Author: Empire

There’s nothing quite like a luxurious jaunt to a sun-soaked locale to bring folk together, as we’ve learned from Destination Wedding, Ticket To Paradise, Anyone But You, and oh so many other movies over the years. With upcoming Netflix resort romance Lonely Planet, it looks like writer-director Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) is set to add a little more depth to the ordinarily comedy heavy sub-genre. Here, Laura Dern stars as Katherine, a novelist whose Moroccan retreat to conquer her writer’s block puts her on a collision course with Liam Hemsworth’s Owen, a younger man facing his own crisis of confidence.…

As the prophets of De La Soul once proclaimed, “Three, that’s the magic number!” Yes folks, that’s right — for the second week on the bounce we have a terrific trio of guests joining us on the Empire Podcast. First up, our features editor Alex Godfrey speaks no evil — and speaks Speak No Evil — with the psychological thriller remake’s star (and podcast regular) James McAvoy [19:49 — 34:40 approx]. Then, Amon Warmann sits down for a chat with Kate Winslet, star of wartime biopic Lee [56:50 – 1:12:15 approx]. (Also, thanks to Sam Clements for the emergency podcast…

Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen’s is one of the all-time great Hollywood bromances. As Star Wars’ Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, the duo have fought alongside one another, with one another, and given fans some of the most iconic moments in modern cinema. It’s not without good reason that Christensen and McGregor’s on-screen reunion in 2022’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series — and the recent, long overdue cultural reappraisal of the Prequel Trilogy — has triggered a swell of warm and fuzzies across the galaxy. And yesterday, as McGregor — whose illustrious filmography also includes Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge, and Doctor Sleep among…

Steady your sandworms and sound the space bagpipes — Dune news coming through! It’s been an interesting few months for fans of the DCU (that’s the Dune Cinematic Universe), with confirmation coming back in April that a Dune Part Three is officially in the works at Legendary, and then further reports in June placing an ‘Untitled Event Film’ from director Denis Villeneuve in Warner Bros.’ slate for December 2026. Now, in an interview with Vanity Fair for their “Little Gold Men” podcast, Villeneuve has confirmed that Dune: Messiah is currently being written — and, more importantly, that the Quebecois filmmaker’s…

The film industry just lost a titan – the legendary James Earl Jones, who passed away at the age of 93. And among his many iconic performances – in The Lion King, Conan The Barbarian, Coming To America, Field Of Dreams to name but a few – he will always hold the position of voicing Star Wars’ greatest villain: the inimitable Darth Vader. Across the original trilogy, plus Revenge Of The Sith, Rogue One, The Rise Of Skywalker and more, Jones lent his unmistakable boom to one of the all-time-great big screen baddies. And in the wake of his passing,…

Don’t tell J. Jonah Jameson, but we’ve got some fresh Spider-Man news hot off the press for you this fine (well, somewhat blustery) Tuesday morning. Yes, almost three years since Spider-Man: No Way Homesaw Tom Holland’s wall crawler team up with Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire for all sorts of multiversal madness, we’re finally getting an update on our Friendly Neighbourhood’s next MCU outing. According to THR’s reporting, Destin Daniel Cretton — whose Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings remains a highlight of Marvel Studios’ post-Endgame output — is in talks to direct Spider-Man 4. Having vacated the…

John Woo movies always have a spark – the legendary Hong Kong director is responsible for some of the greatest (and most bonkers) action ever committed to the screen, in Hard Boiled and Face/Off and The Killer, to name but a few. But we’ve never had a John Woo movie with Sparks – the legendary cult pop duo also known as Ron and Russell Mael, behind such earworms as ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us’. Until now, that is. Because, as the filmmaker tells Empire in a major upcoming interview, he’s currently working with the art-pop…

Just before the real-world horrors of 2020 were unleashed, filmmaker Leigh Whannell unleashed a horror of the more enjoyable kind: his stark take on The Invisible Man, reinventing the HG Wells story (and Universal Monster) as a parable on gaslighting. There, Elisabeth Moss was stalked by her abusive invisible ex, and nobody believed her. Now, Whannell is back with another recalibration of a Universal Monsters favourite: the Wolf Man. Or, as he is here, simply Wolf Man – another film that promises a smart take on a creature as old as time. This one stars Christopher Abbott as Blake, the…

There’s more guests than hosts on the Empire Podcast this week folks as, due to a combination of work absences, holidays, and *checks notes* a dog eating Chris Hewitt’s podcasting microphone, only Helen O’Hara and James Dyer are on pod-duty this week. But fear not! Though their numbers be depleted, our two colleagues of such lethal cunning still bring the film-related fun. In the pod booth (well, over Zoom — curse ye, Covid!), Helen and James take on a brace of listener questions, contemplating which doomed crews in film they’d want to be stuck with before pontificating on whether video…

If you’ve got any salt handy, it may be worth taking a pinch of it before plunging into this morsel of movie news with us, folks. According to Deadline, one last job for Danny Ocean and his motley crew of high-stake heisters may well be on the cards after all — and if stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt have their way, they’ve found a hell of a filmmaker to make the film happen. Per the trade’s reporting, none other than BAFTA winning All Quiet On The Western Front director Edward Berger is being courted to helm Ocean’s 14, which…