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ALMOST FINISHED WITH ALBUM. THINK ITS GOOD, & (as we all know) I’M NOT A BIG CHER FAN “This place — The singer, throwing shade at herself is way too serious.” —Black Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore), describing the new maximum-security prison, on Orange Is the New Black “People say they get butterflies, butbut…you…yougi giveve me, like, eagles.” —Garrett Yrigoyen, professing his love to Becca Kufrin,n on The Bachelorette

“It’s entirely possible to be relaxed and extremely uneasy at the same time.” —Benji (Simon Pegg), trying to psych himself up for an op, in Mission: Impossible—Fallout “I want you to take a deep, white breath, okay?” —Desna (Niecy Nash), attempting to calm down Polly (Carr iie PPreston),r on Claws “It’s Tr ump’s K/GETTY IMAGES; ESTEN AND BRITTON: MARK LEVINE/CMT worstt nightmare: C; MOORE: JOJO WHILDEN/NETFLIX; PEGG: DAVID JAMES/ Theycanceled Rosseanne and replaaced it with ashhow about an illlegal alien.” —Seth Meyers, commmenting on the ALF rebboooot, on LLate Night

“Isthisreal?” —Deacon (Charles Esten), during a flashback to his “Youbet your sweet wedding night, on Nashville assthisisreal, honey. And I’ve got the

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The six-time Oscar nominee, 71, talks to EW’s Seija Rankin about the role that just might earn her a seventh shot at gold.

How do you choose roles at this stage in your career?

I want a role that really puts me through my paces, but mostly is worth leaving home for.

What was your first impression of your character, Joan?

[In the book] I did think [Joan’s husband] Joe was pretty much an a--hole, and that [in turn] makes Joan less interesting to me. It’s not fun as an THE WIFE actor to play somebody that doesn’t have depth or Chronic infidelity, long-held secrets, and a Nobel humanity to them.

Prize are just the tip of one marriage’s iceberg in this BRIGITTE LACOMBE haunting character study, based on Meg Wolitzer’s And what did you 2003 novel. Glenn Close, playing opposite Jonathan think of her in the end? Pryce, soars higher than ever in a powerful role I always have to that’s all but destined for Oscar recognition. (Aug. 17) love my characters!

6 EW.COM FALL MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 INSECURE Issa Rae’s Emmy-nominated comedy returns for an engrossing and fun third season that finds the lives of Issa (the character), Molly So why hasn’t Joan left (Yvonne Orji), and Daniel (Y’lan Noel) in total Joe (Jonathan Pryce)? flux. Our only non-spoiler warning: Be prepared for “party Lyft!” to become your new It’s very complex. It’s favorite catchphrase. (HBO, Aug. 12) not one thing, and I think that’s what makes the movie so interesting. It’s basically a love story.

How do you feel about the early positive reactions to the film?

It’s a shock and still so gratifying, because, for me, it was a very interior head trip. You’re so focused. I wasn’t thinking, “Oh, will people like it?” It seemed like something that had been created very privately, and all of a sudden it’s presented very publicly.

What was the most challenging part NO LAWRENCE? NO PROBLEM about making this How season 3 deftly handles a big breakup movie in particular?

The fight scene Even the best twentysomething emotional realism. After sayings Ever-present sorta love interest was one of the most sitcoms struggle when it comes to farewell last year, Issa’s ex-boyfriend Daniel (Noel) reveals new depths. breakups. On Friends and New Lawrence (Jay Ellis) is gone, possi- Insecure’s still a party, but it’s dificult things that Girl, exes hung out together all the bly for good. His absence reflects boldly embracing change, letting I’ve had to film. time, awaiting series finale recon- a season of evolution. Characters Issa start a new chapter in her life. The moment when ciliations. Credit Insecure for more make transformative decisions. —Darren Franich [Pryce] said, “Do

: MERIE WALLACE/HBO; W. ELLIS: JUSTINA MINTZ/HBO you love me?” I thought, “Oh my God.” Even while I INSECURE was acting it, I didn’t know what to say.

What was the first scene you filmed with Jonathan? ARIVEROFSTARS by Vanessa Hua Having sex. The most eye-opening literary adventure of Oh! Did you two the year, Hua’s stirring debut centers on know each other well? a Chinese immigrant who journeys to San Fran-

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CRAZY RICH ASIANS

Director Jon M. Chu’s big-screen adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s decadent 2013 best-seller—about an NYU professor (Constance Wu) who travels with her boyfriend (Henry Golding) to his home country, only to discover he’s practically royalty—isn’t just hilarious and heartfelt; as the first studio film in 25 years to star Asian-American leads, it’s historic. Besides, it’s more than time for Wu to claim her rom-com leading lady crown. (Aug. 15)

CRAZY CONNECTIONS Meet the key players blinging it on in Singapore. BY SHIRLEY LI

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The whip-smart econo s Kerry Chu As one of Singapore’s Shang Nick’s intimidating mother isn’t professor still has lots to Kheng (and Asia’s) most Su Yi a villain—not to Yeoh, anyway. “She learn about Asian tradit . ) desirable bachelors, (Lisa Luu)) would sacrifice her life for Nick,” says “Rachel is not accusto d Nick hopes his fami- Yeoh. “And she does, in many ways.” to the cultural things th ly’s wealth won’t separate Asians and As n- scare Rachel away. Americans,” Wu says. “I “He genuinely wants

think it’s beautiful to sh m to open this world to Eleanor

an Asian-American im mo her,” says Golding. Young n ndmother grant going back to Asia (Miichelle and finding things that do gra Yeoh)) overlap and connect us all.” mom

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Colilin Ast ik Lin Khooo Leeong afina) (Chhris (GGemma Panng) CChan) (16) BROS. WONG/WARNER BUCKO/RUSSEL : SANJA cousin THE BFF

The gregarious Peik Lin may be Rachel’s woman on the Eddie wealthy inside (and unoficial Chen THE FAMILY JEWEL stylist), but even she’s daz- (Ronnny Chienng) zled by the Young family’s Cousin Astrid—Singapore’s power. “Peik Lin is not a ste- It Girl—secretly wishes for a reotype at all,” says Awkwa- quieter life. “Everyone thinks she fina. “She’s really her own, has the perfect existence,” Chan and even in the culture of the explains, “but she struggles rich, she’s this anomaly.” with her family’s expectations.”

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Drnaso’s Great American Novel in graphic form has become red hot since being long-listed in July for the Man Booker Prize—a first for its genre. It couldn’t be more deserved: Through probing images, the book unfurls a grand, prescient military conspiracy while, along the way, ofering a bleak (and scathingly funny) depiction of the digital age.

Sabrina marks a major Art Spiegelman’s graphic memoirs like moment on the graphic Maus—a serial about 2003’s Persepolis novel’s long road to a Holocaust survivor, and 2006’s Fun Home— respect. The form grew which went on to win oft-cited among 100-WORD out of ’80s comics, par- the Pulitzer—and this century’s best HISTORY ticularly by Frank Miller Alan Moore and David books—for continuing LESSON and Will Eisner, but was Lloyd’s V for Vendetta to push skeptics into initially perceived as helped introduce liter- engaging with this fantastical fluf. As the ary types to the genre’s worthy, underestimated decade progressed, potential. Credit recent art. —David Canfield

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person? Duncan (Chris SHAMELESS O’Dowd) has spent a decade obsessing over washed-up

American musician Tucker VOLKOV; COFFEE: SHUTTERSTOCK/VALENTYN : CLIFF LIPSON/SHOWTIME; CIGARETT Crowe (Ethan Hawke), and Annie (Rose Byrne) has wasted a decade in a dead- end relationship with Duncan. An email exchange JULIET, NAKED between Annie and Tucker blossoms into a transatlantic

friendship in the latest : ATTRACTIONS BAILEY/LIONSGATE/ROADSIDE ALEX sweet and salty Nick Hornby adaptation. (Aug. 17)

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AGATHA CHRISTIE’S ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE The wealthy adoptive mother of a bevy of children is found bludgeoned to death, and all of the suspects are in the mansion. Could it be the maid? The professor? The seductress? The former military man? What starts as a setup that could be a game of Clue becomes so much twistier and deeply unnerving TO ALL THE BOYS in Amazon’s three-episode limited series, the first of a trio of Agatha Christie adaptations I’VE LOVED BEFORE custom-built to captivate modern mystery fans. (Aug. 10)

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YOU’RE AMONG FAMILY DYNAMICS AN UNEXPECTED HEAVY DRINKING THE UPPER CLASS ARE...COMPLICATED GUEST ARRIVES Did a stressed-out Like any Agatha Five adopted chil- If it’s not the murder suspect If Netflix proved its adult rom-com game Christie mystery dren, a prickly world’s most just pour another worth its arsenic, son-in-law, and a famous detective martini? Is the with Set It Up, the network will earn teen Ordeal takes place social-climbing unannounced crystal whiskey street cred from this sweet adaptation of at a stately manor second wife? Keep at the door, it’s decanter nigh on Jenny Han’s 2014 YA novel about a high occupied by a rich an eye on anyone probably someone empty? You’d bet- school girl (the magnetic Lana Condor) family with their who marries a who holds a ter believe it—this whose therapeutic love letters accidentally plump share of younger partner of crucial piece of is Agatha Christie, get mailed to her five biggest crushes— secrets. dubious morals. information. after all. hormones, heart doodles, and all. (Aug. 17)

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© 2018 Novartis 5/18 US-DTM-18-E-0924 NEWS STORY Who Said It Best: The Stars of Fall TV Speak The Television Critics Association hosted talent from this season’s most anticipated new and returning series

Over 15 days in Beverly Hills, the semiannual Televi- I guess I didn’t really think of it Iamsogratefultoyou,the I definitely thought I would sion Critics Association press as small screen/big screen. I don’t critics, for supporting my show win because I was the better tour featured panels from know.Mytelevisionisverybig.” the way BET did not. My only candidate. I got hosed by more than 100 shows and —JULIA ROBERTS on moving regret is that I wasn’t on TV as the Electoral College.” celebrated the 34th TCA between film and TV, including long as Omarosa was in the —LUKE PERRY, joking about Awards, which honored series for her upcoming Amazon Prime White House.” losing the mayoral race on The like The Americans, The Good series Homecoming —ROBIN THEDE, during her open- CW’s Riverdale ing monologue as host of the Place, and The Assassination TCA Awards, on the cancellation of Gianni Versace: American of her late-night series The Run- The night that Trump pulled it To be able to do character Crime Story. Here’s some of down With Robin Thede of...those of us in the comedy work and explore human what the stars had to say. business went, ‘Shoot!’ Because sexuality as a middle-aged now we don’t have all that pant- woman with not a kind of body suit stuf and the jokes that she Therewasnowaywe that Hollywood is used to, would find funny. We want both were going to be outbid for I thought, was a really interest- I could say I’m at a loss for sides to think it’s funny.” the jockstrap.” ing conversation to have.” words. But I’m not!” —TIM ALLEN, lamenting the loss —JOHN OLIVER on purchasing —PATRICIA ARQUETTE on her role —RITA MORENO, accepting her of Hillary Clinton-based comedy Russell Crowe’s jockstrap from as a prison employee in Show- TCA Career Achievement honor for his revived-by-Fox sitcom Cinderella Man at an auction for time’s Escape at Dannemora Last Man Standing a bit on HBO’s Last Week Tonight

