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|  This Week... News emerged this week that Grumpy Cat is to be the subject of a new feature film, marking either a high point or nadir in the history of cinema, depending on your feelings on memes. The good news is that it might finally cheer the cat up; the bad news is that it makes Reddit the most powerful studio in town. But if that's just too depressing, we have the answer: the new issue of Empire is now on shelves both actual and virtual, and it's a particularly tasty offering. Our adamantium-injected cover (our editor assures us it's real adamantium and not just shiny stuff) celebrates The Wolverine, while inside Hugh Jackman talks us through his long history with the metal-boned mutant. Meanwhile, Guillermo del Toro writes about Pacific Rim and a lifelong love affair with monsters; Joss Whedon makes Much Ado About Nothing and also Avengers 2 and the team behind Breaking Bad reveal the secrets to its success as the show approaches its final episodes. Add in Bruce Lee, The World's End, Thor 2, Kick-Ass 2 and loads more and you have a frankly unmissable offering - get it while it's hot, and before it becomes an internet meme and then a movie. Special Empire Readers Offer
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A pair of very posh-looking Bass Buds Obsession earphones complete with Swarovski crystal ends and a compact but surprisingly powerful BassBoomz bluetooth speaker, which is currently thumping Trent Reznor's score to The Social Network around the Empire office. | | | |
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The Most Gratuitous Scenes In Sci-Fi
Recently screenwriter Damon Lindelof has admitted that Alice Eve's underwear shot in Star Trek Into Darkness is "gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed actress", while JJ Abrams said "I don't think I quite edited the scene in the right way" (and, as some sort of recompense, offered up a cut scene of Benedict Cumberbatch in the shower). Alas, this is hardly the only, or the most egregious, case of gratuitous nudity or scanty costuming in science fiction. We - gratuitously - gather together a few more examples to highlight the issue... | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #63
It's a difficult-to-spell interviewee double bill in this week's Empire Podcast, with M. Night Shyamalan and Saoirse Ronan both in the studio, the former talking After Earth (out next week) and the latter talking Byzantium (out this week). Elsewhere, the team sound the NEW ISSUE horn and discuss the thorny issue of Star Trek Into Darkness spoilers... |
|  | | Gillian Anderson X-Files Podcast Special
Gillian Anderson has been appearing on our TV screens rather a lot of late, turning up in NBC's Hannibal and another serial killer series, The Fall, over in the UK. In the Empire Podcast studio to talk about both those shows - as well as a little phenomenon some like to call "The X-Files" - Anderson is frank, funny and slightly forgetful in our hour-long special as she talks about her pub quiz adventures with Simon Pegg, an upcoming project known as 'The Curse Of The Buxom Strumpet' and what X-memorabilia she stole back in the day... |
|  | | Vince Gilligan's Five Favourite Breaking Bad Moments
In the latest issue of Empire - out now, fact fans - there's a six-page on-set feature on AMC's high-school-chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-lord drama Breaking Bad. We were lucky enough to interview the whole cast for the piece, as well as the showrunner Vince Gilligan, the man who made it all happen. So as a tease for any BB lovers out there, here's a spoiler-filled parallel feature where Gilligan lists his favourite five moments so far. |
|  | | Cannes 2013 Videblogisodes
The Cannes Film Festival is done and dusted for this year, but if you missed the highlights or just aren't ready to quit the film stars, glamour and sunshine, we have the answer. Our intrepid team of Chris, Ali, Louisa and Damo were out on the Croisette to cover all the news as it happened and bring you the biggest interviews, despite the best efforts of a mysterious, shadowy figure known only as the Cannesdarin. Watch them all to feel part of the biggest film festival on the planet... |
|  | | Hans Zimmer On Making The Dark Knight Soundtrack
Granted, it's unlikely, but if you ever doubted Christopher Nolan's commitment, Hans Zimmer's interview with Empire should set you straight. "He asked me for ideas so I brought an iPod with 10,000 bars of different squeals, really unpleasant things," remembers the composer of The Dark Knight's musical origins. "And he listened to it all the way to Hong Kong and all the way back. He's a brave man!" |
|  | | My Life In Soundtracks: Eli Roth
Tasked with taking his iPod and shaking it until his most played soundtracks fell out, Eli Roth sent us a typically singular and inspired selection. And what better way to wind down Empire's month-long celebration of movie music than with a rousing Team America chorus? |
|  | | Empire's Soundtracks That Defined A Decade Spotify Playlists
The following Spotify playlists take just one track from every single album listed in our Soundtracks That Defined A Decade feature and puts them in harmonious order for your aural pleasure. We start with the 1960s below, but be sure to check out the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s playlists by clicking right afterwards - and then why not have a listen to this Quentin Tarantino-flavoured number too? |
|  | | Twitter Questions: Gemma Arterton
We asked for your Twitter questions for Gemma Arterton and you came through with some doozies. Who doesn't want to know where she stands on the whole apple crumble/profiterole debate or whether she'd use eternal life as an excuse to go on a crime rampage? We certainly do. Over to you, Gemma... |
|  | | Neil Jordan On Byzantium
It was nearly 20 years ago that Neil Jordan first turned his hand to a vampire tale. Now, older but equally bold in his choices, he's back with Byzantium, a folky twist on the lore. Those hands, as he explains, now have needle-sharp thumbnails designed to drain the blood of the unwary. (Well, his characters' do, at least.) Jordan recently looked back over a long and gilded career in Empire magazine, and his new release gave us a fresh chance to probe him on his future plans and frustrations with Hollywood's vamp 'n' fairy tale boom. | | | |
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Some Byzantium goodies to mark today's release! We donned our prosthetic thumbnail and slit 4 throats before we realised that blood tastes horrible and we should stick to the sugar lips. | | | |
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A Veep T-shirt and mug to mark Monday's DVD release of season one. They're great, but we're not sure we want "Dick" written across our chests. Just gives people ideas. | | | |
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Byzantium 
A mixture of tough and wistful and reflective and brutal, this is the ideal vampire movie for Twi-hards who've had their hearts broken for the first time and want to move on to a less cosy vision of eternal romance with a side order of addiction. | | | |
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Gangster Squad 
Sean Penn's not been this fun since Jeff Spicoli and there's plenty of rip-roaring action, but Gangster Squad proves a minor entry in the annals of LA noir. | | | |
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