Author: Empire

For decades now, George Clooney and Adam Sandler have been taking Hollywood by storm. Now, they’re doing so together in Jay Kelly – the latest film from writer-director Noah Baumbach, starring Clooney as the titular A-list actor and Sandler as his loyal manage Ron, taking a trip across Europe together. With the film about to make its way into the world, Empire sat down with Clooney and Sandler together to talk about – yes, Jay Kelly, but also – their years in Hollywood together, their relationship to movies, and each other’s work. Here’s an extract – and you can read…

Ever since Rian Johnson left the galaxy far, far away post-Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, he’s been in full-on mystery mode. His last three films – Knives Out, Glass Onion, and the upcoming Wake Up Dead Man – have established a new generation’s genius detective in Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc, while on the small screen he created mystery show Poker Face with Natasha Lyonne. But next, Johnson is heading somewhere new, he tells Empire. Speaking ahead of the release of Wake Up Dead Man, the filmmaker teased where he’s going next. “The most exciting thing right now…

To put it simply, writing a Knives Out script isn’t easy. Rian Johnson has now penned (and directed) three back-to-back Benoit Blanc mysteries, throwing Daniel Craig’s Southern-fried detective into head-scrambling whodunnits that rip up the narrative rulebook. But it seems third outing Wake Up Dead Man was a particularly fiendish one to crack – a film that not only saw Johnson cook up an “impossible crime” for Blanc to solve, but also dig deep into soulful themes that really matter to him. “This was definitely the hardest script I’ve ever written,” he tells Empire. This one sees Blanc attempt to…

If you thought that Primate trailer dropping would be the only juicy horror tidbit to take into the weekend, you’d be dead wrong. If you guessed there may yet be another, then you’d be dead right. And if you somehow had a hunch that we’d be getting an update on Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn today then, well, you could actually be deadite — because that’s exactly what’s just happened. Just this afternoon, French filmmaker Vaniček took to Instagram to share a bloody little video confirming that shooting’s wrapped on his first foray into the Evil Dead universe, eleven weeks…

This week’s Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt, Helen O’Hara and James Dyer pay tribute to two cinematic greats who left us this week: the legendary Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton, and Drew Struzan, the artist who defined posters — and people’s walls — for decades. Struzan’s work also inspires this week’s listener question, which asks our trio to identify the greatest movie poster of all time. Elsewhere in the show, the gang discuss the week’s movie news, including the return of Sam Raimi with castaway thrillerSend Help and Jim Carrey’s potential Jetsons live-action movie; review Roofman, After The Hunt, and Black…

Has anyone in the wider Avatar-verse had as wild a ride as Sigourney Weaver? In James Cameron’s 2009 original, she played human scientist Grace Augustine, who perished before the credits rolled. But then, in Avatar: The Way Of Water, she returned in hugely surprising form – as Na’vi teenager Kiri, a seemingly miraculous conception birthed from Grace’s avatar, with Weaver donning performance-capture to play a 14-year-old. That film teased a bigger destiny for Kiri, who has a peculiar connection to the sprawling flora and fauna of Pandora – and it sounds like there’ll be much more to come in Avatar:…

For a man who was, just three years ago, “fairly serious” about retiring from acting, it is starting to look a little like Jim Carrey has reconsidered. Not only has the Canadian-American funnyman made another Sonic movie since telling Variety he was weighing up retirement after Sonic The Hedgehog 2’s release, playing not one but two Dr. Robotnik’s in the spiny speedster’s third outing, but now he’s in line for an even farther out of left field new project. Per Variety’s reporting, Carrey is in talks to star in a live-action take on classic sci-fi cartoon The Jetsons — and…

With her first two feature films, 2016’s subversive cannibal chiller Raw and 2021 object sexuality body horror Titane, French director Julia Ducournau announced herself as one of the boldest genre filmmakers working today. And if the first trailer for Alpha — Ducournau’s latest mononymously titled movie — is anything to go by, then that status isn’t about to change anytime soon. A coming-of-age tale with a now-trademark Ducournau body horror twist, Alpha follows a teenage girl (Mélissa Boros) who gets a dodgy tattoo and consequently finds herself afflicted with a new disease that’s turning people to marble, much to the…

Sam Raimi, how we’ve missed you. One of the greatest filmmakers in the game has been, well, mostly out of the game for a good while. Raimi, the legend behind The Evil Dead, and the original run of Spider-Man movies, took a near-decade-long break after 2013’s Oz The Great And Powerful, before finally returning to the director’s chair with Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness in 2022 – a Marvel movie that leaned into his trademark kinetic horror traits. But now, he’s back with his first non-franchise film – and first horror film – since 2009’s cult favourite Drag…

It would be fair to say that, by and large, Stephen King adaptations can be a little hit or miss — for every Carrie (1976) there is also a Carrie (2013). But 2025 has been something of a banner year for fresh book-to-screen takes on King’s work, with The Monkey, The Life Of Chuck, and The Long Walk all coming in hot as very good riffs on their literary counterparts. It’s a trend that looks set to continue in some style with Edgar Wright’s hotly anticipated The Running Man, the latest adaptation of King’s (well, Richard Bachman’s) 1982 dystopian deathmatch…