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sTKO! Rocky’s Officially Back CREED’ In the Oscar Ring Fa-La-La-La Face-off DEC. 11, 2015 • #1393 Your Ultimate List of the Meow 15 Best Holiday Movies, TV, Songs & Books First Look! THE BIGGEST MARVEL MOVIE YET INTRODUCES HE’S TALL, POWERFUL— AND HAS CLAWS THAT AREAL HOUSEWIFE WOULD ENVY FROM LEFT: CHRIS EVANS AS CAPTAIN AMERICA, CHADWICK BOSEMAN AS BLACK PANTHER, AND ROBERT DOWNEY JR. AS IRON MAN YOU’RE NOT YOU WHEN YOU’RE HUNGRY.® ®/TM trademarks ©Mars, Incorporated 2015. Other trademarks are property of their respective owners. SATISFIES THE TOP 10 THINGS WE LOVE THIS WEEK Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker, Jay Duplass, Judith Light, and Jeffrey Tambor TV • Thegroundbreakingseriesreturnsassharplyfunnyasever,with : AMAZON STUDIOS (3); LIGHT AND TAMBOR: JENNIFER CLASEN/AMAZON JENNIFER TAMBOR: AND LIGHT (3); STUDIOS AMAZON : TRANSPARENT Maura (Emmy winner Jeffrey Tambor) and the dysfunctional Pfefferman family learning to navigate new life-changing deci- TRANSPARENT 1 sions, including sex-reassignment surgery. (Amazon) ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN RITTER DECEMBER 11, 2015 EW.COM 5 23 5 CHRIS MARTIN: KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGE.COM; KEVIN MARTIN: CHRIS 6 4 YOU’RE THE WORST: BYRON COHEN/FX; 2 3 4 5 6 THE LADY IN THE VAN: MUSIC TV BOOKS MOVIES MUSIC A HEAD FULL YOU’RE THE IMPROBA- THE LADY BLUE OF DREAMS, THE WORST BILITY OF IN THE VAN NEIGHBOUR- NICOLA DOVE; SIVAN DOVE; NICOLA Coldplay • The raunchy yet LOVE, by Hannah • Revisiting her role from HOOD, Troye Sivan • After 2014’s melan- poignant sitcom about Rothschild Alan Bennett’s auto- • Hot 100 fans hungry choly Ghost Stories, the thirtysomethings trying • This wittily frothy first biographical play, Maggie for something more British rockers bounce to live and love has had a novel dives headfirst into Smith is crotchety, filling than the latest : back with some of their winning second season the outsize greed and cantankerous, and ulti- releases from Justin MUSICUNIVERSAL GROUP most joyous music in (available now on Hulu) intrigue in today’s art mately charming as a Bieber or One Direction years, featuring an all-star thanks to nuanced story- world—and the havoc homeless woman who should pick up this group of collaborators telling that’s unafraid wreaked when a lost asked to park her van in Aussie’s moody full- including Beyoncé, to show characters masterpiece falls into Bennett’s driveway for length debut, brimming Merry Clayton, Tove Lo, at their, well, worst. (FXX, the wrong (or maybe a few weeks and stayed with lush synth-pop and others. Wednesdays, 10:30 p.m.) exactly right) hands. for 15 years. (PG-13) symphonies. 6 EW.COM DECEMBER 11, 2015 Learn more at toyota.com/tacoma MOVIES CHI-RAQ • Spike Lee’s update of 7 Lysistrata—written largely 7 in rhyme—is his most sat- isfying joint in 10 years. (R) BOOKS RULES FOR A KNIGHT, 8 by Ethan Hawke • Told from the perspec- tive of a 15th-century dad to his kids on the eve of battle, this collection of children’s parables sweetly ruminates on life lessons. MOVIES HITCHCOCK/ TRUFFAUT 9 • Fifty years after François Truffaut published his Alfred Hitchcock inter- views, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and others dissect the influence of the auteurs’ work. (PG-13) TV 89 GARBAGE TIME WITH 10 KATIE NOLAN • The former YouTuber’s comedic take on sports is witty, energetic, and, most of all, refreshing. (FS1, Wednesdays, 12 a.m.) 10 CHI-RAQ : PARRISH LEWIS (2); NOLAN: KEVIN LYNCH/FOX SPORTS 8 EW.COM DECEMBER 11, 2015 Saving People Money Since 1936 GEICO has been serving up great car insurance and (!2;!9ধ$$<9;31'89'8=-$'(38138';,!2@'!89W ';! 