The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—books of dreams, infinity, mysteries—turn out to be intensely accessible, offering so many different ways to read them and think with them. Season one considered Finnegans Wake; in season two, it was 1,001 Nights. Season three journeyed through and beyond the Hebrew Bible. In season four, we considered Journey to the West. For season five, we talk about a kind of writing that ...
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You might have SEEN Lucy Beaumont and Sam Campbell on Taskmaster but would you be interested in LISTENING to them? Can comedy’s biggest fruitcakes conquer the podcast movement? Imagine if they did! Basically, it is a sort of catch-up more than anything, full to the brim with sprawling anecdotes and highly important theorems. Hosted by Lucy Beaumont (Hull) and Sam Campbell (Australia). If you have any ideas for segments please email [email protected]. They will do anything! A ...
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Learn to connect better with others in every area of your life. Immerse yourself in spirited conversations with people who know how hard it is, and yet how good it feels, to really connect with other people – whether it’s one person, an audience or a whole country. You'll know many of the people in these conversations – they are luminaries in our culture. Some you may not know. But what links them all is their powerful ability to relate and communicate. It's something we need now more than ever.
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The Boxoffice Podcast is your weekly resource for the latest results, trends, news, and topics in the cinema industry. Each week we feature insights and analysis from leading experts in theatrical exhibition, along with interviews with the most influential executives in the movie theater business.
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The Empire Film Podcast is the official podcast of Empire, the world's biggest and best movie magazine. We bring you all the latest movie news and nonsense, as well as reviews of the week's new films, an assortment of irreverent, film-related chat and interviews with some of Hollywood's best and brightest. New episodes every Friday. For our famous deep dives into specific movies, subscribe to the Empire Spoiler Special Podcast at https://empire.supportingcast.fm/ Love TV? Subscribe to our si ...
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Babies find things funny long before they understand language – surprising even the author of the most detailed study to date of when and how babies and toddlers develop a sense of humor. And the better they are at getting jokes, the better they are at connecting with others. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for informa…
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It's finally here! A little later than usual due to some technical mishaps, the latest episode of The Shameless Plug sees Chris Hewitt and Nick de Semlyen sit down on Teams (yes, Teams!) to have a chat about the latest issue of Empire magazine, which is still on sale in all good, evil, and virtual newsagents. In it, our dynamic duo talk about the c…
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The Empire Podcast Preview Of The Films Of 2026
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1:36:41With the Empire Podcast team still in hibernation until the first show of 2026 (our live show at Kings Place, London, on Jan 9 — check kingsplace.co.uk for last-minute tickets), we're plugging the gap where the regular podcast would usually be with something a little different: a look ahead to the films of 2026, in which Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara,…
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Join us for our annual box office preview episode, as we look ahead to some of the most anticipated movies and biggest potential hits of 2026. We start our analysis with discussion on a difficult Q1 with few titles poised to become major hits. Our Q2 conversation highlights titles like The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, The Mandalorian and Grogu, Toy St…
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Marlo Thomas: That Girl who changed Television
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38:35Almost 60 years ago she defied television conventions with her depiction of a young woman succeeding on her own in the big city. And for the last 30 years, along with her own busy career, she's helped keep alive and thriving her father’s dream of a research hospital for children. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for inf…
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The Empire Podcast Review Of The Year 2025
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2:41:08And so, as 2025 disappears off into the distance, it's the most wonderful time of what's left of the year, as the Empire Podcast team get together in the podbooth for their marathon deep dive/look back at the cinematic year that was. Join Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, and James Dyer for this near-three-hour behemoth in which they go through the year …
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2025 in Review: The Biggest Stories, Industry Trends, and Moviegoing Moments of the Year
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1:11:52In this episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Daniel Loria, Chad Kennerk, Rebecca Pahle, and Albert Lawrence discuss the year’s biggest stories, trends, and moviegoing moments in theatrical exhibition for 2025. On the Story of the Year, the team discusses the potential sale of Warner Bros. and its implications for the industry at large. Warner Bros. is…
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Morgan McSweeney aka Dr. Noc: Earning trust, delivering truths
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37:52In the almost six years since the beginning of the pandemic he’s developed an on-line personality that’s an exuberant mix of medical expert and next-door neighbor, expressed in engaging videos on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data…
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Farewell, Rob (ft. guests Glenn Close; Stephen Lang; Josh Safdie)
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2:13:59The final Empire Podcast of the year is here, folks, and it's a bumper-sized jamboree, longer than usual and hopefully fit to tide you over until we return with Episode 700 (live from Kings Place) on January 11th. For the first time ever, the revolving fourth chair revolves wildly during the pod itself, so Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, and James Dyer…
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It: Welcome To Derry — An Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Warner Bros.
