Godfather, according to the Observer yesterday. Apparently the legendary director has expressed fears that the game will be, "a travesty of his Oscar-winning 1972 masterpiece."

The video game with an offer you can’t refuse

But Godfather's conversion angers director Coppola.

Read the book, seen the movie? Now smell it too

Cinemagoers will have more to argue about than plotlines and special effects if Sony gets its way. The company has patented a device to evoke smells, flavours and even a sense of touch in audience's brains, in the hope of enhancing the movie-watching experience.