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This Week...
It's all been about Gary Oldman in the Empire offices this week. Not only did we do a video interview with him on Wednesday - along with his Tinker Tailor cast mates Colin Firth and Tom Hardy, and director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriter Peter Straughan - but the once and future Commissioner Gordon also popped in on Thursday for a webchat as a bonus. And frankly, when you've got Sirius Black / Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg / Dracula dropping by, you already have a pretty good week. But as if that weren't enough, the office also played host to Stormtroopers (for the Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray release) and pirates (for the Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides BD and DVD release) and Chris Martin (who was just passing through on his way to Q next door)... Next week has a lot to live up to. Helen O'Hara
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Stormtroopers visited to celebrate the launch of Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray, but we told them Ali and Phil weren't the droids they're looking for, and they went about their business. | | | |
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Helen's excited about attending a management course this week. | | |  | | |
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Under The Radar: Toronto Film Festival Report
There were several films at this year's TIFF that really captured something of the zeitgeist. One was a documentary, two were black comedies, and all three are not likely to become mainstream hits in the short term, simply because they tell the truth about the times we live in. I'll start with Nick Broomfield's Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, mostly because it had the best title of the festival and I never tire of repeating it. | | | |
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Interviews: Tomas Alfredson and the cast of the new spy thriller
A leading contender for the Best Cast Of All Time award, Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy stars Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds and Mark Strong in John Le Carre's Cold War story. As luck, or rather talent, would have it, the result is pretty darn terrific, and so to learn more about it we hopped along to interview Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Tomas Alfredson and writer Peter Straughan for the full, declassified story... | | |
|  | | Inside The Alien Vault
Thirty-two years old and officially enshrined as a sci-fi masterpiece, Alien is still the scariest night in this side of the galaxy. Thanks to Ridley Scott's meticulous collection of Alien artefacts and Empire's own Ian Nathan, a world-leading xenomorphologist, the film's rich universe has been brought to glorious, detailed life in a new book, Alien Vault. There's enough riches in here for Clive Owen to hide amongst - from Dan O'Bannon's facehugger concept art to a glorious array of rarities and unseen photos to schematics of the USCSS Nostromo (yes, you can rebuild it yourself, should you so desire). With Alien Vault out now, Ridley Scott has dipped into his treasure trove to share ten on-set pics, designs and stills. Nathan takes up the story... |
|  | | Jason Bateman Talks The Change Up
So far this year, we've interviewed Jason Bateman three times. There was our chat with him and Sigourney Weaver for Paul back in February, then our chinwag with the Horrible Bosses boys, alongside the other Jason and Charlie Day, and now this, our one-on-one for his latest, the R-rated body swap comedy The Change-Up. Because it's our first one-on-one interview, it's only now we've gotten the chance to ask him the all-important Empire questions: "What's your favourite sandwich?" and "What's your favourite Muppet?" That, of course, and a whole lot more -- including news on the Arrested Development movie... |
|  | | Gary Oldman Web Chat
Gary Oldman has played many things: punk, wizard, vampire, megalomaniac, dirty cop, good cop, spy. But he has never, until today, faced the ultimate challenge: taking the questions of Empire readers in webchat form. Read on to find out more about his stellar career to date, his preferred sandwich and all the other vital facts that other interviewers are too scared to ask... |
|  | | Charlie Higson's Guide To Movie Zombies
Charlie Higson started out as a punk singer, before becoming a novelist writing violent adult farces like King Of The Ants and Getting Rid Of Mister Kitchen, and, of course, a comedy writer and performer with Harry Enfield and The Fast Show. In recent years he's turned to writing for children with the 'Young Bond' series, and now with 'The Enemy' books, set in a Britain where all the adults have been rubbed out by a zombie infection, leaving the immune kids to fend for themselves. Higson is unleashing part 3, The Fear, and to mark the occasion, he took us through his favourite zombie movies. |
|  | | Luke Treadaway And Natalia Tena On You Instead
Like Dublin-set romance Once with wellies on and a can of lager in its hand, You Instead is a musical affair set amid the mud and festival joys of T In The Park. It stars Luke Treadaway as the lead singer of a Killers-like indie band and Natalia Tena as an indie star in the making. Throw in a pair of handcuffs, two unsatisfying relationships and some feisty chemistry and you've got all the makings of a uniquely British romance that's 'indie' in every sense of the word. The Attack The Block actor and his talented co-star talked Empire through the film's breakneck shoot and the experience of having to wow 40,000 Scottish musos. Tena, lead singer of Molotov Jukebox, had a bit of a head start on this one. Plus she's Nymphadora Tonks, which probably wouldn't have hurt. |
|  | | Entourage: The 20 Best Cameos
The eighth and final season of Entourage is drawing to a starry close, like Vinnie Chase doing one last lap of the LA talent-pool. It's time to celebrate by paying tribute to some of the show's most satisfying cameo appearances. Of course, there's more to HBO's contagious bromance than celebrities playing twisted versions of themselves - it's all about friendship, kids - but they've always been fun, spot-on and added another layer of realism to the already pitch-perfect depiction of Hollywood life life. Come'on, where else would you see Sydney Pollack and Kanye West on the same cast list? Here's our pick of 20 favourites. |
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to me. | | | |
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Some pirates visited the office and gave us all eyeliner and flags and, oh yes, copies of Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (out this week, y'see) as well. | | | |
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 
Utterly absorbing, extremely smart and - considering this is a sad, shabby, drably grey-green world of obsessives, misfits, misdirection, disillusionment, self-delusion and treachery - quite beautifully executed. | | | |
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