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Jul-Aug 2018 GRAND MAGAZINE JULY/AUGUST 2018 DESTINATION WEDDING • PATRICK • THE MEG • BEIRUT • SKYSCRAPER GOGRAND #alwaysentertaining SOCIALISE TALK MOVIES, WIN PRIZES @GCLEBANON CL BOOK NEVER MISS A MOVIE WITH E/TICKET, E/KIOSK AND THE GC MOBILE APP. EXPERIENCE FIRSTWORD FEATURING DOLBY ATMOS ISSUE 118 Summer lovin’... had me a blast! You asked for a more portable magazine, and we delivered. We’re packing more awesome content than ever in our compact new issue, and we kick off with happenings at this year’s Cannes Film Festival where the SR&Co team picked up some amazing new movies for LOCATIONS your viewing pleasure and Grand Cinemas contest winners walked the star-studded red carpet. Also a must-read is our interview with LEBANON KUWAIT Nadine Labaki on Capharnaum, winner of the jury prize. GRAND CINEMAS GRAND AL HAMRA ABC VERDUN LUXURY CENTER In regional news, GC celebrates the launch of our exciting new 01 795 697 965 222 70 334 11 SCREENS MX4D ATMOS multiplex at Bahrain’s The Walk, Riffa—read about it in GC DIARY. And MX4D featuring on Lebanese soil, we go BEHIND THE SCENES of Nadim Mehanna’s DOLBY ATMOS GRAND GATE MALL Meenak Enta to meet the stars. As summer heats up, so does the 300 CLUB SEATS 965 220 56 464 GRAND CLASS romance; don’t miss our SUMMER BASH, featuring Keanu Reeves and GRAND CINEMAS JORDAN Winona Ryder in Destination Wedding and the hilarious pug-centric ABC ACHRAFIEH GRAND CINEMAS 01 209 109 CITY MALL Patrick. Adrenaline junkies must take a gander at the IMPOSSIBLE 70 415 200 962 65 813 461 ACTION line-up, including Jason Statham’s The Meg, Tom Cruise’s IMAX GRAND CINEMAS Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Dwayne Johnson’s Skyscraper. ABC DBAYEH 04 444 650 BAHRAIN This issue also raises the stakes in the thriller genre: we talk GRAND CLASS GRAND CINEMAS to Mad Men’s Jon Hamm about his suspenseful new feature with THE WALK RIFFA GRAND GALAXY 973 1766 3729 Rosamund Pike, Beirut, and reveal the shocking TRUE CRIME story CINEMAS, GRAND CLASS CHIYAH behind Billionaire Boys Club. Looking to ramp up the fear factor? 01 544 051 Check out HORROR FANATIC, and the chilling Boarding School. GRAND LAS Check back next issue for exciting news about the launch of SALINAS, ENFEH, NORTH LEBANON Grand Cinemas’ value-packed loyalty program, G-POINTS. 06 540 970 See you at the movies! GRAND SAIDA, THE SPOT 07 723 026 ANITA NASR EDITOR grandcinemasme.com 3 GOTEAM #dropusamail 24 PUBLISHING DIRECTORS CARLY RAMIA HABIS 36 [email protected] JEAN RAMIA [email protected] 34 EDITOR ANITA NASR [email protected] FOR YOUR MARKETING INQUIRIES 50 62 ISAAC FAHED [email protected] RALPH SEMAAN GRANDMAGAZINE [email protected] FOR YOUR JUL/AUG 2018 ADVERTISING INQUIRIES MPS T: 01 253 577 THE SCENE TOP 25 RIMA KAI 06 Movie news you need to know 44 Which actors broke the BO? [email protected] GEORGE RAHI GC DIARY HORROR FANATIC [email protected] 12 Hot happenings at Grand 46 Snuggle up for the chillers. 5 THINGS YOU DIDN’T TRUE CRIME PUBLISHER KNOW ABOUT... 24 48 Discover the treachery of the SELIM RAMIA & CO Woman Walks Ahead Billionaire Boys Club. HABER BLDG, M LEVEL P.O. BOX 146 BLOCKBUSTER IMPOSSIBLE ACTION HAZMIEH, BEIRUT T: 05 457 146 26 PREVIEW 50 The Meg, Mission: Impossible 6, F: 05 457 221 We look ahead at the highlights. and more hit the pedal. www.srndco.com BEHIND THE SCENES CINEMA GUIDE 32 Mehanna’s Meenak Enta 58 The movies now playing and coming soon to a GC near you. INTERVIEW 34 We have a serious chat with the FAMILY PIT STOP suave Jon Hamm about Beirut. 62 Plan your clan’s adventures. PRINTED BY SUMMER BASH HOME GUIDE BYBLOS PRINTING SAL 36 Don’t miss hot picks Patrick 64 Books, plus the crossword that T: 01 697 111 and Destination Wedding. tests your movie knowledge [email protected] 4 GRAND CINEMAS JULY/AUGUST 2018 MIA AND THE WHITE LION NATURE’S UNTAMED BEAUTY UP CLOSE In a movie landscape dominated by CGI, it’s a thrill to see one-on- one interaction with the wild—the real wild. In Mia and the White Lion, we’re promised a thrilling adventure when a young girl from London moves with her parents to Africa where she befriends a lion cub. As they both mature into adulthood, their friendship will be tested. Check out the trailer for the some captivating imagery. IN CINEMAS DECEMBER MIA AND THE WHITE LION ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD TARANTINO TEASES DICAPRIO/PITT PIC SCENE SUSPIRIAI Talk about big guns. Who better than Quentin Tarantino to bring together two of cinema’s big- gest stars for the first time? In his first movie since he picked FIRST up the Oscar for The Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio