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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
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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
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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 inThe 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
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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. —MW The Art Of Film When asked to submit something for a tribute to comedians at L.A.’s Gallery 1988, New England artist Nick Comparone chose a triptych of Christopher Guest. “I wanted to highlight how different his characters are from one another. Like with The Princess Bride [centre] for example, some people don’t even realize that is the same actor portraying Nigel [from Spinal Tap, left], or say Harlan [right] from Best in Show. I knew I couldn’t paint just one.” Each collage incorporates book pages appropriate to the character. “The Nigel Tufnel is a book on Stonehenge. Count Rugen is pages from The Princess Bride. Harlan Pepper is painted on bloodhound-related clippings,” says Comparone. See more at www.nickcomparone.com/designanddestroy/. —MW
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Doggie Halloween Costume… Of the Year This Dorothy costume for dogs is blowing our minds. If the pooch is such a big fan of The Wizard of Oz, why doesn’t he go as Toto? Pitfalls of Hiring Pitt verything was going so well for out,” says Dominik, who had some cred writer-director Andrew Dominik’s with Pitt, having directed him in 2007’s indie project Killing Them Softly, The Assassination of Jesse James by until Brad Pitt signed on. That’s when the Coward Robert Ford. “Hollywood the financier Dominik had lined up for his is a crazy town, and if you try and do low-budget thriller about three guys who someone a favour there, they are likely try to rig a mob card game got nervous. to run away screaming,” adds Dominik. “This budget for a Brad Pitt movie Eventually, a replacement was found seemed too good to be true, so he pulled — for the financier, not Pitt.—MW Quote Unquote Lee said to me, look, we’ve got no money, you’re going to have to do your own hair and makeup…. So I went into my bathroom and I got out the fake tan, put on lashes that were old, and got out a hairpiece, and threw it all on. —Nicole Kidman on creating her character for The Paperboy director Lee Daniels
12 | Cineplex Magazine | OCTOBER 2012 Jane Levy in Fun Size Emma Stone in Easy A G e tt y B rodeur/
Red Hot D enis Jane Levy reminds us so much of comedy about two high school o by by o
Emma Stone that when her TV students — April (Levy) and Wren t
show Suburgatory — about a wise, (Victoria Justice) — trying to get Chris Nilan in action Pho redheaded outsider from New York to a big party despite a whack of who transfers to a suburban high obstacles, including losing Wren’s school — premiered last year we little brother, the lack of a car, and a assumed it was a spinoff of Stone’s run-in with police. Sounds a lot like Fighting Easy A. Not so. Not officially, anyway. another Stone movie, Superbad, but And now the 22-year-old is for girls...which kind of has us Back playing April in Fun Size, a teen intrigued. —MW
t’s not always easy being the tough guy, as you’ll see in The Last Gladiators, director Alex Gibney’s documentary about hockey enforcers. Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) chose to focus on long-time Montreal Canadiens tough guy Chris “Knuckles” Nilan, who racked up more than 3,000 penalty minutes during his career, mangled his body (he’s had 26 surgeries), and struggled with substance abuse post-retirement. “I hope the audience is moved and entertained but also understands and appreciates the very difficult role of the enforcer,” Nilan told us. “It’s the most difficult job in all of sports. I also hope that my personal story leaves people with a sense of hope, that they realize that in life, when we’re knocked down, with determination and guts, we can get back on our feet. I’ve done some things that I’m ashamed of, and I have inevitably had to face those things and deal with the consequences of my actions. I hope that people feel that, no R-Pattz + D-Cron matter what happens in life, it’s never too late to We know teen girls are big into face up to the vulnerabilities of one’s failures, and
David Cronenberg, but it was nice of Press one realize that one can change and find redemption t them to included Robert Pattinson in and in turn make a positive impact in life.” this cardboard tribute at the New York The Last Gladiators opens at select Cineplex o by Keys by o
premiere of Cosmopolis. t theatres October 26th. Go to Cineplex.com/
Pho events for more information.
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diseases of sick celebrities in order to commune with their idols. Syd infects himself with a virus plaguing star Hannah Geist (Sarah Gadon), but when she dies of the ailment things take a dark turn. Antiviral Like his father David, Brandon has an interest in hits theatres the icky. Antiviral is awash in th Oc tober 12 body fluids and blood, and like his dad, Brandon brings a certain cerebral quality to his filmmaking. “It’s hard to say to what Cronenberg Jr. extent it’s learned and to what extent you have some sort of genetic predisposition,” Catches the Bug he says about the father-son similarities. “It’s probably mostly magine you’re sick. interview at the film’s Toronto learned with a little bit of You’ve got a high production office. He both “I started really genetics. For instance, I love fever and you can’t wrote and directed the movie. obsessing over books. I’m obsessed with get out of bed. If “I started really obsessing the physicality books, I collect books and I you’re Brandon over the physicality of illness, love reading, and I definitely Cronenberg — and the fact that I had of illness,” says got that from my father — he the son of director something in my body that Cronenberg has a huge library and he David Cronenberg — your had come from someone loves books. So I think some illness becomes the inspiration else’s body, and how there’s of developed into a good of that stuff gets passed on for Antiviral, your very first sort of a weird intimacy to metaphor for that culture.” and certain seeds are planted, feature film. that meshing if you look at it In Antiviral, Syd March and when you develop as a “I had this fever and was in a certain way. And that led (Caleb Landry Jones) works at human being those things sort of semi-delusional,” says me to think about celebrity a clinic where obsessed fans manifest in particular ways.” Cronenberg during a recent obsession, and the film sort pay to be infected with the —INGRID RANDOJA
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a l l DRESSED UP Jordin Bradley Jessica Sparks Cooper Biel L.A. premiere of Sparkle Hollywood Foreign Press London premiere of Total Recall Photo by Michael Germana/ Association Luncheon in L.A. Photo by Keystone Press Keystone Press Photo by Jim Smeal/Keystone Press
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Taken 2 The memo from the Bad Guys Union titled “Do Not Kidnap the Female Members of Retired CIA Agent Brian Mills’ Family” didn’t make an impression with the thugs who got their asses kicked by Mills (Liam Neeson) when they kidnapped his daughter in the first film. They want their revenge, which they get by snatching Mills’ wife (Famke Janssen) while the family is visiting Istanbul, leading the agent with the “particular set of skills” to take action.
