On the Empire podcast this week, we dive into a pool of poo and headhunters cry Iceberg

right ahead as Titanic 3D fills our faces and then we cry Peterburg right ahead as

a battleship director and his stars drop in for a pod chat. Hello pod, I'm Chris

Hewitt and this is the sixth episode of the Empire podcast. The movie podcast I can

kill 99% of known germs dead that won't present then once revangeness in the sequel.

Six weeks have gone already, it's amazing how time flies when you're having regimented

slots of weekly fun. Now this week I'm joined by some old faces or old voices, starting

with a movie journalist so geeky that when she boards a flight to pilot doesn't send

over a bottle of champagne but a bottle of Romulan ale. Hello Helena. Hello, I'm actually

tea totals so obviously most of the pilots know me and they just send over something you

know. Something geeky you can send on eBay. Yes. Later on. Exactly.

Next we have a man who's so art house he speaks and subtitles. He's filled the civilian.

Oh sure. Oh my word. Someone quick to babelfish. Then we have the exuberant and magnificent

man mountain of hair and a movie know how that is Ali Plum. Hello Ali. Hello, how are

you? I'm great. I didn't expect the the question back at me. That was a bit of a surprise

but I'm good. Thank you. Thank you for asking. All right. You lot have been getting in touch

with us all week via email which is podcast at empireonline.com. And fire that new

final tweak machine I keep reading so much about. That's here the best of what you've been

saying at cringe radio asks why do some bad movies perform a lot better overseas than

in the US examples pirates for clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia. I have some

theories that I'd like to put forward for these particular bad movies. Please do. First

of all I think that people in the US clearly realize that clash of the Titans have no

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