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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

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↗ 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.

↗ NAME THAT STAR We didn’t recognize Charlize Theron at first. But that’s her, looking all brunette and beautiful at a London screening of Long Shot.

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IN FOCUS Sharing is Caring Jim Jarmusch calls on old friends Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton to slay zombies in The Dead Don’t Die ↑ O YOU THINK JIM JARMUSCH AND conspired three times, on The Grand Budapest From left: Bill Murray, Wes Anderson have to sit down togeth- Hotel, Isle of Dogs and Moonrise Kingdom, Chloë Sevigny and er with their calendars before either while Murray and Anderson have made eight Adam Driver in The Dead Don’t Die starts a movie? movies together, those three with Swinton, Inset: Tilda Swinton Both filmmakers are known for plus The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic Dworking with the same actors over and over, With Steve Zissou, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore and both are very fond of Bill Murray and and The Darjeeling Limited. And the trio FANCY OPENING Tilda Swinton, who play a police chief and recently wrapped filming on Anderson’s next The film debuted mortician respectively in Jarmusch’s new zombie pic, The French Dispatch. at the Cannes movie, The Dead Don’t Die. The Dead Don’t Die also stars Adam Driver Film Festival.

This is the fourth movie Jarmusch and Murray and Chloë Sevigny as police officers who help IN THE have made together, after Broken Flowers, Murray battle zombies. Neither are Jarmusch NEIGHBOURHOOD Coffee and Cigarettes and The Limits of Control, newbies. Driver played a poet/bus driver in Tom Waits plays a and the fourth movie for Jarmusch and Swinton, Jarmusch’s indie hit Paterson and Sevigny was hermit named Bob. after Broken Flowers, The Limits of Control and a secretary in Broken Flowers. —MW LUCKY #13 the 2013 vampire movie Only Lovers Left Alive. This is Jim Jarmusch’s Similarly, Swinton and Anderson have The Dead Don’t Die opens June 14th. 13th feature film.

10 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 I think Marion and Rose-Lynn are both alpha females, basically, and so they’re going to come up against one another. — JULIE WALTERS ON PLAYING THE MOTHER OF AN EX-CON WITH DREAMS OF COUNTRY MUSIC STARDOM IN WILD ROSE

CASTING CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF CINEPLEX MAGAZINE KILLER LOOKS Filmmaker Luc Besson gives into his love of casting supermodels in action films by giving the lead role in Anna, about a government assassin, to Sasha Luss, the Russian beauty who has walked runways for Chanel, Dior, Valentino and, as you see here, Balmain in 2017. Besson previously gave model Cara Delevingne a starring role in ↑ Valerian and Samuel L. Jackson the City of in 2000’s Shaft a Thousand Planets and cast model Milla Jovovich ← in both The Fifth Element Jackson (right) and The Messenger: with Jessie T. Usher The Story of Joan of Arc. in 2019’s Shaft

FROM THE ARCHIVES: JUNE 2000 Anna opens June 21st. SHAFT: NOW & THEN Of all the things actors have days just to see how many told us over the past 20 years, people will notice.” Samuel L. Jackson may have “Honestly. I think a lot shared one of the most honest of them do,” he continued. when we spoke with him for his “I actually think that actors reboot of Shaft in June 2000. who say, ‘I hate watching myself “I understand the fact that on screen,’ should stop lying.” people are kind of amazed Now, 19 years later, Jackson sometimes when they see you stars in the follow-up to 2000’s in places that they don’t expect Shaft, which is also called to see you,” he admitted for simply Shaft. And he’ll be the cover story of only our watching it right along with sixth issue. “And, you know, the rest of us. ↑ interestingly enough, I actually Sasha Luss in Anna walk around the streets some Shaft opens June 14th.

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Child’s Play opens June 21st. Annabelle Comes Home opens June 28th.

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Your character doesn’t exist in the original movie. What does he add to this one? I think that there’s an interesting dynamic when it comes to single moms and a char- acter who’s not the dad. That’s always an interesting thing that can happen in a relationship.

Is it a remake? It’s not part of the canon of the original Child’s Play but there are a lot of similari- ties when you talk about a doll that comes to life. It’s its own entity, but a really smart spin on it just with technology being one of the main components of the film.

Right, he’s Wi-Fi enabled this time. Yeah, and I think that’s a really interesting thing that we’re dealing with as a society right now…. I see it with my kids all the time. We’ve had to institute a no-screen rule for parts of the night when they came home because they bury them- selves in their computers or their phone, SPOTLIGHT CANADA which is, I get it, I’ve caught myself as well. We’re becoming more and more dependent on smart cars and our appli- ances being attached to Wi-Fi and they’re Play Time talking about putting smart chips in clothing to adjust your body temperature, David Lewis comes face-to-face with and it sounds great on paper but I think Chucky in the Child’s Play reboot there’s a real double-edged sword to that.

Why do you think there’s been such E’RE WORRIED ABOUT DAVID LEWIS. HE PLAYS HOME TOWN a resurgence of horror movies? Shane in this month’s Child’s Play, a reboot of the Vancouver, B.C. Certainly with It and with Child’s Play franchise about Chucky, the evil, redheaded doll with there’s a nostalgia factor at work, which is FAMILY a habit of killing everyone. Chucky belongs to Andy REUNION really exciting, just to take yourself back to W(Gabriel Bateman), and Shane is Andy’s mom’s (Aubrey Plaza) Coincidentally, being a kid and being scared as an adult. new boyfriend. Better be careful. Vancouver’s But I think that horror films, done prop- Born and raised in Vancouver, where Child’s Play was Amber Taylor erly, people like to be scared and I think plays Lewis’s shot last fall, Lewis has remained in the city throughout his daughter in both being scared with a bunch of people in a long career, which includes roles in The X-Files, Man of Steel, Unspeakable theatre is a very exciting thing. But also Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and most recently the CBC and Child’s Play holding a mirror up to what’s happening movie Unspeakable, about Canada’s tainted blood scandal. “I’ve in the world and where we are in society, worked in a bunch of places but I’ve pretty much just lived here,” GREETINGS it’s a good way to do that. He’s lost track says the 42-year-old, happily. of the number of — MARNI WEISZ He was at home in Vancouver when we spoke about this eighth Hallmark movies movie in the Chucky universe. he’s made Child’s Play opens June 21st.

