Author: Empire

Now here’s a piece of long-awaited news that’ll have you punching, kicking, barrel rolling, and flying through the air — stuntwork is finally going to be recognised at the Oscars! Yes, with the campaign for the insane antics of stuntmen and women to be given proper awards recognition kicking into overdrive in recent years thanks to movies like The Fall Guy, Tom Cruise’s increasingly death-defying Mission: Impossible outings, and the John Wick franchise, of late it’s seemed more of a question of when and not if a stunt Oscar would ever come about. Well, per Deadline’s reporting, that when is…

For the most part, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu proved to be a faithful take on a story that’s been told in cinema for over 100 years now. But a century later, changes were inevitable – not just this version having dialogue, but a different interpretation of Count Orlok himself. This time, he’s not a vampiric creature per se, but the reanimated bloodsucking corpse of a Transylvanian nobleman – complete with controversial lip-fuzz. Yes, Nosferatu’s fabulous moustache proved a sticking point for some viewers. “I get that,” Eggers tells Empire in a new deep-dive interview on the film. “It’s a hard pill…

Robert Pattinson and Zendaya are, arguably, two of the biggest stars on the planet right now. The former is DC’s Batman, Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 (and all the other Mickeys too), and Edward frickin’ Cullen for crying out loud; the latter is the MCU’s own MJ, Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers muse, and soon to be seen alongside R-Pattz in Christopher Nolan’s currently shooting latest epic The Odyssey. And, if Deadline’s sources are accurate, it looks like the in-demand duo may be shooting another blockbuster epic for a beloved auteur together before the year is through. Namely, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune 3…

If A Minecraft Movie’s eye-watering $301 million opening weekend at the box office has taught us one thing, it’s that Chicken Jockey truly is a powerful thing. But if it’s taught us something else, too, then it’s that the current videogame adaptation boom — spurred on by the likes of The Last Of Us, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and Sonic The Hedgehog — is going nowhere soon. Just last week, we learned that Wes Ball’s The Legend Of Zelda will (Hy)rule cinemas in 2027, and now today Deadline have confirmed that A24’s upcoming adaptation of Hideo Kojima’s post-apocalyptic open-world…

On the latest season of The White Lotus, Jason Isaacs has been playing a man whose life is – financially and personally – on the brink of falling to pieces. It’s fitting, then, that the next project you’ll see him in is a film adaptation of Raynor Winn’s memoir The Salt Path, in which a married couple face losing everything, and take what they have left on an extraordinary journey. Isaacs stars as Moth Winn, with Gillian Anderson as Raynor herself – a couple who, in quick succession, face financial ruin and a terminal diagnosis for Moth. Bundling their remaining…

Liam Neeson is an actor with a very particular set of skills. In the last decade and a half, that has primarily been looking gruff, talking smack, and kicking ass in a slew of geriaction films, from the Taken franchise to The Grey to The Commuter and, most recently, In The Land Of Saints And Sinners. But in The Lonely Island alum Akiva Schaffer’s long-gestating, finally-nearly-here reboot of The Naked Gun, Neeson is set to show off a new skill only previously hinted at in guest spots on the likes of Life’s Too Short and Derry Girls — comedy. And…

This week’s Empire Podcast sees the long-awaited return of one of our favourite guests, the wonderful British actor Will Poulter, who talks to Chris Hewitt about his role in Alex Scharfman’s surreal new satire Death Of A Unicorn and what it’s like to play a prize A-hole before engaging in some impromptu tongue-twisters. [20:38 — 33:28 approx] And Willy P (as nobody calls him) isn’t the only returning guest joining us this week, as the uber talented Amber Midthunder sits down on Zoom with Amon Warmann to dive deep into her role in new Jack Quaid led action comedy Novocaine.…

Look up! With CinemaCon in full swing and DC Studios head honcho James Gunn mere months away from bringing his new-look DCU to the big screen with the hotly anticipated release of Superman, excitement — and nerves — are building as fans wait with baited breath to see if David Corenswet’s Kal-El has the Krypton factor or not. The first teaser for the Man of Steel’s cinematic comeback certainly held a lot of promise, offering tantalising glimpses at Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor, Nathan Fillion’s Guy Gardner, kaiju-sized monsters, and — perhaps most importantly — Krypto The…

Universal’s eagerly awaited live-action remake of DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon may not have even hit cinemas just yet, but that hasn’t stopped director Dean DeBlois and his team from flying into production on its sequel already. Following a very warmly received screening of Hiccup and Toothless’ first foray into live-action at CinemaCon yesterday, DeBlois took to the stage with stars Nico Parker (Astrid) and Gerard Butler (Stoick) to confirm that a drawn-to-live remake of How To Train Your Dragon 2 is getting ready to take flight in cinemas worldwide on 11 June, 2027. DeBlois will be back in…

Once upon a time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino made Once Upon A Time In Hollywood – his love-letter to late-‘60s LA, and an elegiac swan-song to a bygone age of movie-making that rewrote the tragic death of Sharon Tate in true fairytale style. But it seems we’ll find out what comes beyond that happily ever after. In news that frankly nobody saw coming, a sequel to OUTAIH is apparently in the works – but without Quentin Tarantino directing. Instead, David Fincher is set to bring it to the screen, since the film will focus on the character of stuntman Cliff…