 |  You know that usually we are modest, retiring types around here, reluctant to breathe too heavily around brass instruments lest we accidentally blow our own trumpet. Well, to heck with all that today. This weekend sees the Jameson Empire Awards take place in London, and it is going to be the biggest, best, glitziest and generally most outrageously fun one ever. As you would expect, we're going to be bringing you the very best coverage as it happens, so make sure to join us on the site on Sunday afternoon and evening to follow all the goings on first hand. It's going to be epic. What's more, the new issue of Empire is out now (which you can buy online), led by Tom Cruise - a man who has had more covers in 25 years than anyone else - but also squeezing in Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, How To Train Your Dragon 2, Game Of Thrones, Seth MacFarlane, Snowpiercer, The Other Woman and much more. You might need a sit-down after all of it; there's just too much to get excited about. Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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  New X-Men: Days Of Future Past Trailer Online
A new trailer has hit the internet for Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and this gives us our best guide to the plot yet. It also showcases bigger action scenes than any that we've previously seen - we started counting Sentinels but ran out of fingers - and a Patrick Stewart voiceover that recalls the opening of the very first film. More: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teaser Trailer Lands Heroes in half shells, anyone? Into The Storm's Teaser Trailer Spins In Twister and shout. Full Promo For The Purge: Anarchy Frank Grillo wants vengeance. Trailer For Night Moves Creeps Online Kelly Reichardt's river of the dammed. New Jupiter Ascending Trailer Online 'It's not what you do. It's what you are...' New 24: Live Another Day Trailer Arrives 'Bauer is unpredictable!' Red Band Let's Be Cops Trailer Drives Up Jake Johnson & Damon Wayans Jr. are (not) the law... New Trailer For Edge Of Tomorrow Lands Groundhog die The Trailer For Brett Ratner's Hercules Lands The Rock is the demi-god you've been waiting for New Plastic Trailer Online Will Poulter and Ed Speleers get into credit-card fraud. Onscreen, that is.
  An amazing cake to mark the DVD and Blu-ray release of The Machine this Monday March 31. Just don't eat the lights, kids.
 It's designed to outwit the office mice. Outwitting you is just an added benefit.  James is pleased that his Tupperware resisted Ally's attempts to raid his cereal supply.
Ask The Expert: Which In-Movie Ad Would Make It In The Real World?
You've got a great business idea - say, mobile parapsychology using cutting-edge proton packs and a big old ambulance - but no customers yet. Who you gonna call? Well, an advertising agency, naturally. Peter Venkman and co. may have taken the homemade approach but there are plenty of movie ads that have brought a professional sheen to things. But which would work in the real world and which would be consigned to advertising Mordor? We asked John Yorke of UK agency Fold7, co-creator of Carlsberg's Great Escape-riffing campaign, to cast a professional eye over ten favourites. | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #104
In this week's super-sized, extra-large, seriously bloody bumper edition of the Empire Podcast, there are six interviewees. Count 'em, six: Muppets Most Wanted's Kermit and Miss Piggy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier's Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, plus Inside No. 9's Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. All of this, for free. We're too good to you, we know. |
|  | | Video: Scarlett Johansson And Chris Evans Try To Name Captain America's Barbershop Quartet
Captain America: The Winter Soldier stars Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans were on uproarious form during their Empire video interviews, happily showing off their "cool faces" and revealing what bloopers fans can expect on the gag reel. Their directors, meanwhile - Joe and Anthony Russo - also promise that they'll make the Community film (if they ever make it to six seasons and a movie, that is). |
|  | | Ty Burrell, James Bobin And Constantine Talk Muppets Most Wanted
While Miss Piggy and Kermit spent some quality time with the Empire Podcast team, their fellow felt folk set down for a bit of video-based fun, with human star Ty Burrell, human director James Bobin and evil frog bad guy Constantine talking about such important things as Muppet impersonations, gag reels and limb wiggling. |
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Throughout 2014, Empire will be giving readers the chance to win a Digital HD copy of a Fox Searchlight film, plus a £25 hungryhouse.co.uk voucher to order their favourite takeaway online. Just head to Twitter each Sunday (make sure you're following @empiremagazine ) and answer the quiz question posed, tagging your tweet with #SearchlightSundays. In addition, there will be a chance to win flights to Utah and hotel accommodation during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival! Click here for full details |
