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For a man who was, just three years ago, “fairly serious” about retiring from acting, it is starting to look a little like Jim Carrey has reconsidered. Not only has the Canadian-American funnyman made another Sonic movie since telling Variety he was weighing up retirement after Sonic The Hedgehog 2’s release, playing not one but two Dr. Robotnik’s in the spiny speedster’s third outing, but now he’s in line for an even farther out of left field new project. Per Variety’s reporting, Carrey is in talks to star in a live-action take on classic sci-fi cartoon The Jetsons — and…

With her first two feature films, 2016’s subversive cannibal chiller Raw and 2021 object sexuality body horror Titane, French director Julia Ducournau announced herself as one of the boldest genre filmmakers working today. And if the first trailer for Alpha — Ducournau’s latest mononymously titled movie — is anything to go by, then that status isn’t about to change anytime soon. A coming-of-age tale with a now-trademark Ducournau body horror twist, Alpha follows a teenage girl (Mélissa Boros) who gets a dodgy tattoo and consequently finds herself afflicted with a new disease that’s turning people to marble, much to the…

Sam Raimi, how we’ve missed you. One of the greatest filmmakers in the game has been, well, mostly out of the game for a good while. Raimi, the legend behind The Evil Dead, and the original run of Spider-Man movies, took a near-decade-long break after 2013’s Oz The Great And Powerful, before finally returning to the director’s chair with Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness in 2022 – a Marvel movie that leaned into his trademark kinetic horror traits. But now, he’s back with his first non-franchise film – and first horror film – since 2009’s cult favourite Drag…

It would be fair to say that, by and large, Stephen King adaptations can be a little hit or miss — for every Carrie (1976) there is also a Carrie (2013). But 2025 has been something of a banner year for fresh book-to-screen takes on King’s work, with The Monkey, The Life Of Chuck, and The Long Walk all coming in hot as very good riffs on their literary counterparts. It’s a trend that looks set to continue in some style with Edgar Wright’s hotly anticipated The Running Man, the latest adaptation of King’s (well, Richard Bachman’s) 1982 dystopian deathmatch…

It is with great sadness that we share the news Diane Keaton — Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall, Something’s Gotta Give, Father Of The Bride, and many more — has died at the age of 79. As confirmed by People, the iconic actor passed away in California, with further details regarding her death unavailable at this time. Born on 5 January, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, Diane Keaton — whose birth name was actually Diane Hall (hence the Hall in Annie Hall) — didn’t actually begin her acting career on screen. Rather, having performed in singing and acting clubs at…

You know how the ocean comes in waves? Well apparently so too does Ocean’s news. Yes, clumsy segue aside, not 24 hours since we shared George Clooney’s comments that long-gesting heist sequel Ocean’s 14 is set to shoot in 2026 with all the old guard returning for one last job, we’ve now had a promising update on Margot Robbie’s planned Ocean’s prequel joint. According to Deadline, Is This Thing On? director and four-time Best Actor Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper is in negotiations to star alongside Robbie in the rapidly heating up prequel. Per Deadline’s sources, the understanding is that Cooper…

This week’s star-studded episode of the Empire Podcast sees our features editor Alex Godfrey display his versatility as an interviewer. First up, the notorious AG engages in utter chaos with Tron: Ares stars Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith [22:46 — 34:31 approx], and also Gillian Anderson. [1:33:01 — 1:43:53 approx.] Then, the man from Empire sits down for a heartfelt and passionate chat with Robert Aramayo, star of this week’s excellent drama I Swear, a true story inspired film about a man who finds himself dealing with Tourette’s. [54:06 — 1:13:25 approx.] Either side of those, Chris Hewitt returns to…

George Clooney may be about to play a fictitious movie star contemplating his legacy in Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, but don’t let that distract you from the fact that George Clooney is still very much a real movie star in our world. As such, when the two-time Oscar winner tells us a long-awaited movie of his is ready to shoot, we sit up and listen. And that’s exactly what happened when Clooney took to the New York Film Festival red carpet last night and told E! News that heist sequel Ocean’s 14 will shoot in 2026 — and that he’s…

From The Favourite to Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are among the most exciting director-actor partnerships working today. Now, they’re back with Bugonia – and Empire VIPs have a chance to see it early. On the evening of 20 October at a central London venue, Empire VIP readers will get the chance to see Bugonia – another typically bold, imagination Lanthimos and Stone collaboration – 11 days before it hits cinemas on 31 October. Two conspiracy-obsessed young men (Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis) kidnap Michelle (Stone), the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien…

Did you watch Marriage Story and think, “Huh, pretty good, but I wish it had a bit more surrealistic nightmare fuel in it?” Have you been wondering if Jennifer Lawrence could play a woman more on the verge of a nervous breakdown than mother!’s, well, mother? And may you be interested in seeing Robert Pattinson go toe-to-toe with an acting titan in a rapidly escalating and increasingly dangerous descent to madness again, The Lighthouse style? Well then, feast your eyes on the newly dropped full trailer for Ratcatcher filmmaker Lynne Ramsay’s comeback movie, Die My Love, in which J-Law and…