Gravity director may head to Overlook Hotel With documentary Room 237 and Stephen King's novel sequel Doctor Sleep both arriving recently, The Shining has been enjoying something of a resurgence in interest (if it ever went away). Also part of that trend is a prequel to Stanley Kubrick's film version currently developing at Warner Bros., and reports are coming in this morning that the studio has just...
The Godzilla man is off to a galaxy far, far away... When your studio filmmaking debut roars at the box office the way that Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla did last weekend, people listen. But even given that success, it's still great to hear that Disney and Lucasfilm have Edwards attached to direct one of the Star Wars spin-offs . It’s not yet clear which of the potential spin-offs the companies...
Days Of Future You Shall Not Passed This week, Empire Podcast veteran Hugh Jackman stops by to talk about London's second best fish and chip shop, Wolverine's love of Rick Astley and his top drawer pirate voice, with newcomer Ian McKellen instead using his interview to pitch for a job as a film reviewer. Both were in town to talk X-Men: Days Of Future Past , which the team also do, on top of some...
Click above for your first look at Life Itself, the Steve James-directed documentary about Roger Ebert. The doc chronicles the life of the famous movie critic, as the voice of the Chicago Tribune and later as the world's most famous film critic, appearing on television as one half of the iconic Siskel And Ebert duo. But a large chunk of the film also deals with his final days, as Ebert was battling...
Giving us all a dose of the holidays this summer is Anna Kendrick in Happy Christmas, an indie dramedy about the ways family can drive us crazy, but also push us to be better people. Check out the trailer now. Written and directed by mumblecore auteur Joe Swanberg, Happy Christmas stars Anna Kendrick as Jenny, a reckless and aimless 20-something who crashes the holidays and home of her older filmmaker...
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise has always been rather larger than life, and that pattern seems to be holding true for the upcoming reboot. What used to be a series of films that started with actors in turtle suits has transformed into a product that makes good use of the incredible visual effects and technological advantages that are available to modern blockbusters. This time out, the...
Dublin-born musician and filmmaker John Carney broke through on the world's stage in 2007 when his musical romance Once made its American debut at the intensely-covered Sundance Film Festival. From there, the drama about a brokenhearted busker and the bond he forms with a lovely immigrant woman - who happens to play a mean piano - took off, earning fans, selling soundtracks, inspiring a Broadway musical,...
Star Wars fans possibly looked at the puppet creature trudging along behind director J.J. Abrams on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII in the photo above and got their hopes up that the legendary Jim Henson’s Creature Shop finally was collaborating with the sci-fi universe on a story set in a galaxy far, far away. Well, let’s bring you back down to Earth. Representatives for The Jim Henson...
There are few genres of film more routinely bashed and discarded than romantic comedies. They’re like emo music or fast food. Everyone loves to stick their nose in the air and act like there’s nothing of substance in play, but the truth is there are a few great romantic comedies released every year. More importantly, some of the greatest movies ever made are Rom-Coms, and it’s time...
The Transformers: Age of Extinction viral site TransformersAreDangerous.com was revealed back in March when the debut theatrical trailer for Michael Bay's next film revealed a phone number that led to the address. With the exception of showing off a cool viral poster, however, the site hasn't seen much activity over the last couple of months. That changed today. In addition to having a new backdrop...
First Brittany Murphy, now River Phoenix. On Halloween 1993, promising young star River Phoenix died at the age of 23, and while most of his devoted fans may have thought that his uncredited appearance in Even Cowgirls Get The Blues would be his final performance, 20 years later we're learning that the long, long delayed Dark Blood is finally getting a theatrical release. THR reports out of Cannes...
Critical response to the summer blockbuster season has been tepid, at best. Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 swung out to a decent start with international critics, but tumbled down to a Rotten grade (53%) on the review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes as it expanded to more markets. Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla did better, posting a 73% Fresh grade, but still wasn’t the slam dunk hit amongst...
J.J. Abrams is currently hard at work on resurrecting the Star Wars franchise, having just recently started working on Star Wars: Episode VII, but he is now no longer the only director working to bring the legendary sci-fi franchise back to the big screen. Gareth Edwards, who experienced monster box office success last weekend with the release of the new Godzilla reboot, has become the first filmmaker...
Our spoiler-free review of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past went online a full 10 days ago, with our very own Sean O’Connell giving the movie four and a half stars out of five, praising both the film’s engaging story and exciting action sequences. But now that screenings have officially begun in the United States it’s time to dive into the nitty-gritty: in this week’s...
Sequel to 2010 sci-fi in the works Remember Skyline ? The loony sci-fi FX showcase arrived in 2010 courtesey of tech-heads The Brothers Strauss ( AvP: Requiem ), and enjoyed a spirited rivalry with the similarly themed Battle: Los Angeles , released at almost exactly the same time. Neither was critically adored, but both did reasonably well at the box office. And while we might have predicted that,...
Entourage producer focuses on Sonny Barger Developing for at least a decade, and previously in the hands of the late Tony Scott, Fox's biopic of Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has now landed with Entourage writer-producer Scott Weiss. "We're approaching this as a genesis story of the motorcycle club culture," says Weiss. "I've wanted to do something in the biker space...
Jesse is back in tune Shooting has just kicked off on the Pitch Perfect sequel with Elizabeth Banks making her directorial debut for more a capella capers. With the majority of the main cast reunited, a few lingering holdouts were left, and confirmation has arrived that Skylar Astin is aboard the film . Astin, of course, played Jesse, one of the competitive singing team known as the Treble Makers....
Kristen Stewart & Juliette Binoche create drama Summer Hours writer/director Olivier Assayas is in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year with Clouds Of Silas Maria , boasting the talents of Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and Chloe Grace Moretz. The first trailer for the drama is now online. Clouds Of Silas Maria finds Binoche as critically acclaimed actress Maria Enders, who launched...
Akira Ifukube's original score finally gets a release We've had a good week of Godzilla fun on Empire recently, what with our spoiler podcast and feature on Gareth Edwards' version, and our tour through radioactive monsters . But the original - and, for many, still the best - Godzilla is the Toho creation of 1954, and its soundtrack is now available in full for the first time in its sixty year history,...
Visit Sanfransokyo to meet Disney's robotics prodigy Having teased us with initial footage, and, earlier, this week, some new stills , Disney’s animation team is finally ready to reveal some actual film material from its take on the Marvel universe, Big Hero 6 . The first teaser trailer has landed and can be watched below. Don’t go expecting Tony Stark or Steve Rogers to show up...