Natalie Portman has blamed the Star Wars prequel trilogy for almost thwarting her acting ambitions.

John Lithgow may be an American acting institution but you don't often see him in leading roles.

Anyone doubting whether Jamie Dornan has fully researched his Fifty Shades of Grey role as BDSM-loving billionaire Christian Grey, think again.

Australian actor Joel Edgerton was left terrified on the set of new movie Exodus: Gods and Kings when he found himself stuck on a runaway chariot.

Dominic Corry talks to French actress Isabelle Huppert about her new film Folies Bergère.

After a year of topping the Kiwi box-office and winning awards, Taika Waititi has no intention of taking a break, finds Lydia Jenkin.

Actress Anna Kendrick has been left kicking herself on the set of new film Into the Woods after her co-star James Corden tricked her into thinking Meryl Streep had been fired from the movie musical.

Movie lovers would give gold statuettes to Transformers: Age of Extinction, American Hustle and The Lego Movie – if Google’s annual ‘Zeitgeist’ list of the most searched for films is anything to go by, that is.

Paddington was a creation of the 1950s, but the story of this polite, accident-prone bear from the depths of Peru has translated nicely into the present day.

The New York premiere of 'The Interview' has been cancelled after a hacker group made threats, invoking the 9/11 attacks to deter prospective audiences.

Champion wakeboarder Brad Smeele will tonight make a rare trip out from his care unit where he has been since returning home to Auckland in October after a crash left him a quadriplegic.

Sony is mounting an aggressive defence against the debilitating hack that has pummeled the movie studio.

It is one of the most successful franchises in the history of blockbuster films.

Reese Witherspoon isn't bitter about losing the starring role in Gone Girl to Rosamund Pike.

Actor Seth Rogen has blasted members of the media for publishing email messages stolen during a hack attack on Sony Pictures’ databases last month.

James Bond is officially back in action after lead actor Daniel Craig was spotted careering down London’s River Thames on a speed boat.

If you stand at the door of Videon, the DVD and video library in Dominion Rd, you can see the two buildings where their competitors lived and died.

The Hunger Games presents potentially quite subversive ideas of mass revolution and economic sabotage.

Luke Skywalker not only influenced legions of Star Wars fans over the decades, it changed the life of the man who played him.

A relatively high number of films struck a chord with Dominic Corry this year. Here are his ten favourites of 2014:

The names of some of the key characters in the forthcoming Star Wars film have been revealed.

It was late 2003, and Amy Pascal was furious. The longtime Hollywood hand, who had risen from a secretary to become an industry kingmaker as a Sony Pictures executive, expected to soon take over the studio's top job.

They have unfinished business. And it looks like Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet's characters only intensify their battle as they are featured primarily in the trailer released Friday for the second film in The Divergent Series: Insurgent.

He's the most admired and desired man in Hollywood - but George Clooney is deeply hurt by bad reviews, the latest tranche of leaked Sony emails reveals.

Sony Pictures discovered at the weekend that its script for the new Bond film - its most lucrative franchise - was stolen in last month's hack attack.

The trailer for the next movie in the Divergent series, Insurgent.

Jay-Z has given the tale of Annie the orphan a hip-hop makeover. Why did it take so long, wonders lifelong fan Nicola Christie.