The New Zealand movie box office for 2014 bucked international trends by increasing its annual gross and breaking its previous yearly record.

Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and voice star of Ted 2, Universal and Media Rights Capital’s follow-up to the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time. Joined once again by star Mark Wahlberg and fellow Ted writers Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild, MacFarlane produces the live action/CG-animated comedy alongside Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, as well as John Jacobs and Jason Clark.

While there's nothing wrong with being a Bond girl, Sophie Cookson was thrilled to be in a spy movie in which she wasn't just "the girlfriend".

Would Chris Pratt make a good Indiana Jones or are we over seeing him in ever franchise? Justin Moyer takes a look.

In his latest comedy caper Mortdecai, Johnny Depp has delivered yet another ham that only forgiving fans could love. What has brought him to this, asks Stephine Merry.

Channing Tatum has gone from beefcake to credible A-list star. But he still doesn't know how to act, he tells James Mottram.

The cast for Danny Boyle's stalled Steve Jobs biopic has been confirmed, with Michael Fassbender portraying the late boffin and Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, the former marketing chief of Macintosh.

Jemaine Clement is standing on the Sundance red carpet awaiting the premiere of his latest movie People, Places, Things, the first American movie in which he has a starring role. It is a very big deal.

Unassuming and amiable, this road-trip buddy comedy, which played in the festival last year, belongs squarely in the sub-genre of very-low-budget American indies with untrained actors and improvised dialogue that has been dubbed mumblecore.

Who you gonna call? Well, apparently Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy.

The Fantastic Four reboot shows a vastly different film to the 2005 flick.

Chris Pratt has quickly become an A-list star after making Guardians Of The Galaxy a massive hit last year - the adventure spoof film brought in $800m internationally.

Before she was cast in the movie Wild, Laura Dern had not read the best-selling book that inspired it - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Fantastic Four, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

Ryan Reynolds says money isn't everything when it comes to superhero flick Deadpool.

So, if we go by the theory that the SAG Awards and the Golden Globes predict the Oscars, looks like the Academy Award acting categories are pretty much a lock.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has opened big in China, grossing US$49.5 million ($66.6 million) in its first weekend.

Courage under fire based on reality Director familiar with ravages of war, writes Dominic Corry.

As the film of their life is released, Jane Hawking recalls how she fell in love with the legendary physicist against the haunting backdrop of his developing motor neurone disease.

The recent movies that have looked at the impact of dementia - Away From Her, The Savages, Aurora Borealis, A Song For Martin, Lovely, Still - have tended to focus on the effect on those left behind as the light dies.

Anthony Mackie has been raving about Captain America 3.

He's one of Hollywood's highest paid stars but Johnny Depp's box office appeal has taken another critical hit as the comedy Mordecai opens in America and Britain.

Dominic Corry takes a look at the movies snubbed by the Oscars this year.

British singer Adele is rumoured to be returning to the James Bond franchise to record a second theme tune after scoring a smash hit with Skyfall.

A Kiwi film that was lucky to be completed at all has been heralded as one of the must-see films at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.

Leaving Fifty Shades of Grey's infamous tampon scene out of the film was a no brainer for producers.

A wooden X-wing starfighter baby rocker has sold at auction today, with hundreds of dollars being donated to Starship Children's Hospital.

When the 2015 Oscar nominations were announced last week, I put "the parade of accolades for American Sniper" at the top of my list of poor decisions the Academy voters made this year.

Two movies in and Angelina Jolie the director seems to have already developed a speciality. Her debut In the Land of Blood and Honey was about a Bosnian prisoner of war.