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46:38They all float down here. Now that It: Welcome To Derry, the prequel to Andy Muschietti's It Chapter One and It Chapter Two, has finished its eight-episode run, the Empire Podcast has teamed up with Warner Bros. to bring you a special episode in which Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, and James Dyer conquer their fears of clowns, spiders, and spider-clow…
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Christmas Corridor Box Office Preview | Barco Cinema's Adam Cassels [Presented by Barco]
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51:33This week on the Boxoffice podcast, presented by Barco, co-hosts Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle cover the latest industry news and preview upcoming releases like Avatar: Fire and Ash, along with its premium technology offerings. Then in the feature segment, Daniel talks to Barco Cinema’s vice president of marketing Adam Cassels to discuss the evolu…
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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Season 32 Trailer
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24:24Alan and executive producer Graham Chedd look ahead to the new season, which includes episodes on how babies who giggle become socially smarter; prizes for science that makes you both laugh and think; why truth is so elusive; and how Marlo Thomas kick started Alan’s movie career as well as helping her father found the St. Jude Children’s Research H…
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Paul Thomas Anderson & Boogie Nights: An Empire Podcast Special, In Association With Warner Bros.
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44:55Boogie Nights wasn't Paul Thomas Anderson's first movie (that was Hard Eight), but it's the film that put him firmly on the map, and served notice that here was a serious filmmaking force. And with the release of a remastered 4K UHD version of Boogie Nights on Monday, December 15, it's the perfect time for the Empire Podcast team — Chris Hewitt, He…
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There's Magic In The Air (ft. guests Shih-Ching Tsou & Sean Baker; Daryl McCormack & Cailee Spaeny; James L. Brooks)
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1:56:11The penultimate regular Empire Podcast of the year is here, folks (don't worry, there are specials galore on the way), and it's a belter. Guest-wise, we have more goodies under the tree, as Jamie Graham talks to longtime collaborators Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker (the director of Anora) about Tsou's directorial debut, Left-Handed Girl, which can …
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F1: An Empire Podcast Interview Special ft. Jerry Bruckheimer, Damson Idris & Kerry Condon
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1:04:35"Yer man's in the pits, boss!" Joseph Kosinski's crowd-pleasingly kinetic F1 was one of the success stories of the year at the box office, displaying impressive legs (or wheels) to take the chequered flag with over $600 million in the global bank, making it the biggest hit of Brad Pitt's career. And now that the film is making its debut on Apple TV…
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Netflix Wins Bidding Battle for Warner Bros., Paramount Counters [Sponsored by Christie]
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43:34This week on the Boxoffice podcast, presented by Christie, co-hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Chad Kennerk recap the weekend box office, as well as break down what’s known and unknown about the Warner Bros. acquisition. In the feature segment sponsored by Christie, Rebecca talks to Allan Fernandes, product manager at Christie about their new…
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How technological innovation has shaped our culture, with lessons from history and even from bees. And how these lessons can help tame and curate the information overload that AI is contributing to on social media. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for adverti…
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QT's Making A List, We're Checking It Twice (ft. guests Taron Egerton; George Clooney & Adam Sandler; Jon M. Chu)
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1:58:26This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees Christmas on our mind as we enter December, and accordingly we deliver a sackful of great guests to you, our loyal and loving listeners. First off, Chris Hewitt goes to Taron Egerton's actual flat (smells divine... and the flat wasn't bad either) to sit down with him for a candid chat about his career,…
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It’s the series finale, and Lucy and Sam name their all-time favourite saints. Amen. If you want to send a message or voice note to the podcast, email it to [email protected] or WhatsApp to +447541967499 Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive. Artwork by Sam Campbell. Theme music by Charlie Pelling, Lucy Beaumont and Sam …
