Hollywood actress Scarlett Johannson is in for some late nights as her latest film begins shooting scenes in Wellington's CBD.

This year's NZIFF Autumn Events features the New Zealand debut of one of most stunningly assured horror movies of the last decade.

Taika Waititi's Kiwi comedy knocks Batman v Superman off the top spot as it takes massive haul.

So you've joined the crowds at the opening weekend of Taika Waititi's acclaimed new film The Hunt for the Wilderpeople?

'Wilderpeople' is a truly unique film that could only be made in New Zealand, and may be our best yet.

A New Zealand mountaineer became the unwitting star of the documentary Sherpa when the tragedy struck on the slopes of Everest.

A proposed service that lets you download a new film and watch it at home is dividing Hollywood, says Tim Robey.

Nearly two years since its world premiere in Auckland, award-winning NZ film The Dark Horse has made its US theatrical debut amid Oscar buzz.

Hans Zimmer has been slammed over his score in Batman v Superman, but the composer has hit back, saying cinema sound quality is to blame.

Tenzing Norgay's son has called the Everest industry a "circus" ahead of the release of a new documentary about worker's rights on Mt Everest.

We let Anika Moa loose on the green carpet at the Hunt for the Wilderpeople premiere.

It was crucial to the director of the new Tarzan film that Margot Robbie's Jane was a modern woman, so he asked her to punch actor Alexander Skarsgard in a sex scene.

A petition requesting Batman v Superman director Zack Snyder be banned from directing future DC comic book movies already has 7000 signatures.

A host of New Zealand celebs have taken to social media with rave reviews for Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople after it premiered last night in Auckland.

The film follows the fight of Andy and wife Vashti after the Welsh actor was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, which eventually took his life.

Deadpool has become the top grossing R-rated movie of all time, taking US$746 million (NZ$1088.18 million) at the global box office.

The runaway local success of Boy sure made it a hard act to follow. Could a local film ever hope to find as big an audience again? Could its creator, Taika Waititi, ever hope to tap a nation's funnybone with such precision in another film?

Before Warner Bros gets too carried away with the record-breaking box office take of Batman v Superman, the studio might want to take a breath.

In today's superhero Hollywood, you must build a franchise, so that your heroes can keep making cameos, pairing off and dying for many lucrative years to come.

Nothing can stop Butler from cracking jokes in the midst of global chaos.

The original 1981 road movie was the biggest Kiwi film of a generation - and the Wellington chase scene, being shot today and tomorrow, was its most famous.

Whether it's inside, outside or somewhere in between, we have your long weekend covered.

Who is the stronger hero? Michael Cavna and David Betancourt weigh up the odds.

Third time around and you may think the gag about a bumbling panda being a Kung Fu master is wearing thin, but no, Po is as entertaining and adorable as ever

Fourteen years after My Big Fat Greek Wedding was released and surprisingly went on to become the biggest grossing romantic comedy of all time (allowing for inflation), Nia Vardalos and most of the cast from the original film return to stage another big, fat Greek wedding.