Author: Empire

If you’re a Safdie Brothers fan, the final stretch of 2025 is what you’ve been waiting for. It’s been six years since the siblings unleashed Uncut Gems, to palm-sweating effect. For their next projects, they’ve pursued separate movies; Benny Safdie wrangling The Rock in The Smashing Machine, and Josh Safdie teaming up with TImothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme. While Benny has been relatively active in the intervening years (acting in the likes of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, as well as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and most recently Happy Gilmore 2), Josh has been a more absent presence. But the…

Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool has come a long way since being introduced with his mouth sewn shut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine some 16 years ago. He’s buddied up with Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus in Deadpool, joined (and violently lost) the X-Force in Deadpool 2, and formed a mutie supergroup with Wolverine, Gambit, and the Foxverse gang in MCU debut Deadpool & Wolverine just last year. But could the Merc With A Mouth, Marvel Jesus himself, be about to link up with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in Avengers: Doomsday? Reynolds’ latest Instagram post certainly isn’t shooting down the possibility. Check it out…

Eyes up, True Believers — fresh Spidey news swinging through! After what has been a pretty hyped past week or so for Spider-Man fans — one in which we’ve gotten our first look at Tom Holland’s fresh Brand New Day Spidey suit, learned that Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk is set for the MCU movie, and had confirmation of a new Spider-Punk film coming from Spider-Verse maestros Sony Pictures Animation — this Sunday has brought with it a new ‘Day One on Set’ behind the scenes teaser fresh from Destin Daniel Cretton’s Glasgow shoot. And with it potentially comes a vital clue…

As the old adage goes, there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and horror movie sequels. And following the critical and commercial success of Final Destination: Bloodlines earlier this year, the first film in the iconic horror franchise since 2011’s Final Destination 5, producers New Line are certainly looking to do their bit to keep the death and sequels coming at least. Per THR’s reporting, a seventh Final Destination movie is officially in the works at Warner Bros. as the studio looks to keep the cogs turning on cinema’s ultimate Rube Goldberg machine of death. As THR detail, the…

This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast is a double-guest delight for your listening delectation. First up, Chris Hewitt hops onto Zoom to have a lovely natter with Guy Pearce, who shows off his musical prowess, reveals the one accent that eludes him, and tells us all about his brilliant new Australian prison drama Inside (which is, it bears mentioning, out on 11 August on all good digital platforms.) [20:12 — 37:51 approx.] Then, our Deputy Online Editor and resident horror fanboy Ben Travis sits down for a lovely spoiler-free chat with Weapons star — and secret weapon of the…

Of all the WWE superstars who’ve traded the squared circle for the cinematic stage, Dave Bautista is one of the greats. From Guardians Of The Galaxy to Knock At The Cabin, Dune to Glass Onion, and from The Boy And The Heron to The Last Showgirl, the artist formerly known as Batista has left no genre stone unturned in his quest to master a new craft. Now, the born-again thespian has just landed not one, but two major new gigs: a key villain role in Chad Stahelski’s Highlander reboot, and a starring slot opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Road House 2.…

Throw up the Bat-signal, people! It’s been a long wait for The Batman Part II – Matt Reeves unleashed the first film in his bat-reboot back in 2022, and since then, there’s been slow progress on a follow-up (albeit with The Penguin arriving on the small screen in-between). But recently, there’s been fresh news from Gotham, with Reeves delivering his sequel script to DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran. It seems that screenplay has gone down well with the brass, because Warner Bros looks to be gearing up to production on Part II in the not-too-distant future. As reported…

Ben Wheatley doesn’t sit still. That’s true in a genre sense – this is a filmmaker who’ll hop from harrowing horror (Kill List, In The Earth), to wry comedy (Sightseers, Happy New Year Colin Burstead), to glossy period pieces (Rebecca) and thrillers (Free Fire), to gigantic global shark blockbusters (Meg 2: The Trench) from film to film. It’s also true in the sense that Wheatley rarely disappears for long. And since he served up 2023’s Jason Statham-starring megalodon sequel, Wheatley has been hard at work on not one but two new features (as well as last year’s TV series Generation…

Come gather round people, wherever you roam, and admit that you’d really quite like to see A Complete Unknown director-star duo James Mangold and Timothée Chalamet team up again. We know we certainly would — and, according to Deadline’s ‘The Dish’ sidebar, it looks like we actually might. Yes, the trade is reporting that Mangold and Chalamet, fresh off an incredibly busy awards season run with their eight-Oscar nominated Bob Dylan biopic, are looking to get back in the saddle with High Side, a motocross heist movie based on an unpublished Jaime Oliveira short story. “But Empire, what do you…

Grap your mop, everyone: the Toxic Avenger is back. In the mid-‘80s, the original The Toxic Avenger became the definition of a cult favourite – a scuzzy, super lo-fi blast from the team at Troma Entertainment, with a janitor transformed into a melty-fleshed crimefighter after a toxic waste incident. Produced for just $500,000, it became something of a VHS legend with its gnarly effects, and transgressive energy. Several decades later, ‘Toxie’ is back in an all-new take on The Toxic Avenger – with Blue Ruin and Green Room star Macon Blair as its writer-director, bringing fresh mayhem to the screen.…