Sinister Frankenweenie A true-crime novelist In 1984, Tim Burton directed (Ethan Hawke) moves his wife a short film about a boy who and kids into a home where reanimates his beloved pet the previous residents were dog Sparky after it’s hit by murdered. When he discovers a car. The director always a box of old home movies he envisioned it as a full-length, realizes an evil entity had been stop-motion animated movie, stalking the dead family, and if and now 28 years later he he can’t find a way to destroy fulfills his moviemaking dream the malevolent spirit his family with this feature filmed in will be the next to die. black and white using 3D technology. Pitch Perfect College student Beca Winnie (Anna Kendrick) reluctantly Jennifer Hudson plays joins the school’s all-girl Winnie Mandela in this bio-pic a cappella group only that follows the South African to discover her gift for activist from her childhood mashing tunes into rockin’ through her marriage to arrangements means the anti-Apartheid leader Nelson once fuddy-duddy group has Mandela (Terrence Howard) a chance to best their male and her struggle to gain his rivals in a singing competition. freedom from prison. Frankenweenie
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Kevin James and Salma Hayek in Here Comes the Boom
Here Comes Antiviral The Boom Director Brandon Cronenberg When his high school cancels follows in his father David’s all extra-curricular activities footsteps with his first feature due to budget cuts, teacher film. The story concerns Scott Voss (Kevin James) people who take celebrity becomes a mixed martial arts worship to extremes by fighter to earn cash to pay for infecting themselves with the student activities. Look for viruses that make the stars ill. Salma Hayek as the school Things get really weird when nurse, Henry Winkler as the a lab technician (Caleb Landry music teacher, and real MMA Jones) infects himself with the warriors Bas Rutten and cooties that killed a beautiful Jason “Mayhem” Miller. movie star (Sarah Gadon). See Brandon Cronenberg A candid self-portrait Argo interview, page 14. Director Ben Affleck of an entertaining and (The Town) helms the real- Seven controversial life in and life tale set during the 1979 Psychopaths Iranian revolution when an A screenwriter (Colin Farrell) out of the public eye. unconventional CIA agent gets mixed up with a gang (Affleck) enacts a risky plan (led by Sam Rockwell) that to rescue a group of American kidnaps dogs. However, they diplomats hiding in the home make a big mistake when ST of Canadian ambassador they grab the the Shih Tzu ON SALE OCTOBER 1 Ken Taylor (Victor Garber), belonging to a violent L.A. PICK UP OR DOWNLOAD A COPY which includes creating a fake gangster (Woody Harrelson). Hollywood sci-fi film titled It’s director Martin McDonagh’s WIN ONE OF FIVE COPIES! Argo. See Argo feature, follow-up to his indie hit Email [email protected] page 29. In Bruges. CONTINUED with TOTAL RECALL in the subject line. Simon & Schuster Canada
SCHWARZENEGGER simonandschuster.ca | schwarzenegger.com October 19 The Paperboy Alex Cross Director Lee Daniels’ follow- Morgan Freeman first played up to Precious takes place in psychologist/police detective small-town Florida where a Alex Cross in the films newspaper reporter Kiss the Girls and Along Came (Matthew McConaughey) a Spider, but for this reboot enlists his younger brother of the character made famous (Zac Efron) to drive him in the James Patterson book around while he investigates series, the producers went the murder of the town’s racist with the younger Tyler Perry. sheriff. John Cusack plays the Cross’s hunt for a serial man already convicted killer (Matthew Fox) takes a of the murder. See personal turn when the killer Matthew McConaughey targets his loved ones. interview, page 30. Killing Them Paranormal Softly Activity 4 When a gang of thieves robs The makers of the fourth a high-stakes New Orleans film of the highly profitable poker game run by the mob, and popular scary series Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) is are keeping the plot secret, sent by the gangsters to find but we do know that the idiots who thought they Katie Featherston, who could get away with fleecing played Katie in the previous them. Based on George V. The Paperboy’s Zac Efron films, returns amid all that Higgins’ 1974 crime thriller, shaky camerawork. Cogan’s Trade. october 26
Hugo Weaving in Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas Call us intrigued. Three bold directors — Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run), Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski — join forces to create an epic look at karma. The souls of various people move through different lifetimes and must deal with the consequences of their past actions. The cast Fun Size members — who play multiple Wren (Victoria Justice) and April (Jane Levy) are roles, sometimes switching superexcited when the hunky Aaron Riley (Thomas McDonell) gender and race — include invites them to his Halloween party. However, their joy is Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim waylaid when Wren’s mom (Chelsea Handler) insists the girls Broadbent, Hugh Grant, Hugo take Wren’s little brother trick-or-treating. And when the little Weaving and Susan Sarandon. guy goes missing, their night really gets crazy. See Cloud Atlas feature, page 24. CONTINUED
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Family Favourites The Secret Garden Sat., Oct. 6
Space Jam Sat., Oct. 13
Casper Sat., Oct. 27
National Theatre Live The Last of the Chasing Mavericks Haussmans Teenage surfer Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston) is taken under Thurs., October 11 the wing of cranky surfer Frosty Hesson (Gerard Butler), The Metropolitan Opera who teaches the young rider the skills he’ll need to ride the L’Elisir D’amore “Mavericks,” huge waves that come ashore along a rocky (Donizetti) stretch of the Northern California coast. Live: Sat., Oct. 13 Otello (Verdi) Live: Sat., Oct. 27
Royal Opera House Live Ballet La fille mal gardée Sun., Oct. 14
Stratford Festival Encore Caesar and Cleopatra Thurs., Oct. 18
Classic Film Series Double Feature Silent Hill: Dracula & Frankenstein Revelation 3D (both 1931) This sequel to 2006’s Sun., Oct. 21, Wed., Silent Hill (an adaptation of Oct. 24 & Wed., Oct. 31 the popular videogame) stars Documentary Adelaide Clemens as Heather Presentation Mason, who, for reasons that The Last Gladiators are explained in the movie, is Premieres Fri., Oct. 26 actually Sharon Da Silva, the WWE Live Via Satellite main character from the first Hell in a Cage film. She and her father Sun., Oct. 28
(Sean Bean) have been on Most Wanted Mondays the run for the past six years The Shining to avoid being drawn back Mon., Oct. 29 into the nightmarish hell Go to of Silent Hill, a town where Cineplex.com/events demons and monsters lurk for more info and around every corner. to buy tickets showtimes online at cineplex.com all release dates are subject to change
22 | Cineplex Magazine | october 2012 Presents The Season’s Best Chick Flicks!
