The Empire Podcast #2 Is Here!

John Carter, MIB III, Avengers & more!Thanks to everyone who listened to and downloaded the very first Empire Podcast following its debut last week. We were, albeit briefly, the no. 1 podcast on the UKiTunes Store, and are chuffed with your responses thus far.And so, without any further to-do, as Carlito Brigante might have it, here we proudly present the second Empire Podcast! This week, Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, Nick de Semlyen and Phil de Semlyen (who may or may not be a relation) dissect the week's big releases, including John Carter, The Raven and Bel Ami, and also talk shop about the new Men In Black IIItrailer, Avengers Lego, and the nominations for the JamesonEmpire Awards.There's also a kick-ass competition that will appeal to Hunger Games fans in particular, the latest in our reader-made jingles, and enough uses of the word 'Jeddak' to make us think that we might owe the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate some cash.All podcasts are available to listen to on our Soundcloud channel where it can also be downloaded as an MP3 file. It will also be on iTunes in two shakes of a Thark's four arms.

Spider-Guy Ride Amped Up At Universal Orlando

Universal Orlando Resort today celebrated the reopening of “The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Guy”, one of the world’s most broadly used theme park encounters. The attraction now features enhancements including all-new 4K digital high-definition ride animation, a completely new highly-sophisticated Infitec 3-D projection system, a completely new music score, and many types of-new 3-D Spider-Vision glasses:

The Good News and Bad News About Today's Godfather Re-Release

Good news! In honor of The Godfather's 40th anniversary, Paramount is re-releasing Francis Ford Coppola's classic in theaters for one day only. Bad news: That day is... today. Thanks for the notice, guys! Hope you didn't make plans? It might not matter anyway, because even worse news awaits residents of the two biggest, most populous media markets in the country. According to the studio, the re-release will hit 55 Cinemark theaters for one day only; there, at one of apparently two screenings apiece, you can see the restored 1972 Oscar-winner in all its big-screen glory. (With surround sound! Bring on the toll-booth scene!) By "you," however - more bad news ahead - I mean "filmgoers who live outside NY and Los Angeles"; according to Cinemark's handy list of participating venues, the closest theaters to each city are in Stroudsberg, Penn., and Huntington Beach, respectively. An offer I can't refuse, eh? Watch me. Anyway, it wouldn't be fair to hold Stroudsberg's (or Louisville's or Orlando's or even San Francisco's) good fortune against it, so go on. Call in sick, already! You've got a date with Khartoum! [Cinemark]