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PLUS 18 26 30 34COVER STORY MEET A SCR PT END OF AN ERA CRU SE W DOW 04 ED TOR’S NOTE SUPERV SOR We take you to the D RECTOR MAKER Ever wondered Pinewood Studios set Death on the Nile’s Black Widow star 06 CL CK! exactly what a script of the pic director and star supervisor does on No Time to Die, where says grief, trauma 08 UP FRONT set? We chat with the film’s producers on what it was like and love inspire Daniela Saioni, a Barbara Broccoli and to wrangle an all-star Natasha Romanoff 14 SPOTL GHT script supervisor who Michael G. Wilson tell cast for his latest as she returns to CANADA calls her demanding us what to expect from murder-mystery based Russian homeland in job an exercise in Daniel Craig’s final on an Agatha Christie this unconventional 40 N THE WORKS “extreme multitasking” go-round as 007 whodunit Avengers movie. BY NGR D RANDOJA BY JAMES MOTTRAM BY NGR D RANDOJA Plus: British actor 42 C NEPLEX STORE O-T Fagbenle discusses his role as mysterious 46 REC PES FROM fixer Rick Mason and THE V P Ghost stories make perfect Halloween viewing, makes a plea to be and not all of them are scary. Settle in with seven in more Marvel films 48 SCREEN TEST ghostly tales from various genres BY MARN WE SZ BY NGR D RANDOJA +16 AND MARN WE SZ 50 ART OF F LM

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Advertising sales for Cineplex Magazine Relax, is handled by Cineplex Media. TORONTO HEAD OFF CE 4165398800 Scarlett’s Here V CE PRES DENT Robert Brown FORGET YOGA. FORGET MED TAT ON, Needless to say, we’re talking about V CE PRES DENT, PRODUCT ON mindful practice and apps that promote Black Widow here — the character and Sheila Gregory EXECUT VE D RECTOR, NAT ONAL SALES calm. Forget valerian root, forget ASMR. next spring’s ilm of the same name. Fans Giulio Fazzolari Forget that New Age music with the bird have been beging for a Black Widow solo EXECUT VE D RECTOR, SALES sounds they play while you’re getting a ilm since Johansson was cast as the su- Ed Villa EXECUT VE D RECTOR, SALES massage. perhero with Russian roots in March 2009. QUEBECEASTERN CANADA Jonathan Laflamme What we all need to reduce stress right Though her character was woefully under- MANAGER, THEATR CAL PROGRAMM NG now is a little bit more Scarlett Johansson. developed in her big-screen debut, 2010’s Debi Kingston

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nominee appeared, at age 10, as one of azine way back then Johansson said she TORONTO 4165398800 two child runaways in 1996’s Manny & Lo could see the potential in the Marvel role. Cory Atkins, ext. 5257 she has mesmerized audiences with “You’re able to develop your character Christina Clark, ext. 5278 Sheree Kyte, ext. 5245 her velvety voice and equally soothing with the studio,” she said. “For me that’s Beth Leverty, ext. 5285 demeanour. “Johansson’s peaceful aura, exciting because rarely does an actor Zandra MacInnis, ext. 5281 which takes in everything with equa- get to take it to the next level…. To build Heather Marshall, ext. 5290 nimity, is something special,” wrote the something with a character who has such Jenna Paterson, ext. 5243 Brett Poschmann, ext. 5287 ’s Mick LaSalle of a history and has had so many paths, to Lorelei von Heymann, ext. 5249 her performance. She was all of 70 pounds think about where she might go, that’s Wendell Sappor, ext. 5277 at the time, if that, soaking wet. something you can invest yourself in.” Lesley Taylor, ext. 5266 Tom Woyzbun, ext. 5253 As she graduated to young-adult Invest she did. If you’re an Avengers HAM LTONN AGARA 4165587190 roles that sense of calm followed. In her fan you already know the type of sacri ice Jennifer Wishart

Entertainment Weekly review of 2003’s Natasha Romanoff will make to keep us QUEBEC 5148680005 Lost in Translation Lisa Schwarzbaum safe. When Black Widow inally comes out Benoit Deschambault, ext. 224 described the “embracing, restful seren- next May we’ll get to dip back in time and Martine Ménard, ext. 222 MANSASK 2043963044 ity” of Johansson’s performance. One year get a better understanding of why. Morgan Comrie

later, in his review of In Good Company Turn to “Sitting Pretty,” page 34, for CALGARY 4032644420 opined, “Scarlett Johansson our interview with Scarlett Johansson. Kevin Leahy continues to employ the gravitational pull And, although it’s merely written on EDMONTON 7809193011 of quiet fascination.” the printed page, we encourage you Barb Kitzan BR T SH COLUMB A 6046893068 And when, in 2013, Johansson took to imagine the quotes in Johansson’s Matt Watson on a part that stripped away everything soothing voice and see just how good it Cineplex Magazine™ is published but those famous vocal cords to play makes you feel. by Cineplex Entertainment. Subscriptions Her’s unconventional love interest, the Also in this issue, are $34.50 ($30 + HST) a year in Canada, Kenneth Branagh $45 a year in the U.S. and $55 a year AI voice of a computer operating system, tells us how he managed to wrangle overseas. All subscription inquiries and letters to the editor should be ’s Christopher Orr offered, Death on the Nile’s eclectic cast (page 30), directed to Cineplex Magazine at “Her voice — breathy, occasionally crack- and we’re on the set of No Time to Die, 1303 Yonge St., Toronto, ON, M4T 2Y9; ing — warms the entire ilm.” presumably Daniel Craig’s inal Bond ilm, or [email protected] Publications Mail Agreement No. 41619533. Take that soothing voice and reassur- with producers and Barbara Broccoli Return undeliverable Canadian addresses ing demeanour and combine them with Michael G. Wilson (page 26). to: Cineplex Magazine, 1303 Yonge St., Avengers-grade ighting skills and, well, Toronto, ON, M4T 2Y9 656,500 copies of Cineplex Magazine are Johansson’s true superpower may be distributed through Cineplex Entertainment, making us feel like everything’s going to The Globe and Mail, and other outlets. Cineplex Magazine is not responsible for be okay. the return of unsolicited materials. No material in this magazine may be reprinted MARN WE SZ, without the express written consent of the ED TOR publisher. © Cineplex Entertainment 2020.