Pitch Perfect October 5 Girls who sing together, win together — at least that’s the dream for the college a cappella group The Bellas, who welcome sassy freshman Beca (Anna Kendrick) to their ranks. Beca’s fearless attitude — and skill at mashing up tracks — means The Bellas have a shot at taking down a rival all-male group. But what happens when the boys you wanna defeat make your heart sing?
Playing For Keeps December 7 Les Misérables December 14 A former soccer star with an adorable Irish accent Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe in period costume, (Gerard Butler) is sent reeling when the ex-wife he still singing emotional Broadway show tunes — grab the girls and loves (Jessica Biel) announces she’s getting remarried. get some Kleenex. Jackman plays Jean Valjean, the noble Can he, and should he, try to win her back, or should he thief who goes to prison for stealing bread to feed his sister, concentrate on the hot mom (Catherine Zeta-Jones) while Crowe is relentless policeman Javert, who dogs he met while coaching his son’s soccer team? Valjean for years after he breaks parole. Girls’ night out…Life’s Good Understanding Cloud Atlas A movie can take us The trio combines talents to anywhere, anytime — a story adapt author David Mitchell’s can shift between the past, award-winning, epic novel that present and future — and follows various human souls startling new worlds can be through a myriad of lifetimes. created in the blink of an eye. As they move from lifetime However, it takes a special to lifetime they sometimes filmmaker to create such switch genders and races, and The story begins in on-screen magic, and in the ultimately must account for the 19th century with 1 a South Pacific sea case of Cloud Atlas it takes their past actions. voyage that finds American three directors: Tom Tykwer, Here’s how some of the notary Adam Ewing (Jim Sturgess, lying down) Lana Wachowski and pieces fit together in this falling ill and being treated by Andy Wachowski. cinematic puzzle. —IR Dr. Goose (Tom Hanks).
Rey’s story, in the form 4 of a novel manuscript, is sent to British book publisher Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent), seated with his friend Ursula (Susan Sarandon).
Frobisher’s letters to his lover fall into the hands 3 of 1970s journalist Luisa Rey (Halle Berry, seen here with Keith David) who’s investigating a story about a nuclear power plant.
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Ewing’s diary is found by English musician 2 Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw, right) in the 1930s while he’s helping an aged composer (Jim Broadbent) transcribe his work.
In the future, Cavendish’s Although a clone, life story is shown as a Sonmi-451 possesses 5 film to clone Sonmi-451 6 a rebellious spirit that (Doona Bae). makes her a target for the totalitarian government.
In a post-apocalyptic future, Sonmi-451’s tale inspires Zachry 7 (Tom Hanks), a tribesman, and Meronym (Halle Berry), a surviving member of a technologically advanced civilization.
october 2012 | Cineplex Magazine | 25 Twilight As The Twilight Saga draws to a close with next month’s Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Taylor Lautner reflects on the role that changed his life n By Aimée Castle
26 | Cineplex Magazine | october 2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Hits Theatres november 16th
The final film Thein Twilight Saga Taylor Lautner and could have been a snore for werewolf Jacob Black, Mackenzie Foy in played by beefy teen heartthrob Taylor Lautner. Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her vampire lover Edward (Robert Pattinson) are married with child, so that whole love triangle thing’s over. Where’s the tension? But Twilight author Stephenie Meyer would never let that happen to her favourite wolfboy. Breaking Dawn – Part 2, next month’s final installment in the film franchise spun from Meyer’s books, begins with Jacob catching one look at Bella and Edward’s new vampire baby, Renesmee, and instantly know- ing this girl is his destiny — perhaps even the reason he felt so connected to Bella all along. We sat down with the 20-year-old actor from Grand Rapids, Michigan, at Comic-Con this past summer to talk about the finale, the fans, and moving Why Imprinting on from the franchise that made him famous. is Not Creepy
So, now that the franchise is over, Jacob’s crush on Bella comes to an end when he develops was lifting all those weights and an instant and indestructible bond with her daughter, eating all that protein worth it? Renesmee — which wasn’t the easiest idea for director “Definitely, definitely…. I can’t even de- Bill Condon to present. “Let’s face it,” says Condon, “there scribe how much it’s meant. I’ve taken may be people that think it’s maybe a creepy moment of so much from it. We’ve all learned so Jacob falling in love with the baby, even though it’s not. much and grown up so much through- “It was important to make sure that the essential idea of out the process. I mean, the biggest thing I’ve probably taken is just imprinting got expressed, which is that it is another bit of the relationships and friendships I’ve made on every single movie magic,” he continues. “Imprinting is a melding of spirits, so with different crew, different directors, the whole entire cast. I that visually we take it immediately to a place where you’re mean this franchise may be coming to a close, but those definitely trying to find her soul. aren’t. So, it really has meant the world to me.” “It’s not a baby that is imprinted on, it’s the essence of that person. A person who in a very short time is going What can we expect from the finale? to be fully matured, since she is a half-vampire magical “I guess the tone of it is probably closest to Eclipse in size. But it’s creature, whose growth and aging process is accelerated. also…it’s got a lot of comedy in it as well, because the love triangle, As with all the other challenges posed by this book, once that really doesn’t exist anymore. Jacob’s found his own way and again I think the answer lies in making it a subjective so for me specifically, the weight has been lifted off my shoulders.” experience and feeling what it’s like to be Jacob at that moment. We want to capture the fact that imprinting is part What’s your most memorable fan moment? of the magical nature of this character.” “It’s so hard to choose one, because there’s been different kinds of So there. crazy fan moments…. But then there’s moments CONTINUED
october 2012 | Cineplex Magazine | 27 like you sign a fan’s arm and you find out that they get it tat- tooed the next day…. The funni- est thing for me is to be able to travel the world and see how all the different fans throughout the world show their passion. Some of it’s emotional, or they start crying. Some of it’s physical and they want to tear you to shreds because they love you so much.”
