Author: Empire

Are you a fan of Craig Gillespie’s Ryan Gosling starring sex doll rom-com Lars And The Real Girl? Did you watch last year’s Wicked: For Good and find yourself inexplicably drawn towards Jonathan Bailey’s strawified Fiyero? Are you here for what we are dubbing Olivia Colman’s ‘Willem Dafoe’ era? If you answered yes to any of the above, then we may have just the movie for you: Wicker. Billed as ‘a comedic fable about sex, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention’, Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston’s movie stars Olivia Colman as a fisherwoman who commissions Peter Dinklage to make…

Ready to return to Middle-earth? The new issue of Empire is nearly here, and it was – even more so than usual – forged in the fires of Mount Doom, deep in the heart of Mordor. Yes, The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power is back for a pivotal third season, as the One Ring finally gets created, and Sauron rises to seize power – and it’s on the cover of our new issue. The Rings Of Power Season 3 issue doesn’t hit newsstands until Thursday July 30 (order a copy online here), but for now here’s a…

It’s been a few years since Taika Waititi delivered his last film – an adaptation of beloved football doc Next Goal Wins. But now, three years later, he’s finally back with Klara And The Sun, taking Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel – about a robot girl, Klara, who befriends sick kid Josie in a dystopian future – and bringing it to life with Jenna Ortega in the title role, and Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi and more among its ensemble. Oh, and Rachel House too – this is a Taika Waititi movie. Except, it looks set to be a different kind of…

Okay, so it’s official: Adam Wingard’s super soldier A24 action movie Onslaught is not a stealth sequel to super soldier not-A24 action movie The Guest after all. It’s just set in the same town, shares the same universe, and also happens to star Dan Stevens. But now that we’ve cleared up those technicalities, we can get back to what really matters… watching the aforementioned Mr Stevens playing a super soldier making Nazi scientist in Wingard’s first non-MonsterVerse outing in yonks. And if the latest trailer for the upcoming actioner is anything to go by, we are in for a bloody…

Interestingly, the Marvel Studios panel at Comic-Con yesterday didn’t peak with the grand unveiling of pretty much the entire cast of Avengers: Doomsday, including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, a previously unconfirmed Hayley Atwell, and three distinct groups of actors spread across three different stages in Hall (a first for the Con). Nor did it peak with the debut of footage from Doomsday. Instead, Kevin Feige gave pride of place to a very special announcement, bringing Ryan Coogler out to reveal that Black Panther III not only is happening, but has a release date of December 15, 2028 (so one…

Comeback narratives have driven Comic-Con 2026 so far. But if the noise that greeted Johnny Depp’s surprise appearance as Ebenezer Scrooge yesterday was largely the scratching of heads and raising of eyebrows, the only thing that was raised today during the Spaceballs: The New One panel was the roof. That’s because the damn thing nearly came off when comedy legend Rick Moranis — back as Dark Helmet in the forthcoming sequel to the 1987 Mel Brooks Star Wars spoof — was unveiled to a rapturous reception and a standing ovation. All of which seemed to convince the 73 year old that coming out of retirement (“I wasn’t retired, I was just negotiating,” he…

In the wake of Supergirl’s box office disappointment, it was perhaps surprising to learn that DC Studios weren’t putting on a panel at this year’s Comic-Con, passing up the opportunity to show footage or present the cast from James Gunn’s currently-shooting Man Of Tomorrow as a show of strength in the still-fledgling DCU. However, it turns out that the studio was represented in San Diego after all at Thursday’s Jim Lee & Friends panel, which rapidly turned into a case of Clayface & Chums, as director James Watkins and star Tom Rhys Harries joined Lee – the superstar artist and…

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey may be dominating the cultural conversation and packing out the IMAX cinemas of this world just now, but while the boldest blockbuster filmmaker in the West is entrancing the masses with Cyclops, Sirens, and Circe, in the East another outsized action epic is getting ready to rock our world. Yes, S.S. Rajamouli — director of Telegu-language Tollywood juggernaut RRR (one of Empire’s favourite movies of 2022) — is back back back next year with Varanasi, a sci-fi spectacular spanning multiple millennia and continents, from the Arctic to Africa to the titular Indian city bracing itself for…

Did you ever watch Barney back in the day and fear that somewhere beneath the “I love you, you love me” sing-song bravado and big hugs, deep in that purple dinosaur’s cold, unblinking eyes, there could be something more sinister afoot? Well, firstly, Barney was and forever will be a total sweetheart, you monster! But also second, Buddy — the nightmarish new horror from Too Many Cooks creator Casper Kelly — may just be the cinematic vindication you crave. Prepare to meet the titular Buddy, a bright orange unicorn from a forgotten, fictitious 90s kids’ TV show whose cheery look…

It is with great sadness that we bring you the news Kaylee Hottle, child star of Godzilla Vs Kong and Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, has tragically died at the age of just 18. The young, deaf actor, who announced herself as an exciting new talent — and industry trailblazer — with her performances as Jia Andrews in Adam Wingard’s two most recent MonsterVerse movies, was killed in a car accident on Monday. News of Hottle’s death was first shared by her father Joshua Hottle in an emotional video posted to Facebook, with the Texas School For The Deaf…