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Chaos in Gotham! • With Bat-people popping up everywhere, we lay out the latest happenings in the world of the Caped Crusader

How to make a killer ending • David Gordon Green explains how he’s wrapping up his grisly Michael Myers trilogy with HALLOWEEN ENDS

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HUNGER GAMES’ NEW PLAYERS • MEET THE MAJOR CHARACTERS IN DYSTOPIAN PREQUEL THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever • Unfiltered, uncensored, uncompromising trailer reactions from team EMPIRE

Brandon Perea • THE 27-YEAR-OLD ACTOR PLAYS A CURIOUS TECH SALESMAN IN JORDAN PEELE’S NOPE

A new kind of comic-book movie • Director Owen Kline on Funny Pages, his ink-stained coming-of-ager

Why Martin McDonagh got the band back together • The director of THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN on going from Oscar success to a reunion with old friends

Inside Nope’s chilling chimp attack • Jordan Peele and Terry Notary break down their show-stopping set-piece

The gripping true story set to take on Top Gun • DEVOTION director J.D. Dillard on his deeply personal aviation movie

NEXT IN THE SERIES • You fell in love with that incredible new TV show. And then it ended! Don’t despair — Boyd Hilton recommends the sibling shows to watch next

Ryan Gosling: Ghost Rider • The star has said he wants to play the flame-headed motorcyclist, and Kevin Feige approves. Here’s why it makes sense

A foodie thriller plating up privilege • Succession director Mark Mylod talks us through his star-studded gastro-satire, THE MENU

The serial-killer story that puts evil in scrubs • Writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns on true-crime medical thriller The Good Nurse

His Guy Cary • Jason Isaacs on his formidable new challenge: playing Cary Grant in a new biopic series

The teen horror show Mike Flanagan was meant to make • An emotional bond ties the genre master to his latest show, THE MIDNIGHT CLUB

“There was only one accident on set. It was just a flesh wound” • [ THE Q&A] As a younger, pluckier Galadriel in The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, MORFYDD CLARK is ready for anything

RETRO VESTS • These garish gilets prove that you don’t need sleeves to make a statement

The crazy creatures of Strawberry Mansion • The filmmakers of the year’s quirkiest sci-fi on making their dreams (and nightmares) a reality

The Swimmers • [ ON-SET REPORT] The true story of an Olympic athlete and her sister fleeing Syria gets the feature-length treatment

The TV offer Stallone couldn’t refuse • Why the star signed up for his first leading small-screen role: a Mafia capo in Tulsa King

The star who took sci-fi into the future • Exclusively for Empire, Star Trek’s 21st-century Uhura, Zoe Saldaña, celebrates NICHELLE NICHOLS, her trailblazing forerunner

Remembering the electrifying Olivia Newton-John • Empire salutes the late, great Olivia Newton-John’s iconic performance in Grease

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