Author: Empire

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…

From the moment the first teaser for Mike Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation, The Life Of Chuck, dropped last month, we knew we were in trouble. A ticking clock motif, lush golden hour lighting, and a touch of delicate piano work were enough to assure us that we’re getting Flanagan, Master of Feels, rather than Flanagan, Master of Horror, here. And now, with the release of the full trailer for the Doctor Sleep filmmaker’s latest, a Tom Hiddleston starring adaptation of the second tale in King’s If It Bleeds anthology, the floodgates are well and truly open. Just give it…

Benedict Cumberbatch is an actor known for playing all kinds of roles – geniuses (Sherlock), dragons (The Hobbit trilogy), time-bending doctors (Doctor Strange) and numerous dramatic leading roles (The Power Of The Dog, Eric, The Imitation Game). The one thing we don’t get to see him fully lean into very often? Comedy. That’s about to change with The Roses, in which he stars opposite Olivia Colman as a married couple having some pretty extreme relationship troubles. Watch the trailer below. Cumberbatch and Colman are Theo and Ivy Rose, spouses living a seemingly perfect life with their kids in a beautiful…

Your day is about to get a whole lot more Fantastic – a bumper, brand new trailer has dropped for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the 60s-set adventure that sees Marvel’s First Family step into the MCU proper. There’s a family dinner, The Thing teddy bears, and a threat that endangers Earth on a scale the planet has never faced before. Have a watch below. As the trailer begins, Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) are America’s sweethearts, beloved across the country as four brave astronauts who went up…

Star Wars Celebration is officially underway in Tokyo, Japan, and while the event kicked off this morning with a huge panel on Jon Favreau’s upcoming The Mandalorian & Grogu, it was an announcement concerning another upcoming Star Wars project that had fans at the Makuhari Messe hollering “This is the way!” After weeks of rumours, Shawn Levy took to the stage to announce that his new Star Wars movie — officially titled Star Wars: Starfighter — will indeed star Ryan Gosling, who walked out to rapturous applause at the con to share his excitement about the hotly anticipated project. Check…

Feel the Rage rising? As the release of 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s belated follow-up to their 2002 genre-redefining zombie-adjacent horror, creeps ever closer, a chilling new trailer has just dropped that gives us a good look at some of the most terrifying moments to come. There’s an ambush on armed officers, hordes of naked infected breaking out into their signature sprint, and a priest submitting to his fate as they break through the stained-glass windows into his church. Steel your stomachs – and watch it below. The new film picks up the post-apocalyptic pandemic story on…