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↗ V V D VEN CE and director Pedro Almodóvar walk to a photocall for their short film The Human Voice during the Venice Film Festival.

↗ PLAY NG TO TYPE , known for her character’s love of shoes on Sex and the City, safely shops for a new pair in her beloved City.

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↖ JAY PROMOTES V OLENCE Jay Baruchel attends the premiere of his horror pic Random Acts of Violence at the 5 Drive-n in Oakville, Ontario.

↖ TELLUR DE R DE Frances McDormand has a laugh on the back of her golf cart at the drive-in premiere of Nomadland in Pasadena, California. The screening was hosted by the cancelled Telluride Film Festival the same day the movie debuted at the Toronto and Venice film fests.

↖ BRADLEY BACK AT WORK Heavily protected crew members surround Bradley Cooper on the Encino, California, set of director ’s latest, a still untitled film that’s set in the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s.

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QUOTE BIRTHDAY UNQUOTE HAPPY 50TH, ! Matt Damon turned 50 on October 8th and as a gift to everyone here’s a pic of the actor in his very first movie, Mystic Pizza. The 1988 dramedy also happened to be ’ big break but while Roberts starred, Damon had one line, spoken as his character Steamer was about to tuck into a lobster — “Mom, do you want my green stuff?” Cheers Matt, hope you enjoyed your birthday dinner, whatever you ate.

The thing that that I feel the most when I watch the film, and I feel genuinely proudest of, is that

‘‘this is a same-sex romantic relationship, intimate

relationship, in a period setting and yet they’re not hiding, they’re not having to run around and avoid ‘‘ society. They are simply in love and they discover who they truly are through this connection that they form, and the relationship between them just is. It just is. — ON PLAYING 1840S FOSSIL HUNTER MARY ANNING OPPOSITE ’S CHARLOTTE MURCHISON IN AMMONITE

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Gillian Jacobs and Azhy Robertson in Come Play

THE HORROR Short, But Definitely Not Sweet f you want to direct a horror film start by making a horror short. Acclaimed horror pics Saw, Mama, Lights Out and The Babadook are all based on short films that caught the attention of Hollywood studios. Now you can add writer-director Jacob Chase’s Come Play, based on his five-minute short Larry, to the list. n 2017, while he was the creative director of a haunted house in L.A., Chase made Larry, about the eponymous monster that appears out of an iPad to terrorize a nighttime parking lot attendant. Come Play changes up the story somewhat, it’s now a lonely boy named Oliver (Azhy Robertson) who unleashes Larry while playing on a mobile device, much to the horror of his parents (Gillian Jacobs and John Gallagher Jr.). Chase used an old costume from his haunted house to create the monster the first time around, so look for Larry to get an upgrade in the new film. IR

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SEE IT AT CINEPLEX IN THEATRES OCTOBER 9 GET READY FOR YOUR CLOSE-UP, ALBERTA The , thriller may take place across the American badlands, but it was shot in Alberta in the spring of 2019. Costner and Lane play a retired Montana sheriff and his wife whose son recently passed away. Now their daughter-in-law has fallen in with a terrifying off-the-grid family in the Dakotas and the senior couple feels compelled to rescue their young grandson. “What we are trying to do is show a road trip from Montana to North Dakota, so we needed mountainous terrain, through the plains to the badlands,” director Thomas Bezucha told The Drumheller Mail while shooting in Drumheller, Alberta. Calgary, High River, Fort Macleod and Didsbury also saw filming. “Alberta has all of that, and that is why we are here, it has been a fantastic experience.” —MW

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Changes are taking place — you helped get Mindy Kaling’s movie, Late Night, made. Do you think if you started out now you would stay with acting? It is so funny that Mindy is looking at me thinking, I wonder if I could try directing, and I’m looking at Mindy and thinking, ha, I wonder if I started acting 10 years later if it would have been different. It is so inspiring what she did because it certainly wasn’t easy for Mindy either. But yeah, I would never say no, there is still some time, maybe.

And then you got to direct Tracee Ellis Ross in The High Note. She’s ’s daughter, so it’s impossible not to think of her mom when watching her sing. It’s really such a beautiful risk she took because she had been in very few feature ilms, she never sang in public before, and obviously the comparisons to her mom were something she probably got her whole life. I think she always loved music and probably was a little bit nervous about being in the shadow of her mom, so her way to stand out was through acting and she is such a gifted comedic actress it’s almost unfair she can sing so well.

The Direct You had a baby just before The High Note. How did that affect your directing? I am a single mom so it gave me a whole Approach lot of ire to get it done [laughs]. It is so Vancouver-born director Nisha Ganatra puts interesting to me that pregnancy can the focus on creative female characters sometimes be seen as a fragile state, but anywhere else in the world women are farming ields, give birth and go right back to farming. It is a privilege to take the frag- FTER 20 YEARS OF HARD WORK NISHA GANATRA ile point of view, but it is not a fragile state. is at the top of her game. She made her debut ilm, ACT NG the lesbian rom-com Chutney Popcorn in 1999, and DEBUT So, you may still act, you had two Ganatra made her then spent years working in TV, directing episodes movies out in a year and you recently acting debut in of Transparent, The Mindy Project and Mr. Robot. Chutney Popcorn, had a baby. You’re just a little busy. ABut in the last year and a half she’s really taken flight, irst with the first film she Yeah, the ultimate creativity is producing the talk-show comedy Late Night, which starred Mindy Kaling as directed, playing a baby. But I also think that as female a budding comedy writer, and then with The High Note, a dramedy Jill Hennessy’s lover ilmmakers we were kept out of the game about the personal assistant (Dakota Johnson) to a demanding for so long that once the doors started UPCOM NG singer (Tracee Ellis Ross). Both ilms, you’ll notice, focus on the She has a film in opening I think we are all so anxious that challenges and triumphs of talented women. the works about they’re going to close again, so we better Born in Vancouver, Ganatra spent the irst four years of her an ndian boy band hurry and do everything we can while we that’s based on the life in the city before moving around the world with her family. can [laughs]. NGRD RANDOJA life of songwriter “It feels a lot like home, Vancouver, although technically there are and music producer a bunch of places around the world that were actually home,” she Savan Kotecha FIND LATE NIGHT AND THE HIGH NOTE says over the phone from . AT CINEPLEXSTORE.COM

