Cannes 2013 Videoblogisodes, Why Man Of Steel Wasn't Called Superman, Final Pacific Rim Trailer, Exclusive Hans Zimmer Interview, Fast & Furious 6 Interviews

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This Week... France: land of a thousand cheeses, a million wines and all the fabulous film stars you can shake a stick at. At least, it is right now, with the Cannes Film Festival in full flow down on the Cote d'Azur. Our Chris Hewitt, Damon Wise, Ali Plumb and Louisa Wells are there to add their own touch of glamour to proceedings and to bring you all the latest from the Festival, working on podcasts, videblogisodes and reactions to the big films of the fortnight. So far, they've mostly been rained on, but they also got to hang out with the cast of The Great Gatsby so we have very little sympathy. Back here in London, we've been enjoying rather less refined entertainment with a selection of Fast & Furious 6 interviews and a final trailer for the explosion-tastic Pacific Rim. Who needs to be high-brow when you can be high-octane, eh? Helen O'Hara Deputy Online Editor, Empire

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Why Man Of Steel Wasn't Called Superman Writer and producer David S. Goyer speaks Exclusive: Mark Margolis Talks Noah On CGI and 12-foot gods Gremlins Shifts Into Reboot Mode Seth Grahame-Smith producing

Final Pacific Rim Trailer Crashes In If the previous promos haven't offered up enough footage of robots throwing down with monsters, then this latest, likely final trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim should offer enough to sate even the most eager appetite for destruction. More: Last Vegas Teaser Trailer Parties Online Michael Douglas and the gang get drunk... Vin Diesel Stars In New Riddick Trailer Online Rule the dark... New Rio 2 Teaser Trailer Lands It's the fast and the feathery. Cannes 2013: Nebraska Clip Lands Online Alexander Payne teases the jury. Cannes 2013: As I Lie Dying Trailer Franco does Faulkner. Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Promo Hits Now with longer trailer! First Trailer For The Congress Robin Wright gets animated. New About Time Trailer Arrives Richard Curtis' time travel rom-com. Arrested Development Season 4 Trailer Bluth is stranger than fiction.

Sigh - yet another missive from my alma mater.

I do think there's a big market out there for Damo/Chris videblogisode slash fiction. Chris is wrong.

Bloody Cuts In Conversation Debuting in June 2011, Bloody Cuts is an anthology series of horror shorts (as well as the name of the production company) aiming for thirteen instalments, of which eight have surfaced so far. Available to watch free on the Bloody Cuts website, the films have attracted hundreds of thousands of views online, successfully hit the festival circuit, and picked up glowing notices from far and wide. With their most ambitious project to date, the award-winning Don't Move, recently added to the online roster, Empire spoke to the collective's Jonny Franklin, who gave us a taste of Bloody Cuts' history and a glimpse of the future...

