Author: Empire

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…

Something wicked this way comes! No, it’s not another clip of a singing Reform MP — even we wouldn’t be so dastardly as to inflict that upon you, dear reader. Rather, it is the brand spanking new official trailer for Rian Johnson’s hotly anticipated Knives Out threequel Wake Up Dead Man, which is set to see everyone’s favourite Southern sleuther Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) tackle ‘a miraculous church-based murder,’ aided it would seem by one Josh O’Connor. Ahead of the murder mystery’s UK premiere at the 69th BFI London Film Festival next month, Netflix has just dropped our first proper…

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the *checks notes* perilously tall, climber unfriendly landmark… along comes Fall 2. Yes, following the runaway streaming success of Scott Mann’s teeth-sweatingly tense thriller Fall back in 2022, producers Tea Shop Productions wasted no time putting in an order for a sequel, promising more high altitude to come. Now, three years on, we’re finally learning more about what incoming directors Peter and Michael Spierig’s sequel has in store. Per Deadline’s reporting, Fall 2’s new trio of young, soon-to-be-imperilled leads are Outlander: Blood Of My Blood and Pennyworth star Harriet…

This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast is not only a cut above the rest — it is The Cut above the rest. Yes, we’re delighted to be joined on this week’s pod by Sean Ellis and Orlando Bloom, the director and star of searing new boxing drama The Cut, who sat down with our very own prizefighter Chris Hewitt on Zoom to chat about the extreme lengths, physical and otherwise, the duo went to for the film. [1:08:37 — 1:25:12 approx.] And that’s not the only knockout guest we have in store for you, no sirree: Chris also sits…

Can you believe it’s been eight years since Lynne Ramsay last hit our screens with the hammer-wielding, Joaquin Phoenix-led You Were Never Really Here? In the meantime, her bold, visually striking, and often bleak storytelling has been sorely missed. The good news? Ramsay is back, and it looks like we’ll soon have the chance to leave the cinema feeling miserable (in a good way) all over again with her new film, Die My Love. Watch the trailer here: The trailer opens with the upbeat ‘The Clapping Song’, introducing us to Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson’s on-screen couple, but it’s very…

With our first look at Black Phone 2, the definite-article-free sequel to The Black Phone, we got confirmation of a strong premise for Scott Derrickson’s follow-up: since serial killer The Grabber (Ethan Hawke) was killed at the end of that film, and the black phone in his basement destroyed, this time he returns from beyond the grave to wreak Freddy Krueger-style revenge. Now, with the film’s release not too far away, we have another trailer teasing more mayhem for youngsters Finny and Gwen (Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw) as they realise their nightmare isn’t over. Check it out: Brrr, it’s…

Ask anyone for the acting all-time-greats, and one name is highly likely to appear: Daniel Day-Lewis. The legendary British actor has always disappeared into his roles – but in recent years, he really has disappeared in general, taking a step back from screen roles. Until now. Day-Lewis returns, for the first time in eight years, in the upcoming Anemone, a drama he co-wrote along director (and son) Ronan Day-Lewis, starring alongside Sean Bean as brothers reunited after a significant absence. We’re pleased to announce that not only will the film be playing at the BFI London Film Festival 2025, but…