 |  It might seem, to an outsider, like we here at Empire just sit around watching movies all day, checking twitter and eating cake. Of course, that's exactly the case (only you forgot the biscuits), so you'll understand what a big deal it is for us to sign up to run ten whole kilometres in aid of Anthony Nolan, the UK's blood cancer charity and bone marrow registry. A team of 13 Empire-ites are now to be found regularly slogging our way around London as we prepare for the event, dressed in embarrassing quantities of lycra in colours that only a high-vis enthusiast could love. So please sponsor us so the effort won't be in vain, and in return we promise not to make an inspirational biopic about our efforts. Elsewhere on the site this week, we've been talking to George Clooney and company about The Monuments Men, building a House Of Cards with Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, assembling the best Samuel L. Jackson clips ever and revealing the comic book adaptations you didn't know were comics in the first place. Enjoy! Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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If you haven't seen Season 3 of Game Of Thrones, allows us to summarise: HOLY BLOODY CRAP. Right, you're up to date and ready to go with this fascinating insight into the fourth series of HBO's masterfully conceived fantasy epic. It's called Ice And Fire: A Foreshadowing and is a full 15 minutes of preview goodness, with contributions from co-creator David Benioff and key cast members. More: Trailer For The Love Punch Breezes Online Brosnan! Thompson! Imrie! Spall! Brick Mansions Trailer Smashes In Paul Walker is a man on a mission. Tammy Teaser Trailer Heads Online Melissa McCarthy's turning criminal. Teaser Trailer For The Purge: Anarchy Danger after dark. New Need For Speed Featurette Fast cars, bitches! Transcendence Trailer Uploaded Online Johnny Depp gets upgraded. Beautiful New UK Under The Skin Poster Update: here's the trailer to match! Latest Trailer For Richard Ayoade's The Double Snakes & dopplegangers... Exclusive New Trailer For The Two Faces Of January Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac and Kirsten Dunst go on holiday... Zombeavers Trailer Nibbles Online The beautiful and the dammed. Sabotage Red Band Trailer Attacks The Web Arnie & co are on the case. First Teaser For Mike Judge's Silicon Valley Microsoft Office Space?
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40 Movies You (Probably) Didn't Know Were Comic Books
Comic book adaptions have adorned the big screen for more than 70 years. Some have been famous (The Avengers, Flash Gordon), some infamous (Jonah Hex), and some entirely unfamous (Tailspin Tommy, anyone?). But a few have transferred from their comic origins almost covertly, with wider audiences all but unware of their provenance. Did you know that Blue Is The Warmest Colour started life as a comic book? Timecop? Gainsbourg? Read on for a list of the more surprising additions to the comic book and graphic novel canon - and a closer look at the original source material. | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #98
With so many films out this Valentine's Day - The Lego Movie, Her, Cuban Fury, The Monuments Men - it's a bumper-sized Empire Podcast this week, featuring interviews with Bob Balaban and Nick Frost, as well as in-depth discussions on movie love songs, Taylor Lautner's BBC 3 absolution and, um, Wario. |
|  | | Kevin Spacey & Robin Wright On House Of Cards
Scheming, Machiavellian, double-dealing... Empire's interviewing technique finally met its match in House Of Cards front-line trio, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright and Kate Mara. None of them were giving a Tricky Dicky bird away about the story lines, character arcs or the second season's "holy shit!" moments. Of which there are plenty. Instead, they chatted about the show's corrosive politics, their strict exercise regimes and their main sources of information in a news-rich world. |
|  | | My Encounter With Shia LaBeouf
The Cohen Gallery is an unassuming place on Beverly Boulevard in the middle of the city. Surrounded by other galleries and shops, it sits opposite a Jewish high school and Buzzfeed's offices. You could practically hear them coming up with a "10 People You're Most Likely To See Waiting For Shia LaBeouf" list as the line slowly lengthened. And still I waited. And waited... |
|  | | One-Hit Wonders You Need To See (And A Few You Don't)
It's time to celebrate movieland's best one-timers - the debut directors who never stepped behind a camera again. Some were actors by trade who had a single story to tell, told it and then returned willingly to their craft. Some were stung by critical fury, box-office failure or just the endless vagaries of film financing and so abandoned the job for good (or at least to date). Some were Klaus Kinski. The M|A|R|R|S and Chesney Hawkeses of cinema, here are some of the most memorable one-hit filmmakers. |
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|  | | 10 Awesome Samuel L. Jackson Videos You Should Watch
