 |  Not to blow our own trumpet or anything, but we have some wonderful and weird interviews on Empire this week. Bruce Willis talked to us about Red 2 while wearing a bathrobe and an unbuttoned shirt - but he was in a good mood and willing to talk Die Hard so we'll take that as a win. Nicolas Cage told us about the time he was stalked by a mime in an interview that may make you question the nature of reality. Sandra Bullock swore a lot, but in a friendly way, while Nicholas Winding Refn and Kristin Scott-Thomas at least tried to explain Only God Forgives. And The Conjuring's cast aren't nearly as scary in real life, which came as a serious relief. So OK, we're at least blowing a tuba about it, but there's a pleasantly summery oompah-pah quality to a tuba that fits the weather this weekend, so just pretend you're sitting in the sun by a bandstand, click on over to check out the interviews and enjoy... Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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  Trailer For David O. Russell's American Hustle Bustles In
David O. Russell combines some of his Silver Linings Playbook cast (Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro) with some of his The Fighter cast (Amy Adams, Christian Bale) in his latest film, American Hustle, and here is the very first trailer to prove it, courtesy of ABC. More: All Is Lost Trailer Sails In Robert Redford's in peril on the sea. Red Band We're The Millers Promo Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston smuggle laughs. Exclusive: New Trailer For The Conspiracy You're not paranoid; they really are trying to kill you. Lone Survivor Trailer Lands Mark Wahlberg goes to war. Trailer For Vincenzo Natali's Haunter Online Abigail Breslin gets spiritual. New Red Band About Time Trailer Arrives Rated 'Oh' for oral sex references. Latest X-Men: Days Of Future Past Viral Vid Bolivar Trask's timeline explored. New Spoiler-Free Breaking Bad Teaser Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair... New Trailer For The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty Ben Stiller goes epic. Red Band 2 Guns Trailer Shoots In Wahlberg! Washington! Weaponry! Red Band Bad Milo Trailer Growls Online Ken Marino must embrace his inner demon.
  A Peter Pan Litograph, which we're going to hang by the second star on the right and straight (on till morning).
 Happiness is denial. Open yourself up to negative emotions and you open yourself to truth.  Dan Jolin's glass is not just half empty, it's also cracked.
 Transformers: The Ride-3D - Peter Cullen & Frank Welker
As you might have seen in the current Empire, I was invited by Universal last month to the red-carpet opening of the impressive new Transformers ride at their Orlando, Florida resort. There were jet planes, people in crazy stilt suits (or if you prefer for that to stay behind the curtain it was the real Bumblebee and Optimus!), "General" Glenn Morshower, explosions, and Steven Spielberg. Plus, of course, the ride itself: an exhilarating hurl around - and occasionally above - New York in new Autobot Evac, aggressively pursued by Decepticons in pursuit of a bit of Allspark.
Cinema's Greatest Effects Shots Picked By Hollywood's Top VFX Specialists
From Eadweard Muybridge and George Méliès to James Cameron and Phil Tippett, the history of movie effects is basically the greatest bedtime story never told. Except it's a yarn so full of dragons, dinosaurs and mimetic polyalloy killing machines sent back from the future that you'd never get any sleep after hearing it. As Life Of Pi and Avatar amply demonstrate, there are many chapters still to be written and innovations still to be forged, but whether in-camera, matte, prosthetic, CG, or just lovingly modelled by a man with a passion for Plasticine, effects have brought magic to the movies since the silent era. In a unique celebration of the art, Empire asked the people who make them happen to pick their favourites. | |
|  | | Podcast 72: Alan Partridge Vs. Steve Coogan
Alan Partridge finally arrives on the ruddy bloody big screen next Wednesday in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, so this week's Empire Podcast features an extensive interview with the man behind the cardigan, Steve Coogan, where he reveals the origins of both Lynn and Michael, as well as what to expect from (the beginning of) the sequel... Oh, and a truckload of other films are out this week, so expect reviews of Red 2, Only God Forgives, The Conjuring and Smurfs 2 (amongst many other things...). |
|  | | Nicolas Winding Refn: My Life In 15 Geeky Objects
When Nicolas Winding Refn isn't busy crafting beautiful, violent nightscapes and filling them with Ryan Gosling, he's a fully paid-up member of the global geek community whose home is a treasure trove of collectibles. "My wife is like, 'I'm married to a ten year-old!'," he laughs. Don't tell Mrs Refn but with Only God Forgives in cinemas this week, we decided took him on a tour of Forbidden Planet, a geek haven barely an unobtainium nugget's throw from Empire HQ. He was charged with walking us through his favourite toys, comics and collectibles in an Aladdin's cave that's played a big part in his life. "I grew up in New York," Refn explains, "and I used to hang out in Forbidden Planet on Broadway and 12th Street. My parents were into Truffaut and Godard, and I was rebelling against them. I'm not sure what I'd have done if they'd been into Jimi Hendrix..." |
|  | | Kristin Scott Thomas And Nicolas Winding Refn Talk Only God Forgives
Only God Forgives is one of those five star/one star Marmite movies that cinemagoers either love or hate... and director Nicolas Winding Refn wouldn't have it any other way. Speaking to Empire back at the Cannes film festival earlier this year, he was joined by Kristin Scott Thomas to talk about just how OGF - as no-one calls it - will get under your skin... |
|  | | Bruce Willis And Mary-Louise Parker Talk Red 2
