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This fee relates to the mark-up that is typically charged by credit card issuers in addition to the exchange rate. ® Registered trademark of The Bank of Nova Scotia. ™ Trademarks of The Bank of Nova Scotia. * Visa Int./Licensed User. JUNE 2019 CONTENTS VOLUME 20 #4 FEATURES REGULARS 4 EDITOR’S NOTE → Why Ben Affleck is responsible 28 for Mindy Kaling’s career Chew, Toy 6 CLICK! Tony Hale explains Lupita Nyong’o, Tom Hanks how his roles as Buster on and Matthew McConaughey TV’s Arrested Development get out and Gary on Veep became building blocks for Forky, the 10 UP FRONT plastic spork turned plaything Bill Murray fights zombies, he voices in Toy Story 4 Tessa Thompson talks BY MARNI WEISZ Men in Black: International 18 RED CARPET Dwayne Johnson and 34 Scarlett Johansson are all dressed up He Believes in Yesterday 20 IN THEATRES Why director Danny Boyle Your quick scan through knew he had to make the June’s movie schedule mind-bending Beatles movie Yesterday as soon as he 24 SPECIAL SCREENINGS read its clever, clever script Get moving with Purple Rain BY INGRID RANDOJA and Hairspray 44 IN THE WORKS Kristen Wiig hits the road, 38 John David Washington goes to Greece Getting the Shaft 46 CINEPLEX STORE How did Jessie T. Usher Captain Marvel comes home get to join Shaft’s supercool, crime-busting family? He told 48 SCREEN TEST everyone he could find that Trust your ears? Identify these he wanted the role and let the famous voice actors universe take care of the rest BY MARNI WEISZ 50 ART OF FILM Movies + Ottoman Empire 28 = magic for artist Murat Palta COVER STORY 40 DARK PHOENIX Write Brain Seven things Actor/writer Mindy Kaling tells us about we learned at WonderCon digging deep into her own noggin — and experiences — to come up with 26 the story for Late Night. She plays the only woman in the writer’s room of a comedy show, which is something she knows a little bit about BY INGRID RANDOJA COVER PHOTO BY MIKE ROSENTHAL/THE LICENSING PROJECT JUNE 2019 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 3 MAGAZINE EDITOR’S NOTE PUBLISHER Salah Bachir EDITOR Marni Weisz DEPUTY EDITOR Ingrid Randoja CREATIVE DIRECTOR & DESIGNER Lucinda Wallace VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION Sheila Gregory DIRECTOR, CONTENT STRATEGY Tina Boroviak Advertising sales for Cineplex Magazine Mindy on the Fringe is handled by Cineplex Media. TORONTO HEAD OFFICE 416-539-8800 Do you remember the first time VICE PRESIDENT Robert Brown you saw Mindy Kaling? VICE PRESIDENT, SALES John Tsirlis EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SALES Maybe it was as motormouthed customer point The New York Times’ Caryn James Giulio Fazzolari EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SALES service rep Kelly Kapoor on The Office, offered, “Matt & Ben represents a theater Ed Villa EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SALES which was, amazingly, her very first pro- that appeals to a younger generation’s pop QUEBEC/EASTERN CANADA fessional screen role. Or perhaps it was cultural assumptions, a forward-looking Jonathan Laflamme DIRECTOR, MEDIA OPERATIONS in her first movie, The 40 Year Old Virgin, theater that is not snobbish about movies, Cathy Prowse MANAGER, THEATRICAL PROGRAMMING which came out just a few months later, television or US Weekly.” Debi Kingston in August 2005. She played Amy, the ex- More importantly, Matt & Ben caught ACCOUNT MANAGERS girlfriend of Paul Rudd’s character, who the attention of The Office producer TORONTO 416-539-8800 pops up across from Rudd unexpectedly Greg Daniels, who not only gave Kaling Cory Atkins, ext. 5257 Zach Beach, ext. 5269 at a speed-dating event. the part of Kelly Kapoor, but also a posi- Sheree Kyte, ext. 5245 But if you were lucky, really lucky, maybe tion on the show’s writing staff — the only Beth Leverty, ext. 5285 Zandra MacInnis, ext. 5281 the first time you saw Mindy Kaling woman in the room, never mind woman of Heather Marshall, ext. 5290 was as Ben Affleck on stage at the 2002 colour. Over the course of eight seasons Jenna Paterson, ext. 5243 Julian Pieke, ext. 5216 New York International Fringe Festival. Kaling wrote 26 episodes of The Office Brett Poschmann, ext. 5287 That’s right, I said “as Ben Affleck.” (more than any other writer) and became Lorelei von Heymann, ext. 5249 Wendell Sappor, ext. 5277 That’s not a typo. It’s not supposed to be the first woman of colour ever nominated Lesley Taylor, ext. 5266 “opposite Ben Affleck” or “co-starring for a writing Emmy. Jennifer Wishart, ext. 5282 Tom Woyzbun, ext. 5253 with Ben Affleck.” Kaling, a Boston native, And it’s that experience writing for OTTAWA 844-870-1112 played Ben Affleck in Matt & Ben, a The Office that Kaling funnelled into the Nicole Beaudin play she wrote with her roommate and script for Late Night (which did not fall HAMILTON/NIAGARA 416-294-6355 Melanie Morgan Dartmouth theatre program classmate from the ceiling), a topical comedy in ATLANTIC CANADA 902-401-8152 Brenda Withers, who played Damon. which Kaling also stars as a newbie writer Craig Jackson The play asks the eternal question, how hired to bring youth and a female per- QUEBEC 514-868-0005 Benoit Deschambault, ext. 224 the heck did Matt Damon and Ben Affleck spective to a failing late night talk show. Martine Ménard, ext. 222 write the truly excellent, Oscar-winning So, really, if you think about it, we have MANITOBA/SASKATCHEWAN 204-396-3044 screenplay for Good Will Hunting? Ben Affleck to thank for this new movie. 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Cineplex Magazine, 1303 Yonge St., Toronto, ON, M4T 2Y9 It was absurd, surreal, more than a little 656,500 copies of Cineplex Magazine are rough around the edges, and the hit of distributed through Cineplex Entertainment, The Globe and Mail, and other outlets. the festival winning “Best in Fringe” and Cineplex Magazine is not responsible earning a follow-up Off-Off-Broadway for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, MARNI WEISZ, artwork or other materials. No material in run in New York’s East Village, at which EDITOR this magazine may be reprinted without the express written consent of the publisher. © Cineplex Entertainment 2019. 4 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 4700_PS_Cineplex_magazine_HR.pdf 1 2019-03-29 11:32 AM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K CLICK! ↗ THERE SHE IS She may look like Miss America here but she’s a whole lot better, she’s ↘ Captain Marvel. CRUISE Brie Larson READY walks the stage Lupita at an Avengers: Nyong’o Endgame fan dresses up just event in Seoul, a bit to attend South Korea. the launch of Christian Dior’s Spring/Summer Cruise Collection in Marrakech, Morocco. ↗ DOING THE HUSTLE Jennifer Lopez (left) and Madeline Brewer shoot a scene for Hustlers in Manhattan. 6 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 ↙ GO WEST Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson look a little bit country for the Stagecoach music festival in Indio, California. Wilson, an actor/producer who also sings country music, performed at the fest.