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↑ Scarlett ↑ Johansson Janelle Monáe In L.A. for the At the L.A. world premiere premiere of of Avengers: UglyDolls. Endgame.

18 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 JUNE 2019 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 19 ↑ ↑ Ryan Zac Efron Reynolds At the European In Tokyo for the premiere of world premiere of Extremely Wicked, Pokémon Detective Shockingly Evil and Pikachu. Vile in London.

↑ Naomie ↑ Harris Isla Fisher At the launch event At the L.A. for Bond 25 in premiere of Montego Bay, The Beach Bum. Jamaica.

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isn’t planning to use those THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 JUNE 7 powers for good. In this follow-up to the 2016 hit about what pets do in their private time, Max DARK PHOENIX THE SECRET LIFE (Patton Oswalt) is adapting to life after This 10th film in the X-Men OF PETS 2 his human Katie ( ) has married franchise sees mutant See spotlight box. Ellie Kemper Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) and had a kid. Listen for Harrison Ford develop strong new LATE NIGHT as the voice of farm dog Rooster; his powers after the team Low ratings and the accusation first animated feature. → OPENS JUNE 7TH — which includes Beast that she doesn’t support (Nicholas Hoult), Cyclops women force late night talk (Tye Sheridan) and Mystique show host Katherine Newberry (Jennifer Lawrence) — is hit (Emma Thompson) to add by a solar flare during a space young comedy writer Molly mission. Unfortunately, the (Mindy Kaling) to her all-male new Jean Grey, or Phoenix, writing staff. Kaling also wrote the script, drawing on her own experiences breaking into the male-dominated biz. → SEE MINDY KALING INTERVIEW, PAGE 40. THE SOUVENIR Honor Swinton Byrne, daughter of Tilda Swinton, is earning rave reviews for her turn as upper-class film student Julie, who is struggling to define herself as an artist when she falls in love with Sophie Turner a troubled man (Tom Burke). in Dark Phoenix The Souvenir’s Tilda joins her daughter Honor Swinton Byrne on screen playing Julie’s emotionally reserved mother.

20 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 JUNE 14 MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL See spotlight box. THE DEAD DON’T DIE Writer-director Jim Jarmusch assembles an eclectic cast for this zombie comedy that sees the undead wreaking havoc in a sleepy town. Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloë Sevigny play the town’s cops, Tilda Swinton is a samurai sword-carrying mortician, Steve Buscemi plays a farmer and Iggy Pop and Carol Kane pop up as zombies. SHAFT The new Shaft film unites three generations of the crime-solving family as cybersecurity expert John “JJ” Shaft Jr. (Jessie T. Usher) calls MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL on his estranged dad John The Men in Black franchise gets its fourth installment, and Shaft II (Samuel L. Jackson) finally welcomes a woman to the mix. Tessa Thompson is and granduncle, the original John Shaft (Richard newbie Agent M, who teams with Agent H (Chris Hemsworth) Roundtree), to investigate to find the mole in the Men in Black organization. Co-starring the murder of JJ’s best friend. Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson and Kumail Nanjiani as the → SEE JESSIE T. USHER voice of alien Pawny. → OPENS JUNE 14TH INTERVIEW, PAGE 38. →

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ANNABELLE COMES HOME Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga) have one house rule: do not touch anything in the artifacts room, especially that creepy doll Annabelle! When their daughter’s friend breaks that rule, bad, bad things start to happen. → OPENS JUNE 28TH

ANNA JUNE 21 French filmmaker Luc Besson is enamored with women TOY STORY 4 who can kick ass — The Fifth For the past 24 years a Element, La Femme Nikita, group of pixilated movie toys Lucy — and he adds to his have made us laugh, cry and oeuvre with this thriller starring contemplate the meaning of Russian model-turned-actor life. In this fourth Toy Story film Sasha Luss as assassin contemplation takes centre Anna Poliatova, a merciless stage as Forky (Tony Hale), a killer who gets caught up in Himesh Patel (left) and craft project created by Bonnie a dangerous mission. Co- Ed Sheeran in Yesterday out of a spork, is tormented starring Helen Mirren, Cillian by the fact he doesn’t know if Murphy and Luke Evans. he’s a toy or a piece of cutlery. music singer, and now she has When Woody (Tom Hanks) WILD ROSE to decide whether to follow her JUNE 28 and Forky get separated from Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie dream or do right by her kids. the gang they reconnect with Buckley) comes out of prison YESTERDAY Bo Peep (Annie Potts) and knowing she has to take care of CHILD’S PLAY Director Danny Boyle and meet new toys that help them her two kids who are living with The Child’s Play franchise scriptwriter Richard Curtis understand their purpose her mother (Julie Walters) in gets a reboot starring team for this clever musical in life. → SEE TONY HALE Glasgow. However, Rose-Lynn’s Gabriel Bateman as a rom-com that finds singer- INTERVIEW, PAGE 28. true calling is to be a country lonely boy whose mom songwriter Jack (Himesh (Aubrey Plaza) buys him a Patel) being knocked Wi-Fi-enabled doll named unconscious and waking up Chucky (voiced by Mark to discover the Beatles don’t Toy Story 4 Hamill). Chucky’s ability exist. Jack starts passing off to control various forms of Beatles songs as his own, technology allows him to carry leading to fortune and fame. out all sorts of bloodthirsty But is it possible someone deeds. out there knows the truth? Co-starring Lily James, DOGMAN Kate McKinnon and Ana This Italian drama finds mild- de Armas, with appearances mannered dog groomer and from James Corden and single dad Marcello (Marcello Ed Sheeran. → SEE Fonte) sucked into the criminal DANNY BOYLE INTERVIEW, schemes of the town’s bully, PAGE 34. Simone (Edoardo Pesce). Now gentle Marcello must find ANNABELLE the strength to break from COMES HOME Simone’s grasp. See spotlight box.

