Author: Empire

Move over Rocky, Grogu, Yoshi, and that little capybara from Flow — there’s a new lil’ guy (well, gal) on the block and her name is Ally. Having wooed us last year with Mickey 17’s inaccurately named cuties the Creepers, Bong Joon Ho is going all in on the charm with the protagonist of Ally, the director’s debut animated movie. And now, having spent the best part of the last seven years developing his ocean-based odyssey alongside co-writer Jason Yu, director Bong has revealed a first proper look at the piglet squid at the centre of his latest film. Check…

For decades now, alien enthusiasts have theorised that evidence of extra-terrestrial life has been hidden by authorities, filed away from prying eyes in Area 51 and secret military bases. If the truth is out there, it’s redacted. A similar secrecy applies to Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. This is a blockbuster of the ‘top-secret’ variety – a mysterious conspiracy thriller that sees the Hollywood legend return to the science-fiction genre he’s revolutionised many times over. His latest is all about the big questions: do aliens exist? How long have we known for? And should humanity at large know about it? These…

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…