Author: Empire

This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast is a double-guest delight for your listening delectation. First up, Chris Hewitt hops onto Zoom to have a lovely natter with Guy Pearce, who shows off his musical prowess, reveals the one accent that eludes him, and tells us all about his brilliant new Australian prison drama Inside (which is, it bears mentioning, out on 11 August on all good digital platforms.) [20:12 — 37:51 approx.] Then, our Deputy Online Editor and resident horror fanboy Ben Travis sits down for a lovely spoiler-free chat with Weapons star — and secret weapon of the…

Of all the WWE superstars who’ve traded the squared circle for the cinematic stage, Dave Bautista is one of the greats. From Guardians Of The Galaxy to Knock At The Cabin, Dune to Glass Onion, and from The Boy And The Heron to The Last Showgirl, the artist formerly known as Batista has left no genre stone unturned in his quest to master a new craft. Now, the born-again thespian has just landed not one, but two major new gigs: a key villain role in Chad Stahelski’s Highlander reboot, and a starring slot opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Road House 2.…

Throw up the Bat-signal, people! It’s been a long wait for The Batman Part II – Matt Reeves unleashed the first film in his bat-reboot back in 2022, and since then, there’s been slow progress on a follow-up (albeit with The Penguin arriving on the small screen in-between). But recently, there’s been fresh news from Gotham, with Reeves delivering his sequel script to DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran. It seems that screenplay has gone down well with the brass, because Warner Bros looks to be gearing up to production on Part II in the not-too-distant future. As reported…

Ben Wheatley doesn’t sit still. That’s true in a genre sense – this is a filmmaker who’ll hop from harrowing horror (Kill List, In The Earth), to wry comedy (Sightseers, Happy New Year Colin Burstead), to glossy period pieces (Rebecca) and thrillers (Free Fire), to gigantic global shark blockbusters (Meg 2: The Trench) from film to film. It’s also true in the sense that Wheatley rarely disappears for long. And since he served up 2023’s Jason Statham-starring megalodon sequel, Wheatley has been hard at work on not one but two new features (as well as last year’s TV series Generation…

Come gather round people, wherever you roam, and admit that you’d really quite like to see A Complete Unknown director-star duo James Mangold and Timothée Chalamet team up again. We know we certainly would — and, according to Deadline’s ‘The Dish’ sidebar, it looks like we actually might. Yes, the trade is reporting that Mangold and Chalamet, fresh off an incredibly busy awards season run with their eight-Oscar nominated Bob Dylan biopic, are looking to get back in the saddle with High Side, a motocross heist movie based on an unpublished Jaime Oliveira short story. “But Empire, what do you…

Grap your mop, everyone: the Toxic Avenger is back. In the mid-‘80s, the original The Toxic Avenger became the definition of a cult favourite – a scuzzy, super lo-fi blast from the team at Troma Entertainment, with a janitor transformed into a melty-fleshed crimefighter after a toxic waste incident. Produced for just $500,000, it became something of a VHS legend with its gnarly effects, and transgressive energy. Several decades later, ‘Toxie’ is back in an all-new take on The Toxic Avenger – with Blue Ruin and Green Room star Macon Blair as its writer-director, bringing fresh mayhem to the screen.…

Just when we thought it was finally safe to make a sound, it looks like John Krasinski isn’t quite done with A Quiet Place yet. Having handed the reins of his sci-fi horror franchise over to Pig director Michael Sarnoski for last year’s critically and commercially lauded prequel A Quiet Place: Day One, Krasinski took to Instagram earlier this evening to officially tease his return to the series’ helm for A Quiet Place Part III. Check out the filmmaker’s appropriately low-key stealth announcement below; There you go: 9 July, 2027, A Quiet Place Part III. ‘Nuff said. Well, pretty much.…

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, got some news about Spider-Man… that’s right, webheads, a fresh helping of Spidey news is coming right at you just in time for the weekend. As production gets underway on Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day up in Glasgow, today has already given us our first glimpse at Tom Holland’s new Spidey suit for next summer’s hotly anticipated MCU fourquel. And now, thanks to THR, another tantalising tease of what’s to come has just landed on our desk: confirmation that none other than Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk, last seen in She-Hulk back in 2022, will be seen smashing…

This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast adds insults to injury, as the team — Chris Hewitt, Helen O’Hara, Alex Godfrey, and Ben Travis — share their favourite movie insults. (And, yes, misquote at least one of them horribly.) Also, fair warning: nothing on this earth will prepare you for Alex Godfrey’s Pazuzu impression, for which we can only apologise unreservedly. Elsewhere, the team also discuss the week’s movie news, including The Social Network Part II casting rumours, production getting underway on Once Upon A Time In Hollywood sequel The Continuing Adventures Of Cliff Booth, and the release of the…

Just last month, we brought you the unexpected news that Aaron Sorkin is gearing up to write and direct a sequel to his and David Fincher’s Oscar winning Facebook film _The Social_Network. Now, as the wheels start turning on The Social Network Part II, THR is reporting that Sorkin and the folks over at Sony have already fired out a couple of friend requests for potential leads — and some pretty high calibre ones at that. Per THR, newly Academy Award winning Anora actor Mikey Madison and The Bear’s talismanic lead Jeremy Allen White have both been approached to front…