The trailer for a new animated feature just dropped this week, but it definitely isn't the type of film you'd want to take your kids to.

A horse has tragically died after being hit with a flying iceberg near the set of the latest Fast and Furious film.

Have you heard of the biggest new film in the land? Odds are if you're reading this, you have, and 10 Cloverfield Lane blipped onto your radar even before its impressive domestic debut over the weekend.

Former journalist turned documentary maker David Farrier is facing defamation charges for his film 'Tickled'.

Jack Black has voiced his kung fu-fighting panda Po probably for the last time.

COMMENT: Since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published in 2007 and the second of the two-part movie adaptation of JK Rowling's final Harry Potter novels was released in 2011, the author and her creation have been in a kind of limbo.

Sir Peter Jackson has declared his support for a new movie-streaming site, which will allow viewers to watch films at home as soon as they launch in theatres.

Fan anticipation has been rewarded. Living up to expectation, Spider-Man has made his first official Marvel Cinematic Universe appearance, however briefly, in the new trailer for Captain America: Civil War.

Sacha Baron Cohen's film The Brothers Grimsby has bombed at the US box office getting a measly US$3.2 million.

Harry Styles has landed his first major film role opposite Tom Hardy.

Lupita Nyong'o thinks there is a "real imbalance" in Hollywood.

Lindsay Lohan's new boyfriend wants to help her relaunch her career.

Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart are to star in No Man's Land on London's West End.

Rebel Wilson thinks she was drugged during a night out in Los Angeles.

In an anxiously anticipated new story, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has transported her world of magical wizarding across the Atlantic and some Native American commentators are not happy with the result, saying it exploits and distorts Native culture.

COMMENT: These days, audiences are savvier than ever to the Machiavellian machinations of the macro movie marketing machine, which has rendered genuine surprise an all-but extinct aspect of modern mainstream filmgoing.

10 Cloverfield Lane, from director and producer JJ Abrams, has sent movie critics into a frenzy.

Although it won't be released in NZ for another month, the next movie in the Divergent franchise, Allegiant, is already getting slammed by movie critics overseas.

In Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Tina Fey found a character tailor-made for her, Michael O'Sullivan reports.

I hate to say this because I do love the setting but the series is now a triumph of commerce over art. May the force be with you, writes Karl Puschmann.

Ralph Fiennes couldn't make a bigger splash if he tried, rampaging through director Luca Guadagnino's relationship drama.

The things you learn at the pictures. Had I not seen Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, I might have gone through life sublimely unaware of the word "bukkake", let alone the concept. That may have been no bad thing, of course.

Keanu Reeves' new film Exposed has flopped spectacularly by taking less than $200 in its opening weekend at the UK box-office.

The second chapter of JK Rowling's History of Magic in America includes even more revelations about the previously untold past of wizards and witches in the New World.

The 1981 road movie was the biggest Kiwi film of a generation. Now it's getting a rebore.

Two of the most anticipated docos of the year will be shown at this year's Autumn Event film festival, at the Civic and Academy Theatres.

Andy Wachowski has come out as transgender, the second Wachowski sibling of the famous filmmaking duo known for The Matrix trilogy to do so.