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This Week...
With the nights getting longer and the days getting colder, chances are you're spending more time indoors at the moment. So why not use that time productively? We have two rather spiffing competitions you might be interested in. First of all, Done In Sixty Seconds is once again rearing its proud head and demanding your attention. If you can remake a film in a minute, you too could be in with a chance of winning and attending the Jameson Empire Awards next year, so have a look here for inspiration and get cracking. If graphic design is more your thing, why not have a go at redesigning the Empire Award. Your design could be put into production for the event and could end up gracing the mantlepieces, trophy cabinets and bathrooms of Hollywood's finest. But if you're feeling less energetic than all that, slip on over to Empire Online and enjoy some of the fine features below. Helen O'Hara
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo The Icon Unveiled. David Fincher, His Lisbeth and the film event of the year, The only magazine on set! Steven Spielberg In our exclusive interview, Steven talks about his future projects: Lincoln, The Adventures Of Tintin and Robopocalypse. Plus: Emma Stone, The Last Action Hero, Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, Martin Scorsese's Hugo, In Time, Brad Pitt and much, much more.
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Brand New Woman In Black Trailer
We've seen a fair few The Woman In Black trailers now, from the original teaser back in April to the proper trailer in August and now this, another, bigger, scarier, most shocking version of August's taster. As it's a scary-movie-fillum, we'll spare you the actual details of the trailer and let you excited/worried/scared good and proper, but know this: it's looking promising. | | | |
More New Videos: Shame Trailer Hits The Net McQueen & Fassbender, erotic dramatists. New In Time Character Featurette Meet the stars of Andrew Niccol's latest New Agent Coulson Short Online One-shot on the way to Thor's hammer... Exclusive Clip From Anonymous Hamlet, via Roland Emmerich. The Devil Inside Trailer Is Up Exorcism scares this way! Scorpion King 3 Trailer Online Plus more Death Race on the way. Second Tintin Trailer Arrives Bikes, boats, fire and sandwiches. Piranha 3DD Teaser Drifts Online Nasty fish hassle the Hoff... New Game Of Shadows Trailer Online 'Just follow my lead...' New Decendants Poster And Clip George Clooney hits the beach. The Flowers Of War Trailer Online Bale does his Christian duty. | | |
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Some Contagion goodies for the Steven Soderbergh film out this week. Don't worry, we washed our hands before we touched them. | | | |
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Lucy enjoyed Alex Gibney's new documentary Magic Trip. However, we hasten to add that Empire (and indeed Mr Gibney, and indeed Lucy) does not endorse drug use. | | |  | | |
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Guest Blog: Peter Lord's Pirates! Diary Part 2
Greetings swabs! There's only nine weeks shooting left on the Pirates! movie, so they tell me. In some worlds nine weeks is a long time. In our world of animation, it seems like nothing, the blink of an eye. The end of the shoot is alarmingly close. It's not terribly easy to explain what 'shooting' means in the world of stop-motion – not without pictures at any rate – but I'll give it a try. | | | |
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Flowchart: Which Movie Plague Are You Infected With?
The cinema can be a dangerous place for hypochondriacs. Even before the film starts there'll be people sneezing and coughing and possibly breathing in your vicinity - and then, if you've been unfortunate enough to choose the wrong film, you may be subjected to images of disease-terror on the screen as well. With Steven Soderbergh's Contagion hitting screens this week, we've compiled a helpful flowchart to help you narrow down what might be wrong with you, cinematically-speaking. Hope this helps - and get well soon! | | |
|  | | Tilda Swinton: A Viewer's Guide
Aside from looking amazing in trousers and sometimes having Fido Dido hair, Tilda Swinton stands out a mile in any Hollywood identity parade. She's well known for boasting one of the most eclectic, intriguing bodies of work of any actor currently working, an Academy Award and a determination to do things her own way. After all, among all the battle-hardened Method actors and wet-behind-the-ears starlets, it's pretty rare to hear a movie star confessing that, all things being equal, they'd just as happily be doing something else. Swinton, though, is a pretty rare movie star. "Acting," she's said, "is something that I have relatively little interest in". God help us when she finds something she is interested in. Until then, we're happy to watch her light up the work of directors like Jarmusch, Fincher, Jarman and the Coen brothers. Now with We Need To Talk About Kevin, she's united with fellow Scot Lynne Ramsay, to wow and disturb festival crowds with a powerful adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel. It's time to talk about Tilda. |
