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Having released the highest-grossing animated movie of all time this summer in the shape of Inside Out 2, expectations have been set sky high for Pixar’s next movie. But, ever one step ahead of the game, the legendary animation studio have set their sights far higher with original new offering Elio, a cosmic sci-fi adventure hailing from Turning Red director Domee Shi, Coco co-writer and -director Adrian Molina, and SparkShorts alum Madeline Sharafian. Starring newcomer Yonas Kibreab in the title role alongside the likes of Zoe Saldaña, Remy Edgerly, Brad Garrett, Jameela Jamil, and Shirley Henderson, Elio looks like a…

It’s another epic episode of the Empire Podcast this week, folks, as a smorgasbord of stars join us on the pod — all of whom shared the unique privilege of Chris Hewitt’s company in person for their interviews. First to have Hewitts about them there’s the great Steve McQueen, writer and director of Apple TV+ bound Blitz, to talk about how he approached the World War II drama, and working with Paul Weller [18:56 — 35:15 approx]. Then, Chris has a cracking conversation with The Piano Lesson stars John David Washington (following in the footsteps of his father, Denzel, who…

Christopher Nolan may be stacking the deck with the cast of his mysterious next film right now, but he’s not the only major filmmaker out there aligning stars for a secrecy shrouded project. Five years after his last directorial effort, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker, J.J. Abrams is preparing to get back in the saddle with an original new offering. And now, having already snapped up Glen Powell, Jenna Ortega, and Emma Mackey to lead his latest, it looks like the Super 8 director has found the next big name for the call sheet — Samuel L.…

20 years after Luca Guadagnino first met, way back in 2004, the Italian auteur and British acting heavyweight are finally about to release their first film together, William S. Burroughs book adaptation Queer. A sensual, desirous affair set in ’50s Mexico City, the movie is pretty much everything you might hope for and expect from a Guadagnino x Craig team-up. And it looks like the creative duo aren’t going to leave it another two decades to get back on set together again — though the proposed project for their sophomore film is anything but to be expected. According to Deadline,…

If The LEGO Movie taught us one thing, it’s that EVERYTHING IS AWESOME! If The LEGO Movie taught us another thing though, it’s that brick-based blockbusters in particular can indeed be pretty awesome. And Nacho Libre and Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess will certainly be hoping that proves to also be true of A Minecraft Movie, his upcoming, Jack Black and Jason Momoa starring live-action take on Mojang’s wildly popular sandbox video game. Check out the latest trailer for the movie below: If the first trailer for the movie gave off some serious Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle vibes, then…

At long last: Bridget’s back. For nearly two and a half decades now, Bridget Jones has been a British romcom icon – the loveable (if haphazard) Londoner caught up in romantic entanglements spanning from her 30s onwards. The last time we caught up with her, it was for 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby – seeing Renée Zellweger’s former ‘spinster’ become a mum amid a love triangle. There, she (spoiler alert!) finally ended up with Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy, the father of her child. But when we meet up with Bridget again next year in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, nearly…

We have felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. We fear something terrible has happened… and, well, it sort of has, actually. No, we’re not talking about certain developments across the pond earlier this month, or the inexplicable further delay of Mickey 17, but rather the news coming to us from Variety that another Star Wars project has fallen by the wayside (at least for now) at Disney and Lucasfilm. Per Variety’s reporting, an as-yet-untitled Star Wars movie slated for release on 18 December, 2026 has…

Marvel’s First Family are on their way — and this time, it’s personal. Over the past few months, the folks over at Marvel Studios have been carefully drip, drip, dripping tantalising tidbits of info about Matt Shakman’s upcoming MCU movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Back in February, it was confirmed that Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach had landed the leads in the film. And since then, we’ve seen Ralph Ineson cast as planet-eater Galactus, Kevin Feige tease the movie’s 60s setting, and even glimpsed the Fantasticar at San Diego Comic Con. Now, as shooting nears…

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? Well, you will be when you listen to this week’s Empire Podcast, because we have a veritable guestapalooza in store for you, folks. On our 643rd episode, Chris Hewitt sits down with Gladiator II star and living legend Denzel Washington to talk about reuniting with Ridley Scott — and to clarify Denzel’s recent hint that he might be winding down as an actor (*SPOILER* — he ain’t.) Oh, and Chris quotes *that* Equalizer 2 line to Denzel’s face, because he’s utterly without shame [20:15 — 39:40 approx]. Elsewhere, Amon Warmann has a lovely chat with Emilia…

Over the last few years, there’s been no shortage of music biopics hitting the multiplexes. From Bohemian Rhapsody to Bob Marley: One Love, and from Rocketman to Back To Black, the market for musicians having their life story told on screen has grown increasingly crowded. But just when it seemed maybe the genre was running out of steam, along comes Robbie Williams biopic Better Man — hot on the heels of brick-based Pharrell Williams doc Piece By Piece — to rip up the rulebook and try something brilliantly, bizarrely new. Directed by The Greatest Showman’s Michael Gracey, on paper this…