Author: Empire

Since returning to our screens after a 4-year break from acting, Michael Fassbender is really getting into the groove of playing a spy. First, there was David Fincher’s The Killer, in which he was a ruthless, methodical assassin on the hunt for revenge. More recently, he took to the small screen in The Agency, as a covert CIA operative. Next, he’s appearing opposite Cate Blanchett as they play two spy spouses in Steven Soderbergh’s explosive, star-studded Black Bag. Watch the trailer below. Fassbender and Blanchett play George and Kathryn Woodhouse, a pair of legendary intelligence agents who are as devoted…

After learning earlier this week that Chris Evans is set to return to the MCU in The Russo Brothers’ upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, we’d be lying if we didn’t expect more casting news for the beginning of the end of Marvel’s Multiverse Saga to follow soon after. And sure enough, after Evans’ comeback was confirmed, Anthony Mackie’s position as the Avengers’ Captain America heading into Doomsday was reaffirmed (we’ve more on the Avengers’ future here); Benedict Cumberbatch has talked up Doctor Strange’s involvement in the movie at Tokyo Comic Con; and now another vital piece of the puzzle has fallen into…

As anyone who’s watched any of the Star Wars sequel trilogy will already know, Daisy Ridley is no stranger to a spot of badass action. Fighting Kylo Ren on Starkiller Base in The Force Awakens, taking down the Praetorian Guards in The Last Jedi, *that* flip over the TIE Silencer in The Rise Of Skywalker — all in a day’s work for our Daisy. But all of that pales in comparison to what the Magpie star has in store with her latest movie, Sky Original action joint Cleaner. Directed by none other than Goldeneye and Casino Royale helmsman Martin Campbell,…

If there’s a man who knows a thing or two about locating the humanity in the monstrous — and the monstrosity in the human — then it’s surely Mike Flanagan. From The Haunting Of Hill House and Bly Manor, to Midnight Mass and The Midnight Club, Doctor Sleep to Oculus, the filmmaker’s capacity to blend visceral horror and profound tragedy while generating a well pool of deep emotion is unparalleled. It’s a unique set of skills that will come in handy for Flanagan’s next writing assignment: a new take on Batman B-lister Clayface for James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC…

If you’re going to tell the story of arguably the biggest band of all time, it makes sense to take a maverick approach. And when it comes to Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles movies, the filmmaker is certainly taking the road less traveled so far. Not only is the 1917 filmmaker making a whole quartet of Fab Four biopics, one for each member of the band, but he’s also seemingly abandoned casting announcement convention to let legends of popular culture do the job for him. After Ringo Starr seemingly confirmed Barry Keoghan will play him in Mendes’ films late last month,…

Blood splattered across a TV playing the Teletubbies. Emaciated Rage Virus carriers running amok in rural England. A creepy, consonant clipping British voice reciting Rudyard Kipling’s sanity slipping war poem ‘Boots’ over the radio waves. Yeah, we’re thinking Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are back! After months of dripfed details and buzzy casting announcements, our first proper look at the duo’s 28 Days Later sequel trilogy starter 28 Years Later has finally arrived in the form of a heart stopping, arterial spraying, Ralph Fiennes and Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer starring new trailer. Check out how humanity is faring 10,228…

“This is not a female John Wick.” So says director Len Wiseman at the start of the freshly dropped CCXP behind the scenes look at his upcoming actioner Ballerina, the latest off-shoot from the John Wick universe. But while that’s certainly true — this movie is set to represent the introduction point for Ana De Armas’ Eve Macarro, the Ruska Roma trained dancing assassin who’ll be bringing a whole new meaning to the expression ‘bullet ballet’ in Lionsgate’s hotly anticipated John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum and Chapter 4 midquel — it doesn’t mean the ever-expanding JWU’s latest lead is…

You know the old saying about the truth being stranger than fiction? Well, it’s certainly one that applies to the story of Raynor and Moth Winn, a couple who — after a business deal with a friend went awry — lost their home, suffered a devastating neurodegenerative condition diagnosis for husband Moth, and then decided to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path despite having no prior rambling experience. It’s a simultaneously harrowing and inspiring story that first became The Salt Path, a bestselling memoir-cum-travelogue for Raynor Winn, and is now about to become a major new film starring Jason…

Just a year ago, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail was encouraging us all to Leave The World Behind with his eponymous noodle-twisting, apocalyptic Netflix thriller. Clearly however, Esmail forgot to make a very specific exemption to that directive — it should’ve been Leave The World Behind (But Not Julia Roberts). “How so?” We hear you cry. Well because, per Deadline’s reporting, the LTWB leading lady is teaming up with Esmail once again on new Warner Bros. thriller Panic Carefully. And, what’s more, he’s only gone and gotten the Scarlet Witch herself, Elizabeth Olsen, to come along for the ride too.…

2024 kicked off with the exciting news that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland were officially developing 28 Years Later, the first in a planned sequel trilogy to their 2002 post-apocalyptic horror 28 Days Later (and, by extension, its follow-up 28 Weeks Later.) Since then, we’ve seen Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes announced as the new movie’s leads, gotten word of Cillian Murphy’s return to the franchise, and been drip-fed tantalising plot details by Fiennes. Now, as the year comes to a close and the film’s June 2025 release grows ever closer, Sony has revealed the first poster…