Author: Empire

Come on, fess up: who’s been reading from the Necronomicon again? Yes, the Evil Dead franchise is back, ready to deliver a fresh jolt of demonic mischief – three years after 2023’s Evil Dead Rise to a cheese grater to the flesh of Sam Raimi’s cinematic baby (which, in this context, is a total compliment). With Lee Cronin off Lee Cronin-ing on Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, we now have Evil Dead Burn, from French director Sébastien Vaniček – and the first teaser promises another wild cinematic ride as only Evil Dead can provide. Check it out: That is – quite…

The era of big-ambition video game adaptations continues apace, with Zelda already on the way from Wes Ball, and Michael Sarnoski working up Death Stranding for A24. And today, another biggie is officially underway: production has begun on Alex Garland’s Elden Ring movie, another A24 joint, which means that we have more casting info, and some intriguing tidbits that point to the scope of Garland’s endeavour. Garland is directing from his own screenplay, based on the famously hard-as-nails game; which itself had George R.R. Martin on writing duties. And he’s shooting the film for IMAX, so expect the doomy (open)…

Ariana Grande is a BAFTA, Oscar, and Golden Globe nominated actor, a three-time Grammy award-winning pop megastar, and a very, very funny woman. The triple threat! Not only have the ‘Thank U, Next’ singer’s comic chops shone as Wicked’s Glinda, but lest we forget Grande started out in comedy with Nickelodeon’s Victorious and has regularly stolen the show with her SNL appearances. Now, in long-gestating Meet The Parents fourquel Focker In-Law, Grande is about to flex her funny bones alongside Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro as Olivia Jones, Greg Focker’s son Henry’s (Skyler Gisondo) overachieving new girlfriend. Check out…

Jacob Elordi is an actor who knows a thing or two about survival on-screen. He survived being an Aussie POW as The Narrow Road To The Deep North’s Dorrigo Evans. His Creature made it out of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein in one piece (just about), too. Elordi even managed to emerge from the wreckage of Euphoria Season 3 unscathed, somehow. And Ridley Scott’s upcoming post-apocalyptic sci-fi joint The Dog Stars, adapted from Peter Heller’s 2012 bestseller, is about to put the Oscar nominee through the wringer again — this time as Hig, a civilian pilot holed up in an abandoned…

A short time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, the final trailer for The Mandalorian And Grogu was dropped during Disney’s CinemaCon presentation. And while we’ve had trailers for Jon Favreau’s movie — the first big-screen Star Wars outing since 2019’s The Rise Of Skywalker — already, three of ’em in fact (if you count that Super Bowlspot), there’s something about this one that just hits different. Maybe it’s the focus on Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin and Grogu’s emotional father-and-son bond. Maybe it’s Ludwig Göransson’s swelling, John Williams infused score. Heck, maybe it’s all those Anzellans! Who knows?…

Good news for fans of big video game brawls. Not only do you have Mortal Kombat II to look forward to on the big screen later this year, but another of gaming’s all-time-great fighters is about to level up for cinemas. Street Fighter is on the way, ready to bring Capcom’s outlandish side-scrolling punch-em-up to the movies, and it looks to be going all-out in bringing the games’ super-stylised world into a new medium. Check out the first trailer: We’ve got Ryu and Chun-Li, Balrog and Guile, and a whole load of other beloved favourites. We have that culture-permeating ‘Perfect!’ sound effect. And, yes: we have…

With Godzilla Minus One — excuse us, the Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One — writer/director/VFX artist Takashi Yamazaki brought terror to Tokyo, pitting the atomic might of Gojira against the heroic spirit and heart of kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) in a creature feature for the ages. Now, three years later, we’re about to get monsters in Manhattan as Yamazaki brings cinema’s favourite septuagenarian lizard — bigger, badder, and frankly more terrifying looking than ever before — to New York in hotly anticipated sequel Godzilla Minus Zero. And you can check out a freshly dropped teaser trailer for the incoming…

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s a buzzy bit of casting news for James Gunn’s upcoming Superman sequel, Man Of Tomorrow, actually. Following a frenetic few weeks of whispers, rumours, and counter-rumours about who may be set to play alien anti-heroine Maxima in Gunn’s sophomore directorial effort in the DCU, the movie has found its alien queen (no, not that Alien Queen.) Per Variety’s reporting, Splitsville and Andor star Adria Arjona has officially signed on to play Maxima in Man Of Tomorrow as pre-production ramps up on the superhero sequel. As has been well publicised and…

Though Katniss Everdeen’s story ended a while ago, there are plenty of Hunger Games tales still to be told. Author Suzanne Collins still has much she wants to say – given the state of, well, everything right now – and has continued to explore the dystopia she created in various prequel novels, themselves adapted for the big screen. Now, after The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, which dialled the clock back to the 10th Hunger Games, Sunrise On The Reaping will be presenting the 50th edition of the kiddie death-match – perhaps its most brutal ever, and the one that…

Ready for the truth to be revealed? Disclosure Day is coming, Steven Spielberg’s new summer blockbuster set to spill extra-terrestrial secrets – and the new issue of Empire has the first word on the master’s latest original. You’ll find the magazine on newsstands from Thursday April 9 – and you can order a copy online here right now – but first, here’s a sneak peek inside its pages. Steven Spielberg Over 50 years ago, he invented the blockbuster. Now Spielberg is back with a fresh one – and he sits down for a major new interview, revisiting his sci-fi classics,…