By keeping its budgets manageable and targeting young audiences with plenty of high jinks and humour, the animation studio is building its own identity and success.

As her father enjoys his first day of post-presidential unemployment, Barack Obama's eldest daughter Malia is moving into the film business.

Johnny Depp has thanked fans for standing by him through "good times or bad" as he was honoured at the People's Choice Awards.

Just imagine if social media had been around in 1999 for M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense: Everybody breaking down its twists, opening-day memes with Bruce Willis as a ghost, the inevitable hashtag #ISeeDeadPeople.

The upcoming family film from Oscar-nominated director Lasse Hallstrom is facing backlash from dog lovers and animal rights groups.

Aussie director Alethea Jones lands prestigious nomination ahead of the festival.

On opening day for the acclaimed Australian drama Lion, the author of the memoir A Long Way Home said he was planning to keep watching it too despite the intense emotions that keep flooding back.

In the leadup to the announcement of Oscar nominations on January 24 here's a final speculation on some of what the major categories might bring.

Yep, he's seen it alright.

Australia has at least one contender in 13 out of the 23 categories when the nominations are announced.

With a sense of humour, Vin Diesel continues to be more interesting to watch than most movie musclemen.

The Australian drama conveys both beauty and pain.

Cross-dressing aside, our archetypal hero remains, fundamentally, a good bloke.

Our pick of what's showing on the big screen this week

Three months after becoming the victim of a $14 million jewellery heist, Kim Kardashian has filmed a Hollywood cameo - in a heist movie.

A comedic look at the way mobile phones have intruded on our lives.

Barry Divola selects 20 original film scores that are as iconic as the movies they were made for.

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Yann Tiersen loves film scores but won't write to music to fit the picture.

Director Barry Jenkins has created a vivid, shattering film that avoids simple explanations and cinematic cliches.

Low-budget filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan continues his box office comeback with a horror flick about a man with 23 personalities and a 24th on the way.

Dennis Lehane's plotting intertwines crime and social history to create a sprawling story packed with character and incident.

It turns out the selection process for the role of the iconic British spy is so discreet, actors who talk about the role are blacklisted.

From the masochistic to the playful mime.

The actor says TMG mismanaged his earnings throughout his career.