Author: Empire

Two years ago, Blumhouse got in on the game-to-movie boom with its big screen adaptation of Five Nights At Freddy’s – the horror game (particularly beloved by younger players) that brings eerie animatronic mascots to murderous life. It was a considerable financial hit, and so Freddy Fazbear and co are officially back – not, sadly, in ‘Six Nights At Freddy’s’, nor ‘Five Nights At Freddies’s’. No, it’s simply Five Nights At Freddy’s 2, delving further into the extensive lore of the games, bringing back several characters from the first film, and busting those marauding maniacs out of the restaurant. Watch…

There’s never been a better time to be a Predator fan. A few years back, Dan Trachtenberg brought the series back to rude health with the knockout Prey, dialling the clock back a few hundred years for the tale of a Comanche warrior woman battling an intergalactic hunter. Then, this year, Trachtenberg followed it up with the eye-popping animated gore-fest Predator: Killer Of Killers, produced concurrently with the franchise’s return to the big screen (both Prey and Killer Of Killers were Disney+ exclusives) in the much-anticipated live-action Predator: Badlands. The latest Badlands trailer shows that Trachtenberg isn’t resting on his…

Welp, someone’s done it again. The Necronomicon has resurfaced, and despite all warnings against intoning any of the words inside, passages have clearly been read that’ve raised those malevolent deadites. Yes, the Evil Dead are rising once more. Two years after Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, the next instalment in the Sam Raimi horror saga is officially go: Evil Dead Burn, a film that, as far as we know, is unconnected (in a direct sense) to the previous entries in the series. The film is being directed by French filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček, behind recent cult hit spider horror Infested, and…

This is a big week for Marvel. The studio is finally unveiling The Fantastic Four: First Steps in a matter of days – perhaps its most important film since Endgame, finally bringing characters who couldn’t be more a cornerstone of Marvel’s comics history into the MCU at last. Since Marvel’s First Family has never quite been captured right on the big screen, First Steps is a chance to turn things around. And clearly the studio sees this as the start of a new era in Marvel – not just the beginning of ‘Phase Six’, but an ideal opportunity to pull…

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…