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↑ CONCERTS & MUSIC Hairspray's John Travolta and Nikki Blonsky Inset: Prince and Hitting the Apollonia Kotero in Purple Rain

Right Notes STUDIO ANGST Warner Brothers’ Get ready to shake, rattle and roll as a pair of musicals thought Purple Rain starring Prince and John Travolta shimmy onto screens was such a mess it didn’t deserve a wide ANS OF MUSICALS GET THEIR FIX 1960s when vivacious teen Tracy Turnblad release. However, a few early rave reviews as two hip-shaking flicks hit Cineplex (Nikki Blonsky) proves she deserves a spot changed executives’ screens this month. First up is the 1984 on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance minds and it became cult classic Purple Rain, Prince’s over- show. Tracy also wants to help integrate the a box-office hit. the-top romantic drama that sees him show to include African-American teenagers. TRANSFORMING falling for an up-and-coming singer (Apollonia The surprise casting in the musical, based on F TRAVOLTA Kotero). Purple Rain gave Prince his first star- the Broadway show, is John Travolta, who is It took John Travolta ring movie role, and while it’s obvious the pop unrecognizable as Tracy’s full-figured mom, four hours to transform star had limited acting range it doesn’t matter Edna, and gives a wonderfully nuanced and into Hairspray’s Edna in the slightest as the film’s best scenes are touching performance. — IR as five separate silicone prosthetics the electrifying concert sequences showcasing had to be applied to his Prince at the height of his musical powers. Purple Rain - June 7th to June 20th face in addition to the Then Hairspray turns back the clock to the Hairspray - June 21st to July 4th 30-pound body suit.

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STUDIO GHIBLI FLASHBACK VAN GOGH & JAPAN ANIME SERIES FILM SERIES Renowned 19th-century Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh never visited Japan but was enthralled by the nation’s art forms, NAUSICAÄ OF THE LABYRINTH especially ukiyo-e, colour woodcuts. This Exhibition on Screen VALLEY OF THE WIND Fri., June 14 to Sun., June 2 Thurs., June 27 presentation takes us inside Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum (English dubbed version) where we learn how the woodcuts inspired Van Gogh to Wed., June 5 BACK TO THE FUTURE incorporate unconventional composition, bolder lines and Fri., June 28 to (Japanese with vibrant colours into his own paintings, serving as a lasting Thurs., July 11 English subtitles) influence in his all-too-short life as an artist. → JUNE 9

NATIONAL SENSORY FRIENDLY THEATRE LIVE SCREENINGS THE AUDIENCE THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 Encores: Mon., June 3; Sat., June 15 Sat., June 15; Thurs., June 20; Sat. June 29 TOY STORY 4 Sat., June 29 ALL ABOUT EVE Sat., June 22 SMALL ISLAND CLASSIC Thurs., June 27 FILMS KRAMER VS. KRAMER MUSIC AT Sun., June 16; Tues., THE MOVIES June 18; Sat., June 22; PURPLE RAIN Mon., June 24; CLASSIC FILMS Fri., June 7 to Wed., June 26 Thurs., June 20 HAIRSPRAY EVENTS KRAMER VS. KRAMER Fri., June 21 to IN VIP Forty years ago, a movie about a failed marriage and bitter Thurs., July 4 THE DEVIL custody drama stormed the box office and set off a cultural debate WEARS PRADA that continues to this day. Kramer vs. Kramer stars Meryl Streep MET OPERA Mon., June 17 as Joanna, who leaves her husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman), forcing DIALOGUES him to raise their seven-year-old son Billy (Justin Henry) alone. DES CARMÉLITES LONDON’S She returns seeking custody, thus setting off a court battle. (POULENC) WEST END While Hoffman is the heart of the film — an intense dad who learns Encores: Sat., June 8; to emotionally connect with his son — it is Streep who is its soul, KINKY BOOTS Mon., June 10; Wed., a woman who refuses to live an unexamined life, and pays the price Mon., June 24 June 12; Sun., June 23 for her choice. → JUNE 16, 18, 22, 24, 26

JUNE 2019 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 25 THIS IS THE FIRST X-MEN MOVIE 1 THAT GOES INTO OUTER SPACE, AND THE FIRST TO FEATURE AN ALIEN FASCINATING (PLAYED BY JESSICA CHASTAIN). FACTS ABOUT DARK

The 12th X-MenPHOENIX movie, Dark Phoenix, finds our mutant heroes enjoying a period of unprecedented approval. Until, that is, they’re struck by a solar flare while on a mission to 7help stranded astronauts in outer space. The blast has a particularly dangerous effect on Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), threatening to turn her into the malevolent Phoenix against her will. Turner and fellow cast members Tye Sheridan, who plays Cyclops, and Nicholas Hoult, who plays Beast, joined writer-director Simon Kinberg at WonderCon in Anaheim to share behind-the-scenes insights into the making of the film BY MARNI WEISZ

SIMON KINBERG TYE SHERIDAN’S 3 WANTED TO KEEP AS 5 CYCLOPS WEARS A MANY OF THE EFFECTS DARK VISOR, SO THE ACTOR AS POSSIBLE PRACTICAL, COULD ONLY SEE THROUGH RATHER THAN DIGITAL, A NARROW OPENING SO THEY BUILT A IN FRONT OF HIS EYES. STREET OF HOUSES IN MONTREAL, WHERE THE FILM WAS SHOT, JUST TO BLOW THEM UP.

SOPHIE TURNER MAY LOOK FANTASTIC WITH @#$! 4 HER HAIR BILLOWING IN THE WIND, BUT SHE “YOU DON’T WANT TO LOOKED ANYTHING BUT WHILE FILMING. SHE WAS PULL IT OFF BECAUSE ACTUALLY WEARING A BALD CAP WITH TRACKING THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE POINTS FOR THE CGI SO THE UNDULATING LOCKS TO COME FIX YOUR HAIR COULD BE ADDED LATER. AGAIN,” SAID SHERIDAN. “AND ONE PART OF MY COSTUME IS THIS PURPLE “YOU DON’T WANT TO “ALL OF THOSE HOUSES COAT WITH THIS HUGE COLLAR…AND I’VE GOT THIS TAKE IT OFF EVERY TIME THAT LOOK VERY BALD CAP ON AND I LOOK LIKE MEGAMIND,” SHE YOU HAVE TO WALK UP REAL ARE VERY REAL SAID. “IT’S TERRIBLE. YOU DON’T FEEL COOL. YOU THE STAIRS SO, YOU ON THE OUTSIDE BUT DON’T FEEL POWERFUL. YOU LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT.” KNOW, YOU TRIP AND GET HAVE NOTHING ON THE A LOT OF BRUISES ON INSIDE,” HE SAID. YOUR SHINS.”

