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Contents OCTOBER 2012 | VOL 13 | Nº10 CoVer STORY 34 007 at 50 after 50 years together, we’re still in love with james Bond. here we take a look back at the franchise’s auspicious debut, 1962’s Dr. No, and a look forward to next month’s 23rd Bond film,Skyfall , with help from star Daniel Craig and director Sam Mendes By maRNi WEisz reGuLars 6 Editor’s Note 8 Snaps 10 In BRiEf Craig om t 14 SpotlighT 16 All dREssEd Up hOLiday 18 In ThEaTREs 47 RETURN ENgagEmENT MoviE 48 CasTiNg CaLL Preview 49 At hOmE 50 FiNaLLy... PagePage 40!tk! features by Craig Daniel of photo Cover 24 CLouDs CLear 26 TAYLor’s 29 arGo offenCe 30 MaKInG neWs having trouble figuring out tWILIGHt No, not the football team. Matthew McConaughey Cloud Atlas, the latest mind- Twilight star Taylor Lautner But Ben Affleck’s real-life on his string of surprising bending, time-bending movie talks about the franchise’s Cia thriller Argo does have a indie roles, like a damaged from The Matrix creators final film and what he’ll do strong Canadian connection. newspaper reporter in this Lana and Andy Wachowski? after the sun sets on the We give you the facts about month’s southern drama Let us help series that made him a star this true story The Paperboy By iNgRid RaNdOja By aiméE CasTLE By iNgRid RaNdOja By jim Slotek 4 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | OCTOBER 2012 EDITOR’S NOTE PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR EDITOR MARNI WEISZ DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ART DIRECTOR TREVOR STEWART ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR STEVIE SHIPMAN INTERN BRENNA CROSBY ExecutivE Director, PRODUCTION SHEILA GREGORY CONTRIBUTORS AIMÉE CASTLE, JIM SLOTEK ADvERTISING SALES FOR CINEPLEX MAGAZINE AND LE MAGAZINE CINEPLEX IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEx MEDIA. HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 vICE PRESIDENT ROBERT BROWN (EXT. 232) vICE PRESIDENT, SALES JOHN TSIRLIS (EXT. 237) ExecutivE Director, National SALES MakIng a name GIULIO FAZZOLARI (EXT. 254) SALES DIRECTOR, MAGAZINES THERESA MCVEAN (EXT. 267) ACCOUNT MANAGERS for Himself CORY ATKINS (EXT. 257) LESLEY GORMLEY (EXT. 266) o you know how James Bond got his name? SHEREE KYTE (EXT. 245) Ian Fleming, the British writer who created the character, stole it from the ZANDRA MACINNIS (EXT. 281) JENNA PATERSON (EXT. 243) author of his favourite bird-watchers’ manual, Birds of the West Indies. The TANYA STEVENS (EXT. 271) real James Bond was an ornithologist who hailed from Philadelphia, married ED VILLA (EXT. 239) LORELEI VON HEYMANN (EXT. 249) for the first time at age 53, never had children and was known to friends as JENNIFER WISHART (EXT. 269) Jim. No surprise, the book is now a collector’s item among Bond fans. STEVE YOUNG (EXT. 265) DIRECTOR, MEDIA OPERATIONS Who can blame Fleming? James Bond is such a strong, elegant, virile CATHY PROWSE (EXT. 223) name, right? Mmmm, maybe not. Look again and try to forget everything you DIRECTOR, CREATIvE MEDIA SOLUTIONS SEAN O’DONOGHUE (EXT. 250) know about 007. James: among the most common first names in the English- QUEBEC 514.868.0005 speaking world. And Bond: in banking terms, one of the safest, most boring investments available. DIRECTOR, SALES In an interview with Reader’s Digest, Fleming said he chose the name precisely because it was so LOUISA DI TULLIO (EXT. 222) ACCOUNT MANAGER bland. “I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find,” he said. “‘James Bond’ was GENEVIÈVE ROSSIGNOL-CHAPUT much better than something more interesting, like ‘Peregrine Carruthers.’ Exotic things would happen (EXT. 225) to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure — an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a ALBERTA 403.264.4420 ACCOUNT MANAGER government department.” KEVIN LEAHY The fact that “James Bond” now conjures images of tuxedos, palm trees, leggy women, slick cars and BRITISH COLUMBIA 604.689.3068 ACCOUNT MANAGER deadly encounters is merely a side-effect of our own long-term affair with the secret agent. MATT WATSON Fleming made good on his promise of exotic things happening to and around Bond, not to mention the SPECIAL THANKS exotic characters who were gifted with ridiculously exotic names like Pussy Galore, Dr. No, Kissy Suzuki, MATHIEU CHANTELOIS, ELLIS JACOB, PAT MARSHALL, DAN MCGRATH, Ernst Blofeld, Auric Goldfinger and Le Chiffre. But, over the years, I’d argue Bond hasn’t exactly remained MATHILDE ROY “neutral” and “blunt,” especially since hitting the big screen and being filtered through a series of Cineplex Magazine™ is published 12 times a year (sometimes) hammy actors like Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan. Cheeky, flirty and dry by Cineplex Entertainment. Subscriptions are $34.50 ($30 + HST) a year in Canada, $45 a year in seem more appropriate descriptors. the U.S. and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $3. So how did