What’s it been like to say goodbye to Jacob after five movies? “It was tough because we all had so much fun and related so much to our characters and loved All in the Family: From left, Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Foy, them, and loved playing them. Robert Pattinson and So it was a bummer. I thought I Taylor Lautner said goodbye, like, the last day of filming, but then I think we real- ized over the past year and a half Now What? Here are the projects Taylor Lautner, since we finished filming, that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have lined up we really haven’t said goodbye yet because the last movie still has to come out in November, and I don’t think we will ever say goodbye to these characters.”
What’s next for you? “I’ve been really busy developing a few things... a project I’m doing with Gus Van Sant consumed a lot of my time, so that script is being written now. I’m reteam- ing with the producers of the Taylor Lautner Robert Pattinson Kristen Stewart Twilight Saga, Wyck Godfrey and Grown Ups 2 July 12, 2013 The Rover 2013 On the Road Marty Bowen, which I’m really A sequel to 2010’s Chris Rock, Pattinson plays a naïve gang December 21, 2012 excited about, in a movie called Adam Sandler movie about member in a future, crime- Stewart plays Marylou, an Tracers. That’s developing right a group of childhood friends ridden Australian desert. The adventurous bohemian now but I should be shooting that who reunite as adults. Lautner actor has described it as an who, in 1947, travels across sooner rather than later.” will play “Frat Boy Andy”. “existential Western.” the States with a group of Tracers 2014 Mission: Blacklist 2013 friends. Based on the How have you changed Lautner’s a bike messenger in A thriller about the hunt Jack Kerouac novel. personally over the last few debt to the mob. Like anyone for Iraqi President Saddam years? in that situation, he decides to Hussein. Based on a true story. Other than that… “I don’t know, I mean I don’t hide out in the underground Queen of the Desert Ummm… After being know if I’d be the best person to world of parkour (you know, Date Unknown dropped from the ask that. I feel like asking Rob or leaping across buildings and He’ll play the real-life Snow White and the Kristen, or the directors we’ve over obstacles). Lawrence of Arabia, Huntsman sequel following worked with, or the producers, Untitled Gus Van Sant T.E. Lawrence, in this revelations of her affair with people that have watched me Movie Date Unknown bio-pic of English writer/ its married director, Stewart since the beginning would prob- All we can tell you is that it’s archaeologist/spy is waiting for the offers to ably be best…. My goal would be based on an article from Gertrude Bell (Naomi Watts). start rolling in again. not to change much.” New Yorker magazine, and Directed by Werner Herzog. Gus Van Sant is directing. Aimée Castle is a Canadian producer living in Los Angeles.
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THE ARGO FILES Director Ben Affleck’sArgo recounts This isn’t the first time this To issue the six Americans the rescue of six American diplomats story has been told. In 1981, Canadian passports — from Iran in 1980. The diplomats spent the Canadian made-for-TV which is an illegal act — the months hiding in the home of Canadian movie Escape from Iran: Canadian parliament made ambassador Ken Taylor (played by The Canadian Caper aired an exception and held an Victor Garber), and their escape plan, with Gordon Pinsent playing emergency secret session to engineered by CIA operative Tony Canuck ambassador Taylor. approve the measure. Mendez (Affleck), had them posing as The rescue was actually an To pull off the rescue, a Canadian filmmaking team scouting “exfiltration,” a military term Mendez created a bogus Iran as a possible location for a bogus defined as “the process of movie production company Hollywood movie called Argo. Here removing personnel when it named Studio Six, in honour of are some fascinating tidbits about the is considered imperative that the six hostages. The company real-life caper n By Ingrid Randoja they be immediately relocated received a total of 26 scripts out of a hostile environment from filmmakers looking to and taken to a secure area.” make a deal, including one Real CIA agent Tony Mendez in a newspaper. That ad was “Argo,” the fake movie script from Steven Spielberg. was working as a plumber and actually a CIA recruitment title, is a variation on a knock- illustrator when he answered ploy, which led to Mendez’s knock joke punchline that a generic “Help Wanted” ad 27-year career as a spy. ends, “ah, go fu-k yourself.”
