Empire's Jaws Week, Third Hobbit Has A Name & Date, New Clip From Byzantium, Keira Knightley Video Interview, What The Heck Is Cloud Atlas?

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This Week... We have been celebrating Shark Jaws Week here at Empire as Steven Spielberg's piscine epic gets its Blu-ray release, and things got really exciting when a floating shark was delivered on Tuesday. It's been swimming around overhead ever since and menacing our colleagues next door, as well as (unsuccessfully) filing copy across the room and proving a terribly distracting addition to meetings. This week also saw the launch of this year's BFI London Film Festival line-up, on a slightly more serious note, so that we've spent a few happy hours scheduling in the films we want to see and planning our October around the Festival. And we even got a delivery of cupcakes from one of our lovely readers. So we've had balloon sharks, movie goodness and cake. It doesn't get much better than that. Helen O'Hara Deputy Editor, Empire

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London Film Festival Line-Up Announced Seven Psychopaths and Argo on the cards Michael Clarke Duncan Has Died Much-loved actor was 54 The Third Hobbit Has A Name & Date Middle story is The Desolation Of Smaug

New Clip From Byzantium Neil Jordan has a gift for coming up with a fresh take on supernatural characters. He tackled werewolves in The Company Of Wolves, recently took a really interesting approach to a story about selkies in Ondine - and of course made Interview With The Vampire. Now he's back with a very different approach to the blood-sucking undead with Byzantium, which is about to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Here's an exclusive clip from the film. More new videos to watch: Song For Marion Trailer Tunes Up Terence Stamp finds the music within. New Cloud Atlas Trailer Hits The Web Everything is (even more) connected. New Taken 2 'Net Trailer Watch it. Or Liam Neeson will find you. Trailer For Levinson's The Bay Arrives Stay out of the water - again! Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Trailer Renner & Arterton tool up. Liar's Autobiography Trailer Online Graham Chapman's life gets animated. First Clip From Great Expectations Pip meets Magwitch! Latest On The Road Trailer Rolls In 'The ones who are mad to live...'

Lawless moonshine jars, which will now hold the vast quantities of hooch that enable us to get through the working day.

Hell yes I'm an early adopter. I adopt that shit before you've even heard of it. James explaining how he bought a DVD player before they were even on sale in the UK and imported all his discs for a year.

Me And Jaws: Empire Goes Swimming With Sharks Since I first watched Jaws as a cowering ten year-old, I've always had a strange fascination with sharks. I loved Jaws - I still do 15-odd views later - but it's always seriously coloured my view of the sea. That's true of a lot of people, but I've had it particularly bad. Even on the English shoreline, where you're unlikely to encounter anything more deadly than a disorientated whiting, I see an ocean teeming with psychotic cacharodon carcharias wanting to do me in the eyeball like old Ben Gardner.

