 |  There are three rules for reading this week's newsletter. Don't expose it to bright light (the screen might hurt your eyes). Don't get it wet (your device will stop working). And never, ever feed it after midnight (food and technology do not mix). Coincidentally, those are also the rules when caring for Mogwai, which are front-and-centre on the site this week as part of our Gremlins week. Our Nick de Semlyen recently reunited the cast and crew of the Gremlins films for a fantastic piece in this month's Empire magazine looking back at the monstrous phenomenon, and we have continued the celebration online with a series of features looking at the films' soundtrack, design and novelisation among other things. There's stuff in here that even star Zach Galligan didn't know, so it's essential reading. Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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  Latest Teaser Trailer For Foxcatcher
Following on from the new, Channing Tatum-centric poster for Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, Sony Pictures Classics is clearly betting on the 22 Jump Street star - already being talked about as a potential awards nominee - as a mainstream draw for the film. He's once again the focus of this latest teaser trailer for the drama. More: New Sex Tape Clip Online Cameron Diaz knows how to get Jason Segel's attention. New Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Virals Hit The Web Apocalypse now-ish. Before I Go To Sleep Gets A Trailer Kidman and Firth in a psychological thriller. Horrible Bosses 2 Teaser Arrives The boys are back. And still in trouble... First Trailer For St. Vincent Bill Murray's adventures in babysitting. New Trailer For The Last Showing Robert Englund gets scary again. The Skeleton Twins Trailer Arrives Online Bill Hader & Kristen Wiig reconnect. Latest Trailer For A Most Wanted Man Philip Seymour Hoffman hunts a suspected terrorist. First Trailer For The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby James McAvoy & Jessica Chastain live, love, lash out.
  Horror and sci-fi star charts from the talented UK designers Dorothy. These gorgeous things not only look good on the wall; they help us navigate the stars!
 I can provide you with hydrogen and oxygen particles but you'll have to combine them yourself.  Phil tries to deal with Nick's "water crisis".
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|  | | The Empire Podcast #118
Their movies actually come out next week, but that didn't stop Keira Knightley (Begin Again) and Dean DeBlois (How To Train Your Dragon 2) stopping by to talk the usual assortment of nonsense with the Empire Podcast team a little earlier than you might expect. Look forward to hearing the Pirates Of The Caribbean veteran using the phrase "Twizzly tits". |
|  | | The 30 Greatest Star Wars Characters
With his evidently colourful imagination, George Lucas never had a problem populating his Star Wars galaxy. You can't move for Gungans, Corellians, Twi'leks, Imperial badmen, Jedi footsoldiers, bounty hunters, droids and whatever the hell Admiral Ackbar is (turdfish?). Yet everyone's sure about which of those denizens is their favourite. Sure, the Han fans outnumber the Luke-lovers, and the Fett-followers think they're way cooler than the Vader ravers, but even the likes of Wicket the ewok have their yay-sayers. |
|  | | Gremlins Week: The 10 Maddest Excerpts From The Novelisation
Written by folks who often have only a rough draft of the script to consult, and their imaginations to fill in the gaps, it should be no surprise that movie novelisations can get pretty screwy. The book version of Lethal Weapon informs readers that thinking about ammo gives Riggs an erection. The E.T. paperback reveals that the alien hero is in love with Elliott's mum. And George Gipe's Back To The Future tome dedicates a frankly bizarre number of pages to the origins of the Libyan terrorists. |
|  | | 12 Movie Recipes To Try At Home
If, like us, you found your stomach rumbling and your tastebuds salivating uncontrollably during Jon Favreau's Chef, fear not! We have scoured the internet and gathered the best movie recipes to the most succulent-looking movie dishes, so that you can share in the culinary prowess of Hollywood's finest on-screen cooks. Or, failing that, you can get someone more talented in the kitchen to make these for you. Read it, drool and please invite us over if you succeed in making any of these tasty meals... |
|  | | Empire At EIFF 2014: Noel Clarke Q&A
Noel Clarke's sci-fi thriller, The Anomaly, opens in UK cinemas this weekend. Although Clarke has established himself as something of a cinematic brand over the past few years, writing, producing and starring in the likes of The Knot, Storage 24 and Fast Girls, his new movie marks just the third time he's stepped behind the camera. The movie received its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival recently, and the 38 year-old multi-hyphenate was the first person to receive the Empire Hero Hangout treatment: an in-depth on-stage chat with Empire's News Editor and Empire Podcast host, Chris Hewitt. Here, we bring you some of the highlights of that interview, with Clarke talking about why he became a director, the action sequences in The Anomaly, and on being eaten by a bin in his very first episode of Doctor Who... |
|  | | We Interview The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared
If, like so many of us, you have succumbed to the siren call of modern middle-class phenomenon 'the book club' (and use it as an opportunity to broaden your literary horizons rather than gossip with neighbours over a Malbec), chances are that in the last year or so you will have essayed Swede Jonas Jonasson's globally bestselling The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared. If not, to expand on the self-explanatory if tantalisingly sparse-on-details title, Jonasson's novel is a quirky, picaresque recap of the life of eccentric Allan Karlsson who, on his 100th birthday, decides to bugger off from his old people's home on one last jape that will see him pursued by both violent drug dealers and comedically incompetent police. One more unlikely adventure in a life that has been jam-packed full of them, from inadvertently saving the life of General Franco to carousing with Stalin. |
|  | | Win A Film Download, Takeaway Every Sunday With Fox Searchlight!