october 2012 | Cineplex Magazine | 29 Matthew McConaughey, indie darling? 30 | Cineplex Magazine | october 2012 THE PAPERBOY Hits Theatres october 19th
John Cusack (left) and Matthew McConaughey in The Paperboy
— did of him on talk shows and Saturday Night Live (“Alright, alright, alright! I see a lot of lovely ladies in the house tonight.”). It is in this state of relaxed dudeness that McConaughey runs us through the busiest year-and-a-half of his life. “Five in a row. It was Bernie, Killer Joe, The Paperboy, Magic Mike and Mud.” The latter, an indie film about a boy who helps an escaped con (McConaughey) reconnect with his love (Reese Witherspoon), opens in March. “It’s picking time, so I’m going to pick the cotton,” he says of his latest string of projects. Between cotton picking, he also managed to get married to model/designer Camila Alves, the mother of his two children (a third is on the way), earlier this year. This month, the Southern murder mystery The Paperboy — which caused a stir for its lurid content when it debuted at Cannes in May, and also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival — hits theatres. It’s director Lee Daniels’ follow-up to Precious: Based on the Matthew McConaughey’s been a busy Novel Push by Sapphire and co-stars Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron and man over the past year and a half, John Cusack. but don’t feel too bad if you haven’t “It was wild,” McConaughey says of The Paperboy, in which he plays heard of most of his new movies. The a newspaper reporter who happens to be gay. “It’s this erotic sexual majority are fascinating little indie thriller set in 1969 deep in the Florida Everglades. films that, to be honest, we wouldn’t “I’m this guy who’s an investigative reporter for the Miami Times have associated with the buff golden who goes back to his hometown to reopen this case of a man [Cusack] boy a few years back n By Jim Slotek who may or may not have been wrongly imprisoned for the murder of the local sheriff 15 years earlier. And from there it’s a character study of all the people and his family in this small town. magine, if you will, the most laid-back, “Y’know, it’s murky, secretive, salacious, nobody is who they are busiest man in Hollywood. introduced as. That was a very cool thing about it.” Quite a bit thinner than I had expected, Playing a reporter, he says, “was kind of a strange challenge, since Matthew McConaughey doesn’t so much the bulk of investigating I’ve done in movies has been playing lawyers sit on a hotel couch as drape himself over it. [A Time to Kill, Amistad, The Lincoln Lawyer]. “For a while I was listen- Dressed in white chinos and a blue designer ing to myself and going, ‘Too much lawyer,’’’ he says. sport shirt, his arms are spread over the couch The other concern was the accent. Being from Texas, McConaughey back like a condor in flight. His smile can best takes dialects from south of the Mason-Dixon line seriously. And, be described as “contented.” from experience, he says it’s appropriate that the movie was actually In fact, I can’t help but think of the impres- shot in New Orleans. sion Channing Tatum — McConaughey’s “Florida isn’t all one accent,” he says. “I went more Louisiana, darling? co-star in the male stripper film Magic Mike that deep Southeastern drawl, because if you listen CONTINUED october 2012 | Cineplex Magazine | 31 Did You Know? Hard to believe, but both Matthew McConaughey and wife Camila Alves had parents who divorced and remarried each other, then divorced and remarried each other again.
Matthew McConaughey (left) with Zac Efron in The Paperboy Left: Efron, McConaughey and Nicole Kidman
Woodroof, McConaughey says, is the kind of character that makes his crazy schedule worthwhile. “I went back-to-back-to-back-to- to people, it starts to bleed. You can hear Cajun bleeding into the back-to-back, and it was the most creative and Everglades.” fun working year I ever had,” he says. Meanwhile, McConaughey’s thinness was not my imagination. “I got to work with a lot of very interest- At the time of this interview, he had lost 30 pounds “drinking a lot of ing directors and interesting stories, tea” to play HIV-positive Ron Woodroof in The Dallas Buyer’s Club for characters that didn’t really pander Quebec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria). or placate to any laws of govern- It’s the real-life story of a heterosexual-redneck-turned-HIV- ment or parental guidance. When activist who bucked the medical establishment in the 1980s to create you’re committed to those kind an ad hoc AIDS support network, smuggling untested but potentially of characters, it’s boundless life-saving drugs. At one point, Brad Pitt was attached to the role. how far you can go.” Shooting for the film, which co-stars Hilary Swank, should be getting underway right about now and was tentatively expected to take place Jim Slotek writes about in Quebec. movies for the Toronto Sun. The temporarily thin actor actually keeps careful track of his weight, nudging 200 pounds while playing a college football coach in We Are Marshall, and hitting a previous low of 172 on Ron Howard’s The Skinny EdTV. For The Dallas Buyer’s Club, his regimen had him somewhere Don’t worry, Matthew McConaughey isn’t south of 160 pounds on his six-foot frame. “I’m dropping the pounds, sick, he’s just preparing to play someone that’s for sure,” McConaughey says. who was. The actor has lost more than McConaughey has been a fan of Vallée’s since C.R.A.Z.Y., so when 30 pounds to play real-life AIDS patient the production came together he reluctantly pulled out of playing JFK and activist Ron Woodroof in The Dallas in Daniels’ next movie, The Butler, to take the role. Buyer’s Club. The film is being directed And while Woodroof died in 1992, McConaughey says that he’s far by Canada’s own Jean-Marc Vallée. from forgotten. “For a lot of people in the Dallas area, he was a hero, a Photo by Ryan Turgeon/Splash News dealer of homeopathic HIV medicines in a city where a lot of gay guys were contracting it.”
