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Cineplex Entertainment announces October Front Row Centre Events

Each month, Cineplex Entertainment brings great entertainment to theatres across Canada. With Front Row Centre Events, guests can watch the Met Opera, stage productions, classic movies and more – all on the big screen. You won’t want to miss this month’s exciting events. For a complete list of locations for each event, visit www.Cineplex.com/Events.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT THIS MONTH:

Met Opera

Eugene Onegin Saturday, October 5, 2013 – 12:55 p.m. local time

Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien star as the love-struck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance. Deborah Warner’s new production, directed by Fiona Shaw, is set in the late 19th century, with a powerful snowstorm providing the dramatic setting for the finale. Piotr Beczala is Lenski, Onegin’s friend turned rival. Russian maestro Valery Gergiev conducts.

The Nose Saturday, October 26, 2013 – 12:55 p.m. local time

William Kentridge stormed the Met with his inventive production of Shostakovich’s opera, which dazzled opera and art lovers alike in its inaugural run in 2010. Now Paulo Szot reprises his acclaimed performance of a bureaucrat whose satirical misadventures in search of his missing nose are based on Gogol’s comic story. Pavel Smelkov conducts.

Concerts

Def Leppard: Viva! Hysteria Wednesday, October 2, 2013 – 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 3, 2013 – 7:30 p.m.

Britain’s greatest ever arena rock band, Def Leppard, hit the big screen for a One Night Only™ cinema event in spectacular style as only they can with Viva! Hysteria, an all-out, no- holds-barred event filmed live in March 2013 at the Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas. Famed for their extravagant arena productions, the band confounded expectations by booking out the Hotel's The Joint, an intimate venue allowing fans a truly up-close-and-personal concert experience with the 100 million album selling legends. Filmed over the course of nine nights, the set list includes top-selling album Hysteria in its entirety, plus many of the band's greatest

hits – unmissable!

Front Row Centre Events Dance Series

Don Quixote Live Wednesday, October 16, 2013 – 7:00 p.m. local time

The adventures of Cervantes’ bumbling knight have been the inspiration for many ballets, the best-known of which is the Don Quixote of Marius Petipa with music by Ludwig Minkus. All the elements of the great classical ballets are here: emotion, drama and vivid characters. Royal Ballet Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta has danced the virtuoso role of Basilio many times. So it is especially exciting that he is creating this new production for The Royal Ballet, which will have designs by Tim Hatley, who will give a modern edge to a broadly traditional staging. The music is full of Spanish flair and atmosphere, with a characteristic clarity of melody and rhythm that makes it so instantly appealing – here arranged by Martin

Yates, who also conducts. Don Quixote is a wonderfully entertaining ballet, known not only for its grand pas de deux, but for the ‘white act’ visions of the beautiful Dulcinea and many lively scenes – a crowded port, an uproarious tavern – that bring the whole company on stage.

Spartacus Sunday, October 20, 2013 – 12:55 p.m. local time

Captured by the Roman army, Spartacus and Phrygia are condemned to slavery. After becoming a gladiator, Spartacus foments a legendary rebellion. This grandiose epic recounts the exploits of the legendary slave who became a gladiator. Spartacus is one of the most famous works by Khachaturian and is considered one of the greatest ballets in the Bolshoi repertoire since the 1960s. A production with spectacular choreography and scenery, it is Yuri Grigorovich’s version that remains the most critically acclaimed.

National Theatre Live

Othello (Encore) Saturday, October 12, 2013 – 12:30 p.m. local time

 The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Shakespeare’s celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy. Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Henry V at the National Theatre, BBC’s Hustle) takes the title role. Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (The Last of the Haussmans, James Bond: Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (Timon of Athens; One Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the National Theatre’s recent production of Hamlet. Othello, newly married to Desdemona – who is half his age – is appointed leader of a major military operation. Iago passed over for promotion by Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.

MACBETH Thursday, October 17, 2013 – 7:00 p.m. local time Saturday, October 19, 2013 – 12:30 p.m. local time Wednesday, October 23, 2013 – 6:45 p.m. local time

National Theatre Live will broadcast Manchester International Festival’s electrifying production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh as the Scottish king and Alex Kingston as Lady Macbeth, directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh.

Special Engagement

Rifftrax Live: Night of the Living Dead Thursday, October 24, 2013 – 8:00 p.m. live EDT/CDT; 7:30 p.m. MDT/PDT

The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000® are back in select movie theaters nationwide for only one night in a hilarious never-before-seen take on the zombie movie that started it all: Night of the Living Dead. This classic 1968 horror film is where it all began! No, not the cronut trend. We’re talking about the omnipresent zombie craze! 28 Weeks Later, Resident Evil: Retribution, that Zack Snyder remake of Dawn of the Dead...We wouldn’t have any of them without Night of the Living Dead! Join Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett of RiffTrax.com on Thursday, October 24th for a hilarious riff on this masterpiece of brain eating mayhem! This one night event will be your only chance to see the guys fire their wisecracking commentary at Night of the Living Dead on the big screen.

Most Wanted Movies

Evil Dead Monday, October 28, 2013 – 7:00 p.m. local time Thursday, October 31, 2013 – 9:30 p.m. local time

Five Michigan State University students venture into the hills to spend a weekend in an isolated cabin. There they find the Book of the Dead (a Babylonian and Sumerian text, unrelated to the Egyptian Book of the Dead), otherwise known as the Morturom Demonto.

