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This week’s episode of the acclaimed Empire Film Podcast is even more acclaimed than usual as we welcome not one but two Oscar winners to the show. First up, Chris Hewitt sits down with Michelle Yeoh to talk about her new Star Trek movie, Section 31, and how the Best Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once changed her life [20:56 — 36:39 approx]; then, John Nugent has a fascinating chat with The Brutalist star, current Oscar nominee, and former Best Actor winner, Adrien Brody, about the LA Fires and his role in Brady Corbet’s epic drama [1:02:49 —…

Few is the number of singers who’ve successfully made the leap from the studio to the screen. Frank Sinatra, Cher, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, Elvis, Madonna, *ahem* Justin Timberlake perhaps. But having conquered the music world and given everyone a Brat summer in 2024, pop star Charli XCX is changing lanes in a big way this year. After booking a whole bunch of buzzy film projects in recent months (more on those below), Variety is reporting that the ‘Sympathy is a knife’ singer is gearing up to produce and star in The Moment, an A24 movie based on her own…

He’s conquered the realms of witches (The Witch), vampires (Nosferatu), and very soon will have taken a 13th century set stab at werewolves too (Werwulf), but emerging master of the macabre Robert Eggers has already decided where his watchful eye will be cast next — and we’ll bet it’s not somewhere you had on your Eggers bingo card. Hot on the heels of scoring four Oscar nominations for his take on F.W. Murnau’s Gothic chiller Nosferatu, Deadline is reporting that Eggers has closed a deal to write and direct a sequel to Jim Henson’s 1986 dark fantasy Labyrinth at TriStar.…

It’s official: Emilia Pérez has emerged as the frontrunner of awards season this year. Not only did Jacques Audiard’s gangster-thriller-musical-character-drama rack up major love at this year’s BAFTA nominations, but it’s the leader of the pack in the Oscar nominees in 2025 too. The film has been nominated in 13 categories at this year’s Academy Awards – including Best Picture, Director for Audiard, Leading Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón, Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña, and Adapted Screenplay. It nabbed two Original Song nominations too, going up against itself with ‘El Mal’ and ‘Mi Camino’. As ever, though, the most nominations…

Listen up, The Bear fans. Ever since Ayo Edebiri stepped into the kitchen and became a standout in the ensemble of TV’s most beautifully stressful show, we’ve been waiting for her to take centre stage. From Bottoms, to Theater Camp, to Inside Out 2, she’s since proved herself as a comedy master – but in Opus, Edebiri finally takes the lead. The A24 thriller marks the writer-directorial feature debut of Mark Anthony Green, unspooling a mystery around a reclusive legendary pop star, who announces his return to much excitement. But when Edebiri’s journalist is invited to his private compound, it…

You’d be hard-pressed to find a star who radiates as much positive energy as Ke Huy Quan – from his ebullient young performances in The Goonies and Temple Of Doom, to his heart-swelling Oscar-winning turn in Everything Everywhere All At Once, to his affable performance in Loki Season 2. But beyond his impending fight-fuelled action-comedy Love Hurts, Quan has a desire to play against type. Yes, the friendliest man in Hollywood wants to see if being bad really does feel pretty good. “I would love to play a bad guy. Like a Bond villain,” Quan tells Empire in a major…

Legendary American filmmaker David Lynch has died at the age of 78, it has been confirmed. The beloved director behind some of the most boundary-breaking works of cinema – from Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive to Inland Empire – had previously announced a diagnosis of emphysema that left him unable to leave the house. The news was confirmed in a Facebook post from Lynch’s family that reads as follows: “It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big…

On this week’s Empire Podcast Chris Hewitt, Alex Godfrey and Beth Webb gather together to bid a hard but heartfelt farewell to the great David Lynch, who sadly died at the age of 78 this week. Over the course of a wide-ranging, anecdote filled forty or so minutes, the trio — all huge, dyed-in-the-wool Lynch fans — pay tribute to the genius behind Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., Twin Peaks, and so, so many more [44:18 — 1:26:33 approx.] Elsewhere in this week’s episode, which we hasten to clarify was recorded before the news broke of Lynch’s passing, Chris is…

When it comes to cinematic adaptations of beloved PlayStation games, so far we’ve enjoyed a mixed bag. HBO’s The Last Of Us series ranks among the great TV shows of the millennium thus far; Sony’s Uncharted movie with Tom Holland certainly ranks among the films that were released in February 2022; and Neil Blomkamp’s Archie Madekwe/Orlando Bloom/David Harbour led Gran Turismo is, well, actually probably a bit better than it gets credit for honestly. And after our first look at David F. Sandberg’s take on survival horror game Until Dawn caused no small measure of discourse about how much you…

You could hardly accuse James Cameron of playing it safe with Avatar, or Avatar: The Way Of Water. The first film in his Na’vi saga was a largely unknown quantity before it sizzled audiences’ eyeballs and transported them to the 3D wonderland of Pandora to record-breaking box office effect. And then, The Way Of Water did it all over again, well over a decade later, proving audiences were more than hungry for a return trip to bioluminescent paradise. But according to the filmmaker, the third Avatar film is going to be even braver – taking audiences, he tells Empire, to…