Author: Empire

He’s hit the grid with lightcycles in Tron: Legacy, the skies with Super Hornets in Top Gun: Maverick, and the asphalt with F1 cars in, er, F1: The Movie. Next up, as we first reported back in April, adrenaline junkie/filmmaker extraordinaire Joseph Kosinski is looking to hit the streets of Vice City with (presumably) a Ferrari Daytona in a fresh take on classic cop show — and, in 2006, Michael Mann crime drama — Miami Vice. And now, thanks to Variety, we know exactly when we can expect the action man’s latest thrill-ride to hit our screens. Per the trade’s…

Now here’s a pitch that immediately sells itself: Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in a sexy psychological thriller directed by Paul Feig and based on a bestselling book that’s sold over two million copies. Sounds great, right? Well, it looks great too. Yes, after months of social media teasing, this afternoon saw the release of the first official trailer for The Housemaid, the latest pulse raiser from A Simple Favour — and Another Simple Favour — helmsman and sartorial icon Paul Feig. And you can check out the trailer for the film, based on Freida McFadden’s twist-filled book, below;…

@Vera Anderson / WireImage Legendary actor Robert Redford has died at the age of 89, it has been confirmed. According to his representatives, the screen icon passed away in his sleep at his home in Utah. Redford leaves behind a vast legacy of cinematic classics. He rose to prominence in the late 1960s, starring opposite Jane Fonda in 1967’s Barefoot In The Park, before taking on one of his most indelible roles in 1969’s Western staple Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. Starring as the Sundance Kid to Paul Newman’s Butch Cassidy, the film was not initially widely acclaimed, but is now…

The Rock. Is. Cooking! 2025 has been a transformational year for Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson in more ways than one, with the wrestler-turned-movie-star-turned-budding-thespian closing deals to star in a Hawaiian crime movie from Martin Scorsese and buzzy new Darren Aronofsky psychological thriller Breakthrough, and putting in a performance in Benny Safdie’s upcoming A24 MMA biopic The Smashing Machine that helped earn the movie a 15-and-a-half minute standing ovation at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Now, the star once hailed the most electrifying man in sports entertainment is charging up to go again with Benny Safdie on Lizard Music, an adaptation…

A week ago today, DC Studios head honcho James Gunn sent the internet into a frenzy with an eight word social media post, “Man Of Tomorrow. In theatres July 9, 2027,” accompanied by a piece of Jim Lee art featuring Superman and a mech suit sporting Lex Luthor. Further Superman sequel teases quickly followed courtesy of stars David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult’s socials, and then… radio silence. Until today that is, when James Gunn hit the airwaves on shock jock Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show, offering our first real steer on what’s next for Supes and his galaxy-brained, marbly-domed arch-nemesis. While…

This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast might just go ahead, make your day, as Chris Hewitt (having recovered from a colleague-inflicted mischief) invites Helen O’Hara and James Dyer into the podbooth for a discussion of the best films directed by Clint Eastwood. Amazingly, one-star wonder The Rookie is given short shrift. Then, our intrepid trio take a look at the week’s movie news, including the surprising return of Michael Caine, trailers for The Rip and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, The Conjuring TV series plans, and Superman sequel Man Of Tomorrow’s latest plot detail drop. Plus…

Here’s a title dropping bob-ombshell for your Friday afternoon, folks! Following the billion-dollar grossing success of Illumination and Nintendo’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie back in 2023, it didn’t take long for a follow-up to the Chris Pratt and Charlie Day starring smash to be announced. Now, at today’s Nintendo Direct presentation celebrating the moustachioed plumber and his pals’ 40th anniversary, legendary game creator Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed that the sequel will officially be called The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, taking its plot cues from the critically acclaimed Super Mario Galaxy and Galaxy 2 Wii games. Check out the title…

Big news for all the Satoshi Kon fans out there – the legendary anime director’s mind-bending thriller Perfect Blue is coming back to the big screen in the very near future. If you haven’t seen Perfect Blue? This is your chance to watch one of the most influential films of recent decades in all its glory. And if you have seen Perfect Blue, chances are you’ll be hopping on the opportunity to see it projected large and loud. Kon’s film is confirmed to hit UK cinemas this October in 4K, courtesy of Anime Ltd. Originally released in 1998, Perfect Blue…

For decades now, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have been working together – both in front of the camera, and behind the scenes too. Now, in the wake of Air and The Last Duel, they’re starring alongside each other once again in The Rip, a new Netflix thriller film from writer-director Joe Carnahan, playing a pair of cops whose discovery of a vast cash stash throws up all kinds of ethical questions. Most notably: what if we nicked it? Check out the trailer: In the best way, this looks exactly what you expect from a Damon-Affleck gritty thriller, playing on…

Sometimes a high-concept premise comes along that’s so hooky, it’s a wonder nobody has done it before. That’s absolutely the case with Dust Bunny, and yet with its genre-mashing concept, it’s also a feat of pure creativity. Hitman-and-kid movies aren’t exactly new (hello, Leon), but in Bryan Fuller’s upcoming film, 10-year-old Aurora taps Mads Mikkelsen’s hired gun for a very particular job: killing the monster under her bed. Just, how real is that monster? Check out the trailer: Fuller has long been a major voice on the small screen, as the showrunner behind Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, and the early days…