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Lasting Bond
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He’s put us through a lot — the women, Bond the fights, the drinking, the gambling. But after 50 years, we just can’t imagine a life without Bond, James Bond. In anticipation of next month’s Skyfall, we recall the first time we met Agent 007 and look forward to the good times still to come n By Marni Weisz
f you’re a fan of British pop culture — pop culture in general, really — and you find yourself with the opportunity to travel back in time, you might want to consider October 5th, 1962. It was on that date, 50 years ago, that an upstart band from Liverpool called The Beatles released its first single, “Love Me Do,” and a low-budget spy film called Dr. No hit theatres — the first movie based on English author Ian Fleming’s secret agent James Bond. Both did relatively well. “Love Me Do” peaked at a respectable number 17 on the UK Singles Chart, and United Artists was happy enough with Dr. No — which starred a 32-year-old Scot named Sean Connery as Bond, a.k.a. 007 — to move forward with what it hoped would be a four-film franchise. Fifty years later, you need only look to the Opening Ceremonies of the recent London Summer Olympics to see the impact those two properties made in the long run. Designed as a trip through England’s most important contributions to modern civilization, the spectacle’s worst-kept secret was a short film in which the sixth — and current — 007, actor Daniel Craig, rolls into Buckingham Palace to CONTINUED
october 2012 | Cineplex Magazine | 35 Bérénice Marlohe plays Skyfall Bond Girl Sévérine. Dangerous Liaisons Over the course of 23 films, James Bond has gotten physical with more than 40 women. Three-quarters of those women have tried to kill him.
sweet gadgets (a gun that only fires when pressed against Bond’s palm), and a massive threat that only 007 can neutralize (the secret identities of all MI6 agents fall into enemy hands). But it’s not as simplistic as all that, says the Daniel Craig is back for his third film’s director Sam Mendes, who’s usually behind Bond film,Skyfall the camera for psyche-plumbing character pieces like American Beauty and Revolutionary Road. “The character that Ian Fleming created over a meet Her Majesty the Queen of England (yes, the real Queen) and number of novels was incredibly complex and I think that we some- whisk her off to Olympic Stadium in a helicopter. And closing out the times forget that in the cliché of Bond — which is, you know, the massively ambitious show? Why it’s Sir Paul McCartney, singing one international playboy and someone who’s never troubled and never of the most recognizable songs in history, The Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” breaks a sweat — that actually what he created was a very conflicted Too bad McCartney didn’t sing “Live and Let Die,” the theme song character,” insists Mendes, addressing the press in Istanbul halfway he wrote and performed for the eighth Bond movie in 1973. But he’d through the film’s shoot. already covered that ground two months earlier when he serenaded Mendes confirms that Skyfall’s plot isn’t taken from any particular the Queen with “Live and Let Die” at her Diamond Jubilee Concert. Fleming story, but says it does draw something important from Next month, Skyfall, the franchise’s 23rd entry (it’s the longest-run- Fleming’s last few Bond books — what the author referred to as 007’s ning franchise in movie history) hits theatres with Craig in his third “acidy” demeanour. “Which is a combination of boredom, depres- turn as Bond, following the acclaimed reboot Casino Royale (2006) sion, difficulty with what he’s chosen to do for a living, which is to kill. and the much less acclaimed follow-up Quantum of Solace (2008). And that makes him a much more interesting character,” says Mendes. “In being lucky enough to be given the chance to do a third one “And those things are explored in this movie because CONTINUED it was my intention to make the best Bond movie that we possibly could, and Bond with a capital B,” says Craig, dressed in a dark grey logo at 50 suit and sporting a brush cut at While much has changed a press conference in London at for James Bond in 50 the start of shooting. years, much has stayed the And, although the filmmak- same. Look at the posters ers have revealed little about for 1962’s Dr. No and next Skyfall’s plot, aside from the fact month’s Skyfall. Notice the it has nothing to do with the past 007 logo incorporating the two movies, we can assure you gun. Although the logo has there will be a scenery-chewing been updated over time, it’s villain (a platinum-blond Javier essentially the same design Bardem), beautiful but deadly created by Joseph Caroff Bond Girls (Naomie Harris, 50 years ago. The figures Bérénice Marlohe), fancy cars were painted by renowned (classic Aston Martin DB5), illustrator Mitchell Hooks.
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Daniel is an actor who is capable of ex- downtime secretly collaborating. ploring them, and because I’m interested in “Strangely enough, we weren’t supposed exploring them, too.” to talk to each other because MGM hadn’t Part of that exploration meant killing off done the deal, and they weren’t supposed Bond, at least for appearances. Shot off a to be making the movie, and all sorts of legal moving train by a sniper while he’s engaged ramifications that were [waves his hand] in a hand-to-hand struggle with a bad guy, whatever. We did. You couldn’t shut us up, Bond falls to the water below, seemingly we were very excited about it,” Craig says drowned. He only resurfaces — so to speak sheepishly, afraid he’s revealing too much. — when necessary, entering the office of The men re-read Fleming’s books at the MI6 head honcho M (Judi Dench) with same time, says Craig, “and we started email- Lois Maxwell and the words, “007 reporting for duty.” When ing each other, saying, ‘What about this? Sean Connery in Dr. No she asks, “Where the hell have you been,” What about this?’ And that’s how it kind of the reply from her laconic agent is simply, snowballed, really.” “Enjoying death.” “The funny thing,” adds Mendes, “is that 00 Canada It would be an exaggeration to call Skyfall the MGM delay, because of the financial is- Across 50 years and 23 official films, the Bond movie that almost didn’t get made; sues, allowed us time to think about the story James Bond has been to Europe, it’s simply impossible to imagine the franchise more than might have otherwise been the Asia, Africa, South America, the U.S. coming to an end. But the film did go through case, and to talk about it. And, in that time, I and Caribbean; but never to Canada. a long suspension in 2010 as MGM Studios think Daniel was able to articulate the areas Still, 007 isn’t entirely without his dealt with serious financial problems that he thought the character could go, which is Canadian connections: eventually led to bankruptcy in December very informative for me.” ● During the Second World War, of that year. After a restructuring of the com- And if nothing else, we can be confident Bond creator (and British Naval pany, filming started up in late 2011 with the film will feature its share of eye candy. Intelligence Officer) Ian Fleming stops in London, Istanbul, Shanghai and the When asked whether he spends much of attended a top-secret spy school, Scottish Highlands. the movie with his shirt off, Craig grins the mysterious “Camp X,” in Whitby, However, Craig says he and Mendes — awkwardly and says, “That’s the gig.” Ontario, meaning some of 007 may who worked together on the 2002 gangster have been conceived here. pic Road to Perdition — spent that 2010 Marni Weisz is the editor of Cineplex Magazine. ● Unflappable Miss Moneypenny, the most enduring of all Bond girls, was played by Kitchener, Ontario-born Lois Maxwell from 1962 to 1985. Bardem ● In the opening of 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me, 007 (Roger Moore) Goes Blond escapes Soviet agents by skiing down The last time Javier Bardem had weird an Austrian mountainside. In fact, the hair in a movie, he won an Oscar for scene was filmed on Baffin Island’s his efforts (No Country for Old Men). tallest peak, Mount Asgard. Skyfall’s villain tried to explain his ● In 1995’s GoldenEye, Xenia Onatopp golden locks during an interview with (Famke Janssen) murders an admiral Spanish TV station Televisión Española. in the Royal Canadian Navy, allowing “James Bond films are midway a fellow operative to steal his identity between reality and fiction,” he said. for her Soviet boss, Colonel Ourumov. “They offer an excellent and fertile ● Quantum of Solace (2008) closes ground to play the characters with a with Bond (Daniel Craig) in Kazan to certain freedom. It has to do with a real confront Yusef Kabira, the Quantum situation and you’ve got to be serious member for whom Casino Royale’s playing it, yet it’s more open, it gives Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) gave her life. you more room to work and imagine 007 finds Kabira with a woman named more. And that’s a lot of fun because Corrine (Canadian actress Stana you’re not doing absolute fiction, it’s Katic). “You’re Canadian,” Bond says, not a superhero movie, and it’s not a “You work in Canadian Intelligence…. completely down-to-earth film either. Contact your people and you tell them It’s something in the middle that’s very to check their seals. They have a leak.” good and very interesting for an actor.” —Christopher Loudon
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HolidayMovie Preview We Count Down the Season’s Top-10 Movies!
Gollum (Andy Serkis)
Elrond (Hugo Weaving)
Ian McKellen as Gandalf BELOW: Martin Freeman’s Bilbo Baggins The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey December 14 Hobbit director Peter Jackson took a bold 1step when he shot the first part of hisLord of the Rings prequel using 48 frames per second technology — which renders a sharper 3D Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) image — rather than the standard 24 frames per second. But some viewers who got a sneak peek of the film say the technology is too realistic, making it look like a TV soap opera. Fortunately, we’ll be able to choose between the 24fps and 48fps versions in theatres. But, ultimately, all that really matters is whether Jackson rekindles that Middle Earth magic for this beloved tale of hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and a score of dwarves searching for stolen treasure.
40 | Cineplex Magazine | october 2012 2Skyfall November 9 Perhaps it’s because we’re celebrating 50 years of James Bond (the first Bond Holiday film,Dr. No, premiered in London on October 5, 1962) that there’s an added aura of excitement surrounding this latest Bond feature. The 23rd film in the series is directed by Sam Mendes and stars Daniel Craig as the increasingly brooding spy who’s sent to find the perpetrators of a deadly attack on MI6 while also dealing with secrets from M’s (Judi Dench) past that have come back to haunt the team. The alluring Naomie Harris plays Bond girl Eve, while Javier Bardem steps up as the villain. o ©A. M .P.A.S. t Pho
Oscar Loves the Holidays Did you know that November and December are the prime months to see Oscar-winning movies? Seven of the past 10 Best Picture winners were released during those two months. CONTINUED
october 2012 | Cineplex Magazine | 41 Django Unchained 3 December 28 Jamie Foxx says playing a freed slave who teams with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from an evil plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio) meant going to some emotionally Seasonal Fix dark places. Fortunately, he With no holiday-themed also says director Quentin movies coming out this year, you may be looking for a Tarantino took care of him tinsel fix at the theatre. on set and did a great job No worries — Home Alone, guiding his performance; and A Christmas Story, Miracle on 34th Street, Jingle All the he believes this is the film Way and Elf will all screen as that will revitalize his acting part of Cineplex’s Front Row Centre Events series. career. We can’t wait.
Lincoln 4 November 9 Director Steven Spielberg admits his Lincoln, which is based on Doris Kearns Les Misérables Goodwin’s 944-page 5December 14 biography Team of Rivals: The It’s taken this long for the Political Genius of Abraham 1985 Broadway musical set in Lincoln, will concentrate on 19th-century France to reach just the last few months of the big screen, which means the doomed President’s life there’s a whole lot of rabid — still more than most of us fans eager to see reformed will accomplish in our 80 or parolee Jean Valjean (Hugh so years. Liam Neeson was Jackman) evade capture by all set to play the man with relentless Inspector Javert the stovepipe hat but, after (Russell Crowe) and fight doing much prep work, alongside revolutionaries in dropped out because he felt the streets of Paris. While he was too old for the role. In Jackman and Crowe are the stepped method man Daniel film’s BIG name stars, we’re Day-Lewis and, yes, word is thinking it’s Anne Hathaway, everyone on set referred to playing the poverty-stricken the actor as Mr. President for Fantine, who’ll steal the show. the duration of the shoot. CONTINUED
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The Twilight 6Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 November 16 Twihards are holding on by their black-painted fingernails as their beloved series edges to its grand finale. Newbie vampire Bella (Kristen Stewart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and the rest of the Cullen clan enlist the help of assorted vampires and werewolves, including Jacob (Taylor Lautner), to battle the Volturi, who want to kill Bella and Edward’s daughter, Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy).
