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This Week... It's been quite a week for huge trailers, hasn't it? Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man all launched new snippets online, a treat for fans that almost made up for the rotten weather of late. So which one was your favourite? Spidey talking about his parents, Batman facing Bane, or Noomi Rapace facing [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS]? Take another look for yourselves below and decide. Also this week, we explained how to survive a zombie apocalypse, brought you an infallible guide to telling Nicholas Sparks movies apart, profiled 25 great TV show title sequences and spoke to the casts of American Pie: Reunion and The Lucky One. And there's another great Empire podcast, this week featuring George RR Martin talking Game Of Thrones (spoiler free!). Helen O'Hara
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Red roses and a Belle doll for the 3D re-issue of Beauty And The Beast today. The dolls go in the vase, right? | | | |
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The Return Of Max Payne
The original Max Payne game came out in 2001, with Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne arriving two years later. Both are still regarded as minor classics, despite Mark Wahlberg's ill-fated (and quite frankly god-awful) cinematic adaptation tarnishing the brand's reputation. Now, nearly a decade later and the company that took over the Max Payne franchise, Rockstar Games - also known as the guys behind GTA, Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire - are finally releasing the franchise's follow-up, taking the bullet-dodging antihero and planting him in the seedy underbelly of São Paulo. | | | |
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TV's Most Inspired Title Sequences
Over the last few years, TV shows have suddenly dropped the boring montage titles that used to predominate - you know, the ones with a shot of all the characters interspersed, perhaps, with a few landscapes to set the scene - and become one of the most innovative areas in entertainment. Some serve as microcosms of the shows they represent; others appear to go off on a tangent; still more create their own little world of comedy, adventure or horror. Here, we've gathered together 25 of the finest out there. Watch them and marvel - and in a few cases, shudder in terror... | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #10 Is Here!
Dicussing the news that Mark Ruffalo's Hulk might get its own spin-off film and/or TV show, as well as the millions upon millions of dollars the film's raked in already outside of the US, those avenging fellows definitely make their presence felt this week, as does Game Of Thrones author George RR Martin, who drops by for a really rather nerdy (and totally spoiler free) chat. |
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|  | | Which Nicholas Sparks Movie Are You Watching?
Nicholas Sparks has become a one-man genre in Hollywood these days. With the success of films like The Notebook and Dear John, he has become Tinseltown's go-to guy for big soppy love stories that do well at the box office. With The Lucky One out this week, we figured it was time to provide you with a handy guide to his films, telling you at a glance which one you're watching at any given time. Read on, and figure out what it is that's on your screen... |
|  | | How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse
Zombies, eh? You can't live with 'em and you can't kill 'em - largely because they're already dead (bastards thought of everything). The best hope, as this week's Juan Of The Dead proves, is to keep as far beyond their mouldy reach as possible, boink a few of them on the head and pray for science to save the day. Tread softly and carry a big cricket bat, as the man might say. Or, failing that, take a leaf out of Columbus' (Jesse Eisenberg) book in Zombieland and "follow the rules". So what are the rules? Columbus has a few and so do we. Read them and then tuck them into your pocket, because one day those shufflers on your morning commute really will be zombies. |
|  | | The Ultimate Scientists Picture Quiz
In the following picture quiz, we use the word 'scientist' as a pretty catch-all term, fitting in gadgeteers, chemists and robot-loving megalomaniacs. It's a broad church, this being clever thing, we feel. Any road, if you think you know you cinematic boffins - and the films they appear in - you're in one hell of a quiz. |
|  | | The Dark Knight Rises: Trailer Breakdown
Well, they're certainly not messing with the wording. "The Epic Conclusion To The Dark Knight Legend" they're calling this and, while not going quite as all-out as the Cinema-Con footage revealed to exhibitors in Las Vegas last week, this latest trailer certainly bangs the big-scale drum. The key word has to be escalation: the threat (Bane) is physically bigger, the damage done to Gotham and its residents greater, the stakes are higher. And now Batman has a flying machine... |
|  | | G.I. Joe Trailer Breakdown
With G.I. Joe: Retaliation's new trailer blasting onto our screens, there's a whole new world of Cobra scheming, Bruce-and-Dwayne buddy mayhem, weaponised 'tec, mysterious ninjas and exploding avalanches for us to chew over. So what's Cobra's devilish plan? What happens to Channing Tatum's Duke in that opening reel? And what in the name of the Olympics is happening to London? Who better to talk us through the carnage than Retaliation's director, Jon Chu? We engaged Empire's satellite to track down the Step Up 3D and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never man to a Hollywood lot where he promised us "a big action-adventure summer movie" that will introduce G.I. Joe to a new generation. But what was it like going from Bieber to Bruce? |
|  | | The Character Name Quiz: Jason Statham
Move over, JCVD; take a hike, Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's Jason Statham's turn for a Ludicrous Action Movie Character Names Quiz, and he's got seriously silly ones for you to guess the film from. Chev Chelios, anyone? Well, quite. And when you're done, don't forget to ask yourself: "What would Jason Statham do?" (Trust us, it's well worth the click). | | | |
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Safe 
A rough, exhausting, exhilarating action picture with a payoff which would have delighted Sam Fuller or Howard Hawks. The Stath - an actual Olympian, remember - is on top form. | | | |
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The Iron Lady 
One of Streep's finest-ever performances. But beyond that - whatever Morgan and Lloyd's intentions - it's little more than a myth-enshrining exercise. | | | |
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