The director of upcoming Harry Potter film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has defended Johnny Depp's role in the movie, in the wake of criticism over the actor's history of domestic violence.

The Tanna team will be honoured for their outstanding creativity at the AACTA Awards next week.

James Franco found art and heart in The Room, the Citizen Kane of bad movies

Computer-animated retelling of the first Christmas feels more like a trip to the mall.

The English pop legend has been commissioned to rework the hit songs from the 1994 animation for a live-action remake.

A UK-based aspiring actress has claimed she was groomed in London before being assaulted in Cannes.

In the middle of her campaign to promote her latest movie, Rebel Wilson has placed a blanket ban on Fairfax Media.

Seth Meyers will become the latest talkshow host to anchor a major film awards ceremony when he plays MC to the Globes in January.

Almost since the beginning, filmmakers have been fascinated with Lewis Carroll's stories. A new exhibition will look back at that rich, weird history.

The only thing to do in this biopic about Charles Dickens and the creation of A Christmas Carol, is to forget about reality and embrace the fairytale.

I don't know how they did it, but this is probably the most realistic film that's ever been made about what Americans call wildfires.

The Room may or may not be the worst movie ever made, but the cult film has had an unexpectedly productive afterlife for Greg Sestero and the film's creator Tommy Wiseau.

Two Hollywood stars have signed on for a modestly budgeted Australian film.

An Australian cast, crew and studio; an American story, accents, and setting: it's the curious case of the horror comedy Better Watch Out.

A couple with their own wrenching experiences of domestic violence have made a series of short films to change men's behaviour.

Kill Bill star Uma Thurman has delivered a powerful Thanksgiving message revealing she too has been the victim of sexual misconduct.

As the DC comic book characters become more important to Warner Bros they appear more often.

Bidders for the company grappling with sexual harassment claims include female-led investors from private equity, venture capital and Hollywood, seeking a major overhaul of its culture.

New films, including Better Watch Out and Goodbye Christopher Robin.

UK police are investigating a second alleged sexual assault dating back to 2005.

Luis Bacalov, an Argentine-born composer whose lilting score for the international hit romance Il Postino earned him an Oscar, and whose ominous guitar melodies for dozens of Italian crime movies and spaghetti westerns were used in films by Quentin Tarantino, has died in Rome. He was 84.

Director Simon Curtis overplays sentiment between AA Milne and his son Christopher.

Peter Jarchovsky delved into his own school days to write The Teacher.

These are normcore movies - utterly white and middle-class but aimed without apology at the broadest possible public.