|  | | Updated: TV's Most Inspired Title Sequences
Over the last few years, TV shows have suddenly dropped the boring montage titles that used to predominate - you know, the ones with a shot of all the characters interspersed, perhaps, with a few landscapes to set the scene - and become one of the most innovative areas in entertainment. Some serve as microcosms of the shows they represent; others appear to go off on a tangent; still more create their own little world of comedy, adventure or horror. Here, we've gathered together 25 of the finest out there. Watch them and marvel - and in a few cases, shudder in terror... |
|  | | Updated - Marvel Movies: 26 Great Behind The Scenes Photos You Should See
The Marvel movie universe is powering towards its third phase, after a strong first phase and great performances so far from Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World. Now, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Guardians Of The Galaxy and Ant-Man all promise more thrills and thunder in the local multiplex. But despite ushering in a new era of Hollywood giganticism, with eye-watering budgets and super-cool filmmaking tools, the studio has tried to keep a down-and-dirty ethos on set. "Once you put your hand over the budget figure", Jon Favreau told Empire on the set of Iron Man back in 2008, "you realise that this is just an independent movie." Apart, we're guessing, from the arc reactors, super-hammers and Disney logo. Here we go backstage to see how they put it all together.. |
|  | | Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure: A Guided Tour
Somehow, it's been 25 years since Bill S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) and Ted Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) mastered time travel in order to get pointers on their school history presentation. To celebrate this most triumphant fact, Winter joined us on the phone from Los Angeles to share his memories of the shoot. And to give it a novel spin, we're going historical figure by historical figure. Don't worry, it'll all make sense - we're professionals. |
|  | | Max Factor
Max Factor is proud to be sponsoring the Best Actress and Best Female Newcomer categories at the Jameson Empire Awards 2014. This year sees the brand celebrate 100 Years of Glamour, continuing Mr. Max Factor's legacy which began in 1914. Guided by his core principle that you are not born glamorous, glamour is something that you create, he went on to create iconic looks for many Hollywood starlets including Ava Gardner, Marlene Dietrich and Jean Harlow. Today we celebrate some of the finest starlets in Hollywood, and we wish them the best of luck. |
|  | | Terry Jones On His New Sci-Fi Comedy Absolutely Anything
The shoot for Terry Jones' new film, a sci-fi comedy starring Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley and Rob Riggle, starts this Monday on March 24 - but just before he gets the cameras rolling, Jones took the time to speak to Empire about the project. Here's what to expect from a story that sees Robin Williams playing a talking dog and the Monty Python boys voicing all-powerful aliens... |
|  | | Exclusive: Dwayne Johnson's Hercules Trailer Breakdown
The first trailer for Brett Ratner and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's Hercules has landed, and it's got shouting, and screaming, and a giant wild boar coming right at your face. Speaking exclusively to the star of the film before the trailer was officially released - "How the fuck have you seen the trailer already?" he jokes - Empire got the low-down on what to expect from the Fast & Furious star's mythological movie. |
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 Here's a Mother's Day present for really scary children; a BBC T-shirt inspired by the Doctor Who episode The Empty Child. If anyone needs us, we'll be over here hiding behind the sofa.
 
Ty Burrell grew up in the town where Nike shoes were made, and if you meet him while wearing Nikes he will tell you that you have "sweet kicks". 
People seem obsessed with tying animated films together. 
Anne Hathaway's favourite British snack is salt and vinegar crisps. 
Jemaine Clement was called "Jerome" for most of his childhood. 
If you start singing '99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall' as you begin walking down the stairs from the second level of the Eiffel Tower, you will hit "41 bottles of beer on the wall" by the time you arrive at ground level.
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  Sky Movies Disney channel is one year old today. Happy Birthday! To celebrate, we're eating cake. It's a theme around these parts.
 
Captain America: The Winter Soldier 
It may climax with an overly formulaic splurge, but The Winter Soldier benefits from an old-school-thriller tone that, for its first half at least, distinguishes it from its more obviously superheroic Marvel cousins. Also Out
 
Philomena 
A terrific, sophisticated comedy that tackles serious issues with a lightness of touch and a spirit of steel, Philomena is the British film to beat come BAFTA time. Also Out
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