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WW Y20 - Cineplex Magazine Full page ad_8 x 10.5_EN.indd 1 2020-09-21 5:21 PM YUP, THAT’S A STORY GHOSTHalloween is the best time to watch a good ghost story. But what does that mean? Movies about ghosts aren’t just for horror fans, you’ve got comedies and romance pics and tearjerkers, too. With just one thing in common — they all feature characters from the great beyond — good ghost stories are as varied and full of surprises as a pillowcase full of fun-sized chocolate bars and little bags of chips

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ROMANCE COMEDY

Ghost 1990 Beetlejuice 1988 DIRECTOR Jerry Zucker DIRECTOR Tim Burton (Airplane!) (Edward Scissorhands) STARS , STARS Michael Keaton, , ,

For people who like their What’s it like to actually be ghost stories with a box of a ghost? Pretty amusing, chocolates, a glass of wine according to this comedy from and a good snuggle, we the king of quirky, Tim Burton. recommend this romance that Baldwin and Davis play sees Molly’s (Moore) murdered Adam and Barbara, a folksy lover Sam (Swayze) try to couple living life in a folksy reach her through a psychic Connecticut country home (Goldberg) so he can warn her until they die in a car crash and that the people who killed him mysteriously find themselves are after her. Sure, sounds right back in the house, but as like more of a thriller, but all ghosts. When a family of brash anyone remembers are the city people (Catherine O’Hara, steamy bits, the longing looks, Jeffrey Jones and Winona and that super-hot scene at Ryder) move in and start to the potter’s wheel. Trade that AUTEUR change everything it’s time for box of chocolates for a bag of Adam and Barbara to visit the leftover fun-sized Snickers and The Shining novel is clearly one of the underworld and figure out how your Halloween is all set. 1980 most compelling horrors — to scare them away. That’s DIRECTOR Stanley Kubrick scratch that — films ever made. where they meet Beetlejuice (2001: A Space Odyssey) Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, (Keaton), a mischievous STARS Jack Nicholson, a writer who moves his wife poltergeist who may do more Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers Wendy (Duvall) and son harm than good. Danny (Danny Lloyd) to the The fact that The Shining Overlook Hotel where he will wasn’t even nominated for serve as caretaker in the an Oscar, never mind winning, off-season. Unfortunately, blows our minds. Just goes the Overlook is seriously to show that some movies are haunted and the terrifying not appreciated in their times, ghosts who live there really as Stanley Kubrick’s haunting want to hang out with his adaptation of the Stephen King psychic son Danny.

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ParaNorman 2012 DIRECTORS Chris Butler, Sam Fell VOICES Kodi Smit-McPhee, , Casey Affleck

This ghoulish feature is told via stop-motion animation courtesy of Laika, the production house behind Coraline and Missing Link. The story follows Norman (Smit-McPhee), a strange little kid who can see, and chat with, dead people (a.k.a. ghosts). Yeah, kind of like that other movie about a kid who sees dead people, but this one is a lot funnier and less sad — plus it looks fantastic! Norman learns he alone can save his community from a witch’s curse by reading aloud from a book that belonged to his uncle, but he’ll have to contend with a mob of zombies and PSYCHOLOGICAL that witch (who’s also a ghost, BTW) to do it. The Sixth Sense Geez. How do we talk about (Willis) who has been through 1999 this one without giving his own tragedy. Crowe doesn’t DIRECTOR M. Night Shyamalan anything away? Here goes. believe Cole at first but then (Unbreakable) In his breakthrough role (he starts to come around. STARS Bruce Willis, was, after all, only 11), Osment In addition to being Osment’s , plays a troubled kid named big break, this was the movie Cole Sear who, as one of that made Shyamalan a the most famous lines in household name so, yeah, 20th-century film will tell you, you can expect a twist ending, sees dead people. Tormented and even the most jaded by his special gift he starts to ending-guessers should see psychologist Malcolm Crowe admit it’s a pretty good one.

HEARTWARMING TRADITIONAL

Field of Dreams 1989 you ghost?” to a long-dead The Others 2001 DIRECTOR Phil Alden Robinson Shoeless Joe Jackson DIRECTOR Alejandro Amenábar (The Sum of All Fears) (Ray Liotta). Costner plays (The Sea Inside) STARS Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Ray Kinsella, an farmer STARS , James Earl Jones who carves a baseball field into , his farm after a ghostly voice Christopher Eccleston Some ghost stories don’t seem tells him, “If you build it, he will like ghost stories at all, but come.” We won’t tell you who If you think ghost stories this corn-fed baseball flick that “he” turns out to be, in case should take place on creepy definitely is one. After all, it you haven’t seen it, but yeah, old estates where the curtains has Kevin Costner uttering the he’s a ghost too, and it’ll give are always drawn, furniture is line, “What are you grinning at, you chills…in a nice way. draped in sheets and the hired help is clearly hiding something, well, do we have a movie for you. Just after World War II, war widow Grace Stewart (Kidman) start to happen — disembodied and her two young children, footsteps, the piano playing who happen to be allergic to on its own — the family fears the sun, are living in a remote “others” are present, and that country home. When odd things they may be ghosts.

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Ever heard of a script supervisor? You’d be surprised how much of a film’s success rides on the script supervisor’s cheetah-like reflexes, superhuman vision and obsessive attention to detail. We talk with top script supervisor Daniela Saioni about what she actually does and how it touches every scene

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OU’VE JUST F N SHED watching a ilm and as Y the credits roll you are struck by the number of people it took to make it. You wonder, “What did they all do?” Take for instance the script supervisor. I got the answer when Daniela Saioni, one of Toronto’s top script supervisors, having worked on Shazam!, A Simple Favor and xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, invited me to sit in on her inten- sive Script Supervision course — a two-day primer in which students learn the basics of the job, often so well they start work on indie ilms immediately. On a Saturday morning last year, 40 students streamed into a tiny community theatre in the city’s east end. The students varied in age, from young creative types →

Daniela Saioni on the set of A Simple Favor.

