Tim Burton is a filmmaker who always seemed drawn towards the peculiar. So his latest movie, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, strikes us as an ideal fit. Based on the book by Ransom Riggs, it’s a typically Burtonesque tale of fantasy and intrigue, detailing a magical orphanage populated with mysterious children and shape-shifting protectors. Empire has an exclusive first look at the film.

Eva Green, reteaming with Burton following their last collaboration on Dark Shadows, playing the title role of Miss Peregrine. Speaking exclusively to Empire, Burton describes Miss Peregrine as a “weird Mary Poppins like character—a strong and mysterious person who looks like she could turn into a bird. That’s Eva.”

This is a film dominated by fierce, powerful women – including Dame Judi Dench as Miss Avocet. “In the peculiar world, women are the protectors,” Burton explains. “Miss Avocet is the head of another peculiar school. But, much like the bird in her name, she’s a bit more of a nervous, flighty energy than Miss Peregrine.”

Here’s the full lineup of peculiar children, each endowed with unusual skills or powers. “I was a little worried about working with so many kids again,” Burton told us, “but they were all such professionals on set. You would never believe that it was some of these kids’ first big film.”

In a typically starry cast, Asa Butterfield and Ella Purnell lead up the child actors, while Chris O’Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, and Samuel L. Jackson join Green and Dench. Burton is directing from a script by Jane Goldman, adapted from Riggs’ novel.

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children flies into US cinemas on September 30, ahead of a UK release on October 7. Be sure to pick up a copy of next month’s Empire (on sale March 31) for more exclusive tidbits.

We have added x92 various photos of Ella with friends and family. These have been collected by fans from various social media accounts… they also confirm that Ella is dating co-star and actor Asa Butterfield!

Although Ella only has a small part in the film, and shes not in the trailer, we are excited to share with you the full length trailer for TARZAN, the film is scheduled for release in July next year.

Skarsgård told USA Today how the classic plot will be tweaked for the 2016 version: “It’s almost the opposite of the classic tale, where it’s about taming the beast. This is about a man who’s holding back and slowly as you peel off the layers, he reverts back to a more animalistic state and lets that side of his personality out.”

Ella Purnell and Alex Lawther presented the award for Best British Short Film to producer Emilie Jouffroy and director Nina Gantz at The Moet British Independent Film Awards 2015 yesterday (December 6, 2015) in London. We have added 37 photos of Ella to the image gallery…

We have added x2,075 screencaps of Ella in Wildlike to the gallery. If you haven’t already seen the movie, you must – its great and Ella performance is fantastic!

It looks like Ella is dating her (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) co-star. The actress took to instagram to post this adorable video of them and wrote “6 weeks of waiting was more than worth one afternoon with you ? until next time my love, counting down the days“. Either that, or they’re making another movie together?!

6 weeks of waiting was more than worth one afternoon with you ? until next time my love, counting down the days

A video posted by Ella Purnell (@ella_purnell) on Sep 7, 2015 at 2:32am PDT

Teen road trip movie Access All Areas has began its shoot at Bestival, the music festival held on the Isle of Wight that runs Sept 10-13. The production will then move to Bristol to film on location and will run for five weeks in total.

Bryn Higgins directs Oliver Veysey’s screenplay, which follows a group of frustrated teenagers who embark on a road trip to a music festival to escape their everyday lives. The cast includes Ella Purnell, newcomer Edward Bluemel, Georgie Henley (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Jordan Stephens (half of the English hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks).

Writer Veysey is producing for new outfit Camden Film Co. alongside Bill Curbishley, who was a producer on Quadrophenia in 1979 and more recently worked on The Railway Man.

Ahead of its US release in just over three week,s a new trailer has arrived online for writer-director Frank Hall Green’s upcoming thriller Wildlike which stars Bruce Greenwood and Ella Purnell. Screencaps to follow!

We have added x10 photos from on set and filming Tim Burtons Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children to the image gallery …

Ella Purnell and her co-star Bruce Greenwood are featured on the poster for their new film Wildlike. The movie will debut in theaters and on demand on September 25. Horray!