Author: Empire

How do you follow up one of the greatest TV shows of all time? If you’re Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession, then the answer is simple: you assemble a stellar cast comprising Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef, and you continue to take lacerating satirical swipes at the rich and powerful, this time at feature length. Yes, Armstrong’s first post-Roy assignment is Mountainhead, a Sky exclusive movie in which four billionaire tech bros’ mountain retreat is disrupted by a rapidly escalating international crisis that they may or may not have helped instigate. What an absurd notion,…

Ready or not, here some exciting casting announcements come! Following news last month that Freaky star Kathryn Newton is set to join Samara Weaving for some effed-up fun and games when horror-comedy sequel Ready Or Not 2 arrives, Searchlight Pictures have now revealed more of the line-up for Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s upcoming movie — now officially (quite brilliantly) entitled Ready Or Not: Here I Come. In a social media post set to ‘The Hide And Seek Song’, we learned that Radio Silence’s latest has added genre stalwarts Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood to its ensemble, as well…

From the moment the first teaser for Mike Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation, The Life Of Chuck, dropped last month, we knew we were in trouble. A ticking clock motif, lush golden hour lighting, and a touch of delicate piano work were enough to assure us that we’re getting Flanagan, Master of Feels, rather than Flanagan, Master of Horror, here. And now, with the release of the full trailer for the Doctor Sleep filmmaker’s latest, a Tom Hiddleston starring adaptation of the second tale in King’s If It Bleeds anthology, the floodgates are well and truly open. Just give it…

Benedict Cumberbatch is an actor known for playing all kinds of roles – geniuses (Sherlock), dragons (The Hobbit trilogy), time-bending doctors (Doctor Strange) and numerous dramatic leading roles (The Power Of The Dog, Eric, The Imitation Game). The one thing we don’t get to see him fully lean into very often? Comedy. That’s about to change with The Roses, in which he stars opposite Olivia Colman as a married couple having some pretty extreme relationship troubles. Watch the trailer below. Cumberbatch and Colman are Theo and Ivy Rose, spouses living a seemingly perfect life with their kids in a beautiful…

Your day is about to get a whole lot more Fantastic – a bumper, brand new trailer has dropped for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the 60s-set adventure that sees Marvel’s First Family step into the MCU proper. There’s a family dinner, The Thing teddy bears, and a threat that endangers Earth on a scale the planet has never faced before. Have a watch below. As the trailer begins, Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn) and Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) are America’s sweethearts, beloved across the country as four brave astronauts who went up…

Star Wars Celebration is officially underway in Tokyo, Japan, and while the event kicked off this morning with a huge panel on Jon Favreau’s upcoming The Mandalorian & Grogu, it was an announcement concerning another upcoming Star Wars project that had fans at the Makuhari Messe hollering “This is the way!” After weeks of rumours, Shawn Levy took to the stage to announce that his new Star Wars movie — officially titled Star Wars: Starfighter — will indeed star Ryan Gosling, who walked out to rapturous applause at the con to share his excitement about the hotly anticipated project. Check…

Feel the Rage rising? As the release of 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s belated follow-up to their 2002 genre-redefining zombie-adjacent horror, creeps ever closer, a chilling new trailer has just dropped that gives us a good look at some of the most terrifying moments to come. There’s an ambush on armed officers, hordes of naked infected breaking out into their signature sprint, and a priest submitting to his fate as they break through the stained-glass windows into his church. Steel your stomachs – and watch it below. The new film picks up the post-apocalyptic pandemic story on…

Sam Neill is a man used to gazing upon remarkable creatures in movies – but with his next role, he’ll be swapping out brachiosauruses and velociraptors for massive apes and killer kaiju. Yes, the Jurassic Park legend has been confirmed as the latest addition to the cast of Legendary’s next MonsterVerse movie, following up 2024’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which is the highest-grossing instalment in the franchise so far. No details have been released yet on who Neill will play, but we do know that he’s joining Kaitlyn Dever, Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, Stranger Things’ Matthew Modine and…

Somehow, it’s been over two years now since Zach Cregger first announced Weapons, the filmmaker’s hotly anticipated follow-up to surprise AirBnB horror smash Barbarian. Enigmatically described as a “multi and inter-related story horror epic” in the vein of Magnolia, details on Cregger’s latest — whose starry cast includes Josh Brolin, Julia Gardner, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan, and Austin Abrams — have been largely kept under lock and key. But now, with the movie set to release in just four months, Warner Bros. are starting to kick Weapons’ marketing campaign into gear, beginning with a teaser image and… an in-universe…

With 2022 sci-fi action joint Prey, director Dan Trachtenberg launched the iconic Predator franchise into the future by doing something the series had never done before — looking to the past. By sending the galaxy’s most fearsome hunter species to war with a Comanche fighter (Amber Midthunder) in America circa 1719, Trachtenberg swung open the door for the franchise to go anytime, anyplace next. Just imagine: Predator vs Samurai, Predator vs Vikings, Predator vs WWII fighter pilots! Sound cool? Well that’s just as well, because we’ll be getting all three in Predator: Killer Of Killers, a previously secretive new animated…