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 |
|  | | Gremlins Week: Exploring The Music
Gremlins wasn't the first time Jerry Goldsmith created musical mayhem for Joe Dante. In 1983, Goldsmith composed the score for Twilight Zone The Movie, the Steven Spielberg-produced anthology film based on the cult '60s Rod Serling series. John Landis created the story of a racist (Vic Morrow) who is sent back in time to be persecuted. Spielberg crafted a sentimental story about OAPs who get to be young again for just one night. George Miller put a mischievous demon on the wing of an aircraft, who could only be seen by John Lithgow. And Dante himself spun a typically surreal yarn about a boy (Jeremy Licht) with a vivid and controlling imagination. A huge fan of the composer in general and his Lonely Are The Brave score in particular, Dante was left to supervise the scoring of all the segments and a solid musical bond between director and maestro was formed. |
|  | | How Much Is A Pint Of Milk: Kurt Russell
He's hammed it up in Disney movies. Legged it from New York and LA, and now his big ends gone dodgy in a tricky bit of desert in the gripping Breakdown. But does Kurt Russell do the sums on his daily dairy dosage? |
|  | | Gremlins Week: Howie Mandel On Voicing Gizmo
It's not just Gizmo's furry form that's iconic. His adorable voice, comprised of squeals, purrs and occasional dialogue ("Bright light!" / "Bye, Billy"), is just as as key an element of the Mogwai's weapons-grade cuteness. We got on the phone with Howie Mandel, the 58 year-old Canadian responsible for the vocals (though not Gizmo's singing voice, which was performed by a 14 year-old girl who composer Jerry Goldsmith knew from his synagogue) to find out how he got the gig. Fun fact: Mandel is the host of the American version of Deal Or No Deal, making him America's answer to Noel Edmonds. |
|  | | The Amazing Treasures Of Prop Store
Like Indiana Jones, Prop Store founder and CEO Stephen Lane is an obtainer of rare antiquities. Also like Indy, he has come into possession of the headpiece to the Staff of Ra, although (so far as we know) he didn't have to battle thugs in a burning bar to acquire it. |
|  | | Classic Scene: One Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest
Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), having feigned lunacy in order to serve his prison sentence in the comparative comfort of a mental asylum, is appalled to learn that he won't automatically be released once is jail term is up... |
|  | | Gremlins Week: The Evolution Of Gizmo
In the original script he was the size of a hamster. At one point he was four foot tall. Steven Spielberg wanted him to look like his dog Chauncey. Few movie characters have gone through so many design changes as Gizmo, the bat-eared, monkey-pawed hero of Gremlins. Here, designers Chris Walas and Rick Baker talk us through the Mogwai's various mutations. |
|  | | 9¾ Things We Learnt At Universal Studios Florida's Diagon Alley
Universal Studios Florida opened its Hogsmeade and Hogwarts attraction in 2010. It proved to be so popular that fans clamoured for more Harry Potter magic, and so, just four years later, there's a new part of the Wizarding World to explore: Diagon Alley, with its added bonus features of the Hogwarts Express and, well, you'll have to find out for yourself as you read our blog on the star-studded opening ceremony... |
|  | | 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. |
 The lovely people at Indigo Publishing stopped our Jodie from an Amazon-induced meltdown by sending her the latest Paula Weston novel. Normal breathing has resumed.
 
All Is Lost would never have happened to Peter Fonda's boat. 
The Rock's favourite poet is Dylan Thomas. 
Ian McShane rates Snow White And The Huntsman's dwarves over The Hobbit's dwarves. 
Brett Ratner favours Belgian chocolate over other kinds. 
Aksel Hennie has buffed up considerably since Headhunters.
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Cycling With Molière 
Beautifully performed by its two leads, Cycling With Molière is a comic treat. Also Out
Transformers: Age Of Extinction 
The loyal fans - and they are legion - will trot out clichés like, "Leave your brain at the door," and defend Age Of Extinction's right to be nothing but a succession of varoom! and kersmash! sequences. For those who aren't still blindly faithful to something they liked when they were nine, despite the colossal scale, there's little to see here. 
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
A superbly mounted, powerfully performed, if slightly underfed Apes sequel. That Reeves is set to direct Untitled Of The Planet Of The Apes next is cause for much celebration. This guy's fur real. No pun intended.
 
Ride Along
The Pesci-in-Lethal-Weapon premise is spun out into a feature-length jamboree of minor laughs and clunkiness. Also Out
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