Empire Awards Nominations 2016
Empire readers and the cinema-going public have nominated 50 films, seven TV shows and five games for this year’s Jameson Empire Awards, honouring a diverse spectrum of entertainment from the past year. The public will continue to cast their votes at www.empireonline.com/awards2016 with the winners to be announced at a star-studded ceremony on March 20th hosted by David Walliams George Miller’s high-octane Mad [...]
Del Toro Won’t Direct Beauty And The Beast
Guillermo Del Toro has officially dropped out of directing Warner Bros Beauty And The Beast in the wake of the recent news that Disney are planning their own live-action imagining of the tale as old as time. Warner Bros will now turns to another director to helm the project based the current draft of Del [...]
Tom Hiddleston replaces Benedict Cumberbatch in Crimson Peak
Guillermo Del Toro recently lost Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch from his forthcoming haunted house thriller Crimson Peak. However he has now reportedly secured Avengers and Thor star Tom Hiddleston as his replacement. Handsome star Hiddleston will now join Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasiowska and Charlie Hunnam in the cast. Emma Stone was previously attached but as [...]
Pacific Rim Breaks Box Office Record in China
Despite a lackluster box office performance in the USA, Pacific Rim has predictably performed far better internationally, particularly in the Asian markets where giant monster movies are more of a popular delicacy. Guillermo Del Toro’s robot action epic officially hauled in a record breaking $9million in China, making it Warner Bros biggest Chinese debut ever. [...]
Del Toro and Kaufman for Slaughterhouse-Five
Guillermo Del Toro will reportedly have help from writer Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) in finally making an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five for Universal. Here’s what the acclaimed director had to say about one of his many long gestating projects in a recent interview: “Charlie and I talked for about an [...]
Benedict Cumberbatch Joins Del Toro Horror Film
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch continues his unofficial mission to conquer every genre of cinema, fresh from starring roles in Stark Trek Into Darkness and a biopic of controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange the rising British Star will reportedly join the cast of horror film Crimson Peak. Cumberbatch will join a cast which already includes Emma [...]
Del Toro Directing New Ghost Film Crimson Peak
Director Guillermo Del Toro is currently busy promoting giant monster movie Pacific Rim and a television pilot based on his vampire book trilogy The Strain, but apparently he also has a new film project on the horizon called Crimson Peak. The director has described the new project as both a classical and modern take on ghost stories. [...]