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The Shameless Plug #10: The Odyssey Odyssey
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42:36The new episode of The Shameless Plug is here, folks, and this month sees Chris Hewitt sit down with freshly-minted award winner, Empire editor Nick de Semlyen, to delve into one of the most special issues of Empire magazine in many a moon: our world exclusive first look at Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, for which Nick went on something of an ody…
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Qube Cinema’s Alan Christensen and Mark Waterston | FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 Director Emma Tammi [Presented by Qube Wire]
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1:00:05This week on the Boxoffice podcast, presented by Qube Wire, co-hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Chad Kennerk recap the Thanksgiving holiday and take a weekend-by-weekend look ahead at the holiday 2025 box office. In the sponsored segment, Daniel speaks to Alan Christensen and Mark Waterston of Qube Cinema to discuss cloud-based distribution s…
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The Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism talks about how social media is overtaking traditional newspapers and television as most people’s source of news; what this means for journalism; and how Columbia is preparing tomorrow’s journalists for the new reality. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about …
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There Can Be Only Dozens (ft. guests Simu Liu; Ke Huy Quan; Richard Linklater & Ethan Hawke)
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1:51:41This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt sit down with two actors who star in animated movies (and ask them both about their favourite things to do in London). First, Simu Liu Zooms in to talk about new Netflix family flick, In Your Dreams, plus his own dreams, and the return of Shang-Chi to the MCU. [21:38 - 38:30 approx] Then, …
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Professors Beaumont and Campbell examine the human body. If you want to send a message or voice note to the podcast, email it to [email protected] or WhatsApp to +447541967499 Recorded and edited Aniya Das for Plosive. Artwork by Sam Campbell. Theme music by Charlie Pelling, Lucy Beaumont and Sam Campbell. Hosted on Acast. See acas…
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Thanksgiving Preview | Irwin’s Jack Powers [Presented by Irwin]
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38:49This week on the Boxoffice podcast, presented by Irwin, co-hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Chad Kennerk recap the opening weekend of Universal’s Wicked: For Good and preview the Thanksgiving holiday, with Zootopia 2 opening from Disney. In the feature segment, Rebecca speaks with Irwin’s Jack Powers about the December 2 release of the compan…
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The MASH Gang: How a Television Show Changed Us
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1:05:38MASH changed Alan’s life as well as the lives of the rest of the MASH cast. In this revisit of a free-wheeling conversation recorded in 2019 Alan, and the gang reminisce about an extraordinary eleven years of connecting and communicating. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of p…
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Escape From Malcatraz (ft. guests Benedict Cumberbatch & Dylan Southern; Joel Edgerton & Clint Bentley; Ariana Greenblatt)
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1:57:43This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees the podteam — Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, and James Dyer — play themselves as they discuss great 'as themselves' performances in the movies. They also run their collective eye over the week's movie news, including heartening Star Trek developments, review Train Dreams, Wicked: For Good, Playdate, and S…
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Sincerest apologies. Lucy and Sam say sorry to everyone they’ve wronged. If you want to send a message or voice note to the podcast, email it to [email protected] or WhatsApp to +447541967499 Recorded and edited Aniya Das for Plosive. Artwork by Sam Campbell. Theme music by Charlie Pelling, Lucy Beaumont and Sam Campbell. Hosted on…
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WICKED: FOR GOOD Soars to Record Presales | Maya Cinemas' Greg Heckmann [Presented by Irwin Seating]
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47:52This week on the Boxoffice podcast, presented by Irwin Seating, co-hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Chad Kennerk recap the opening weekend of Lionsgate’s Now You See Me, Now You Don’t and forecast the November 21st release of Universal’s Wicked: For Good. In the feature segment, Rebecca speaks with Greg Heckmann, the director of marketing for…
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Michael J Fox: Looking Back with Attitude
