Author: Empire

Nintendo fans are likely spending the next few days hoarding mushrooms, 1Ups, shells and flowers – because there’s less than a week to go until The Super Mario Galaxy Movie hits cinemas. The follow-up to the ultra-successful Super Mario Bros Movie, looks to be going much bigger, nabbing its name from the beloved Nintendo Wii game – and it seems the wider Nintendo-verse is getting involved too. A new poster this week confirmed (spoiled, some might even say) that Fox McCloud, aka Star Fox – of Lylat Wars fame, to UK millennials – will be in the film. And now…

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that moving house can be a bit of a nightmare. That being said, we would concede that your house literally moving, along with your whole neighbourhood and street, into prehistoric times with dinos roaming up and down the ‘burbs sounds like a much bigger nightmare — and looks like it too. Yes, the first trailer for It Follows writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s secretive new sci-fi movie The End Of Oak Street (fka Flowervale Street) has been released — and there be dinosaurs on the street where Ewan McGregor, Anne Hathaway, and their brood live. Check…

The world is changed. We feel it in the water. We feel it in the Earth. We… saw it via video on X. In marking Tolkien Reading Day, Warner Bros. took to its social channels (before we could even have second breakfast!) this morning to reveal that Andy Serkis’ The Hunt For Gollum isn’t the only Lord Of The Rings movie currently in the works at the studio. In a video featuring Peter Jackson and a “very special partner”, we learned that Lord Of The Rings: Shadow Of The Past — co-written by Tolkien obsessive Stephen Colbert — is in…

Ordinarily, news of a spin-off movie from a live-action Disney remake wouldn’t exactly be the hottest news in town (no offence Gaston.) However, news of a spin-off movie from a live-action Disney remake being directed by one third of The Lonely Island and co-written by three thirds of last year’s positively hilarious The Naked Gun reboot… well that’s something to shout about. Deadline is reporting that Akiva Schaffer is reteaming with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand to tackle Stepsisters, a movie which will — you guessed it! — give Cinderella’s hissable twosome Anastasia and Drisella the spotlight in their own…

And away we go! Following the remarkable news that dropped earlier this year about Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood getting a David Fincher directed follow-up starring Brad Pitt once again as stuntman Cliff Booth, Variety is now reporting that not only is the film — officially titled, handily, The Adventures Of Cliff Booth — coming soon, but that it also may well be coming to cinemas. Writing in a piece about Netflix and AMC Cinemas burying the hatchet to tag team on theatrical releases, Rebecca Rubin revealed that The Adventures Of Cliff Booth is eyeing a Summer…

We’ve had CGI A Christmas Carol. We’ve had Bill Murray A Christmas Carol. We’ve had The Muppet Christmas Carol. Hell, we’ve even had terribly animated Nic Cage A Christmas Carol. But just when you thought Hollywood had finally run out of ways to adapt Charles Dickens’ festive chiller, 2025 has arrived with the promise of two fresh takes from major horror filmmakers for Christmases Yet To Come. Back in June we learned that Robert Eggers is preparing A Christmas Carol with Willem Dafoe at Warner Bros., and now Deadline is reporting that MaXXXine director Ti West will direct Johnny Depp…

Austin Butler is quickly establishing himself as not only one of the most exciting stars in movies today, but also quite the acting time traveller. Between Masters Of The Air, Elvis, The Bikeriders, Caught Stealing, Eddington, and Dune, the BAFTA winner has rocked up just about everywhere — from the height of World War II to around 21,000 AD. And according to Deadline, Butler may be about to add the 80s to his expansive cinematic timeline with a starring role as Detective Sonny Crockett in Joseph Kosinski’s rapidly revving up Miami Vice reboot. As we reported just yesterday, Michael B…

This week’s Empire Podcast — coming just seven days before Halloween — is an all treats, no tricks kind of affair as we welcome a whole heap of stellar guests onto the show. First up, Helen O’Hara has a lovely chat with Hedda director Nia DaCosta; then Chris Hewitt talks to Jeremy Strong, star of Scott Cooper’s The Boss biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere; and last but by no means least, Chris is back at it again, having a joyous natter about the end of the world with Rebecca Ferguson and Kathryn Bigelow, star and director respectively of Netflix…

We don’t yet know if there’ll ever be a sequel to Ryan Coogler’s Mississippi set vampire movie Sinners, but we do know that its star, Michael B. Jordan, has at least got vice on his mind. Miami Vice, that is. Yes, now that F1 director Joseph Kosinski’s big screen retooling of the classic 80s cop show has locked in a Summer 2027 release date, attention has swiftly turned to who’ll be hopping in a Ferrari Daytona to bust crime on the streets of Vice City. And, per Deadline’s reporting, Jordan has emerged as a frontrunner to play Detective Ricardo Tubbs…

Ordinarily when we see Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo sharing the screen, they’re fighting the good fight together as the MCU’s Thor and Hulk. In American Animals director Bart Layton’s upcoming LA set Amazon thriller Crime 101 however, the duo’s dynamic isn’t quite so, er, super. Here, Hemsworth is Davis, a fleet-footed jewel thief whose ‘one last job’ hits a snag when Ruffalo’s brilliantly named Detective Lou Lubesnick cobs onto a pattern in his heists, setting the two on a Heat-like collision course. Check out the trailer below; Thor, Catwoman (well, Halle Berry), and The Joker (well, Barry Keoghan) teaming…