 |  The new issue of Empire is out this week, and it runs the gamut of all that cinema has to offer. Our cover star is Transformers: Age Of Extinction , and inside our beloved leader Mark Dinning reports from the set as a new cast joins Michael Bay and his giant smash robots. Then there's a reflective, in-depth (but still hilarious) interview with the Anchorman news team, for those who prefer the gift of laughter. And the rest of the features section goes big on this year's crop of Oscar hopefuls, from 12 Years A Slave to Her to The Book Thief, so that you can pundit with the best of them come nominations time, while our On Location section kicks off with an exclusive set report from Darren Aronofsky's Noah. It is, in other words, more packed than a bag of badgers, so get hold of it as soon as possible. On the site, meanwhile, we have interviews with the cast of Saving Mr. Banks and Carrie, and voting has opened for the next Jameson Empire Awards, so get online and get voting! Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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Bizarre incidents with air-conditioners aside, Michael Bay's Transformers: Age Of Extinction is coming together nicely in China and Michigan. This month's cover star, Optimus Prime, granted us an access-all-areas pass to Bay's latest, ahem, mechsterpiece to get the skinny of the next phase of the blockbuster auteur's empire building. Prepare the awesome. VIP print and digital packages Subscribe to Empire magazine Take a look inside this issue of Empire magazine Buy single iPad editions on the App Store View all subscription offers
  Red-Band Trailer For Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac
Your jaw dropped when the posters came out. Now your jaw will drop once more thanks to the redder-than-red band trailer for Lars von Trier's sexual marathon, Nymphomaniac. This is the most traditional piece of marketing for the film so far, with a series of abstract clips - all voiceovers and hidden meanings - capped off with the aforementioned character posters (and that typographical masterpiece of a teaser one-sheet). More: Cymbeline Trailer Explodes Online 'How shall I be revenged?' New Trailer For The Boxtrolls Watch the Laika team do their stuff. New Trailer For Hercules: The Legend Begins By the beard of Zeus! New Welcome To The Jungle Trailer Lands Van Damme prepares for jungle impact. Two New Anchorman: The Legend Continues Clips And a final burst of character posters arrives. Gimme Shelter Trailer Finds A Home Online Vanessa Hudgens goes gritty. Peter O'Toole Joins St. Katherine's Day The historical drama gets a trailer. New Sherlock Series 3 Trailer He lives! But you knew that, right?
  A Man Of Steel Blu-ray and a wealth of Superman comics, which we hope will finally reveal why he wears his pants over his tights.
 Do you really think I have the time to make a stapler in the shape of a pulse rifle?  Dan is no inventor.
Jameson Empire Awards 2014: Vote For Your Favourite Films Now!
Looking for gift ideas this Christmas? Here's one: a 2014 calendar. And the minute you get your hands on it, put a big red circle around March 30. For that's the date on which the Jameson Empire Awards 2014 - the most irreverent and fun awards show around - will take place. As ever, it'll be an amazing night filled with A-listers galore, as we reward the best films of the year (and the people who made them). But we couldn't do it without you. Voting for the 2014 Awards is now open, which is where you come in. Simply plump for your favourites in each category in the following form, and you could be chosen at random to attend the awards. | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #89
Two of the best talkers in the business, Colin Farrell and Joe Eszterhas, are in the Empire Podcast this week. The former dropped by to talk Saving Mr. Banks, bad hair bleaching and Anthony Hopkins' amazing anecdotes, while the latter took the time to chat about screenwriting, Basic Instinct and Showgirls 2 (which came as news to him...). |
|  | | The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy Podcast Special
Shaun Of The Dead came out in 2004. Hot Fuzz came out in 2007. The World's End came out 2013. Now... it's all over. With The World's End out on Blu-ray and DVD, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright enjoyed a weekend of panel discussions and signing sessions, but somehow still found the time to talk to the Empire Podcast team to record the definitive Cornetto Trilogy discussion. |
|  | | Saving Mr. Banks: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks And Company
Saving Mr. Banks sees Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) instigate a charm offensive to convince Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to sign over the film rights to her creation. But as she struggles to overcome her dislike of his style, she remembers her childhood with her parents (Colin Farrell and Ruth Wilson). As the buzzed-about drama hits screens, we talked to the cast and director John Lee Hancock... |