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44:45Alan revisits a conversation he had with Michael seven years ago, at a time when Fox had been grappling with Parkinson’s Disease for 27 years and Alan for three. As Alan says in this updated episode, both have been fighting Parkinson’s with attitude – plenty of attitude. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information …
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All The Information Is On The Task (ft. guests Edgar Wright, Rosamund Pike & Isla Fisher, Michael Shannon)
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1:58:03This week's episode of the Empire Podcast would surely deserve to get a full fat five points from Greg Davies, the Taskmaster himself, as Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and John Nugent apply themselves wholeheartedly (some more wholeheartedly than others, it must be said) to deciding which Taskmaster contestant has appeared in the best fil…
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Julia Ducournau & Tahar Rahim On Alpha: An Empire Podcast Interview Special
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24:35Alpha is the third film from the brilliant French filmmaker, Julia Ducournau, following on from her titanic debut, Raw, and her raw follow-up, Titane (which won the Palme D'Or, no less!). A tale of an unusual epidemic and generational trauma, there's much going on above and below the surface, which we get into in this interview special, as Jamie Gr…
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Lucy and Sam welcome back a Perfect Brian to Perfect Brains. Groovy baby. If you want to send a message or voice note to the podcast, email it to [email protected] or WhatsApp to +447541967499 Recorded and edited Ben Williams for Plosive. Artwork by Sam Campbell. Theme music by Charlie Pelling, Lucy Beaumont and Sam Campbell. Hoste…
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A Predator Franchise Record | The Running Man’s Glenn Powell, Edgar Wright, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin [Presented by Irwin Seating]
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54:36This week on the Boxoffice podcast, co-hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Chad Kennerk recap the latest news in theatrical exhibition, including promotions at both Cinergy and AMC Entertainment, as well as the opening of Film Alley Breckenridge. For the feature segment, our friends at Cinema United bring us The Running Man panel from CinemaCon …
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Jenny Beavan: An Empire Podcast Interview Special
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45:41Nicholas Hytner's The Choral, a delightful drama set in 1916 Yorkshire, is in cinemas now, folks. It features costumes designed by the legendary Jenny Beavan, who is one of the best costume designers in the business. Nominated for 12 Oscars, winner of three, Beavan has worked with directors like Robert Altman, James Ivory, and George Miller across …
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A confident prediction from the man who first brought our warming planet to public attention some 35 years ago. Energy from solar and wind is now cheaper than traditional fossil fuels and is being rapidly adopted across the world. The exception is the US where the federal priority is planet-warming coal, oil and gas. But even in the US, local actio…
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Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Bean, & Ronan Day-Lewis On Anemone: An Empire Podcast Interview Special
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50:02Every year at the London Film Festival, Empire hosts a gala screening for a film that we particularly admire. This year's choice was Ronan Day-Lewis' Anemone, a drama that we called 'sad, absurdist, brooding, tender, and intense', and which marks the return to acting of the great Daniel Day-Lewis, father of Ronan and co-writer of the movie, after e…
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The Sound Of Burning Felt (ft. guests Jennifer Lawrence & Lynne Ramsay; Elle Fanning & Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi; Sean Bean & Daniel Day-Lewis)
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1:51:46Blimey, this week's episode of the Empire Podcast is star-studded, and then some. First, Chris Hewitt chats with Die, My Love star, Jennifer Lawrence, and director Lynne Ramsay, about unpredictability on set and receiving an email from Martin Scorsese; then, he has a crash course in Yautja from Predator: Badlands stars Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatan…
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Sausage, chips ’n' beans please. Lucy and Sam place an order at their perfect caff. If you want to send a message or voice note to the podcast, email it to [email protected] or WhatsApp to +447541967499 Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive. Artwork by Sam Campbell. Theme music by Charlie Pelling, Lucy Beaumont and Sam C…
