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Call us a hearty sandwich on The Empire Podcast this week folks because our latest episode is jam-packed! In a three interview, five guest week, first up our very own Chris Hewitt sat down to chat with Saoirse Ronan — producer-star of new drama The Outrun — and her co-star Paapa Essiedu to talk about bonding, improvisation, and shooting on location [19:13 – 33:45 approx]. Next up, director Josh Greenbaum talks to us about new Netflix offering Will & Harper, an excellent documentary that follows Will Ferrell and his writer friend of three decades, Harper Steele, on a cross-country road…

Two years ago, we brought you the news that Florence Pugh had signed on to star in a new adaptation of East Of Eden, John Steinbeck’s 1952 literary epic. In the time since the project — a seven-part Netflix limited series written by Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) — was first announced, Christopher Abbott has joined the show’s cast and Pugh’s star has continued to rise with winning turns in the likes of The Wonder, Oppenheimer, and Dune: Part Two. And now we’re getting an exciting new casting announcement for the series as Netflix has officially greenlit the project. Per…

It sounds like a set-up straight out of a pulpy genre movie: what if the man you were matched with on a kitschy 1970s dating TV show turned out to be a serial killer? But as it turns out, Anna Kendrick’s feature directorial debut Woman Of The Hour is based in all kinds of truths – not just emotional ones, but literal factual ones too. Set in 1978, the film also sees Kendrick step in front of the camera as Cheryl Bradshaw, who goes on The Dating Game and ends up bagging a date with Daniel Zovatto’s Rodney Alcala. Except,…

It’s been four decades since The Terminator first blasted onto the big screen – seemingly from the future – and propelled writer-director James Cameron to the big time. Now, for its landmark anniversary, Empire celebrates cinema’s greatest cyborg in the November 2024 issue, featuring a major new candid Cameron interview, and much more. The issue doesn’t hit shelves until Thursday 26 September – order online here – but in the meantime here’s a sneak peek inside its pages. The Terminator At 40 For 40 years now, The Terminator has been unstoppable. Empire celebrates cinema’s ultimate cyborg in a huge new…

Ryan Coogler is on quite the streak. The filmmaker went from Fruitvale Station, to Creed, to Black Panther and Wakanda Forever – and for his next move, he’s taking a break from franchise fare and using all that cache to craft a big, blockbuster genre film that’s all his own. For the first time, he’s heading overtly into horror territory with Sinners – re-teaming with his on-screen muse Michael B. Jordan for a tale of brotherhood and bad guys. The first trailer has arrived, teasing a tense and terrifying ride. Check it out here: That’s a tantalising glimpse – one…

Summer is over — the countdown to Christmas is on! And what would the festive season be without a brand spanking new holiday movie to warm the cockles of our hearts as we cradle our post-roast paunch? Well, there may be a pinch less cockle-warming and a dollop more bone crunching to look forward to in Jake Kasdan’s Xmas blockbuster Red One, but the Jumanji director’s upcoming action comedy — in which Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans star as an opposite-sides-of-the-tracks duo tasked with tracking down JK Simmons’ ripped (and kidnapped) Santa Claus — certainly has the talent to serve…

His name is Ridley Scott, director of Blade Runner and Alien, denier of the fact checking legions, loyal servant to the true art form, cinema. Father to three living sons, husband to a living wife. And he will have ideas for more Gladiator movies in this life or the next. Or, as a less-committed-to-the-bit journalist may report it, in an interview with French film magazine Premiere ahead of the release of his upcoming swords-and-sandals epic sequel Gladiator II, Sir Ridley Scott has revealed that a third trip to Ancient Rome is very much on his mind already. Talking to Premiere…

It’s our great and bountiful podding leader Chris Hewitt’s birthday on this week’s episode of the Empire Podcast, and to celebrate we have a brace of top notch interviews and four incredible guests in all. First up on the guesting front, Chris sits down with Willa Fitzgerald, star of buzzy new thriller Strange Darling, and somehow manages to avoid spoiling the twists and turns of the movie whilst discussing, among other things, Giovanni Ribisi’s pivot from acting heavyweight to cinematographer extraordinaire [23:05 – 40:27 approx]. Then Chris goes one on three with the powerhouse trio at the heart of Netflix…

Like Rick Astley with love, when it comes to horror movies you know the rules and so do we. Scream. Run. Fight for your life. Pretty straightforward, right? But what if you couldn’t scream, you couldn’t run, and you couldn’t fight for your life? What if instead, minute by minute, your entire body was slowly closing down as your would-be killer slowly closes in? That’s the hook of Brian Netto and Adam Schindler’s inbound Netflix chiller Don’t Move, which takes the notion of being frozen with fear quite literally as it follows the nightmare experience of Kelsey Asbille’s (Yellowstone) Iris,…

Forget ‘Send In The Clowns’ — how about ‘Send Down The Clown’? That certainly looks to be the idea in the latest trailer for Todd Phillips all-singing, all-dancing movie with music Joker: Folie À Deux, which sees Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck taking to the stand as he goes on trial for the televised killing of Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro) in Joker. Joining him in the courtroom — and Arkham Asylum (and in a slew of fantastical musical_esque_ sequences) — is Harley “Lee” Quinn, with whom yer man Joker strikes up a potentially romantic, definitely dangerous bond. Check out the…