Author: Empire

I have the power… to share some pretty exciting news about one of the low-key most fun movies to hit cinema screens in 2026. Yes, we are of course talking about Travis Knight’s toyetic blockbuster Masters Of The Universe, which has brought Mattel’s iconic 80s He-Man toyline — and its associated classic cartoon series and 1987 Dolph Lundgren flick — to a whole new generation. And the news? Well, despite having only hit cinemas just last month, Knight’s movie is set to hit Prime Video this week, right on cue for the summer holidays! Check out the announcement teaser below;…

Everything about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been, in a word, big. Big cast. Big budget. Big cameras. Big canvas. Big buzz. And now that the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer filmmaker’s Homeric epic is finally playing in cinemas, this outsized trend has continued with a massive opening weekend for the movie at the global box office. Per Variety’s reporting, Nolan’s newest blockbuster — the first movie ever shot entirely on IMAX cameras — has set sail with a Cyclops-dwarfing $264 million worldwide open. To put the first frame performance of The Odyssey into context, the movie — which follows Matt Damon’s Trojan…

Ever since we first learned that Gina Prince-Bythewood would be following up her bone-crunching 2022 historical action epic The Woman King with a blockbuster take on Tomi Adeyemi’s brilliant, bestselling YA Afro-fantasy novel Children Of Blood And Bone, we’ve been chomping at the bit to see what the multi-talented filmmaker has been cooking. And that bit’s been getting chomped even more since the reveal of the movie’s all-star line-up — including *deep breath* Viola Davis, Regina King, Cynthia Erivo, Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tosin Cole, Damson Idris, Bukky Bakray, Lashana Lynch, Amandla Stenberg, and young lead Thuso Mbedu. Happily then,…

It’s been three years since we learned that David Robert Mitchell’s seminal 21st century horror movie It Follows would officially be getting a sequel, They Follow, with the first movie’s star Maika Monroe on board to return. Since then, updates on the project — set a decade after the events of that iconic first STC (that’s Sexually Transmitted Curse, obvs) chiller — have been few and far between. But after learning last month that Naomi Ackie was in final talks to star in Mitchell’s movie, today Deadline has revealed ten new names joining the call sheet — including Michael Gandolfini,…

Look out the window, it’s another day of sun. Look to the multiplex, and soon it will be ‘Another Day Of Sun’. “How?” we hear you cry. Well, because modern classic movie musical La La Land is — brace yourself for suddenly feeling very old — turning 10 (!) this summer, and to celebrate the anniversary of Damien Chazelle’s love letter to Los Angeles, Lionsgate is bringing its all-singing, all-dancing spectacular about two star-crossed LA dreamers back to cinemas for a very limited time. Check out the re-release trailer below; There you have it: La La Land, back in cinemas…

54 years. That’s how long it took for Guillermo del Toro to get from falling in love with Mary Shelley’s Gothic sci-fi masterwork Frankenstein through James Whale’s 1931 masterpiece as a seven-year-old boy to finally, finally bringing his own version to our screens courtesy of Netflix. But GdT’s journey with Shelley’s Promethean tale isn’t over just yet. Today, boutique physical media label The Criterion Collection announced a lavish, director-approved four-disc 4K Blu-Ray release of Frankenstein is on its way this October. And that’s not all: the new release brings with it a 158-minute extended ‘Reborn’ director’s cut of the film. Now,…

Of the many casualties sustained in the fall of the DCEU, Angel Manuel Soto’s Blue Beetle — which introduced Xolo Maridueña as DC Comics’ Mexican-American, alien scarab powered superhero — was surely one of the roughest. Maridueña was a breath of fresh air as Jaime Reyes, the movie’s Hispanic-American cultural specificity lent the whole movie an air of genuine originality, and Blue Beetle easily had the coolest supersuit of the DCEU era. Happily then, we mourn Blue Beetle’s loss no more, as Variety is reporting that Xolo Maridueña is coming back back back in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman sequel Man…

For the last few years now, certain corners of the internet have been telling us comic book movies are on their way out. “They’re about to supernova,” they say. But perhaps we heard them wrong. Perhaps what they really meant to say is they’re about to get super Nova — as in the deep-cut Marvel Comics superhero, Nova. That’s the message we’re getting from Deadline at least, which is reporting that Loki creator/head writer Michael Waldron is developing a Nova movie at Marvel Studios, with hopes to write — and potentially also direct — the MCU debut of the supe…

The critics may have (mostly) said ‘Beat It’. The movie may have come mired in controversies surrounding both its subject and its creation. But Antoine Fuqua’s jukebox King Of Pop biopic Michael has risen above the noise and proved itself quite the ‘Smooth Criminal’ at the global box office, backed by legions of loyal Michael Jackson fans. And now, three months after it first hit the big screen, Michael has just moonwalked past $1 billion in ticket sales, making history as the first biopic to ever hit that ten-figure milestone. Previously, the highest grossing musical biopic was Bryan Singer’s Freddie…

Things are heating up again on Heat 2. The long-awaited follow-up to Micheal Mann’s seminal crime story – which he’s already written up as a best-selling novel, co-authored with Meg Gardiner – continues to gather pace with another heavyweight set to join the cast. For a while now, an exciting crew has been circling the film, including A-listers Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale – and it looks like Stephen Graham is set to join their ranks. While no cast deals have been officially confirmed yet, The Wrap reports that Graham is in talks to take on the role of Neil…