Jaws Week As you may have noticed, we're a little excited about Jaws' Blu-ray release. We have, in fact, used it as an excuse to get our Spielberg guru Ian Freer to examine every possible aspect of the film and explain everything you could possibly need to know about Jaws in one handy series of features. We analyse the USS Indianapolis speech, look at the filmmaking techniques used and even pit Quint and Hooper against one another. Dive in, why don't you? The Empire Podcast #27 The director (John Hillcoat) and writer (Nick Cave) of Lawless made their way into Empire's podcast studio this week to talk about their tale of moonshine-smuggling brothers taking on an eyebrow-less Guy Pearce smothered in flammable hair product. Elsewhere, the podcast team discuss cinema's best movie deaths, Chris's cameo in Burke & Hare and the weekend's biggest releases, including Dredd, Anna Karenina and That's My Boy. Keira Knightley Talks Anna Karenina In Joe Wright's dizzying new Tolstoy adaptation Anna Karenina, Keira Knightley follows in the gilded footsteps of Greta Garbo, Vivien Leigh and Sophie Marceau in portraying fur-coated Russian heroine. So refined on the surface, yet bursting with emotion, her performance is an impressive addition to the character's roll of honour. So Empire did the obvious thing and galloped over to her hotel to ask her about... well, Mark Ruffalo. But then we did spoke to everyone else - Joe Wright, Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson included - about 19th century Russia, so that seemed only reasonable. John Hillcoat And Nick Cave Talk Lawless John Hillcoat and Nick Cave are the directing/writing team behind Ghosts... Of The Civil Dead, The Proposition and now Lawless, a tale of three moonshine-smuggling brothers in Franklin County, Virginia squaring off against Guy Pearce's city slicker corrupt cop, Special Agent Charlie Rakes. In their Empire video interview, they discuss the magic of Gary Oldman, what moonshine actually tastes like and those funny old 1920s vehicles the Bondurant family like to drive. What The Heck Is Cloud Atlas? If you take Bright Star, The Parallax View, The Road and Amadeus, add a sprinkle of Blade Runner and a dash of One Foot In The Grave - bear with us here - give them a shake and pour the heady mix out onto the screen, you'd have something close to Cloud Atlas. Well, probably. The whole concept is so melon-twistingly different that we need to see it to believe it - despite the five-minute trailer that's recently dazzled us. To help prep for Cloud Atlas we've assembled everything you need to know about the Wachowskis/Tykwer epic... James Murphy Talks Shut Up And The Play The Hits When Empire met LCD Soundsystem frontman - sorry, ex-LCD Soundsystem frontman - James Murphy to chat about the new documentary / concert film charting the aftermath (and before-math) of the band's final gig at Madison Square Garden, he was nursing a dicky ankle and confined to his leather chair. His Orson Welles moment seemed apt bearing in mind Shut Up And Play The Hits' mournful ruminations on moving on. The movie isn't all about getting on a bit, though. The gig footage, shot partly by LCD video director Spike Jonze, is epic. We found out what Jonze brought to the table, chatted about Murphy's film score work, and got the low-down on LCD Soundsystem's tour bus viewing of choice. 14 Of The Web's Best Batman Sketches Though Christopher Nolan, Frank Miller and others have taken the once camper-than-camp Batman and dragged him growling into the darkness, there remains something inherently silly about a man pretending to be a bat, flapping about in a big black cape. Ever observant, the internet has noticed this, and for the past seven years has poked fun at The Caped Crusader and his villainous adversaries. As The Dark Knight Rises winds up its stay at cinemas (and beats The Avengers at the UK box office, to boot) we thought it was high time we paid our respects to the web's best efforts. Here, then, are 13 of the funniest Bat-parodies; add your own favourites in the comments box below... The Ultimate Chins Picture Quiz This year's finest chin acting comes from Karl Urban in Dredd, with every snarl, grimace and smile - okay, maybe not smile - conveying the same number of emotions seen in the average Keanu Reeves movie. To honour his work, here are 27 of cinema's finest chins for you to work out the name of the film from, starting with Dredd's ultimate adversary... himself. Kind of, anyway.

Dredd comics, T-shirt and - most usefully - badge, which will perpetually remind people that I am the Law.

Nathan Fillion gets awesomer. There's a global strategic maple syrup reserve? Nick Cave drinks lattes with two sugar if you're buying. Jude Law doesn't think Spurs will finish in the top four. Stanley Tucci used to model jeans.

Batman dancing is the best. Well this is adorable. Baby experiences every emotion just waking up. Bad lip-reading: Twilight. If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us.

Anna Karenina If it doesn't ultimately engage your heart as it might, Anna Karenina is period drama at its most exciting, intoxicating and modern. Spellbinding. Also Out Dredd He is the law, apparently. Lawless The booze brothers. Shut Up And Play The Hits Hip to be (Madison) square. The Queen Of Versailles Second in line to the King Of Kong. That's My Boy Parenthood, Sandler-style. Love William Eubank pulls a Moon. A Night In The Woods Evil lurks in the West Country. Tabu Portuguese poetry. 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.

The Hunger Games As thrilling and smart as it is terrifying. There have been a number of big-gun literary series brought to screen over the past decade. This slays them all. Also Out The Trial Welles' version of Kafka's novel. Cloclo Claude François gets the Vie En Rose treatment. The Island President It's not easy being green. Piranha 3DD The franchise goes bust... Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Seafood cocktail. Albert Nobbs Close But No Cigar. 101 Dalmatians Classic pup-napping tale. Jaws Bigger boat still needed.

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