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 | This Week... Take a breather and relax: there are no major movie awards this weekend except for the mini-major Writers Guild awards. That means that, unlike the BAFTAs last weekend (our coverage is here) and the Oscars next weekend (check the nominees and infographics here), you don't have to spend any time assessing dresses or acceptance speeches in the next couple of days. What to do with all that extra time? We have just the thing! The 20 UK finalists in the Jameson Empire Done In Sixty Seconds competition have been chosen , and it's time for YOU to vote for the winner. So make yourself comfortable and prepare for a whole 20 minutes of spills, thrills and vastly shortened film classics. Helen O'Hara Deputy Online Editor, Empire |  | |
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 |  |  |  |  |   Vote Now: The Done In 60 Seconds UK Top 20 Thanks to an incredible selection of 60-second Spielbergs and one-minute Malicks from all over the UK, this year's Done In Sixty Seconds offered a calibre of entries so high that Empire's panel struggled to narrow down them down to just 20. But coffees were drunk, cigars chomped and tough - very tough - decisions were made. Here are the top 20 entries for you to watch, enjoy and vote for! | |
|  |  | The Empire Podcast #48 The guests: Jai Courtney, David Morrissey, David Oyelowo, Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert. The films: A Good Day To Die Hard, Beautiful Creatures, This Is 40. The news: Robert Downey Jr., Quentin Tarantino, The BAFTAs. The questions: a bit weird. All this and more in this bumperiest of bumper-sized Empire Podcasts... P.S. Contains lots of swearing due to a Die Hard 5 "Yippee-kay-12A" rating discussion. |
|  |  | BAFTAs 2013: Argo Wins Big The 2013 EE British Academy Film Awards took place tonight in a rain-drenched London, but even the best efforts of Mother Nature couldn't dampen the spirits of Ben Affleck and the Argo team as they took Best Picture, Best Director and Best Editing. Full list of winners Photos: BAFTA winners BAFTAs: As It Happened Photos: BAFTA red carpet |
|  |  | 2013 Oscar Nominees Profiled: Best Picture 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 24. 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... |
|  |  | 10 Die Hard Movies That Aren't Die Hard Movies The legacy of Die Hard (one splattered German, pissed off FBI types and a lot of sweeping up) wasn't confined to the ground floor of the Nakatomi Plaza. Since 1988, Hollywood has tried to recapture the moment when the action film became a thing of greatness. They weren't always successful. |
|  |  | John Moore Talks A Good Day To Die Hard When Empire catches up with John Moore, it's the day after his new movie, A Good Day To Die Hard, has screened for the first time. He's in fighting form, tackling the issue of Die Hard's 12A cut and the demands of working with Bruce Willis, and hitting back at the franchise's critics. |
|  |  | Olly Moss Talks About His Oscars Poster It's the poster that has taken the internet by storm. This year's official "85 Years of Oscars" one-sheet is yet another belter by the insanely talented Empire contributor Olly Moss - a gorgeous and typically Mossian work which takes an Oscar statue for each Best Picture winner in the awards' history, and tweaks it accordingly for each film. We caught up with Moss for a detailed chat about the poster, its origins and the best reaction he's had to date... |
|  |  | David Fincher Exclusive: The Making Of House Of Cards A gripping entrée to the Machiavellian world of US power politics, House Of Cards is a TV project that's been shepherded onto the small screen with all of David Fincher's usual savvy and attention to detail. Empire went to watch the filmmaker at work and chat to him about the BBC remake. |
|  |  | This Is 40, 30, 20, 10: The Cast Talk Through The Decades We had a fantastic idea when we spoke to the stars and director of This Is 40. What if, we wondered, we asked them about 30, 20 and 10 as well? As it turns out, Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd have been through quite a bit along the way. Here are the very fun results. If a more normal interview is your thing, click over this way. |
|  |  | Pope Pourri With Pope Benedict XVI stepping down at the end of the month, the Catholic Church needs someone - probably a man, we're guessing - to fill in. As usual, the movies have the answer. Well, an answer. We've revisited Hollywood's choices of Fathers to see what, if anything, the holy honchos can glean that might help their decision-making choices. And, holy moley, have there been some strange selections.Pontiff-icate on these... |
|  |  | Tarantino's Revisionist History Trilogy: 6 Time Periods He Could Tackle Next After Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's fans are crying out for a third piece of rewritten history from the walking, talking, movie-referencing man-machine. Speaking at the BAFTA's Winners press conference recently , said this on the topic: "This [rewritten history theme] begs a trilogy, it begs to have a third movie on this theme. I haven't decided about what yet, but I wouldn't be surprised..." But which time period deserves QT's quillwork the most? Here are six suggestions, all of them slightly bonkers and a couple of them actually quite likely... | |  | |
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 |  |  |  |  |   This Is 40  With his fourth film as writer-director, Judd Apatow has arguably made his most personal film yet, without forgetting to make us laugh. |  |  |  | Also Out |  |  | 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. |  | |
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