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Weathers report incoming — there’s a strong Gale heading straight for Woodsboro! Over the last few weeks, we’ve been getting a flurry of eye-catching updates on Kevin Williamson’s upcoming slasher sequel Scream VII. Just this week, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire breakout McKenna Grace has joined the cast, with Mason Gooding — the rebooted franchise’s seemingly unkillable Chad Meeks-Martin — confirming a return to the fray, too. Now, per Variety’s reporting, Scream icon Courteney Cox has finally closed a deal to reprise her role as intrepid reporter Gale Weathers in Williamson’s movie. We first shared the news that Cox was…

In this modern of cinematic universes and huge franchises, when it comes to sequels there seems to be one golden rule: Gotta go fast. And if there’s anyone who knows a thing or two about going fast, then it’s SEGA’s blue-haired speedster Sonic The Hedgehog, the Ben Schwartz voiced star of Jeff Fowler’s eponymous video game blockbusters. With that being said, ahead of Sonic The Hedgehog 3’s release in cinemas this Friday, Variety have today confirmed that Paramount Pictures are already preparing to turn Fowler’s trilogy into a quadrilogy with Sonic The Hedgehog 4. With the first two movies in…

The movies of Christopher Nolan are all, in their way, Odyssean epics, Homeric voyages into dreams (Inception), space (Interstellar), time (Tenet), science (Oppenheimer), magic (The Prestige), billionaires in batsuits (The Dark Knight trilogy). But now, after months of frantic speculation about what the Oscar winning auteur is cooking up next with Universal, we know exactly what Nolan’s next cinematic odyssey will be. And, well, it is the granddaddy of ’em all — it is The Odyssey. Yes, just tonight, Universal casually tweeted out the huge news that the newly knighted Sir Christopher Nolan’s 13th film will be an IMAX sized,…

There have been live-action Ghostbusters movies. And there have been animated Ghostbusters TV series. But now, 40 years after Ivan Reitman and his crew first answered the call, it looks like the legendary sci-fi franchise is ready to cross the streams with an animated Ghostbusters movie. According to Deadline, Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix are teaming up to bring the parapsychologists into a whole new dimension for the first time as a feature length offering. Not to be confused with the new Ghostbusters animated series that’s been in the works at Sony Animation and Netflix since 2022, this new movie…

Well, it is Christmas time, so it makes sense that Blumhouse would give us a lovely gift to unwrap – a new The Mummy movie! After several big-screen iterations, including 1932’s version with Boris Karloff, the cult-classic Brendan Fraser-fronted adventure movies, and the slightly more ill-fated, Tom Cruise-starring, supposed Dark Universe-starting 2017 take, Universal’s mummified monster is back. At the helm will be writer and director Lee Cronin, the man behind 2023’s excellent Evil Dead Rise. A Cronin project had been on the books for a while, announced earlier this year, but confirmation that it’s a new spin on The…

“Four sets of guests, Jeremy? Four? That’s insane!” Yes, folks, the last Empire Film Podcast of 2024 is an absolute barnstormer, a two-and-a-half-hour blast of film-related fun just in time for the festive season. And we have more guests than you could possibly fit under the Christmas tree. There’s Mufasa: The Lion King star and former Mid-Sized Sedan Aaron Pierre [22:54 — 41:53 approx]! Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham, directors of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl [2:17:40 — 2:33:35 approx]! Ben Schwartz and Jeff Fowler, star and director respectively of Sonic The Hedgehog 3 [1:55:50 — 2:16:00 approx]! And…

Having enjoyed spells in the Quantum Realm and at Nevermore Academy respectively in recent years, it would be fair to say that Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega are no strangers to weird shit at this point. Even so, both must’ve had their eyebrows raised when the script for Death Of A Unicorn, writer-director Alex Scharfman’s dark new A24 comedy, was sent their way. Starring opposite Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, and Richard E. Grant, the movie sees Rudd and Ortega play middle-class father-daughter duo Elliot and Riley, who accidentally kill a unicorn and find themselves subject to the vengeful rage of…

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the new Superman trailer! The teaser for James Gunn’s first big-screen project since taking over as co-head honcho at DC Studios is finally here, and boy, is it packed. It sees Twisters and Pearl star David Corenswet step into the iconic blue suit and red cape, alongside The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, ushering in a new era of comic-book movies from Marvel’s biggest rival. Watch the trailer below. The trailer comes with all the colour, spectacle and goofiness you’d expect from a James Gunn joint –…

Alright, let’s do this one last time. In 2018, Sony Pictures Animation released Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse, introducing the world to Brooklyn teen Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) and a multiversal array of Spidey pals, changing the game for superhero storytelling — and Hollywood animation — in the process. In 2023, Sony Pictures Animation released Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, reintroduced the world to Miles Morales, a multiversal array of Spidey pals, took the franchise quite literally to whole new dimensions, and changed the game again. And now, per Deadline’s reporting, we’re learning that Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson — co-directors…

Since returning to our screens after a 4-year break from acting, Michael Fassbender is really getting into the groove of playing a spy. First, there was David Fincher’s The Killer, in which he was a ruthless, methodical assassin on the hunt for revenge. More recently, he took to the small screen in The Agency, as a covert CIA operative. Next, he’s appearing opposite Cate Blanchett as they play two spy spouses in Steven Soderbergh’s explosive, star-studded Black Bag. Watch the trailer below. Fassbender and Blanchett play George and Kathryn Woodhouse, a pair of legendary intelligence agents who are as devoted…