Empire Magazine Front Cover - Analysis

Below is the cover of Empire. Empire is a Monthly British magazine. It is the best selling film magazine in the UK. It mainly focuses on mainstream Hollywood blockbusters. Audiences can immediately see this through the front cover, as a well known film, with an A list actor Will Smith is the central dominant image. The font, strong and powerful in bold capital letters again suggests to the audience what type of magazine this is. The cover lines such as Suicide Squad, The Revenant and Black Mass are all high budget Hollywood blockbuster films, implying that the magazine focuses on well known Hollywood films.