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Check any ranking of the all-time great HBO series, and you’re guaranteed to find Band Of Brothers in there. And for good reason – the 2001 miniseries, from none other than Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, is a World War II masterpiece, deserving to stand alongside Spielberg’s own Saving Private Ryan. And for those who loved the show, and have rewatched it over the years, there’s a new treat coming your way. To mark the 25th anniversary of the show, a new feature documentary Band Of Brothers: Legacy is coming to HBO Max. Watch the trailer:This one looks like a…

Great things happen when you get Danny Boyle and Jack O’Connell in the same circles. Just see the double-whammy of 28 Years Later and the Boyle-produced The Bone Temple, still rattling our synapses. And Boyle is back already with another supercharged slice of cinema, that looks set to continue his reputation as the chief chronicler of contemporary Britain, with O’Connell as his leading man. Before we (hopefully) get the third chapter of 28 Years Later, Boyle has directed Ink – about the rise of The Sun newspaper under the editorship of Larry Lamb, and the ownership of Rupert Murdoch; effectively,…

Fare thee well, ‘Untitled Cliff Booth Movie’. See also: ‘The Adventures Of Cliff Booth’. Because, finally, we know what the unexpected sequel-of-sorts to Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is actually going to be called. The film is a fascinating combination of talents – with Brad Pitt returning, of course, as Cliff Booth (Hollywood stuntman and counterpart to Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton), Quentin Tarantino penning the screenplay, and none other than David Fincher taking the editorial reins.Now, it’s official: the film is called The Further Mis-Adventures Of Cliff Booth. So, the rumours weren’t far off. But now we know these…

It’s nearly September, which means school’s back. And that’s true, too, for Rupert Grint – who has confirmed that he’ll be heading back to Hogwarts. From 2001 onwards, Grint spent a decade of his life portraying young wizard Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies. And like Tom Felton (aka Draco Malfoy) before him, Grint has announced that he’ll be reprising his childhood role in adult form in the stage play Harry Potter And The Cursed Child on Broadway.The show, which originated in the West End where it’s still performed now, features a grown-up Harry, Ron, and Hermione, with a…

Peter Cullen, the beloved voice actor who lent his gravitas to Transformers leader Optimus Prime, has died at the age of 85, his agent has confirmed.While Cullen worked prolifically across TV and film, primarily as a voice actor, Optimus Prime – the leader of the heroic Autobots – was a role he returned to over several decades, in many mediums. He first voiced the character in the original 1984 cartoon (also voicing the likes of Ironhide, Wingspan and more in the show), and voiced him in 1986’s Transformers: The Movie – a film which, notably, killed off Optimus Prime in…

Forget the wind and rain outside, folks, your trusty Empire news team is here with a breaking weather alert that’ll be sure to quicken the heart of any movie buff. Days Of Thunder 2. Summer 2028. Yup, you heard us right: our world-exclusive Digger issue cover star, Mr. Movies himself Tom Cruise, is revving up to return to the role of hotshot NASCAR driver Cole Trickle in a sequel to Tony Scott’s 1990 rubber-burning racing classic, set to hit cinemas two years from now. And what’s more, he’s bringing actual Anne Hathaway along for the ride, too, as you can…

If you’ve had the pleasure of heading to see Studio Ghibli’s witchy classic Kiki’s Delivery Service in the last week or so — or have a trip to your local multiplex planned imminently for Hayao Miyazaki’s anime classic — then you have the legendary Japanese animation studio’s new UK distributor, GKIDS, to thank for that. And, as promised back in July, there’s plenty more where that came from on its way. Today, GKIDS has confirmed that unsung Ghibli classic Whisper Of The Heart, one of the all-time great coming of age movies, is heading for IMAX screens on 16 September…

MCU movies are dominating the Disney+ Top 10. Avengers: Endgame is coming back to cinemas. The streets are talking about X-Men, incursions, Secret Wars, and Jonathan Hickman comics. All of which can only mean one thing: the countdown to Avengers: Doomsday is officially on. And, as of today, the Countdown To Avengers: Doomsday Official Podcast is also on, hosted by Marvel Studios’ own Ms. Marvel, the one and only Iman Vellani, alongside The Basement Yard podder Frank Alvarez. And you can literally watch the entire first episode directly below;It’s easy to write this off as just another piece of marketing,…

It is with great sadness that we bring you the news Tim Curry, iconic star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Stephen King’s It, Clue, and much more has died at the age of 80. The multitalented stage and screen actor and singer, who suffered a major stroke in 2012 from which he never fully recovered, passed away at his Toluca Lake home in Los Angeles today, as confirmed by his longtime manager and friend Marcia Hurwitz.The son of a Royal Navy chaplain and a school secretary, Timothy James Curry was born on 19 April, 1946 in the English village…

A new Martin McDonagh movie is always something to relish – sure to be packed with razor-sharp dialogue, caustic characters, and a melancholy undertone that gets under your skin. And now, after the hit of The Banshees Of Inisherin, the filmmaker is back with Wild Horse Nine. Re-teaming with old favourites (hello, Three Billboards’ Sam Rockwell!) and welcoming new faces into the McDonagh fray (hello, John Malkovich!) it sends two bickering CIA operatives on a mission in the 1970s, with explosive results.As McDonagh tells Empire, the film has something to say about how America conducted itself in the ‘60s and…