 |  Farewell, dear readers, because this may be the very last Empire newsletter. This Sunday, Team Empire is running a 10k race in aid of the Anthony Nolan charity, and there's a good chance that none of us will make it back here alive. The sound of creaking knees, stiff groans and quiet weeping has rung through the Empire office as we've trained over the last few weeks - honestly, it's like the dungeon after a torture session around here - and now D-day is upon us. Think of us, old friends, as you enjoy a lie-in and a nice brunch this Sunday, even if it's only to think, "What a bunch of drama queens; it's only 10k; if I give them some money will they shut up already?". Why yes, we will, please and thank you! And if you do, we'll see you back here next week with more great film news, reviews and content. Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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Following the first glimpse at the latest chunk of robo-powered Bayhem in the Super Bowl teaser for Transformers: Age Of Extinction, now comes the first full trailer for the film, which gives us a better look at the humans but doesn't skimp on snippets from the set pieces. More: First Trailer For Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Back and black and white. New Frank Trailer Bounds Online A man, as mask a musical experiment... Full Grace Of Monaco Trailer 'Everything you say has consequences...' First Annie Trailer Hits The Web Quvenzhané Wallis steps up from the streets. Latest Trailer For The Boxtrolls They're so square. New Trailer For Oculus Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most terrifying of all... New Captain America: The Winter Soldier TV Spot Takes Flight And Scarlett Johansson will need a new Avengers 2 shooting schedule... Paddington Teaser Trailer Arrives He's coming to a different kind of jungle... New Sabotage Clip Smashes In Arnie's ready to rumble. First Two Minutes Of The Veronica Mars Movie Arrive Online Including a particular shout-out. Exclusive: New Blue Ruin Teaser Trailer Hotly-tipped indie thriller gets a promo.
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|  | | The Empire Podcast #101
For their 101st podcast proper, the team celebrate by interviewing The Grand Budapest Hotel's Wes Anderson and The Stag's Andrew Scott, not forgetting to take the mick out of John Travolta's Oscar flub and make several off-colour jokes about Iggy Pop. It's what you do on special palindromic occasions like this. |
|  | | Classic Feature: Introducing 'The Internet'
In December 1994, Empire ran the following article on a new-fangled technology, one that claimed to place a vast repository of information within reach of a dial-up modem. "It's like having 30 million mates on the end of the phone!" we said. It'll never catch on. |
|  | | Vote Now: Jameson Empire Awards 2014 Shortlist Revealed
Forget the Oscars, and don't bother with the BAFTAs, because the Jameson Empire Awards 2014 are just around the corner, and the full list of nominees - as chosen by you - is now here so you can vote for the winners. Leading the reader-voted pack is The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, with seven nominations, then 12 Years A Slave, with six nominations, followed close behind by Captain Phillips and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, both with five nominations, and then after that, Gravity, which has four. Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass will receive the Empire Inspiration Award at the ceremony. |
|  | | Empire Meets... Hans Zimmer
Hans Florian Zimmer has gone from The Buggles to Burbank in 30 incident-packed years. An inspiration for a generation of movie composers, he's on speed dial for directors of the calibre of Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott and Steve McQueen. The diversity of those filmmakers is testament to his sheer versatility and capacity for invention and reinvention. Abandoning Inception's 'BRRAAAMMM' motif to a legion of imitators, he's since decorated Rango, Man Of Steel and, most recently, 12 Years A Slave with his mighty compositions. He's also a thoroughly nice man who kindly agreed to take Empire through the key moments of his career to date. |
|  | | Film By Film: Wes Anderson On Wes Anderson
Who better to talk us through Wes Anderson's filmography to date than the man himself? As The Grand Budapest Hotel hits cinemas, we're reprinting the director's recent Empire magazine interview in which he reflects on his films to date, his frequent collaborators and the challenges he's faced... |
|  | | The Greatest Wes Anderson Characters
Wes Anderson's films are peopled with oddballs, eccentrics and weirdos galore - and that's even before you get to the badgers and foxes. As his latest, The Grand Budapest Hotel, hits cinemas, we have profiled our favourites, from bit-part players to major leading characters. Read on, and leave your own nominations for the ones we passed over in the comments below... |
|  | | 5 Reasons You Should Know Feng Xiaogang
When it comes Chinese cinema most of us are probably familiar with the weapon-wielding, tree-prancing characters carving up Zhang Yimou's colourful palettes, or the practically mute, chain-smoking, oh-so-stylish leads looming in the corners Wong Kar Wai's silver screen. But, much as we love them, there's more to Chinese cinema than wuxia and '70s Hong Kong romances. There's Feng Xiaogang. The BFI has just dedicated a whole season to the man behind The Banquet - an epic and gorgeous adaptation of Hamlet - and war epic Back To 1942. So when Empire was invited to speak with Feng about his BFI retrospective, we interrupted the director's afternoon cigarette to bring you the five reasons why he should be on your radar... |
|  | | Win A Film Download, Takeaway Every Sunday With Fox Searchlight!
