It's worth remembering that one of the most esteemed films of all time stemmed from a pretty pulpy, if undeniably page-turning, source novel. Francis Ford Coppola actually didn't really want to adapt Mario Puzo's The Godfather initially, agreeing to it mainly because American Zoetrope had fallen on hard times. Written by Coppola and Puzo along with Robert Towne as an uncredited script doctor, the film is widely considered superior to the book thanks to the removal of unnecessary subplots and a cleaner focus on characters and examining the corruption of power.

One of the all-time masters of sci-fi and blockbuster filmmaking at large returns this week, as Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Dayopens under a fair amount of mystery for a project this large, with Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor and Colman Domingo starring in a nostalgia-heavy adventure picture about a mysterious organization's cover-up of human contact with extra-terrestrials. Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp penned the script from an original story by Spielberg himself. Early critical response has been generally positive, though it remains to be seen if the picturecan recapture anything like the box-office magic of Spielberg in his heyday.