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Just when we thought it was finally safe to make a sound, it looks like John Krasinski isn’t quite done with A Quiet Place yet. Having handed the reins of his sci-fi horror franchise over to Pig director Michael Sarnoski for last year’s critically and commercially lauded prequel A Quiet Place: Day One, Krasinski took to Instagram earlier this evening to officially tease his return to the series’ helm for A Quiet Place Part III. Check out the filmmaker’s appropriately low-key stealth announcement below; There you go: 9 July, 2027, A Quiet Place Part III. ‘Nuff said. Well, pretty much.…

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, got some news about Spider-Man… that’s right, webheads, a fresh helping of Spidey news is coming right at you just in time for the weekend. As production gets underway on Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day up in Glasgow, today has already given us our first glimpse at Tom Holland’s new Spidey suit for next summer’s hotly anticipated MCU fourquel. And now, thanks to THR, another tantalising tease of what’s to come has just landed on our desk: confirmation that none other than Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk, last seen in She-Hulk back in 2022, will be seen smashing…

This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast adds insults to injury, as the team — Chris Hewitt, Helen O’Hara, Alex Godfrey, and Ben Travis — share their favourite movie insults. (And, yes, misquote at least one of them horribly.) Also, fair warning: nothing on this earth will prepare you for Alex Godfrey’s Pazuzu impression, for which we can only apologise unreservedly. Elsewhere, the team also discuss the week’s movie news, including The Social Network Part II casting rumours, production getting underway on Once Upon A Time In Hollywood sequel The Continuing Adventures Of Cliff Booth, and the release of the…

Just last month, we brought you the unexpected news that Aaron Sorkin is gearing up to write and direct a sequel to his and David Fincher’s Oscar winning Facebook film _The Social_Network. Now, as the wheels start turning on The Social Network Part II, THR is reporting that Sorkin and the folks over at Sony have already fired out a couple of friend requests for potential leads — and some pretty high calibre ones at that. Per THR, newly Academy Award winning Anora actor Mikey Madison and The Bear’s talismanic lead Jeremy Allen White have both been approached to front…

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…