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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s James Gunn’s Superman soaring at the box office as he and Peter Safran’s new-look DCU takes flight. In fact, to say David Corenswet’s Man of Steel is proving a hit with cinemagoers would be something of an understatement: the first solo Supes movie since, well, Man Of Steel actually has bagged a cool $217 million at the global box office in its opening weekend, with a hefty $122 million of that love for DC’s star spangled hero coming, as you may expect, from American audiences. To put those figures —…

For basically every movie Darren Aronofsky has made so far, audiences have been advised to gird themselves going in. Because his filmography is a cavalcade of addiction spirals (Requiem For A Dream), balletic body-horror (Black Swan), biblical apocalypses (mother! and Noah), self-destruction (The Wrestler). His last work, The Whale, was another slice of pure Aronofskian drama. But for his next outing, the filmmaker is choosing to work in a different mode. Who’s ready for an Aronofsky film that has a bit more light at the end of that tunnel? Get ready for Caught Stealing, a star-studded crime thriller adapted from…

When you adapt a story, everything you do is a choice – to adhere to the material, to try something different, to actualise the author’s intention, or to recognise moments that need cinematic heightening. For the most part, Chris Columbus’ take on The Thursday Murder Club – the massively popular Richard Osman whodunnit, set in a retirement home where four residents take to solving crimes – looks set to be largely faithful to the original novel (still set in England, despite the amount of Americans involved in bringing it to the screen). But there are some differences – most notably…

The Opening Night Gala of the BFI London Film Festival is a coveted slot, usually reserved for the buzziest of buzzy movies in town. In recent years, we’ve seen the likes of Steve McQueen’s Blitz, Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, and Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall kick off the Big Smoke’s annual cinematic celebration in style. And for the upcoming 69th edition of LFF, the BFI are really bringing out the big guns, as today they’ve announced that Rian Johnson’s hotly anticipated Knives Out threequel Wake Up Dead Man will be heading to London — and partner cinemas around the UK…

To date, Robert Aramayo is an actor probably best known for his work in the fantasy genre space — as The Rings Of Power’s Elrond and as Game Of Thrones’ young Ned Stark. But in upcoming biopic I Swear, director Kirk Jones’ first feature in almost a decade, Juilliard graduate Aramayo is making a major pivot to play Tourette’s Syndrome campaigner John Davidson, a man who came of age with the neurological condition in the unforgiving 80s before going on to MBE recognition for his services to raising awareness about it. Check out the trailer for the movie — which,…

For her next role, Pamela Anderson is cutting loose. Earlier this year, the actor made a major comeback with a stellar turn in Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl, displaying significant dramatic chops and entering awards consideration. Soon, though, she’s trading seriousness for silliness in The Naked Gun, starring opposite Liam Neeson in Akiva Schaffer’s reboot-quel. While Neeson is playing Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Leslie Nielsen’s original cop, Anderson is Beth – a femme fatale who has Drebin investigating the murder of her brother. For Anderson, starring in a Naked Gun film is something of a full-circle moment –…

When we compiled our list of the 25 best anime movies ever made last year, no fewer than five Studio Ghibli films made the cut. And of those five, one managed to see off the likes of Akira and Ghibli’s own Spirited Away to come out on top: Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 fantasy epic Princess Mononoke. Now, following the successful theatrical re-releases of My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away in 2024, Elysian Film Group are preparing to bring a brand new 4K restoration of Miyazaki’s masterpiece to over 50 IMAX cinemas across the UK and Ireland this summer. And you can…

To paraphrase noted mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm, “Franchises, uh, find a way.” And if you happen to be the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World franchise, now on its third retooling, then that way is, apparently, absolutely colossal box office success. Yes, three years on from 2022’s billion-dollar grossing all-star adventure Jurassic World Dominion, Gareth Edwards’ Jurassic World Rebirth has just enjoyed a dyno-mite opening weekend at the box office, stomping its way to a year-best — and franchise second-best — $318 million worldwide. With Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World Dominion having brought the initial World trilogy to an end by uniting the franchise’s…

It seems like only yesterday that Christopher Nolan was giving us a first glimpse at Oppenheimer with all kinds of moody, black-and-white teasers and slow-mo nuclear reactions. If you’ll remember, that film turned out pretty well for him. And the legendary filmmaker is far from resting on his laurels after sweeping the Oscars. No, he’s going even bigger than ever before with The Odyssey, his Homeric blockbuster with an absolutely stacked cast, led by Matt Damon as Odysseus. With the film set to hit screens in just over a year’s time – 17 July 2026, to be exact – the…

This week’s Empire Podcast has the holy trinity of Ds — Dinosaurs, Davids, and Dolls. Yes, a very special, star-studded edition of your favourite movie pod sees our intrepid interviewing adventurer Chris Hewitt sits down for a pre-lunch chat about dinosaurs and sandwiches with Jurassic World Rebirth stars Mahershala Ali and Rupert Friend, [25:28 — 36:36 approx.] while friend of the pod Mike Muncer goes deep with the legendary David Cronenberg on his most personal film yet, The Shrouds. [1:02:07 – 1:18:07 approx.] Oh, and in case you’re wondering where the doll comes into the equation, there’s also an excerpt…