7<3;'!2&9'',3>1<$,@3<$3<£&9!=';3&!@W +'-$3W$31df¥ffd£3$!£3ă$' 31'&-9$3<2;9T$3='8!+'9T6!@1'2;6£!29!2&('!;<8'9!8'23;!=!-£!#£'-2!££9;!;'938!££ $316!2-'9W -9!8'+-9;'8'&9'8=-$'1!803( 3='821'2; 16£3@''9 29<8!2$'316!2@T!9,-2+;32TWW¤U!'809,-8' !;,!>!@ 2$W9<#9-&-!8@W} THE WEEK’S BEST TWEET OF THE WEEK Do you think Cate Blanchett has ever eaten stuffing? I don’t. “Look, man, I get it. My dad @billy “Would you stop acting like eichner Diahann Carroll, heifer? You killed your dad. But you ain’t been livin’ in the suburbs need to know something: with that white man all your life.” Your dad was an a--hole.” —Cookie (Taraji P. Henson), when sister —Carl (Chandler Riggs), showing little Candace (Vivica A. Fox) refuses to sympathy to Ron (Austin Abrams), go to a crack house to find on The Walking Dead Carol (Tasha Smith), on Empire “Women weaken legs.” —Rocky (Sylvester Stallone), giving training advice to Adonis (Michael B. Jordan), in Creed EICHNER: LAURA CAVANAUGH/FILMMAGIC.COM; HENSON: CHUCK HODES/FOX; STALLONE: BARRY WETCHER; RIGGS: GENE PAGE/AMC; MYLES TAYLOR: A “She did the 30 Day Shred. Jillian Michaels FALLON: DOUGLAS GORENSTEIN/NBC/NBCU PHOTO BANK VIA GETTY IMAGES; HURLEY: JIM MARKS/E!; MARGULIES: MICHAEL PARMELEE/CBS changed her life.” —Trish (Rachael Taylor), explaining Jessica’s (Krysten Ritter) superstrength to a bystander, on Marvel’s Jessica Jones “I saw that Prince William and Kate recently made plans for their baby daughter, Princess Charlotte, to join the Girl Scouts when she turns 5. “Yes. I’ve That’s how good Girl Scout “I’m not kissing cookies are. Even royalty is her ring. gotten over like, ‘We need someone She should be words.” on the inside.’ ” kissing my ass.” —Alicia (Julianna Margulies), —Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show responding to Eli’s (Alan —Queen Helena (Elizabeth Hurley), Cumming) description of her complaining about the acting prime new love interest as a “man minister, on The Royals of few words,” on The Good Wife RONOWITZ/NETFLIX; 10 EW.COM DECEMBER 11, 2015 GB OF DATA 15 FOR THE PRICE OF 10 GB More reasons to smile and share the holiday. 1.866.MOBILITY | att.com/mobilesharevalue | Visit a Store Mobile Share Value® 15 GB for Price of 10 GB: Ltd.-time offer. Must sign up for this promo plan. Compares the new 15 GB plan to our previous 10 GB plan. Plan is for svc. only & includes plan charge ($100/mo.) plus per- device access charge ($10 to $40/mo.). Data Overage: $15/GB. Devices: Purch. costs add’l. Device Limits: 10 per plan. GENERAL SERVICE TERMS: Subject to Wireless Customer Agmt. Services are not for resale. 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BY ANTHONY BREZNICAN 34 What If Al Pacino Played Han Solo? And 19 other far-fetched, totally ridiculous but almost- really-happened tales from Hollywood’s casting archives. NEWS AND COLUMNS 5 The Must List 10 Sound Bites 15 EW Unleashed 16 News & Notes 68 The Bullseye REVIEWS 42 Movies ON THE COVER 46 Chris Evans as Streaming Captain America, Chadwick Boseman ZADE ROSENTHAL 49 as Black Panther, and TV Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. Photograph 57 by Michael Muller. Music 62 Books An Epic Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Galaxy’s Favorite Saga PICK UP YOUR COPY IN STORES DEC. 11 AN ALL-NEW COLLECTOR’S EDITION From the Editors of Entertainment Weekly © 2015 Time Inc. Books. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Time Inc. All rights reserved. SPECIAL EDITION THE ULTIMATE INSIDER’S GUIDE Behind the scenes access to exclusive photos, interviews and much more! ES TODA IN STOR Y! COPY PICK UP YOUR ©2015 Time Inc. 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