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Film director John Guillermin dies

Towering Inferno poster

British director John Guillermin, whose films included The Towering Inferno and Death on the Nile, dies aged 89.

No Game of Thrones movie in the works

Game of Thrones author George RR Martin has debunked rumours that a big screen spin-off is being made, although he admitted he would "love to see one".

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