Author: Empire

Sure, One Battle After Another and Sinners might’ve taken home the lion’s share of the awards, but in many ways the 2026 Oscars really belonged to a singular figure: Aunt Gladys. It was she who Conan O’Brien centred his incredible opening skit around, it was she who Amy Madigan won the Supporting Actress Oscar for so indelibly playing in Weapons, and now it is she who’s getting the full-on prequel treatment. Yes, following buzz about an Aunt Gladys movie last summer, Deadline has now confirmed that Weapons writer-director Zach Cregger will pen the prequel — tentatively titled Gladys — with…

Supergirl’s dog is in danger in Craig Gillespie’s DC Universe entry – following James Gunn’s Superman. Watch the trailer at Empire.

This week’s Empire Podcast sees us clamber into the Magic Faraway Tree to talk with Simon Farnaby and Ben Gregor, the writer and director respectively of the brand new Enid Blyton adaptation. Together, the duo tell Alex Godfrey all about how they, er, branched out with the fantastical new film. Either side of that, Chris Hewitt hosts Helen O’Hara, James Dyer, and Kobi Omenaka to discuss their favourite movie trees and competence porn; run their eye over the week’s movie news, including the revelation that Stephen Colbert is co-writing a new Lord Of The Rings movie; and review Splitsville, They…

The Radio Silence boys, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, may be soaking up the critical and commercial success of Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come right now as their horror sequel continues to thrill and chill audiences worldwide, but as the saying goes, there’s no rest for the wicked. And with that being said, it looks like Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are already turning their attention towards their next chiller: The Mummy’s legacy sequel. Following last month’s confirmation that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are returning for more supernatural swashbuckling action, THR has now confirmed John Hannah will also be…

Nintendo fans are likely spending the next few days hoarding mushrooms, 1Ups, shells and flowers – because there’s less than a week to go until The Super Mario Galaxy Movie hits cinemas. The follow-up to the ultra-successful Super Mario Bros Movie, looks to be going much bigger, nabbing its name from the beloved Nintendo Wii game – and it seems the wider Nintendo-verse is getting involved too. A new poster this week confirmed (spoiled, some might even say) that Fox McCloud, aka Star Fox – of Lylat Wars fame, to UK millennials – will be in the film. And now…

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that moving house can be a bit of a nightmare. That being said, we would concede that your house literally moving, along with your whole neighbourhood and street, into prehistoric times with dinos roaming up and down the ‘burbs sounds like a much bigger nightmare — and looks like it too. Yes, the first trailer for It Follows writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s secretive new sci-fi movie The End Of Oak Street (fka Flowervale Street) has been released — and there be dinosaurs on the street where Ewan McGregor, Anne Hathaway, and their brood live. Check…

The world is changed. We feel it in the water. We feel it in the Earth. We… saw it via video on X. In marking Tolkien Reading Day, Warner Bros. took to its social channels (before we could even have second breakfast!) this morning to reveal that Andy Serkis’ The Hunt For Gollum isn’t the only Lord Of The Rings movie currently in the works at the studio. In a video featuring Peter Jackson and a “very special partner”, we learned that Lord Of The Rings: Shadow Of The Past — co-written by Tolkien obsessive Stephen Colbert — is in…

Ordinarily, news of a spin-off movie from a live-action Disney remake wouldn’t exactly be the hottest news in town (no offence Gaston.) However, news of a spin-off movie from a live-action Disney remake being directed by one third of The Lonely Island and co-written by three thirds of last year’s positively hilarious The Naked Gun reboot… well that’s something to shout about. Deadline is reporting that Akiva Schaffer is reteaming with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand to tackle Stepsisters, a movie which will — you guessed it! — give Cinderella’s hissable twosome Anastasia and Drisella the spotlight in their own…

And away we go! Following the remarkable news that dropped earlier this year about Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood getting a David Fincher directed follow-up starring Brad Pitt once again as stuntman Cliff Booth, Variety is now reporting that not only is the film — officially titled, handily, The Adventures Of Cliff Booth — coming soon, but that it also may well be coming to cinemas. Writing in a piece about Netflix and AMC Cinemas burying the hatchet to tag team on theatrical releases, Rebecca Rubin revealed that The Adventures Of Cliff Booth is eyeing a Summer…

We’ve had CGI A Christmas Carol. We’ve had Bill Murray A Christmas Carol. We’ve had The Muppet Christmas Carol. Hell, we’ve even had terribly animated Nic Cage A Christmas Carol. But just when you thought Hollywood had finally run out of ways to adapt Charles Dickens’ festive chiller, 2025 has arrived with the promise of two fresh takes from major horror filmmakers for Christmases Yet To Come. Back in June we learned that Robert Eggers is preparing A Christmas Carol with Willem Dafoe at Warner Bros., and now Deadline is reporting that MaXXXine director Ti West will direct Johnny Depp…