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ART-01-F01010-DFC-Cineplex-Ad-FP-E.indd 1 2020-06-11 1:48 PM → to older men and women look- ing to restart their careers. Many already worked in ilm and TV in some capacity and were consider- ing a switch to script supervising. It was a mind-bogling two days in which we learned that script supervising is a complicated and exhilarating job. It’s the script super- visor’s job to sit beside the director and keep a record of what happens during every single take. The actors’ exact dialogue and movements are noted to keep continuity, so that an actor picking up a glass in his right hand doesn’t switch to his left hand in the next take. The script super- visor also confers with the director, times everything, and after each day’s shooting sends all their notes to the editor, who assembles a very rough cut. When I called to discuss her job further, Saioni was at home in Toronto, busy preparing her on- line comedy writing workshop and working on the indie ilm Jiyan, which she wrote. Effervescent as always, Saioni took a deep breath and dove right in.

So what does a script supervisor do? On the outside it looks like we are just taking notes and maybe whispering things to the director, but what we do is help ensure the ilm will cut together as smoothly is a whole art to that. You read the Daniela Saioni [writer-director] Paul Feig 142 as possible and save time in post- script out loud, read all the details uses coloured script questions about logic and pens to track production. We are very often the and think about all the aspects, like changes in continuity in prep so they were all de facto person who helps keep the how the director is going to shoot dialogue and discussed and solved weeks before director focused on the visual sto- it, who is in it, the genre. And you movement from we went to camera. take to take on rytelling. Not every director uses take all those factors into account the script for us this way, but at the upper levels to provide an educated guess about A Simple Favour. You’ve arrived on set, shooting of this job, working with the A-list how long the ilm or TV show will begins, and now your job gets directors, they really do. They’ll ask run. That is directly tied to the bud- really complicated! us if they are covered, and what they get. That is the irst document they Yes, it is a whole dance of eyes and mean is, have I got all the shots to want because the producer, director ears and hands — it is an exercise in tell the story visually in a way that and the writer are going to make extreme multitasking. We are writ- will cut together smoothly. decisions about if they need to cut ing down what the actors are saying or add scenes. because they are not going to say it After you’re hired for a film, exactly as scripted. We write down what’s the first thing you do? You also prepare a list of every deviation from the script, The very irst thing they want questions about the script. how they are moving, when they are from you is a “timing,” and there Right, like on A Simple Favor, I gave changing their body positions, →

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→ and this is all the actors in the David Sandberg told me he was not Daniela Saioni four and ive, but the performance scene, and how long the scene is going to give me his preferences, be- works on take was take one, so that’s the one xXx: Return of running. cause he is quiet and shy, and I said, Xander Cage. that ends up on the movie. don’t worry I am going to read your That is multitasking. face. He laughed, but that is exactly The filmmaking industry had to But I’m also keeping an eye on the what I did. So, I am telling the editor be shut down due to COV D-19. director because some directors in my notes what David liked based This is a tough time for you and will verbally tell me what parts they of his facial expressions, and that your peers. liked or didn’t like; they will shake happens a lot. It is so scary because for many years their head or give me thumbs up we have been used to the endless or they’ll laugh. Like in Paul Feig’s Let’s talk about continuity. flow of work, since SARS. When case I would write down every time Viewers often notice when an SARS hit Toronto we lost work, he would laugh so the editor would actor’s hair changes from shot in general, for two to three years know…. to shot, or their clothes have afterwards and that impacted a After every shot I confer with the somehow altered. How does lot of people. But with COVID-19, director, if they are willing to talk that happen? 100 percent of the people [were] to me about their preferences, and The number one thing a movie must unable to work. Ultimately, I think I write it down and type it out so have are the performances. So, 100 it will mean that some people will the editor will have a clear record percent of the time we are trying drop out of the business. But what of what the director’s choices on do everything we can to protect I do remember after SARS is that set were. It is a record, or a place the performances, and sometimes the work came back with a ven- to start, because there is so much that means not ixing continuity. geance, to the extent we needed to footage. That doesn’t mean we don’t try, but train more people, and I think that things like hair, and hair is a big one, is what is going to happen as well And each director has his especially women’s long hair or hair this time, it is going to come back or her own way of working. that you can move in front of the ear with a vengeance. Some directors are communica- or behind the ear, is one of the most tive about what they like, and some common continuity errors. The hair ngrid Randoja is the deputy editor are not. For example, on Shazam!, might have matched in takes three, of Cineplex Magazine.

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THE FEBRUARY 2018 COVER OF Cineplex Magazine featured a regal Chadwick Boseman standing tall in his full Black Panther costume. It remains one of the most powerful covers of our 21-year history, and after the 43-year-old’s death from colon cancer in August, it is now one of our most poignant. It was in December 2017 that I inter- viewed Boseman for that story, and the man on the line was soft-spoken with a deep staccato laugh that made me laugh. Although he’d already been lauded for his powerful performances in 42, Get on Up and Marshall, Boseman understood Black Panther was special and took his leading-role responsibilities seriously, revealing that he even brought a drummer to the set so the sounds of the African continent would reverberate across the Atlanta soundstage. Yet, what stays with me most about our interview was how he kept calling himself a “storyteller.” Boseman didn’t grow up wanting to be a movie star, rather it was the shooting death of a teammate on his youth basketball team that inspired him to write a play. He went on to write and direct → many plays, and then turned his consider- Chadwick Boseman attends the 50th able talents to acting. NAACP Awards in We mourn the loss of this most gracious March 2019, where he man and the stories he wanted to share won Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for with the world. — INGRID RANDOJA Black Panther.