|  | | Carrie: We Talk To Chloe Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore & Kimberly Peirce
Stephen King's first novel, Carrie, was an instant success in book form, and the first film adaptation by Brian De Palma followed soon after. Now director Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry) has taken a new run at the story, with Chloe Grace Moretz as the bullied teen who discovers she has telekinetic powers and Julianne Moore as her overbearing, religious mother. We talked to the two stars and director about their version and how the story of Carrie changes in the modern day... |
|  | | Marc Forster Q&A: From Monster's Ball To The Zombie Apocalypse
Empire spoke to the genre-hopping Swiss filmmaker at the Camerimage Festival Of Cinematography in Bydgoszcz, Poland, where he and frequent collaborator Roberto Schaefer were honoured with the Cinematographer-Director Duo Award. The Quantum Of Solace director has, if press reports are close to accurate, had a bruising two years on a World War Z production beset by difficulties. |
|  | | 18 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About The Cornetto Trilogy
Shaun Of The Dead. Hot Fuzz. The World's End. Now, with the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy now complete, and the ice cream almost melted from the cone, Empire sat down with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright to get the real scoops for a very special podcast. Taken from that 75-minute slice of fried podcast gold, here are some of the things you may not have known about the three films... |
|  | | Hunger Games Director Francis Lawrence On The Secrets Of Catching Fire
Francis Lawrence is the director behind Constantine, I Am Legend, Water For Elephants and now The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the sequel to 2010's The Hunger Games. This time, Jennifer Lawrence's (no relation) Katniss Everdeen is pushed back into the arena once more as Donald Sutherland's President Coriolanus Snow decides to dispose of her in the most public way possible. In addition to our Empire Podcast interview, we also spoke to Lawrence (the director - it's confusing, we know) for this special spoiler feature, where he talks about what he changed from Suzanne Collins' original text, and explains just who 'Mini Mags' is... |
|  | | Empire Meets John Turturro
At this year's Camerimage International Film Festival in Poland, John Turturro was presented with a special award for Actor-Director at the Opera Nova. Following a superbly assembled clips reel recalling his extraordinary career - Do The Right Thing, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Quiz Show, The Big Lebowski etc, etc - he was greeted with a thunderous ovation from the crowd, the force and length of which clearly took him aback. We talked to him about Fading Gigolo, the fifth directorial effort of his inestimable career, in which he plays a DIY Don Juan who attempts to raise funds for his friend Murray (Woody Allen). |
|  | | Empire Presents the New York Film Academy
New York Film Academy has built a reputation as one of the premier film schools in the world. With its innovative hands-on approach to teaching, students find themselves completely immersed in their course of study, surrounded by award-winning faculty and working with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. Learn Filmmaking, Acting for Film, Photography, Musical Theatre, Game Design, Animation and more. |
 Because you can never have too many places to lounge around in the Empire office, this week heralded a pair of rather excellently pint-sized Omni Junior beanbags from the folks at www.sumolounge-uk.com (photogenic child sold separately).
 
Colin Farrell hated his hair in Alexander too. 
There is no post-credits sting in the new Carrie. 
Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box is best read around noon on a clear day. At midsummer. In a crowd of happy people. 
Emma Thompson ran away from home, aged 6, with her sister and a bag of Marmite and Ryvita sandwiches. 
James Purefoy's favourite TV show at present (apart from his own, The Following) is Duck Dynasty.
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  The first season of The Following is out and we've got this, um, delicious-looking cake eye to feast upon. It's freshly plucked from the face of a cake person by James Pureflour (sorry).
 
Saving Mr. Banks 
This is not a simple story of an uptight English woman induced to loosen up by those freedom-lovin' Yanks, but a delicate and brilliantly acted story of overcoming the past to embrace an uncertain future. Emma Thompson, in particular, is magic. Also Out
 
Nosferatu 
A visual and emotional treat. Also Out
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