 |  | | Yesterday | | Tom Cruise Drops Out Of Man From U.N.C.L.E. | He wants to focus on the new Mission: Impossible
| | | Today’s movie quiz: How many Tom Cruise secret agent franchises is too many? According to Tom himself, the number is two, as he’s now decided to drop out of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. at Warner Bros. to focus instead on his favourite fran-child, ...... Read more | |
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 | | | Yesterday | | Bryan Singer Adds Quicksilver To Days Of Future Past | Evan Peters is in - but what does this mean for Avengers 2?
| | | Here’s a turn-up for the (comic) books and no mistake: mere days after Joss Whedon talked about using the characters Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in the Avengers sequel, Bryan Singer has tweeted that he’s cast Evan Peters as Quicksilver in X-...... Read more | |
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 | | | Yesterday | | Podcast 62: Alec Baldwin, Nicolas Winding Refn | The podcast team wrap up the Cannes Film Festival
| | | Cannes 2013 is almost over. To celebrate that fact, here's our final Croisette-recorded podcast, which sees a very special guest in the form of newcomer Stevie Wong coming into the Empire fold to talk about the hits (and the misses) of this year's film fe...... Read more | |
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 | | | Yesterday | | Cannes 2013: Videblogisode #4 - Alec Baldwin, Stephen Woolley | Can you guess what ABIAB stands for?
| | | The sun has finally come out here in Cannes, so the Empire videblogisode team capitalised on that fortunate turn of events by holing up in an office to record an extended movie parody. As the French wouldn't say, "Such is life."The spoof was in ...... Read more | |
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 | | | Yesterday | | Cannes 2013: The Immigrant Initial Reaction | James Gray's latest gets a deportation order
| | | James Gray has been a fixture in Cannes since The Yards in 2000, much to the bemusement of UK press who fail to see why he is so consistently invited. His latest, The Immigrant, is by far the least of all the films he's submitted, being a very plain melod...... Read more | |
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 | | | Yesterday | | Rosamund Pike Will Return To Sender | With Shiloh Fernandez and Nick Nolte
| | | Patricia Beauchamp and Joe Gossett gave a screenplay to the postman, he put it in his sack, and bright and early the next morning... it was being filmed with Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez and Nick Nolte. Well OK, maybe that isn't quite how Return T...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | Steven Soderbergh On For The Knick | He'll produce and direct a TV show with Clive Owen
| | | Somewhere there’s a blank canvas sitting in a spare room of Steven Soderbergh’s house, wondering what he really meant when he said he was going to retire and paint full time. Because the director is now in talks to produce and direct a p...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | Paddy Considine Set For Child 44 | He'll join Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace
| | | Good news for Paddy Considine fans: despite the success of directorial debut Tyrannosaur, he hasn’t disappeared behind the camera, as The World’s End is about to prove. And he’s scored another acting gig, signing on alongside Zero Dark T...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | Gael Garcia Bernal Starring In Rosewater | He's on for Jon Stewart's directorial effort
| | | Daily Show host Jon Stewart sparked headlines back in March when he announced he’d take a 12-week break this summer from the satirical news show to direct a film called Rosewater. Well, now we know who will be starring, because The Wrap reports that...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | Universal Opens The School For Good And Evil | Joe Roth producing novel adaptation
| | | Having struck box office gold with Alice In Wonderland and this year’s Oz The Great And Powerful, Joe Roth and his production company have naturally been on the hunt for more fantasy fodder to sprinkle with filmic fairy dust. Last week, he partnered...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | New Rush Trailer Squeals In | Everyone's driven by something
| | | Everyone, according to the latest tagline for Ron Howard’s look at Formula One racing in the era of James Hunt and Niki Lauda, is driven by something. In the case of Team Empire, it’s cake and the desperate need to stay one step ahead of Oscar...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | Cannes 2013: Nebraska Initial Reaction | Alexander Payne's latest comedy-drama keeps it in the family
| | | Nebraska, by Alexander Payne, is the third of four American films in competition at Cannes this year and has potential to figure somewhere in the awards come Sunday. There's a lot of speculation that Spielberg and his international jury will leave the US ...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | The Hangover Part III Premieres In London | A big welcome to the Wolfpack!
| | | A pleasant, sunny evening in London last night was torn by screams and hysteria as The Hangover Part III premiered in Leicester Square. The cast were all present, along with director Todd Phillips, to launch the film's UK premiere, but miraculously none o...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | Star Trek Into Darkness Spoiler Podcast #2 | Damon Lindelof and the rest of the writer/producers speak...
| | | (L-R) Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Burk and Damon LindelofOur first Star Trek Into Darkness spoiler special saw four of the podcast team dissecting the heck of out J.J. Abrams' space sequel for nearly an hour. This go around, it's interview time, an...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | J.J. Abrams Picks New Star Wars' Costume Designer | Trek veteran Michael Kaplan gets the gig
| | | Admittedly, it’s hardly the most enlightening piece of news about Star Wars: Episode VII, but it’s still fun to see who J.J. Abrams is gathering to work on the new trip to that Galaxy Far, Far Away. One of the first confirmed members of his te...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | We're The Millers Trailer Drives Up | Jason Sudeikis' drug smuggler needs a fake family...
| | | When Empire attended CinemaCon last month, one of the films that struck our fancy, based on an extended trailer, was Dodgeball director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s new comedy We’re The Millers. Now a version of that trailer is online via Warners...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | Universal Wants to Reboot Timecop | But will Van Damme cameo for a Dammeo?
| | | As the hunger for remakes expands like a gigantic space amoeba looking to swallow unwary planets, voices are frequently raised in outrage at the titles in line for a swift reboot. Yet when you learn that 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi actioner Timecop ...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | Stallone Talking To Seagal For Expendables 3 | And confirms Wesley Snipes' casting. Again.
| | | Following our chat with the cheerfully equivocal Jackie Chan last week, there's been a little more activity on the Expendables front. Sylvester Stallone, in one of his occasional fits of tweeting, has confirmed that Wesley Snipes is definitely showing up ...... Read more | |
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 | | | 23 May 2013 | | New Trailer For Grown Ups 2 Online | Nothing but a good time...
| | | So in 2010 there was a film called Grown Ups, with Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade and Rob Schneider. We gave it one star, but it made north of $270m anyway. Why does nobody ever listen? Box office of more than triple your budget - espe...... Read more | |
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