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Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi has tackled Neanderthalic customs officers in Border, serial killers in Holy Spider, and the fearsome Clickers in post-apocalyptic horror series The Last Of Us. But with upcoming biopic The Apprentice, Abbasi is set to tackle a different beast altogether: the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. An origin story for the former POTUS set across the 70s and 80, Abbasi’s hotly anticipated movie is set to see Sebastian Stan take on the role of a young Trump as he rises to New York real estate fame. And after getting our first image of…

What do you get when you put the star of the best film of 2023 and the co-lead of one of the best films of 2024 on screen together at the same time? No, it’s not the set up for a strangely specific cinephile joke, but rather a hamfisted way of saying that Past Lives’ Greta Lee and All Of Us Strangers’ Andrew Scott are making a movie together. Per Deadline’s reporting, the dynamite acting duo have signed up to lead sci-fi romance My Notes On Mars, the English-language debut of Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvát (Preparations To Be Together For…

Despite having a wealth of experience directing narrative film and television with the likes of Mindhunter and The Warrior, Asif Kapadia is almost definitely best known for his work as a documentarian on films such as Amy, Senna, Diego Maradona, and, most recently, tennis close-up Federer: Twelve Final Days. With his latest directorial effort however, sci-fi thriller 2073, Kapadia is looking to cross the streams, blurring the boundaries between narrative and non-fiction filmmaking to paint a sobering portrait of the dystopia that awaits us if we continue on our current post-Brexit, present Putin and Trump and Milei spearheaded course. Led…

Ahead of the programme release for the 2024 London Film Festival on Wednesday, the BFI have revealed which movies will be competing for the Best Film Award in this year’s Official Competition line-up. Among the eleven hopefuls looking to scoop the prize taken last year by Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist, highlights include Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott’s feuding farmer feature Bring Them Down, Adam Elliot’s (Mary & Max) long-awaited stop-motion movie Memoir Of A Snail with Sarah Snook and Eric Bana, and Geraldine Flower documentary The Extraordinary Miss Flower, the latest from 20,000 Days On Earth directors Iain…

The Jurassic franchise refuses to go extinct. Mere years after Colin Trevorrow wrapped up his Jurassic World trilogy with the multi-generational cast of Dominion, cinema’s finest dino-saga is already roaring into new life – shooting is well underway on the next instalment, which we’ve been cobbling together information on here and there. We know that Gareth Edwards is behind the camera, with a cast led by Scarlett Johansson. We know original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp in on scripting duties. And… that’s about it. Until now. Universal has just lifted the lid on the raptor cage and details about the…

If there’s one thing we love here at Empire, it’s a good old meaty Director’s Cut. And if there’s one thing we really love here at Empire, it’s a good old meaty Ridley Scott Director’s Cut. Kingdom Of Heaven, Blade Runner, Gladiator — you name it, there’s a pretty good chance Sir Ridders’ Final Cut is the definitive one to seek out. And with that being said, today Scott has unveiled a suitably epic-sized new cut of his Joaquin Phoenix starring historical epic Napoleon. Surprise dropped on Apple TV+ today, the Alien filmmaker’s newest Director’s Cut boasts a whopping 48…

Ever since Marvel Studios’ mega Hall H return at San Diego Comic-Con last month, everything’s been coming up Milhouse for the MCU. Robert Downey Jr. is back in the Marvellian mix, Deadpool & Wolverine’s been bossing it at the box office, and we’ve learned that a proper Channing Tatum Gambit project *might* actually be a-go at long last. And on top of all that, with Marvel celebrating its 85th anniversary this year, the comic book juggernaut have just dropped a new video to celebrate almost a century of capes and crimefighting goodness. Among the highlights? New blink-and-you’ll-miss-it glimpses at a…

Here’s a tongue twister for your Thursday morning: Can you picture Pepper Potts in a ping pong picture? Because per Variety’s reporting, Pepper Potts actor Gwyneth Paltrow is very soon to appear in a ping pong picture — namely, Josh Safdie’s upcoming A24 joint Marty Supreme. In what will be her first big screen appearance since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, Paltrow is set to star alongside Timothée Chalamet in Safdie’s solo directorial debut, which has been written by the Good Time co-director alongside regular Safdies collaborator Ronald Bronstein. We still don’t know as of yet who Paltrow — or Chalamet for…

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2021 coming-of-age joint Licorice Pizza, Cooper Hoffman gave a breakout performance as a fresh-faced kid who gets in over his head with an older woman. And now, as Variety’s reporting confirms, Cooper Hoffman is set to play a fresh-faced kid who gets in over his head with an older woman once again — albeit with a little less of a ’70s nostalgic glow and a little more of a dangerous twist. The actor, son of Philip Seymour Hoffman, has been cast as Olivia Wilde’s sexual muse in erotically charged thriller I Want Your Sex, the latest…

Already, the legend of Megalopolis looms large. It’s an ambitious original sci-fi apocalypse drama from the legendary Francis Ford Coppola, who spent decades trying to get it made; he eventually sold some of his personal wine fortune to make it happen; it debuted at Cannes to an air of bafflement, with reviews landing all across the board. But the filmmaker himself – the man who gave us The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, to name but a few – wouldn’t have it any other way. Creating something confounding and wildly original was, it seems, always the…