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In the Disney pantheon, it doesn’t get much more classic than Snow White. The original 1937 Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs was the film that started it all – the debut feature from the studio, that more-or-less invented the animated film as we know it, and began a legacy that’s still going nearly 100 years later. So, it’s a big deal that Disney is presenting a new take on the fairytale as a live-action adaptation next year – the long-awaited Snow White, with Rachel Zegler playing the original Disney princess, and Gal Gadot vamping it up as the Evil…

With one trailer already out there in the cinematic Pride Lands, Mufasa: The Lion King continues in its quest to justify a prequel movie to both Jon Favreau’s 2019 CG effort and the 1994 animated epic original. Having Barry Jenkins as the filmmaker guiding the new film is certainly a solid start, leading to some beautiful new imagery utilizing the impressive, photo-real technology that Favs and his team developed. For Mufasa, the narrative spins back the clock to find the future king in his cub days, and how he came to meet the lion brother to be known as Scar,…

Back in the day, it used to be, ‘You’ve got a friend in me’. But these days everywhere you look, it’s more like, ‘You’ve got a friend in screens.’ Or so, that’s the gist of Pixar’s upcoming Toy Story 5. During Disney’s D23 Expo panel, Pixar boss Pete Docter hit the stage to give a major update on Buzz, Woody and Jessie’s next big-screen adventure – not only confirming studio legend Andrew Stanton as the director of the film, but unveiling a first piece of concept art too. That image, in the broadest of strokes, indicates what the fifth outing…

Deadpool & Wolverine is, it’s fair to say, absolutely loaded with cameo appearances, with more Marvel characters showing up from franchises past than you can shake a Peter at (steady). Yet there are always the ones that got away. According to actor/co-writer Ryan Reynolds, he came close to convincing Nicolas Cage – or as his younger alter ego might put it, Nic fuckiiiiiiing Cage – to don his spiky leather jacket and flame-sporting skull to return as Johnny Blaze, AKA Ghost Rider. Talking with Collider, Reynolds admitted that it had at least gotten to the two actors discussing the idea.…

It was only a few short weeks ago that we shared word that Josh Safdie is gearing up to make his solo directorial debut with Timothée Chalamet starring ping-pong flick Marty Supreme. But as something begins for one Safdie, something has just finished for another. Per Deadline’s reporting, Josh’s brother Benny Safdie has just wrapped production on his A24 MMA movie The Smashing Machine with Dwayne Johnson, and scored a load of international distribution deals to celebrate. And good news for us UK cineastes — Entertainment Film Distributors have snapped up distribution rights for the film here in Blighty! Written,…

It’s hard to believe it’s been almost three years since we first reported that Dune and See co-stars Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa are set to team up on buddy comedy The Wrecking Crew. But now, at long last, we’ve finally got an exciting new update on the movie that started with a tweet (see below). Per The Wrap’s reporting, the Ángel Manuel Soto (Blue Beetle) helmed film has found its lead villain in the shape of The New Look and Bad Sisters star Claes Bang. Momoa and Bautista’s See Season 2 showrunner Jonathan Tropper, who’s recently landed gigs writing…

*WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine* After months of speculation, theorising, rumours, and educated wishing, Deadpool & Wolverine is finally in cinemas, its multiversal madness laid bare for all to see. If the prospect of Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds getting their mutant team-up on in the MCU didn’t already have us frothing at the mouth before we saw the movie (which it very much did!), then we’re still LFG’ing now at the slew of insane cameos that wound up in the film. There is a spoiler warning up top here, but *SPOILER WARNING* again folks because…

It’s Doomsday on the Empire Podcast, folks. Following the bombshell Hall H announcement at San Diego Comic-Con that Robert Downey Jr. is going to return to the MCU, crucially not as Tony Stark but as legendary Latvian supervillain Doctor Doom, many of you asked that we record a special podcast dedicated to the news. Unfortunately we were unable to do that. Fortunately however, we do make up for it on this week’s episode as Chris Hewitt, Helen O’Hara, and Amon Warmann lock themselves in the pod booth and spend much of the movie news section scratching their heads and speculating…

Don’t you just hate it when you get invited to the private island resort of an eccentric tech billionaire only to find out it’s a ruse for some seriously dark shenanigans? Now, technically that’s never happened to us (we just found Glass Onion really immersive honestly). It is however the fate that Zoë Kravitz’s upcoming directorial debut Blink Twice has in store for Naomi Ackie, whose cocktail waitress Frida finds herself being whisked away for sun, sea, sand, and a side order of seriously sketch behaviour by Channing Tatum’s megarich Slater King in the sinister new trailer for the buzzy…

Great Scott! With every new bit of Nobody 2 news, things just keep looking better and better for Universal and 87North’s upcoming action thriller. Just last week, we shared the exciting announcement that Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone is set to play the lead villain in Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto’s (The Night Comes For Us) eagerly anticipated sequel. And before that, we got confirmation that Bob Odenkirk is getting ready to rock and roll once again as assassin-turned-family-man-turned-assassin-again Hutch Mansell in the geriaction flick follow-up. Now, per Deadline’s reporting, we know that Back To The Future legend Christopher Lloyd will…