Author: Empire

It’s been a while since we’ve had a Chloé Zhao film, let alone one of her calm, meditative gems such as the Oscar-winning Nomadland or the quiet and contemplative The Rider. Now, after a stint in the world of Marvel with Eternals, she’s back with something that feels more in line with her earlier features — though this time, she’s adapting a hit novel. The first trailer for her new film, Hamnet, has dropped, and for those who’ve read the book, you’ll know this one is going to be an emotional gut-punch. Watch the trailer here: Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s…

It’s the first day of September, and that can only mean one thing: summer is gone, spooky season is officially underway, and the countdown is on to Halloween. That also makes now the perfect time to get excited about the re-release of a stop-motion beauty from the master of gothic charm himself, Tim Burton. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, his dark fantasy romance Corpse Bride is officially heading back to cinemas this autumn, with a stunning 4K restoration. Get a taster by watching the exclusive new trailer below. Corpse Bride follows the shy Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp), who is…

It’s been six years now since Benny and Josh Safdie unleashed Uncut Gems on the world. Their ultra-stressful thriller – following Adam Sandler’s Howard Ratner as he makes possibly disastrous financial decisions around the procurement of a precious diamond – was a hugely acclaimed cinematic adrenaline-shot, following up their previous hit Good Time. In the meantime, the brothers have been working on separate projects. Not only has Benny starred in the likes of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, but he’s been hard at work on The Smashing Machine, his biopic of MMA fighter Mark Kerr…

Longlegs and The Monkey fans, rejoice! News has broken about a new project from director Osgood Perkins, the man behind some of the biggest horror hits of the past few years. It’s been announced that he will helm new feature The Young People as part of his deal with distributor Neon, and two of the cast have been confirmed – Nico Parker and Lola Tung. You’ll recognise Parker from her role as Astrid in this year’s live-action remake of How To Train Your Dragon, or as Joel’s daughter Sarah in The Last Of Us, and Tung is best known for…

There’s a reason Marlon Brando ranks as one of the all-time-great actors. Across his career, he embodied so many legendary characters – sometimes he disappeared into them, other times the characters seemed to mould themselves over Brando’s own physicality and persona. You never knew quite what you’d get from him; his presence and his voice work always gave his performances a dimension of the unexpected. It’s a lot, then, for another actor to try and get under Brando’s skin – which was the task of Billy Zane, who looks near-indistinguishable from the man himself in Waltzing With Brando. The film,…

Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos have proven themselves to be a cinematic powerhouse pairing. After first working together on 2018’s wonderfully weird The Favourite, they reunited for the multiple award-winning Poor Things, and again for last year’s bleakly brilliant triptych Kinds Of Kindness. Now there’s a fourth collaboration on the way, as they team up again for Bugonia, an English-language reimagining of Korean cult classic Save The Green Planet. After dropping a teaser in June, we now have a full trailer to sink our teeth into – and it has all the signs of a classically bizarre (complimentary) Lanthimos…

Trainers on, people! The Running Man is fast approaching, teaming Glen Powell up with director Edgar Wright for an explosive new take on Stephen King’s dystopian thriller. But before the bloodbath begins, you can read all about it in the new issue of Empire – on sale Thursday 28 August. (You can order one online here.) Ahead of the issue hitting shelves, here’s a sneak peek inside its pages. The Running Man Ready… set… go! Empire goes on set of The Running Man with Edgar Wright and Glen Powell, getting up to speed on a more faithful adaptation of the…

Inner turmoil is something of a Safdie Brothers specialty. In Good Time, they depicted a brotherly relationship bubbling over with anxiety, protectiveness, emotional vulnerability. In Uncut Gems, we saw how Howard Ratner’s reckless bravado masked a gaping void threatening to swallow him whole. And so, while The Smashing Machine is a solo Benny Safdie venture (his brother Josh is behind the upcoming Marty Supreme), there’s still that same DNA there – his UFC movie, about the life of Mark Kerr (played here by Dwayne Johnson), is its own exploration of a disparity between a surface appearance and what’s happening beneath.…

No gameshow achieves notoriety without a stellar host. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire blossomed under the anchorage of Chris Tarrant. American institution Jeopardy! has had multiple iconic answer-givers (technically, the answers are the questions) over the decades. And what would The Chase be without Bradley Walsh? In The Running Man, the titular gameshow – a brutal human-hunting nightmare, where you survive 30 days to win a shedload of cash – has its own MC, Bobby T, played in Edgar Wright’s new adaptation by the legendary Colman Domingo. And in the film’s first trailer, he proved a bombastic presence, barking,…

When Wicked arrived at the tail end of 2024, audiences made a real song and dance about it – it pulled in over $750 million at the box office, earned Oscar nominations, and rave reviews to boot. But how do you move past ‘Defying Gravity’? The first film saw director Jon M. Chu adapt act one of the hit stage musical – telling a very different backstory for the witches of Oz, aka Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s G(a)linda – closing out on the ultimate Elphabanger. But fear not. Act two, adapted into Wicked: For Good, still has plenty…