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 |  This Week... Snow, eh? Love it (everyone with any sense) or hate it (everyone who commutes), it's everywhere right now and we've been having a ball pelting Chris with snowballs innocently making snowmen. In keeping with the weather, you can revisit our great movie snow scenes feature, or if you're trying to forget the cold, warm the cockles of your heart with our new Tron covers. And you can also catch up on our Sharlto Copley webchat, wherein the star of District 9 and The A-Team revealed himself to be a huge Goonies fan, a cat person and a demon typist. As if that weren't exciting enough, voting has just opened for the Jameson Empire Awards 2011, which means YOU get to determine which beautiful, talented people making movies right now will get to turn up and receive the ultimate accolade: hanging with the Empire staff. Er. Receiving an Empire award, I mean. Either way, vote now, and decide whether fame or ignominy will reward the filmmakers of the last year... Helen O'Hara Deputy Online Editor, Empire |  | |
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 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Inside The Issue Tron Legacy: The Ultimate Guide It's almost upon us, but there's still lots to tell about Tron Legacy, and we have the full story. There are three rather spiffing covers to choose from (pick Jeff Bridges' Flynn, Garret Hedlund's Sam Flynn or Olivia Wilde's Quorra) and then everything that you might want to know about the film inside. Oscars Special! True Grit, Johnny Depp, Black Swan, Annetee Bening, The King's Speech, Angelina Jolie... Plus: Review Of The year, The Green Hornet, Drive Angry, Scream 4, The Muppets and much, much more. Click here for details | |  | |
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 |  |  |  | I would so hit my head on the boom. Phil discussing the perils of having sex during a TV interview. |  |  |  |  | |
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 |  |  |  |  |   Irvin Kershner: Sometimes You Only Need One Film It's fair to say that the thousand of movie fans paying tribute to Irvin Kershner today are, for the most part, doing it because of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Generally accepted to be the best of the series, Empire Strikes Back is a near-perfect film, setting a high bar for sequels that most of them fail to reach, let alone jump. And while many of Kershner's other films as director look set for obscurity (or already well down that road) this one alone will ensure him some sort of enduring fame. Sometimes all you need is one film. The catch is that you need one bloody brilliant film. | |  | |
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 |  |  |  |  |   Peter Weir Webchat One of Australia's finest exports, Peter Weir is one of the most consistently good directors out there, working in different genres, countries and decades but never making a bad film: check out Master and Commander, Dead Poet's Society, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Gallipoli and The Truman Show. As his latest film, epic prison break movie The Way Back, approaches its Boxing Day release date, we've got the Wizard of Oz coming in to face the questions of Empire readers and give us the scoop on his career to date. Come along on Tuesday December 7 at 1pm (GMT) and join us! It's like Christmas come early. | | |
|  |  | Vote Now For The Jameson Empire Awards 2011 Empire needs YOU. Yes, it's that time of year again, when we start girding our loins for the film event of the year. Well, next year. For the Jameson Empire Awards 2011 are coming - right around the corner, in fact, on March 27th - and we need you to pick the winners. After all, it's your involvement that makes the Jameson Empire Awards so goshdarned unique. |
|  |  | Undeniably Awesome Unpublished Posters Poster campaigns are increasingly gargantuan these days - just ask Warner Bros. Harry Potter team - but still, some slip through the net: a few because they're just not good enough; some because they don't fit with the rest of the series; others, well, who knows? It's a collection of the amazing-but-not-suitable one-sheets that we've got here for you today, to judge, inspect, and decide whether they're better than the ones that made it. And yes, expect some Drew Struzan numbers - just because he really is that good. |
|  |  | The Genius Of Leslie Nielsen Leslie Nielsen died last night at the age of 84, and the world just lost an essential bit of comedy. In tribute to the man who inspired a devoted following and launched a million quote-offs, we present a guide to some of his funniest and greatest moments. We're not going to write too much about his early career and serious roles (you can read more about that in our obituary here), but we have instead assembled his very funniest lines from his very best films. Read, imagine or remember Nielsen delivering these lines in his best deadpan, laugh, and remember a heck of a comedy talent. |