Wreck-It Ralph November 2 The keys to a great animated movie are characters viewers care about, nostalgia for 7 Goodbye something from our collective Twilight, past and asking big life Hello Host questions that even kids The Twilight franchise may can relate to. It’s all here in be drawing to an end, but Disney’s tale of a 30-year-old The Host, the next movie arcade videogame character based on a Stephenie Meyer named Ralph (John C. Reilly), novel, comes out next who’s tired of being his spring. Saoirse Ronan stars game’s bad guy. So, looking as a human whose soul is to upgrade his image, he invaded by an alien. jumps between videogames CONTINUED and learns just how much the pixilated world has changed.
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Life of Pi 8 November 23 Prepare to be amazed. CinemaCon audiences who saw early 3D footage of director Ang Lee’s tale of an Indian boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger were blown away by the crisp, yet painterly, look Lee created with the technology. This could be the season’s sleeper hit with critics and audiences alike.
Jack Reacher December 21 Could this be the start of Tom Cruise’s next franchise? Cruise plays Jack Reacher, a former U.S. military police officer turned do-gooding drifter who appears in 20 books by British author Lee Child. 9 Based on Child’s 2005 novel One Shot, the film sees Reacher called in to help after five people are Zero Dark Thirty killed — possibly by a sniper with whom Reacher December 19 served in the army. It’s being written and directed May 2, 2011, is a date director by Christopher McQuarrie, who has only one other Kathryn Bigelow and directing credit to his name, 2000’s The Way of the screenwriter Mark Boal won’t Gun, but lots of experience as a screenwriter including soon forget. That’s the day an Cruise’s 2008 filmValkyrie , and — reportedly — the American Navy SEAL team upcoming Cruise sequel, Top Gun 2. killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and made the film they were set to shoot about the hunt for bin Laden Babs irrelevant. The pair threw away its script and started from & Bette scratch on a dramatization December 28th is a good of how American CIA agents, day for fans of funny, mature, spies and covert-ops teams female actor-singers, as spent 10 years tracking down both Bette Midler and and eliminating the world’s Barbra Streisand have most notorious fugitive. The films hitting theatres — cast includes Joel Edgerton, Parental Guidance and Jessica Chastain, Kyle The Guilt Trip respectively. Chandler and Mark Strong.
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es, 1931 was a great year to be fan of horror films. BothDracula and Frankenstein were released that year to an audience that had no idea these Dracula and monsters would still be haunting our Frankenstein screen dreams more than 80 years later. together as a Cineplex Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi (left), hit theatres in Classic Film Series February and was an instant hit. Universal Pictures’ double bill on October publicity department planted stories with the press 21st, 24th and 31st about audience members fainting with fear, which at select Cineplex only added to its appeal. Lugosi’s Count Dracula theatres. Go to was debonair and seductive, and his elegantly evil Cineplex.com/events performance remains the blueprint for cinematic for times and locations. vampires. In November, Universal’s even more successful Frankenstein was released. Starring Boris Karloff (right) as the horrific monster who manages to earn our pity, the film went on to become the year’s top- grossing film, earning $12-million — a remarkable feat for a Depression-era film. IR— CASTING CALL n by ingrid randoja
Paul Breaking Penn and Brolin Into Film Fans of TV’s Breaking Bad can’t Together Again get enough of Aaron Paul’s work as sweet-natured meth cook Jesse, They co-starred in Milk and will play foes in Gangster Squad, and next year he’ll be seen on the and now comes word Sean Penn and Josh Brolin will reteam big screen in A Long Way Down, the for Crazy for the Storm. But this time Penn will direct while adaptation of Nick Hornby’s book Brolin acts. The film, based onNorman Ollestad’s memoir about four depressed people (Paul, tells of his lone trek down the side of a mountain after Toni Collette, Pierce Brosnan and surviving a plane crash at age 11, and his relationship with his Imogen Poots). They meet on a adrenaline-junkie father, who by pushing his son into high-risk rooftop where each plans to plunge sports ultimately prepared him for his icy descent. to their deaths. Will they decide to give life another try?
Costner’s Double Duty Kevin Costner mentors a pair of CIA agents when he takes on the role of CIA operative William Harper in two new movies featuring characters from Ronan’s Tom Clancy novels. The first is the still- untitled Jack Ryan reboot, directed Royal by Kenneth Branagh and starring Chris Performance Pine, and the second, Without Remorse, is a Jack Ryan spinoff focusing on CIA Irish teen Saoirse Ronan steps into the title agent John Kelly. Christopher McQuarrie role in Mary Queen of Scots, which recounts (Jack Reacher) directs Without Remorse, Mary’s effort to wrest control of the English and producers are courting Tom Hardy crown away from her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. for the role of Kelly. No word yet as to who’ll direct, or Ronan’s co- stars in the film that starts shooting next year.
48 | Cineplex Magazine | October 2012 AT HOME October’s Something BEST DVD Special Dial M For AND BLU-RAY Murder 3D October 9
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This ladies’ Hublot watch, made of white gold and For studded with more than 1,200 diamonds, recently $5-Million… sold for a cool $5-million.
Paranormal Activity 4 comes out this month, and will undoubtedly Earlier this year, Sotheby’s add to the franchise’s massive profit margin. The first three auctioned off this pics have grossed a combined $576-million (U.S.) worldwide Andy Warhol portrait of Bridget Bardot for nearly — and yet no film in the series has cost more than $5-million to $5-million. make. That’s nothing! Look what else is worth $5-million. —MW
Jason Biggs was reportedly paid $5-million to star in last spring’s American Reunion.
In 2010 this Aston Martin DB5 used in Goldfinger and Thunderball sold at auction for $4.6-million.
Piranha 3DD, the latest in the not-as successful Piranha horror franchise, earned just $5.1-million worldwide earlier this year.
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