Before he walked the red carpet here Eric Cantona questioned whether it could measure up to the sound of 60,000 people singing his name at Old Trafford. Turns out that it stirred all the old feelings. “It was like being back in the tunnel before a match with the adrenalin. The difference was that I could do nothing to change the outcome because my role was already complete.” He need not have worried: Looking for Eric, despite the initial misgivings of Ken Loach, the director, has been one of the most warmly received entries so far.

Working Title has confirmed that Helen Fielding is adapting her novel Bridget Jones’s Diary as a stage musical, in the mould of its previous smash hit Billy Elliot. As the neurotic lead character might summarise the key information thus: actresses cast as Bridget: 0 so far; years till show reaches the West End: probably 2; box- office prospects:

Jim Carrey is a big enough star to nibble gently the hand that feeds him. Before a screening of his offbeat gay romantic comedy, I Love You Phillip Morris, he said that he would be leaving directly for the US afterwards to do some promotional work for Walt Disney’s 3-D A Christmas Carol. “I am a cog in the machine, merely part of the matrix. I am a piece of cheese in the mousetrap and I can’t help it.”

Editor's choice

• The 100 Best Films of the Decade
• 70 facts you didn't know about Marvel
• The 50 Biggest Movies Of 2010