Author: Empire

It is a truth universally acknowledged that, right now, video game adaptations are all the rage. The latest Sonic The Hedgehog movie took that franchise past $1 billion at the box office, The Super Mario Bros. Movie took over a billion dollars on its own, and small screen fare like The Last Of Us, Fallout, and The Witcher have brought critical acclaim alongside commercial success. It’s a trend that Sony and PlayStation Productions have clearly been paying close attention to, as they just announced cinematic takes on Horizon: Zero Dawn and Helldivers — and a new Ghost Of Tsushima anime…

The red carpet has been rolled out, the suits and gowns have been set free, and the statuettes have been shined, which can only mean one thing: Awards season is back back back! Last night, at a ceremony in Los Angeles hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, it was the 2025 Golden Globes’ turn to kick off the Hollywood festivities, offering us our first real sense of the top dogs and dark horses as the BAFTAs and Oscars inch ever nearer. And so far, Jacques Audiard’s trans mobster musical Emilia Pérez and Brady Corbet’s monumental epic The Brutalist are leading the…

Steven Soderbergh is not a director averse to variety. From the slick heists and capers of the Ocean’s movies and Logan Lucky, to the science-fiction of Solaris, the claustrophobic, paranoid thrills of Unsane and Kimi and the joyful seduction of Magic Mike, his is a filmography that spans all kinds of genres, settings and concepts. But his newest movie Presence might be the most high-concept of all – a haunted house drama told from the perspective of the ghostly entity itself. Pulling off the ghost POV was challenging, with Soderbergh himself carrying the camera around the house, all shot on…

We’re back! Yes, after a whole week off for the Christmas holidays (in which we only dropped a near three-hour-long Review Of The Year special pod), the Empire Podcast is back with a New Year’s resolution of its own — to be a belters only zone, same as every other year! And boy are we making good on that with our first ep of 2025 as Chris Hewitt sits down with not one, not two, not three, but four — yes, FOUR! — incredible guests. First, he talks carousel horses and chocolate with We Live In Time stars Florence Pugh…

At long, long last, the news we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived — Bluey: The Movie is happening, for real life. Hooray! Taking to Twitter/X earlier today, the official Bluey account confirmed that the beloved children’s animated TV show — which centres around the adventures of Australian canine family The Heelers — is following up its extended Season 3 finale ‘The Sign’ with a feature-length film, set to hit cinemas in 2027. Per an official press release on the Bluey website, BBC Studios, The Walt Disney Company, and Ludo Studio are working with the show’s writer-director and creator…

Best get working on those crane kicks – there’s a new Karate Kid in town. After five movies, an animated series, and Netflix spin-off Cobra Kai, the franchise is returning to the big screen with Karate Kid: Legends, the first trailer for which just dropped_._ There are more senseis than you can shake a stick at, with the teaser uniting multiple generations of martial arts masters, including the titular kid from the original trilogy, and star of Cobra Kai, Ralph Macchio, and the one and only Jackie Chan, who played Mr. Han in the 2010 film, opposite Jaden Smith. The…

Warning: this article contains spoilers for The Substance. There were many memorable things about The Substance, Coralie Fargeat’s award-winning, box-office-busting, Demi Moore-starring body horror from earlier this year. There was Moore’s outstanding, vulnerable, totally committed performance. There was the banging score, pulsating every beat of this bizarre deconstruction of unrealistic beauty standards. There were the stomach-churning injection scenes, Margaret Qualley jabbing a massive needle into the same infected spot of the spine, again and again. But most memorable of all? It has to be Monstro Elisa-Sue! We’re referring, of course, to the lumpy, bumpy creation that pours out of Qualley’s…

When the DCEU finally came to a close last Christmas with James Wan’s subaqueous sequel Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, it seemed likely we had seen the last of Jason Momoa — aka Arthur Curry, aka the titular King of Atlantis — in the DC Universe. And yet, while Aquaman and the DCEU may be done and dusted, it appears that reports of Momoa’s exit from DC’s future plans have been greatly exaggerated. Per THR’s reporting, Momoa is set to make a heel turn as alien bounty hunter Lobo in DC Studios’ upcoming Milly Alcock starrer Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow.…

Cap’s back — and this time he’s seeing red! Red Hulk, that is. Yes, Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson and Harrison Ford’s Hulked out President Thaddeus Ross form the word-exclusive cover of our stacked Captain America: Brave New World issue — which has us diving deep into the MCU’s 35th film, looking back on 2024’s cinematic highlights, and talking to the stars and filmmakers behind your next must-see movies. This month’s issue hits newsstands on Thursday 19 December — and you can pre-order your copy online here. But for now, read on for a look inside its pages. Captain America: Brave New…

The 25th December may have been and gone, but that doesn’t mean that Christmas is over just yet folks — and while Father Christmas enjoys a bloomin’ lie down, the team here at Empire still have a gift or two in our collective sack to dole out. All of which is to say that the time has come for the Empire Podcast Review Of The Year 2024, a nearly three-hour-long episode of the pod in which Chris Hewitt, James Dyer, and Helen O’Hara convene to offer their wit, wisdom, and other such verbal responses to the past twelve months in…