While searching the basement of the cabin, the students find and play a tape recording of demonic incantations from the book, unwittingly resurrecting slumbering demons that thirst for revenge. The characters are then possessed one by one, beginning with Cheryl (Ellen Sandweiss) after she is brutally raped by the evil force.

Sinister Cinema

Dead Before Dawn 3D Wednesday, October 30, 2013 – X:XX p.m. local time

Some college kids accidentally break an evil urn and inadvertently create a curse that causes everyone they make eye contact with to kill themselves and turn into Zombie Demons, or Zemons! Now, with only 24 hours to reverse the curse and the fate of the entire world resting on their shoulders, our heroes race through the night in a bloody Winnebago, armed with a slew of homemade weapons, avoiding eye contact, dodging hickeys and seducing Zemons. Will our heroes be able to reverse the curse and save the day, or will all of humanity be dead before dawn?

Family Favourites Presentations

Open Season Saturday, October 5, 2013 – 11:00 a.m. local time

A 900-pound domesticated grizzly bear named Boog, with no survival skills, has his perfect world turned upside-down when he meets Elliot, a scrawny, fast-talking wild mule deer. When Elliot convinces Boog to desert his idyllic existence living in a garage decked out with all the comforts of home, and try the "wild" life, things quickly spiral out of control. With open season upon them, and the hunters arriving in force, Elliot must help Boog get in touch with his inner grizzly to unite the woodland creatures and take the forest back!

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Saturday, October 12, 2013 – 11:00 a.m. local time

As the annual Giant Vegetable Competition approaches, it's "veggie-mania" in Wallace & Gromit's neighborhood. The two enterprising chums have been cashing in with their pest- control outfit, "Anti-Pesto," which humanely dispatches the rabbits that try to invade the town's sacred gardens. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero--not to mention Lady Tottington's hand in marriage. With the fate of the

competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her and our two heroes.

The Addams Family Saturday, October 19, 2013 – 11:00 a.m. local time

Ghoulish laughs abound in this darkly comic gem. Based on the classic television show, Raul Julia and Angelica Huston star as the deliciously creepy Gomez and Morticia Addams, with Christina Ricci standing out as their daughter, Wednesday. When Christopher Lloyd shows up, claiming to be the long-lost Uncle Fester, the family rejoices, but Wednesday and Thing begin to suspect something is amiss, and they uncover a plot to raid the fortune contained within the Addams’ vault.

The Corpse Bride Saturday, October 26, 2013 – 11:00 a.m. local time

Set in a 19th century European village, young Victor is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride, while his real bride, Victoria, waits bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more colorful than his strict Victorian upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or the next, that can keep him away from his one true love.

Sports Entertainment

WWE Sunday, October 6, 2013 – 8:00 p.m. EDT, 7:00 p.m. CDT, 6:00 p.m. MDT, 5:00 p.m. PDT

The battle for dominance in WWE is just beginning. See , , CM Punk, , The Shield and all your favourite WWE Superstars square off at WWE BattleGround.

WWE Sunday, October 27, 2013 – 8:00 p.m. EDT, 7:00 p.m. CDT, 6:00 p.m. MDT, 5:00 p.m. PDT

Hell in a Cell. Home to WWE’s most grueling match, it is a fearsome tower of unforgiving steel where success and escape go hand-in-hand. Once inside WWE’s merciless prison, the only way out is to win. Don’t miss Randy Orton, CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, and your favorite WWE Superstars at WWE Hell in a Cell.

Classic Film Series

Funny Girl Check local listings Wednesday, October 9, 2013 – 4:00 p.m. (select locations) and 7:00 p.m. local time Sunday, October 13, 2013 – 12:45 p.m. Monday, October 14, 2013 – 12:45 p.m. (select locations) Monday, October 21, 2013 – 7:00 p.m. local time (select locations)

The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.

Exhibition: Great Art on Screen

Vermeer and Music Thursday, October 10, 2013 – 7:30 p.m.

The National Gallery, London, is offering a major exhibition on one of the most startling and fascinating artists of all-time Johannes Vermeer, painter of the Girl with a Pearl Earring. Vermeer painted little more than 30 works that still exist, and the National Gallery has chosen to focus on his art in relation to music. Music was one of the most popular themes of Dutch painting and revealed an enormous amount about the sitter and the society. The event film goes beyond the exhibition to tell the entire story of Vermeer's life and, in doing so we show in detail many other of the artist's great works. The program will suit the wide audience who adore Vermeer's work and who want both to see it in detail and to learn more about this

mysterious, fascinating man.

Coming in November:  National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage – Saturday, November 2  The Rolling Stones: Summer in the Sun - Live from Hyde Park – Monday, November 4  Merrily We Roll Along from London’s West End – Thursday, November 7  The Met: Live in HD Tosca live – Saturday, November 9  Royal Shakespeare Company Live – Richard II – Wednesday, November 13  Nederlands Dans Theater – An Evening with Crystal Pite – Sunday, November 17  Doctor Who 50th Anniversary – Saturday, November 23 (live); Monday, November 25 (encore)

*Other showtimes for most series are available at Cineplex Odeon Yonge-Dundas Cinemas in Toronto. Check Cineplex.com for details.

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