 |  It's been a big week for Star Wars news. First came the news that Lupita Nyong'o and Gwendoline Christie, aka Game Of Thrones' Brienne of DarthTarth, have signed on to join the cast of Episode VII. Fans of stunningly good actresses and ass-kicking everywhere rejoiced, as well as everyone who'd been complaining about the preponderance of men in the cast. Then on Thursday came the news that Josh Trank will direct one of the planned Star Wars spin-offs , making him the first Star Wars director who also sounds like a Star Wars character. As if that weren't enough excitement, we also announced the second Empire Podcast live event: we will be recording on June 24 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, starting at 3.30pm. Yes, it's a school day and yes, it's afternoon not evening - but we're pretty certain that 'watching four eejits natter about film' is a valid excuse to miss work / education in anyone's book. Join us! We will have special guests, spot prizes and lots of bad puns, so you know it will be excellent. Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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  New Hercules Trailer Roars Online
If the first trailer wasn't enough boar-hunting, lion-drubbing and enemy-thwarting Hercules action for you, here comes the new official promo for the film, which finds Dwayne Johnson as the unstoppable warrior himself. More: First Trailer For The Best Of Me Lands James Marsden & Michelle Monaghan ignite Nicholas Sparks. New Trailer For Dystopian Sci-Fi The Giver Don't cross the Streep. New Green Inferno Trailer Stalks Online Cannibal holocaust. Left Behind Trailer Crashes Online Apocalypse! Now what? Are You Here Trailer Arrives Zach Galifianakis needs a little help from his friends
  Just in case we forgot about the upcoming Father's Day (June 15), we received a Superman t-shirt from Fabric Flavours. Check out their complete men's range here.
 Touch the back of my head. It's like a duck. A sexy duck.  Ali is pleased with his new haircut.
Bryan Singer On The Complete Story Of The X-Men
December 9, 1996. It was a Monday. It was probably cold. And that's pretty much it, really. From a distance, it seems like a fairly unimportant day. But if some wackjob with access to a time machine and an irrational hatred of comic book movies wanted to stop the whole cycle from having ever happened in the first place, they might want to head back there. Because that's the day when Bryan Singer was confirmed as director of the first X-Men movie. | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #114
It's a TV interview special on the Empire Podcast this week, with Orange Is The New Black's Taylor Schilling and Jason Biggs causing a riot in the podbooth and Mr. Sloane's writer/director Bob Weide somehow resisting the urge to do the same. |
|  | | Replacement Thrillers: Last-Minute Movie Changes That Worked
While people are quick to call some productions "troubled" when filmmakers are replaced on their way to the screen, not every example of a writer, director or actor being replaced turns out badly. While we're very sorry to see Edgar Wright leave Ant-Man, we thought we'd try to be optimistic and take a look at some other movie substitutions that worked out for the best... |
|  | | Film Studies 101: Michael Giacchino On Being A Composer
He reduced a good proportion of the audience to tears with his score for Up - and in particular its barnstorming 'Married Life' sequence - and geed up the Federation in its fight against rogue Romulans and genetically-engineered warlords in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek films. Now he's hard at work on Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, but composer of the moment Michael Giacchino took a moment to talk us through what he does for a living, and how he does it. |
|  | | Classic Feature: The Making Of Terminator 2
While every other summer release tries desperately to make back its money, the most expensive movie ever made crashes through the $100 million mark in just 12 days. This one, though, has something the others lack, and its name is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Jenny Cooney meets the biggest movie star in the world on location with Terminator 2... |
|  | | Book To Film Titles: How They Changed And Why
You know how it goes: producers buys the film rights to a popular book, puts it on the screen and name-recognition does the rest. But while the Harry Potters and the Twilights reached the screen smoothly with their names unaltered, other films go through spasms and lose their very titles on the way to the screen. As Edge Of Tomorrow (adapted from All You Need Is Kill) hits cinemas, we've assembled a few films that adopted noms de screen drastically different from their original paper title, and looked for the reason for the change. |
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|  | | Live-Action Vs. Animated: How Do They Compare To The Original?
This week's Maleficent represents the latest attempt by Disney to mine its cartoon canon for tales - fantastical and otherwise - that can be converted into live-action fare. They don't have the highest hit ratio, so we thought we'd compare some of the more famous examples and see what happens when filmmakers try to make the transition between 'toon town and the "real" world... |
|  | | Star Wars Archive: 'We've Just About Learned To Live With Each Other...'
One of cinema's great double acts, Artoo and Threepio have inspired at least 300 thousand light years - mistake intended - of bad impersonations from their beloved fans, with almost everyone in existence at one point saying "Master Luke, Master Luke!" for no particular reason. Here, in a special archive interview conducted for our Attack Of The Clones issue over a decade ago, the real men behind the metal men kiss and make up with a sexy magazine by the name of Empire. |
|  | | Classic Feature: The Making Of Saving Private Ryan
The most evocative battle scenes ever put to film. A powerful study of humanity in the face of madness. Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan has been heralded as a masterpiece of historic cinema. Ian Nathan meets Tom Hanks and the gallant men who endured sheer hell for the sake of absolute realism... |
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 A True Detective devil catcher to mark the ace show's home entertainment debut last Monday. We're not sure this is really a Winchester-certified devil's trap, but we're going to test it on James to see.
 
Helena Bonham Carter has an amazing memory for names. 
Chris Pratt is a really big fan of a Chinese restaurant on top of a London skyscraper but he doesn't remember its name. 
We're pretty sure he means Sushi Samba. 
It's worth staying through the credits of 22 Jump Street. 
There's nothing more entertaining than watching this week's Game Of Thrones with someone who hadn't read the books.
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  We're Groot-ly impressed with the new Lego Guardians Of The Galaxy range. Geddit? Groot-ly. Anyone? Hello?
 
22 Jump Street 
Lord and Miller go Bad Boys 2, adding Peter Stormare, back-to-back gun-pointing and mucho excess. The action's bigger, Ice Cube's angrier. Another silly treat. Also Out
 
Dallas Buyers Club
Get this - Matthew McConaughey is currently the most exciting acting talent at work in movies. Next up, the simple business of a Christopher Nolan. Also Out
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