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SOPHIE TURNER RESEARCHED PSYCHOLOGICAL 2 DISORDERS IN PREPARATION TO PLAY HER DIVIDED CHARACTER, JEAN GREY/PHOENIX.

“ONE OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT A LOT OF MOVIES HAVE DONE, AND CERTAINLY MCU HAS DONE IT PERHAPS THE BEST, IS TELL INTERGALACTIC COMIC BOOK STORIES,” SAID KINBERG. “SO WE FELT LIKE YOU ALL WERE READY, AND WE WERE “WE WANTED TO STUDY SCHIZOPHRENIA AND READY TO DO OUR VERSION OF THAT.” DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER TO REALLY DELVE INTO THE PSYCHE OF THE CHARACTER AND GROUND HER IN SOMETHING QUITE REAL,” TURNER SAID.

AT THE END OF ONE SCENE THAT JAMES MCAVOY, 7 WHO PLAYS PROFESSOR X, WAS SHOOTING WHILE SUSPENDED ON WIRES, JESSICA CHASTAIN ARRANGED FOR THE SOUND CREW TO START PLAYING THE MACARENA, AND FOR THE CREW CONTROLLING MCAVOY’S MOVEMENTS TO MAKE AH! HIM DANCE.

NICHOLAS HOULT, WHO PLAYS BEAST, IS NOT AS GOOD AT 6 “QUAD RUNNING,” OR RUNNING ON ALL FOURS, AS HIS STUNT GUYS WHO MAKE BEAST’S GAIT LOOK FAST AND GRACEFUL.

“AND THEN THEY’RE LIKE, NICK, SO YOU JUST FINISH OFF THE QUAD RUN “JESSICA CHASTAIN INTO THE SCENE,” DESCRIBED HOULT. “I’M NOT BUILT TO BE ABLE TO IS A MENACE,” DO THAT SO IT ENDS UP ME KIND OF CRAWLING AND THEN POPPING UP SAID KINBERG. INTO FRAME AND BEING LIKE, ‘AH,’ AND THEN CARRYING ON WITH THE SCENE. I’M SURE THERE’S SOME VERY EMBARRASSING CUTS OF THAT.”

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How do youO make the Fvenerable Toy Story K franchise fresh for a fourthR movie? Introduce a new toy that’s not really a toy at all. Tony Hale explains how he got into character to IN IT! voice Forky, a sentient craft project who joins Woody, Buzz and the gang for one more adventure

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28 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 HEN YOU THINK OF big-screen existential crises you probably think of avant-garde French cinema or ex- perimental indie pics, not so much animated family features. Unless they’re from Pixar. Nine years after Toy Story 3 came to an emotional close with the toys escaping the incinerator and find- ing a new home with preschooler Bonnie we reunite with Woody (Tom Hanks), WBuzz (Tim Allen) and the gang for Toy Story 4, just as Bonnie’s heading off to kindergarten. There, the nervous tot com- forts herself by making a doll, of sorts, out of craft supplies fished from the garbage — a plastic spork, a pipe cleaner, some googly eyes. Meet Forky! Forky instantly becomes Bonnie’s favourite toy and JOKE’S ON HIM joins the gang on a road trip Tony Hale isn’t new with Bonnie’s family. But the Tony Hale to voice work. He has spork-man still sees himself almost two dozen voice as a piece of trash (hence the credits, including existential crisis) and jumps out of the moving RV to The Joker in Batman find his proper place in the world. Woody jumps after Ninja (above) and him, launching a new adventure in which the pair Doctor Psycho in the finds Woody’s old love interest, Bo Peep (Annie Potts), upcoming, animated Harley Quinn series, living in an antique shop. characters who are Who could voice such a confused, conflicted, out- very different from his of-place little guy? Pixar went straight to two-time nervous alter egos in Emmy winner Tony Hale, whom you may know as naïve Arrested Development mama’s boy Buster Bluth on Arrested Development and and Veep. “It’s fun Gary Walsh, the effusive aide to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ to play someone like Vice President on Veep, currently in its final season. The Joker who’s just Those Emmys were for the latter. completely evil,” Hale was in Glendale, California — already working he says. on his next project, an animated TV show based on Archibald’s Next Big Thing, a kids’ book he wrote years ago — when we spoke by phone. →

JUNE 2019 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 29 TONY HALE PHOTO BY GABRIEL OLSEN/GETTY HE HAS A VERY BABY-LIKE ‘‘MENTALITY,” HALE SAYS OF FORKY. “BABIES ARE SO GREAT, THEY’LL EXPRESS EXACTLY WHAT THEY’RE FEELING’’