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ONWITH SET BOND People love to talk about Jamaica, Italy, and Austria — all famous locations from James Bond films. But if there’s one place in the world that’s home to the cinematic version of Ian Fleming’s spy, it’s Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England. That’s where we caught up with 007 during the final days of shooting No Time to Die, and spoke with the film’s producers about bringing Daniel Craig’s final Bond film in for a smooth landing

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ANIEL CRAIG IS CROUCHED taken the crew by a stone staircase, dressed to kill across the globe, to in a classic tuxedo. It can only mean Norway, Jamaica one thing: James Bond is back. As and Italy, but Cuba the MI6 spy targets two foes in was a bridge too black jumpsuits — one carrying a far. Instead, the silver briefcase — there isn’t time production is con- to fire before wires winch the bad- cluding its epic seven-month shoot dies up to the ceiling out of reach. at Pinewood Studios in England. Somewhere out of shot, a voice “We actually went to Cuba as calls “cut,” and Craig relaxes for a a team to look at possibilities of second. It may be just two days be- filming there,” explains the film’s Dfore the actor wraps the 25th Bond production designer Mark Tildesley. movie, No Time to Die, but his con- “But it is complicated to work centration is as intense as ever. there. Fast & Furious had just been The setting is an elaborate street there, but their subject matter was in Havana, with bustle and bars and very simple — cars smashing into even a cinema — the Paradiso — walls. Politically, people there need promising a Cuban Film Festival to know how you’re going to por- inside. “We’re in the first third of tray the country. And obviously ↑ the film,” explains longtime Bond we wouldn’t want to tell them our Top: Daniel Craig (right) with producer Michael G. Wilson. secret story.” Instead, Tildesley and director Cary Joji Fukunaga But what we’re not in is Cuba. This his team built a remarkable recre- on the final day of shooting No Time to Die. Inset: Craig latest 007 adventure has already ation of a lively Cuban street. with Ana de Armas in the film

26 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE FALL 2020 S THE F LM’S PRODUCER Not that there’s much time for Barbara Broccoli notes, the nostalgia with a complicated Bond franchise has been at night shoot to get in the can. In Pinewood since 1962, when fact, making this entire ilm has PLAY T ME her father Albert “Cubby” Broccoli been a particularly testing ex- A Along with her (also Wilson’s stepfather) delivered perience. First, original director half-brother the irst 007 movie, Dr. No. “It’s Danny Boyle left the project to be Michael G. Wilson, a flagship for us,” she says. With replaced by True Detective’s helmer Barbara Broccoli its famous 007 Stage, the English Cary Joji Fukunaga. Craig injured has produced several studio is soaked in Bond history. his ankle during the Jamaica leg of stage productions, including a 2002 Right behind us, when we meet in the shoot, requiring surgery. And West End mounting of one of the workshop spaces, is a then there was the damage they Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, glass display cabinet featuring the did to Pinewood when an explo- a 2017 Broadway run actual bikini worn by Ursula Andress sion went wrong. “I guess you heard of The Band’s Visit and a 2019 staging of when she famously emerged from that we blew up the stage during Fleabag at New York’s Caribbean waters in that debut the course of the ilm,” says Wilson, Soho Playhouse. Bond ilm 58 years ago. with a seen-it-all-before shrug. →

FALL 2020 C NEPLEX MAGAZ NE 27 WR TE STUFF Aside from producing many of the Bond films, Michael G. Wilson is also a writer, getting co-writing credits on Octopussy, For Your Eyes Only, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill.

→ This, of course, is all before the attributed to the presence of top coronavirus pandemic delayed British writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge No Time to Die’s planned April (Fleabag), who was drafted to give a debut, making it the irst major more diverse spin to the story. blockbuster of 2020 to shift its And while the trailers have re- release date as theatres began to vealed the return of Christoph Waltz, shutter. “What matters is the ilm who played iconic Bond antagon- at the end of the day,” says Broccoli. ist Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre, “You always want the ilm to be the it’s Rami Malek — Best Actor Oscar best in the series. And I think we winner for 2018’s Freddie Mercury really are feeling that this one is re- bio-pic Bohemian Rhapsody — who ally extraordinary.” Still, with Craig will be our chief villain, Sa in. looking to bow out, it’s a bittersweet “He’s really bad! He’s not a good feeling, she adds. “I don’t think we’ll guy. He’s a really bad guy,” says get him to come back again.” Broccoli. “We’re so thrilled that he psychiatrist Dr. Madeleine Swann ↑ wanted to do this. We all wanted (Léa Seydoux), his love interest Top: Craig and him before the whole Oscar thing, from 2016’s Spectre. Jeffrey Wright we were all desperate to get him TH BROCCOL PROM S NG in the film. Inset: an “epic emotional quality,” But Swann isn’t the only female Rami Malek’s and then, of course, that was just there’s a feeling that plot seeds lead. Lashana Lynch steps in as a villain, Safin such a wonderful celebration to planted across all the Craig-era new “00” agent and Ana de Armas, see him winning the Oscar. Such a WBond ilms, from Casino Royale who’s currently on set with Craig great performance. And he’s superb onwards, will come to fruition here. for the Cuban shootout, is a CIA in this, really chilling. We’ve got lots At the outset, Bond is out of active operative helping Bond. “He’s and lots of spoilers that we can’t service, enjoying retirement in got a lot to deal with in this ilm,” reveal. You have to see the movie.” Jamaica, until his old CIA colleague Broccoli says with a nod. “I think Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) enlists the women are more relevant and James Mottram is a freelance him to collect a package in Cuba. It’s more important than ever.” Much entertainment writer based in a mission that reunites Bond with of this increased relevance can be London, England.