|  |  | Ten Real-life Murderers More Terrifying Than Norman Bates Psycho is the daddy of all monster movies - a horror film-slash-thriller in which 'slash' is very much the operative word. That we know. What's less well known is that the inspiration for Norman Bates - as well as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's Leather Face and Buffalo Bill in Silence Of The Lambs - was real-life killer Ed Gein. But how close did Psycho come to capturing his horrific crimes? And how close did David Fincher get to the truth of the Zodiac murders? We've taken our Taggart-like eye to analyse Hollywood's take on real serial killers. Step over our metaphorical yellow police tape to find out the real stories behind the screen killers... |
|  |  | Diane Lane: Her Best Roles Horse-racing biopic Secretariat gallops into cinemas this week. While it might have the nag's name in the title, the real story is about the swift-hoofed horse's owner, Penny Chenery. Lane's enjoyed an eclectic career through the years, and we know she has plenty of fans among you out there, so we thought we'd list what we think are her best work... |
|  |  | Mistakes Animated Villains Make With their dastardly, if complicated, schemes and endless resources, animated villains really should be running the world by now. Instead they occupy a hall of shame built from bricks made of crushed hopes and broken dreams. From Captain Hook to the lion-shaped fail that is Scar, they get an A for effort and a big fat F for execution. This week, though, Will Ferrell's space-fiend Megamind shows us that, if you do your prep and work really hard, you really can destroy all goodness and kindness in the world. Sadly, as Megamind discovers, you need an end game too. But with the help of our easy guide to the do's-and-don'ts of on-screen villainy (and a team of highly-paid Hollywood animators), you too can become an ultimate animated badass. Mwahahahahaha! |
|  |  | Pint Of Milk: Leslie Nielsen Actor, comedian, deadpan genius: Leslie Nielsen will be much missed. He gave us belly laughs, magical moments, and, in Frank Drebin, the most brilliantly hapless cop in screen history. In January this year he sat down with Empire to run the interrogation gauntlet that is Pint of Milk. It was one of his last interviews. Here, in tribute to the great man, is that Q&A in full. |
|  |  | The Ultimate Blue Picture Quiz Megamind is out this week, and as you might have noticed, he's a bit blue. To make him feel better (d'ya see what we did there?) we've gathered together a 30 strong collection of similarly azure characters from which we're asking you to identify their films of origin. Some of them are easy, some of them are crazy hard, all of them are blue -- in one way or another. And no, none of them are from "blue movies". Get your mind out of the gutter; this is a respectable website! |
|  |  | 16 Movie Stars You Didn't Know Appeared In Games If you've recently played Fallout: New Vegas, you'll no doubt have been surprised to meet a character called Benny Gecko, played by Matthew Perry, and another, a decrepit, rotting, zombie-like mutant by the name of Raul - voiced by Danny Trejo. That's right, Danny Trejo, as in Machete Danny Trejo, otherwise known as the world's greatest bad guy. So in honour of his gaming voiceover work, and his first leading role as Robert Rodriguez's Mexpoitation knife obsessive, here's some of Hollywood's finest who've appeared in non movie tie-in video games. |
|  |  | Sharlto Copley Webchat In his brief feature film career, Sharlto Copley has already placed a prawn-like space alien and brought one of the most beloved and iconic TV characters to the big screen. Not bad for just two short years, no? Anyway, as he was in town, we thought we'd ask him to drop by for a chat. A webchat, in fact. Here's what's he said, all typed up by the man himself. Seriously, he put us to shame. |
|  |  | Empire's Christmas Gift Guide 2010 Did you know that there are less than 6 weeks worth of shopping days till Christmas? Did you know that horrendously well-organised people are already scooping up the best stuff out there? And of course you're probably still recovering from last year and wishing it was still June. But fear not! Empire is here to help, bringing you the coolest kit this Christmas for the discerning present buyer. After all, if you get good stuff for the people around you, they might get you good stuff in return. It's a double-whammy! | |  | |
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 |  |  |  |  |   Monsters  An amazing achievement for a 'first-time' filmmaker, which measures up to the finest indies for performance and character-work, and the biggest blockbusters for jaw-dropping effects. And it has the year's best sex scene, too. |  |  |  | Also Out |  |  | Watch Video This Week's Video Trailers And Clips Every week, our video player will update to show trailers and clips from the week's movie releases listed above. |  | |
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