Well, we’re older by alot.” Shut up, old man.” —CANDICE BERGEN onwaysin I’m goinng to do this until he —RITA MORENO, lovingly, to which the revival of CBS’ Murphy resigns. He is a crazy person.” Norman Lear, producer of Brown difers from thhe original — TOM ARNOLD, discussing his Netflix’s OneDayataTime new Viceland series, The Hunt forfth the Tr mp Tapess Television IMAGES BROWN/GETTY M. FREDERICK OTHERS: ALL HBO/FILMMAGIC; OLIVER: Critics Association press-tour attendees: Robin Thede hosts the awards; Julia Roberts; John Oliver;Rita Moreno; Tim Allen (4)

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Charlotte Rae as Mrs. Garrett in 1981; Kim Fields, Nancy McKeon, Rae, and Lisa Whelchel on The Facts of Life

(where she was told to drop her last name). While she earned Tony nominations (1965’s Pickwick and 1968’s Morning, Noon and Night) and an Emmy nom (1975’s Queen of the Star- dust Ballroom), her career really took off in 1978 when she was cast on Diff’rent Strokes. Rae played the kooky but kind house- keeper Edna Garrett, unmissable thanks to that mound of bright orange hair, and when she became a popular breakout character on Diff’rent Strokes, Rae herself proposed the spin-off. That spin-off became The Facts of Life, a sitcom about a girls’ boarding school. “[I]t’s with a heavy heart & lots of tears 1926–2018 (but a smile as i think of her) that I now move through the world without this incredible force of a woman being in it,” Mindy Cohn, who played Natalie on Facts of Life, Insta- Remembering grammed on Aug. 5. “she was my champion, a teacher, a proud example of the tenacity and perseverance needed to live an actor’s life.” CharlotteRae Rae was nominated for an Emmy for her The character actress’ TV career spanned six decades, but to millions of work on Facts but left the show in 1986 for The Facts of Life fans, she’ll always be Mrs. Garrett. BY JESSICA SHAW health reasons. She went on to guest-star on TV shows like Sisters, ER,andPretty Little Liars. Her final role was playing Kevin Kline’s CHARLOTTE RAE KNEW SHE’D FOREVER BE mom in the 2015 film Ricki and the Flash.Rae seen as America’s housemother. Other shared many of her experiences—including actors might wince at being so closely associ- 44 years of sobriety and discovering that her ated with a role they’d walked away from husband, John Strauss, was bisexual—in her almost a decade earlier, but the former star 2015 memoir, The Facts of My Life. of The Facts of Life—who died at age 92 in her Rae revealed her bone-cancer diagnosis — Los Angeles home on Aug. 5 after battling which came almost seven years after her battle (2) bone cancer—embraced fans who would with pancreatic cancer—in a 2017 statement: always identify her as the wise Mrs. Garrett. “At 91, every day is a birthday. I want to tell “I still meet people who just want me to put everybody to celebrate every day, to savor the /GETTY IMAGES /GETTY my arms around them and give them a hug,” day and be good to yourself, love yourself, and Rae told EW in 1995. “I always oblige.” then you can be good to others.” Born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky in Milwau-

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PREVIEW Ally (Lady Gaga) and Jackson (Bradley Cooper) perform together for the first time PREVIEW songwriter Ally, played by pop icon Lady Gaga, 32. As Jackson falls deeper into addiction, Ally blazes a path toward super- stardom. Cooper, who also co-wrote the script with Eric Roth and Will Fetters, has reshaped the story into an exhilarating, emotional rock epic with a stirring original score, a career-best performance from the actor, and—yes—a career-redefining Bradley Cooper was warned. Friends role for Gaga, who won an acting Golden discouraged the American Sniper star from Globe for her performance on American choosing A Star Is Born as his directo- Horror Story: Hotel in 2016. The film, rial debut. Aside from it being one of a which opens Oct. 5, has already generated handful of takes on the tragic romance awards talk for its two leads, and the pair’s (see sidebar on page 25), the project had electricity on and off screen is undeniable. stalled for years in Hollywood. “I had a lot EW sat down with Cooper and Gaga of people tell me, ‘Please don’t do this’— to talk about rebooting this classic tale, people I respect and who care about me,” their friendship, and the day Barbra says Cooper, 43, on a hot afternoon in the Streisand came to set. Hollywood Hills. “I just knew this could be the end of everything if it doesn’t work. It’s like, ‘Who’s this guy making the fourth [version] of this movie? Shut up already.’ But I still could not deny what I felt deep Did you know each other before you down, and that’s why it was this movie. started working on A Star Is Born? No. We had a passing- It sort of ignited something in me.” by a couple years earlier at Saturday Night Live. Cooper’s Born charts the tumultuous We laugh about it when we relationship between alcoholic rock star see pictures of each other where we’re, like, Jackson Maine and burgeoning singer- two feet from each other but not talking. It’s just so funny how life works. It’s like, “So in five years you guys will be Cooper gives direction to Dave Chappelle, who plays Jackson’s pal Noodles (PREVIOUS SPREAD AND THIS SPREAD inseparably close.”

Gaga, did you have to audition to play Ally? I did. I tested for the ﬁlm. We shot 10 pages in one day at her house. We were moving like lightning ) CLAY ENOS/WARNER BROS. (3) and she completely gave herself to the process. And not everybody can do that—10 pages in eight hours. We sat down at the piano at my house and I heard him sing, and I remember I stopped playing. I was like, “Oh my gosh, 22 EW.COM Jackson plays a song for a newly made-over Ally

Bradley, you can sing.” And then we kept together. And we shook hands on it, and me and one of them is a musician. I loved going. Before we knew it, we were harmo- then it was just about “Okay, here we go,” to sing privately. I thought, “One day I nizing. And he filmed us doing it. We have a and started a long journey. She knows could maybe pull that off.” It really was tape of the first time we ever sang together. everything about me—everything. There is the confidence she had in me that I would It’s on my phone. When I look at not one thing she doesn’t know, and I just find it. it now I’m like, “Oh my God. How could she believe the same for me. say yes? I’m not that good.” Bradley, where did Jackson’s voice come Gaga, did you put Bradley through rock- from? It’s a raspy almost-growl. Did you have immediate chemistry? star boot camp in order for him to play I knew I wanted to lower my From the moment [we met]. Jackson? speaking voice an octave. So I hired [dialect It’s one of those things. And I think I wouldn’t say that I put him coach] Tim Monich early on—I mean, like, also we’re both from the East Coast. through it—I would say that he did the a year before we shot the movie. He moved We both have an Italian upbring- work. He was in the studio with us all the to L.A. and we worked five days a week, four ing. Our families are very similar. time and without me a lot of times. [Born’s hours a day on exercises and lowering my Before I knew it, I was making him music collaborators include producer Mark voice. It was brutal, and it took months and spaghetti and meatballs. It felt right. I was Ronson, singer Jason Isbell, and Willie Nelson’s months and months. The person that I used really kind of willing to do anything to show son Lukas.] What I wanted for him more was Sam Elliott [who plays Jackson’s the studio and to show him that I had what than anything was for him to discover that brother, Bobby] because I didn’t want [Jack- it took to play this role. he already was a musician and that it just son] to be only a country musician and I She didn’t have to show me. We had to come out of him. didn’t want him to have an accent. Sam made this sort of decision that first time at I grew up loving music. I also grew up in California and his mother is from her house that we wanted to do the movie always felt like I had, like, six characters in Texas, so it’s kind of this great hybrid voice. Ally gets her chance to shine while performing with Jackson

While Bradley had to summon his rock going to do this?” I was like, “Oh, don’t four minutes of his set. I sang, played the swagger, Gaga, you had to strip all worry about it. Ally is going to play Coach- guitar solo, and then I said, “Ladies and that away to perform as someone not ella.” When I actually look back at gentlemen, Kris Kristofferson.” used to the spotlight. How did you Coachella, it’s more Ally to me. begin to play that? The truth is, we made this movie Did he and his A Star Is Born costar First of all, it was a makeup wipe for a very small budget considering what it Barbra Streisand ever come to the set? handed to me by Bradley, to take all the was, and her doing that allowed us to have the He came the day that we shot at makeup off my face. So we did that. To dye week in between Coachella. [The grounds] the Chateau Marmont and he stayed for my hair back to my original color, which is were still up so we had the run of the entire five hours with his wife. this sort of mousy brown that Ally has in place, all the stages for five days. It was the I just burst into tears when I saw the film. To be honest, I really felt afraid to first stuff we shot. That was amazing because him. Barbra came to the set and she take the stage with Jackson Maine because that was the first time I sang on stage with watched some of the film. I was also going on with Bradley Cooper. At her. I couldn’t believe how easy it was. She gave us a blessing. Every- the time, I was always very aware that I was It was so easy. And it was live. I was body was so excited she was there. We just in the midst of a tremendously talented so excited that he wanted to do all of the looked at each other and were like, “Wow. human being. music live and record our voices live. It’s How are we here right now?” my least favorite thing when I’m watching a You all shot at actual festivals like movie that has music in it when someone There’s a truly stunning moment with NEAL PRESTON NEAL Glastonbury, Stagecoach, and Coach- starts to sing and they’re lip-synching. Ally singing a beautiful ballad at ella. Gaga, you headlined Coachella Stagecoach was shot in eight the Shrine in Los Angeles. Tell me a

while simultaneously filming A minutes between Jamey Johnson and Willie little about shooting that. BROS. /WARNER Star Is Born. Nelson, and Glastonbury was f---ing insane. My very, very, very dear friend Sonja She shot, headlined, and then shot. That was in front of 80,000 people. Kris died of cancer that day. We were supposed Bradley was like, “How are you Kristoﬀerson was kind enough to give us to shoot in, like, 30 minutes, and I left the PREVIEW