Three buttons undone, dressing gown on, Bruce Willis is ready for his Empire interview. A, shall we say, pretty darn laconic interviewee, the action star looked like he was heading either to or from the bathtub when we caught up with him and his Red 2 co-star Mary-Louise Parker. What followed was a wide-ranging and, in its own mellow way, very entertaining chat about Studio Ghibli, documentaries and barges. |
|  | | Empire Meets Sandra Bullock
The Heat has been billed 'Good cop, mad cop' by those clever marketing types. It sees Melissa McCarthy (mad cop) and Sandra Bullock (you know the rest) form an uneasy alliance to brings down some villains. From there, to borrow from Leo Tolstoy, shit gets real, fast. We chatted to Bullock, and her director, Bridesmaid's Paul Feig, to find out how partial she is to an obscenity in real life. Very, it turned out. |
|  | | Exclusive: Empire Meets Nicolas Cage
It was the hottest day of the hottest month of the year, so what better time to sit down with Nicolas Cage to talk bout his Alaskan serial killer thriller, The Frozen Ground. Based on a true story, the film sees Cage as a state trooper determined to stop John Cusack's sadistic murderer. A particularly laid back Cage gave us the lowdown on the film as well as talking haunted houses, Tim Burton's Batman, his resemblance to Disney princesses and beating a rattlesnake to death. |
|  | | Empire Presents the New York Film Academy
New York Film Academy has built a reputation as one of the premier film schools in the world. With its innovative hands-on approach to teaching, students find themselves completely immersed in their course of study, surrounded by award-winning faculty and working with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. Learn Filmmaking, Acting for Film, Photography, Musical Theatre, Game Design, Animation and more. |
|  | | Empire Meets The Cast Of The Conjuring
With James Wan's The Conjuring sweeping (and spooking) all before it at the US box office and UK filmgoers getting a serious frightening from this Friday, Empire's curiosity has been piqued. What makes a $20m film recoup its budget in less than a weekend and go onto make nearly $100m in less than a fortnight? Is it a talented director with a track record in low-budget, high-concept filmmaking? Good old-fashioned storytelling? A seasoned cast selling the scares? Then we realised: it's witchcraft! So we went along to the film's press junket in San Francisco to burn everyone involved. |
|  | | The Secrets Behind Pop Culture's Most Mysterious Pseudonyms
The anonymity was fun while it lasted. A little over three months ago, a new crime writer debuted with a new novel about a new detective. The book did quiet business and picked up some decent reviews... until the revelation that it was really by a rather successful former children's author kicked it aggressively up the bestseller lists. If you've missed the story so far, we've included it below, along with those of ten other famous authors who chose, for various reasons, to be other people for a while. |
|  | | Cameos Movie Poster Mashups
We've written in the past about great movie cameos and the best examples of stars playing themselves on film but this week it was your turn. We asked our readers to memorialise their favourite cameo appearances in the only way that matters: by mashing up movie posters on that theme. Here are the rather spectacular results... |
|  | | Last Chance To Vote: Who Are The Sexiest Movie Stars of All Time?
Hot or not: that's the question we want you to answer as we determine who are the sexiest stars in Hollywood right now. Is Megan Fox still a mega-fox? Does Bradley Cooper really surpass Ryan Gosling? Who goes to sleep at night humming Sexy And I Know It? We want you to choose five actors and actresses. You can vote for all men, all women or some combination thereof; it's entirely up to you. |
|  | | Comic-Con 2013: The Kick-Ass 2 Crew Talk Kick-Ass 2
Alas, Hit-Girl herself, Chloe Grace Moretz, wasn't able to make it to San Diego for this year's Comic-Con, but fortunately her fellow Kick-Ass 2 stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Donald Faison could, along with director Jeff Wadlow and creators of the comic book John Romita Jr. and Mark Millar. Here is a collection of video interviews with all of the above, where they discuss coming back to the franchise even though there wasn't any contractual obligation to do so - more exciting than it sounds, honest - and why Mintz-Plasse is a little worried about the new moniker that's going to be shouted at him in the street for the foreseeable future. |
|  | | Comic-Con 2013: Guardians Of The Galaxy And Captain America: The Winter Soldier Interviews
Marvel Studios kept comic book fans busy this Comic-Con with panels for Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians Of The Galaxy, and though we've already shown you our interview with Loki himself, Tom Hiddleston, there's still more from Cap', Star-Lord and co., and you can check it out for yourself below. |
 A wealth of goodies from The Heat, with which we can become kick-ass law enforcement officers. Inexplicably, however, there's no badge or gun. It's almost like they don't trust us.
 
Scarlett Johansson is a huge fan of The Odd Couple and can quote it. 
The Comic-Con footage of Guardians Of The Galaxy revealed that one of Star-Lord's crimes was "illegal manipulation of a Gamorian duchess". 
China doesn't have DVD shops. 
Jason Statham is a big Alan Partridge fan. 
Noah Wyle still remembers his first ER monologue - 20 years later.
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  We've been looking for something to wear on our bootlegging runs to the ol' speakeasy for some time, but it looks like Boardwalk Empire (no relation) has provided the answer ahead of Monday's season 3 DVD release.
 
Only God Forgives 
Experimental and uncompromising, Winding Refn and Gosling's Drive follow-up is a tripped-out riff on the crime family movie in which The Grifters - literally - go to hell. Also Out
 
Welcome To The Punch 
A confident, ambitious and action-rich Brit thriller, albeit one whose characters and clarity suffer from the frantic intensity of its pacing. Also Out
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