‘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

Steven Berkoff to play Saddam Hussein in Anthony Horowitz-penned comedy

Actor famous for playing villains stays true to type with role in political satire aimed at ‘keeping fires of outrage burning’ over British and US invasion of Iraq

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

Запрещая мою книгу, Россия запутывается в собственном прошлом

Нельзя отрицать исторические факты — ни о Холокосте, ни о преступлениях Красной армии

By banning my book, Russia is deluding itself about its past

Denying historical facts is wrong, whether they concern the Holocaust or Red Army atrocities

Russian region bans British historians’ books from schools

Authorities in Yekaterinburg tell schools to ‘prevent access’ to works by Antony Beevor and John Keegan, claiming they promote Nazi stereotypes

Hiroshima’s fate, 70 years ago this week, must not be forgotten

Two outstanding works of journalism bookmark that 70-year period: John Hersey’s 1946 article, which reminds us of the horror of the bombing; and Eric Schlosser’s terrifying account of a break-in at a US weapons plant in 2012 – a warning, he says, about our current complacency

The Puppies are taking science fiction’s Hugo awards back in time

Rightwing infiltrators unhappy at the liberal direction of modern science fiction have gamed the polling for the Hugo awards with vociferous and hateful online campaigns. But if they win, science fiction as a genre loses

How a feminist anthology taught me that outsiders can pull together

I grew up on a diet of Carry On films, Benny Hill and my parents’ Daily Telegraph. The Spare Rib Reader helped me articulate an unease that I had felt for as long as I could remember

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

Nigerian erotica: how the church leader became a sex symbol

As a new series paints the all-powerful pastor as a figure of lust, we discuss the future of adult literature in Africa

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