the real James Bond feel about having his name pinched? As the story goes, Fleming did ask, Back issues are $6. All subscription inquiries, back issue requests and letters to the editor should and Bond responded simply, “Fine with it.” be directed to Cineplex Magazine at 102 Atlantic Ave., Toronto, ON, M6K 1X9; or 416.539.8800; Sixty years after Ian Fleming nicked that name, and 50 years after the character tumbled onto the or [email protected] big screen in 1962’s Dr. No, we look forward to next month’s Skyfall with “Lasting Bond,” page 34, in which Publications Mail Agreement No. 41619533. Daniel Craig Sam Mendes Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: actor (the seventh to play the fictional James Bond) and director tell us how Cineplex Magazine, 102 Atlantic Ave., they developed Bond’s personality for this 23rd Bond film. Toronto, ON., M6K 1X9 Elsewhere in this issue we talk to Taylor Lautner about the final film in The Twilight Saga, Breaking 725,000 copies of Cineplex Magazine are distributed through Cineplex Entertainment, The Globe and Mail, Dawn – Part 2 (page 26) and Matthew McConaughey about his recent string of independent movies, Vancouver Sun and Montreal Gazette newspapers, and other outlets. Cineplex Magazine is not responsible for the return of including this month’s The Paperboy (page 30). On page 24 we do our best to explain Cloud Atlas, the latest unsolicited manuscripts, artwork or other materials. No material drama-thriller-fantasy-romance from boundary-breaking filmmakers Andy and Lana Wachowski, and on in this magazine may be reprinted without the express written consent of the publisher. page 29 we look at Argo, Ben Affleck’s take on the “Canadian Caper.” © Cineplex Entertainment 2012. Plus, on page 40 you’ll find our Holiday Movie Preview with the lowdown on Django Unchained, Lincoln, Les Misérables and of course the first entry in the Hobbit trilogy, An Unexpected Journey. n MARNI WEISZ, EDITOR 6 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | OCTOBER 2012 oN-SeT AcciDeNT Jessica Chastain (and crew) hover over James McAvoy while shooting a scene on the New York set of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His. PhoTo by aby baker/GeTTy LiLy’s Double MiLey’s Take New MoP Lily Collins checks out Miley Cyrus shops in New York’s her body double on the East Village, passing a mannequin Toronto set of The Mortal that may have inspired her look. Instruments: City of Bones. PhoTo by ChristoPher PeTerSoN/SPlaSh NewS PhoTo by SPlaSh NewS 8 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | OCTOBER 2012 hairy HugH A long-haired Hugh Jackman gives the thumbs up on the set of The Wolverine in Australia. PhoTo by keystoNe Press iT’S a SiGN Nic Cage walks past a prescient clapboard in the English town of Somerset, Glastonbury. PhoTo by SPlaSh NewS OCTOBER 2012 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | 9 IN BRIEF Frankenweenie’s Victor and his dead dog Sparky On Home Turf Helen Mirren RED 2 It’ll be hard to get around A LovE That Montreal without bumping into a big-name star this NEvER DiEs month, as Bruce Willis, mary-louise Parker, f Tim Burton has a get some insight into one of Frankenstein element is wish Catherine Zeta-Jones, specialty, it’s death. the filmmakers’ first, and most fulfilment in a way.” Helen mirren and John From Beetlejuice’s potent, real-life experiences It’s not the first Burton film malkovich are all in town dead protagonists, to with death. The film was to feature a lively dead dog. In shooting the sequel Red 2. Corpse Bride’s romantic inspired by the passing of Corpse Bride, Victor reunites The 2010 adventure- exploits in the underworld, Burton’s own childhood pooch. with his dead, but still frisky, comedy cast Willis, Mirren to the human ground beef of “When you’re young it’s the pup Scraps in the Land of the and Malkovich as retired Sweeney Todd: The Demon first kind of pure relationship Dead, and in The Nightmare CIA assassins who un-retire Barber of Fleet Street, and that you have. If you’re lucky Before Christmas, Jack’s dog themselves. This time the even the misadventures of enough to have a pet that Zero, while a ghost, remains plot takes the gang from the undead in Dark Shadows, you love, it’s something his best friend. Virginia to Paris, Moscow Burton knows the deceased. that connects right to your “Those early inspirations, and London to battle And with his new film, heart,” Burton told journalists I don’t think they really ever baddies. Shooting will end Frankenweenie — a stop- at Comic-Con. “I was lucky leave you,” says Burton. “The in London, but it seems like motion animated feature enough to have a special first time you experience Montreal may be standing about a little boy who brings pet that I had that kind of something is usually the most in for the rest of those his dead dog back to life — we relationship with, so the whole intense.” —MW eclectic locations.

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