Samuel L. Jackson is spread across the internet like a roll of kitchen towel on a patch of spilt milk. He's back in the headlines with his indignant objection to being confused with Laurence Fishburne when a foolish journalist could have sworn he was Laurence Fishburne, and as a result we decided that it is our duty to sift through the Samuel L. Jackson-related YouTubery - not even counting Tom Hiddleston impersonating Samuel L. Jackson as Loki or the TV edit of that line from Snakes On A Plane - and serve up 10 of the finest, funniest, weirdest cuts of prime SLJ for your watching pleasure. |
|  | | 15 Of Cinema's Best Dance Party Endings
There's something special about walking out of a movie theatre with the film's theme tune stuck in your head - and there's something even more special about walking out of a movie theatre with the film's dance moves stuck in your, um, feet. With Nick Frost's seductive salsa hip-swings set to inspire many to take up dancing when Cuban Fury arrives on screens, here are a few other (non-musical) cinematic outings that end with more than a bit of a boogie. |
|  | | Director Don Argott On His Lamb Of God Documentary
Don Argott is the documentary filmmaker previously responsible for the likes of Rock School and Last Days Here. His new film follows Virginia metal band Lamb Of God, a project that would move the focus away from the band members and on to their international fanbase and the wider worldwide metal scene. Empire sent its top man to meet him. |
|  | | Rachel Winter & Robbie Brenner On Dallas Buyers Club
Producers Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter teamed up to get the script for Dallas Buyers Club, languishing since the early '90s, to the screen. Their journey wasn't an easy one - the film was dropped by its studio, and then the independent funding fell through with only weeks to go - but the finished film is nominated for six Academy awards, with stars Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto hot favourites for the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor prizes. We spoke to the two producers about the film's tortured journey to the screen, and why they worried that women all over the world would blame them for breaking Matthew McConaughey... |
|  | | The Monuments Men Interviews: Clooney! Damon! Balaban! Goodman!
The Monuments Men were a little-known and undersung squad tasked with protecting Europe's cultural heritage from the vagaries of World War II, an unlikely bunch of curators, artists and historians racing along the front lines to preserve what could be preserved. George Clooney, with a multitude of hats on as co-writer, director and star, has brought their story to the screen, and we went along to talk to his Monuments Men to find out more... |
|  | | The Robocop Interviews: Joel Kinnaman And Jose Padilha
It's no easy job, remaking a classic like Robocop, but Brazilian director Jose Padilha and his star Joel Kinnaman had no fear - perhaps not surprisingly given that one made Bus 147 and the other investigated The Killing. Now, we sat down to find out what one wears under the Robocop suit, what happened to the news straplines and why Samuel L. Jackson started making funny noises on set... |
|  | | The 23 Best Alternative Coen Characters
The Coenverse is filled with memorable front-liners - men and women batting the cruel vagaries of fate, ill-fortune and the occasional dybbuk in the the trenches of life. But let's not forget their support: the characters that populate Joel and Ethan's wonderfully offbeam worlds. Odd names, weird behaviour, brilliant actors, totally unforgettable: the pick of the Coen Brothers' supporting characters. |
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|  | | Oscar Special: Empire Meets Steven Price
Steven Price has been working in movie music for 15 years. For many of them, he was a jack-of-all-trades, hopping from sound editing, to orchestration, to additional music, working on movies as varied as Batman Begins, The Lord Of The Rings and that instant classic, Mr. Bean's Holiday. Then, in 2011, he stepped up to act as composer for Joe Cornish's Attack The Block and everything changed. Now he's scooped a cabinet's worth of awards thanks to his score for Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, and is up for both a BAFTA and an Oscar. We tracked him down at home in London to talk about working on the movie, finding out he was nominated, and bringing his jetlagged dad to the Golden Globe... |
 Some delicious Green & Black's chocolate for Valentine's day. 0.8 seconds after this picture were taken, all that was left was a small scrap of wrapper and a lingering whiff of cocoa.
 
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Aaron Paul looks great with bird tattoos on his neck. 
Arya is the most popular Game Of Thrones name when it comes to naming real babies. 
The floor of the Parthenon is convex, so if you put a hat down at one end of the building you won't be able to see it from the other. 
Prince has the best hair.
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Her 
Jonze has made a sweet, smart, silly, serious film for our times, only set in the future. Also Out
 
Captain Phillips 
Both Greengrass and Hanks are on award-deserving form in a riveting, emotionally complex and hugely intelligent dramatisation of a real-life ordeal. Also Out
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