This week in news: DiCaprio wins that Oscar, Ghostbusters get ectoplasmic, Star Wars gets a DVD release date and the Rock hassles the Hoff.
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
Exciting scoops are Empire’s business and, to paraphrase someone or other, business is good. This week Tim Burton put down his Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children clapperboard and talked us through some exclusive shots of his new movie. With his Lewis Carroll’s Alice now in the hands of James Bobin, Burton is tackling a different children’s yarn, this time by Ransom Riggs. There’s spooky kids, spooky grown-ups and… well, take a look. It’s pretty spooky.
Ghostbusters hits the town
Busting was making everyone feel good (apart from the haters, granted) this week when a new trailer landed for Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot. Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones were in action, strapping on their proton packs and taking it to a motley crew of Class 7 spectral manifestations around Manhattan. Check it out here.
The Blu-ray Awakens
Still worried about poor Constable Zuvio? Looking for more from Supreme Leader Spook? This week brought exciting Star Wars tidings. The Force Awakens will land on HD digital formats on April 1, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release four days later. But this week also brought bad news. In the UK, we’ll have to wait until April 11 and 18 respectively. Boo, hiss, etc! Before you turn all Supreme Leader Snoke, consider the extras that will come laden with goodness. [Click here](
David Hasselhoff gets beached
No-one can run down a beach with an orange lifesaver tucked under their arm like David Hasselhoff, so it was pretty logical to hear that the man himself has been called up for the Baywatch movie. The Hoff will be co-starring along Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, potentially reprising his old role as Mitch Buchannon, in Seth Gordon’s Hawaiian Tropic-heavy drama. Expect lots of people fished out of the water, whether they like it or not.
Oscars 2016: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant, and Mad Max win big
It wasn’t a huge shock but Leonardo DiCaprio finally won that Oscar, 22 years after his first nomination, at Sunday’s Academy Awards. A bigger surprise came when Spotlight pipped The Revenant to Best Picture and Mark Rylance beat Sylvester Stallone to Best Supporting Actor. It was a night when Mad Max: Fury Road took a stack of technical awards, presumably straight back to the Bullet Farm to have them melted down for ammo, while Roger Deakins, the world’s unluckiest cinematographer, came up empty-handed again. [Here’s](
http://www.empireonline.com/people/leonardo-dicaprio/oscars-2016-winners-leonardo-dicaprio-revenant-spotlight/) the full story.