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Best get working on those crane kicks – there’s a new Karate Kid in town. After five movies, an animated series, and Netflix spin-off Cobra Kai, the franchise is returning to the big screen with Karate Kid: Legends, the first trailer for which just dropped_._ There are more senseis than you can shake a stick at, with the teaser uniting multiple generations of martial arts masters, including the titular kid from the original trilogy, and star of Cobra Kai, Ralph Macchio, and the one and only Jackie Chan, who played Mr. Han in the 2010 film, opposite Jaden Smith. The…

Warning: this article contains spoilers for The Substance. There were many memorable things about The Substance, Coralie Fargeat’s award-winning, box-office-busting, Demi Moore-starring body horror from earlier this year. There was Moore’s outstanding, vulnerable, totally committed performance. There was the banging score, pulsating every beat of this bizarre deconstruction of unrealistic beauty standards. There were the stomach-churning injection scenes, Margaret Qualley jabbing a massive needle into the same infected spot of the spine, again and again. But most memorable of all? It has to be Monstro Elisa-Sue! We’re referring, of course, to the lumpy, bumpy creation that pours out of Qualley’s…

When the DCEU finally came to a close last Christmas with James Wan’s subaqueous sequel Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, it seemed likely we had seen the last of Jason Momoa — aka Arthur Curry, aka the titular King of Atlantis — in the DC Universe. And yet, while Aquaman and the DCEU may be done and dusted, it appears that reports of Momoa’s exit from DC’s future plans have been greatly exaggerated. Per THR’s reporting, Momoa is set to make a heel turn as alien bounty hunter Lobo in DC Studios’ upcoming Milly Alcock starrer Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow.…

Cap’s back — and this time he’s seeing red! Red Hulk, that is. Yes, Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson and Harrison Ford’s Hulked out President Thaddeus Ross form the word-exclusive cover of our stacked Captain America: Brave New World issue — which has us diving deep into the MCU’s 35th film, looking back on 2024’s cinematic highlights, and talking to the stars and filmmakers behind your next must-see movies. This month’s issue hits newsstands on Thursday 19 December — and you can pre-order your copy online here. But for now, read on for a look inside its pages. Captain America: Brave New…

The 25th December may have been and gone, but that doesn’t mean that Christmas is over just yet folks — and while Father Christmas enjoys a bloomin’ lie down, the team here at Empire still have a gift or two in our collective sack to dole out. All of which is to say that the time has come for the Empire Podcast Review Of The Year 2024, a nearly three-hour-long episode of the pod in which Chris Hewitt, James Dyer, and Helen O’Hara convene to offer their wit, wisdom, and other such verbal responses to the past twelve months in…

He is vengeance. He is the night. He is… delayed again. Yes, having had to dim the Bat-signal once this year already when we learned that Matt Reeves’ The Batman follow-up had been bumped from its late 2025 release window to October 2026, Warner Bros. has just today confirmed we’ll be waiting even longer yet before R-Battz takes flight as the Caped Crusader again. Per Deadline’s reporting, The Batman Part II is now slated for a 1 October, 2027 release, meaning there will have been a whole five-and-a-half-year wait between Parts I and II. Now, given the huge critical and…

Courtney Cox is returning alongside Neve Campbell and Mason Gooding for Kevin Williamson’s upcoming slasher movie sequel. Read more at Empire.

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,…