Do you want to know a secret? Finally, we tell all (and we mean all) about 20 years of Empire. Be amazed by our insider stories! Go behind-the-scenes on our best-ever photo shoots! Rejoice at our biggest ever balls-ups! For two decades of stars, movies and the best directors in the business. Get your hands on this one-off limited edition...
A one-off, collectors' super-duper special issue, on the 20-year history of the world’s biggest movie magazine.
Available in shops October 15.
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Literally unbelievable, in that we still can't believe we actually went round Jack Nicholson's house to take his picture. Or hung out with Arnold Schwarzenegger for the 20th Birthday Issue. Inside Empire includes unseen pictures from these shoots, plus from various happy-snappy escapades with two decades worth of top stars and directors. Including behind the scenes of an exclusive Lord Of The Rings portfolio.
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Each and every editor of Empire dredges through the memory banks for tales of scandal, sex, and, yes, sales targets! Actually, a selection of surprisingly involving - moving, even - accounts of what it's like to mix with megastars and Oscar-winning filmmakers and deal with massive Hollywood egos (like that of Features Editor Dan Jolin). Invaluable if you love reading about movies.
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The distilled insights of the filmmakers who define Empire, as culled from 20 years of cosy chats, set visits and dodgy transatlantic telephone calls (possibly - as in one case with Steven Spielberg - interrupted by an earthquake). Everyone from God (as Ian Freer calls The Beard) to Danny Boyle (as everyone calls Danny Boyle) provides their wit and wisdom. Sadly, no Brett Ratner.
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Thanks to exhaustive, in-depth questioning (um, on this website), we have discovered just who you think you are, in the Empire Reader Survey. Which star would you most like to go for a drink with? Which director do you wish you were? Have you ever got laid in a cinema? Find out here. It's got graphs and everything.
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Empire writers select the smart, arty and expensive movies that sum up the magazine for them. From the brilliant to the bizarre, Fight Club to... Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me?! Pithy writing, inspired (and odd) choices - essential reading.
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The answer to every obsessive-compulsive Empire reader's prayers! A comprehensive index (the clue's in the title) of every Empire regular: from Pint Of Milk to Classic Scene. Never again will you have to risk being crushed by giant piles of back issues while searching for Woody Harrelson's dairy responses.
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Discover what could have been in a parallel Hollywoodland, where Mike Leigh directs Batman and Sylvester McCoy is Bilbo (this last one actually nearly happened).
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Yes, we’re not too proud to admit our mistakes. So, whether it’s admitting that giving Attack Of The Clones five stars was a dreadful, dreadful error or, um, admitting that giving Attack Of The Clones five stars was a dreadful, dreadful error, we admit it here. All really rather embarrassing. But quite funny.
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Empire institutions Kim Newman, Angie Errigo and Adam Smith deliver their verdicts on 20 years of film history, discussing why star ratings suck (or do they?), why there are plenty of brilliant young filmmakers (or are there?), and why movies are more important than stars (or are they?).
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Associate Editor Ian Freer dressed as Harry Potter and several other incidents of Empire idiocy.
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