Woody and Forky hit the road in Toy Story 4

→ Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley a very baby-like mentality. Babies are so said they were thinking of you when great, they’ll express exactly what they’re they came up with this character, feeling. They don’t care who you are, what a conflicted plastic spork. How does the situation is, they’re just going to say it that make you feel? and emote. And Forky’s very much like, I know. They told me that. I was like, “That he’ll ask questions, he doesn’t know what’s tracks, that tracks.” But it was fun ’cause going on, he’s looking at people weird. He when I came in they had attached some of doesn’t care about social, moral, putting IF KEANU REEVES Buster’s lines [from Arrested Development] on a nice face. It’s just kind of like, if he’s WERE A TOY… and Gary’s lines [from Veep] to Forky’s confused, he’s confused. But then he starts Forky isn’t Toy Story 4’s voice, to the character, and I was able to learn a lot about friendship and just life only new plaything. to watch him, it was really fun to see. I and ask a lot of questions. I don’t know, Keanu Reeves joins the mean, here’s the deal. What Pixar does is I really came in being like, this guy is one team as Duke Caboom absolutely just jaw-dropping to me. To not big sponge. who is, appropriately, only just walk into the space and have the a Canadian motorcycle opportunity to do something in Toy Stor y, How do you get into character when stunt-riding action which is such a beautiful franchise, but to you’re playing a googly-eyed spork? figure. Not only is Keanu Canadian in real life, he have already put my voice onto a character The sad thing is some of the times it comes is also the co-founder that they’re developing, the whole thing a little naturally. He is very confused, I’m of Arch Motorcycle, was just kind of a lot to take in. confused about a lot of things…. I’ve got- a custom motorcycle ten that question a lot with Buster or Gary, building company, and Cooley also said, “Tony’s performance and the key is whatever kind of scene loves to ride. as Forky is a comedy salad of you’re acting out, you kind of have to find confidence, confusion, and empathy the truth within yourself of that situation, served by a hilarious spork.” I love that and this sounds really actor-y to say that, quote but I want to know, in your eyes, but if Forky is confused about something, who is Forky? you kind of think about the many times First of all, that’s very nice…. When I came you’ve been confused, or the things that into it I really kind of thought of, he has confuse you. →

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→ So it doesn’t even matter that he’s Is it just a plastic spork? a spork? Well, it’s not too far off. I think, to me, It doesn’t matter he’s a spork. You know, the thing about Forky that’s really cool Buster deals with anxiety, I’ve dealt with is not only is he simple in design — he’s anxiety. Gary was overwhelmed by poli- a fork, he’s some pipe cleaners, he’s got tics and had all these issues, I’m kind of some little clay feet — but he’s simple overwhelmed by politics and I have a lot as a character. He sees the world very of issues. simply. Everything is kind of like bro- ken down to like, “What’s this? What’s What was it like in the recording studio? that?” Everything is just trying to get to Typically, when you do voiceover or any the simple. His whole being and design kind of animation, you’re typically in a and everything is just from a very pure, booth separate from the people that are di- simple place. recting. Then everything is just silent, then they’re talking about you behind the glass. You’re like, “What are they saying? What’s going on?” And all of your insecurities come out ’cause you don’t know what they’re saying. But with Toy Stor y, it was like one big room and they were in the same room with me. I just love that they made that choice because I felt a lot more a part of the pro- cess. I don’t know, it formed a connection with them, and them with me, that I think was really special.

Were you ever with Tom Hanks or any of the other actors, or was it all done individually? It was all done individually, yeah. But one time [Hanks] recorded right before me. I was able to meet him and he’s such a nice man.

Did you have a Forky doll or maquette to look at and hold? Is it going to fall apart when you play THE BO PEEP They did not have a doll, but they had a with it? big poster of what he was going to look No. No, no, no, no. No, they built him well. MYSTERY Whatever happened like and that was just really cool. The voice He’s simple, but he’s built well. to Bo Peep, Woody’s people, actors, come in afterwards and crush? She’s a big they do these fun voices and crazy voices, Have you seen the finished film? part of Toy Story 4 but the amount of work that is put into Yeah, I did, and it’s so beautiful and so thanks to their reunion, the animation, and the writing, and the good. I actually went to a screening with but after significant design, and all that kind of stuff is so enor- Keanu Reeves and Tim Allen. I had nev- parts in Toy Story and mous…. We’re thrown in and hopefully er met them, and they’re incredibly nice Toy Story 2 the porcelain it works, and hopefully I can bring some guys.… It hits me that I’m in Toy Stor y in lamp base was absent life to Forky. But I have such tremendous phases. First you’re like, “Oh, yeah, this is from the third movie, admiration for the entire process. Those really fun” when I see a poster of my char- save for a few fleeting frames in an old home guys, they’re the ones that have done all acter, then I hear my voice in a trailer and movie. In Toy Story 4’s the work. I’m like, “Oh, wait. Is that my voice? Wait, opening scenes we I am in it.” Then you see the actual movie finally see the night Bo Actual toys that you can buy are such and you’re like, “Wow, I’m actually in this.” left Andy’s house, and a big part of Toy Story and all of the It comes in kind of waves, so I think I was, get to watch her tearful Pixar franchises. Is there going to be the whole time, just kind of mesmerized. farewell with Woody. a Forky toy? I’ve seen it! They sent me one, and that Marni Weisz is the editor of was really cool. Cineplex Magazine.

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© 2019 Entertainment One Films Canada Inc., Universal Music Group, universal pictures home entertainment, Warner Music Group, paramount pictures. All Rights Reserved 34 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 ICKET TTO BY INGRID RANDOJA INGRID BY It may be the year’s strangest, and best, idea for a movie. Following a global blackoutD every person on Earth, except for oneI floundering singer-songwriter, has no recollection of The Beatles. Now that one Rman has to decide whether to put ethicsE aside and turn history’s greatest discography into a massive meal ticket. Director Danny Boyle says with a premise like that Yesterday was impossible to pass up

HEN DANNY BOYLE FINISHED Suddenly, Jack has the greatest collec- ← Yesterday's reading Richard Curtis’ script tion of pop songs to pass off as his own, Himesh Patel for Yesterday, he knew, without and the world takes notice. With help from a doubt, that he was going to music executive Mandi (Kate McKinnon), direct the film. Jack becomes a superstar — look for W“It doesn’t happen every film, to be cameos from real-life celebs Ed Sheeran absolutely honest,” says Boyle on the line and James Corden. But can the ruse last, from London. “When you have that in- and will Jack finally see that Ellie is the stant reaction, where you just go, I’ll do it, girl for him? and you say it almost like you write it in “The concept is extraordinary,” says blood. I wrote back to Richard and said, Boyle. “It’s a very simple concept, the kind ‘Richard, it is just brilliant, so I’ll do it.’” of concept you think, ‘Oh surely that’s been And the premise is brilliant. Based on done before, but no, not like this. It allows a story idea by Jack Barth, Yesterday finds you to take something that we are all in- struggling singer/songwriter Jack Malik credibly familiar with, and it says your role (Himesh Patel) ready to give up his music in this film, you the audience, is that you’ve career when he’s hit by a bus during a forgotten them as well, and this guy is gon- global power outage and knocked out. na reintroduce them, and it’s almost like After recovering he casually sings the an audience participation movie in a way.” ↑ Beatles tune “Yesterday” to some friends, Finding the right actor to play Jack was a Danny Boyle including gal pal Ellie (Lily James). The challenge. Himesh Patel is familiar to U.K. friends are astonished that Jack wrote audiences having played Tamwar Massod such a beautiful song and he comes to for almost nine years on the BBC soap realize that nobody in the world remembers EastEnders, but at first glance he doesn’t The Beatles; it’s as if they never existed. strike us as a pop star. →

