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And away we go! Following the remarkable news that dropped earlier this year about Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood getting a David Fincher directed follow-up starring Brad Pitt once again as stuntman Cliff Booth, Variety is now reporting that not only is the film — officially titled, handily, The Adventures Of Cliff Booth — coming soon, but that it also may well be coming to cinemas. Writing in a piece about Netflix and AMC Cinemas burying the hatchet to tag team on theatrical releases, Rebecca Rubin revealed that The Adventures Of Cliff Booth is eyeing a Summer…

We’ve had CGI A Christmas Carol. We’ve had Bill Murray A Christmas Carol. We’ve had The Muppet Christmas Carol. Hell, we’ve even had terribly animated Nic Cage A Christmas Carol. But just when you thought Hollywood had finally run out of ways to adapt Charles Dickens’ festive chiller, 2025 has arrived with the promise of two fresh takes from major horror filmmakers for Christmases Yet To Come. Back in June we learned that Robert Eggers is preparing A Christmas Carol with Willem Dafoe at Warner Bros., and now Deadline is reporting that MaXXXine director Ti West will direct Johnny Depp…

Austin Butler is quickly establishing himself as not only one of the most exciting stars in movies today, but also quite the acting time traveller. Between Masters Of The Air, Elvis, The Bikeriders, Caught Stealing, Eddington, and Dune, the BAFTA winner has rocked up just about everywhere — from the height of World War II to around 21,000 AD. And according to Deadline, Butler may be about to add the 80s to his expansive cinematic timeline with a starring role as Detective Sonny Crockett in Joseph Kosinski’s rapidly revving up Miami Vice reboot. As we reported just yesterday, Michael B…

This week’s Empire Podcast — coming just seven days before Halloween — is an all treats, no tricks kind of affair as we welcome a whole heap of stellar guests onto the show. First up, Helen O’Hara has a lovely chat with Hedda director Nia DaCosta; then Chris Hewitt talks to Jeremy Strong, star of Scott Cooper’s The Boss biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere; and last but by no means least, Chris is back at it again, having a joyous natter about the end of the world with Rebecca Ferguson and Kathryn Bigelow, star and director respectively of Netflix…

We don’t yet know if there’ll ever be a sequel to Ryan Coogler’s Mississippi set vampire movie Sinners, but we do know that its star, Michael B. Jordan, has at least got vice on his mind. Miami Vice, that is. Yes, now that F1 director Joseph Kosinski’s big screen retooling of the classic 80s cop show has locked in a Summer 2027 release date, attention has swiftly turned to who’ll be hopping in a Ferrari Daytona to bust crime on the streets of Vice City. And, per Deadline’s reporting, Jordan has emerged as a frontrunner to play Detective Ricardo Tubbs…

Ordinarily when we see Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo sharing the screen, they’re fighting the good fight together as the MCU’s Thor and Hulk. In American Animals director Bart Layton’s upcoming LA set Amazon thriller Crime 101 however, the duo’s dynamic isn’t quite so, er, super. Here, Hemsworth is Davis, a fleet-footed jewel thief whose ‘one last job’ hits a snag when Ruffalo’s brilliantly named Detective Lou Lubesnick cobs onto a pattern in his heists, setting the two on a Heat-like collision course. Check out the trailer below; Thor, Catwoman (well, Halle Berry), and The Joker (well, Barry Keoghan) teaming…

For decades now, George Clooney and Adam Sandler have been taking Hollywood by storm. Now, they’re doing so together in Jay Kelly – the latest film from writer-director Noah Baumbach, starring Clooney as the titular A-list actor and Sandler as his loyal manage Ron, taking a trip across Europe together. With the film about to make its way into the world, Empire sat down with Clooney and Sandler together to talk about – yes, Jay Kelly, but also – their years in Hollywood together, their relationship to movies, and each other’s work. Here’s an extract – and you can read…

Ever since Rian Johnson left the galaxy far, far away post-Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, he’s been in full-on mystery mode. His last three films – Knives Out, Glass Onion, and the upcoming Wake Up Dead Man – have established a new generation’s genius detective in Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc, while on the small screen he created mystery show Poker Face with Natasha Lyonne. But next, Johnson is heading somewhere new, he tells Empire. Speaking ahead of the release of Wake Up Dead Man, the filmmaker teased where he’s going next. “The most exciting thing right now…

To put it simply, writing a Knives Out script isn’t easy. Rian Johnson has now penned (and directed) three back-to-back Benoit Blanc mysteries, throwing Daniel Craig’s Southern-fried detective into head-scrambling whodunnits that rip up the narrative rulebook. But it seems third outing Wake Up Dead Man was a particularly fiendish one to crack – a film that not only saw Johnson cook up an “impossible crime” for Blanc to solve, but also dig deep into soulful themes that really matter to him. “This was definitely the hardest script I’ve ever written,” he tells Empire. This one sees Blanc attempt to…

If you thought that Primate trailer dropping would be the only juicy horror tidbit to take into the weekend, you’d be dead wrong. If you guessed there may yet be another, then you’d be dead right. And if you somehow had a hunch that we’d be getting an update on Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn today then, well, you could actually be deadite — because that’s exactly what’s just happened. Just this afternoon, French filmmaker Vaniček took to Instagram to share a bloody little video confirming that shooting’s wrapped on his first foray into the Evil Dead universe, eleven weeks…