 |  Winter is coming - and to prepare yourself properly for it you're going to need more than a big sword and a direwolf. You need, in fact, the new issue of Empire, which contains not one but three massive previews of the winter season. We have gathered reports on the most exciting movies, TV shows and games for the cold months ahead, and the result is pretty darn exciting indeed. David Fincher's Gone Girl leads the movie line-up, alongside Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods & Kings and Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Oh, and we have Joss Whedon talking Avengers: Age Of Ultron for good measure, if looking further ahead into spring is more your thing. It is, in a word, essential, and you should immediately stop reading this email and head out to get your own copy - or subscribe to ensure that you never miss an issue. Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
Empire's Winter Preview Is Here!
What's taking over the big screens this winter
The October issue of Empire magazine hits newsagents shelves both literal and digital this week, and contained inside is an essential guide to the films that will be rocking your world this winter, led by David Fincher's Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods And Kings and Francis Lawrence's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. Find out more about what's inside the new issue. VIP print and digital packages Subscribe to Empire magazine: 6 issues for only £15! Buy single iPad editions on the App Store View all subscription offers
  Latest Gone Girl Trailer Online
With two trailers already out there for David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's thriller novel Gone Girl, the film's appearance on the cover of the latest Empire seems a good time to bring out a third. What luck, then, that a short new promo has arrived... More: New Trailer for Seventh Son Jeff Bridges gets his Gandalf on. New Foxcatcher Trailer Arrives The true-life drama has a new promo. The Rewrite Trailer Arrives Hugh Grant's going back to school. As a teacher... Rosewater Trailer Hits The Web Gael Garcia Bernal runs into trouble in Iran. First Footage From Pixar's Short Film Lava See what happens when a volcano pines for love... New Horns Trailer Launches Daniel Radcliffe's going through hell. First Trailer For Trash Arrives Online Be careful what you toss in the rubbish. Trailer For Eduardo Sanchez's Exists The Blair Witch director finds Bigfoot. First Trailer For Horror Thriller The Pyramid Stalk like an Egyptian. Amityville: The Awakening Scares Up A Trailer It's not you... It's the house. White Bird In A Blizzard In A Trailer Shailene Woodley loses Eva Green. New Nightcrawler Trailer Arrives Jake Gyllenhaal: creepy cub reporter.
  A skull fresh from the Paris catacombs (well worth a visit) to mark the release of As Above, So Below. Wait a minute! This isn't a real skull at all; it's made of chocolate!
 Tarkovsky's Solaris is like a shit Event Horizon.  Chris makes the least justifiable statement ever.
The Many Deaths Of Sean Bean
An actor who's always likely to end a movie a lot less alive than he started it, Sean Bean is swiftly catching up with the likes of Dennis Hopper and Vincent Price as the master of the on-screen termination. The Yorkshireman has more than 20 death scenes to his name across film and television, enough to prompt his new crime show Legends to promote itself with the hashtag #DontKillSeanBean. | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #126: Jon Hamm, Richard Ayoade.
After several weeks' of hype, the Richard Ayoade interview you've been waiting for is finally here, accompanied by some Mad Man - you see? Because of the TV show? And humour? - called Jon Hamm, with the former here to talk about The Double's Blu-ray release and the latter discussing Million Dollar Arm's cinema release. And beards. |
|  | | 15 Of The Weirdest TV Cameos Of All Time
Some TV shows are built for star cameos, like Extras, Life's Too Short, Entourage and Glee. Some are lucky enough to have before-they-were-famous "cameos", like Casualty, The Bill and Midsomer Murders. But others, particularly soaps and long-running sitcoms, indulge in the odd celebrity guest, and occasionally they are very odd indeed. In this list we celebrate the incongruous inclusion of folk far too famous to be slumming it on the small screen like this - and be sure to chip in with your own favourites in the comment box below. |
|  | | Richard Attenborough: In Celebration