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Doesn’t a romantic cruise on a fancy steamship from days of yore sound good right about now? What if we told you there was also a murder on board? For fans of Agatha Christie novels that just makes things better. One of those fans, Kenneth Branagh, tells us about starring in, and directing, Death on the Nile, and how he keeps his big, wild casts on course

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FALL 2020 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 31 GIVE KENNETH BRANAGH AN ensemble cast, a juicy script and eye- catching locales and watch him make Gmagic. The 59-year-old filmmaker did just that in 2017 directing and starring as detective Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, a sleek and enter- taining adaptation of Agatha Christie’s whodunit. The end of that film set the stage for the second Branagh/Christie mashup, with Poirot being told he’s needed in for a murder investi- gation, revealing to Christie fans that Death on the Nile would be the follow-up film in the series. Set in 1937, the mystery opens with young Jacqueline de Bellefort (Emma Mackey) engaged to Simon Doyle (Armie Hammer). However, that relationship shatters when Simon falls for Jacqueline’s best friend, the heiress Linnet Ridgeway (). Consumed by jealousy, Jacqueline boards the same steamship that is taking Simon and Linnet on their hon- eymoon voyage down the Nile. We won’t spoil the story, but know that murders ensue, and it is Poirot’s job to discover the culprit amid the film’s co- lourful cast of characters portrayed by the likes of Russell Brand, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Letitia Wright, Ali Fazal and . Branagh was on phone from L.A. when we chatted about making the of choosing another book that again saw moments in Murder where he was Poirot films, getting actors to “shut up” had a dominating theme, and jealousy is referring to a woman called Katherine, and how he feels about turning 60. central to Death on the Nile. We also felt some kind of lost love, perhaps? We that it would be possible to make the film get to see whether there was a moment Why choose Death on the Nile with a more youthful take on this central when the passion of Hercule Poirot for as the follow-up to Murder on love triangle and allow sex and death to crime solving was present for people the Orient Express? be a bit more present in the story. and for affairs of the heart, and if he Michael Green, the screenwriter, and decided to concentrate on this more I spoke a lot during the making of What challenges await Poirot? cerebral life of solving of crimes, what Murder on the Orient Express, and we I think we see him challenged by wit- has it cost him? loved the purity of dealing with the nessing love and lust up close and theme of revenge in Murder on the personal.... It offers him time to reflect You do a wonderful job of Orient Express. And we loved the idea on his own relationship with love. We assembling eclectic casts for

32 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE FALL 2020 ← Kenneth Branagh (right) looks on as Armie Hammer and Gal Gadot (centre) celebrate in a scene from Death on the Nile

IN THE CASE OF CERTAIN LEADING ACTORS, THEY DON’T HAVE TO CARRY THE FILM, I THINK THAT LIGHTENS THE LOAD FOR THEM, MAYBE LEADING TO A SPIRIT OF ENJOYMENT FOR SOMEONE LIKE GAL GADOT THAT IS DIFFERENT these Poirot films. Actors like that it’s hard to get them to shut up. and every moment that marks this Gal Gadot must love the chance They are all telling war stories, sto- kind of passage of time, I think for the to join these ensembles. ries about holidays and families, and individual is always kind of shock- I think people do like that. They like they are excited and there is this good ing. You can’t believe it. You wake up to be in a top team where they get to energy. feeling like a spritely 18-year-old and have their moment, they get to be a key then you walk into the bathroom and member of the team, and they work How much shooting did you somebody is living in your mirror who with people they perhaps wouldn’t do on location in Egypt? looks quite different from the spritely have worked with before. In the case of We did beauty shots of the Nile, we went 18-year-old. I don’t know where all those certain leading actors, they don’t have down on a Nile steamer, but I wanted wrinkles come from, but I guess I am to carry the film, I think that lightens to have greater access to the temple of the same guy. the load for them, maybe leading to a Abu Simbel than we were physically able spirit of enjoyment for someone like to have so we came back [to England] Ultimately, what do you hope Gal Gadot that is different. and rebuilt Abu Simbel to scale at audiences will feel while watching Longcross Studios. We did the same Death on the Nile? And the actors say they have thing with the Cataract Hotel, so we’re What I hope is that the audience can go fun working on your set. able to take our cinema audiences much on that vicarious emotional and pas- You feel that sense of play and playful- more into the heart of what would have sionate journey with our characters. ness. For instance, like in a dinner scene been the 1930s version of the locations. And just feel it, feel all that passion at on the steamship Karnak, when there the centre of it, and then go on that boat is some sort of tense moment happen- You turn 60 in December. ride down that river in that amazing ing between Jacqueline de Bellefort and What comes to your mind when country and experience love in a very Simon Doyle and Linnet Ridgeway and I say that? hot, beautiful, ancient and mysterious other characters are at dinner listening I don’t say this with any malice, but place, with all the dangers love brings. and half-talking; you set this particular you’re the first person to say that to group of actors off to improvise, they all me actually [chuckles]. I’m sort of non- Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor of have such rich and diverse experiences plussed by it. Every decade birthday Cineplex Magazine.

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ST LL BASK NG N THE GLOW OF OSCAR NOM NAT ONS FOR AND , SCARLETT JOHANSSON S N THE SWEET SPOT OF AN ALREADY STELLAR CAREER. ADD N AN ENGAGEMENT TO FUNNYMAN COL N JOST AND, OF COURSE, NEXT SPR NG’S BLACK WIDOW, THE AVENGERS MOV E THAT SHE CAN CALL HER OWN, AND T’S ALL COM NG TOGETHER FOR SittıngTHE SULTRY STAR

