DISPATCHES

TEAM EMPIRE ON A FEW OF OUR HIGH POINTS THIS MONTH

EMPIRE COMMENT

LETTER OF THE MONTH THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNS

EMPIRE WELCOME

REPORTS OF A rogue Oompa Loompa rampaging through

How hard sci-fi went mainstream

EMPIRE INVESTIGATES WHY ULTRA-AMBITIOUS FANTASY IS NOW HOLLYWOOD’S HOTTEST TICKET

Maya Hawke embraces her inner anxiety

FOR INSIDE OUT 2, THE ACTOR TURNED HER ANGST INTO HER SECRET WEAPON

NEED TP KNOW

GET UP TO SPEED ON… MICHAEL

On A Role

MICHAEL DOUGLAS AS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

WHEN CREATORS GET CRANKY

A GROWING WAVE OF FILMMAKERS AND SHOWRUNNERS ARE TAKING REBOOTS OF THEIR WORK TO TASK

IN THE CUT

THREE ACTORS WHO RECENTLY HAD THEIR SCREENTIME IN MAJOR MOVIES RESCINDED

Who ya gonna call ?

WITH FROZEN EMPIRE GETTING MIXED REACTIONS, WE DON OUR PROTON PACKS TO DEBATE THE FUTURE OF THE GHOSTBUSTERS FRANCHISE

THE PIPELINE

EIGHT PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT

IT’S TIME TO SMELL THE GLOVE AGAIN

ROCK ’N’ ROLL’S MOST PUNCTUAL BAND ARE FINALLY RETURNING WITH SPINAL TAP II. HERE ARE TEN REASONS TO BE EXCITED FOR THE COMEDY SEQUEL

Disrupters of the galaxy

ELI ROTH INTRODUCES THE UNRULY OUTCASTS AT THE HEART OF HIS VIDEO-GAME ADAPTATION BORDERLANDS

Trailer Talk

The Crow

THE MONTHLY MIXTAPE

EMPIRE MIXMASTER AMON WARMANN SELECTS THIS MONTH’S ESSENTIAL TUNES

A HORROR PROTÉGÉ HEADS INTO THE WOODS

ISHANA NIGHT SHYAMALAN ON BREAKING AWAY WITH HER DIRECTORIAL DEBUT, THE WATCHERS

Ghouls gone wild

FALLOUT’S WALTON GOGGINS ON PLAYING AN ANARCHIC, NOSELESS ANTIHERO

ON OUR MINDS

DAFT MUSINGS FROM THE WARPED MINDS OF TEAM EMPIRE

KNOW YOUR PLUMBOBS FROM YOUR WOOHOOS

READ EMPIRE’S HANDY GUIDE TO THE SIMS AHEAD OF THEIR BIG-SCREEN ADVENTURE

A new gang of rebel riders gear up

JEFF NICHOLS BREAKS DOWN THE MOTLEY MOTORCYCLE CREW AT THE HEART OF THE BIKERIDERS

“I fear that the cheesy movie speech is on the brink of extinction”

AMELIA TAIT ON WHY WE NEED A RETURN TO THE GLORY DAYS OF ROUSING, QUOTABLE DIALOGUE

A comedy classic’s number is up

STEVE PEMBERTON AND REECE SHEARSMITH ON REASONS TO BE EXCITED FOR INSIDE NO. 9’S NINTH AND FINAL SEASON

MASTER OF THE POOHNIVERSE

THE CO-CREATOR OF A NEW CINEMATIC FRANCHISE ON THE CROSSOVER EVENT THAT LITERALLY NOBODY SAW COMING

How Much Is A Pint Of Milk

Hannah Waddingham

CIVIL WAR

FILM

SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING

FILM Death becomes her: Fran (Daisy Ridley).

LOVE LIES BLEEDING

FILM Love at first sight: Jackie (Katy O’Brian)

MANHUNT

Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies) and a grieving Mary

GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE

FILM Manhattan mayhem as Ecto-1 races to the

X-MEN ’97

Get animated, they’re back! In the eye

MONKEY MAN

Fighting fit: Kid (Dev Patel) gets assailed. FILM

THE FALL GUY

Ryan Gosling is on fire. Or has been

WHAT HAVE WE HERE?

