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Film News for the week ending 18th March 2016
Here is our summary of the film news for the week ending 18th March 2016.
After the #OscarsSoWhite row over lack of diversity in the Oscars, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has added three new governors from diverse backgrounds to its 51-member board as well as appointing six minority ethnic members. The Academy also apologised for the segment of the show where Chris Rock appeared with Asian children which was criticised for jokes at the expense of Asians.
The production of "Maze Runner: Death Trials" has been put on hold after the star Dylan O'Brien was hit by a car in a car scene and suffered multiple injuries. Production has shut down while he recovers.
John Boyega visited children in The Royal London Hospital dressed as his 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' character, Fin, and distributed toys from the film on behalf of the charity Rays of Sunshine.
A jury has awarded Hulk Hogan $115m (£79m) after the gossip news website Gawker published a secretly recorded sex tape of Hogan having sex with his friend's wife.
It has been confirmed that Harrison Ford will star in a fifth Indiana Jones film, directed by Steven Spielberg. There are no other cast details but the film will be released in July 2019.
And staying with the Harrison Ford theme, the Star Wars - Han Solo spin-off is close to casting. It is rumoured that the final three actors on the shortlist to play the young Han Solo are Alden Ehrenreich, Jack Reynor and Taron Egerton.
Simon Pegg is confirmed as a supporting role in Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One", which will start filming this June.
Olivia Munn is joining Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman in 'Office Christmas Party', which is due for release this December.
Etan Cohen is going to make a new Cannonball Run film. The plan is to re-launch the hit 80s series of films which starred Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise.
Garry Marshall is rumoured to be planning a third Princess Diaries film with Anne Hathaway.
Danish actor Caspar Phillipson has been cast as JFK in Natalie Portman's 'Jackie' Biopic, due for release in 2017.
Julia Roberts will star in a new courtroom drama, Train Man, the real-life story about an attorney defending a man who stole subway cars by impersonating New York transit authority officials.
Nicolas Cage will star in the new action thriller Philly Fury as an unpredictable mobster and alleged kidnapper. Production is due to begin in May.
Jason Mitchell and Ellar Coltane will join the cast of young Barack Obama drama "Barry". The film, about Obama's college days in New York City, will begin shooting later this month.
Naomi Watts and Jessica Lange will star in "The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll" about Dare Wright, who wrote the best selling children's book The Lonely Doll.
Jack Lowden is cast as Steven in the biopic of The Smiths' Morrissey, covering the years before the formation of the band.
Sylvia Anderson, the co-creator of Thunderbirds, has died aged 88. As well as working behind the scenes in Thunderbirds, she will always be remembered as the voice of Lady Penelope.
Actor Joe Santos died at 84. His 40-year career included both film and TV roles but he is best known for playing Lt. Dennis Becker in the long-running series "The Rockford Files" starring James Garner.