Author: Empire

Greta Gerwig has done coming-of-age movies (Lady Bird). Greta Gerwig has done major literary adaptations (Little Women). And Greta Gerwig has done mega franchise movies (Barbie). But with the visionary filmmaker’s upcoming Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, Greta Gerwig is about to do all three — bringing the weird and wonderful urtext of C.S. Lewis’ beloved Chronicles Of Narnia to blockbuster life as a Bowie inspired fantasy rock-opera, set across multiple worlds, that stars Meryl Streep as God-lion Aslan, Emma Mackey as chaotic witch Jadis, and Daniel Craig as scheming magician Uncle Andrew. And you can check out the trailer below;Greta…

Grab your sunnies and stick your floral shirts on, people: Miami Vice ’85 is officially a-go. For a good while now, a fresh take on the hit ‘80s TV show has been circulating in Hollywood – and it’s finally rolling cameras, with considerable talent both in front of and behind the lens. Notably, the stars leading this latest hit on the cops-vs-crime formula are Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler, as Ricardo Tubbs and Sonny Crockett, respectively, leading a stacked cast for what looks to be a big summer blockbuster. Here’s your first look at the pair in costume.Miami Vice…

With the season finale of Lanterns airing today, James Gunn already hard at work penning his next movie post-Man Of Tomorrow, and Tom Rhys Harries starrer Clayface mere days away, things have been pretty busy of late at DC Studios. One of the company’s most hotly anticipated — and long awaited — projects is, however, about to take an unforeseen sabbatical. Per Deadline’s reporting, production on The Batman Part II — which had finally started filming this summer after several delays — has been paused due to director Matt Reeves having to temporarily step away for undisclosed personal reasons.In a…

The hierarchy of power in the entertainment industry is about to change. 10 months after Netflix announced it had acquired Warner Bros. Discovery and just eight months after the big red N gave Warner Bros. the ol’ “That’s all folks” and peaced out of the deal amid a slurry of increasingly lucrative bids from Paramount Skydance, it’s finally official: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery’s mega merger, valued at a reported $111 billion, is complete, with the two major Hollywood studios now set to operate under David Ellison’s Skydance banner.With the closing of this historic merger, which has been subject to…

Bok bok, bitches — Crazy Rich Asians is finally getting a sequel! Only *checks notes* eight years, a couple of back-to-back follow-up movies fallen by the wayside, and an also-unmade spin-off on from the release of Jon M. Chu’s wildly popular, groundbreaking rom-com adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s book, our favourite crazy, rich (and crazy rich) Asians are back back back… only this time, we’re getting eight hour-long helpings. Yes, Crazy Rich Asians’ long-awaited sequel is a HBO Max bound streaming series, written and showrun by movie co-writer Adele Lim and starring OG cast members Henry Golding, Constance Wu, Ronnie Chieng,…

Sci-fi cinema has taken us to many weird, wonderful, and tech-suffused worlds over the years — from the dust-strewn, neon-lit Los Angeles of Blade Runner (and its 2049 and 2099 follow-ups) to The Matrix’s Mega City, Akira’s Neo-Tokyo, and RoboCop’s gritty, industrial Detroit. And soon, we’ll be punching our ticket and hopping on the metro to add Night City to that list, as Deadline is reporting that CD Projekt Red’s bestselling RPG Cyberpunk 2077 is gearing up to receive the blockbuster video game adaptation treatment at Paramount, with Transformers franchise mainstay Lorenzo Di Bonaventura attached to produce.According to Deadline, Paramount’s…

If you’re still yet to see The Odyssey in IMAX, we have good news. And if you were planning on catching Digger in IMAX and haven’t yet (I mean, it’s been out for less than a week), we have slightly less good news. Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster has been a complete box office smash, currently at $1.76 billion and counting. That has, sadly, not been the fortune of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s film, starring a heavily makeup-ed Tom Cruise, which significantly underperformed in its opening weekend, with a current tally of $20 million worldwide. And in the wake of that outcome,…

Paramount and Warner Bros.’ merger — and what that entails for the future of cinema — may be hogging the headlines today, but the movie news cycle keeps spinning all the same. And, in a Paramount-related piece of potentially very promising film news, it looks like the studio’s prized Autobots are getting ready to rollout once again… with some familiar faces being eyed for the job. Yes, per Deadline’s reporting, Paramount Pictures and Hasbro are looking to bring those robots in disguise back to the big screen for the first time since 2024’s Transformers One, with Steven Spielberg aboard as…

In 2015, long before his dealings with blade runners, sandworms, and loquacious extraterrestrials, Denis Villeneuve delivered one of the best thrillers of the 21st century in the form of brutal War On Drugs thriller Sicario, which introduced the world to Emily Blunt’s hard-as-nails kidnap-response specialist Kate Macer and dynamic DOD duo Matt (Josh Brolin) and Alejandro (Benicio del Toro). In 2018, we got Sicario 2: Day Of The Soldado, a thriller no less scintillating despite the absence of Villeneuve, Blunt, and cinematographer Roger Deakins. Now, per Deadline’s reporting, an unexpected trilogy capper awaits: Sicario 3 is officially happening, and the…

Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it’s here. Or should we say Avengers: Endgame Encore is, enabling Anthony and Joe Russo’s blockbuster 2019 Infinity Saga ender to beat James Cameron’s Avatar at the box office once again. Yes, in news that will surprise approximately nobody, Marvel Studios’ strategically timed pre-Avengers: Doomsday Endgame re-release has built on its chart-topping $86 million opening last weekend and delivered another $40-odd million this week, bringing the movie’s lifetime haul to an eye watering $2.925 billion, squeezing past Avatar’s $2.923 billion to become the highest-grossing movie of all time…