|  | | A Brief History Of Open Legs Movie Posters
There are many movie poster clichés out there, and we like to think we know a thing or two about them after writing features like THIS. But one of the most egregious gimmicks anyone can use on a movie poster is using a pair of pins to frame the rest of the cast looking up from underneath, or off in the distance. In its heyday, it was everywhere (including Honey I Blew Up The Kid back in 1992) but recently, it had all but disappeared - until The Sitter came along (below). So to celebrate / humiliate those who have used this technique to sell their film, here is our brief history of legsy movie posters, kicking off with (no pun intended) For Your Eyes Only... |
|  | | Become A Silent Movies Expert In Ten Easy Movies
From the opening frame of the Lumière brothers' earliest film to Al Jolson's first words in The Jazz Singer 32 years later, filmmakers had to tell their stories without recourse to recorded sound. Bummer, no? Thankfully, from Buñuel to Buster Keaton and Arbuckle to Abel Gance, there were enough great talents about to make light work of these limitations. If you think the silent era was all about silly pratfalls, flapper dresses and incessant saloon bar scores - with the odd eyeball slicing thrown in for good measure - think again. With a new silent film, The Artist, paying homage to the era before 'talkies', it's high time to look at a glorious era in movie history. Here, in chronological order, are ten to get you started... |
|  | | Pam Grier On Jackie Brown, In Her Own Words
It's strange now to remember the muted response that greeted Quentin Tarantino's third film: an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's hard-boiled novel Rum Punch, that transformed Jackie Burke into Jackie Brown. Still perhaps the overlooked middle child between QT's early films and his more recent work, it holds up on revisiting as more intricate than Reservoir Dogs and tighter in its focus than Pulp Fiction. While the likes of the Kill Bills and Inglourious Basterds have been high-concept comic books, Jackie Brown remains a love letter from Tarantino, both to seventies cinema, and to his star Pam Grier. To mark the release of the fifteenth-anniversary Blu-ray, Grier took us through her photo album... |
|  | | Jamie Bell Talks Retreat
As any fan of a certain spiky-haired Belgian reporter will tell you, Jamie Bell is an actor very much on the up-and-up. No longer merely "Billy Elliott", Bell has been spreading his wings in a variety of roles of late, tackling bloodthirsty Celts (not literally) in The Eagle and making himself at home in the more genteel surrounds of Jane Eyre. There were none of those Georgian creature comforts in his latest film, Brit thriller Retreat, though. It was just a cottage out in the back and beyond, with a global pandemic rampaging away outside. As he tells Empire: "It's a slight change after Tintin..." Carl Tibbetts On Retreat The first-time director on his Brit thriller Cillian Murphy Talks Retreat 'For some reason I always end up covered in blood!' Empire Meets Thandie Newton The actress on Brit thriller Retreat |
|  | | The 100 Best British Films Ever
It's time to start singing Land Of Hope And Glory, down pints of warm beer and possibly have a nice cup of tea and a crumpet, because we have assembled the finest 100 British films ever made. It's been difficult to narrow down the selection and still represent the many facets of British cinema - from kitchen sink dramas to Cockney gangsters to boy wizards and costume dramas - but we think we've managed a pretty comprehensive selection. Step this way, and revel in some of the cinema world's best ever films. Click on each picture to read the full rationale behind each choice, and look out for a few extended features for some entries. |
|  | | The Ultimate Multiple Role Picture Quiz
Monte Carlo is out this week, starring Selena Gomez as Grace Bennett and Cordelia Winthrop-Scott, the former an American girl, the latter a spoiled British heiress. Gomez actually pulls off a decent Limey accent, joining the hallowed ranks of actors-who-can-do-the-multiple-roles-thing on film. So to celebrate, here's a picture quiz based around just that: actors performing multiple roles in one movie. And just so you know, it starts off with Eddie Murphy, and ends with Eddie Murphy, but everything inbetween? Totally not Eddie Murphy-related. That's a promise. | | | |
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to me. | | | |
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Thompson, Thomson, Thompson, Thomson, Thompson and Thomson visited the Empire offices (and picked up a copy) to celebrate the release of The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn next week. | | | |
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Contagion 
A starkly effective ensemble drama which could well do for the sniffles what Jaws did for great whites. | | | |
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The Messenger 
A worthy addition to the canon of Iraq war films, The Messenger has a gentle humanity that creeps under your skin. Look out for a terrific Harrelson turn, too. | | | |
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