Author: Empire

The first time Guy Ritchie and Jake Gyllenhaal teamed up, on 2023’s The Covenant, we got a bruising Afghanistan war drama that saw the Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels filmmaker dial back on his more explosive directorial impulses to deliver something low-key, introspective, and surprisingly subdued. We’d hazard a guess that those three descriptors will probably not apply to the dynamic duo’s next movie, which Deadline has today confirmed will be Road House 2, Amazon MGM Studios’ follow-up to Doug Liman’s boozy, bromantic 2024 brawl-em-up. Having racked up millions of minutes viewed after dropping on Prime Video last March,…

Somehow, it’s been almost a decade since our favourite band of criminally talented magicians, The Four Horsemen, last rode out in Jon M. Chu’s 2016 heist sequel Now You See Me 2. Now, in the year of our Lord 2025, Venom and Uncharted director has brought the band — J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) — back together for ingeniously titled threequel Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. And for their next trick, the Horsemen are enlisting a new generation of illusionists (Dominic Sessa! Ariana Greenblatt! Justice…

Riding high on the successes of war drama All Quiet On The Western Front and papal conspiracy thriller Conclave, filmmaker Edward Berger has had his name linked to all sorts of eyebrow raising projects — from Ocean’s 14 to a new Bourne movie. But while both of those particular whispers seem to have proven premature, it does look like Berger is set to work with Ocean’s alumni Brad Pitt after all, on a very different kind of joint to Steven Soderbergh’s heist flicks. According to Deadline, Berger will direct Pitt in an A24 adaptation of The Riders, Australian author Tim…

Just days after Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos boldly told TIME that the theatrical release model is “outdated” and stated on behalf of film lovers that “they’d like to see movies at home, thank you,” this weekend’s box office figures tell a very different story about the vitality of the bricks-and-mortar cinema experience. In the best end-of-April weekend cinemas have seen post-COVID, Ryan Coogler’s audacious vampire-musical-thriller Sinners and the 20th anniversary re-release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith have led the charge, with the former taking another $45 million bite out of the domestic box office to bring…

Brat winter will have to wait: Greta Gerwig has found the White Witch to lead her upcoming Netflix Narnia movie and it’s not who we all thought. As you may recall, back in March we shared news that ‘Guess’ singer and pop megastar Charli XCX was circling the White Witch role in Gerwig’s blockbuster new C.S. Lewis adaptation, though trade sources were quick to add that a specific role hadn’t been 100% settled on at the time. Just as well they did, because THR are now reporting that Emma Mackey, star of Sex Education and Gerwig’s last movie, Barbie, is…

It was foretold by the Ancient Ones: The Convergence (or Gunvergence, if you will), the day on which three absolutely slamming action movies will be released at the same time in the UK (albeit on different formats), ushering in a new era of sweaty dad bods, car chases, and many scenes where people die in a hail of bullets. And that day is today, folks. April 25, which sees the release of Gareth Evans’ HAVOC on Netflix, Christian Gudegast’s Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera on Prime Video, and Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant 2 in cinemas across the country. The Convergence…

What a time to be a murder-mystery fan. Poker Face Season 2 is just around the corner; Only Murders In The Building has Renée Zellweger coming in hot for Season 5; Rian Johnson’s Knives Out threequel Wake Up Dead Man is mere months away; and, this summer, Chris Columbus is getting ready to deliver his eagerly awaited, star studded adaptation of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club. Speaking of which, Netflix has just given us our first official look at Columbus’ senior sleuthing caper, which will see Pierce Brosnan, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie play a…

It’s been a fortnight now since we got official word that the Academy are set to finally recognise the stunt community at the 2028 Oscars with a new award for Stunt Design. Fast forward to now, and Deadline is reporting that 87North filmmaker David Leitch, whose 2024 ode to stuntmen The Fall Guy may well have given the Academy the final push it needed to get in on the action, er, action, has set a new veritable stuntapalooza called Fight at Universal. Spawned from a spec script by Tales From The Loop and Legion scribe Nathaniel Halpern, Fight’s plot details…

How do you follow up one of the greatest TV shows of all time? If you’re Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession, then the answer is simple: you assemble a stellar cast comprising Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef, and you continue to take lacerating satirical swipes at the rich and powerful, this time at feature length. Yes, Armstrong’s first post-Roy assignment is Mountainhead, a Sky exclusive movie in which four billionaire tech bros’ mountain retreat is disrupted by a rapidly escalating international crisis that they may or may not have helped instigate. What an absurd notion,…

Ready or not, here some exciting casting announcements come! Following news last month that Freaky star Kathryn Newton is set to join Samara Weaving for some effed-up fun and games when horror-comedy sequel Ready Or Not 2 arrives, Searchlight Pictures have now revealed more of the line-up for Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s upcoming movie — now officially (quite brilliantly) entitled Ready Or Not: Here I Come. In a social media post set to ‘The Hide And Seek Song’, we learned that Radio Silence’s latest has added genre stalwarts Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood to its ensemble, as well…