Author: Empire

Praise Eywa! The new issue of Empire is nearly here, bringing a major dispatch from Pandora. Or, more accurately, James Cameron’s headquarters, where Avatar: Fire And Ash is entering its final stages. You can read all about the next chapter in the saga in the September 2025 issue – pre-order yours here – which hits shelves on Thursday 31 July. For now, here’s a sneak peek inside. Avatar: Fire And Ash Ready for another all-out Na’vi epic? Empire joins James Cameron at Avatar HQ for two full days, watching him as he brings his next sci-fi behemoth into being. Plus,…

James Cameron doesn’t need more work on his plate. The filmmaker is firmly ensconced in the world of Avatar right now, still in the midst of cooking up several planned sequels – including the impending third chapter, Avatar: Fire And Ash – all while mulling the idea of an animated anthology, and plotting an adaptation of nuclear-war-themed historical drama Ghosts Of Hiroshima too. So, when another story forces its way onto Cameron’s schedule, you know it has to be a good one. Enter The Devils, a freshly-published fantasy novel by Joe Abercrombie that became an instant New York Times bestseller,…

Avatar fans, it’s very nearly time to exit cryosleep again. It’s only been three years since Avatar: The Way Of Water flooded the box office at the end of 2022, and yet for those waiting to see where the story of Jake, Neytiri, and the rest of the Sully family goes, it’s felt more like the 13-year gap between the first two films. Well, that wait is nearly over. Avatar: Fire And Ash is coming – and if you didn’t catch the trailer for James Cameron’s sci-fi epic threequel ahead of The Fantastic Four: First Steps this weekend, we have…

Osgood Perkins has been hard at work. Last year he brought us what could arguably be Nicolas Cage’s freakiest performance yet in Longlegs, and earlier this year he delivered the harpoon-shooting, side-splitting (literally) horror-comedy The Monkey. Now, the director looks to be pivoting back to darker horror territory, as the trailer for his latest flick, Keeper, has just hit the web — and you can watch it below: That’s one cryptic teaser, seemingly more in line with the weird and flat-out incredible marketing campaign for Perkins’ first Neon horror joint, Longlegs. The teaser gives us a mix of ominous figures…

There’s nothing quite like a trip to Pandora. When James Cameron first unleashed Avatar in 2009, audiences were swept away by the bioluminescent paradise he presented, a stunning backdrop to the love story of human grunt Jake Sully and Na’vi warrior Neytiri. Then, when Avatar: The Way Of Water finally arrived in 2022, Cameron introduced us to Pandora’s teeming oceans, while the Sully story deepened considerably with tangled family ties. Now, a third trip to Pandora awaits in Avatar: Fire And Ash – one that’s set to expand Cameron’s imaginative world in all kinds of explosive ways, as darkness comes…

Here’s something to be excited about: Park Chan-wook is back! The legendary Korean filmmaker – behind Oldboy, and The Handmaiden, and Decision To Leave, to name but a handful of his masterpieces – is returning with a new film, No Other Choice, after briefly turning to TV for The Sympathizer. And, fittingly for the filmmaker behind the thematically-linked Vengeance Trilogy (that’s Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, and Lady Vengeance, sandwiched either side of Oldboy), his latest looks to be a tale of jealousy, rage, and murder – a thriller with blackly comic elements. Check out the teaser: There’s no official synopsis…

Two years ago, Blumhouse got in on the game-to-movie boom with its big screen adaptation of Five Nights At Freddy’s – the horror game (particularly beloved by younger players) that brings eerie animatronic mascots to murderous life. It was a considerable financial hit, and so Freddy Fazbear and co are officially back – not, sadly, in ‘Six Nights At Freddy’s’, nor ‘Five Nights At Freddies’s’. No, it’s simply Five Nights At Freddy’s 2, delving further into the extensive lore of the games, bringing back several characters from the first film, and busting those marauding maniacs out of the restaurant. Watch…

There’s never been a better time to be a Predator fan. A few years back, Dan Trachtenberg brought the series back to rude health with the knockout Prey, dialling the clock back a few hundred years for the tale of a Comanche warrior woman battling an intergalactic hunter. Then, this year, Trachtenberg followed it up with the eye-popping animated gore-fest Predator: Killer Of Killers, produced concurrently with the franchise’s return to the big screen (both Prey and Killer Of Killers were Disney+ exclusives) in the much-anticipated live-action Predator: Badlands. The latest Badlands trailer shows that Trachtenberg isn’t resting on his…

Welp, someone’s done it again. The Necronomicon has resurfaced, and despite all warnings against intoning any of the words inside, passages have clearly been read that’ve raised those malevolent deadites. Yes, the Evil Dead are rising once more. Two years after Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, the next instalment in the Sam Raimi horror saga is officially go: Evil Dead Burn, a film that, as far as we know, is unconnected (in a direct sense) to the previous entries in the series. The film is being directed by French filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček, behind recent cult hit spider horror Infested, and…

This is a big week for Marvel. The studio is finally unveiling The Fantastic Four: First Steps in a matter of days – perhaps its most important film since Endgame, finally bringing characters who couldn’t be more a cornerstone of Marvel’s comics history into the MCU at last. Since Marvel’s First Family has never quite been captured right on the big screen, First Steps is a chance to turn things around. And clearly the studio sees this as the start of a new era in Marvel – not just the beginning of ‘Phase Six’, but an ideal opportunity to pull…