Author: Empire

With 2022 sci-fi action joint Prey, director Dan Trachtenberg launched the iconic Predator franchise into the future by doing something the series had never done before — looking to the past. By sending the galaxy’s most fearsome hunter species to war with a Comanche fighter (Amber Midthunder) in America circa 1719, Trachtenberg swung open the door for the franchise to go anytime, anyplace next. Just imagine: Predator vs Samurai, Predator vs Vikings, Predator vs WWII fighter pilots! Sound cool? Well that’s just as well, because we’ll be getting all three in Predator: Killer Of Killers, a previously secretive new animated…

You go in the newsagents. Magazine’s on the shelves. Our magazine. Yes, Empire’s issue celebrating 50 years of Jaws is about to be unleashed on your local shop (and has already sold out online). Before it arrives on Thursday 10 April, here’s a sneak peek inside its pages. Jaws At 50 50 years ago, Jaws changed everything. Empire revisits the legacy of Steven Spielberg’s toothy masterpiece in an all-new tribute – getting Hollywood’s finest to unpick its most iconic elements. That includes Simon Pegg on Roy Scheider’s performance as Chief Brody; Hans Zimmer on that legendary John Williams score; Leigh…

This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast is jam-packed, bumper-sized, stuffed to the gills, rammed etc. etc. and so on and so forth. But, perhaps this week more than any other, we really do mean it as we have a whopping five — yes, FIVE! — guests on the pod. For starters, Chris Hewitt sits down for chats with two pairs: first, there’s Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, who reunite almost 30 years after The English Patient for this week’s quite literally Odyssean drama The Return [24:05 — 38:32 approx]; then, he’s back on the junket beat with Rami Malek…

Now here’s a piece of long-awaited news that’ll have you punching, kicking, barrel rolling, and flying through the air — stuntwork is finally going to be recognised at the Oscars! Yes, with the campaign for the insane antics of stuntmen and women to be given proper awards recognition kicking into overdrive in recent years thanks to movies like The Fall Guy, Tom Cruise’s increasingly death-defying Mission: Impossible outings, and the John Wick franchise, of late it’s seemed more of a question of when and not if a stunt Oscar would ever come about. Well, per Deadline’s reporting, that when is…

For the most part, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu proved to be a faithful take on a story that’s been told in cinema for over 100 years now. But a century later, changes were inevitable – not just this version having dialogue, but a different interpretation of Count Orlok himself. This time, he’s not a vampiric creature per se, but the reanimated bloodsucking corpse of a Transylvanian nobleman – complete with controversial lip-fuzz. Yes, Nosferatu’s fabulous moustache proved a sticking point for some viewers. “I get that,” Eggers tells Empire in a new deep-dive interview on the film. “It’s a hard pill…

Robert Pattinson and Zendaya are, arguably, two of the biggest stars on the planet right now. The former is DC’s Batman, Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 (and all the other Mickeys too), and Edward frickin’ Cullen for crying out loud; the latter is the MCU’s own MJ, Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers muse, and soon to be seen alongside R-Pattz in Christopher Nolan’s currently shooting latest epic The Odyssey. And, if Deadline’s sources are accurate, it looks like the in-demand duo may be shooting another blockbuster epic for a beloved auteur together before the year is through. Namely, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune 3…

If A Minecraft Movie’s eye-watering $301 million opening weekend at the box office has taught us one thing, it’s that Chicken Jockey truly is a powerful thing. But if it’s taught us something else, too, then it’s that the current videogame adaptation boom — spurred on by the likes of The Last Of Us, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and Sonic The Hedgehog — is going nowhere soon. Just last week, we learned that Wes Ball’s The Legend Of Zelda will (Hy)rule cinemas in 2027, and now today Deadline have confirmed that A24’s upcoming adaptation of Hideo Kojima’s post-apocalyptic open-world…

On the latest season of The White Lotus, Jason Isaacs has been playing a man whose life is – financially and personally – on the brink of falling to pieces. It’s fitting, then, that the next project you’ll see him in is a film adaptation of Raynor Winn’s memoir The Salt Path, in which a married couple face losing everything, and take what they have left on an extraordinary journey. Isaacs stars as Moth Winn, with Gillian Anderson as Raynor herself – a couple who, in quick succession, face financial ruin and a terminal diagnosis for Moth. Bundling their remaining…

Liam Neeson is an actor with a very particular set of skills. In the last decade and a half, that has primarily been looking gruff, talking smack, and kicking ass in a slew of geriaction films, from the Taken franchise to The Grey to The Commuter and, most recently, In The Land Of Saints And Sinners. But in The Lonely Island alum Akiva Schaffer’s long-gestating, finally-nearly-here reboot of The Naked Gun, Neeson is set to show off a new skill only previously hinted at in guest spots on the likes of Life’s Too Short and Derry Girls — comedy. And…

This week’s Empire Podcast sees the long-awaited return of one of our favourite guests, the wonderful British actor Will Poulter, who talks to Chris Hewitt about his role in Alex Scharfman’s surreal new satire Death Of A Unicorn and what it’s like to play a prize A-hole before engaging in some impromptu tongue-twisters. [20:38 — 33:28 approx] And Willy P (as nobody calls him) isn’t the only returning guest joining us this week, as the uber talented Amber Midthunder sits down on Zoom with Amon Warmann to dive deep into her role in new Jack Quaid led action comedy Novocaine.…