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|  This Week... This week voting opened on the Jameson Empire Awards and that means your duty is clear. Given that you are the most film-literate, well-watched and generally gosh-darn awesome readers a magazine ever had, we're going to need you - yes, you! - to vote for the very best films of the year in the usual categories. To make it a little easier, as well as Best Film we let you vote for Best Horror, Best Comedy, Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Best Thriller and Best British Film - but you'll have to choose the best newcomers and actors as well. Consider carefully, ponder fully, and remember that you could win tickets to the Awards by voting, if hanging with the stars is your idea of a good time. Good luck! Helen O'Hara
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F&@%ing "chuffed to bits" to star in Empire's Classic Scene Of The Year, Ted drops by to pick up a couple of mags from the office (and swear at every conceivable f+$£ing opportunity). | | | |
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Empire Vs. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
As part of the Amazing Spider-Man New York press trip, I got the chance to see the Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark musical on Broadway. If you were to ask me for a one-word review of the Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark musical on Broadway, the one word I would give you is 'bonkers'. On the better side of bonkers, mind, but still - ahem - completely off the wall. | | | |
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Star Wars: 65 Great Behind-The-Scenes Photos
A long time ago - well, 36 years - in a galaxy far, far away (Tunisia), the Star Wars universe was born. But when George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Anthony Daniels et al gathered to shoot those Tatooine scenes in North Africa they could barely have imagined what love and affection their space opera would stir over the decades to come. With Disney's new Star Wars movie underway, what better time to power down the shield and look behind the scenes at all six productions to date? | |
|  | | Chris Pine And Isla Fisher Talk Rise Of The Guardians
Rise Of The Guardians sees five of your favourite mythical beings - that's Jack Frost, Santa Claus, The Sandman, The Tooth Fairy and The Easter Bunny - facing off against the Bogey Man, also known as Pitch (voiced by Jude Law). Tracking down two of guardians (Isla Fisher and Chris Pine, who play Tooth and Jack respectively) was a hard enough task in of itself, but we also managed to snare director Peter Ramsey and composer Alexandre Desplat for a few minutes in front of our cameras. Below are the resulting video interviews, complete with Jack Ryan chit chat and the understandable comparisons to The Avengers... |
|  | | Exclusive: Alice Lowe And Steve Oram Talk Sightseers
If you've seen Down Terrace or Kill List, you'll know that a new Ben Wheatley film is quickly becoming an event to relish. In Sightseers, Wheatley and his leads, Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, welcome us to a world of giant pencils, Goretex jackets, stolen dogs, carapods and tram museums. Of baked beans and bloody murder. Of the brutal, bonkers side of being British. It's arguably the most singularly 'English' black comedy since Four Lions; a triumph of macabre wit that, the two leads and their director explained, is designed to have you laughing uncomfortably at things you'd normally run a mile from. Click below to hear more about the film. |
|  | | Film And TV Google Doodles Guaranteed To Make You Smile
When they're not helping us find things on the internet and not being evil, the bods at Google have been proving that they've also got an eye for clever design. So as fans of pop culture and movies that we are, we love a good movie-focused Google doodle - and as there are more than a thousand from all over the world, we've picked a few of our favourites from TV and movieland, and you can check them out below. |
|  | | The Hidden Secrets Of The Amazing Spider-Man's Deleted Scenes
At 2 hours 16 minutes, The Amazing Spider-Man is not a short film - but even with its generous running time, director Marc Webb and the rest of the Amazing production team needed to cut some material out. Fortunately for us, 11 snippets of Spider goodness that once circled the editing plughole have been rescued and popped onto the DVD/Blu-ray editions, and here below are the fascinating details that can be gleaned from them. Revealing more on the elusive Norman Osborn, the backstory behind Peter's parents' mysterious disappearance and possibilities for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, here are stills, quotes and analysis from said might-have-been scenes as well as that intriguing prison-set credit sting... |
|  | | Star Wars Episode VII Directors: Rumour Control
[Director Name] Interested In Star Wars! [Director Name] NOT Interested In Star Wars! It's been a week and a half and already we've seen approximately seventy bajillion such stories. So rather than cynically run every breath of Star Wars news between now and May, 2015, we're going to gather all the whispers of director interest / disinterest and just plonk them here instead because honestly, when a busy person points out that they're busy that should not qualify as news. Here you can see all the runners and riders at a glance, without endless speculation about who is looking likely or not. You're welcome, world. |
|  | | Empire's Christmas Gift Guide 2012
Perhaps you're stuck on what to get your family for Christmas. Or maybe you're trying to ensure that your own Christmas list is filled with maximum awesomeness. Either way, we are here to help. We have scoured catalogues and interwebs to find the very best gifts this year, from the high-end high-tech to the highly silly. | | | |
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Some Rise Of The Guardians cupcakes, as well as Christmassy, elf-y bunting, for its release today. We have a yeti helping us hang it. | | | |
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. | | | |
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Air New Zealand Hobbit socks and Bag End eye mask. Nap like a Hobbit after second breakfast! | | | |
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Sightseers 
A uniquely British blend of excruciating comedy of embarrassment and outright grue, not quite as disorientating in its mood shifts as Kill List but just as impressive a film. Whether it ruins Crich Tramway Museum for you or prompts you to recreate Chris and Tina's pilgrimage to the Ribblehead Viaduct, Wheatley's film serves as a black-comic state-of-the-nation address. | | | |
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Ted
Crass, supremely silly and very, very funny, Ted is a comedy for all seasons. | | | |
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