Bradley Cooper’s bold reinvention of A Star Is Born simultaneously pays homage to and reinvents this classic Hollywood tale BY MAUREEN LEE LENKER

1937 ( From top ) Jackson and Ally on tour; Jackson spars with his older brother, Bobby (Sam Elliott), as Ally watches CAST Janet Gaynor, Fredric March

ITS LEGACY The urtext—a meta, incisive occur especially early in life, if they’re not look at show business, rife dealt with and aided, will have ramiﬁcations with inside jokes—laid the that go on and on and on and on and on. blueprint for this ageless story of a fading star and the young talent he discovers. Ally has a speech where she talks about how people in the industry have pushed her to get a nose job. Gaga, have you ever faced that kind of scrutiny and judgment in your career? Oh, yeah. I mean, when I wrote my set because her husband called me and I earliest hits, people were trying to take my could hear her in the background and I just songs and give them to other people. I was, 1954 got in the car and drove. I missed her by 15 like, clutching to them for dear life, think- CAST Judy Garland, James Mason minutes and she died. I literally laid with ing, “I finally wrote a hit. I can’t give it ITS LEGACY her, with her husband, and their dog, and away.” I was not the prettiest girl in the Judy Garland’s comeback! Engaging with the system his son.... When I came back, Bradley was room. I was a little weird, and I liked being responsible for her own so gentle with me and we got through it. I weird. I didn’t like to be sexual in a way that demons, she gives a tour de force performance, particu-

(3) performed the song. He was like, “You other pop stars or pop groups were. I was larly on the soul-baring don’t have to do it again. It’s okay.” All I my own thing. It’s heartbreaking, because “The Man That Got Away.” wanted to do was sing. I’ll never forget that you feel like “Why am I not enough?” day. It was really a special scene, and I’ll

/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK always remember that moment. You’ve also been very honest about your struggles with chronic pain and fibro- This movie is a love story, but it’s also a myalgia. How was it during production? powerful portrait of a man struggling It was up and down, but you know

. (2); (SIDEBAR) KOBAL with addiction and depression, subjects what? I have an incredible director and 1976 that are very timely at this moment. What friend and lead actor, and I had him by my do you hope people take away from it? side the whole time and we did it. CAST Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson

/WARNER BROS I mean, ultimately, it would be ITS LEGACY wonderful if it could impart some under- Is this the start of a new ongoing Streisand won her second creative collaboration, like Tracy and Oscar for the love theme, : CLAY ENOS standing of the human plight. I know that’s why I wanted to tell this story, so I could even Hepburn? “Evergreen,” and life imitated art when she picked up a help understand it myself. Also, to recognize That would be amazing. Grammy on screen and of

A STAR ISA STAR BORN that trauma is real, and traumatic events that If I’m lucky enough. X for the indelible ballad. 25 EW.COM PREVIEW

Night School P. 30 Mandy P. 32 Life Itself P. 35 Lizzie P. 38 Colette P. 31 The Nun P. 33 The Sisters White Boy P. 36 P. 38 A Simple Bel Canto P. 34 Brothers Rick P. P. 37 P. 39 Favor 31 Smallfoot P. 35 The Predator Quincy The Old Man Hold the IN THIS & the Gun P. 32 Dark P. 37 MONTH 26 EW.COM Jennifer Garner puts a man on the line on hold

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Jennifer Garner Pierre Morel 9.7 Duct tape works on everything, including Garner

AFTER SPENDING THE PAST DECADE for her work as stunt coordinator on Net- one of them. Then you have Pierre, who starring largely in sentimental flicks, Jen- flix’s GLOW). “It was full-on,” says Garner, grounds it all in reality and makes sure the nifer Garner was ready for action 46, who reunited with members of the stunt action scenes don’t just become set pieces— again—the film genre, that is. But finding teams she worked with on Alias, Daredevil, they move the story along.” the right butts to kick took some searching. Elektra, and The Kingdom. “It was the great- Part of Morel’s motivation for keeping “I’d wanted to do something physical, but est fun,” she says. “Plus, no working mom is the action realistic and connected to the the roles that came my way didn’t have ever going to say to her kids, ‘Pardon me plotline is to avoid gratuitous violence. high enough stakes to make me believe in while I do my second workout,’ so the fact “There’s movies where the violence becomes them,” she explains. “The drama has to be that it was my job allowed me to really a spectacle,” he says. “Real violence you see real and the reason for risk has to be the indulge in that experience.” on the street—gunshots and blades—is bad highest imaginable.” Getting the physical aspects right was enough, but there’s truth to it.” Garner says Enter Peppermint’s premise: Riley (Gar- just part of the process, and Morel—a that the gore doesn’t blot out the story’s ner) witnesses the brutal murders of her director best known for 2009’s Taken— heart. “I’m very easily grossed out, but this husband and young daughter, but is denied agrees that without the script’s emotional isn’t that,” she says. “It’s a woman-friendly justice by a court too corrupt to take on the intensity, the relentless action sequences action movie, and I think they’ll connect to cartel responsible. “Jen gives you exactly wouldn’t be justified. “I’m labeled as doing the idea of doing anything for your kids. what you want from the role,” says director action stuff, so I was looking for something You don’t even know how deep your rage is (PREVIOUS AND SPREAD THIS PAG Pierre Morel. “She’s America’s most loved with a soul,” he says. “Having a mother as or who you are until the motherhood part of mom, so she sells the part as the relatable, the lead helps the audience understand that you is tested.” sweet mother at the beginning, and then need for retaliation after great loss that is Garner hopes that all audiences embrace allows you to embrace her journey as she embedded in us.” the narrative and not question its legitimacy becomes a woman who knows there’s no It was the awareness of Morel’s reputation because there’s a woman(or her specifi- happily-ever-after for her and takes things for plausible action movies and Garner’s cally) at the helm. “I’ll be interested to see if into her own hands to get revenge.” ability to sell the role that made producer people can separate their idea of me as the E) TONY (2) RIVETTI/STXFILMS In the film, Riley goes off the grid for five Gary Lucchesi (Million Dollar Baby, Primal girl next door to accept me in this height- years to transform herself into a merciless Fear) quick to snatch up Peppermint as a ened reality,” she says. “Obviously we’re not vigilante (complete with hooded cape and project. “Casting is everything,” he says. condoning this kind of action in real life, but scarred, sinewy biceps) ready to dole out “There are a few actors you can put in these if it were a man doing it, would it be an punishment. But in reality, Garner had only roles and make them believable; Jennifer is issue? We’ll have to see.” —Ruth Kinane three months to prepare physically. She threw herself into daily dance cardio and weight training, boxing workouts, artillery sessions with Navy SEALs, and stunt work with her longtime double Shauna Duggins (who was recently nominated for an Emmy S S S %XWFKDQFHVDUH\RXUIULHQGVZRQ·WÀQGLWZHLUGDWDOO7KH\PLJKWHYHQEHJRLQJWKURXJK !

S an act of discipline, an act of love.” Co-written by Hart and directed by Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip), Night School pairs two of Hollywood’s biggest comedic stars in Hart and Haddish. “It felt like a match made in heaven,” says Hart. “When somebody is that hot and you have the opportunity to attach yourself to them, you don’t let it pass by.” The film, which Hart calls “Breakfast Club with adults,” centers on Teddy (Hart), a high school dropout whose sudden IT WAS VERY WARM ON THE need for a GED leads him to the STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Kevin Hart, Malcolm D. Lee set of Night School the day Kevin classroom of Carey (Haddish). Tiffany Haddish, Hart accomplished two profes- She implements unorthodox Taran Killam 9.28 sional firsts: wearing a chicken teaching methods after a frus- suit and getting beaten—excuse trated Teddy leaves school in me, “whupped”—with a belt. favor of working at a fast-food “First off, I did not beat him with restaurant, where he wears a the belt, I gave him a whup- chicken suit and twirls a sign out- ping,” corrects Tiffany Haddish. side. When Carey shows up to “It was a spanking, a whupping, bring him back to class, Night

Tiffany Haddish whups a chicken (Kevin Hart) PREVIEW School serves up its most pain- fully hilarious scene. “Her reaction was one like a mother who has been dealing with her son’s dumb s--- for too long,” says Hart. The original plan was for Haddish to pull oﬀ Hart’s chicken suit, but then she got the idea to take out the belt Hats on for Keira Knightley and Dominic West instead. “I was like, ‘I don’t want to be yanking oﬀ some man’s clothes. I would much rather snatch him up and give him a spanking,’ ” Haddish says. The improvised scene COLETTE resulted in Haddish landing a Keira Knightley has found a niche for herself portraying con- few hits on more than just her STARRING vention-defying women in period pieces (Anna Karenina, The costar. “I was trying to whup Keira Knight- ley, Dominic Duchess, Atonement, Pride & Prejudice). In the biographical him and I hit myself in the back West, Denise Colette, the 33-year-old actress plays the real-life, single- and butt several times,” says Gough, Elea- nor Tomlinson, named belle epoque writer, who rose to prominence ghost- Haddish, laughing. “I was like, Fiona Shaw writing for her husband, and then, upon separation, found a damn, it’s true what my momma career for herself as a journalist and novelist. “As a sort of used to say: ‘This is going to DIRECTED BY pioneer of women’s voices and sexual liberation, she’s quite hurt me more than it hurts you.’ ” Wash an icon,” Knightley says. “I always admire sparkling jewel-like Westmoreland —Derek Lawrence people, and I think that she was one of them.” Written and directed by Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice), the film follows RELEASE DATE Colette from youth through marriage and beyond, touching on both her creative and private life, including her numerous 9.21 affairs with women. —Dana Schwartz : PETER IOVINO/LIONSGATE PETER : Strong martinis can be dan- truly dark roots. Favor is the STARRING Anna Kendrick, gerous, but they take it to Ghostbusters director’s first Blake Lively, a whole new level in director foray into the suspense genre— A SIMPLE FAVOR Henry Golding Paul Feig’s Hitchcockian comic though Kendrick and Lively’s thriller. New friends Stephanie odd-couple chemistry still deliv- DIRECTED BY (Anna Kendrick) and Emily ers laughs. Explains Feig: “It’s Paul Feig (Blake Lively) bond over after- honestly what we did with noon playdates filled with gin Kristen Wiig and Rose Byrne in RELEASE DATE and vermouth. But then Emily Bridesmaids. There’s always goes missing, and mommy something funny to me about 9.14 blogger Stephanie begins to real- putting two extremely diferent ize her blond friend has some types together.” —Tim Stack : ROBERT VIGLASKY/BLEECKER STREET;

