 |  It is New Empire Week, the very best week of the month. What's even more exciting is that this issue, our 301st, contains the results of our poll asking you for the 301 Greatest Movies Of All Time. As well as the complete list, the magazine also has some amazing exclusive content for films that won a place: there's an oral history of Braveheart, an explanation for that ending to Planet Of The Apes, an account of Orson Welles' work on The Third Man and George Lucas emerging briefly from retirement to talk about The Empire Strikes Back. There's still time to subscribe and get this month's gorgeous subscribers' cover, but if you are happy with the equally gorgeous, Sgt. Pepper-style newsstand cover, you can pick it up at all good newsagents now. Meanwhile there's a helicarrier moored in the Thames at Greenwich. We're pretty sure SHIELD is spying on us all; someone please call Edward Snowden so we can find out. Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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  First Trailer For The Equalizer Online
Despite Sony's reported confidence in the Denzel Washington-starring film adaptation of '80s series The Equalizer, the studio has been rolling out the marketing for the movie slowly, starting with posters and pics and now ramping up to a trailer. More: Exclusive First Trailer For The Book Of Life Guillermo del Toro and co head to the underworld. Kill The Messenger Trailer Arrives Online Jeremy Renner wants to handle the truth. First Trailer For A Walk Among The Tombstones Liam Neeson hunts kidnappers... Latest How To Train Your Dragon 2 Featurette Lands Meet the dragons (and their riders). New Annie Trailer Dances In Jamie Foxx is a Batfan. Watch A New Trailer For Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain The vampire horror story attacks TV screens. Latest Trailer For Earth To Echo Mixed signals. First Trailer For This Is Where I Leave You Tina Fey & Jason Bateman have family issues. New Trailer For Ari Folman's The Congress Robin Wright goes virtual. New Clip From Ti West's The Sacrament Get a taste for this commune-set chiller.
  Rodeo queens Ally and Debi show off their copy of Dallas Buyers Club. Shortly after this picture was taken, line dancing broke out.
 I don't like blueberries. I'm not sure what I thought this was.  Ally, eating a blueberry. We're not sure why she picked up and ate a blue berry.
The 301 Greatest Movies Of All Time Poll Results Are In
We asked, you voted in huge numbers for Empire's 301 Greatest Movies Of All Time and now the results are in. The full list, including some extensive and exclusive features, is in the July issue of Empire, which hits newsagents' shelves on Thursday and which should already be arriving with subscribers, but we can now officially announce that Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is your number one. | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #113
Three big hitters arrive in cinemas this weekend: Edge Of Tomorrow, Maleficent and A Million Ways To Die In The West. From the first, we have director Doug Liman visiting to talk about taking over Trafalgar Square and shooting (and re-shooting) his friend's wedding videos. From the second, we welcome Sam Riley, whose gravelly voice will make your brain rumble. As for the third, well... Seth MacFarlane's a busy man. |
|  | | X-Men: Days Of Future Past's Secrets Explained
X-Men: Days Of Future Past is one of those films that provokes fevered discussion as soon as you leave the cinema. While your friends are of course available for the purpose of dissection and deliberation, chances are they don't include the producer and writer of the film, Simon Kinberg, who is in a position to give pretty definitive answers on many thorny questions of time travel and mutant powers. Stopping by the Empire Podcast booth for an in-depth chat about all things X-related, his spoiler special was so full of fascinating details we've turned some of them into the breakout feature you're reading now. Needless to say, if you haven't seen the film already, run away and don't come back until you have because here be spoilers! |
|  | | Ashley Johnson Talks Spooked
American actress, singer and voice artist Ashley Johnson has been working since she seven, lending her voice to such cartoons as Recess, King Of The Hill and Teen Titans, as well as acting in an audio-visual medium in the likes of Growing Pains, What Women Want and The Avengers. She will next be seen in Bryan Singer's Bat Hat Harry-produced paranormal investigation comedy, Spooked, which premieres its pilot episode 6pm on June 4 on YouTube's Geek & Sundry channel . The show sees her play a Wiccan priestess called Morgan, working alongside a little girl who can speak to spirits and an over-eager photographer who checks for paranormal activity by taking a Polaroid of everything he sees. Think Scooby-Doo's The Mystery Team crossed with Ghostbusters and, well, you're not even close... |
|  | | Meet Quicksilver - Evan Peters Talks X-Men: Days Of Future Past
Before Days Of Future Past came out, there was quite a lot of online cynicism heaped upon Bryan Singer's decision to use the silver-haired speedster in the movie. Some saw it as a cynical spoiling tactic ahead of the same character's appearance in next year's Avengers: Age Of Ultron, others decried the mutant's unique look. |
|  | | Director Robert Stromberg Explains Maleficent
Robert Stromberg has worked with some of the biggest names in the business, including Sam Raimi, James Cameron and Tim Burton, before stepping up to the big chair himself. His first film is the hugely ambitious Maleficent, which aims to humanise one of the great cinema villains and explain why she goes around picking on babies. Here's what he told us about the film, pulled together from on-set interviews and a more recent catch-up. |
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|  | | Cannes Film Festival 2014: Awards Wrap
The main thing that can be said for the rise in daily internet coverage of the Cannes film festival is that the story carried in the media is no longer just Best Cannes Ever/Worst Cannes Ever. There is still a certain amount of hyperbole, however, and the festival opened to howls of derision for Olivier Dahane's ludicrous Grace Of Monaco - immediately dubbed one of the worst opening films of all time, even though it actually isn't (The Da Vinci Code still has that distinction for me). However, the good news is that it means the official selection is no longer written off at the halfway mark, as so often used to happen, with the result that even though the 67th edition got off to a slow and stumbling start, the critics allowed it to unfold film by film, at its own steady pace. |
|  | | Hugh Jackman Talks X-Men: Days Of Future Past
Thanks to his brief and agreeably sweary cameo in X-Men: First Class, Hugh Jackman is the only actor to have appeared in all seven X-Men movies. Not bad at all. He pulls double duty in X-Men: Days Of Future Past, as an older, wiser, greyer Wolverine in the year 2023, and the 1973 vintage, as Logan is sent back to the past in order to bring Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr together to avert a cataclysm that will destroy mutantkind and mankind alike. |
|  | | The Evolution Of X-Men's Future Sentinels
Cybernetic killing machines be damned; for the future of artificially-intelligent termination services, X-Men: Days Of Future Past's future sentinels are where it's at. The mutant-hunting machines, spawned, in one of the movie's timeline at least, from Mystique's DNA, were actually the creation of UK effects house MPC. While fellow VFXers Framestore pioneered the 1970s sentinels, MPC was commissioned to create the highly complex effects work required to give life to Bolivar Trask's scary vision and pull off the frightening complex Moscow bunker sequence, alongside other work on the film. Empire asked CG supervisor Sheldon Stopsack, a member of MPC's 396-strong team, to talk through their design. |
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 This Grudge Match stash will enable us to resolve our differences the old-fashioned way: by getting together and watching a movie in which Robert De Niro does a puppet show for no obvious reason.
 
Bluetooth was named after a Viking king. 
Keith Carradine still has his pipe from The Duellists. 
Every day of the year is dedicated to some food or other. 
The Royal Albert Hall's screening of Gladiator, with a live orchestra and choir, was magnificent. There are more shows here. 
The production title of Avengers: Age Of Ultron is "Afterparty".
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