Author: Empire

After traveling the cosmos as The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’s kick-ass Princess Peach, Anya Taylor-Joy is coming back down to earth for her next role. Well, Middle-earth, at least. Yes, the Furiosa and Dune: Part Two star is about to add another, most preciousss major movie franchise to her resumé as she joins the increasingly starry line-up of Andy Serkis’ The Lord Of The Rings: The Hunt For Gollum. “But who will she play? Arwen? Galadriel? Goldberry?” we hear you cry. The answer is in fact none of the above, but rather Seren, an all-new elf character conceived specifically for…

Last year, Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow, a Latvian cat animation created entirely in free open-source program Blender, beat both Pixar and Dreamworks at the Oscars. Now, the Luxo Lamp lot over at Disney are looking to strike back with their own black cat tale, Gatto, the latest movie from Luca director Enrico Casarosa. Blending a Pixar-first hand-painted animation style with a curiosity piquing tale of mobster cats in Venice, the movie — which we now know will feature the vocal stylings of Mark Ruffalo and Laurence Fishburne as scrappy black cat Nero and feline mob boss Rocco, respectively — sounds like…

This week’s Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt, Helen O’Hara, and James Dyer pack the sunscreen, flip-flops, and oversized hats into a tiny bag as they discuss some of the movie holidays they’d like to take. And yes, they somehow manage to do this without mentioning Roman Holiday, The Holiday, M. Hulot’s Holiday, or indeed Mr Bean’s Holiday. Any film with the word ‘holiday’ in it, basically, the colossal eejits. They’ve been placed on gardening leave as a result. But before that, they also discuss the week’s movie news, including 24 Jump Street (with a special cameo), and review Steven Spielberg’s…

What a treat it is to exist at the same time as Ludwig Göransson. The legendary composer has been behind some of the most jaw-dropping scores of recent years. Fresh from last year’s astonishing Sinners soundtrack (for which he won his second Oscar, the other for Oppenheimer), he’s already given us the gift of his Mandalorian And Grogu soundtrack this year, boasting an instant banger in the synth-heavy ‘Shakari’. And soon we’ll get his latest collaboration with Christopher Nolan: The Odyssey. As you’d expect, they’re cooking up something wild – take a look here: Well, that sounds incredible. Göransson is…

If there’s one thing David Ayer loves, it’s making a movie about dudes getting put through the absolute wringer and sticking together no matter what. Think Brian and Mike in End Of Watch, Wardaddy and the Sherman tank crew in Fury, and, er, Det. Ward and Jakoby in Bright. For his latest movie, Heart Of The Beast, Ayer is offering up another meditation on the theme, this time reteaming with Brad Pitt on an elemental survival thriller that pits a former Army Special Forces soldier (Pitt) and his beloved German Shepherd against the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness. Check out the trailer…

Praise Eywa — Avatar: Fire And Ash has finally got a Disney+ release date! Six whole months since James Cameron spirited us back to the alien world of Pandora for his latest “I can’t believe I’m seeing this with my own actual eyes” blockbuster epic on the big screen, the maestro’s third Avatar movie is officially set to stream on Disney+ — in all its fiery, ashen glory — on 24 June. Yes, in just two weeks’ time! And there’s even a fancy little trailer teasing the threequel’s small-screen debut. Check it out below; The latest chapter in the Sully…

In 2020’s Enola Holmes, Millie Bobby Brown’s titular heroine, teen sister of Sherlock (yes, that one), set out to find her missing mother and wound up finding her true calling as a swashbuckling super-sleuth all of her own making. In 2022’s Enola Holmes 2, our intrepid heroine found herself looking for a missing match factory worker and unearthing a far grander conspiracy. Now, in Enola Holmes 3, hailing from Adolescence duo Philip Barantini and Jack Thorne, Enola — on the morn of her Malta wedding to Louis Partridge’s Lord Tewkesbury, no less — faces her biggest case yet: the mystery…

Avast ye, scurvy dogs! There be some piratical news we be needin’ to tell ye, so listen up an’ listen up’ real well, arrr-ight? *Cough* Ahem, er, sorry, we don’t quite know what got into us there. Oh yeah, actually, we do! Per Deadline’s reporting, Sir Ridley Scott is getting ready to direct a new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella Treasure Island. And what’s more, not only has Adolescence and Lord Of The Flies scribe Jack Thorne written the script, but the film has also already found its Long John Silver: Hugh Jackman! While there are some iconic…

In recent years, the Evil Dead series has not messed about. While Sam Raimi’s sequels fused his hardcore horror sensibilities with gallons of slapstick gore, the likes of Fede Alvarez’s 2013 Evil Dead and Lee Cronin’s 2023 Evil Dead Rise have veered closer to the transgressive terror of Raimi’s original film; albeit with a sadistic wink in their eye. Next up is the turn of French filmmaker Sebastien Vaniček, whose Evil Dead Burn will subject a new family to the hellish exploits of Kandarian demons. The Necronomicon is open for business once more. At the heart of the madness this…

Great things happen when Brad Bird goes animated. This is the filmmaker who cut his teeth on The Simpsons in its prime, and went on to helm The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and its sequel, and Ratatouille. And running through the background of it all, he’s always wanted to make Ray Gunn – a retro-sci-fi noir which he’s been stewing on since the 1990s. Now, it’s finally real, arriving as an animated feature on Netflix later this year, with some stellar voice talent to boot. In the role of the brilliantly-named Ray Gunn himself is Sam Rockwell. “He’s pretty much…