 |  The latest issue of Empire - on-sale now, good people - celebrates the concluding chapter of The Hobbit with a face-off between two cover stars. In the right corner is Smaug 'Smokeypants' The Fire Drake, fresh from a long nap and ready to rumble; in the left corner, Bard 'Black 'Arras' The Bowman, Esgaroth's possible saviour. We know which one will sell better in Lake-town's WHSmith, but which will you opt for? There's a new trailer to help with that call. Our September issue cover stars (eat your scaly heart out, Vogue) are joined by a galaxy of movie movers and shakers on the pages inside. There's Jon Hamm, Marion Cotillard, Luc Besson, Liam Neeson and the redemption tale of the year, Wesley Snipes, as well as exclusive reports from Exodus, Doctor Who, Mad Max and Sin City 2. Pick it up or we're sending Orlando Bloom round. Phil De Semlyen
Staff Writer, Empire
 
The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
The End Begins! Inside Jackson's Epic Final Chapter!
Director Peter Jackson treats us to an access-all-areas tour of the final Middle-earth movie's post-production facility, where we witness the beginning of that titular epic conflict and watch the devastating Smaug take flight. Find out more about what's inside the new issue. Buy this issue online right now VIP print and digital packages: 6 issues for only £17.50! Subscribe to Empire magazine: 6 issues for only £15! Buy single iPad editions on the App Store View all subscription offers
  Latest Interstellar Trailer Launches
Christopher Nolan made a surprise appearance at the Paramount Comic-Con panel this past weekend, introduced by his Interstellar star Matthew McConaughey. He didn't reveal much about the movie to absolutely no-one's surprise, but he did show off the new trailer for the film, footage that has now arrived online courtesy of the film's sparkly official site. Check it out below. More: First Testament Of Youth Trailer Arrives Kit Harington and Alicia Vikander. Latest Expendables 3 Trailer Wants To Punch Your Eyes Bang and blame. New Birdman Trailer Flies In This place is horrible. Smells like balls... New Spongebob Squarepants Trailer Arrives Sponge N' Roses. The First Into The Woods Trailer Has Arrived Double, double, toil and Meryl. First Teaser Trailer For The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies 'Will you follow me... one last time?' Teaser Trailer For The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Katniss fights another day. Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb Trailer Lands The magic is fading... New Maze Runner Trailer Arrives Dylan O'Brien & Will Poulter are a-mazed. New Trailer For Al Pacino's Salomé With Jessica Chastain in the really Wilde show. Fresh Red Band Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Trailer The city shines brightest at night... Comic-Con: Mad Max: Fury Road Footage Online And some new images and posters.
  These tasty-looking Juletide goodies arrived courtesy of Cadbury. We're not entirely sure we're going to make it to Christmas after the impending Freddo frenzy.
 If it isn't one of the #@*& brothers, it's the other one.  Dan Jolin grumbles his way to making BOTH de Semlyen brothers a cuppa.
The 10 Biggest Stories Of Comic-Con 2014
This year's San Diego Comic-Con may have been more low key than normal in some respects - several studios skipped the big panels and there were one or two movies, Jurassic World included, that were notable by their absence - but in others it was just as crazy and packed as usual. In among the presentations to hit the cavernous Hall H and elsewhere, there were some big announcements, one or two surprises and a lot of screaming. Here are some of our favourite big stories. Now if you'll excuse us, we're off to take a collective nap to recover. | |
|  | | Everything You Need To Know About The Dragonriders Of Pern
News has arrived that Warner Bros., the home of Harry Potter and The Hobbit, is adding another realm of fantastic beasts to its scaly roster . The studio has snaffled the rights to the hugely popular Dragonriders Of Pern series written by Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd. There are 22 volumes in total, providing plenty of the kind of world-building and narrative raw materials it has so successfully juiced with J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien. But who are these dragonriders? And where, for that matter, is Pern? For those that aren't au fait with the property, we've answered some of the key questions surrounding what could become a major movie franchise. |
|  | | A Pocket Guide To Game Of Thrones' New Cast Members
Game Of Thrones season five, which commences shooting in two shakes of a direwolf's tail and takes inspiration from the most recent two books in George R.R. Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire, will offer fresh opportunities to enjoy some of our favourite actors on screen before they're inevitably torn apart by dogs, strangled with each others' gizards or incinerated by a dragon. Life expectancy in Westeros being what it is, regular batches of new recruits are needed. Class of July 2014 doesn't disappoint. Its blend of old favourites, fresh-faced up-and-comers and total newbies looks set to further enrich the byzantine schemes of the Seven Kingdoms, as Empire's cast blow-by-blow reveals... |
|  | | Directors Special: Peter Hyams Goes Film-By-Film
Out on DVD and Blu-ray this week, Enemies Closer is a return to action for veteran director Peter Hyams. In an exclusive interview, Empire spoke to him about his reunion with Jean-Claude Van Damme and their original '90s collaborations on Timecop and Sudden Death. We also got him to talk us through a handful of his other classics, including Capricorn One, Outland and the controversial 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel, 2010. |
|  | | Explore The Massive Avengers: Age Of Ultron Comic-Con Banner
One of the treats offered by Comic-Con was this nifty new concept art from Avengers: Age Of Ultron - made up of individually-released character posters . Like Where's Wally, only with Earth's mightiest heroes rather than a perma-tourist in a stripy jumper and a bobbly hat (although we're sure he's in there somewhere), it features franchise newcomers Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Paul Bettany's The Vision in action (top left), alongside Team Avengers. Use this Stark-approved gadget to zoom in on the panorama's many details. |
|  | | Models, Inc. The Inside Story of Sideshow Collectibles
The Joker once mused, "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" For those not blessed with billions, the answer might just be Sideshow Collectibles. At least, if you're looking for great prop replicas, statuettes and figures. We decided to peek behind the curtain at the company's facility to see how the likes of Batman, Superman and Luke Skywalker become collectible figures... |
|  | | 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 |
|  | | Classic Scene: Play It Again Sam
Neurotic film critic Allan (Woody Allen), in love with his friend Dick's wife, Linda (Diane Keaton), and heeding the advice of an imaginary Humphrey Bogart, follows them to the airport where Linda tells him she still loves her husband... |
|  | | How Much Is a Pint Of Milk: Dan Akroyd
He was on a mission from God in The Blues Brothers. He snagged spectres in Ghostbusters. But does fast-talkin' Dan Aykroyd pony up for his pasteurized? |
|  | | Screen To Stage: Shakespeare In Love
Putting Shakespeare In Love onstage feels like a no-brainer. It's a film that often sounds like a play, with all those throwaway Shakespearean lines surrounding the actually Shakespearean lines, and of course it's a film about putting on a play. It's a film that has a lot to say about the importance and strength of drama, and the vital necessity of having a bit with a dog. And in fact here the truth of Henslowe's maxim that "comedy, love and a bit with a dog; that's what they want" is amply demonstrated. The stage show delivers all three in spades, and judged purely on its own considerable merits it succeeds. The only problem is that it proves hard to outdo the film, so people familiar with the original may find this a little less satisfying than those who come to it fresh. |
|  | | 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. |
 
