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Game of Thrones author dismisses film claims
George R. R. Martin has urged fans not to believe everything they read after he was reported to have confirmed plans for a movie spin-off to the cult TV series.

Matt Damon's Mars movie a riveting thriller
Matt Damon and Ridley Scott's adaptation of the bestseller about an astronaut stranded on the red planet is the interplanetary geek gardening thriller of the year.

The best and worst Mars movies
With the release of Matt Damon's movie The Martian and NASA's big Mars reveal, Dominic Corry takes a look at some of the best and worst films set on Mars.

'Pacific Rim 2 is not cancelled, just postponed'
Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim sequel has been "indefinitely delayed" after studio bosses officially pulled the film from its 2017 schedule.

Game of Thrones movie in the works
Author George R. R. Martin has let slip that a Game of Thrones movie is in the works.

John Drinnan: Is Xena coming back to NZ?
Hollywood interests are believed to be behind at least one of the two contenders to develop an Auckland Council-backed film studio at Hobsonville, writes John Drinnan.

Actress says new movie gave her panic attacks
French actress Marion Cotillard suffered panic attacks while filming new movie Macbeth.

Watch a new Back to the Future trailer
Actor Christopher Lloyd is reprising his Back to the Future character Doc Brown for a new short film to celebrate the 1985 original's 30th anniversary.

Watch: New Back to the Future trailer
Great Scott! Watch the new short coming to the Back to the Future 30th Anniversary Blu-ray and DVD Trilogies.

Pan flick something the kids will love
In Pan, director Joe Wright creates his own interpretation of Barrie's story by taking the source material and imagining what came before, telling the story of how Peter found Neverland, and became Peter Pan.

Boorman returns to war
More than a quarter-century after Hope and Glory, his enchanting, autobiographical child's-eye view of London in the Blitz, Boorman turns in a sequel-of-sorts.

Michael Fassbender's Macbeth 'brilliant'
The Scottish play is Shakespeare's leanest tragedy, barely 2500 lines as against Lear's 3500 and Hamlet's 4000.

Damon tells gay actors: Stay in closet
Star suggests being openly gay can interfere with a successful acting career, saying "the less people know about you the better."

Everest movie 'total bull'
The author of a book about a 1996 climbing disaster that claimed eight lives says a recent movie about the incident is "total bull".

Mixed reaction to Smith's Spectre song
The theme song to the new James Bond movie Spectre, was unveiled today and fans reactions are mixed.

Will Smith set to skip next Men in Black movie
He's the franchise's biggest star, but it seems Will Smith is set to miss out on another outing as Agent J.

Why Murphy doesn't rate Peter Jackson
Director Geoff Murphy talks to Greg Dixon about fighting bureaucrats, making a film industry, the madness of Hollywood and why he doesn't rate Peter Jackson.

Karl Puschmann: Why Adam Sandler sucks
Karl Puschmann was once a fan of Adam Sandler but no longer. He counts down his five biggest crimes against comedy.

Memoir dismisses Jackson's contributions
Sir Peter Jackson's value to New Zealand cinema has been challenged by one of Kiwi film's founding fathers.

Star drops C-bomb on live radio
Born to Dance star Kherington Payne dropped the C-bomb live on air after she was set up by her co-stars, including Stan Walker.

Pixels not terrible ... for an Adam Sandler movie
Adam Sandler leading a crew to save the world against an invasion of 80s videogame arcade characters created by aliens who got hold of one of those Nasa space probes with a recording of what we did for entertainment in 1982.

Watch Angry Birds trailer
The Angry Birds Movie may not nest in New Zealand until May next year, but the producers have let fly a trailer for animated flick.

A softer, gentler, huggable De Niro
The acting legend refuses to talk of retirement as he demonstrates yet another side of his talent in The Intern.

Review: Tom Hardy's unusual musical crime thriller
Occupying the most improbable of genres, the musical thriller, this feature-film version of a 2011 National Theatre hit takes an unusual angle of view to explore the effect on the small Ipswich street of the title of a wave of murders in 2006.

Watch this interactive 360 Star Wars video
Star Wars fans are now able to immerse themselves in a scene from the franchise's upcoming film in a promotional 360 video released by Facebook.

Spectre of piracy hovers over new 007 movie
It sounds like a scene from a James Bond film itself, full of mystery, intrigue and suspicion.

Who's that girl?
She's the sole American import in Born To Dance, the Kiwi hip-hop dance film which opens at local cinemas today - meet Kherington Payne, who plays North Shore resident Sasha, a dancer and the love interest of the film's leading man, Tu.