Empire's Man Of Steel Collector's Covers, First Thor: The Dark World Trailer Arrives, Five Iron Man 3 Interviews, The 20 Soundtracks That Defined The 1960s

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This Week... It's a monthly occurrence but if you thought the excitement of taking delivery of a new issue of Empire has worn off, you'd be oh-so-wrong. Like Tony Stark arriving at the Stark Expo, there are have been fireworks, dancing and AC/DC at high(ish) volume to celebrate a bumper edition filled with astonishing exclusives, incisive reviews and flawless punctuation. Vying for ascendency on the cover are Henry Cavill's Man Of Steel and General Zod himself, Michael Shannon, while inside is the Supes scoop on Zack Snyder's reimagining of The Big Blue Boy Scout, as well as access-all-areas coverage of the Jameson Empire awards, plenty on The Great Gatsby and a whole lot more. Online, meanwhile, our huge celebration of movie music has kicked on with lovely contributions from Danny Boyle, J.J. Abrams and Up's Lee Unkrick. Oh, and a little movie called Iron Man 3 came out... Phil de Semlyen Staff Writer, Empire

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Thor: The Dark World Teaser Online This time, Chris Hemsworth's Thor is back on Earth to defend us all against the deadly forces of Malkeith (Christopher Eccleston), leader of the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim. Well, at the very least he's here to pick up Natalie Portman and get her out of harm's way, which we suppose is close enough. And it looks from this like he's going to need help from his disgraced brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Hooray! Er. We mean, boo hiss. Let's hope he gets hold of his horned helmet and/or some hair conditioner soon. More: Exclusive: New Trailer For In Fear Left at Eden Lake, right at Sandford. New Monsters University Trailer The kids are all fright. Latest Iron Man 3 Featurette Online What is Extremis? Explosive Fast & Furious 6 Featurette 'To catch wolves, you need wolves...' New Bling Ring Trailer Online Girls gone wild. Star Trek Into Darkness Japanese Trailer Wolverine gets an oriental teaser too... Dragon Trailer Punches In Village vengeance. Man Of Tai Chi Trailer Kicks In Let. The Show. Begin... Star Trek Into Darkness Clip Goes Viral Cumberbatch is not a happy bunny. Latest Trailer For The Internship Crashing the system... Two New Only God Forgives Trailers Time to meet the Devil.

To celebrate the release of Iron Man 3, a lovely little t-shirt from the gang at Fabric Flavours.

Phil, where's my wombat? Ally struggles with the notion of an empty promise.

Screen To Stage: Once The movie Once is a musical so subtle that most people don't even realise it is a musical in the first place. The indie feel, low-key guitar songs and musician characters mean that it's easy to miss the way characters unfailingly sing their feelings, or the miraculous ability they all have to pick up one another's songs (which, let's face it, talented musicians can actually do to a greater or lesser extent, so it only seems miraculous to the rest of us). All of that makes it a non-obvious choice for a stage adaptation - but the further non-obvious choices made in staging that adaptation make this a show that's as delightfully low-key as the film was. Despite the fact that this is a Broadway smash transferred to the West End, it could hardly be further from the Lloyd Webber / Cameron Mackintosh extravaganza we're accustomed to seeing.