Cannes Film Festival Videblogisode #1 After a break last year, Empire's videblogisodes - also known as video diaries to the uninitiated - are back, back, back, helmed by our very own Chris Hewitt. Join us for your first dose of Cannes madness, where Leonardo DiCaprio and Baz Luhrmann talk about The Great Gatsby and a mysterious stranger makes his presence felt... The Empire Podcast #61 The Great Gatsby goes head to head with Fast And Furious 6 in this week's special Cannes-based Empire Podcast, with FF6 narrowly overtaking TGG at The Valley Of The Ashes to win three stars to Jay-G's two. Discover more about the world's biggest film festival by listening to one of the world's top five Damos - that's Damo Wise, by the way - talking about it (at length), then be sure to check out Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire and Joel Edgerton chatting about that Gatsby chap and Pop Pop himself, Jeffrey Tambor, as he ruminates upon the return of Arrested Development. It's all here, and it's all very much downloadable. The 20 Soundtracks That Defined The 90s Continuing our series on the soundtracks that have defined the last six decades, this week it's the turn of the 1990s to hit the spotlight. Boasting some of the coolest soundtracks on the list - thanks, Mr Tarantino and Mr Boyle - and some of the naffest - we blame Celine Dion - these are the sounds that summed up the decade. Hans Zimmer Career Interview "When I started", reflects Han Zimmer when Empire speaks to him, "what I did was called 'background music'." It definitely isn't called that anymore. In fact, from humble beginnings as a young wannabe pianist in Frankfurt and London, the German composer has practically redefined the grammar of movie music. His trademark Inception "Braaam" is now a tension-cranking lingua franca for movie trailers, although, as he points out with a grin, "it was in Chris [Nolan's] script." Fresh from his labours on Man Of Steel, the great scorer offered a fascinating, wide-ranging contribution to Empire's celebration of movie music. The Rise And Fall Of The Movie Power Ballad It was an age of big hair. An age of power ballads. An age of guitar-chugging, leather-clad men and huge-voiced divas. An age where a movie tie-in song would cling to the number-one spot like a limpet, and videos were little more than filmtrailers. It was the age of the.. Popbusters! But why did it end? And how? Empire charts the life-cycle of a movie-marketing phenomenon. David Holmes On The Making Of Out Of Sight With Out Of Sight one of the soundtracks that defined the 90s, we asked composer David Holmes how he got involved with Steven Soderbergh's film. His answer took in flying by private jet, living life like a movie and quite a lot of parties - which seems appropriate given how cool the film is... Empire's Fast & Furious 6 Interview Supercuts Following in the (rather large) footsteps of our The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey interview supercuts - "Can you name all the dwarves?", "What's in your pocket?" etc. - comes the following two Fast & Furious 6 interview supercuts, where we ask the Fast crew whether they can remember all the names of the previous F&F movies, as well as where they'd like upcoming movies to be set... (Think Antarctica and you're just about there). Dwayne Johnson Talks Fast & Furious 6 Part nemesis and part friend, Dwayne Johnson's Luke Hobbs has become the Fast & Furious crew's worst nightmare and best chance of survival, all contained behind one XXXL law enforcer's uniform. Empire caught up with the franchise's ultimate friemesis to discover the Rock guide to dominating the movie, inquire about the exact nature of thunderwear and find out what those "damn veggies" were all about. Michelle Rodriguez On Fast & Furious 6 Michelle Rodriguez is a tough customer - after breaking through in Girlfight she took it up a gear in the original Fast & Furious film, only to be killed off in the fourth. Now she's back, and in our exclusive interview from the film's set she talks about what Lettie's been up to since her presumed death, how she came back, and why the series has become as popular as it is... The Insider's Guide To The Cannes Film Festival A glamorous squish of stars, hopefuls, movie industry types and sleep-deprived hacks, the Cannes Film Festival is the most fun you can near a beach. If everything you know about it was gleaned from Medellin's catastrophe premiere in Entourage, here's some handy travel tips to fill in the gaps. Think of it as Lonely Planet: The Movie Edition. Great Cannes Openers Short of skipping off with Cannes' biggest gong, the Palme d'Or, there's few greater honours for a filmmaker than being asked to open the festival. Cinema's greats from Kurosawa and Fellini to Scorsese and the Coen brothers have all had movies kick off the film-lover's festival of choice. Some have been great (Amarcord), some good (Witness) and some... well, some have been Basic Instinct. We've sorted the wheat from the chaff to look back at a few of the greatest opening nights of Cannes gone by.

A birthday cake for Liberace, courtesy of the Behind The Candelabra team. Do you think it's too much?

Martin McDonaugh is a seriously competitive footballer. John Travolta doesn't like cloudy ice. Naomi Watts really loves roast lamb. Carey Mulligan informs us that the French for "Fistsplosion" is "Fistsplosion". Joel Edgerton buys Empire every time he gets on a long-haul flight. He also gets annoyed when roads aren't good enough to skateboard on.

Space Oddity, in space. Noooooooooooo! The best skywriting. Nerds face off. If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us.

Fast And Furious 6 No film that includes a Vin Diesel flying headbutt could remotely be called a write-off, and Furious 6, like its predecessors, is a big screen no-brainer that's objectively terrible but undeniably pleasurable. A reversal from Fast 5, it's still a gear above all the other sequels. And an end-credits teaser promises much for the future... Also Out The Stoker Boiler room. The Liability The A68 to perdition. Beware Of Mr. Baker The drum diaries. The Great Gatsby All that Bazz. 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.

Les Miserables Occasionally, like its characters, ragged around the edges, this nevertheless rings with all the emotion and power of the source and provides a new model for the movie musical. Also Out Amateur Absurdist comedy-thriller. One Hour Photo Astonishing performance from Robin Williams. The Birds Hitchcock classic.

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