Author: Empire

With Alien, Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley was already a great screen hero – the unexpected final girl of Ridley Scott’s space-horror, who emerged from the ensemble to become the lone survivor of the Nostromo. But in Aliens, Ripley truly became an icon; James Cameron’s more action-oriented sequel seeing her tool up to take on dozens of marauding Xenomorphs. Whether putting the Colonial Marine grunts in their place, going head-to-head with the alien queen in the Powerloader, or protecting young orphan Newt, the film sees Ripley kick ass. All these years later, Weaver still looks fondly on Aliens – particularly the outlook…

As fans of Andor will already know, Diego Luna has friends everywhere. And playing a guy like Cassian Andor for the best part of a decade, becoming one of Star Wars’ greatest characters in the process, has clearly made the two-time Emmy nominated actor a firm friend of the House of Mouse. Per Deadline’s reporting, Disney has snapped up Luna to play a mysterious new role in Better Man director Michael Gracey’s upcoming live-action Tangled remake. As Deadline shares, details on Luna’s role in Disney’s long-gestating Tangled retooling are being kept under wraps for now, though it is believed that…

This week’s Empire Podcast is the kind of episode that could leave other film podcasts in its wake. Mainly because there’s a lot of discussion of ships, boats, the high seas and the like. First off, our guests this week are Callum Turner and George Mackay, the British actors who star in Mark Jenkin’s latest movie, the fisherman-themed Rose Of Nevada. In a cracking chat with Alex Godfrey, the duo talk about how they first met, working with the unique Jenkin, falling in love with Cornwall, and much, much more besides. Either side of that, Chris Hewitt returns to the…

The pairing of Woody and Buzz Lightyear is so iconic, you almost forget that they don’t start Toy Story as friends. For much of Pixar’s 1995 game-changer, the cowboy and the spaceman bicker, as they vie for the attention of young Andy – until they’re forced to work together and become the best of friends. As it turns out, it wasn’t too dissimilar for Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, the voices of Woody and Buzz respectively, who got off on the wrong foot back in the early ‘90s when they first met. In a new joint interview ahead of Toy…

@Bob Penn / Sigma / Getty Before James Cameron made Aliens, nobody knew quite what to expect. The now-legendary director only had The Terminator under his belt back then – and as much of a hit as that film was, it wasn’t a dead-cert that he’d be able to deliver a worth follow-up to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic Alien. Fast forward 40 years, and it’s unfathomable that it was ever in doubt; Cameron knocked it out of the park, taking Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley and turning her into an all-out action hero, teaming her up with a ragtag bunch of…

The 90s witchy favourite is back nearly 30 years later, with Susanne Bier behind the camera. Watch the trailer at Empire.

Eleven years ago, Quentin Tarantino — master of cinema-adjacent side questing — and co-writer Matt Wagner unleashed comic book miniseries Django/Zorro upon the world. An unlikely Django Unchained sequel, the comics brought together gunslinging bounty hunter Django Freeman and legendary masked swordsman Zorro in a seven-part crossover event that saw the duo teaming up to kick ass, take names, and free slaves. Now, per Variety’s reporting, Sony has revived plans for a Django/Zorro movie, even going so far as to hire an Oscar-winning screenwriter to pen the film: L.A. Confidential scribe Brian Helgeland. Now, if some distant alarm bells are…

Ask anyone who saw Jackass Forever on the big screen in 2022: even all these years later, there’s little that compares with a Jackass cinema experience. Seen with a crowd – a gasping, giggling, guffawing, gesticulating crowd – they’re an absolute must, as Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Danger Ehren, Wee Man and friends throw themselves into dangerous and pain-riddled exploits for your viewing pleasure. And now, the end of the road is here. This summer brings Jackass: Best And Last, the troupe’s grand finale – and they’re certainly not growing up. Check out the trailer: As it turns out,…

Sure, we all loved Moo Deng. And Hungry Hungry Hippos remains a firm favourite game to this day. But make no mistake: the hippopotamus is a deadly creature when it wants to be, a beast of pure muscle with a mouth like a hydraulic crusher, and fearsome fangs to match. It’s something that cinema has rarely exploited for cheap thrills – until now. Enter Hungry, a hippo horror that sets a marauding mammal on a bunch of dead-meat tourists. Take a bite out of the trailer here: After decades of shark movies, croc movies, snake movies, spider movies, monkey movies,…

It’s been nearly 20 years since Will Smith wandered the post-apocalyptic ruins of New York in I Am Legend, fighting off hordes of zombified human mutants. But in Hollywood, some ideas remain forever undead – including the notion of an I Am Legend sequel, which has been kicking around in the rumour-mill for a while now. From various reports over the years, it’s thought that a follow-up to Francis Lawrence’s horror-drama would see Will Smith return, possibly joined by Michael B. Jordan. And now we have an idea of who’ might’ll be shepherding it to the screen. According to Collider,…