Throughout 2014, Empire will be giving readers the chance to win a Digital HD copy of a Fox Searchlight film, plus a £25 hungryhouse.co.uk voucher to order their favourite takeaway online. Just head to Twitter each Sunday (make sure you're following @empiremagazine ) and answer the quiz question posed, tagging your tweet with #SearchlightSundays. In addition, there will be a chance to win flights to Utah and hotel accommodation during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival! Click here for full details |
|  | | The Definitive Ranking Of Matthew McConaughey Rom-Coms
In these post-McConnaissance days, in a world where Matthew McConaughey is a (well-deserved) Oscar winner, it's hard to remember that he was once known as the lead of a series of light-to-weightless romantic comedies. But so it is, and as he leaves those days behind and enters his new phase as the go-to guy for surprising indies, heavyweight dramas and barnstorming TV, we have decided to wrap up the old version with a definitive ranking of his rom-com era, from worst to best. Read on and see if you agree - and consider doing it while listening to the dulcet tones of the man himself on our recent podcast interview... |
|  | | Nancy Allen Q&A
With the RoboCop remake freshly out (and her role weirdly recast as Michael K. Williams), we thought it high time for a catch-up with the great Nancy Allen. The star of classics including Carrie, Dressed To Kill and Blow Out, plus non-classics like 1941 and Poltergeist III, Allen is now taking a break from acting to concentrate on fundraising for cancer charities. But she was happy to call from her New York home and discuss her career highs and lows... |
|  | | Empire Meets Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Nyong'o has won an Oscar, stolen everyone's hearts, made a lovely speech and inspired us all with her smarts and charm. But where did her Hollywood journey begin? And how has she coped with being catapulted into the brightest imaginable spotlight in a matter of months. Empire spoke to her before her Academy Awards triumph to find out how she set about tackling the demands of 12 Years A Slave and get an insight into what makes the hottest new star in movies tick. |
|  | | 300: Rise Of An Empire Interviews
300: Rise Of An Empire is perhaps a first in cinema history: it's a prequel, sidequel and sequel to the original 300. The complicated set-up sees the Greeks face formidable Persian naval commander Artemisia (Eva Green), and new warriors in the likes of Calisto (Jack O'Connell) and Scyllias (Callum Mulvey) as well as the returning Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) and producers Zack and Deborah Snyder. We talked to the lot to find out more... |
|  | | Empire Presents the New York Film Academy
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Jonathan Glazer has given up smoking and is now on those E-cigarettes. 
Andrew Scott fans are called either "Scotties" or "Mascotts" 
In the stage version of The Full Monty, they really do go the full monty. 
Wes Anderson really wants to see The Lone Ranger. 
World Wars are "so 20th century", according to Dan Jolin.
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  This is Ali as an astronaut - possibly, we're not sure - with a copy of Gravity on Blu-ray and some intergalactic snacks in his gob. Yes, in space, no-one will steal Ali's ice cream.
 
The Grand Budapest Hotel 
Another meticulously stylish and deadpan Wes Anderson movie that walks the fine line between masterpiece and folly. Also Out
 
Gravity 
Pop quiz, hotshot: you're cut loose 375 miles above the Earth, oxygen is running out, communication is lost, catastrophic satellite debris is heading your way and you have no hope of rescue. What do you do? What do you do? The answer is the film of the year. Also Out
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