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🚨 NEW ISSUE PREVIEW ALERT 🚨

If a banging new mag with world-exclusives aplenty is at the top of your Christmas list, you're in luck – our #TheBatman issue goes on sale TOMORROW!

Here's a sneaky peek at some of the treats inside...

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Get ready for an all-new take on the Caped Crusader. Empire gets the low-down on #TheBatman, with exclusive new pics and interviews with @mattreevesLA, Robert Pattinson, @ZoeKravitz, Paul Dano, Colin Farrell and Dylan Clark. Words by @DanJolin.

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A new year means tons of new movies – and that means an epic breakdown of all the most exciting stuff coming our way in 2022, all served up in our mega Preview section. Stuff like…

Never bet against James Cameron. With the return trip to Pandora nearing, we find out more about #Avatar2 – including a new character, and the director's watery reunion with Kate Winslet. Words by @MrIanFreer.

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It’s their world – we just live in it. Colin Trevorrow tells us about #JurassicWorldDominion – talking new raptors, returning characters and more.

Words by @NickdeSemlyen. 'Also Out' words by @olly_richards, illustration by @jamesdawe.

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Elsewhere in the Preview, there's looks at #TheNorthman, #Lightyear, #Moonfall, #Uncharted, #Peacemaker and more – including this piece on the swathe of superhero flicks headed our way.

Words by @HelenLOHara, illustration by @jamesdawe.

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Writing exclusively for Empire, @RealGDT tells us what it took to bring his non-supernatural noir thriller #NightmareAlley to the screen – which he says is the hardest movie he ever made.

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Pedro Almodóvar has been cooking up unpredictable art for four decades now – and with Parallel Mothers, he’s heading further out of his comfort zone. He tells Empire about what took him there.

Words by @steverose7, portraits by Nico Bustos.

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In the latest edition of Gods Among Us, Empire takes a deep-dive into the world and career of Tilda Swinton – looking at Orlando, Narnia, Kevin, the MCU and everything in between.

Words by @TomEllen7, illustration by Christopher Lee Lyons.

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In this month’s home entertainment section, Cary Joji Fukunaga talks about #NoTimeToDie's ending for the first time – plus Kemp Powers on One Night In Miami, we rank the movies of 1997, and much more. Words in this spread by @ChrisHewitt.

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In this month’s news section, we plug into the artificial world of anime tale Belle – as well as talk ‘Rogers: The Musical’, have a Q&A with Peter Dinklage, meet the new Reacher and much, much more. Words in this spread by @jakehcunningham.

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Lots of great reviews to get stuck into in this issue, including PTA's #LicoricePizza, Julia Ducournau's #Titane, new musical #Cyrano, apocalyptic satire #DontLookUp, #TheKingsMan, #Hawkeye and plenty more.

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What a (Christmas) cracker of an issue!

Find Empire's #TheBatman issue on newsstands at supermarkets, newsagents and more from tomorrow, Thursday 23 December.

Or, you can order a copy (with either cover) online here: greatmagazines.co.uk/single-back-is…