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PHOTO BY RICKY MIDDLESWORTH, COURTESY OF MARVEL STUDIOS FALL 2020 C NEPLEX MAGAZ NE 35 WAS THE FALL THAT broke our hearts. Natasha Romanoff let- ting go of Clint Barton’s hand in Avengers: Endgame, plummeting to her death and sacri- T icing herself so the Avengers could take possession of the Soul Stone and use it to defeat Thanos. It was the look in her eyes — full of love, regret and fear — that brought us to tears and solidi ied our respect for Scarlett Johansson, whose mas- terful turn as Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow, in a nine-year, seven- ilm run made us care about the former Russian spy and assassin who harboured deep, dark secrets. Those secrets intrigued us, and Johansson too — she longed to explore Romanoff’s tortured past. We’ll all get some answers next spring when Black Widow inally hits theatres. The long-awaited, JOHANSSON S TALK NG ABOUT ↑ Romanoff back to her homeland standalone Avengers ilm takes the upcoming ilm via Zoom in early Black Widow’s of Russia where she reunites with place just after the events of 2016’s June. As the COVID-19 pandemic Scarlett two other Black Widow agents — Johansson : Civil War, a ilm continues, the 35-year-old star is Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) and that ended with the Avengers quarantining with her iancé, SNL Melina Vostokoff () splintered and Romanoff on the run writer and “” co- — and aging hero Red Guardian after breaking the law by helping host , and her six-year-old (David Harbour). Romanoff is Captain America and Winter Soldier daughter, Rose, in their determined to make amends for escape capture. apartment. Dressed in a white her past misdeeds, and seeks “For the irst time in Natasha’s T-shirt, wearing glasses, her hair in revenge against those who’ve life she doesn’t sort of belong any- a ponytail, Johansson looks relaxed harmed her, especially the peo- where,” says the actor. “She’s in a and eager to share her thoughts ple who run the brutal Red Room transient time, she has no family or about Black Widow. program responsible for creating af iliation. It’s probably the irst time Directed by Australian ilmmaker Black Widow agents. in her life that things are so quiet.” (Lore), the pic sends “She is a character who has in- credible trauma and guilt and regret and a huge sense of loss within,” explains Johansson. “I think in this ilm you learn a lot of things about Natasha’s past, where she comes SHOW HER THE MONEY from, and you see the relation- When Scarlett Johansson made her debut ship she has with these characters as Natasha Romanoff in 2010’s Iron Man 2 is much more complicated than she had no idea that a decade later she any of the relationships that we’ve would hold the box-office record as the highest-grossing female star of all seen before, like with any of the time. Her films have earned $14.3-billion Avengers. dollars worldwide, which also makes her “This is deep, childhood, family the third-highest grossing actor behind stuff so you understand why she Pure gold: Scarlett Johansson Robert Downey Jr. And Samuel L. Jackson with fiancé Colin Jost at and, at age 35, Johansson has decades is the way she is, and why she acts the 2020 to add to that astronomical total. —R the way she does, and why she wears masks.”

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36 C NEPLEX MAGAZ NE FALL 2020 O-T TALKS English actor O-T Fagbenle, best known for playing Luke on the Toronto-shot series The Handmaid’s Tale, scored the role of Rick Mason in Black Widow. Mason is a “fixer” who many have theorized is really the film’s villain, Taskmaster. But, who knows, Marvel has purposely led us astray before. We’re not jumping to any conclusions, but we did manage to get Fagbenle on

the line from L.A. where he What surprised you most about told us, well, what he can. working with Scarlett Johansson? How personable she is. My So, who is Rick Mason? experience working with really JOHANSSON STARTED FILMING How do I describe Rick Mason? famous people is sometimes they Black Widow after making two I’m kind of like a private contractor can have quite a barrier up, and you of the most acclaimed films of who knew Natasha from her time understand it, it’s a self-defence her career — Marriage Story and as a spy, but like a guy who has mechanism against everyone Jojo Rabbit — which led to two these connections to the criminal wanting a piece of you. But she’s Oscar nominations in the same underworld so I can provide anything so personable and friendly and year. She says those two films she needs, you know, from a hideout welcoming and playful on set. It was made her emotionally “sinewy and to weaponry. Anything you could so lovely to see that someone who is strong,” helping prepare her for her possibly want, Mason can get. so renowned and also someone who deep dive into Natasha’s story. is so excellent at their craft could Acting as producer, it was also Of course, the rumour is that Mason still hold a sense of play and fun and

her job to find the right castmates. is really the villain Taskmaster. connection. SAAD) MINDY SKINNER, STYLIST ASSIRAN (GROOMER STACY EMILY BY PHOTO Black Widow is an unapologetic femi- What do you say to that? nist superhero pic, revolving around Well, I find it really interesting. You didn’t watch Endgame until you three women fighting for justice. I mean, definitely part of the were already shooting this film. Do However, as Johansson explains, it excitement of Marvel movies is you remember how you felt during was not a given that Oscar winner people guessing what things mean Black Widow’s ultimate scene? Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardner) and looking into the details of I mean, I’m always bowled over by and up-and-coming English star everything, but I’ve gotta say I’m how brave Marvel are in taking things Florence Pugh (Little Women) would really excited to be bringing Mason to a level which you don’t expect sign on. to the big screen [laughs]. and that was one of the things that “Those two actresses are both really kind of blew me away, and also beautiful in every way,” insists You mentioned in another interview it’s just a very emotional scene and Johansson. “You want to offer them that there is a “romantic frisson” brilliantly acted by Jeremy [Renner] something that is going to be artis- between Mason and Natasha. Tell and Scarlett. tically fulfilling for them, exciting, us more about that. take them to the next level and chal- I don’t want to say too much, but you Any chance your character will lenge them. definitely get a feeling that there is show up in future Marvel films? “Everyone thinks an actor would some kind of history between them Listen, the more we can do to just jump at an opportunity like which may or may not be completely ensure that end the better. this,” she continues, “but actors → platonic. —MARNI WEISZ

FALL 2020 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 37 ↑ → like Rachel, it’s like, why? What career she has, and what is ahead of From left, are you doing, what’s the heart of her. I feel fortunate to witness some Rachel Weisz, this? And she elevates the work. Her part of this journey and be part of Scarlett Johansson and participation brings it to the next the ride, just because there are so Florence Pugh in level. And Florence as well. She is many exciting things happening Black Widow so strong and unapologetic. She has for her and in a weird way, through raw talent and beauty and strength.” watching her, allows me to be self- Although she’s only 35, Johansson reflective about that time in my life.” MEET RED has been making movies for an GUARD AN astonishing 25 years. Beginning as Red Guardian, played by a in 1994’s North, she hit BLACK WIDOW W LL G VE US David Harbour, was created her stride early, giving nuanced and the rare opportunity to study a during the Cold War as the Soviets’ answer to mature performances as a teenager beloved ilm character knowing Captain America. Harbour in ilms like The Horse Whisperer, exactly how her life will play out. says his version of the Ghost World, Lost in Translation and Avengers: Ininity War and Endgame character is a father Girl With a Pearl Earring. are lurking on the horizon and we figure to Natasha, and a In many ways Florence Pugh is have seen all the pain and suffering supersoldier who’s seen better days, but who following the same path. She began that’ll soon be inflicted on Natasha. rallies to help his female acting as a teenager and has im- What a gift then to have the charac- compatriots. pressed with her own mature turns ter’s blank spaces illed in, allowing in ilms such as Lady Macbeth, us to appreciate her even more. Midsommar and Little Women. They Yet for all the new things we even share the same raspy voice, will learn about the character, “She is truly heroic to her core although Pugh’s comes courtesy Johansson says Black Widow is, in and that comes from a place of of a childhood illness that affected many ways, an open book. love, and you see her act out of love her trachea. “What I really take away from in this ilm. I think people will be Does Johansson see some of this experience is that Natasha most surprised that what you see is herself in Pugh? is actually very much the person what you get, which to me is always “She does remind me somewhat you think she is,” says Johansson. surprising with people.” of myself,” says Johansson. “More “That ultimate sacri ice she makes than anything I think it’s just the in Endgame comes from a very gen- ngrid Randoja is the deputy editor excitement knowing what a fun uine place. of Cineplex Magazine.

