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Everything we know about JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

We’ve been scrubbing up on the Harry Potter author’s return to the world of witchcraft and wizardry, which will star Eddie Redmayne as swashbuckling ‘magizoologist’ Newt Scamander

‘Is nothing sacred?’: Twitter responds to news of Jumanji remake

Sony Pictures’ slate for 2016 and 2017, which includes remakes of the Robin Williams family film and sequels to the Will Smith action movie Bad Boys, has prompted cries of ‘too soon’ and ‘travesty’

Revealed: Chris Farley’s ‘humble, bumbling’ nice-guy Shrek

Audio of the late comic’s abandoned recordings for the 2001 animated smash has emerged, featuring a toned-down take on the angry green ogre

Universal breaks all-time global box office record for Hollywood studio

Mammoth $5.53bn haul from hits including Jurassic World, Minions and Fast & Furious 7 beats record held by rival 20th Century Fox since December

Coen brothers sign up for Ross Macdonald adaptation Black Money

Writer-director duo have agreed to write script for adaptation of hardboiled detective novel, and possibly direct it further down the line

Fantastic Four review – a dawdling indie drama dressed up in superhero garb

The latest Marvel comic-book adventure is straining for indie credibility while moving at a glacial pace – wasting some fine actors in the process

Life in Squares: why the Bloomsbury group’s talents are wasted on the box

From Nicole Kidman’s Virginia Woolf to Emma Thompson’s Carrington, the Bloomsbury group have enjoyed a starry presence on screen, but as BBC2’s Life in Squares reminds us, their appeal has little do with paintings and books

Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, to be subject of feature film

US playwright Martin Blank is to adapt his The Law of Return for film about US Navy analyst jailed in 1987, who will be released on parole in November

Richard Linklater to sign up for Jennifer Lawrence’s The Rosie Project

Boyhood director in the frame to take on romcom featuring Hunger Games star, after previous directors dropped out

Miguel Arteta set to direct film of YA novel All the Bright Places

Book’s author Jennifer Niven will write the film’s script, and Elle Fanning is already cast as lead character Violet Markey in ‘heart-wrenching’ romance

Our hopes and fears for the film version of John Green’s Paper Towns

Can the movie of Paper Towns possibly live up to the expectations of fans of John Green’s book? Will it be even nearly as good as The Fault in Our Stars? Teen site member CaraErica kicks off the discussion, please share your thoughts too!

Ridley Scott targets Mexican drug-war thriller The Cartel

Exodus: Gods and Kings director attached to adaptation of Don Winslow’s novel, with Leonardo DiCaprio a possibility for one of the lead roles

Please, sir, can I have it again? Oliver! musical to get remake

Lionel Bart’s celebrated Dickens adaptation to go before cameras again, with Jonathan Strange director Toby Haynes making his feature film debut

Paper Towns review – Cara Delevingne is a PG-13 free spirit in patchy drama

Jake Schreier’s romcom adapted from John Green’s YA novel captures the intense agonies and fleeting emotional connections of adolescence

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2: watch the first full length trailer

Jennifer Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen for the last time in the battle-focused final chapter Mockingjay – Part 2

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