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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…

On the day that Matt Shakman’s Fantastic Four: The First Steps starts shooting over at Marvel Studios, another major upcoming superhero movie marking the dawn of a new era for a legendary comic imprint on the big screen has just wrapped production. Yes folks, today DC Studios’ co-head honcho James Gunn revealed that he has finished shooting his first DCU movie, Superman. “And that’s a wrap,” said Gunn in an emotional post shared on Instagram earlier this evening, going on to pay tribute to his cast and crew as he shared a new behind the scenes photo taken on the…

Ridley Scott has never been afraid to go big. He’s delivered thunderous sword-clashing skirmishes in Gladiator, Kingdom Of Heaven and Robin Hood. His previous film, Napoleon – released just days before Scott’s 86th birthday – featured no fewer than six battle sequences in its depiction of the French Emperor’s reign. So you best believe that, on his return to the Colosseum with Gladiator II – arriving over 20 years after the first instalment made audiences around the world think daily of the Roman Empire – Scott is ready to go big. Bigger, in fact, than ever before. “We begin the…

Sound the Steven Spielberg movie news klaxon! Just last month we brought you the exciting news that in-demand Oppenheimer and The Fall Guy star Emily Blunt is in talks to lead the legendary American filmmaker’s mysterious new UFO movie, currently slated for release in May 2026. And now we’re getting word of another big British name who could be boarding the project. According to the latest issue of Production Weekly, Challengers’ Josh O’Connor may yet be the second hand in Spielberg’s very vaguely described ‘two-hander’, though it is important to note at this time that Universal have yet to confirm…