Auckland has played a starring role in TV and films for decades. This week we launch a new series, revisiting places in and around the city made famous on the big and small screen.

All due respect to Meryl Streep, but some stories are simply better suited to a French approach.

If going to the movies and being terrified is your idea of a great night out, then The Conjuring 2 is for you.

Academy-Award winning actor JK Simmons is undergoing a serious body transformation for his next role.

It's the line that made Cuba Gooding Jr. famous, but he says it also stalled his career.

COMMENT: As far as invasions go it was a fairly minor one, consisting only of documentarian Michael Moore's army of one and his film crew.

It's arguably the movie he's best known for, but Morgan Freeman has one big gripe with The Shawshank Redemption.

There's finally an official date for Thor: Ragnarok to start filming, and an end date in sight, too.

Its seems as though the Star Wars spin-off Rogue One is in a lot more trouble that what was first thought.

Hollywood has failed to translate video games into box office gold so far. But will World of Warcraft fair any better?

Duncan Jones has taken on the epic task of bringing World of Warcraft to the big screen. He talks to Dominic Corry.

The Rehearsal, a film involving many luminaries of acting, movie-making, literature and music is to have its world premiere.

Quentin Tarantino has sparked outrage by asking for "whores" to audition for his next movie.

Warcraft director Duncan Jones says he was inspired by Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and hopes to achieve what he did.

An actress who appeared in the first two Captain America movies has dissed the love story in the latest Marvel film.

Fox sorry for X-Men billboard showing female character being strangled.

Kiwi starlet Brooke Williams hopes her dream of cracking Hollywood is a step closer after scoring a role on the American TV drama, 12 Monkeys.

It's impossible to watch Money Monster, which stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts and not be reminded of the indeterminate rage of the Trump phenomenon.

COMMENT:What do All Blacks and Disney-Pixar film Finding Dory have in common? This week they both seemed to declare their support for the gay community.

Ubisoft's film development plan continues apace, with screen trade paper Variety reporting Jake Gyllenhaal will star in an adaptation of Tom Clancy's The Division.

COMMENT: Money Monster isn't a terrible film, but you wouldn't place it alongside the classics of the form, five of which I am going to cite here.

Brie Larson is reportedly in early talks to star as Captain Marvel in an upcoming superhero film.

Zach Snyder is adding an extra 30 minutes of footage to a movie that was already too long.

Actor was wracked with guilt for doing so, according to a series of explosive text messages.

Julia Roberts and George Clooney's starpower can't save Jodie Foster's Wall Street hostage thriller.

The heroes in a half shell return for another half-baked action comedy.

Not only are they remaking Power Rangers, but they're not ruling out a sequel ... or six.

Harry Potter actor Matthew Lewis has admitted he cannot bear to watch his performances in the wizarding franchise.

The Goodbye Pork Pie remake has shot its final scenes. Russell Baillie was there.