COLETTE Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, and some martinis : ELI JOSHUA ADÉ/UNIVERSAL; NIGHT SCHOOL NIGHT THE OLD MAN & THE GUN

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Robert Redford, David Lowery Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck, 9.28 Tom Waits, Danny Glover

ONE LAST JOB. IT’S A THEME that’s powered many Hollywood crime stories, including a few for Robert Redford. But “one last job” isn’t just a loose device in the 81-year-old actor’s The Old Man & the Gun: The film is quite literally his final acting gig. “Never say never, but I pretty well concluded that this would be it for me in terms of acting, and [I’ll] move towards retirement after this,” Redford says. “Why not go out with something that’s very upbeat and positive?” A mix of drama, comedy, and romance, the Old Man out- Robert Redford takes aim law tale is based on real-life career criminal Forrest Tucker, whose bank-robbing jag is authorities. “He robbed 17 banks, Director David Lowery (Pete’s threatened by a detective and he got caught 17 times Dragon) says the material (Casey Afleck) hot on his tail. and went to prison 17 times. But allowed his star “to get that spar- Plus, Tucker’s falling for the he also escaped 17 times,” kle in his eye that we all know and radiant Jewel (Sissy Spacek), Redford says. “I wonder if he was love.... I just had to make sure an afair that competes with not averse to getting caught so the cameras were turned on his greatest love of all: knocking that he could enjoy the real thrill and pointed in the right direction.” of banks and running from of his life, which is to escape.” —Katie Hasty

STARRING In this beautiful, berserk revenge-thriller, Nicolas Cage, Nicolas Cage’s lumberjack Red and Andrea Andrea Rise- Riseborough’s artist Mandy enjoy a peaceful borough, Linus forest-dwelling existence until it is violently Roache interrupted by a home invasion mastermind- ed by a cult leader (Linus Roache). “What hap- DIRECTED BY pens is quite tragic,” says Cage. Red goes on Panos a tear of vengeance, leading to fight scenes Cosmatos against a drug-fueled biker gang—which the actor shot while recovering from a broken RELEASE DATE ankle. “The stunt work actually helped with my recovery,” says the actor. “I’d been in a 9.14 wheelchair for three months, and it got me using those muscles again.” Physical thera- Nicolas Cage is seeing red pists, take note! —Clark Collis Bonnie Aarons’ nun creeps on Taissa Farmiga’s Sister Irene

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Sister Irene. “She had a difficult was on screen [in The Conjur- Taissa Farmiga, Corin Hardy and isolating childhood,” Farmiga ing 2], she owns that role in the Demian Bichir, says of her character. “She same way that Robert Englund Bonnie Aarons 9.7 experienced these visions that owns Freddy [Krueger].” set her apart from her peers Hardy was in much less of a THE SUBGENRE KNOWN AS and eventually led her to a life hurry to cast Farmiga, because “nunsploitation” (yes, that’s in the church.” The pair are of her sister Vera’s leading role actually a thing) goes mainstream tasked by the Vatican to investi- in the Conjuring films. “He didn’t with this latest horror film to gate a mysterious death at an want it to be the easy solution: be spun off from the Conjuring abbey in Romania where, Farmiga ‘Taissa is Vera’s younger sister;

: ERIC ZACHANOWICH/FOX ERIC : movies. Set in early-’50s reveals, “there’s some sort of she can do it!’ ” says the Nun star. Romania, The Nun concerns the presence that shouldn’t be there.” “I had to go in and audition and origins of the inhuman spirit, The Conjuring 2 actress Bon- ﬁght for my part.” also known as Valak, that tor- nie Aarons reprises her role as But given the Farmiga sib- mented ghost-hunters Ed and the demon-Nun, much to direc- lings’ real-life relationship, is it

: GUILLAUME VAN LAETHEM/RLJE ENTERTAINMENT (THIS Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wil- tor Corin Hardy’s relief. “When possible that Sister Irene and

THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN son and Vera Farmiga) in the I got The Nun, I called up Lorraine Warren are also con- ) : COS AELENEI/WARNER BROS. MANDY 1977-set The Conjuring 2. New Line and was like, ‘We have nected in some familial way? The Nun stars Demian Bichir secured the actress that plays “You’ll have to watch the movie!” THE NUNTHE as a priest named Father Burke the Nun, right?’ ” he says. “Even says Hardy. Amen to that. PAGE) SEARCHLIGHT; (OPPOSITE PAGE and Taissa Farmiga as a novitiate, in the short space of time she —Clark Collis STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Ken Watanabe, Paul Weitz Julianne Moore, Christopher Lam- 9.14 bert, Ryo Kase Bel Canto

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Migo (voiced by Channing Tatum), Percy (James Corden), and Meechee (Zendaya)

In Warner Bros.’ myth-flipping animated adventure, Small- foot’s abominable bigfoot hero (Channing Tatum) discovers proof of humans, a.k.a. smallfoots. “My character Migo is this guy—sorry, this yeti—who’s content with all the stories SMALLFOOT he’s been told through his yetihood, but then he sees a smallfoot and suddenly all those stories can be questioned,” says STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Tatum. To get yeti for the role, the actor channeled Looney Channing Karey Tatum, Kirkpatrick Tunes twofold: with zany physicality in the recording booth, James Corden, 9.28 and tuneful harmony during a showstopping musical num- Zendaya ber. Just call him the greatest snowman. —Marc Snetiker

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has Joaquin Phoenix, who says Ahmed), a scientist who has STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE John C. Reilly, Jacques Audiard he “never really liked Westerns.” a secret formula that highlights Joaquin Phoenix, And yet both actors were hidden gold in rivers. Riz Ahmed, 9.21 drawn together for The Sisters Reilly—who plays Eli and Jake Gyllenhaal Brothers, Jacques Audiard’s adap- helped usher the ﬁlm to fruition tation of the novel about Eli and as a producer—tells EW that DESPITE MORE THAN A HUN- Charlie Sisters, contract killers these characters are “much dred ﬁlm and TV credits to his at the height of the gold rush in more emotionally available” name, John C. Reilly has never the 1850s. The brothers pursue than are usually seen in the played a part in a Western. Nor Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz stoic males common within 36 EW.COM PREVIEW

The Predator getting mouthy

STARRING Like his character in the original 1987 film, Shane Boyd Holbrook, Black can’t outrun the Predator. Three decades after Olivia Munn, his appearance in the genre classic, the filmmaker Trevante Rhodes, who went on to co-write and direct Iron Man 3 and The Sterling K. Brown Nice Guys returns to create the franchise’s ultimate hunter. “One of the only quibbles that I’ve had with DIRECTED BY some of the past Predators is that, if you’re not care- Shane Black ful, it can look like a guy in a football suit—big, bulky guy just stomping around,” says Black. “We finally RELEASE DATE got an image that we liked, which captures this very canny, very cunning, and effortlessly powerful sav- 9.14 age Predator.” —Derek Lawrence

the genre. Phoenix adds that his character Charlie is “desperately terriﬁed of being left alone.” “When Eli begins this overt awakening that he has…it ﬁlls Charlie with an existential Alexander Skarsgård panic,” he says. Reilly and Phoenix didn’t know each other before, but they formed a fast bond HOLD THE DARK while riding horses in the scenic hills of Spain and Roma-

: NETFLIX been serving overseas in the Iraq nia and hanging in the STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE War. “He returns home and his bustle of intricately detailed Jeffrey Wright, Jeremy Saulnier world unravels when he finds out old-town sets. Alexander Skars- gård, Riley Keough 9.28 what’s happened,” says the actor.

HOLD THE DARK THE HOLD “Whether it’s Step Brothers or Unsurprisingly, director Jeremy The Sisters Brothers, comedy In this Alaska-set thriller, Jefrey Saulnier (Green Room) recalls or drama, it’s about really keying Wright plays a naturalist who that the scenes involving wolves into what goes on in those rela- volunteers to track down a wolf were among the most trying to

: MAGALI BRAGARD/ANNAPURNA PICTURES; BRAGARD/ANNAPURNA MAGALI : tionships,” Reilly says. that has taken a young boy from shoot. “They’re skittish,” says the “Both Joaquin and I really a remote village. Riley Keough filmmaker of the animals. “They

: ROBERT FALCONER/FOX; committed to getting into (The Girlfriend Experience) only respond to the laws of a relationship with each other.… costars as the child’s mother, chaos—and sometimes a raw I really do think of him as a while Alexander Skarsgård por- chicken.” That does not sound THE SISTERS BROTHERS SISTERS THE THE PREDATOR THE brother.” —Piya Sinha-Roy trays his father, a soldier who’s finger-lickin’ good. —Clark Collis Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny get close LIZZIE : SABAN FILMS/ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS; FILMS/ROADSIDE : SABAN with the Bordens’ live-in house- maid Bridget (Kristen Stewart) to rebel against her dad’s misogynistic abuses. But this reimagined Lizzie isn’t the only woman with an ax to grind. “We’ve got to bring down the patriarchy, and that’s what this movie’s ultimately about—women’s resistance,” “LEGENDS GROW AND TAKE Sevigny recalls of her first Sevigny explains. “She had to RICK BOY WHITE STARRING Chloë Sevigny, on their own life,” Chloë Sevigny sleepover at the Massachusetts have this cathartic moment. Kristen Stewart says of alleged murderess house where Borden allegedly She had so much pent-up rage.” Lizzie Borden, whose legacy hacked her father and step- Kass calls Borden a “punk rock” : SCOTT GARFIELD/COLUMBIA : SCOTT DIRECTED BY has become a pop cultural mother to death in 1892. The antihero. “It’s the men who were Craig William punchline over the years. But encounter inspired Sevigny’s trapped…by this idea of mascu- Macneill legends—and their ghosts— deep dive into Borden’s unsolved linity, power, and authority,” he sometimes steer the lives of case. She teamed with her stresses. “It made their lives bit- RELEASE DATE Oscar-nominated actresses, too. friend, screenwriter Bryce Kass, ter. [But] it’s the women, in the “I kept hearing all these weird to craft a speculative lesbian end, who are liberated and free.” 9.14 moaning and groaning noises,” love story in which Lizzie bonds And alive. — Joey Nolﬁ

STARRING “This is my sad country song,” Matthew McConaughey Matthew says of his White Boy Rick character, Rick Wershe Sr., McConaughey, a blue-collar father he describes as being “between Jennifer Jason a bullet and a target.” The film tells the true story Leigh, Richie of Ricky Wershe Jr. (newcomer Richie Merritt), who Merritt at the age of 14 became the youngest drug king- pin and FBI informant during the crack epidemic DIRECTED BY in 1980s Detroit. It’s just the kind of role the Oscar Yann Demange winner hadn’t ever quite tackled before. “[Rick Sr.] is ill-educated and ill-equipped in a single-parent RELEASE DATE home—his heart is in the right place, but he doesn’t have or make the means to succeed,” explains the 9.14 actor. “He’s kind of a bad dad.” —Piya Sinha-Roy Matthew McConaughey as Rick Wershe Sr. PREVIEW Hal MDMA Tea With the Quincy Jones at the boards SEPT. 7 SEPT. 14 Dames SEPT. 21 Amy Scott’s estate- Angie (Annie Q.), a approved documen- college student from It’s just that good: tary explores the a traditional Asian- Dames Judi Dench, ways in which Harold American family, syn- Maggie Smith, Eileen and Maude filmmaker thesizes Ecstasy for Atkins, and Joan Hal Ashby refused to cash after losing Plowright gossip over compromise his art in financial aid in 1984 tea while cameras the blockbuster era. San Francisco. capture every bliss- ful moment. The House With a Clock in All About Nina Its Walls SEPT. 28 SEPT. 21 A stand-up comic Cate Blanchett and (Mary Elizabeth Jack Black bring to life Winstead) gunning the fantasy of John for a huge gig con- Bellairs’ book about fronts past traumas I Think We’re an orphan and his and relationship anxi-

: MAGNOLIA Alone Now uncle navigating a eties during a life- SEPT. 14 magical manor hous- changing trip to L.A.

