Author: Empire

Now here’s a bit of eye-catching movie news that we imagine nobody had on their 2025 bingo cards. THR are reporting that Taika Waititi — the Kiwi funnyman and filmmaker responsible for the likes of Hunt For The Wilderpeople, Jojo Rabbit, and both Thor: Ragnarok and Love And Thunder — has just added another project to his ever-stacked plate: a new Judge Dredd movie. And, what’s more, he’s bringing The Fall Guy and Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation scribe Drew Pearce along for the ride into Mega-City One. While Waititi’s eclectic filmography to date may not immediately suggest that he’s the…

This week on the Empire Podcast we kindly request that you do not adjust your speakers, or your headphones, before diving in. “Why?” we hear you cry. Well, simply put, because Ralph Ineson’s voice really is just that deep and sonorous — as you’ll hear in the first of our two interviews this week, which sees Chris Hewitt sit down with the actor who plays the planet-eating entity Galactus in next week’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps to talk about joining the MCU and how his voice is his passport. [1:04:38 — 1:20:16 approx] The second interview we have for…

What do you think Stitch would do if you gave him a billion dollars? He’d probably spend a chunk of it on some advanced interstellar weaponry, most of the rest on Elvis LPs, and – in an ideal world – save a small amount to pay for all the collateral damage he causes. Either way, Experiment 626 should be in for a decent payday, since the live-action Lilo & Stitch has managed a feat that no other Hollywood film has so far in 2025: joining the $1 billion+ box office club. Yes, Dean Fleischer Camp’s adaptation of the beloved 2002…

A baby goose aggressively honking at you down the local park is a feral gosling situation, and it’s pretty safe to say we’d never want that. But the star of Barbie and the man who once played Buddy the Elf joining forces for an original action comedy joint at Amazon? Well that’d be a Ferrell Gosling situation, and we are well and truly up for that. Yes, per Deadline’s reporting, Canadian national treasure Ryan Gosling and SNL funnyman-turned-Hollywood star Will Ferrell are set to share the screen in Tough Guys, which is currently in the works at Amazon MGM Studios.…

Nintendo may have its hands full right about now, what with the recent launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 and tomorrow’s Donkey Kong Bananza release to juggle, but that doesn’t mean the legendary gaming company’s forgotten about its cinematic ambitions — not by a long shot. In fact, today has brought with it a double-dose of exciting news about Ninty and Sony’s upcoming The Legend Of Zelda movie, which is set to take fans to Hyrule in live-action for the very first time. First up, we now know that Renegade Nell’s Bo Bragason and The Haunting Of Bly Manor’s Benjamin…

Last time we got a Joachim Trier film, he capped off his Oslo Trilogy (and gave most late 20-somethings an existential crisis) with The Worst Person In The World, one of our picks for the best movies of its year. Now, we have a trailer for his latest, Sentimental Value, which reunites the director with Worst Person stars Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie, while also bringing Andor star and acting legend Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Elle Fanning into his melancholic and introspective fold — for a film that looks set to feature a whole lot of family drama. Watch the trailer…

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s James Gunn’s Superman soaring at the box office as he and Peter Safran’s new-look DCU takes flight. In fact, to say David Corenswet’s Man of Steel is proving a hit with cinemagoers would be something of an understatement: the first solo Supes movie since, well, Man Of Steel actually has bagged a cool $217 million at the global box office in its opening weekend, with a hefty $122 million of that love for DC’s star spangled hero coming, as you may expect, from American audiences. To put those figures —…

For basically every movie Darren Aronofsky has made so far, audiences have been advised to gird themselves going in. Because his filmography is a cavalcade of addiction spirals (Requiem For A Dream), balletic body-horror (Black Swan), biblical apocalypses (mother! and Noah), self-destruction (The Wrestler). His last work, The Whale, was another slice of pure Aronofskian drama. But for his next outing, the filmmaker is choosing to work in a different mode. Who’s ready for an Aronofsky film that has a bit more light at the end of that tunnel? Get ready for Caught Stealing, a star-studded crime thriller adapted from…

When you adapt a story, everything you do is a choice – to adhere to the material, to try something different, to actualise the author’s intention, or to recognise moments that need cinematic heightening. For the most part, Chris Columbus’ take on The Thursday Murder Club – the massively popular Richard Osman whodunnit, set in a retirement home where four residents take to solving crimes – looks set to be largely faithful to the original novel (still set in England, despite the amount of Americans involved in bringing it to the screen). But there are some differences – most notably…

The Opening Night Gala of the BFI London Film Festival is a coveted slot, usually reserved for the buzziest of buzzy movies in town. In recent years, we’ve seen the likes of Steve McQueen’s Blitz, Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, and Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall kick off the Big Smoke’s annual cinematic celebration in style. And for the upcoming 69th edition of LFF, the BFI are really bringing out the big guns, as today they’ve announced that Rian Johnson’s hotly anticipated Knives Out threequel Wake Up Dead Man will be heading to London — and partner cinemas around the UK…