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This Week...
As we nursed our sore heads post-BAFTAs on Monday and packed away the dictionaries we'd used to decipher Stephen Fry's speech, by some strange magic the awesome Dan Aykroyd appeared in the Empire office to high-five us back into high spirits. In fact, it wasn't just us he high-fived; he insisted on pressing flesh with nearly everyone in the building, up to and including the befuddled security guard, before returning to pose with this pic with his phalanx of fans right here. Because that's the kind of man he is. He also webchatted his way through a stack of your questions on his Crystal Head vodka, Ghostbusters 3, Dragnet, and Jake and Elwood dance moves. Unfortunately we completely forgot to ask him to help clear that pesky Sumarian demigod out of the fridge. Oh well, next time. Phil de Semlyen
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The Avengers Exclusive! Four Covers To Choose From!
The Avengers Everyone, assemble! We have exclusive on-set access to the stars and filmmakers of our superhero crossover cover movie. Turns out they even geek out over each other, which is sort of adorable. The Girls Of Skyfall Another Bond film, another pair of stunningly gorgeous actresses set to romance Bond and/or try to kill him. Naomie Harris and Berenice Marlohe explain why their characters are women to be reckoned with. Plus: Wrath Of The Titans, The Hunger Games, American Pie: Reunion, Woody Harrelson, This Means War and much, much more. Subscribe today! Only £25 for 12 issues! or pick it up in shops now!
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Empire's deduction double-act, Ali 'Pensive' Plumb and Martin 'Martin' Barry, sporting a range of Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows leisurewear. If the whole crime-solving thing doesn't work out for Robert Downey Jr., look out for a range of Holmes high-street hoodies. | | | |
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How The Audience Can Make Or Break A Film
My parents went to see The Woman In Black this weekend, and learned something about the importance of the audience you see a film with. You see, that Friday screening was full of teenage girls who had (we're guessing here) grown up watching Daniel Radcliffe play Harry Potter and had gone to his new film on that basis. And it's fair to say that they were not prepared for a scary film. There were screams. There were groups of teenage girls running out of the cinema at particularly traumatic points. There was, essentially, audience participation in the form of involuntary reactions. And the question is, what do we all think of that? | | | |
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Oscars 2012 Hub
Your one-stop-shop of Oscariness. This year Empire's Academy Awards coverage is so comprehensive that if George Clooney so much as sneezes, we'll be there to wipe his nose. | |
|  | | The BAFTAs 2012: As It Happened
Who would be foolish enough to get involved in a glamour-off with Clooney and co on the BAFTAs red carpet, we hear you ask? That's right. Not us. But we did blog our way through the highs and lows of the gala night of the British film calendar. Full list of winners Photos of all the winners Photos from the red carpet |
|  | | What Not To Do If You Win An Oscar
It was, as they say, a night to remember. Following The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, Peter Jackson's team swept the Academy Awards, taking home every single one of the 11 Oscars they were nominated for and equally the all-time record of Ben Hur and Titanic. As part of our Oscar preparations, here we bring you the magazine's recent oral history of that night, the first time an entire nation has received all of Oscar's love. |
|  | | The Night Lord Of The Rings Swept The Board
It was, as they say, a night to remember. Following The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, Peter Jackson's team swept the Academy Awards, taking home every single one of the 11 Oscars they were nominated for and equally the all-time record of Ben Hur and Titanic. As part of our Oscar preparations, here we bring you the magazine's recent oral history of that night, the first time an entire nation has received all of Oscar's love. |
|  | | Exclusive Dan Aykroyd Webchat
Dan Aykroyd is a very personable man, walking into the Empire office with a beaming smile on his face and shouting, "Deadlines, people, deadlines!" The one-time buster of ghosts was in town promoting his particular brand of vodka - Crystal Head Vodka - which, would you believe it, comes in the shape of a crystal skull. Sitting next to one such skull, he answered questions about all sorts of things, from Ghostbusters 3 (of course) to the fine art of keeping a cigarette dangling on his bottom lip. All this and more in our exclusive Dan Aykroyd webchat transcript... |
|  | | Kristin Scott Thomas On The Woman In The Fifth
If you want to meet Kristin Scott Thomas - and let's be honest, you do want to meet Kristin Scott Thomas - Paris is the place to do it. The émigrée actress haunts the streets of the City of Lights, where she's busy building a career in French cinema, finding creative inspiration, and probably stocking up on croissants and smelly cheeses from time to time too. Her latest role, the eponymous Woman In The Fifth in Pawel Pawlikowski's art thriller, sees her returning to her first language to play the mysterious muse to Ethan Hawke's tortured writer. Empire hoped on the Eurostar to meet the actress and Pawlikowski, the man behind 2004's acclaimed My Summer of Love. |
|  | | Charlie Brooker Talks Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker seems to be everywhere these days. He's on Twitter, he's on 10 O'Clock Live, he's in the paper, he's on the radio, he's writing scripts - the man doesn't stop. His most recent success was his Twilight Zone-esque sci-fi series Black Mirror, a three-part exploration of modern culture and its dependance on technology. Given the chance to talk to him about it all, we ended up discussing Network, his writing alter ego and the chance of Nathan Barley returning one day - that is, if he ever has the time. |
|  | | Oscar Nominees 2012: Pros And Cons
It's that time of year again, as Hollywood's finest find themselves, with alarming regularity, donning outfits that cost more than your house and jewellery worth more than you will earn in a lifetime. But awards season is all building to one supreme event, the Empire Awards Oscars on February 26. Ahead of that milestone, we assess the chances of each nominee in the major categories, and see who's looking good ahead of the big night… Oscar Nominees 2012: Best Picture Oscar Nominees 2012: Best Director Oscar Nominees 2012: Best Actor Oscar Nominees 2012: Best Actress Oscar Nominees 2012: Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominees 2012: Best Supporting Actress |
|  | | The Sexiest Characters In Cinema
Forget George Clooney, pay no attention to Scarlett Johansson. This is about film characters, not film stars, and we asked you to decide on the most attractive fictional creatures of all time. We probably shouldn't have been surprised at the number of catsuit-wearers who turned up in the results (they just outnumber the bikini or tuxedo lovers) but you may be surprised by a few names here, both for how high (or low) certain heartthrobs place and who makes the cut. Read on to learn more, and even learn a few ace chat-up lines that are GUARANTEED to work if you ever meet these fictional characters... | | | |
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. | | | |
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An amazingly tiny and particularly stylish Jawbone ERA bluetooth headset. Not only is this said to be the king of all hands-free sets but it has military-grade noise-cancelling technology. Military grade! That said, we've tried repeatedly to call in a tactical air strike with it to no effect. Perhaps we didn't read the instructions properly... | | | |
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Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance 
Like Ghost Rider: Low Voltage, this is a surprisingly underpowered excursion into Marvel's mad world by Neveldine and Taylor. More purgatory than hellfire. | | | |
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To Kill A Mockingbird 
A classic adaptation of an American classic. Storytelling doesn't get much better than this. | | | |
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