 |  Terry Gilliam woke up a little late this Tuesday morning, and found himself running to Empire's offices leaving a trail of croissant crumbs in his wake. We're very grateful that he did, though, because now we have a marvellously entertaining podcast special with the director, wherein you can hear him discuss everything from The Fisher King's Central Station dance scene to the asteroid that was named after him. Elsewhere, we published Bill Murray's classic Pint of Milk interview, looked at the greatest TV chat show arrivals and assembled the best, worst and weirdest Godzilla posters you will ever see. We also stuck our necks out to predict the biggest box-office hits this year and the perfect casting for the planned Last Of Us movie - so drop by the site and tell us what we got wrong, as is traditional. With the sun in the sky and spring in the air, we can take it, dammit. Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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  New Sabotage Trailer Crashes In
It's headshot central down on Arnie avenue today. This new R-rated Sabotage trailer is a squib-tastic two minutes of people getting blown away by a vengeful Schwarzenegger as he pursues the baddies who have taken his wife and son. More: Latest Noah Trailer Washes In Flood, sweat & tears First Full Clip From Captain America: The Winter Soldier See Cap run. Run, Cap, run! New Clip From The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Spidey meets Electro. New Trailer For Hateship Loveship Kristen Wiig gets serious. First Short For DreamWorks Animation's Home The Boov are on their way. New Featurette For The Raid 2 Slams In Take that, internet. New Devil's Knot Trailer Online Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth & more tackle The West Memphis Three. Latest Teaser For Orphan Black Season 2 Clones no longer alone... Sean Bean's Macbeth Gets A Concept Trailer With Rupert Grint in the Kickstarter project. New Pioneer Trailer Online Aksel Hennie, Wes Bentley & Stephen Lang dive deep. Third Trailer For Game Of Thrones' New Season 'We mustn't disappoint father...' Latest Teaser Trailer For 24: Live Another Day Jack must prevent a potential world war... Tracks Trailer Walks Online Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver head to the desert. First Trailer For Deliver Us From Evil Eric Bana finds something demonic.
  Thanks to BAA Clothing for our fab running gear last week. We may not quite be Olympians (with the exception of Ian, who clearly is) but at least we looked like them.
 These are tunes to undress your mind.  Nick de Semlyen delves deep into the moody world of "intelligent drum and bass" or, as James' mum calls it, "car alarm music".
The 15 Biggest Films Of 2014... And How Much They'll (Probably) Make
The Lego Movie has started 2014 with a bang, banking over $360m worldwide to date. But what films will join or even surpass it at the box office this year? Well, it's mostly going to be the usual suspects - blockbusters, sequels, sequels to blockbusters - but we thought we'd gather the likeliest of the bunch in no particular order in one handy guide. If you are an unabashed populist who only goes to the cinema once or twice a month, these are the movies to bookmark. And if you want to know more about this year's biggest films, check out the Megazine, onsale now... | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #102
Do you feel the need, the need to, um, listen to the Empire Podcast? Good, because here's this week's edition, featuring the exceptionally delightful Imogen Poots (of A Long Way Down fame) and Jonathan Glazer (of Under The Skin, Sexy Beast and that Guinness advert fame). Look forward to in-depth discussions of both Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris's oeuvres. |
|  | | Terry Gilliam Empire Podcast Special
Terry Gilliam. American. Cartoonist. Artist. Python. Film maker. Former Python. Film maker quite a few more times. Opera buff. Screenwriter. Beard owner. Former American. Python once more and director of The Zero Theorem, his latest film, and star of his very own Empire Podcast inteview special. Look forward to hearing his excellent laugh on many occasions (and several excellent anecdotes, to boot). |
|  | | 12 Of Hollywood's Best TV Chat Show Entrances
Footage of Nic Cage cartwheeling onto Terry Wogan's chat show in 1992 resurfaced on the internet this week, leading to many discussions of whether The Artist Formerly Known As Nicolas Kim Coppola throwing wads of cash at an amazed audience is the finest chat show entrance of all time. It's a tough call, and to help you make it, here are 12 other joyfully ludicrous on-screen handshakes from Hollywood's great and good. |
|  | | 30 Unbelieveable Sequels You Never Knew Existed: Part 2
By popular demand (from Ali Plumb), here's another list of follow-up follies that perhaps don't quite measure up to The Godfather: Part II. As before, we've chosen to mostly ignore the obvious (and even not so obvious) horror franchises, on the assumption that everyone's used to those things just lumbering on. But here are another 30 surprise instalments in series you might not have known continued beyond Part One. Did we miss any? Anyone lamenting the non-inclusion of The Black Stallion Returns? Let us know in the comments (but bear in mind there are 40 more of these things on the other list). |