BOOKS THIS BOOK DEAL IS GETTING BETTER ALL

ROAD HOUSE

FILM Wrestle-mania: Conor McGregor and Jake Gyllenhaal. IT’S

ALONE IN THE DARK

GAMES A CLASSIC SURVIVAL GAME GETS A STARRY

GODZILLA x KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE

Gozilla and Kong debate whose turn it is

BACK TO BLACK

Marisa Abela shines as Amy Winehouse. FILM MUSICAL

also out

HEAD EMPIREONLINE.COM TO READ THESE REVIEWS IN FULL

LET THERE BE LIGHTSABERS

SET AN EVEN LONGER TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY, THE ACOLYTE PROMISES A GLEAMING, ECLECTIC BUNCH OF JEDI — AND A WHOLE NEW, MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURE. YOU’VE NEVER SEEN STAR WARS LIKE THIS BEFORE…

COURT BATTLE

IN LUCA GUADAGNINO’S CHALLENGERS, ZENDAYA, JOSH O’CONNOR AND MIKE FAIST PLAY THREE TENNIS STARS AT EACH OTHER’S THROATS AND IN EACH OTHER’S BEDS. WE SPEAK TO THEM ABOUT REINVENTING THE SPORTS MOVIE

TIME LORDS

AS THE TARDIS PREPARES TO SPIN ITS WAY AROUND THE GALAXY AGAIN, DOCTOR WHO’S NEW STAR AND RETURNING SHOWRUNNER, NCUTI GATWA AND RUSSELL T DAVIES, EXPLAIN HOW THEY’RE SHAKING UP THE UNIVERSE

KILLING IT

IN HIT MAN, GLEN POWELL PLAYS A FAKE ASSASSIN — IN FACT, MANY DIFFERENT FAKE ASSASSINS. AS HE AND DIRECTOR RICHARD LINKLATER UNLEASH THEIR ROMCOM THRILLER, THE DEADLY DUO DISCUSS THEIR BLOSSOMING COLLABORATION

AFTER THE STROM

HAVING SURVIVED A FEVERISHLY DEBATED STAR WARS TRILOGY, DAISY RIDLEY IS FORGING HER OWN PATH — AND TAKING CONTROL

High Society

IN 1999, A BUNCH OF HEDONISTIC RAVERS GOT MAKING A FILM BY DAY. AS HUMAN TRAFFIC HITS A TRUE CULT CLASSIC. NICE ONE, BRUVVA! TOGETHER, PARTYING BY NIGHT AND, SOMEHOW, 25, WE ASK THEM HOW THEY ENDED UP WITH

INTO THE SNYDER-VERSE

FOR 20 YEARS, ZACK SNYDER HAS UNLEASHED HIS VERY SPECIFIC BRAND OF GODS AND MONSTERS, PROVOKING STRONG REACTIONS WITHOUT FAIL. AS REBEL MOON — PART TWO: THE SCARGIVER PREPARES FOR LAUNCH, WE PUT HIM IN FRONT OF HIS MOST SPIRITED AUDIENCE YET: YOU

Going Green

EMPIRE TALKS TO THE WONDERFUL EVA GREEN ABOUT THE DREAMERS, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, BOND AND MORE

Spaceman

DIRECTOR JOHAN RENCK GUIDES US THROUGH HIS ADAM SANDLER SCI-FI DRAMA

Ocean’s Eleven

CLOONEY AND SODERBERGH’S A-PLUS A-LIST REMAKE

Five steps to a sleeper hit

ANYONE BUT YOU DIRECTOR WILL GLUCK ON THE SECRETS OF HIS FILM’S SUCCESS

VAMPIRE WEEKEND: PART ONE

THIS MONTH

The Ranking Leonardo DiCaprio movies

HE’S THE KING OF THE WORLD! BUT WHAT’S THE JEWEL IN HIS CROWN?

Ed Zwick versus Hollywood

THE STORIED DIRECTOR ON LESSONS HE’S LEARNED FROM HIS ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER

Time Capsule

Eddie Marsan

The Green Butchers

MEAT IS MURDER