HIGH-SPEED FACTS

Bill Paxton, star of Aliens, Near Dark and many more classics, dies at 61, following heart surgery complications.

Suicide Squad is an Oscar-winner! It picked up a prize for Best Hair And MakeUp. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them and Arrival also nabbed up some technical awards.

Sci-fi and fantasy is rather more “successful” at the Razzies, where Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice was a big winner.

The Wire’s Michael K Williams joins the Han Solo movie cast in an as-yet unrevealed role.

Neil Gaiman is writing a sequel to Neverwhere, titled The Seven Sisters.

Philip Pullman to follow up His Dark Materials with new trilogy The Book Of Dust. The first book’s due in October.

Ant-Man And The Wasp starts shooting in early July in Atlanta.

Kieron Gillen is teaming up with artist Antonio Fuso for Dynamite’s new James Bond comic.