If you have something that somebody else has already imagined, then without a doubt Tim Burton is the go-to-guy to get that shiz reimagined, Karl Puschmann. It won't be any good, of course.

The live return of the Backstreet Boys comes with a movie opening act. Leena Tailor reports.

Hollywood star Johnny Depp is renowned for not wasting his beer, but it was a spill of a very different kind that saw him flying back to America.

The robot-addicted minds at Weta Workshop helped design the star of Neill Blomkamp's new sci-fi romp. Chappie's makers tells Chris Schulz the five steps essential for building a great big-screen bot.

A trailer gives Nirvana fans a sneak peek at the acclaimed Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck. Here's the story behind the film...

Kiwi Rose McIver relishes her new lead role as a zombie with a conscience - even the brains for breakfast, writes Leena Tailor.

Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are expected to negotiate seven-figure pay rises for the two Fifty Shades of Grey sequels.

Free of the Harry Potter juggernaut, British actor and director Alan Rickman has finally returned to the director's chair, almost two decades after his directing debut with The Winter Guest.

Chameleon character actor Marsan has a long list of supporting-role credits in big films (Sherlock Holmes; Mission Impossible III) and small (X+Y), which releases here next week.

A good kidnapping requires clever design, meticulous planning and a magician's sense of timing; so does a good kidnapping film. This isn't one.

Johnny Depp has been forced to return to America to have surgery after he was injured on location for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, according to

For George Clooney every "second that ticks by the future is running out". At least according to his character in Disney's Tomorrowland, where he plays a former boy-genius on a mission to save the world.

Actress Carrie Fisher has blamed the "curse of Star Wars" for Harrison Ford's dramatic plane crash.

Dominic Corry reflects on Harrison Ford's career and how he's become the last great movie star.

British actress Lily James stuck to a liquid diet while shooting new Disney movie Cinderella because her corset was tied too tight for her to properly digest solid foods.

Epic Games and Weta Digital have unveiled a virtual reality game demo of a scene from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Most men would die to have Ryan Reynold's body, a fact which appears to be the central premise of the first trailer for sci-fi thriller Selfless.

It is billed as Cara Delevingne's major big-screen debut.

Will Smith and Margot Robbie play con artists in their new movie Focus, out this week. Dominic Corry lists off ten of the best con artist films.

Dev Patel wants to shoot people "in the face" when they ask him to do the dance from Slumdog Millionaire.

NZ On Screen Content Director Irene Gardiner selects five great New Zealand arts documentaries, to mark the start of the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival.

Thomas Lang is a film director who is offered the chance to adapt a book by American journalist Simone Ford, which recounts the controversial trial of American student Jessica Fuller for the murder of her flatmate Elizabeth Pryce. To help with his research, Simone takes Thomas to Siena, where he is disturbed by the media frenzy that has developed around the case. Starring Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale and Cara Delevingne

In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man (Academy Award® Winner Ben Kingsley) dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origin and the organization that will kill to protect its cause.