/UNIVERSAL ing a mystical clock. STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE The Handmaid’s Tale LOVE, GILDA Quincy Jones Rashida Jones director Reed Morano Hell Fest and Alan Hicks sets Peter Dinklage SEPT. 28 9.21 loose amid the apocalypse as a recluse Roller coasters aren’t who enjoys the the scariest part of : QUANTRELL COLBERT QUANTRELL : “My dad is a well-documented silence until Elle Fan- amusement parks in

: MOMENTUM PICTURES; ning crashes his this slasher about human being,” says Rashida end-of-days solitude. a killer who creates a bloody playground Jones. That’s certainly an un- for twisted acts. The Land of derstatement. Jones’ dad, of Steady Habits Love, Gilda SEPT. 14 SEPT. 21 Monsters and Men course, is legendary producer SEPT. 28 I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW Nicole Holofcener This touching portrait Quincy Jones, which made co- directs her first film of Gilda Radner fea- A police shooting THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS since 2013’s Enough tures commentary of an unarmed : NETFLIX; directing the new documen- Said, following Anders from Maya Rudolph, black man deeply (Ben Mendelsohn) as Amy Poehler, Melissa rattles Brooklyn’s Bed- PICTURES; QUINCY tary with Alan Hicks a tricky he rashly ditches a McCarthy, and oth- Stuy—and the young proposition for her. But, as she predictable life for ers who were influ- man who caught the more volatile waters. enced by her legacy. act on camera. tells EW, “I had to do it.” Going in, the younger Jones wanted Owen Vaccaro, Jack Black, and Cate Blanchett in The House With a Clock in Its Walls to make sure they covered the elder’s professional life (producing Thriller, putting Oprah Winfrey in movies) and personal struggles (like his health scares). “There are so many things missing,” she says of the past projects made about her dad. “He’s so accomplished. There’s never time to get to who he is as a person.” —Alex Suskind 39 EW.COM The Hate U The Happy Bad Times at Give P. 43 Prince P. 44 the El Royale P. 46 Wildlife P. 43 Halloween P. 45 Beautiful Boy P. 48 Can You Ever Venom P. 46 P. Forgive Me? 44 The Kindergarten IN THIS Teacher P. 46 MONTH 40 EW.COM Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Ryan Gosling, Damien Chazelle Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Lukas Haas 10.12 Gosling, Corey Stoll (Buzz Aldrin), and Lukas Haas (Michael Collins) take questions

AS RYAN GOSLING SAT IN A SPACESUIT, The close attention to detail was part of The British actress adds that Gosling, bathed in blue light and strapped into a the effort to be as authentic as possible, who often veers toward roles with minimal capsule modeled on the specifications of Gosling said, likening it to his experience dialogue, was able to bring “warmth and at the Gemini 8 spacecraft, he became acutely with Chazelle on La La Land because “it felt the same time be slightly unreachable” in aware of how claustrophobic the 1966 mis- like we were in over our heads.” his portrayal of Armstrong. sion into Earth’s orbit must have been for What intrigued Chazelle was the juxta- Chazelle shot the earthbound scenes its astronauts, Neil Armstrong and David position of the normal lives of the first before moving on to the more chal- Scott. astronauts, living quietly with their families lenging and tightly orchestrated flight “It’s really hard in a film to convey just in the suburbs of Houston, and the scope of sequences, which featured scale replicas of how small these capsules were and just how their cosmic dreams. “How can you have a the capsules and LED screens playing foot- terrifying it was hurtling through space in counterpoint for the moon and then make age of space to re-create what the these,” the First Man star says. your kids breakfast in the morning and astronauts would have seen out of the win- The Gemini 8 mission was just one of the clean up the kitchen?” Chazelle muses. dows. “It takes hours to get to see a little milestones leading up to NASA’s 1969 first Even though First Man is a period film, piece of usable footage, and sometimes the manned moon landing, the event that the Oscar-winning director says he wanted whole day goes by without anything to inspired director Damien Chazelle to turn it to feel “like a documentary, just like we’re show for it,” says Chazelle. his sights to outer space for his new film, a fly on the wall grabbing moments in these In one scene, Gosling’s Armstrong sits reteaming with his La La Land lead Gosling, families’ households.” with Buzz Aldrin (Corey Stoll) and Michael who plays Armstrong. “There’s actually a At the center of the film is Armstrong’s Collins (Lukas Haas) at a NASA press con- tendency now to take some of these things life with his wife, Janet, played by The ference for the now-famous Apollo 11 mission for granted and forget just how difficult and Crown star Claire Foy, who says she loved that took them successfully to the moon. unlikely and really risky and dangerous and discovering how the couple came into each “Even though they were the three crazy the whole endeavor was,” Chazelle other’s orbit. “Janet was so gregarious, she selected to be on this historic mission, PAGE THIS AND SPREAD (PREVIOUS explains of the stakes. was so outgoing. She had loads of friends, there were 400,000 people who had made Armstrong passed away in 2012, but his she had boyfriends before, and suddenly this possible,” Gosling says. “They were the family stepped up to help Chazelle re- this man comes along who has seen the final ones to execute it, but you get a sense create the astronaut’s life. Gosling met with world; he’s really athletic and weirdly funny from the astronauts that no one wanted Armstrong’s sister, June; Chazelle even and he just doesn’t play by the same rules to be the one that was the weak link.”

managed to get the blueprints to Arm- as anyone else,” explains Foy. —Piya Sinha-Roy (2) MCFADDEN/UNIVERSAL ) DANIEL strong’s house so that he could build it to scale. “It was amazing to watch Neil’s kids, Eric and Mark, come into the house they had grown up in and see the level to which the crew was working to get this right,” Gosling says. “FILM HAS THE ABILITY TO HUMANIZE EVENTS and people, to make them feel more accessible to those for whom it might be out of their realm of being,” says Amandla Stenberg. Impact is why her role as 16-year-old Starr Carter in The Hate U Give is particularly resonant: After Starr witnesses the shooting death of her friend by a police oﬃcer, her life—split between her black community and the mostly white private school she attends—is thrown : SCOTT GARFIELD/IFC FILMS GARFIELD/IFC SCOTT : into disarray as she considers using her voice to

WILDLIFE speak for the dead. “What’s particularly special is not necessarily her coming into her power, but rather that process of her coming into it and strug-

STARRING gling with the weight of it,” Stenberg, 19, says. Amandla Angie Thomas’ novel—from which THUG is Stenberg, Russell adapted—is ﬁction, categorized as young-adult, but Hornsby, the ﬁlm feels very ripped-from-the-headlines, punc- WHY YOU KNOW HIM novel, Wildlife. “He Anthony He was terrorized by doesn’t say much, Mackie, tuated by a traumatic event that has become a septuagenarians in he just kind of wit- KJ Apa 2015’s The Visit and by fixture in America: unarmed black people fatally nesses,” Oxenbould life itself in 2014’s DIRECTED BY shot by police. “It was an adult story that had young Alexander and the says of his charac- George characters who have to deal with mature issues,” Terrible, Horrible, No ter, who quietly Tillman Jr. Good, Very Bad Day watches the mar- : ERIKA DOSS/FOX; OXENBOULD: C FLANIGAN/FILMMAGIC; C OXENBOULD: DOSS/FOX; ERIKA : director George Tillman Jr. (Soul Food) says. “We riage of his parents RELEASE DATE deal with a cop shooting, police brutality, code WHY YOU WILL (Carey Mulligan and switching, family; those are very adult issues.” KNOW HIM Jake Gyllenhaal) fall The Australian actor THE HATE U GIVE U HATE THE 10.19 —Piya Sinha-Roy apart in 1960s Mon- stars in Paul Dano’s tana. “It’s a really directorial debut, Amandla Stenberg puts her hands up Wildlife interesting emotional journey.” Luckily, the then Paul Dano had his 15-year-old was up work cut out for him to the task. “He was in finding the teen- the only kid we age star for his would have cast,” adaptation of Rich- Dano says. ard Ford’s 1990 —Mary Sollosi

WILDLIFE

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano Ed Oxenbould, Jake Gyllenhaal 10.19

Ed Oxenbould reacts in Wildlife Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Rupert Everett, Rupert Everett Colin Morgan, Colin Firth 10.10

“Oscar Wilde has always been a great inspiration…a patron saint,” says Rupert Everett, who wrote, directed, and stars in this ﬁlm about the ﬁnal years of the writer’s life in exile as a “disheveled rock & roll ruin.” While other takes on Wilde CAN YOU EVER end with his imprisonment for “gross indecency,” that’s where this movie—which costars FORGIVE ME? Colin Firth and Colin Morgan

