Variety reports that the movie version of William Gibson's Neuromancer has been moved up to the front burner...not due to an inherent qualities of the novel or screenplay, but because the studio has a Big Skiffy Movie hole caused by a Paul Verhoeven project moving back. So adjust your expectations accordingly...

Also, William Gibson himself comments on the novel-into-movie process.

Cinematical has pictures from the set of The Dark Is Rising, the movie being made from the Susan Cooper novel.

The Times Online has a report on the Lord of the Rings musical, which is rearing its head again in London (after a disastrous run in Toronto last year). [via Deep Genre]