Author Stephen O'Nion

1. Dick Van Dyke will soot up for Mary Poppins Returns We’d like to dedicate this next story to a very special man. He’s 91 years old and he weighs under 200 tons: Dick Van Dyke. Yes, the Hollywood...

1. La La Land and Moonlight are looking golden, me ol’ china plate The Golden Globes—Hollywood’s generous, chuckling uncle of an awards ceremony—has announced its list of favourite nieces and...

1. Jimmy Kimmel is komming to host The Oscars Mr. Jimmy Kimmel is our host for the 2017 Academy Awards. Honestly though, this is not an announcement to overwhelm us with feelings of any kind; Kimmel is a...

1. Live-action Pokémon film gets live-action director Remember Pokémon Go? Yes, it wasn’t so long ago that budding Poké trainers the world over were traipsing around catching Zubats, Weedles and T-shirt...

1. Adam McKay to direct a biopic about that other tricky Dicky Apparently deciding that the heady days of the (second) Bush era will cheer us all up, Adam McKay has reportedly finished his script about Dick...

1. Hayao Miyazaki — not the hero we deserve, but the one we need He pulls himself out and they drag him back in. Yes, Hayao Miyazaki is set to come out of retirement for one last film. Having got out of...

I have seen the Harry Potter films before—it’s currently a legal requirement for British citizens—but long enough ago that most of the twists and turns that weren’t announced on banners suspended over...

1. Fox goes back to the drawing board for the X-Men franchise With Hugh Jackman bowing out of Wolverine duties after Logan and Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult all out...

As I write this, Hillary Clinton is giving her concession speech. It’s gracious, well-meaning, self-effacing and hits the same old marks we hear every four years from the only person who can order 40,000...

1. The Flash loses its director. Again. Just four months after jumping on board, Rick Famuyiwa has departed Warner Bros’ adaptation of The Flash citing “creative differences”. According to The...

1. Let’s start with something Incredible The one Pixar sequel that people have actually asked for is coming, and sooner than you thought. Yes, everyone’s favourite superpowered family will return in the...

1. Wanda announces $750 million fund to tempt productions to China By far the biggest movie news this week comes courtesy of the Wanda Group, a Chinese conglomerate that boasts the esteemed title of...

1. Benicio Del Toro runs from Shane Black’s Predator Let’s start this week’s news with a depressing bang: sometimes dreams don’t come true. Although it looked like Benicio Del Toro was all set to...

1. Chloë Grace Moretz drops that whole hiatus thing, signs on for Suspiria remake It was only a few weeks ago that Chloë Grace Moretz told The Hollywood Reporter that she was taking some time off to...

1. Jon Favreau just can’t wait to be king (of the box office)—will direct live-action Lion King The Jungle Book made $966 million worldwide—and that doesn’t even include that sweet, sweet action...