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There’s just no stopping Matthew Lillard right now — and honestly, who’d even want to? Following a crowd pleasing return to the role of Stu Macher in Scream 7 earlier this year, an impressive showing in Cross Season 2 back in February, and a hell of an entrance into the MCU as Daredevil Born Again Season 2’s slippery spy Mr. Charles, Lillard is about to add another major franchise role to his infinity gauntlet of IP appearances. Per Deadline’s reporting, Lillard has landed a role in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman sequel, Man Of Tomorrow, at DC Studios. Currently in production…

By the time Anthony Bourdain died, aged just 61, in 2018, the six-time Emmy award-winning celebrity chef and writer had long since crossed the rubicon into the realm of pop cultural legend. A thrill-seeker and a humanist with rockstar swagger and a try everything attitude to life (“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride,” he once wrote), Bourdain burned bright and carried that heat constantly, with many of his highs — and lows — captured either on camera or in print. With A24’s borderline anti-biopic Tony however, director Matt Johnson (Blackberry) and star Dominic…

With Alien, Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley was already a great screen hero – the unexpected final girl of Ridley Scott’s space-horror, who emerged from the ensemble to become the lone survivor of the Nostromo. But in Aliens, Ripley truly became an icon; James Cameron’s more action-oriented sequel seeing her tool up to take on dozens of marauding Xenomorphs. Whether putting the Colonial Marine grunts in their place, going head-to-head with the alien queen in the Powerloader, or protecting young orphan Newt, the film sees Ripley kick ass. All these years later, Weaver still looks fondly on Aliens – particularly the outlook…

As fans of Andor will already know, Diego Luna has friends everywhere. And playing a guy like Cassian Andor for the best part of a decade, becoming one of Star Wars’ greatest characters in the process, has clearly made the two-time Emmy nominated actor a firm friend of the House of Mouse. Per Deadline’s reporting, Disney has snapped up Luna to play a mysterious new role in Better Man director Michael Gracey’s upcoming live-action Tangled remake. As Deadline shares, details on Luna’s role in Disney’s long-gestating Tangled retooling are being kept under wraps for now, though it is believed that…

This week’s Empire Podcast is the kind of episode that could leave other film podcasts in its wake. Mainly because there’s a lot of discussion of ships, boats, the high seas and the like. First off, our guests this week are Callum Turner and George Mackay, the British actors who star in Mark Jenkin’s latest movie, the fisherman-themed Rose Of Nevada. In a cracking chat with Alex Godfrey, the duo talk about how they first met, working with the unique Jenkin, falling in love with Cornwall, and much, much more besides. Either side of that, Chris Hewitt returns to the…

The pairing of Woody and Buzz Lightyear is so iconic, you almost forget that they don’t start Toy Story as friends. For much of Pixar’s 1995 game-changer, the cowboy and the spaceman bicker, as they vie for the attention of young Andy – until they’re forced to work together and become the best of friends. As it turns out, it wasn’t too dissimilar for Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, the voices of Woody and Buzz respectively, who got off on the wrong foot back in the early ‘90s when they first met. In a new joint interview ahead of Toy…

@Bob Penn / Sigma / Getty Before James Cameron made Aliens, nobody knew quite what to expect. The now-legendary director only had The Terminator under his belt back then – and as much of a hit as that film was, it wasn’t a dead-cert that he’d be able to deliver a worth follow-up to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic Alien. Fast forward 40 years, and it’s unfathomable that it was ever in doubt; Cameron knocked it out of the park, taking Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley and turning her into an all-out action hero, teaming her up with a ragtag bunch of…

The 90s witchy favourite is back nearly 30 years later, with Susanne Bier behind the camera. Watch the trailer at Empire.

Eleven years ago, Quentin Tarantino — master of cinema-adjacent side questing — and co-writer Matt Wagner unleashed comic book miniseries Django/Zorro upon the world. An unlikely Django Unchained sequel, the comics brought together gunslinging bounty hunter Django Freeman and legendary masked swordsman Zorro in a seven-part crossover event that saw the duo teaming up to kick ass, take names, and free slaves. Now, per Variety’s reporting, Sony has revived plans for a Django/Zorro movie, even going so far as to hire an Oscar-winning screenwriter to pen the film: L.A. Confidential scribe Brian Helgeland. Now, if some distant alarm bells are…

Ask anyone who saw Jackass Forever on the big screen in 2022: even all these years later, there’s little that compares with a Jackass cinema experience. Seen with a crowd – a gasping, giggling, guffawing, gesticulating crowd – they’re an absolute must, as Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Danger Ehren, Wee Man and friends throw themselves into dangerous and pain-riddled exploits for your viewing pleasure. And now, the end of the road is here. This summer brings Jackass: Best And Last, the troupe’s grand finale – and they’re certainly not growing up. Check out the trailer: As it turns out,…