Author: Empire

Make no mistake: just because Penelope doesn’t go toe-to-toe with a Cyclops, Sirens and murderous Laestrygonians in The Odyssey, doesn’t mean she’s not facing dangers of her own. Played by Anne Hathaway in Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster adaptation, the wife of Odysseus is stationed back home in Ithaca, awaiting her husband’s return after the Trojan War. But since the ETA of Odysseus (Matt Damon) is, well, years away, she’s tasked with ensuring the throne isn’t usurped by all kinds of nefarious types – including Robert Pattinson’s scheming Antinous. For Hathaway, Penelope proved a fascinating character in her own right, holding…

For the best part of half a century now, Tom Cruise has been the movie star. The man lives, breathes, loves, and makes movies quite unlike anybody else. And now, having recently been presented with a long overdue honorary Oscar for his services to cinema, the medium’s pre-eminent champion has taken to his socials today to share a pulse-quickening retrospective montage of his 46 years on the big screen — and a tantalising new glimpse at his latest movie, Alejandro G Iñárritu’s upcoming ‘comedy of catastrophic proportions’ Digger. Check it out below; SHOW US THE MOVIESSS! Hoo boy, that was…

Who wants to see a new trailer for Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House? We said who wants to see a new trailer for Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House? ANSWER THE QUESTION, DAMN YOUR EYES! Oh yeah, you can’t actually respond to an article as it’s being written. Fine then, we’ll take it as given that of course you want to see our first proper look at Kitty, Thomas, Julian, Lady Fanny, Pat, Robin, Sir Humphrey Bone, and the Captain’s returns in the hit BBC sitcom’s first big-screen outing. Check it out below; A trio of kids sneaking through…

2019’s Pixar fourquel Toy Story 4 gave us a great many things. Ducky and Bunny. Forky. A Bo Peep with some long-overdue self determination. It also gave us Keanu Reeves’ Duke Caboom (“Canada’s Greatest Stuntman!”), shepherded to our screens quite brilliantly by director Josh Cooley. And clearly Keanu and Cooley enjoyed the experience of working together as Variety is reporting that they’re looking to reunite. Per the trade’s reporting, Reeves is circling the lead role in an all-new Lego movie, with Cooley — fresh from helming fan-favourite animated origin joint Transformers One — in the director’s hottest. Believed to be…

31 years since Pixar’s plastic heroes first came to life on the big screen, Toy Story’s still got a friend in m— well, all of us actually! Yes, seven years since we last caught up with Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the gang in 2019’s better than you remember it Toy Story 4, Andrew Stanton’s toys vs tech fivequel Toy Story 5 has rode like the wind into cinemas this week and proved that those toys and their stories have still got it where it counts at the global box office. Per Variety’s reporting, Toy Story 5 took a mammoth $312…

Ready for your next great horror obsession? Good, because Hollywood’s gonna give it to you. Following the staggering critical and commercial success of YouTuber-turned-feature-filmmaker Curry Barker’s first studio movie, ‘One Wish Willow’ thrill-ride Obsession, THR is reporting that horror’s latest enfant terrible has just set his third big-screen chiller at Universal and Blumhouse Atomic Monster. And yes, we did just say third. In case you weren’t already aware, before Obsession even landed in cinemas last month, imprinting itself on the cultural consciousness to the tune of $297 million (and counting), Curry Barker had already shot his sophomore studio feature, Anything…

If this week’s Empire Podcast doesn’t give you a Buzz, it might at least give you a… wonderful sense of warmth and well-being, as all-round acting legends Tom Hanks and Tim Allen chat to Chris Hewitt about returning as Woody and Buzz Lightyear for Toy Story 5, and their surprising plans to keep working together. [47:02 — 1:01:44 approx.] Either side of that, Chris is joined in the podbooth by Helen O’Hara and James Dyer to discuss the strange phenomenon of minor celebrities being asked to lend their voices to animated movies; movies that could have a sequel if you…

We come bearing news, bearing news of a sequel. Not a prequel, nor requel, but a very real sequel. A follow-up to a movie from the year of 2000, about the Whos down in Whoville and a Grinch on a mountain. As THR reports, there will be How The Grinch Stole Christmas 2. And Ron Howard’s coming back, and Jim Carrey’s coming, too — at least if the talks they’ve been talking go through. Plus what’s more, if you can even believe, Universal and Imagine Entertainment have already found writers — one, two, and three. *Ahem* Er, sorry, we came…

It is with great sadness we bring you news that Daveigh Chase, who voiced Lilo in Disney’s animated classic Lilo & Stitch and terrified cinemagoers as The Ring’s Samara, has died at the age of just 35. The former child star, who made her screen debut aged just eight and went on to appear in 50 projects over the course of her career, died on 16 June after battling meningitis and a blood infection, per TMZ’s reporting. Born on 24 July, 1990 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Daveigh Elizabeth Chase broke into the world of acting before she’d even broken out…

In the wise words of Donkey, “Oh my God! It’s happening… it’s really happening!” Yes, we are officially a year out from the release of Shrek 5 and our long, long awaited return to far, far away, and to mark the occasion DreamWorks Animation has just dropped its first proper teaser trailer for directors Walt Dohrn and Conrad Vernon’s upcoming animated fivequel. And as you’ll see below, things are looking a little fraught for Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, and family when we pick back up with them here: Storybook opening? Check! Eddie Murphy busting his vocal cords as Donkey? Check! Shrek…