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RIFFING ON THE BEATLES Three more outside-the-box Beatles movies that don’t star The Beatles

Jack (Himesh Patel) meets the press with music rep Mandi (Kate McKinnon) by his side

→ “The problem was, we had to find an and an acceptance by the others to go ahead, actor who could play the songs in a way and so it was rather wonderful actually.” that wasn’t like a karaoke singalong,” re- While the film’s musical elements are 1978 members Boyle. garnering the most attention, Boyle re- THE RUTLES: ALL “I saw a lot of guys, very talented musi- minds us that Yesterday is, at its heart, a YOU NEED IS CASH cians, who auditioned for the part. They had love story. A mockumentary about a Beatles-like band that stars to play two songs and Himesh came in and “The Beatles were the great writers of Monty Python’s Eric Idle and played “Yesterday,” and it was as though love songs. Everybody says that love is Michael Palin, with cameos you were hearing the song for the first mentioned 600 times in Beatles songs, from George Harrison and time, even though you knew the song. He and only 50 in the Old Testament or New Mick Jagger. played the songs pretty much the same as Testament, or something like that. You can The Beatles played them. He’s not reinvent- look that up online,” he says with a laugh. ing the wheel or anything, but it’s like he’s a “But there’s something about that, and vase of clear water that you can see through, as Himesh gathers more and more of the and you can hear the songs through.” songs he realizes how he has his own work Even before casting Patel the filmmak- to do on the romantic front. So, It’s actu- ers had to make sure they could land the ally a love story, a slightly unusual love rights to the Beatles catalogue. Boyle’s story, between Himesh and Lily James. participation carried weight, he is af- Don’t forget Lily James.” 1978 ter all an Oscar-winning director — his Not every Beatles song makes it into the I WANNA HOLD 2008 crowd-pleaser Slumdog Millionaire film, and fans no doubt hope their favou- YOUR HAND won eight Academy Awards including rite tune makes the cut. When asked if he Director Robert Zemeckis’ Best Picture and Best Director. And his has a favourite Beatles song used in the 1964-set comedy that follows six New Jersey teens versatility as a filmmaker is astonishing: film, Boyle’s answer is surprising. determined to get to New York he’s made thrillers (Shallow Grave, Trance) “It’s not a very obvious one actually and see The Beatles on raucous comedies (the two Trainspotting because it was hated by the other Beatles,” Ed Sullivan. pics), a sci-fi (Sunshine), horror (28 Days says Boyle. “They refused to play it, they Later…) and dramas (127 Hours, Steve Jobs). disliked it so much. It wasn’t in the original Boyle notes it was Curtis’ script and script, but there’s a song at the end that we the esteemed production company, use, and this is me confessing, but I’m with Working Title, that sealed the deal. Paul on this, I think it’s an absolutely won- “Richard is, in Britain anyway, I regard derful song called “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.” him as a kind of poet laureate of romance “Paul wrote it because of the reggae in comedy,” he says. “And Working Title is influence in London at the time; reggae the top company here in Britain. They did music was beginning to establish itself 2007 a deal with the Beatles’ Apple and Sony, here. It’s an early version of white cross- ACROSS THE who own the music rights. But obviously, over into reggae and I love that song, and UNIVERSE when we finished the film, I wrote to although it’s the song that’s most disliked Evan Rachel Wood and each of the four group members, or their by the fellow members of the band it’s one Jim Sturgess star as young widows, explaining why we’d made the I think is worthy of resurrection.” lovers Lucy and Jude in director Julie Taymor’s film the way we did. We got a wonderful ambitious musical that uses letter back from Ringo, and a wonderful Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor of Beatles songs to illuminate one from Olivia Harrison, George’s widow, Cineplex Magazine. their love story.

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The first Shaft movie hit theatres 20 years before he was born. He was still in grade school when Samuel L. Jackson revived the franchise in 2000. But now it’s time for Jessie T. Usher to join the family and become the latest John Shaft in the crime franchise that made being a private eye right on BY MARNI WEISZ

N THE DAY THE TRAILER for the new Shaft movie was released, its three stars — 1970s John Shaft, Richard Roundtree, the 2000 movie’s John Shaft, Samuel L. Jackson, and the newest John Shaft, Jessie T. Usher — interrupted Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue to deliver the goods, strutting on stage in matching rust-coloured trench coats to the funky strains of the franchise’s theme song. Roundtree and Jackson were stone- faced, intimidating. Usher? Not so much. “Ha!” exclaims the 27-year-old actor who asks for his investigator dad’s help of Will Smith’s character in 2016’s over the phone from L.A., recalling the navigating Harlem’s underbelly after a Independence Day: Resurgence. Even bit. “Big smile!” friend is killed. JJ, who lacks his dad’s though Smith didn’t appear in that movie, It’s not easy to stifle a grin when rough exterior, hasn’t seen his father since Usher acknowledges the trend. you’ve just played Samuel L. Jackson’s he was a baby, an estrangement Usher says “That’s kind of like an ongoing joke son in the first Shaft movie in 19 years, is explained early on in the movie. within my family,” he says, adding that and the grand-nephew of the legendary “You see his mom making an executive playing the sons of Tichina Arnold (TV’s Richard Roundtree, who originated the decision to take him away to a safer Everybody Hates Chris) on Survivor’s franchise in the 1970s. place, somewhere she felt more comfort- Remorse, the LeBron James-produced But no worries, being a softer, gentler able raising a child,” explains the actor show that starred Usher as a basketball John Shaft fits just fine with Usher’s char- who is no stranger to playing the son phenom, and Regina Hall (Girls Trip) in acter. He plays John Shaft Jr., or JJ, an of a Hollywood icon. Usher’s big break Shaft, were also thrills. “Like, how many MIT-educated FBI cybersecurity expert came when he was cast as the offspring Hollywood stars’ child can I be?”

