Author: Empire

A new era is dawning for Spider-Man in Brand New Day – picking back up with Tom Holland’s Spidey in a world where nobody remembers Peter Parker. The new issue of Empire takes a major new look at Marvel’s summer blockbuster – and you can pre-order a copy right here. While the issue doesn’t hit shelves until June 4, here’s a sneak peek inside its pages. Spider-Man: Brand New Day New York’s friendly neighbourhood hero thwips back into action in Spider-Man: Brand New Day – and Empire gets the first word, speaking to stars Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jon Bernthal,…

By any action aficionado’s standards, stuntman-turned-director David Leitch’s filmography is pretty impressive. Producer of John Wick, director of Atomic Blonde, Bullet Train, Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, and veritable actionpalooza The Fall Guy, and one of the reasons we’re finally getting a Stunt Oscar, when it comes to cinematic ass-kicking the man kicks ass. And his latest movie, Nicholas Hoult and Zoë Kravitz led cat-and-mouse heist thriller How To Rob A Bank, looks like another balls-to-the-wall cinematic adrenaline rush. Check out the trailer below; Nicholas Hoult in a wolf mask? Check! Zoë Kravitz and John C. Reilly teaming up…

For years now, the pursuit of an _Escape From New York_remake has been a fool’s errand. To write one is impossible. To direct one is insane. Len Wiseman was going to tackle it in 2007 with Gerard Butler. Joel Silver wanted to make a whole trilogy in the mid-2010s. Just a few short years ago, Radio Silence signed on to bring Snake Plissken back. But now, per THR’s reporting, it appears that Zack Snyder is set to be the man to go in and remake John Carpenter’s dystopian cult classic. According to THR, Snyder — who’s most recently been working…

It’s in the name: the Punisher, well… punishes. Violently. As Marvel fans most recently saw in MCU Special Presentation The Punisher: One Last Kill, with Jon Bernthal taking centre stage once more as vengeful ex-marine Frank Castle – a role he originated in Netflix’s Defenders shows, and reprised in Daredevil: Born Again. Next stop for the Punisher? Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which is less likely to feature the kind of bone-crunching no-holds-barred smackdowns seen in One Last Kill. Still, it sounds like director Destin Daniel Cretton – along with Bernthal and Spidey himself, Tom Holland – has found ways to…

Is it even considered a break-up if one party literally doesn’t remember the other’s existence? No, we’re not talking Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind – this is the fate of Tom Holland’s Peter Parker and Zendaya’s MJ as we enter Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Due to the reality-altering events of previous film No Way Home, the MCU at large no longer remembers Parker, nor that he’s the civilian counterpart to New York’s friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. And that includes Peter’s best mate Ned (Jacob Batalon), and his girlfriend MJ too – who each ventured off to college while the newly-anonymous…

Things get awkward on this week’s Empire Podcast, folks. Not just because Chris Hewitt seems to be wearing a Skeletor mask for some of it, nor because he’s so heat-addled that he forgets to introduce James Dyer properly. No, things get awkward because the team — Chris, James, Helen O’Hara, and Ben Travis — discuss whether it ever gets awkward for them when visiting film sets. Then, our intrepid quartet also discuss the week’s movie news, including the shocking news of Paddington 4’s potty-mouthed writers, and review Daniel Roher’s Tuner, John Carney’s Power Ballad, Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, and Kristin Scott…

It’s been 10 years since Tom Holland first entered the MCU as Spider-Man, thwipping his way into Captain America: Civil War. Across a decade which brought an entire Spider-Man trilogy and several super-sized Avengers team-ups, Holland really got to know what makes his Spidey tick. And so, after taking a break from the character after the world-conquering Spider-Man: No Way Home, when the time came to return for the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Holland became instrumental in creatively contributing to the next era of Peter Parker. Who better to help steer Spidey’s new adventures than the guy in the…

And away we go! While we still can’t quite wrap our heads around the fact that David Fincher has directed a full-on, Quentin Tarantino penned and Brad Pitt starring sequel to QT’s 2019 alt-history Tinseltown epic Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, we are incredibly excited for it. And following that fleeting, never-to-be-seen-since Super Bowl trailer for the movie unofficially known as The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, Netflix has today confirmed that the Hawaiian shirt sporting stuntman’s return is getting an IMAX cinema release and hitting Netflix this year. Check out the announcement below; There you have it! Booth’s big-screen…

We were all thinking it: Paddington – and Paddington 2, and Paddington In Peru – were all pleasant watches, but they could have done with more swearing. Maybe Paddington could have told Mr. Gruber, “Fuckity-bye” as he left the antique shop; or Mrs Brown could have called the kindly bear an “omnishambles” after he wrecked their Windsor Gardens house for the umpteenth time. Well, good news: Paddington 4 officially has a writing duo, and none other than Armando Iannucci – of The Thick Of It, and Veep, and The Death Of Stalin pedigree – is one half of it, the…

Good news for anyone who loves Maika Monroe in scream queen mode: there’s more where that came from. Ever since the double-whammy of It Follows and The Guest made her a genre favourite – continuing more recently in the likes of Watcher and Longlegs – it’s been clear that Monroe has an affinity for tales of terror. And in Victorian Psycho, it seems she’s the one unleashing bloody havoc on polite society, in a 19th Century-set horror thriller. Check out the trailer here: The film – from Sanctuary director Zachary Wigon – sees author Virginia Feito adapt her own novel…