Author: Empire

At long last: Bridget’s back. For nearly two and a half decades now, Bridget Jones has been a British romcom icon – the loveable (if haphazard) Londoner caught up in romantic entanglements spanning from her 30s onwards. The last time we caught up with her, it was for 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby – seeing Renée Zellweger’s former ‘spinster’ become a mum amid a love triangle. There, she (spoiler alert!) finally ended up with Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy, the father of her child. But when we meet up with Bridget again next year in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, nearly…

We have felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. We fear something terrible has happened… and, well, it sort of has, actually. No, we’re not talking about certain developments across the pond earlier this month, or the inexplicable further delay of Mickey 17, but rather the news coming to us from Variety that another Star Wars project has fallen by the wayside (at least for now) at Disney and Lucasfilm. Per Variety’s reporting, an as-yet-untitled Star Wars movie slated for release on 18 December, 2026 has…

Marvel’s First Family are on their way — and this time, it’s personal. Over the past few months, the folks over at Marvel Studios have been carefully drip, drip, dripping tantalising tidbits of info about Matt Shakman’s upcoming MCU movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Back in February, it was confirmed that Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach had landed the leads in the film. And since then, we’ve seen Ralph Ineson cast as planet-eater Galactus, Kevin Feige tease the movie’s 60s setting, and even glimpsed the Fantasticar at San Diego Comic Con. Now, as shooting nears…

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? Well, you will be when you listen to this week’s Empire Podcast, because we have a veritable guestapalooza in store for you, folks. On our 643rd episode, Chris Hewitt sits down with Gladiator II star and living legend Denzel Washington to talk about reuniting with Ridley Scott — and to clarify Denzel’s recent hint that he might be winding down as an actor (*SPOILER* — he ain’t.) Oh, and Chris quotes *that* Equalizer 2 line to Denzel’s face, because he’s utterly without shame [20:15 — 39:40 approx]. Elsewhere, Amon Warmann has a lovely chat with Emilia…

Over the last few years, there’s been no shortage of music biopics hitting the multiplexes. From Bohemian Rhapsody to Bob Marley: One Love, and from Rocketman to Back To Black, the market for musicians having their life story told on screen has grown increasingly crowded. But just when it seemed maybe the genre was running out of steam, along comes Robbie Williams biopic Better Man — hot on the heels of brick-based Pharrell Williams doc Piece By Piece — to rip up the rulebook and try something brilliantly, bizarrely new. Directed by The Greatest Showman’s Michael Gracey, on paper this…

As the great William Shakespeare himself once wrote, “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” With their innovative, BIFA 2024-nominated documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls take the Bard at his word as they chronicle Crane and fellow out of work actor Mark Oosterveen’s madcap attempt to stage a production of Danish tragedy Hamlet within the unforgiving, unpredictable world of Grand Theft Auto Online. Part comedy goldmine, part poignant document of life — and the arts’ existential crisis — during lockdown, this is one of those real seeing-is-believing type deals. Check…

It’s a day ending in ‘y’, so you know what that means — another acting heavyweight has boarded the next Christopher Nolan movie! Since the Oscar winning Oppenheimer director set his latest project at Universal just last month, a flurry of exciting names have been added to the call sheet of what’s already shaping up to be quite the blockbuster event for summer 2026. First there was Matt Damon, then everyone’s favourite friendly neighbourhood Tom Holland signed up for a lead role — and just last week, Zendaya and Anne Hathaway entered the fray, too. Now, per THR’s reporting, it…

It may not even be mid-November yet, but Christmas has come early this year for Studio Ghibli fans. Following the BAFTA, Oscar, and Golden Globe winning success of the legendary Japanese animation outfit’s The Boy And The Heron earlier in 2024, Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro made a triumphant return to cinemas in the UK and Ireland this summer, sparking calls for more of the studio’s back catalogue to make a multiplex comeback. Well, whaddaya know! It looks like the Elysian Film Group and Anonymous Content have been listening to those calls, because they’ve announced that they’re teaming up once again…

Now that we’ve reached the end of the Witches’ Road with Agatha All Along, all MCU fans’ attention is now set to turn towards Julius Onah’s star-spangled fourquel Captain America: Brave New World. Having had one curiosity sparking teaser for Anthony Mackie’s feature debut as Captain America already, as well as a couple of intriguing tidbits of info about Giancarlo Esposito’s baddie Sidewinder and an eyebrow-raising adamantium connection spilled at San Diego Comic Con back in July, the hype train for the 35th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has really been starting to build up a head of steam.…

Casting announcements for a new Christopher Nolan movie are like the years in Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’ — they start coming and they don’t stop coming. And having seemingly outdone himself with the stacked ensemble of his Best Picture winner Oppenheimer last year, the British filmmaker is already looking to increase the star power wattage with his latest effort. After already setting Tom Holland and Matt Damon to lead his as-yet-untitled new Universal movie in recent weeks, today Deadline are reporting that Nolan has just added two more heavyweights to his next movie’s call sheet — Zendaya and Anne Hathaway.…