“THEY’RE TWO PEOPLE THE REST OF THE WORLD CAN’T as Wilde’s friends Reggie ME? FORGIVE EVER YOU CAN handle,” director Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Turner and Alfred “Bosie” Girl) says of the odd couple at the center of her second Douglas—begins. For the film, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Jack Hock (Richard E. English ﬁlmmaker, “that’s the Grant) is a bar-dwelling drifter who, after a booze-soaked

chance introduction, helps real-life biographer-turned- moment the story becomes CYBULSKI : MARY scammer Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) sell forged letters fascinating. As a homosexual from deceased celebrities in 1991 Manhattan. So how do performer in a fairly aggressively you make them appealing enough to spend two hours with? heterosexual world like show SEARCHLIGHT; /FOX Grant found their humanity—and the beauty of an oﬀbeat friendship between two queer outcasts—through his nose. business, you can’t fail to see the “Smelling and touching everything is your way into a per- parallels with Oscar Wilde.” son’s life!” Grant says of getting into character via scents of —Maureen Lee Lenker THE HAPPY PRINCE the “clothes…hamburger joints, diners, and bookstores” that Jack and Lee called home. “He’s like a Labrador.… STARRING She’s a prickly, unsympathetic, unattractive person, [but] Melissa CLASSICS PICTURES MOSER/SONY : WILHELM McCarthy, Jack motors in there and doesn’t take no for an answer,” he Richard E. Grant says. “He understands loneliness and recognizes it in her, and keeps bulldozing until she begrudgingly accepts him… DIRECTED BY with terrible consequences.” The actor continues: “Lee Marielle Heller didn’t want to become a con artist and forger, Jack didn’t

RELEASE DATE want to be a guy on the street doing nothing; they had bigger dreams…but they fell through the cracks.” Cheers to 10.19 the ﬁlm that discovered them. —Joey Nolﬁ Edwin Thomas, Colin Firth, and Rupert Everett 44 EW.COM STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Jamie Lee Curtis, David Gordon Judy Greer, Green Andi Matichak 10.19

Halloween

Judy Greer and Jamie Lee Curtis find the new Halloween gripping

events of the many films in the franchise that were subse- quently released. That means Laurie has been waiting four decades to end the menace of incarcerated masked killer Michael Myers—and it sounds like she gets her chance. “The first movie I was running more, and in this movie I’m hunting more,” says Curtis. “[You] watch Jamie Lee Curtis this woman take back the narra- photographed exclusively for EW tive of her life.” on July 20, 2018, While Carpenter shot the in San Diego original Halloween in California, Green filmed this one in South Carolina. But Curtis got a strong sense of déjà vu when she first AMIE LEE CURTIS’ DEAD!” she predicts, not unhap- walked on set. “It felt just like it filmography includes pily. “It’s going to say that.” did on the streets of West Holly- the hits Trading Forty years after starring in wood or South Pasadena,” she Places, A Fish Called John Carpenter’s original horror says. “It had this incredible feel- Wanda, and True Lies. classic, Curtis, 59, reprises her ing of nostalgia, the simplicity of But the actress has no doubt signature role of Laurie Strode a small town in America, where

: RYAN GREEN/UNIVERSAL: RYAN which film the headline announc- in David Gordon Green’s this horror takes place. Right ing her eventual demise will name- Halloween, a direct sequel to away, I was like, ‘This is going to check. “HALLOWEEN ACTRESS the 1978 movie that ignores the be amazing.’ ” —Clark Collis HALLOWEEN

PHOTOGRAPH BY BEN WATTS Venom lays hands on a criminal

STARRING The superhero world is filled with iconic duos—Batman and Robin, Tom Hardy, Cap and Bucky, Rocket and Groot—but rarely are a pair as close as Riz Ahmed Eddie Brock and Venom. And when we say close, we mean literally: Eddie (Tom Hardy) is a scandal-plagued journalist, and Venom is DIRECTED BY the alien symbiote who’s invaded his body. Together, they form one Ruben Fleischer antihero with Eddie’s investigative acumen and Venom’s penchant for biting of heads. “They’re a bit lost in this world, and finding RELEASE DATE each other and negotiating an ethical framework is perhaps a gift and a burden for the two of them,” Hardy tells EW. “They bring out 10.5 the very best and the very worst in each other.” —Devan Coggan

Jon Hamm, Lewis Pullman, a bear, and Cynthia Erivo

STARRING The script for The Kindergarten Teacher, based on the Maggie 2014 Israeli film, “appealed to me as a woman,” says Mag- BAD Gyllenhaal gie Gyllenhaal, who was also part of an all-female producing team. The actress plays a kindergarten teacher and DIRECTED BY aspiring poet who becomes obsessed with one of her stu- TIMESAT Sara Colangelo dents, whom she believes is a poetry prodigy. “This woman is a consequence of the broken culture that she RELEASE DATE lives in,” Gyllenhaal says. “I think it does say something THE that is very honest about a feminine experience, about an experience as an artist, as a woman right now in the 10.12 STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE world.” —Mary Sollosi Cynthia Erivo, Drew Goddard Jon Hamm Maggie Gyllenhaal tries to see eye to eye with Parker Sevak 10.12 VENOM : SONY;

USUALLY, WHEN YOU CHECK into a hotel, the front desk will TEACHER KINDERGARTEN THE ask if you’d prefer a king-size bed or two queens—or maybe if you’d like to upgrade to a room with a view? At the El Royale, however, guests choose whether

they’d like a room in California : NETFLIX or Nevada, and you don’t even need to leave the building to go 46 EW.COM between the two. Drew God- Goddard says of the scene above. sing live for 27 takes.) “One of building to the taxidermy sam- dard’s twisty crime thriller “They’re all checking in and the problems with Cynthia,” ples of each state’s animal (a centers on a ’60s hotel that walking into the ring.” Goddard says, “was she’s so per- grizzly for California and a des- straddles the state line, with a One of those fighters is Erivo’s fect, there were times when I’d ert bighorn sheep for Nevada). cavalcade of strange characters Darlene Sweet, a lounge singer have to go to her and say, ‘Cyn- “We wanted to have fun with the staying the night, including a she describes as a big-dreaming thia, can you mess up a couple of idea that, especially in the lobby, buttoned-up priest (Jeff ray of sunshine. “She just loves times? Because I don’t know that you can step right across,” God- Bridges), a vacuum-cleaner her music,” Erivo says. “She’s people are going to believe that dard explains. “You can buy a salesman (Jon Hamm), and a trying to survive in a place that is you’re this perfect. They’re going drink in California and carry it lounge singer (Cynthia Erivo). not made for that.” Bad Times to think I cheated.’ ” into Nevada. You can go gamble /FOX Every guest at the El Royale has is Erivo’s film debut, and the Goddard and production on one side of the room, and a secret—and the hotel might Tony winner was drawn to the designer Martin Whist leaned in you’re not allowed to gamble on have a few of its own too. “To fact that the role required live, hard to the hotel’s California/ the other side of the room.” Hey, some extent, I view the movie as on-set singing. (One particularly Nevada design, from the red you can’t get that at the Hilton.

KIMBERLEY FRENCH a prizeﬁght, and this is round 1,” complicated shot required her to state line running through the —Devan Coggan STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Timothée Felix van Chalamet, Groeningen Steve Carell 10.12

Beautiful Boy

UST LAST YEAR, audiences came to know Timothée Cha- lamet, 22, through his Oscar-nominated role in the tender gay romance Call Me by Your Name. This year, his big starring vehicle isn’t quite as soothing. Chalamet plays spiraling drug addict Nic Shef in Felix van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, the harrowing drama based on the memoirs of Shef and his father, author David Shef, played by Steve Carell. Shifting between a relatively carefree childhood and an adolescence marked by help- lessness, the film observes Nic’s downfall through his father’s eyes. Rather than provide a neat arc toward recovery—as Holly- wood has tended to do—Boy is propelled by relapses, estrange- ments, death scares, and the increasingly dificult decisions Nic’s family needs to make for his care. Chalamet concedes that the atmosphere on set was “intense” given the material, but he also describes it as “dutiful.” “[It was] more a devotion to getting this story right,” he explains. “With high emotional family stakes at play, you feel a responsibility to the actual story.… We tried to capture someone in the

48 EW.COM Studio 54 Galveston OCT. 5 OCT. 19 throes of addiction, caught The best days of the After being double- between, addled.” iconic NYC nightclub crossed, a hitman In the film, Chalamet embod- are brought to life in a (Ben Foster) escapes documentary that ies the delirium of a meth high with a young woman paints an intimate who had been and the shakiness of withdrawal picture of ’70s held captive (Elle Fan- with unflinching physical com- debauchery and ning), in a drama mitment. He’s put through the Bayou Caviar celebrity. based on the novel of acting wringer: vomiting, pass- OCT. 5 the same name. ing out, sobbing until every tear Cuba Gooding Jr. is used up. Hardest to watch, makes his directorial The Guilty however, is when Nic lies to the debut with this New OCT. 19 people he loves. In one devastat- Orleans-set thriller ing scene, he meets his father about a fading boxer Danish filmmaker under false pretenses, only to (Gooding) enlisted by Gustav Möller makes his feature debut with face cold rejection. “You don’t a Russian gangster : GRAHAM BARTHOLOMEW/AVIRON PICTURES GRAHAM BARTHOLOMEW/AVIRON : a high-concept thriller like who I am now,” Nic tells (Richard Dreyfuss) to do some dirty work. about an emergency- David in a wrenchingly acted call dispatcher who moment by Chalamet. “The SERENITY Apostle must piece together movie is encompassed in that The Great Buster: OCT. 12 clues in order to save scene,” Chalamet suggests. A Celebration a kidnapped woman. OCT. 5 In 1905, Thomas “The love between father and Richardson (Dan Ste- son ignores the elephant in Mel Brooks, Quentin vens) attempts to Serenity the room at first, and then Tarantino, Bill Hader, save his kidnapped OCT. 19 they’re both wholly confronted Johnny Knoxville, and sister from a mysteri- : WARREN ORCHARD/NETFLIX; WARREN : others celebrate the ous religious cult led Anne Hathaway by it when simple conversation and Matthew is made impossible.” life of filmmaker, by the charismatic actor, stuntman, and Prophet Malcolm McConaughey star in APOSTLE The actor credits Oscar- comedian Buster (Michael Sheen). a modern noir about nominated screenwriter Luke Keaton in Peter a fishing-boat captain Davies (Lion) for creating such a Bogdanovich’s whose ex-wife asks documentary. The Oath him to help murder nuanced, compelling character. OCT. 12 “The role was presented [with] her current husband. a juxtaposing mania,” he says. : GRAVITAS VENTURES; Private Life Writer-director-lead “This would have made it a OCT. 5 Ike Barinholtz’s star- What They Had dream for any actor to play.” In studded comedy OCT. 19 Via writer-director about a politically Chalamet’s hands, it’s impossible BAYOU CAVIAR BAYOU Tamara Jenkins (The divided family A woman (Hilary to turn away. —David Canﬁeld Savages), a bohemian attempting to make it Swank) returns to her couple (Kathryn Hahn through Thanksgiving hometown to help and Paul Giamatti) includes John Cho, persuade her father battle infertility and Billy Magnussen, to put her Alzheimer’s- each other in this Tifany Haddish, and sufering mother in a dark comedy. Carrie Brownstein. nursing home.

