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Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) plays a woman who travels to Japan to find out what happened to her twin sister—and finds herself in the famous Aokigahara Forest, where people go to commit suicide. Soon she’s lost in the woods and tormented by ghosts. This film was...

Cloverfield hit in 2008 there’s been talk that a super-secret sequel or spinoff, or a movie somehow tangentially related to the found footage creature feature, was in the works. Last month the notoriously enigmatic Bad Robot dropped a trailer and was like, Boom,...

With the wonderful cliffhanger that the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens left the world lingering on, everyone is hungering for some more Star Wars to satiate them. Although Episode VIII won’t be showing up until 2017, the upcoming year has something in store for...

  by COLLETTE DEVLIN Statistics New Zealand screen industry survey shows film production revenue in Wellington fell in 2015. In contrast, television programme production in Auckland increased by $150 million since 2014. Film production revenue in Wellington fell...

Overall film investment was up 23.1% in 2015, while investment from French TV broadcasters was up 29.7%. French film production rebounded in 2015, with overall investment rising 23.1% to $1.3b (€1.2b) year-on-year, according to the annual production report of France’s...

What lots of movies could stand to learn from the sparse, low-budget thriller. Updated by Peter Suderman Warner Bros. Midnight Special is a moody sci-fi creepshow, part terse road thriller, part magical kid movie, part otherworldy hallucination. It’s quiet and spare,...

The film is similar to the duration of some other past festival favourites, such as Hungarian director Bela Tarr, whose Satantango clocks in at about seven hours. But at a post-screening news conference Diaz rejected being labelled as a creator of “slow cinema”....

We still don't know what will be happening in the film, or how Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard – replicant or not – fits into the story. But now we know that, after years of it existing more as rumour than anything, the Blade Runner sequel will start shooting this July....