Burt Ward's ringtone is the Rocky theme. 
Jessica Alba has a nappy company. 
Powers Boothe's grandchildren use Jessica Alba nappies. 
If you name your pet 'Nick Fury', Samuel L. Jackson wants you to give it an eye-patch. 
Wesley Snipes wears his 3D glasses over his sunglasses.
 |  | |  | |  | |  |  | | Brian Cox is The Novelizationalist. | | Loki love from Tom Hiddleston to Joss Whedon. | | Vin Diesel does Portuguese Groot. | | Old and new Mad Maxs merged into one. |
If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  .eeffoc fo puc enif nmad a :derutcip toN ?ton yhw ,esuaceB .stunod fo xob gib a htiw emac tes xob skaeP niwT wen lufituaeb sihT
 
Guardians Of The Galaxy 
Colourful, tongue-in-cheek fun, purpose-built for grown-up lovers of kitsch '80s science-fiction. But the Marvel formula is starting to feel, well, a little too formulaic. Also Out
 
Noah
Inventive, ambitious, brutal and beautiful: a potent mythological epic. But also wilfully challenging, as likely to infuriate as inspire, whether through its unmitigated Old Testament harshness or its eco-message revisionism. If only more blockbusters were like this. Also Out
| |
No comments:
Post a Comment