Editor NICK DE SEMLYEN

Creative Director CHRIS LUPTON Photography Director JOANNA MORAN

LETTER OF THE MONTH

MAGAZINE MEET-CUTE Back in 2004, at the age

PREVIOUSLY, IN EMPIRE...

WOLVERINE’S EMPIRE DEBUT

WELCOME

AMAN WALKS into a bar… Classic joke set-up,

Stars &Stripes 2.0

EDITED BY BETH WEBB SUMMER 2024

Taking a shot at the ’80s

TI WEST ON BRINGING HIS KILLER TRILOGY INTO A WHOLE NEW DECADE WITH FINAL ACT MAXXXINE

NEED TO KNOW

GET UP TO SPEED ON… MARTIN SCORSESE’S JESUS PROJECT

New cop on the beat

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT ON PARTNERING UP WITH EDDIE MURPHY FOR BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXELF

FRANKENSTEIN V FRANKENSTEIN

WITH TWO TAKES ON MARY SHELLEY’S SEMINAL NOVEL ON THE WAY, EMPIRE ASKS: WHICH VICTOR WILL BE THE VICTOR?

ON OUR MINDS

DAFT MUSINGS FROM THE WARPED MINDS OF TEAM EMPIRE

What happened in Vegas

THE HITS, THE STUNTS, THE REVELATIONS, THE F-BOMBS. EMPIRE CONSIDERS THE BIGGEST QUESTIONS TO COME OUT OF LAS VEGAS MEGA-EVENT CINEMACON

The Spotlight

Adria Arjona

TURNING Zs INTO UNEASE

FILMMAKER JASON YU TAKES NIGHTMARES TO A NEW LEVEL WITH HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT SLEEP

The fight for the future of action movies

SHOULD THE GENRE KEEP IT PRACTICAL, OR DEPLOY DIGITAL TRICKERY? WE CATCH UP WITH KEY PLAYERS ON BOTH SIDES

THE PIPELINE

EIGHT PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT 

Trailer Talk Trap

WE UNTWIST THE TEASER FOR M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN’S LATEST

THE BOSS LEVELS UP

A NEW BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BIOPIC IS SET TO SHOW THE MUSICIAN AT A PIVOTAL POINT

That’s no moon

WHY, AND HOW, DIRECTOR GREG BERLANTI MADE A LUNAR MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENCE WITH FLY ME TO THE MOON

FRENCH FANCIES

TEAM EMPIRE CHOOSE THEIR HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS YEAR’S CANNES FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

THE WAY OF PAPYRUS

HOW A FONT BECAME COMEDY GOLD, THANKS TO AVATA R AND RYAN GOSLING

It’s not TV. It’s Park Chan-wook

THE DIRECTOR ON HOW HIS HBO THRILLER THE SYMPATHIZER WILL UPEND YOUR EXPECTATIONS

“I find myself propelled by a desire to see everything”

ON WHY FILM-WATCHING SHOULDN’T BE A NUMBERS GAME

On A Role

JOSEPH QUINN AS MICHAEL

WELCOME TO MY BUG HUNT

EMPIRE’S IAN NATHAN SHARES WA R STORIES FROM HIS EPIC NEW DOCUMENTARY

HOLLYWOOD’S HOTTEST HEDGEHOG

SHADOW IS COMING. AND THE INTERNET IS EXCITED…

How Much Is A Pint Of Milk?

Tom Felton

THE BEAST

LÉA SEYDOUX SPANS THE CENTURIES IN A TIMELY SCI-FI TALE

UNFROSTED

POP-TART: NEVER STOP NEVER POPPING

LA CHIMERA

★★★★ OUT 10 MAY / CERT 15 /

SEIZE THEM!

★★★ OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 91

HOARD

A DEBUT THAT WON’T BE CONSIGNED TO THE RUBBISH HEAP OF HISTORY

THE REGIME

★★ OUT NOW (SKY/NOW) / EPISODES VIEWED 6

THE FIRST OMEN

★★★ OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 119

FALLOUT

AMAZON GOES ATOMIC TO MAKE A POST-APOCALYPTIC HIT

CHALLENGERS

GUADAGNINO SERVES UP AN ACE. PASS THE PIMM’S

REBEL MOON – PART TWO: THE SCARGIVER

BATTLE AMONG THE SCARS

BOY KILLS WORLD

THIS MONTH’S RIP-ROARING-RAMPAGE-OF-REVENGE FILM

SUGAR

Amy Ryan as partner-in-crime-solving Melanie Mackintosh; Kirby

THE WORLD IS YOURS: THE STORY OF SCARFACE

SAY HELLO TO YOUR BOOKSHELF’S NEW LITTLE FRIEND

THE IDEA OF YOU

THINK ‘NOTTING HILL MEETS THE SEVENTH SERIES OF THEXFACTOR’

