“She’s a great story. Her rise…is almost like Great Expectations – with a moral.” These were the words of producer Gene Kirkwood at Cannes yesterday, part of the team planning to turn a Vanity Fair article about Rebekah Brooks into a feature biopic. So in that analogy, presumably Rupert Murdoch is the Magwitch to Brooks’ Pip? They do share the Australian connection we suppose…

Here’s a little treat to send us off into the weekend: it’s the latest poster for Ridley Scott’s much-trailed Prometheus. Out in the UK on the 1st of June, Scott’s film is shaping up to be a parable about the dangers of extending mankind’s reach and delving into things that, all told, we’d really have been better off not delving into, as illustrated by the chaotic destruction of this new poster. Yikes.

Thistletwit, Thistletwit, Thistletwit… now there’s a tongue-twister. Juno Temple will have to get used to it, as she’s been cast in the role in Disney’s upcoming Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie. Temple joins Imelda Staunton and Lesley Manville as one of three pixies tasked with looking after Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning) in the film, to be directed by visual effects whiz Robert Stromberg.

The first we saw from the Brian Klugman/Lee Sternthal drama The Words was this nifty poster, and now a (fairly overwrought, if we’re honest) full trailer has been released for the picture. It’s the story of a writer (Bradley Cooper) who only earns success after plagiarising another man’s work, and the snippet below points to a film composed of meaningful staring and tortured lite-rock.

The last John Le Carré adaptation released in cinemas did alright as far as we remember (Oscar nominations, rave reviews, you know, all that gubbins), which bodes rather well for the upcoming Anton Corbijn-directed thriller A Most Wanted Man. Something else that bodes well for the picture is the involvement of Philip Seymour Hoffman, who’s now been confirmed for the role of the “roguish chief of a covert German spy unit” in the film, which is due to begin filming in Hamburg this September.

The director of the charming Amélie and 2009’s quirky MicMacs, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is turning for only the second time to an English-language feature (seeing as the first was the less-than-well-received Alien: Resurrection, you can see why he might be reluctant), and he’s nabbed a couple of decent actresses for the job. Helena Bonham Carter and Kathy Burke are to star in Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious Spivet (we wouldn't be surprised if that title underwent a further trim in coming months) based on Reif Larsen’s 2009 novel The Selected Works of T.S Spivet.

We’re not in the Shire any more Toto… Elijah Wood’s latest big-screen role has a distinctly nasty edge. Well, seeing as he plays a serial killer who hunts and scalps women, it would, wouldn’t it?