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Ralph Breaks the The Nutcracker Green Book P. 61 The Girl in the P. Internet 54 and the Four The Front Spider’s Web P. 63 Realms P. 56 Outlaw King P. 54 Runner P. 61 Boy Erased P. 64 Second Act P. 59 The Other Side Bohemian Fantastic Beasts: of the Wind P. 55 If Beale Street Rhapsody P. 62 The Crimes of Could Talk P. 59 Grindelwald P. 64 IN THIS Suspiria P. 60 A Private War P. 64 MONTH 50 EW.COM Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Rodriguez, and Elizabeth Debicki talk pay dirt

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Viola Davis, Steve McQueen Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, 11.16 Michelle Rodriguez Colin Farrell gets a few words in with Viola Davis at a funeral

DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE TITULAR different sorts of ethnicities…and within lunches or heart-to-hearts. It’s business only. widows in Steve McQueen’s heist thriller, that is the religious aspect as well as the “From time to time, there is an oversim- Viola Davis warns. Yes, they’re vulnerable political aspect, the criminal aspect, and the plification of women’s relationships on and grieving for the husbands they just lost police,” the Oscar-winning director says. screen, and that’s another way of sort of in a robbery gone awry, but they’re not Chicago’s South Side becomes the set- diminishing our complexity,” Davis says. down for the count. ting of the political tussle between Jack “Just because we’re women doesn’t mean The Oscar-winning actress plays Veron- Mulligan (Colin Farrell), a white candidate that we bond based on that knowledge.” ica Rawlings, a woman living a sheltered, with a deep-pocketed and connected fam- Behind the scenes, the actresses did bond, affluent life with her husband, Harry ily, and Jamal Manning (Brian Tyree and Davis calls the movie “the best experi- (Liam Neeson), until his sudden death Henry), a black candidate who believes ence of my life.” forces her to confront the dark under- winning the election will advance his qual- The film is already breaking new ground world he inhabited. ity of life. “Is it politics for the people or is for being a big-budget Hollywood studio “Once we find out that our lives were it politics for the politician? That’s what I action film fronted by women of color, some- basically a lie, I think that we use [the lie] wanted to look at,” McQueen says. thing rarely seen in the male-dominated to punish ourselves, to make us feel that But at the film’s core is Veronica’s journey genre. Davis says that while the industry we’re not enough,” Davis says. as she uncovers the plans for a $5 million is committed to improving diversity and Loosely adapted by McQueen and co- burglary that her husband was going to carry inclusion, “they don’t necessarily know writer Gillian Flynn from an ’80s British TV out. McQueen likens Davis to golden-age howtodoit.” (PREVIOUS SPREAD AND THIS PAGE series of the same name, Widows follows screen icons such as Bette Davis, Katharine But McQueen wasn’t specifically trying Veronica after her life is threatened and Hepburn, Joan Crawford, and Lauren Bacall. to spotlight a diverse female-driven cast; she’s ordered to return the $2 million that “There’s a sophistication and also a vulner- rather, he “acknowledges it without Harry stole from a political campaign. She ability, a complexity and this gravitas to her acknowledging it,” Davis explains. recruits Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and as well,” McQueen says. “You could be male, “When you see the movie, it’s not the

Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), widows of her female, black, white, whatever: You see color or the sexual orientation or the eth- ): MERRICK MORTON husband’s associates, and they begrudg- yourself in her.” nicity [of the characters] that walk into the ingly execute a plan. Veronica’s new goal And then there are the other powerhouses room,” she says. “What walked into the and connection with the other women help (like Cynthia Erivo), who help Veronica. room are people who are in a desperate her “define what is worthy within her,” But don’t expect the four women to suddenly situation, and that, in and of itself, is a rev- /FOX (2

Davis explains. become best friends: There are no boozy olutionary idea.” —Piya Sinha-Roy ) Widows is the 12 Years a Slave ﬁlmmaker’s first heist movie, but he hopes the film’s exploration of race relations, class dispari- YOU COULD BE ties, and police shootings in Chicago transcends the tropes of the genre. “It’s a WHATEVER: YOU SEE city which is basically cut up into all IN HER.” —STEVE MCQUEEN ON VIOLA DAVIS GRAB A SEAT IN ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S FRONT ROW PANEL

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JOIN NOW ENTERTAINMENTWEEKLYFRONTROW.COM/JOIN RALPH BREAKS THE IF THE SECRET LIVES OF replacement game part—the Ralph’s showstopping princess STARRING John C. Reilly, videogame characters were regal women meet Vanellope on sequence also pokes unprece- Sarah Silver- explored in 2012’s Wreck-It a fansite and discover that she dented meta fun at the RALPH BREAKSRALPH THE INTERNET man, Taraji P. Ralph, Disney’s animated sequel too is technically royalty; to say studio’s character history. “The Henson Ralph Breaks the Internet that the surprises stop there princesses and Vanellope learn

DIRECTED BY reveals the surprising second is a wreck of an understatement. a lot from each other, but what Rich Moore and life of another group: Disney’s “I just love that my character happens in that discussion Phil Johnston iconic princesses. In this is a princess but wears, like, a is acknowledging the kind of new film—which hot-wires hoodie, and she inspires them dated, antiquated idea of RELEASE DATE

arcade heroes Ralph (Reilly) all to wear comfortable clothes,” princesses and bringing it up : DISNEY and Vanellope (Silverman) onto says Silverman. Beyond the to a feminist—meaning equal— 11.21 the internet in search of a wardrobe change, though, code,” says Silverman.

If Americans were asked to identify a true Scottish hero, they’d probably name William Wallace, who was memorably depicted by Mel Gibson in the 1995 movie Braveheart. But maybe it’s King Robert the Bruce that should come to mind first. The tartan-clad heavyweight who rescued his country from British rule is played in Outlaw King with verve (and a spot-on Scottish accent) by Chris Pine, reuniting with director David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water) for the project. “I’m STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE very happy for William to be a national treasure, an icon,” says Chris Pine, Aaron David Mackenzie’s Scottish producing partner Gillian Berrie. “But Taylor-Johnson, Mackenzie it’s much more deserving that Robert the Bruce gets his place Stephen Dillane 11.9 in history.” —Lynette Rice PREVIEW ( Clockwise from left ) Cybill Shepherd, Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Bill Weaver, Oja Kodar, and Gary Graver

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE John Huston, Orson Welles Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich 11.2 Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) is sitting pretty with the Disney princesses

Orson Welles’ unfinished film, The Other Side of the Wind— and a documentary about its INTERNET making, They’ll Love Me When Rich Moore, who codirected them,” says the director, who I’m Dead—will get its debut the Oscar-winning Zootopia helms with Phil Johnston. “I’m between working on both Ralph proud that this movie adds a on Netflix. The former was

: DAVID films, considers the movie’s 14 facet to them that makes them shepherded to the screen by

: JOSÉ MARÍA royal stars one of the proudest feel like real people.” And the casting coups of his career. “To characters’ comfy shirts— Frank Marshall, who was part be able to work with these char- bearing slogans like “Just Let It OUTLAW KING acters in a way that’s funny and Go,” “Beast Friends Forever,” of Welles’ original crew, and human… To me, they felt like and “Blue Corn Moon”—are producer Filip Jan Rymsza. they were frozen in another destined to be added to even time, which made it hard to realer people’s online shopping There were nearly 100 hours of EUSTACE/NETFLIX THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND THE OF SIDE OTHER THE CASTELLVÍ/NETFLIX; identify with or understand carts in no time. —Marc Snetiker footage, shot over six years. “I was very aware of everything that happened throughout the course of Orson’s career and Chris Pine in chains how he felt betrayed,” says edi- tor Bob Murawski. “We [did] our homework to figure out what Orson wanted.” For Mor- gan Neville, the director of the companion doc, the footage was essential to crafting his bookend to Welles’ vision. —Maureen Lee Lenker 55 EW.COM TCHAIKOVSKY’S THE NUTCRACKER BALLET, based on an 1816 E.T.A. Hoﬀmann story, is as synonymous with the holidays as Santa fashion with a big-screen version that centers on Clara’s adventures in an ornate palace and its elaborate four realms. Production that were “aesthetically pleasing without any logical backbone,” so he built the world from the ground up (as seen in concept art below) and

LAND OF FLOWERS In this agricultural home to farmers and beekeepers, Dyas turned to Dutch wind- mills and villages in the south of England to design his floral masterpieces. “We took it seriously and adorned the sets with live flowers,” he notes. “It wasn’t about making the flowers look real. It was about getting the perfume in the air and allowing the performers to really feel the magic of what it must be like to be in a world of flowers.”

THE FOURTH REALM Previously known as the Land of Amusements and ruled over by Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), the fourth realm is now a mysterious place, which the creative team will only describe as “creepy.” Both Dyas and Foy note that it was home to some of their largest, most THE PALACE impressive sets, including At the world’s center one Dyas says was so is the palace, where the “bizarre and wild,” it attracted regents of all the realms members of other produc- convene to reign, according tions shooting at London’s to producer Mark Gordon. Pinewood Studios to ogle it. The castle set, which star Mackenzie Foy (Clara) calls “insane,” boasts a working portcullis and floor-to- ceiling tapestries. Dyas cites a heavy Russian influ- DISNEY (6) ence in the design, “with all their bright colors and onion-topped towers.” AND THE FOUR REALMS

Claus and candy canes. Now Disney has given it new life in unprecedented STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE designer Guy Hendrix Dyas says his greatest fear was designing settings Mackenzie Foy, Lasse Hallström Keira Knightley, and Joe Johnston adhered to a strict historical cutoﬀ at the year 1879. —Maureen Lee Lenker Helen Mirren 11.2

LAND OF SNOWFLAKES For this realm of politi- cians, ice producers, and miners (a.k.a. Land of Snow), Dyas took inspiration from a famous Swedish ice hotel and 16th-century German villages, transforming that architecture into layers of ice. “The most fun was coming up with their transportation system, which is primarily sleighs with deer,” Dyas says.

LAND OF SWEETS Inspired by the character of the Sugar Plum Fairy (played here by Keira Knight- ley), this land was built from real candy. “They had to put signs that said, ‘Don’t eat the candy,’” says Foy. “I’m like, ‘I want to eat it now that I know that it’s real!’” Dyas crafted buildings with real chocolate tile roofs, walls of nougat, and stained- glass windows made of boiled sweets—all of which came from his love of Victorian ingenuity and the game Candy Land.

