Queen guitarist Brian May has explained why Sacha Baron Cohen is no longer set to play Freddie Mercury in a planned biopic.

Is the big screen adaptation of erotic best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey inching closer to tying up a leading man?

With just a few weeks until the second Hobbit movie reaches our screens and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra finalising the score, Peter Jackson tells Russell Baillie the latest journey to Middle-earth will be even better than the first.

Jamie Foxx has issued a statement denying recent reports that he is dating Katie Holmes.

Kim Kardashian's engagement ring has sold at auction for nearly US$750,000 (NZ$896,000).

Katie Holmes is dating her ex-husband Tom Cruise's Collateral co-star Jamie Foxx, according to multiple reports.

Tom Hanks re-enacts a classic moment from his 1988 movie Big - with a little help from Sandra Bullock.

Michael Douglas is celebrating after doctors told him the chance of his tongue cancer returning is just five per cent.

She was born in Canada just 28 years ago. She wrote her first novel - a three-page job - at the age of 5.

Harrison Ford reveals he has been talking to director Ridley Scott about appearing in a sequel to cult movie Blade Runner.

The barriers have been up at an Auckland hotel since the early Friday morning as dozens of One Direction fans wait outside hoping to catch a glimpse of the pop heart-throbs.

The 50-year-old fashion designer began dating former porn star Harry Louis, 25, in 2011.

The Auckland-born chef talks laundry, icecream disasters and why he puts his name on plastic bags.

She has played drums, keyboards and sung and won a rock band competition. She has cycled the length of the country and lived on $2.25 a day.

He owns two of the hottest eateries in town and has a television series and two award-winning cookbooks to his name.

Sinead O'Connor has penned an open letter to Miley Cyrus in response to the singer's recent Rolling Stone cover story.

Bret McKenzie talks about writing music for Ricky Gervais and his new job as an ambassador charged with promoting the ukelele.

One will battle for a crown and the other for $100,000 when two of broadcaster Paul Henry's daughters step into the limelight.

Saoirse Ronan has confirmed that she recently auditioned for a part in J.J. Abrams' eagerly anticipated new Star Wars film.

David Dallas is finding international success with his new album but he's still proud to call Auckland home.