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Forget the wind and rain outside, folks, your trusty Empire news team is here with a breaking weather alert that’ll be sure to quicken the heart of any movie buff. Days Of Thunder 2. Summer 2028. Yup, you heard us right: our world-exclusive Digger issue cover star, Mr. Movies himself Tom Cruise, is revving up to return to the role of hotshot NASCAR driver Cole Trickle in a sequel to Tony Scott’s 1990 rubber-burning racing classic, set to hit cinemas two years from now. And what’s more, he’s bringing actual Anne Hathaway along for the ride, too, as you can…

If you’ve had the pleasure of heading to see Studio Ghibli’s witchy classic Kiki’s Delivery Service in the last week or so — or have a trip to your local multiplex planned imminently for Hayao Miyazaki’s anime classic — then you have the legendary Japanese animation studio’s new UK distributor, GKIDS, to thank for that. And, as promised back in July, there’s plenty more where that came from on its way. Today, GKIDS has confirmed that unsung Ghibli classic Whisper Of The Heart, one of the all-time great coming of age movies, is heading for IMAX screens on 16 September…

MCU movies are dominating the Disney+ Top 10. Avengers: Endgame is coming back to cinemas. The streets are talking about X-Men, incursions, Secret Wars, and Jonathan Hickman comics. All of which can only mean one thing: the countdown to Avengers: Doomsday is officially on. And, as of today, the Countdown To Avengers: Doomsday Official Podcast is also on, hosted by Marvel Studios’ own Ms. Marvel, the one and only Iman Vellani, alongside The Basement Yard podder Frank Alvarez. And you can literally watch the entire first episode directly below;It’s easy to write this off as just another piece of marketing,…

It is with great sadness that we bring you the news Tim Curry, iconic star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Stephen King’s It, Clue, and much more has died at the age of 80. The multitalented stage and screen actor and singer, who suffered a major stroke in 2012 from which he never fully recovered, passed away at his Toluca Lake home in Los Angeles today, as confirmed by his longtime manager and friend Marcia Hurwitz.The son of a Royal Navy chaplain and a school secretary, Timothy James Curry was born on 19 April, 1946 in the English village…

A new Martin McDonagh movie is always something to relish – sure to be packed with razor-sharp dialogue, caustic characters, and a melancholy undertone that gets under your skin. And now, after the hit of The Banshees Of Inisherin, the filmmaker is back with Wild Horse Nine. Re-teaming with old favourites (hello, Three Billboards’ Sam Rockwell!) and welcoming new faces into the McDonagh fray (hello, John Malkovich!) it sends two bickering CIA operatives on a mission in the 1970s, with explosive results.As McDonagh tells Empire, the film has something to say about how America conducted itself in the ‘60s and…

Oddly enough, history is replete with stories about being in the belly of a whale. There’s the biblical version with Jonah (see: The Bible, duh) and its reinterpretation in Pinocchio, finding the puppet-boy stranded in the cavernous innards of Monstro. But never before has a cinematic telling truly explored how exactly it would feel to be eaten alive and swallowed down into a whale’s stomach. Until now. Enter Whalefall, the wild new survival thriller from director Brian Duffield, which finds Austin Abrams’ diver Jay in deep, deep trouble.Stuck in a whale’s stomach with only an hour to escape, Jay’s predicament…

This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast sees Jane Schoenbrun, director of Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma, chat to Harry Stainer on Zoom about their new movie, creating a new horror icon, and their own filmmaking journey. Either side of that, Helen O’Hara is joined in the podbooth by James Dyer and Jamie Graham to take a bunch of listener questions, discuss the week’s movie news (including their takes on the X-Men casting from D23), and review the aforementioned Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma, The Stath’s latest movie, Mutiny, & Sons, and Stop! That! Train! Enjoy.And…

Cinema has brought us so many visions of the apocalypse across the decades. We’ve seen the human race face towering infernos, asteroid armageddons, icebergs ahead, marauding martians, and climate deep-freezes, to name but a few. But with Digger, filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu is preparing a different kind of disaster movie. Already, he’s sent Michael Keaton into an existential tailspin in Birdman, and stranded Leonardo DiCaprio in the icy wilderness in The Revenant (both to Oscar-winning effect). And now, he’s got Tom Cruise – as you’ve never seen him before – at the heart of a story about the thing that…

Tom Cruise is not a man who’s easy to forget. He’s one of the biggest stars Hollywood has ever seen. A man whose contributions to cinema range from some of the most jaw-dropping action spectacles ever pulled off (see: the Mission: Impossible movies, Top Gun and its sequel, and many more) to arresting character dramas that made him a megastar in the first place (from A Few Good Men, to Rain Man, to Jerry Maguire). And yet, during production of his latest film Digger, Cruise’s co-star Riz Ahmed found himself lost in the larger-than-life character that the star has worked…

Over the last few weeks, the internet has been ablaze with rumours about Charles Melton and whether or not he could be in the frame to play Beast in Jake Schreier’s MCU X-Men movie. But with D23’s X-Cast announcement having come and gone and no big blue Melton reveal having materialised, it would appear — for now at least — that Marvel Studios is keeping its Beast (whoever that may be) under wraps for now. But fear not because, per Variety’s reporting, Melton may have another major blockbuster — namely Destin Daniel Cretton’s upcoming live-action Naruto movie — on his…