Author: Empire

Ready to take another walk on the Shadyside? Four years after Leigh Janiak’s Fear Street trilogy (1994, 1978, 1666), based on R. L. Stine’s young adult horror books, weekly dropped on Netflix, the streamer is gearing up for another round of genre homaging goodness with 80s set slasher Fear Street: Prom Queen. Helmed by Matt Palmer, the latest instalment in the franchise is — you guessed it! — a prom night chiller, and one that’s set to see a new era of horror begin as a cloaked figure stalks the corridors of Shadyside High School in 1988. Check out the…

Time flies when you’re having fun — and when you’re trying to build a cinematic universe, too. Somehow, it’s already been two years since DC Studios head honchos James Gunn and Peter Safran revealed the roadmap for their newly christened DCU, announcing a wildly ambitious “Gods And Monsters” first phase comprising 10 projects. Now, as the first major movie from that slate, Gunn’s own Superman, gets ready to take flight this July, Gunn and Safran have taken some time to give fans an update on their ever-evolving future plans — including Batman: The Brave And The Bold, a proposed live-action…

There’s a changing of the guards at MI6. Or at least, in James Bond HQ. And while this is very much inside industry news, it’s a major change: the 007 franchise, long overseen by producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, is facing a change in creative control. As such, Broccoli and Wilson are stepping away from the series they’ve shepherded for several decades, with the future of Bond now in the hands of Amazon MGM. As Variety reports, a new joint venture will see Bond remain owned by Broccoli, Wilson and Amazon MGM, but that the latter will take…

It’s been two months since we first shared the very exciting news that modern master of horror Mike Flanagan is writing Clayface, a DCU movie based on the classic Batman baddie, for James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios. But while the man behind Haunting Of Hill House and Midnight Mass is on script duty for the malleable miscreant’s big-screen debut, it won’t be Flanagan calling the shots on this one. As THR reports, that honour will be going to James Watkins, the director behind last year’s terrifying English-language remake of Speak No Evil, Daniel Radcliffe starrer The Woman In…

After the veritable guestapaloozas The Empire Film Podcast has been bringing you in recent weeks, we’ve only got one guest gracing your ears on our latest episode. But if we are only bringing in one guest this week, then what a guest it is, as we are delighted to be joined by the great Tatiana Maslany, star of Osgood Perkins’ bonkers new Stephen King adaptation The Monkey. In a wide-ranging, twenty(ish) minute long chat with our very own Chris Hewitt, Maslany pops up on Zoom to talk death, directions, Bob Monkhouse, her own riotous podcast Comedy Bang Bang, and The…

At the ripe old age of 82, Martin Scorsese could be forgiven for slowing things down a little, for taking some time out to watch Captain America: Brave New World or binge a bit of Daredevil: Born Again perhaps. But vacation is evidently not a word in the octogenarian auteur’s vocabulary, as just weeks after we learned that Scorsese’s set to reteam with his Killers Of The Flower Moon lead Leonardo DiCaprio on The Devil In The White City, the octogenarian auteur is already lining up another tantalising new project. According to Deadline, Leo and Marty are shopping a Hawaii…

Pedro Pascal remains a busy, busy man. This year alone, he has The Fantastic Four: First Steps coming up, as well as The Last Of Us Season 2. Those two come hot off the heels of Gladiator II and a voice role in The Wild Robot last year, and somewhere in the mix he’s also armouring up again for 2026’s The Mandalorian & Grogu. But that’s not all: this year, we’ll also see him in Freaky Tales, an anthology action-comedy heist film from director duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, their first feature since Captain Marvel. Set in the late…

When you’ve already taken to the skies and put the pedal to the metal for your craft, what comes next? Well, if you’re Joseph Kosinski, the adrenalised director behind high flying legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick and upcoming, asphalt chewing Brad Pitt vehicle F1, then the answer is… er… aliens. Naturally. Yes, THR are reporting that Kosinski is gearing up to reteam with his Maverick producer Jerry Bruckheimer on a UFO conspiracy thriller that’s sparked major interest across Hollywood. According to THR, Amazon, Apple, Lionsgate, Paramount, and Warner Bros. are all locked into a “quickly and aggressively” escalating bidding war…

Boom. Fresh off the back of the Oscar-sweeping Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan is ready to venture on a new cinematic odyssey. By which we mean, his next film is The Odyssey – a new adaptation of Homer’s epic Greek poem, likely sending the filmmaker into fantastical territory for the first time. In recent weeks, we’ve seen various updates come in on Nolan’s next project – largely, a gigantic swathe of casting, with Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Elliot Page, Anne Hathaway, Jon Bernthal, Charlize Theron and more among the impressively sprawling ensemble. But now, we have our very first…

The EE BAFTA Film Awards happened this evening at the Royal Festival Hall in London, hosted once more by David Tennant. Poking fun at Trump during his monologue, Tennant also offered the usual celebrity gags and had several stars singing part of The Proclaimers’ “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” (though no cameo from Peter Mullan, which will no doubt disappoint Empire Podcast fans). Cautioning audience members that there would not be an intermission as with nominated epic The Brutalist, Tennant also admonished winners to “keep your speeches the opposite of your films: nice and short.” A somewhat surprising addition to…