Richard Attenborough will be identified with different characters for each generation of filmgoers over the last half-century or more, forever in our memories threatening people in Brighton, striding through the lush greenery of Isla Nublar or playing Father Christmas himself. But his career is filled with great work on both sides of the camera, so to celebrate the man affectionately known as "Dickie", we take a look at some of his greatest moments on-screen and off... |
|  | | The 36 Best Film-Related Ice Bucket Challenges - Updated!
By now you're definitely getting sick of ice-bucket challenges, at least if you spend any time on social media. But they keep spreading exponentially, and some huge names have gotten involved, successfully raising awareness of and money for ALS (for the equivalent UK charity, the MND Association which offers help to ALS sufferers has taken up the cause; you can donate here ). Now it's not really impressive when sports people take ice baths - they do it all the time to prevent muscle swelling - and it's pleasant but not relevant to this site when politicians do it, but pampered movie types? That's more of a result - and here are some of the best... |
|  | | The 100 Greatest Video Games Of All Time
You voted, we counted, and here they are: your favourite beat-'em-ups, shoot-'em-ups, RPGs, JRPGs, MMORPGs, RTSs, first-person shooters, over the shoulder shooters, platformers, sims, point and click puzzlers, and much, much more. |
|  | | Go Think Big
Calling all aspiring musicians, designers and music producers! O2 GoThinkBig have teamed up with music legend Nile Rodgers and chart-topping British band Rudimental to remix and re-record Chic's Le Freak. We're recruiting up to 100 young people to take part and every job role will be mentored by an industry professional. Not only will you be able to learn on the job, you'll have someone there giving you advice who you would never otherwise get access to. And to top it all off, you'll get to a chance to take part in a performance at Indigo2. To apply visit www.GoThinkBig.co.uk/Freaks. Recruitment ends September 8. |
|  | | Empire Classic Scene: The Adventures Of Robin Hood
In the swashbuckler against which all others are measured. Errol Flynn's Sir Robin of Locksley becomes the bandit Robin Hood and calls the subjugated Saxons of Notts. to Sherwood Forrest, where he stirs them to revolt... |
|  | | 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 |
|  | | Rogues Gallery: Powers Boothe
As possessor of one of Hollywood's greatest cold stares, Powers Boothe is responsible for a myriad moments of premium villainy, not least the bit in Sudden Death where he fixes his Medusa-gaze on a sobbing child and threatens to fill her mouth with spiders. "When I first came out to LA, I did quite a few roles where I actually ended up with the girl," the 66 year-old tells Empire. "But one thing has led to another and I've ended up playing a lot of heavies. I don't mind: they're more fun and often more memorable." As Sin City: A Dame To Kill For arrives in cinemas, with Boothe reprising his role as the diabolical Senator Roark, we asked the actor to talk us through his cornucopia of creeps. |
|  | | How Much Is A Pint Of Milk: Vinnie Jones
He's the hardest man in...well, most things, but he's made a serious dent in some serous films over the years including his unforgettable turn as Big Chris in Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and slightly more forgettable Juggernaut in X-Men: The Last Stand. We sat down with the tough guy to put him through his Empire paces. |
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 Doughnuts hand-delivered by cops to mark the release of Let's Be Cops. Wait a minute! Isn't that film about fake cops, and aren't these guys possibly fake as well?
 
Jon Hamm really didn't mean to swear on the BBC. 
Bunny & The Bull / Paddington director Paul King is a big fan of Gone Girl. 
Billy Wilder collected bonsai trees. 
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have mad ninja skills that enabled them to have a secret wedding last week despite the tabloids having spent longer planning their nuptials than they did. 
Donald Sutherland recently did a juice fast and did not enjoy it.
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  A camera, two killers and a blood-splattered flower to mark the release of the Gareth Evans-produced Killers. Wait a minute! These are secretly cakes!
 
Million Dollar Arm 
Very funny underdog comedy that's genuinely heartwarming and full of charm. Also Out
 
Locke
There are films to see on huge screens, but this is one that almost cries out for a small cinema, surrounded by total blackness. It's a daring experiment brilliantly executed, with Tom Hardy giving one of the performances of his career. Also Out
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