|  | | 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. |
|  | | Classic Scene: Sunset Boulevard
"Those wonderful people out there in the dark..." Setting the scene: Norma Desmond, star of yesteryear, retreats into madness after murder and imagines that the newsreel cameras are turning for her Big Scene as Salome... |
|  | | 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 |
|  | | Mark Kermode On The Future Of Cinema As We Know It
Arguably the UK's most famous film critic, Mark Kermode has been musing over movies for decades. He's forever popping up on The Culture Show, BBC News, Radio 5 Live (with his partner-in-crime, Simon Mayo) and - despite rubbishing the whole venture prior to joining it - Twitter. His third book, Hatchet Job, sees him delve into the topical argument of critics and their role in the film world today, and here is an extended interview with the great man originally heard (in part) on the Empire Podcast. |
|  | | 10 Wonderful, Wacky And Wonky Godzilla Posters From Around The World
Godzilla has been on our minds lately, what with the huge beast's appearance on our latest cover, that fabulous new trailer (our breakdown is here ) and the general swell of interest in Gareth Edwards' take this summer. But this is far from the first outing for Gojira, and there is a huge wealth of posters heralding the arrival of the fire-breathing, city-stomping menace. Here we have chosen a few of our favourites, from the artful to the awful... |
|  | | Classic Pint Of Milk Interview: Bill Murray
Golfer, actor and anecdote enthusiast Bill Murray is the kind of man who excels at interviews, recently turning The Graham Norton Show into some sort of carnival. But how did he fare when he was faced with Empire's own particular set of silly questions? |
|  | | 10 Actors Who Could Play Joel In The Last Of Us Movie
Sam Raimi is producing the movie adaptation of Naughty Dog's critically-acclaimed action-adventure survival horror video game, The Last Of Us, which means he's bound to be thinking about casting right about now. Though the young female lead, Ellie, will probably have to be a newcomer, Joel - a ruthless survivor of a fungal spore-based infection that turns human into zombies - will no doubt be played by a more established actor. Here are 10 suggestions (mostly serious), for who should play the grizzled shiv swinger. |
|  | | The A-Z Of Terry Gilliam
As a filmmaker, Terence Vance Gilliam's career has been, if nothing else, eventful. He's grappled with studios more publicly than almost anyone else, seen disaster strike nearly every film he works on, and has constantly pursued his appropriately quixotic task of dragging Don Quixote to the big screen. With all this drama, disaster and success, it's easy to forget he was once one sixth of Monty Python. He'll be joining the rest of the surviving troupe onstage at London's O2 later in 2014, but not before the release of his latest film, The Zero Theorem. |
|  | | What The Hell Is Harmontown?
If you Google Dan Harmon, amongst the suggestions that appear are "Dan Harmon Community," "Dan Harmon Chevy Chase" and "Dan Harmon fired". In its neat little way, the search engine thus sums up the three things for which the writer is best known: creating cult US comedy Community, having an enormous bust-up with cast member Chevy Chase (involving Harmon publicly playing an expletive-ridden voicemail from the actor) and getting fired from that very same show he created. It wasn't always this way. |
|  | | 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. |
 An anonymous superhero friend of Empire's models the new Morphsuit. Now you too can fight crime from the comfort of your own sofa
 
An otter can kill a crocodile (warning: gross). 
Angela Lansbury is kicking it onstage at the age of 88. We can only assume that solving all those murders gives you superpowers. 
Team Empire's Ian Nathan came first overall in the Anthony Nolan Marrowthon 10k. The rest of us limped along in his wake. Thanks to all of you who sponsored us - and to the rest, it's not too late. 
Terry Gilliam offered to direct The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy for Douglas Adams. 
According to this interview, male superhero costumes are all about the crotch.
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  Some World War Z walkie-talkies and a book. We have literally no idea what this is meant to tie in with, but we're better equipped to survive the zombie apocalypse and that's what matters.
 
The Zero Theorem 
It's the tangle of workings-out not the easy answer that are the proof of a theorem, and that magnificent, sparkling, insightful chaos abounds here. Also Out
 
Short Term 12 
Short Term 12 is a miracle of a movie. Beautifully written and perfectly played, all of human life is here: the good, the bad, the messy and the uplifting. Also Out
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