MAY 2014 | VOLUME 15 | NUMBER 5 Inside AARON TAYLOR- JOHNSON ROSE BYRNE TIME TO FIGHT X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTUREPLUS, ELLEN PAST PAGE TALKS KITTY PRYDE PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 41619533 SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW: 10 MOVIES YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS, PAGE 32 CONTENTS MAY 2014 | VOL 15 | Nº5 COVER STORY 40 X-MEN UNITE! A time-travel premise means X-Men fans get a double dose of their favourite mutants when original and prequel casts unite for X-Men: Days of Future Past. We take a look at the making of the film and talk to Ellen Page about the crucial role Kitty Pryde plays in the action BY COLIN COVERT AND INGRID RANDOJA REGULARS 4 EDITOR’S NOTE 6 SNAPS 8 IN BRIEF 12 SPOTLIGHT 14 ALL DRESSED UP 16 IN THEATRES 44 CASTING CALL 46 RETURN ENGAGEMENT 48 AT HOME 50 FINALLY… X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer (top) with FEATURES Ellen Page and Hugh Jackman 12 COLOSSUS ROLE 24 MONSTER MOVIE 28 BYRNE TREATMENT 32 SUMMER Canadian Daniel Cudmore Aaron Taylor-Johnson says Rose Byrne talks about MOVIE PREVIEW on returning to the part that Godzilla, his big-budget playing a misbehaving wife The Top-10 comedies, dramas gave him his really big break, monster pic, offers kick-ass and mother in the raunchy and thrillers that’ll heat up movie X-Men’s Colossus action and intimate drama comedy Neighbors theatres in June, July and August BY MARNI WEISZ BY BOB STRAUSS BY JIM SLOTEK BY INGRID RANDOJA MAY 2014 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | 3 EDITOR’S NOTE PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR EDITOR MARNI WEISZ DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ART DIRECTOR TREVOR STEWART ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR STEVIE SHIPMAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION SHEILA GREGORY CONTRIBUTORS LEO ALEFOUNDER, COLIN COVERT, JIM SLOTEK, BOB STRAUSS ADVERTISING SALES FOR CINEPLEX MAGAZINE AND LE MAGAZINE CINEPLEX IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. 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PHOTO BY BEN MCMILLAN/IMAGE.NET 6 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | MAY 2014 IN BRIEF Emma Watson On PLAYING Home DOCTOR Turf ndrew Garfield’s my older brother in a way, and through New York City, but REGRESSION older brother must I think that Peter feels in the he can save lives because he’s be feeling pretty shadow of Spider-Man.” a doctor. So I’m screwed. I’m Emma Watson and good about now. When Garfield’s playing screwed from the get-go. How Ethan Hawke are in Toronto Garfield, a.k.a Spider-Man the awkward schoolboy am I going to top that?” to shoot the thriller in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Parker, he draws on his own It’s not the first time Regression this month. based the web-slinging part experiences. “Obviously I’m Garfield’s used his sibling There’s little information of his character on his older easier to access because I’m rivalry as inspiration. In about the film’s plot, brother, Ben. very vulnerable and I’m stupid 2007 he told the Telegraph but early reports say it “To me, [the character’s] and I make mistakes and I fail newspaper, “My brother is concerns a father charged become two people. Spider- all the time.” super-intelligent and a pretty with abusing his daughter. Man being the older brother, But when he’s playing Parker’s sorted guy…. I suppose I The twist is that dad has and Peter Parker being the heroic alter ego, it’s his brother was trying to get out of his no recollection of the younger brother,” Garfield — a doctor — that he channels. shadow a little bit. I’m so disturbing events. revealed during a panel at “My older brother is perfect, proud of my brother, he’s a Regression is being Comic-Con. “I can identify and it irritates the hell out of doctor now and I think he’s directed by Alejandro with Peter Parker because I’m me,” said Garfield. “I wouldn’t doing the most noble thing Amenábar (The Others) a younger brother, and I kind say he was superhuman, he one can do.