Empire (UK)

HEROES REUNITED!

IAN MCKELLEN & THE HOBBITS • SEAN BEAN & VIGGO MORTENSEN ORLANDO BLOOM & JOHN RHYS-DAVIES • CATE BLANCHETT & LIV TYLER PETER JACKSON & PHILIPPA BOYENS • ANDY SERKIS ON THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM

REBECCA NICHOLSON WENT ON SET WITH PEAKY BLINDERS

“On set with Cillian Murphy and Steven Knight in Birmingham, I held a rubber grenade, which was surprisingly terrifying. A word of warning: once you start saying, ‘By order of the Peaky Blinders’ after every sentence, as a joke, it is very hard to stop.”

This month’s exclusive subscriber cover by Paul Shipper

An artist with a truly cinematic style, who most recently created our Jaws 50th-anniversary subscriber cover earlier this year, Paul was the clear choice to make art inspired by The Odyssey. See more of his award-winning work at...

ROBERT ASCROFT PHOTOGRAPHED SIGOURNEY WEAVER

“I was a little too young when Alien was released, but I saw it anyway. Sigourney Weaver’s strong, complex characters have made her both a film legend and a hero of mine. Shooting on the Avatar stages was remarkable, but working with her made it...

WELCOME

I BELIEVE IT was Dorothy Parker who once wrote, “If you can put flying monkeys on your magazine cover, put flying monkeys on your magazine cover.” With the second and final part of Wicked en route, we’ve gone full Munchkinland, with an epic cover story...

PLUS

SLOW HORSES • THE SMASHING MACHINE • HARRIS DICKINSON THE LOST BUS • CILLIAN MURPHY AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH

WELCOME

“WHEN A FIRE starts to burn/there’s a lesson you must learn,” sang Homer Simpson once. “Something something, then you’ll see/you’ll avoid catastrophe!” He may not have managed to remember all the lyrics, but he got the gist of it right: fire is...

EMPIRE WELCOME

ONE DAY IN 1981, the power in Burbank, Los Angeles, abruptly went out. The source of the brownout was a mystery, until the electric company traced the surge to an address on South Buena Vista Street. It was Walt Disney Studios — specifically the...

THE FANTASTIC FOUR

FLAME ON! ON SET WITH MARVEL’S ICONIC SUPER-FAMILY

YEARS OF JAWS

WE RECRUIT HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS TO CELEBRATE SPIELBERG’S TERRIFYING MASTERPIECE

THUNDERBOLTS*

* GOD HELP THEIR UBER RATING

Plus!

ROBERT DE NIRO ON A LIFE OF WISEGUYS DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN MARVEL GOES TO HELL AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH MEET PANDORA’S DEADLY NEW FOES

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8

THE FIRST WORD ON THE FINAL RECKONING

2024: THE YEAR UNPACKED!

WORLD EXCLUSIVES

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD • HAVOC • SPINAL TAP II • PREDATOR: BADLANDS THUNDERBOLTS* • TRON: ARES • WOLF MAN • JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY • DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN • SEVERANCE

MUFASA: THE LION KING

BARRY JENKINS EXPANDS THE CIRCLE OF LIFE

WELCOME

I WAS HAUNTED by The Terminator. Back in the early ’90s, I hadn’t yet seen James Cameron’s stressful 1984 original — it was an 18 and I was 11 — but I did pay attention when a new cardboard standee arrived at my local video-shop. It depicted a huge...

SOPHIE BUTCHER OVERSAW THE EMPIRE VIP CORALINE SCREENING

“We celebrated Coraline’s 15th anniversary in style with our recent Empire VIP event — which included a 3D screening of the film (creepier than ever), a Q&A with Henry Selick and Teri Hatcher (total delights), and a preview of Laika’s Frame x Frame...

WICKED

WITCHES AND WIZARDS AND SONGS, OH MY!

WELCOME

SOME CALL HIM ‘Sauron’. Some call him ‘the Dark Lord’. Still others call him “that absolutely bloody terrifying massive flaming eye”. Well, arguably the most formidable villain in all of fiction (who else has world-corrupting powers and blingy...

WHEN DOES SUMMER start?

It is a question that has preoccupied mankind since the sun first rose. Astronomy dictates that it begins on 20 or 21 June. Meteorologists maintain that it is 1 June. In fact, neither is true. As all cinemagoers know, summer actually starts when the...