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NORTHERN EXPOSURE Jessie T. Usher is probably in Canada right now. Shaft's Jessie T. Usher “I love it! Vancouver’s Inset, from left: Usher, one of my favourite cities,” Samuel L. Jackson and he says. After shooting the Richard Roundtree in Shaft teen TV series Level Up in Vancouver about six years ago he returned to the city this past May Usher, who was born in Maryland but “I think Sam Jackson is more intimi- to make the Netflix movie moved with his family to L.A. when he dating,” says Usher. “Richard Roundtree, Windfall. He also shot the was 11 so he could pursue acting, knew he’s like that 24/7, he keeps that stone first season of the dark he wanted the role as soon as he read face and although he’s very nice and superhero series The Boys the script. Then, by chance, he kept run- approachable, when you look at him he (above) in Toronto last summer and is back in T.O. ning into people associated with the film just keeps that very stern, serious look, this summer to shoot the around town and telling them that he so that could be intimidating. But Sam, second season. “I’m a big wanted in. Eventually they asked him to everything about him, like his energy, his food person, and the food come in for an audition and meet director voice, his demeanour and character, all there is incredible so it’s not Tim Story (Barbershop, Ride Along). those things are intimidating. a bad place to be if I’m going “And Samuel L. Jackson was in the “But at least he’s aware of it,” Usher to be away from home.” room,” Usher recalls, still a bit surprised. adds with a laugh, “and he can kind of He didn’t expect the star to be there. “He put the fires out before they start.” just popped up and we did our thing, ran As for that trio of rust-coloured trench tailor, or maker, or designer. And that the scenes together, riffed off a little bit coats we saw on Kimmel, and in the first moment, that’s one of the more iconic mo- here and there, just having fun. And then image released for the movie, Usher chuck- ments in this new Shaft film; that’s when the next thing I know they offered me les when asked why the three Shaft men you finally get to see all three generations the movie.” thought it was a good idea to get matching of Shaft come together with a common As we saw on Kimmel, Jackson and coats and wear them out at the same time. interest and a common goal.” Roundtree both have that intimidation “Those are the things that happen when thing down. So, which of the two elder you’re in Shaft,” he says. “I just feel like Marni Weisz is the editor of Shafts is more intimidating in person? the Shaft family has a custom trench coat Cineplex Magazine.

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It’s not exactly autobiographical, but Mindy Kaling’s new movie Late Night sure draws on a lot of the actor/writer’s experiences breaking into the male-dominated world of comedy. Here she tells us why she was the only one who could write this movie, and how relieved she was when the woman she wrote it for said yes

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MINDY KALING KNOWS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO be the only woman in a room full of male comedy writers. She knows what it feels like to be the only person of colour in that room, and she knows how hard it is to be taken seriously when it comes to being funny. Kaling took those experiences and funnelled them into her screenplay, Late Night, which casts Kaling as MMolly, a novice comedy writer who joins the staff of a late-night talk show hosted by Katherine Newbury, played with prickly precision by Emma Thompson. Katherine has been hosting the show for 28 years, but the low ratings and lack of buzz — where are the viral videos!? — could spell the end of her reign as the network president (Amy Ryan) informs her she’s going to be replaced by a younger, hipper host. Faced with having to revamp her show and image, the hard- edged Katherine leans on Molly to help her rekindle her passion for the job. “I’m at the place in my career where I only want to write things that seem like I could be the only one that writes them, and this particular story felt very suited I think to that aim,” says the 39-year-old Kaling on the line from Los Angeles. “I had 15 years of observations and Emma memories to draw from for this movie.” ‘‘Thompson

KALING WAS JUST 24 WHEN SHE WAS HIRED TO is the greatest join the writing staff of The Office. She was the only woman on the staff of eight, but her work wasn’t living actress. limited to the writing room as The Office producer I love everything Greg Daniels also cast her in the recurring role of talk- ative customer service rep Kelly Kapoor. After eight she’s ever seasons on the beloved show she left to star in, write and produce The Mindy Project. It was while already done pulling triple duty on her own show that she began piecing together Late Night. “I worked for so many years on this movie,” she says. Emma Thompson, whom Kaling had in mind when “It was not like one of these quick processes. Every writing the script.’’ Screenwriters are told to never Sunday while I was working on The Mindy Project, I write a part with a particular actor in mind, but Kaling would just write, a scene here, a scene there. So it couldn’t help herself. She envisioned Emma Thompson, took forever.” and only Emma Thompson, as the acerbic Katherine. Kaling’s script takes a smart, lighthearted approach “Writing something that only one person could to the issues of workplace gender equality, office play, I think was very stupid and I don’t know that romance and ageism. It’s also a love letter to actor I’ll do it again because it leaves you so vulnerable as r

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While Thompson’s Katherine cuts through BS with a rapier wit, Kaling’s Molly takes a much gentler ap- proach. Some may think Kaling is simply playing a version of herself, but that would be underestimating her acting talents. “For the past 10 or 11 years I have played charac- ters that are big comedy characters with big flaws, and with delusions of grandeur,” she says referring to her r Office and Mindy Project characters. “But I’ve never played a character as earnest as Molly. The way that she approaches work and the way that she expresses herself at work is kind of something that I borrowed from younger writers that I’ve met along my career. “Obviously, we bear a lot of similarities, she is incredibly ambitious and hardworking, which we do have in common, but her earnestness and her lack of cynicism, I’m not like that at all.”

