 |  Winter is coming! Or at least the winter preview, because the new issue of Empire is on newsstands now and it has our exhaustive and exclusive look at the films headed your way over the colder months this year (unless you're down under, in which case please send sunshine). We got the lowdown on Gravity, got fired up for Jennifer Lawrence and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, took advice from The Counsellor and much more. Then there's Jude Law on his career to date, unseen script sessions from Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone just shootin' the breeze about their new film. This month's mag even sees the Empire staff get transformed into action figures - sort of - because we needed mini-us's to help get this huge issue together. The countdown to some member of the team tying another's statuette to a rocket starts here... Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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  Need For Speed Trailer Races In
Given all the theories that have been floating around, we have to admit that we did not see this coming as the big finish to Breaking Bad. Still, given what's been happening to Jesse Pinkman, we can imagine him being angry and vengeful and... Sorry? Oh, right. This is the trailer for Need For Speed. Carry on. More: In Fear Trailer Stalks Online 'We're not lost. We're in a maze...' New Frozen Trailer Blasts In Forget winter is coming... Winter is here. New Thor: The Dark World TV Spot Brings Fresh Chaos Oh, and Loki. Because we hear people likey Loki. New Oldboy Featurette Online And Josh Brolin also talks working on Inherent Vice. Trailer For Big Ass Spider! Crawls Online God help us all - it's ten stories tall! New Gravity Featurette Enters The Web's Orbit Alfonso Cuarón and co talk 3D. New Dom Hemingway Trailer Strides In Jude Law gets his rocks off. New Trailer For About Last Night It's a prattle of the sexes for Kevin Hart and Regina Hall.
  Not one, not two, not three but FOUR seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray. Set phasers to stunning! (Sorry).
 Chris, are you using a new oil in your beard?  Ali's spotted that our designer has changed up his facial hair grooming routine and is now using "Wild Man".
Done In 60 Seconds Is Back, Back, Back!
It's officially the most fun you can have in a minute (we've checked), and now it's back - bigger and better than ever before. Yes, today sees the glorious return of Jameson Empire Done In 60 Seconds, the competition that challenges wannabe Spielbergs to remake any movie they want in just 60 seconds. You have until January 20th to select a film, recruit some mates and script, shoot and edit your one-minute masterpiece, all of which will put you in line to win big at the world's most irreverent film awards, the Jameson Empire Awards 2014. | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #80
Dexter Fletcher is on fine form during this week's Empire Podcast, talking about his latest, Sunshine On Leith, as well as Doom, The Long Good Friday and his Nando's Black Card. Matthew Fox, meanwhile, is on hand to talk about his time on Party Of Five, his love of Batman, and why he decided to shoot Emperor with Tommy Lee Jones (and not appear in a rom-com, say). |
|  | | Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal & Denis Villeneuve On Prisoners
Prisoners is not an easy watch. Following the abduction of two little girls, a police detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) tries to untangle the case while the father of one girl (Hugh Jackman) takes the law into his own hands and abducts the prime suspect to try to torture the girls' whereabouts out of him. Incendies director Denis Villeneuve oversees the whole thing, and we talked to all three recently to see how it all came together... |
|  | | Clark Gregg Talks Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
You thought Agent Coulson was dead. Clark Gregg thought Agent Coulson was dead. But he's back, and in his own spin-off television show thanks to Marvel and their Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., set to hit British TV sets this Friday, 8pm. We spoke to Marvel's MVP to get the story on his death and resurrection... |
|  | | Cate Blanchett Talks Blue Jasmine
While her famously publicity-shy director was off doing Woody Allen-y things elsewhere, probably involving jazz or lobsters, Blue Jasmine's other star attraction Cate Blanchett faced the world's press (that's us!) to talk about her astonishing turn in Allen's best film for many, many moons. Her Oscar nomination is so inevitable we decided not to actually ask her about, instead chatting about Woody himself, YouTubing videos of people on Xanax and that Empire cover where Galadriel seemed to be giving everyone the finger. Except, well, it wasn't the finger... |
|  | | Justin Timberlake Does A Runner Runner
Justin Timberlake has an infuriating ability to turn his hand to anything and do well at it. He's now firmly established himself as an actor as well as a musician, and in Runner Runner he stars opposite Ben Affleck as a young man pulled in over his head when he goes to confront the owner of an online gambling site. We spoke to the star about his approach to the character, working with Affleck and whether he has plans to direct as well... |
|  | | The Avengers Actors Guide: Their Finest Career Moments
As Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. kicks off on TV this week and the Age Of Ultron looms (like the Age of Aquarius, only with more killer robots and shorter hair), it's time to reassemble Marvel's dream team and cast an eye over some of their best work to date. The Avengers: Age Of Ultron doesn't start shooting until early 2014 and won't be out until summer 2015, but here's where to get your fix of the Avengers until then. |
|  | | Richard Curtis Movie Poster Mashups
Our heartiest contrafibularities to you! You're lucky enough to be a human who has access to the internet, and happens to be reading these words right now. This means you're probably cunning enough to be able to click through to our Richard Curtis movie poster mash-ups, a veritable treasure trove of puns, more puns and a small smidge of wordplay. In a word: WOOF! |
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 Some delicious bacon sarnies by Jamie Oliver, to mark the collaboration between Oliver, YouTube and EE. We're assured that these were not made from real Kevin Bacon.
 
Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal claim to use teddy bears between takes on particularly upsetting films. We're not sure we believe them. 
Roger Deakins really doesn't like box jellyfish. 
Gillian Anderson thinks Spaced is called Spooked. 
Dexter Fletcher's favourite Dexter Fletcher film is Stander. 
The Air Force Chief Of Staff dressed in a Captain America mask. Er, isn't Cap in the Army?
 |  | |  | |  | |  | | | Star Trek cast, old and new, are crazy handsome. | | This is going to make the problem worse, not better. | | Orchestra seeks conductor, no experience necessary. | | Fireman saves kitten. |
If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  A poker set to mark today's release of Runner Runner. We took it out for a quick friendly game and now Amar has all our money and Phil has sold his shoes for a bus fare home.
 
Blue Jasmine 
Allen's best film in years, astute, humane and shot through with keen observations on the state of the world. It may also, in its pondering the price of deceit and the pain of rebuilding a life from nothing, count as broad social allegory. Also Out
 
Byzantium 
A mixture of tough and wistful and reflective and brutal, this is the ideal vampire movie for Twi-hards who've had their hearts broken for the first time and want to move on to a less cosy vision of eternal romance with a side order of addiction. Also Out
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