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Pitt Boards Train ’s follow-up to Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood is Bullet Train, based on Japanese author saka Kotaro’s mystery-thriller Maria Beetle. Pitt will play a hitman named Ladybug in this story about a group of killers with various motives and secrets who board a bullet train travelling from To yo to Morioka. Deadpool 2 director David Leitch helms the pic, which means we can expect an assortment of outlandishly entertaining action scenes.

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Billy Eichner will portray queer icon Paul Lynde in the bio-pic Man in the Box. Lynde is best known for his role as Uncle Arthur on TV’s Bewitched and his regular appearances on the game show Hollywood Squares, where he delivered zingers from his spot in the centre square. While not offi- cially out, Lynde’s campy persona marked him as queer and limited his career. Eichner sees some of himself in Lynde, and in a recent interview with Deadline said, “ want to do this…because gay actors are never, hardly ever, should say, allowed to play our own gay icons. Harvey Milk, Freddie Mercury, Elton John. Where are the gay actors?”

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Daniel Dae Kim, who made his mark on the TV shows Lost and Hawaii Five-0, is turning his attention to the big screen. First, his sci-fi thriller Stowaway, which co-stars Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette, is set for release next year. But he’s also planning to produce and star in the rom-com A Sweet Mess, based on the book by Jayci Lee. The story revolves around a reclusive cake maker who appears on a cooking show hosted by a jaded food critic played by Kim.

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When Disney’s Peter Pan & Wendy — the live-action version of its 1953 animated classic Peter Pan — resumes production next year after a coronavirus pause, HADD SHCOMES HOME is expected to join the cast as the villainous Captain Hook. David Lowery The comedy Homecoming Queen casts Tiffany Haddish as a woman (Pete’s Dragon) is directing young actors who thinks she’s descended from African royalty and heads to her Alexander Molony and Ever Anderson ancestral homeland only to discover she isn’t. The film is based on (Milla Jovovich’s daughter) as Peter and Haddish’s own life and her trip to Eritrea in 2018 to bury her father Wendy in the flick. By the way, Anderson who was born in the East African nation. Writer Raamla Mohamed will next be seen as the young version of (TV’s Scandal) pens the script. Natasha Romanoff in Black Widow.

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THIS TIMELY DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, HISTORIC MOMENT six decades in the life of the late John Lewis Alabama, in 1965, where he had his head At 23 years old, Lewis was the youngest — activist, politician and rabble-rouser for cracked by police who were trying to stop the speaker at the 1963 positive change. peaceful demonstration. March on Washington Using archival footage and interviews with Elected to the United States Congress in 1986, WALKING THE WALK Lewis done not that long before he died of Lewis served an astounding 17 terms, fighting He was arrested pancreatic cancer this past July, filmmaker for issues like gun control, immigration, voting more than 40 times while protesting Dawn Porter tells the story of the famed social rights and health-care reform right up until the social injustices activist starting from his childhood as the son end, even appearing at a Black Lives Matter FRESH FILM of 1940s Alabama sharecroppers. protest just weeks before his death. John Lewis: Lewis met Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957 The film also features input from Lewis’s Good Trouble and eventually became an important leader in recent political contemporaries, including earned a 96% fresh (positive) rating on the Civil Rights movement, famously marching Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi. RottenTomatoes.com

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BIO-PIC TESLA ETHAN HAWKE STARS IN THIS STYLISH DRAMA sometimes allies and sometimes foes. that’s not about the car company but the turn-of-the- Eve Hewson, herself the daughter of a famous century European inventor who inspired its name. figure (’s is her dad), plays Anne Morgan, Nikola Tesla spent much of his life experimenting the daughter of iconic financier J.P. Morgan. Anne is with and advocating for the alternating current (AC) a potential love interest for Tesla, but also our story’s system of power transmission, brushing up against his- anachronistic narrator who, dressed in her period torical figures like Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) garb, uses modern methods like Google searches to and George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan) who were explain our protagonist’s place in history.

HORROR ANTEBELLUM Some films arrive just when needed, as is the case with Antebellum. The writing-directing team of Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz confronts systemic racism in America with this time-travelling horror that casts Janelle Monáe as doctor and author Veronica Henley, who’s made a splash with her best-selling book Shedding the Coping Persona. Her success makes her a target for a group of white supremacists, who are somehow able to transport her to a new and terrifying Antebellum star reality — a slave plantation in the American South. Co-starring Janelle Monáe Marque Richardson, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, , Eric Lange and .

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Where’s that from? A great line of dialogue takes on a life of its own. You probably know a ton of famous movie quotes and can even remember who said them. But do you remember which movies they came from? Are you sure? Find out below.

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From left, Ed Mironiuk’s takes on characters from Spaceballs, Eraserhead and A Clockwork Orange

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After years spent working as a successful deliriously happy anthropomorphic teeth illustrator/animator, including projects for to deliriously happy movie characters, MTV and , Ed Mironiuk even when those characters aren’t had a hankering to create tangible art. known for being happy on screen. “Felting allowed me to change the way “My main goal is to make something that thought, considering shapes in 3D rather is lighthearted and make the viewer smile,” than trying to represent them in 2D,” says he says. “Using subjects that sometimes the New York artist. aren’t associated with happiness just His series of “Felt Fiend Sculptures” makes them goofier and more fun.” —MW runs the gamut from deliriously happy anthropomorphic ice-cream sundaes to TO SEE MORE GO TO EDMIRONIUK.COM

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