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The Shameless Plug #9: Stranger Things Has Happened
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43:20Another month, another issue of Empire, another episode of The Shameless Plug. This time, Chris Hewitt and Nick de Semlyen sit down to talk about how Stranger Things ended up on the cover of the world's biggest movie magazine, and nearly did so upside down. And they also talk about less strange things, including the stories behind the stories of th…
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This week on the Boxoffice podcast, co-hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Chad Kennerk discuss the latest news in distribution and exhibition, including the announcement that Belgium-based Kinepolis has signed an agreement to acquire the operations of U.S. cinema chain Emagine Entertainment. In the feature segment, Daniel is joined by Flix Brew…
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In a surprising shift in how we communicate about the climate crisis, Kate Marvel explores the feelings evoked by her research. Her new book tackles what’s happening to our changing planet, each chapter triggering in her a different emotional response – from wonder and anger, though guilt to love: using emotion along with facts to spur action. Host…
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Now It's Time For Halloween (ft. guests Edward Berger, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Maika Monroe)
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1:56:15It's Halloween, folks, so this week's episode of the Empire Podcast is extra-spooky, with Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and Beth Webb get way too invested in a listener question about the horror movie death that they would want for themselves. Just keep repeating: it's only a podcast, it's only a podcast, it's only a podcast. Elsewhere, o…
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Listen if you dare. Lucy and Sam receive some extremely disturbing messages from listeners. Thanks to listeners who sent in things to scare us silly: Roslyn, Matthew, Sunny, Lucas, Jules, Archie, Zoë, Adam?, Christian, Georgia, Robbie, Marty, Ruby, James, Molly and Daisy. If you want to send a message or voice note to the podcast, email it to lucya…
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Innovative Programming Strategies with Joe Garel
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45:43This week on the Boxoffice podcast, co-hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Chad Kennerk discuss the ongoing challenges at the October box office and how Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc surpassed expectations. Then in the feature segment, Daniel speaks to Joe Garel of Western Film Services on exhibition strategies for navigating the current do…
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Kenny Dalglish & Asif Kapadia on Kenny Dalglish: An Empire Podcast Interview Special
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33:11If you can hear a high-pitched squealing noise in the background of our latest interview special, that's just Chris Hewitt vibrating with excitement. For this podcast puts him in the room with one of his all-time heroes, Liverpool FC icon Kenny Dalglish, who is the eponymous subject of Asif Kapadia's latest documentary, which is out today (October …
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Data: dry and boring, right? Not in the hands of Justin Evans, a data expert himself, who set out to show that data is not only the lifeblood of today’s world; it is also the source of moving stories of other data experts who have achieved remarkable things – like the epidemiologist whose inspired use of data in the early days of Covid helped save …
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We've Gone And Caught A Sniffle (ft. guests Nia DaCosta, Jeremy Strong, Rebecca Ferguson & Kathryn Bigelow)
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1:59:22This week's Empire Podcast sees Chris Hewitt struggle with the enunciation of one word in particular (you'll have to listen to find out which). Incredibly, it's not 'Howl-o-ween', which is just one of the many things discussed by Chris and his three colleagues of such lethal cunning, Helen O'Hara, James Dyer, and Ben Travis. They get their teeth in…
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Lucy and Sam go off the wall with on the wall artist, Dean Zeus Colman. Recorded and edited by Aniya Das for Plosive. Artwork by Sam Campbell. Theme music by Charlie Pelling, Lucy Beaumont and Sam Campbell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This week on the Boxoffice podcast, co-hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Chad Kennerk discuss the ongoing October box office slump, with consecutive sub-$100 million weekends, and cover the latest news in theatrical exhibition, including the social media announcement that AMC is discussing plans to screen Netflix titles, starting with the re-r…
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