Author: Empire

Michael Madsen, longtime collaborator of Quentin Tarantino and star of over 300 films and TV shows — including the likes of Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, and Donnie Brasco — has sadly died at the age of 67. As confirmed to THR by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the iconic actor was found unresponsive at his Malibu home this morning following a suspected cardiac arrest. Born in Chicago, Illinois on 25 September, 1957 to a war veteran-turned-firefighter father and an Emmy award winning mother, Michael Madsen spent much of his childhood moving from place to place due to his mum’s…

The world of Tron has always been ahead of its time. The 1982 original was a game-changing early cyber-movie with revolutionary digital effects. Its long-awaited follow-up, 2010’s Tron: Legacy, was one of the very first legacy sequels, boasting an all-time-great soundtrack courtesy of Daft Punk. Now, 15 years later, Tron is back with another major upgrade – a massive state-of-the-art blockbuster that rewrites all the rules. The time for Tron: Ares is now. Load up the Grid. The new issue of Empire takes a world-exclusive dive into Tron’s epic return – going on set of Tron: Ares to get up…

Time to update your Identity Discs, Tron fans. Yes, Tron: Ares is coming, set to not just return audiences to the Grid – but also to bring the Grid crashing into our world. The new issue of Empire is an Ares deep-dive, going on set of the upcoming threequel – and while it doesn’t hit shelves until Thursday 3 July you can get a sneak peek inside its pages here. Pre-order your copy here, learn more about the limited-edition Tron: Ares light-up cover, and get a sneak peek inside the mag below… Tron: Ares Ready for the 3.0 upgrade? Tron…

For younger Millennials, 2003’s Freaky Friday remake remains a cornerstone text – a body-swap blast that is extremely… well, 2003, right down to its fashion and music, the perfect swirling sweet-spot of Avril Lavigne and pop-punk and spiky belts and hi-top Converse. It all coalesces in the form of Pink Slip, the fictional band in which Lindsay Lohan’s Anna wields her signature red axe, blasting out their earworm hit ‘Take Me Away’. (Yes, it’s still a banger.) And so with Freakier Friday on the horizon, it doesn’t just mark the return of Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as Anna and…

Let’s be clear: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller haven’t exactly been absent. They’ve spent much of the last 10 years shepherding the Spider-Verse trilogy into existence; they produced Cocaine Bear and Strays and The Mitchells Vs. The Machines. But the last time they directed a film? That would be 2014’s 22 Jump Street (or their time on Solo: A Star Wars Story, before they parted ways with the production midway through). So in a way, Project Hail Mary can be seen as something of a Lord and Miller comeback – their first film as directors in over a decade. And…

This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt break out the bleep machine for a particularly sweary chat with M3GAN 2.0 star, the delightful Ivanna Sakhno, [1:10:44 — 1:23:01 approx] and quietly judge the football team of Damson Idris, star of Joseph Kosinski’s high-octane racing drama F1. [25:45 — 38:45 approx] Or F1: The Movie, to give it its full marketing moniker, which inspires this week’s listener question as Chris, James Dyer, Sophie Butcher and our Australian chum, Jeremy Dylan, discuss the best movies that have ‘The Movie’ in the title. Elsewhere, our very own fantastic four get…

It is done folks. It. Is. Done! 173 weeks after Matt Reeves’ The Batman swooped into cinemas and knocked our bat-socks off with its grungy take on DC’s Caped Crusader, 1,157 days after we learned that Reeves and star Robert Pattinson would be back for a sequel, and less than 72 hours from DC Studios head honcho James Gunn’s oft-cited deadline for delivery, the script for The Batman Part II is complete. It’s done and dusted. It’s in the bat-bag. And if you don’t believe us (which honestly, after a long three year wait and two release date pushbacks, we…

One look at Jodie Turner-Smith in her Tron: Ares light suit makes it clear: you absolutely would not mess with her. The Queen & Slim star – recently seen in The Acolyte – looks undeniably formidable in her guise for Joachim Rønning’s long-awaited blockbuster, taking audiences back to the world of Tron for the first time since 2010’s Tron: Legacy. Meet Athena, second-in-command to Jared Leto’s Ares, ready to bust out of the Grid and take charge. “She is hardcore and fierce and strong and loyal,” Turner-Smith tells Empire in our world-exclusive Tron: Ares issue. During our set visit, she…

For the last eight years now, Denis Villeneuve has been shoulders deep in the sands of Arrakis, bringing his vision of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic Dune to life. But with the Quebecois auteur’s Dune: Messiah gearing up to head into production this summer ahead of a December 2026 cinema release, Villeneuve has just booked perhaps the only gig in cinema today bigger than Dune 3. Yes, per Deadline’s reporting, Denis Villeneuve will soon be swapping spice for spies as he has just signed on to direct the next James Bond movie at Amazon MGM Studios. Earlier this week, industry insider…

Good afternoon. We herald a blockbuster beginning. We herald the end (of a long, long wait). We herald… The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Yes, it’s very nearly clobberin’ time now, with the arrival of Marvel’s First Family in the MCU just a month away – and since that release date rapidly approaching, we have a final fantastic trailer teasing the arrival of Reed Richards, Sue and Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm. This time around, we not only get fresh glimpses of Galactus heading to chomp on this alternative Earth – we also see a bit of Mr. Fantastic’s stretchy powers…