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No./1 Little Women — as you’ve never seen it before • Director GRETAGERWIG speaks to Empire on giving the classic novel an indie makeover

No./2 Where will Spider-Man be calling home now? • Editor-At-Large Helen O’Hara on the consequences for fans when corporations face off

No./3 The corrupt cop procedural gets political • Naomie Harris on how Black And Blue takes a gritty ’70s template and makes it timely

No./4 How to avoid Pearl Harbor 2 • Four ways director Roland Emmerich is swerving another Pearl Harbor with his World War II epic Midway

Sam Adewunmi • THE 25-YEAR-OLD LONDONER STARS IN TOUGH NEW DRAMA THE LAST TREE

No./5 Who will fund Coppola’s epic unmade fantasy? • Megalopolis sounds like the director’s most audacious project yet. But he’s struggling to get it financed

GREENER GRASS • FIRST-TIME FILMMAKERS JOCELYN DEBOER AND DAWN LUEBBE ON THEIR ABSURDIST SEND-UP OF MIDDLE AMERICA

No./6 No big deal! Just recreating the Sistine Chapel • How the most famous church in the world was rebuilt from scratch for THE TWO POPES

No./7 Shakespeare gets Game Of Thrones-ed • How David Michôd is reinventing Henry V for the Westeros generation in THE KING

No./8 Should The Hunt have been cancelled? • After mass shootings and a firestorm of political criticism, Universal cancelled the release of the gun-heavy Blumhouse thriller. Was it the right call?

No./9 VENGEFUL MOTHERS • In praise of the passive-aggressive power-players who are partial to a bit of scheming

No./10 How do you create drama from the world’s nicest man? • Director MARIELLE HELLER on why her Mister Rogers biopic is not a Mister Rogers biopic

No./11 What the hell is the VCU? • Next year, Vin Diesel superhero movie Bloodshot kick-starts the VALIANT CINEMATIC UNIVERSE, a bold new franchise. Could this be a cinematic universe with a difference?

THE VALIANT HEROES

No./12 The making of a black skinhead • Game Of Thrones actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje writes exclusively for Empire on how he turned his traumatic early years in a dead-end town into Farming, his directorial debut

No./13 2019’S BIG BOX OFFICE SURPRISES • SUPERHEROES STILL DOMINATE BUT HERE’S THE YEAR’S WEIRD BREAKOUTS

No./14 Six reasons why the new Matrix might actually be good • A fourth film in the sci-fi series has been confirmed — and we can’t help but be optimistic. Here’s why

No./15 Jojo Rabbit • [FIRST LOOK] A Nazi Germany-set comic fantasy about an imaginary Hitler marks a different path for writer-director-star Taika Waititi

No./16 Mystify: Michael Hutchence • [THE PLAYLIST] Director Richard Lowenstein on the key songs from his documentary about the late INXS frontman

SORRY, BUT... • Specialists on what the movies get wrong

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Last Christmas • Unfiltered, uncensored, uncompromising trailer reactions from team EMPIRE

No./17 THREE CAMEOS WE DIDN’T SEE COMING IN A RUSSIAN FANTASY FILM • VIY 2: JOURNEY TO CHINA HAS A BONKERS CAST LIST FOR A PRODUCTION WITH NO UK OR US RELEASE

No./18 Peter Fonda — in his own words • [IN MEMORIAM] The counterculture legend, who...