RISE OF THE RONIN

LONELY SAMURAI LIFE BECOMES AN OPEN-WORLD ROMP

ABIGAIL

CINEMA REMINDS US YET AGAIN TO NEVER TRUST SMALL CHILDREN

FRANKLIN

HAMILTON: THE NON-MUSICAL SPIN-OFF

also out

HEAD TO EMPIREONLINEONLINE.COM TO READ THESE REVIEWS IN FULL

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE

WITH DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, MARVEL IS ENTERING ITS CRAZY ERA. WILL THE X-MEN BE X-RATED? WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH DOGPOOL? AND CAN WADE WILSON AND LOGAN SAVE THE MCU? LET’S FIND OUT…

WHAT LILY DID NEXT

HER PERFORMANCE IN MARTIN SCORSESE’S KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON SAW LI LY GLADSTONE BECOME PART OF A GLOBAL CONVERSATION — AND GOT HER A GROUNDBREAKING OSCAR NOMINATION. AS SHE TELLS US, THOUGH, SHE’S ONLY JUST GETTING STARTED…

NO LIMITS

SHOT AND SET IN LONDON, WITH A PREDOMINANTLY BLACK CAST, SUPACELL IS A SUPER-POWERED SHOW WITH LOTS TO S AY. ON SET AND BEYOND, ITS CREATOR RAPMAN EXPLAINS WHY HIS AMBITION KNOWS NO BOUNDS

INSIDE OUT 2

ALMOST A DECADE AGO, PIXAR GAVE US A GROUNDBREAKING CLASSIC EXPLORING THE INNER-WORKINGS OF THE MIND. HOW ON EARTH DO YOU FOLLOW THAT ? AS THE INSIDE OUT 2 TEAM TELL US, THINGS GOT EMOTIONAL…

ALONG CAME A SPIDER-WRANGLER

Steven Kutcher, photographed exclusively for Empire in Los

THE WRANGLERS

NEED SOME BIGGER BEASTIES? THESE ARE THE PEOPLE TO CALL…

BORN TO BE BAD

WILL SMITH AND MARTIN LAWRENCE HAVE BEEN CAUSING BUDDY-COP CHAOS SINCE 1995, AND BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE FURTHER CEMENTS AN UNBREAKABLE PARTNERSHIP. AS THEY TELL US, THEY REALLY ARE IN THIS FOR LIFE WORDS CHRIS HEWITT

BLOWING UP

DIRECTORS ADIL & BILALL ON THEIR ENERGETIC ASCENDENCY — AND SURVIVING BATGIRL…

Deep Divė

BABY LeROY

GO FIGURE

BABY LeROY’S VITAL STATS

J.K . RULES O.K .

A FRESH LOOK AT HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Speed

JAN DE BONT ’S RUSH-HOUR ROLLERCOASTER

PICKS OF THE MONTH

1 THE TASTE OF THINGS (OUT NOW, DVD/BR/DIGITAL)

Paul Thomas Anderson movies

FOUR EMPIRE WRITERS TACKLE THE FILMOGRAPHY OF THE OTHER DIRECTING PAUL ANDERSON

Turning the page

HOW CORD JEFFERSON TURNED ERASURE INTO AMERICAN FICTION, AND WON AN OSCAR

All Of Us Strangers

ANDREW HAIGH ON THE KEY MOMENTS OF HIS EMOTIONAL DRAMA

VAMPIRE WEEKEND: PART TWO

LEGENDARY AUTHOR AND CRITIC KIM NEWMAN BRINGS US HIS UNIQUE TAKES ON CULT CINEMA

CRYPT KEEPERS

KIM'S PICK OF THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

Time CapsuleTime

David Dastmalchian

Cool Hand Luke

HOW ICONIC IMAGES CAME TO LIFE 

GEF’S ARMY

SPECIAL THANKS TO

The Ultimate Empire Quiz

THIS MONTH

WIN!

FOUR CULT EURO-HORRORS

Meet Joe Black

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