Author: Empire

It’s no secret that David Corenswet knows a thing or two about playing a super man — just last summer he was gadding about with the big red S on his chest in James Gunn’s DCU blockbuster, well, Superman. But in Mr. Irrelevant, the latest from Warm Bodies and soon to be Days Of Thunder 2 director Jonathan Levine, the never-more-relevant Corenswet portrays a very different, altogether more grounded kind of hero: John Tuggle. As the last player selected in the last round of the 1983 NFL draft by the New York Giants, Tuggle’s tale is a true underdog story…

Happy birthday, Star Trek! Gene Roddenberry’s groundbreaking sci-fi show turned 60 this week, and the Empire Podcast is celebrating in style this week. Helen O’Hara broke a world record, which she tells Chris Hewitt and James Dyer about, before our intrepid trio (our very own Kirk-Spock-Bones?) tackle a listener question about recasting The Next Generation crew. Their solutions may seem illogical. Elsewhere, Chris, Helen and James look at the week’s movie news, review Practical Magic 2, Runner and The Runner (or maybe it’s the other way around), Pressure, and Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger, while Helen comes face-to-face with…

For years now, Ashley Walters has been a stalwart of British screens, in cinemas and acclaimed TV dramas too. In more recent years, he was one of the headline performers in the all-time-great Top Boy, starred in two episodes of instant classic Adolescence, and appeared in Steven Knight’s A Thousand Blows too – a show on which he also directed three episodes. Now, Walters has made his directorial feature debut with Animol, a tough and tender prison drama, in which Tut Nyuot’s Troy finds himself facing up to the harshness of life behind bars. Check out the trailer exclusively here:Walters…

Back in March we brought you the news that, in his ongoing efforts to avoid making his tenth and supposedly final movie, Pulp Fiction auteur Quentin Tarantino has turned playwright and is set to premiere his first stage offering, The Popinjay Cavalier, in London’s West End in 2027. Now, Variety is reporting that The Popinjay Cavalier has found its, well, cavalier popinjay, in the form of three-time Oscar nominee Sacha Baron Cohen.Described by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sonia Friedman Productions as “a rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise inspired by the grand swashbuckling epics of stage and screen”, The Popinjay…

Amazon didn’t want you to see it. OpenAI probably doesn’t want you to see it. And we’d wager that Sam Altman almost definitely doesn’t want you to see it. But Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial — which sees Andrew Garfield play Altman during the crazy five-day period in November 2023 that saw him fired and then reinstated as the controversial research company’s CEO — has been picked up by Neon and is heading to cinemas, anyway. And as the great AI debate rages on, the newly dropped first trailer for Guadagnino’s latest only promises to add fuel to the discourse’s flames. Check…

Last December, Empire’s Ben Travis asked the question ‘Can film save cinema?’, digging into the recent revival of interest in films shot on, well, film, and presented on the biggest screens possible. And now, with the likes of Project Hail Mary and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey having just supercharged Hollywood’s biggest year at the box office in recent memory, Lucasfilm is preparing to get in on the action. In 2027, George Lucas’ Star Wars and Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter will both release in IMAX and IMAX 70mm, marking the first film in the franchise’s debut in the format as…

It’s time to fire up the Fiat Cinquecento one more time, friends (“Ooh, friend!”) — The Inbetweeners are back back back! Now, yes, technically we’ve known that Will, Jay, Simon, and Neil are heading back to our screens for a little while now, with Netflix officially confirming the misfit bunch’s cinematic comeback just last month, but now we’ve got actual actual proof that the boys are back in town: Iain Morris and Damon Beesley’s crude comedy comeback has now entered production and we’ve even got a nostalgia triggering first teaser for the lads’ return. Check it out below;Oral sex joke?…

Shovels at the ready, people: Digger is coming. And while the world waits for Tom Cruise’s wild new movie, the new issue of Empire is here to give you a world-exclusive sneak peek.It’s not on shelves until Thursday August 27 (or you can order a copy online here), but here’s an early look inside its pages.DiggerGet ready for Tom Cruise as you’ve never seen him before – literally. Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and his cast – including Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, and of course, Cruise himself – present a first look at their wild new disaster comedy, set…

Calling all UK-based cinephiles: the line-up for the BFI London Film Festival 2026 is officially out! And it is, of course, stacked with hugely exciting titles which will be getting early screenings not just in the capital, but across the UK too in various partner venues. This year’s festival takes place between 7-18 October, and the line-up contains world premieres, various galas, and more. It is a gigantic roster, so head here to check the complete programme – but here are a few highlights.The festival will open, as previously announced, with the Andrew Scott-starring Elsinore, and close with the UK…

If you know, you know. The Mandalorian And Grogu continued a fun easter egg from its parent series, The Mandalorian, in which many of the key creatives behind the show have brief cameos as X-Wing pilots. And the Adelphi Squadron re-appeared briefly in Jon Favreau’s film too, flying into action in the final reel to deliver some much-needed back-up on Nal Hutta. Among them you’ll see Dave Filoni’s Trapper Wolf, Deborah Chow’s Sash Ketter, Lee Isaac Chung’s Dok Suri, Rick Famuyiwa’s Jib Dodger, all of whom have directed on The Mandalorian and other Star Wars projects in recent years.But it…