Robert Downey Jr. Talks Iron Man 3 For Empire's recent Iron Man 3 cover feature, we flew to LA for an audience with Ol' Shellhead himself: Robert Downey Jr., and found that the man is as silver-tongued, beguiling, hilarious and often bewildering as Tony Stark, the character with which he's become synonymous over the last few years. What follows is an extended version of the interview. Enjoy. Kevin Feige And Shane Black Talk Iron Man 3 Iron Man 3's producer and director on Tony Stark's latest adventure Don Cheadle Talks Iron Man 3 How War Machine became the Iron Patriot Gwyneth Paltrow Talks Iron Man 3 Pepper Potts on her pivotal role in The Avengers and whether she'll return... Sir Ben Kingsley On The Mandarin 'Iron Man 3 is all about the masks' The 20 Soundtracks That Defined The 1960s The '60s were one hell of a decade, both for movies and music, so what better time to begin our celebration of movie soundtracks? From The Beatles to Baloo, we've got the lot - or, rather, we've got, um, 20. But which 20? What made the list and what didn't? Find out for yourself and let us know what you'd have put on your list of 20 Soundtracks That Defined A Decade... The Soundtrack That Inspired Me Zimmer, Elfman and Mansell pick the scores that inspired them. My Life In Soundtracks: J.J. Abrams Hollywood's great and good on the movie music that defines them. My Life In Soundtracks: Lee Unkrich Hollywood's great and good on the movie music that defines them. The Greatest Movie Soundtracks: A Celebration Featuring 100 decade-defining soundtracks, exclusive interviews, playlists, features and more. The Empire Podcast #58 Don Cheadle threatens to vaporise a member of the Empire Podcast team this week, while Steve Coogan does a pitch-perfect Roger Moore impersonation, just because he can. Sample discussion question: who has the best chin in cinema? Sample news story: Zach Braff is on the Kickstarter gravy train. Sample reviews: Iron Man 3, The Look Of Love and Bernie - and in a special teaser insert, a spoiler-free preview of our thoughts on Star Trek Into Darkness. Zach Braff On His Wish I Was Here Kickstarter Project Following in the footsteps of the immensely successful crowd-sourced Kickstarter campaign that was (and will be) the Veronica Mars movie, Zach Braff is looking to pull off a similar trick with his long-awaited follow-up to Garden State, Wish I Was Here. You can find out more about it in this news story - which includes a link to where you can contribute yourself - but for details about how @ZachBraff is harnessing this new way to make movies, have a look at our exclusive interview with him below... Thor: The Dark World Teaser Trailer Breakdown Thor has returned! After teaming up with Earth's Mightiest Heroes last year, Thor is back this November in another solo outing that sees him facing an enemy that threatens all nine of the Nine Realms - Earth included. The very first teaser trailer just took its bow online, so our Dan Jolin - the office's resident Dark World expert - cast his eye over the result to see what he could glean from these glimpses of footage... 8 Things To Look Out For At Sundance London It's not every week that the great Robert Redford ventures down to SE10 - unless he's got a thing for the National Maritime Museum we don't know about - but since expanding the Sundance Film Festival to Britain he's established an annual indie haven 8000 miles east of its American home. You couldn't squeeze more high-calibre independent cinema into this historic corner of London if Todd Solondz set one of his misanthropic masterpieces aboard the Cutty Sark. So where to start between April 25 and 28? And, more important, what to see? Here's Empire's guide to the likely highlights. Christopher McQuarrie Career Interview Christopher McQuarrie is the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind The Usual Suspects. He's also directed The Way Of The Gun, Valkyrie and, most recently, Jack Reacher. In this extensive Empire interview, he talks about the trials and tribulations involved with working in Hollywood, Tom Cruise and just how that X-Men script first came about... Jack Black On Bernie Usually Jack Black turns up in wild comedies or voicing animated characters these days, but his latest film, Bernie, sees the star playing a gospel-singing mortician who strikes up an unlikely friendship with the town's meanest widow (Shirley MacLaine) - only for their relationship to come to a sticky and unlikely end. We spoke to the star about playing a real-life figure and trimming Shirley MacLaine's toenails...

Appropriately, there's both blood and sand on this fab Spartacus cake. No visible War Of The Damned though.

Zack Snyder doesn't eat carbs, so don't ask him what his favourite sandwich is. Upstream Colour director Shane Carruth loves Portal. There's zero tolerance to even the teeniest Star Trek Into Darkness spoiler in these parts. Don Cheadle is a big fan of Berocca, and here's proof. Zach Braff is perfectly aware of the subjunctive mood, but is willing to forgo using it for the sake of a catchy title.

Wild Wild West county. Wayne's World reunion. Super Mario Bros tube map. Sean Connery vs. what now? If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us.

Love is all you need. Love, and pasta, and pasta sauce, and a lemon, and a ticket to go see Love Is All You Need.

Iron Man 3 Black proves the perfect blacksmith, forging smart new tech and scenarios for the swaggering super-genius. If this does turn out to be Downey Jr.'s final solo outing, it's a very strong exit. Also Out The Look Of Love The Raymond review. Bernie Dark in the heart of Texas... ABCs Of Death Not that easy... White Elephant Slum. This week's video trailers and clips. Every week, our video player will update to show trailers and clips from the week's movie releases listed above.

Jack Reacher Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise deliver on their promise, with a witty, violent take on Reacher that makes up for its lack of height with an abundance of smarts and thrills. Also Out Seven Psychopaths Heavy meta. Blood Simple Coens' deliciously deviant take on the staples of noir. Side By Side Keanu tackles the future of celluloid Pitch Perfect Glee Clubbed The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Lon Chaney is the silent hero. Aladdin Technically immaculate Disney fairy tale.

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