is joined by Brad Pitt, whose last collabora- LOOK tion with Tarantino yielded 2009’s Inglourious Basterds. The thriller follows a TV actor and his stunt RECENT REVEALS STIRRING double as they set out to make UP BUZZ ON THE WWW a name for themselves in the film industry during the Charles Manson murders in Los Angeles. SUSPIRIA IN CINEMAS AUGUST 2019 ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD A TERRIFYING RETURN LE GRAND BAINI Oscar-nominated director Luca WELCOME TO Guadagnino (Call Me By Your MARWEN Name) isn’t holding back in his ing paths of a young dancer and a LE GRAND BAIN CARELL TRANSFORMS remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 grieving psychotherapist at a world- STELLAR LINE-UP Robert Zemeckis, the director who horror movie classic, Suspiria—a renowned dance company, where Part of the official selection at the brought us Forrest Gump and Back teaser screening at the recent the price for perfection is high. Cannes Film Festival this year, Le to the Future, invites us to “a most CinemaCon had eager attendees IN CINEMAS NOVEMBER Grand Bain is a burlesque, feel- unexpected place” in an intriguing gasping, so hold onto your seats. good comedy about an unlikely new film. Steve Carell’s doll figure Starring Dakota Johnson (Fifty group of 40-something men who features in our first look at the Shades of Grey) and “They went for it and try to navigate their mid-life crises comedy drama, which follows a the brilliant Tilda the #CinemaCon by forming a synchronised swim- victim of a brutal attack who finds Swinton (The audience is gasping. ming team. The stellar cast includes a unique and beautiful therapeutic Grand Budapest Just brutal.” Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet outlet to help him through his Hotel), the story FANDANGO REPORTER UPON and Benoît Poelvoorde. recovery process. follows the collid- PREVIEWING FOOTAGE AT CINEMACON IN CINEMAS OCTOBER IN CINEMAS JANUARY 2019 WELCOME TO MARWEN 6 GRAND CINEMAS JULY/AUGUST 2018 grandcinemasme.com 7 SCENEthe INTERVIEW NADINE LABAKI talks upcoming Capharnaüm, the drama that earned her a 15-minute standing ovation Sokhn Photos: Fares at the Cannes Film Festval What were the themes that you chose to address in Capharnaüm? NL: I always feel the need to question the pre-established system and its contradictions through my films, even to imagine alternative systems. At ß Nadine Labaki accepts the Jury Prize for Capharnaüm at the start of Capharnaüm, the themes the Cannes Film Festival, joined were: illegal immigrants, mistreated by her star, Zain Al Rafeea. children, immigrant workers, the notion of borders and their absurdity, through my films, Capharnaüm in the fact that we need a piece of “I am profoundly particular, I portray a disturbing paper to prove our existence, which idealistic in as much and raw reality, I am profoundly could be invalid if necessary, racism, as I believe in the idealistic in as much as I believe in fear of the other, indifference to the power of cinema.” the power of cinema. I’m convinced Convention of Children’s Rights. that films can, if not change things, as if blaming them for bringing him at least help to open up a debate, or You chose however to centre the film into a world that deprived him of all make people think. on the theme of childhood. his rights. From there, the idea for The idea of building the film around Capharnaüm started to grow. This film marks a shift away from the question of mistreated childhood your previous work, where a certain ... followed a heartrending moment So what is the subject of your film? optimism prevailed. that happened right around the Capharnaüm recounts the journey Zain succeeds in obtaining his time I was working on these ideas. of 12-year-old Zain, who decides to documents by the end of the film, Coming home from a party at around sue his parents for having brought Rahil restablishes contact with 1am, I stopped at a traffic light him into this world when they can’t her son… For the two of them, in and saw, just below my window, a raise him properly, even if only to real life as well, we’ve managed to child half-asleep in the arms of his give him love. legalise their situation in Lebanon. mother, who was sitting on the tar- For once, I didn’t want the happy mac, begging. What hit me hardest What “lever for action” does ending to be confined to the screen was the fact that this two-year-old Capharnaüm, and your cinema and I hope it will happen in real wasn’t crying; he seemed to want overall, represent? life through the debate the film can nothing more than to sleep.
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