KALING WAS BORN AND RAISED IN CAMBRIDGE, WRITING Massachusetts, the daughter of an architect father and obstetrician/gynecologist mother. She grew up FOR A on the TV sitcoms and movies her protective Indian WRITER parents felt were appropriate, and she drew on her Mindy Kaling Mindy Kaling as Molly in Late Night love of whip-smart comedies when it came to crafting chose to write for Inset: Kaling with Emma Thompson Late Night. the only person “So much of the inspiration of this movie came from to have won those ’90s comedies and Mike Nichols movies,” she Oscars for both acting and writing. a filmmaker,” states Kaling. “But I don’t think this is remembers. “Where it’s like a workplace movie and Emma Thompson hyperbole — although of course it’s really subjective people are dressed well, trying hard, have big person- nabbed the — but I think Emma Thompson is the greatest living alities. I wanted to try to do something that felt a little Best Actress actress. I love everything she’s ever done. She’s one like the movies that I watched when I was a teenager. award for her turn of those people who is so deeply funny but is also in- They made me want to move to New York City, and in Howard’s End credibly talented at drama. There are so many amazing want to be a grown-up, when a lot of movies now are (1992) and dramatic actors, but she’s someone who can also be kind of about how fun it is for grown-ups to behave picked up the so light on her feet, and nimble, and she also has one more like teenagers.” Best Adapted of the most unique comic minds out there. She’s a In the end, Kaling wants viewers to see that change Screenplay prize writer herself who came from comedy, came through is possible, that people can make better workplaces for for Sense and Sensibility (1995), stand-up and sketch.” themselves, where women can succeed, and men can pictured above. be part of the solution. “People hope that they will see change in their life- YOU CAN’T BLAME KALING FOR WANTING time, in their industries, and I’ve been so amazed that talented actors to perform her work, after all it’s some- from my 20s to my 30s there’s been so much change. thing with which she’s familiar. I started in The Office and I was the only woman, and “I’ve been lucky what with Steve Carell, I used to I was the only person of colour on that staff. And now get that weekly on The Office. You’d write this stuff that would be insane. Like, there’d be litigation,” she for Michael Scott, and he would do it. You get really says with a laugh. “So now the fact that it’s such a addicted to that, so when you don’t have that calibre different experience is really nice, and for someone of performer saying your lines it’s very demoralizing. like me, it makes me feel so hopeful and excited.” That was what was so wonderful about working with Emma, she just nailed it.” Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor of Cineplex Magazine.

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Wiig Takes a Road Trip Kristen Wiig reunites with her Bridesmaids co-writer Annie Mumolo for the buddy comedy Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. Along with penning the script the pair will star as the titular gals who leave their small town for the first time to vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where they get caught up in a wild adventure involving a villain who plans to wipe out Vista Del Mar’s population.

Washington in Greece John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman) teams with Alicia Vikander (Tomb Raider) for Born to Be Murdered from director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino. Set in Greece, the thriller sees a vacationing couple pulled into a deadly conspiracy. Boyd Holbrook and Vicky Krieps also star in the film produced by Luca Guadagnino, who directed Call Me By Your Name.

44 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 PHOTOS BY STEVE GRANITZ/GETTY (KRISTEN WIIG); JASON LAVERIS/GETTY (JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON) I promise you all I will be making sure Mr. Bond does not have an easy ride of it in this, his 25th outing. — RAMI MALEK ON PLAYING THE VILLAIN IN THE NEXT JAMES BOND FILM

BROWN INVESTIGATES Shooting gets underway this summer on Enola Holmes starring ← VANCOUVER Millie Bobby Brown. Based on the Nancy Springer book series The Enola Holmes Mysteries, the ON HOME TURF movie casts Brown as Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister, who also has a knack for solving crimes. 90210 Harry Bradbeer (TV’s Killing Eve) directs. GANG IN VANCOUVER The hairlines have DICAPRIO’S receded, and the waistlines may have Ian Ziering NIGHTMARE expanded since the 1990s, Leonardo DiCaprio is but they are still the kids from circling Guillermo del Toro’s Beverly Hills, 90210, and we’ll catch Nightmare Alley, the up with them in 90210, a six-episode follow-up to the director’s TV event that is currently Best Picture-winning shooting not in ROLE CALL The Shape of Water. Del Toro is adapting the 1946 Los Angeles, but in novel by William Lindsay Gresham that sees a North Vancouver. ■■ Look for mentalist conman falling for a deceitful female Jason Priestley, John Cena as the psychiatrist. Production gets underway this fall and Jennie Garth, misguided antihero is expected to take place in del Toro’s beloved Toronto. Ian Ziering, the Peacemaker in the Suicide Squad Gabrielle Carteris, sequel. Tori Spelling Brian Austin Green and AFFLECK Tori Spelling are all in town ■■ Marisa Tomei to shoot the limited series that sees the joins Pete GATHERS ARMY actors portraying “heightened versions” Davidson in an Ben Affleck just signed on to of themselves as they come together untitled comedy direct and star in Ghost Army, a to get a Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot off directed by World War II drama about the U.S. the ground. Of course, the absence of Judd Apatow military’s top-secret 1,100-man Luke Perry, who passed away in March, and based on Davidson’s life unit that was deployed across will make this reunion a bittersweet affair. growing up on Europe to deceive the Germans. They used inflatable Staten Island. tanks, sound trucks and fake radio transmissions to make it seem the U.S army was on the march and FRESH FACE ■■ Michelle Yeoh planning attacks, diverting attention from real missions. has been cast KOTA as scientist EBERHARDT Dr. Karina Mogue ANOTHER Anna star Sasha Luss in the Avatar isn’t the only model sequels. getting screen time this SKARSGÅRD! ■■ Killer’s Game We’ve seen three Skarsgård month. Meet 29-year-old stars Dave brothers — Alexander, Bill and American model Kota Eberhardt, who Bautista as a Gustaf — on the big screen and portrays mutant Selene in this month’s hitman who thinks TV, and now a fourth son of Dark Phoenix. Selene is a member he’s dying and actor Stellan Skarsgård makes of Magneto’s (Michael Fassbender) puts a contract his Hollywood debut. Valter Skarsgård recently crew and has telepathic and telekinetic on himself only shot Don’t Click in Hamilton, Ontario. Directed by powers. Eberhardt will next appear in the to learn he’s going G-Hey Kim, who immigrated to Canada from Netflix series The I-Land, about a group to live. South Korea four years ago, the film finds a man of people who wake up on a mysterious (Skarsgård) knocked out by a flashing light while watching island with no memory of how they porn. When he wakes, he’s trapped in a dark cellar. got there.

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