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STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Jennifer Lopez, Peter Segal Milo Ventimiglia 11.21

WHY YOU KNOW HER (Stephan James), who’s been You probably don’t! She’s a DePaul falsely accused of rape. The nov- grad with a theater background. el’s themes feel particularly timely in 2018, but the heart of WHY YOU WILL KNOW HER Beale Street is its love story. “[It’s She headlines Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, starring as Tish. about] the love between these Jennifer Lopez and Milo Ventimiglia two young black kids and the The night before her chemistry love of their families,” Layne “I THINK PEOPLE FORGOT ABOUT ROMANTIC read for If Beale Street Could says. “And what does that mean Talk, KiKi Layne texted Moon- when you’re dealing with those comedies for a while,” Jennifer Lopez says. “You light’s Ashton Sanders, who she types of injustices?” need these simpler, romantic, funny looks at knew from studying at DePaul Beale Street is Layne’s first life.” Cue the producer-star’s Second Act, the University. His advice? Know film, and Jenkins urged her to “underdog” story of Maya, an ambitious forty- the material. “And I was like, question everything and voice ‘Oh, cool, I got that then,’” the her own insights into Tish. something who ditches her ageist managers at 26-year-old actress says with “Everyone tells me I’m spoiled,” Costco for a fancy corporate gig in Manhattan a laugh. “Because that work’s she says, laughing. “Like, ‘That is (with the help of a heavily embellished résumé). been done, and now I can just not how film sets always work, But this isn’t just Working Girl 2.0. In Lopez’s get in there and vibe.” girl, so you hold on to those Clearly that strategy worked: memories!’ ” Up next, she’s star- hands, Maya’s not a postgrad in her 20s strug- Layne beat out hundreds of ring (with Sanders) in the film gling to shatter a glass ceiling—she’s a seasoned, other actresses for the lead in version of Richard Wright’s Native street-smart woman with professional savvy. Beale Street, adapted from Son. “I want to do weird-ass sci-fi James Baldwin’s 1974 novel. thrillers, and romantic comedies, IF BEALE IF “Women [are] becoming more empowered and Layne stars as Tish, a pregnant and, I don’t know, be an alien?” realizing we don’t have an expiration date,” woman racing to prove the inno- she says. “I seriously just want to explains Lopez, 49. And Maya’s unorthodoxy cence of her fiancé, Fonny do it all.” —Devan Coggan reflects America’s diverse, ever-growing collec- tive of women on the career grind. “[I’m] IF BEALE STREET looking to put those types of characters in the COULD TALK forefront as opposed to being ‘the girlfriend,’ ” she says. Here, the role of the supportive signifi- STARRING KiKi Layne, cant other instead goes to Milo Ventimiglia. Stephan James “You can’t take your eyes off her,” the This Is Us actor, 41, says of Lopez, who handpicked him DIRECTED BY for the part. “Knowing that, I was like, ‘How can Barry Jenkins : TATUM MANGUS/ANNAPURNA PICTURES MANGUS/ANNAPURNA TATUM : I make this guy so real that she kind of can’t take RELEASE DATE

: BARRY WETCHER/STXFILMS; LAYNE: STEVE COHN/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; STEVE LAYNE: WETCHER/STXFILMS; BARRY : her eyes off me?’ ” Still, in Second Act, Lopez’s sights were firmly set on changing the game for 11.30 women: “It’s our time, baby.” —Joey Nolfi Stephan James as Fonny and KiKi Layne as Tish SECOND ACT SECOND STREET COULD TALK COULD STREET academy is run by witches!” STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE unusual—dance academy in Dakota Johnson, Luca Berlin. “She takes the place of a The film’s most impressive Tilda Swinton, Guadagnino dance student who has recently dance scene is a public perfor- Mia Goth 11.2 disappeared and immediately mance of the routine “Volk”—a BOLZONI ALESSIO becomes one of the top dancers German word meaning “people.” in the academy,” says the Fifty Inspired by the pre-WWII IN THIS ’70S-SET RETELLING Shades of Grey star of her char- avant-garde expressionist dance

of Dario Argento’s beloved hor- acter. Susie develops an “intense movement, the sequence was /AMAZON STUDIOS ror film Suspiria, Dakota Johnson and beautiful” student-teacher dreamed up by the film’s chore- plays Susie Bannion, a young relationship with Madame ographer Damien Jalet and is woman who travels from Ohio to Blanc (Tilda Swinton), “and soundtracked by an instrumental attend a prestigious—if highly then you discover that the dance from the film’s score composer, Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali PREVIEW GREEN BOOK

STARRING In this road-trip drama based on a true story, famed black Mahershala pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) hires Italian-American Ali, Viggo bouncer Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) to drive him on a concert Mortensen tour through the Deep South in 1962. Things go awry fast, even with the help of the titular guidebook, which black travelers DIRECTED BY used to navigate the dangers of pre-civil-rights-era segrega- Peter Farrelly tion. “We’re an unusual combination,” Mortensen says of the characters. “The odds are that I’m not going to keep the job RELEASE DATE for the whole trip, because we don’t hit it off right off the bat at all.” Sounds like the beginning of a beautiful, tumultuous 11.21 friendship. —Shirley Li

STARRING The Front Runner, based on Matt Bai’s Dakota Johnson’s Hugh Jackman, book All the Truth Is Out: The Week Poli- on the ropes Vera Farmiga, tics Went Tabloid, is about Gary Hart’s J.K. Simmons 1988 presidential campaign and the alleged extramarital afair that derailed it. DIRECTED BY Influenced by 1972’s The Candidate, Jason Radiohead frontman Thom feeling of dripping blood,” says Jason Reitman Reitman’s film examines the moment Yorke. The choreography is also costume designer Giulia Pier- “political journalism and gossip journal- part of the witches’ grand santi. If that isn’t creepy enough, RELEASE DATE ism drove into the same lane for the first design. “In Dario Argento’s ﬁlm, the choreography was in large time,” says the director, who strived you see mostly lessons; there is part dictated by the witchiest of 11.7 for authenticity throughout. The same not a grand dance moment in symbols. “We were moving on went for star Hugh Jackman: He amassed the movie,” says ﬁlmmaker the points of a pentagram, as five thick notebooks of research on Hart. : COLUMBIA PICTURES Luca Guadagnino, director of though the dance were casting a “We wanted the experience to be like being dropped into the ’88 campaign,” last year’s Call Me by Your Name. spell,” reveals Johnson. Reitman says. “I was reaching out to the “We felt that dance needed to The scariest part of the scene original campaign team all the time look- be part of the process of witch- for the actress did not involve the ing for more detail.” —Maureen Lee Lenker

THE FRONT RUNNER FRONT THE craft. That performance builds movie’s supernatural shenani- towards the greater ritual that is gans, but the fact that she had to at the core of the film.” dance in front of a crowd of Hugh Jackman as Gary Hart The cast members in the strangers; there were actual dance wore outfits made from audience members to watch the rope designed to reflect the gory performance. Says Johnson: “I

: PATTI PERRET/UNIVERSAL; PATTI : goings-on depicted elsewhere trained on and off for about a in the film. “We hand-knotted year before we started filming, each costume in red bondage but I’m not a professional dancer.

GREEN BOOK rope in our atelier, to give it a It was terrifying.” —Clark Collis

61 EW.COM STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Rami Malek, Bryan Singer Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy 11.2

Bohemian Rhapsody

OW DO YOU PRE- consistently go back to his inter- pare to play one of views and performances just to the most famous understand the [diferent] sides (and famously enig- of him,” the Mr. Robot star says. matic) performers “Obviously, there is a very brave, in history? For Rami Malek, and brash entertainer who hits the his upcoming role as Freddie stage. And then there is a human Mercury, you remember that being who can be reclusive underneath all the pomp and cir- and lonely behind closed doors.” cumstance of Queen’s front- That duality gave the 37-year- man was an individual coming old actor a pathway to capturing to terms with himself. “I would the late singer’s magneticism. PREVIEW

Sverrir Gudnason and Claire Foy

Malek was so committed to the role that he even flew to London on his own dime to do research before the film had funding. There he immersed himself in all things Freddie, reading biogra- phies, watching old videos, and speaking with Queen members Roger Taylor and Brian May, who : NADJA KLIER/COLUMBIA were on board with the film early in development. “They gave us creative freedom,” says producer Graham King of Mercury’s bandmates. “I wanted to keep them as involved as possible. I needed their blessing for my THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB SPIDER’S THE IN GIRL THE own personal peace of mind.” By the time Bohemian Rhapsody finally went into production, Malek, sporting fake teeth for Mercury’s signature overbite, : ALEX BAILEY/FOX; was ready to go. “When you put in those teeth,” he says, “there’s THE LAST TIME WE SAW NOVELIST STIEG LARS- a very visceral change to the performance. When I took them son’s heroine Lisbeth Salander on screen, she was out by the end of the film, I felt played by Rooney Mara in 2011’s David Fincher- BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY BOHEMIAN quite naked.” directed The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. So how Making it past the finish line come it’s The Crown star Claire Foy leading this new wasn’t easy, though, as the long-gestating biopic has, over movie about the Swedish hacker? “As much as I the years, occasionally resem- admire Fincher as a ﬁlmmaker, I preferred to have bled an episode of VH1’s Behind my own cast,” says director Fede Alvarez (Don’t the Music: salacious rumors, Breathe). “Rooney Mara is Fincher’s Lisbeth. accusations of producers mis- handling Mercury’s sexuality, I wanted to ﬁnd my own. “ and the firing of director Bryan The Girl in the Spider’s Web is based on David

MALEK: ERIC RAY DAVIDSON/TRUNK ARCHIVE; Singer more than halfway into Lagercrantz’s 2015 novel, the ﬁrst book in the best- production when he wasn’t showing up to set. But the cast selling Millennium series to be written since and filmmakers were deter- Larsson’s 2004 death. A scientist hires Lisbeth to get mined to tie it up, despite frus- STARRING his work back from the NSA, “and she gets involved trations. “Every moment where Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudna- in something bigger than expected,” Alvarez there was a challenge on set, son, Lakeith I just reminded myself: What Stanfield explains. Foy’s costars include Sverrir Gudnason, would Freddie do? And I guaran- who takes over the role of journalist Mikael Blom- tee, he would’ve seen it through,” DIRECTED BY kvist from Dragon Tattoo actor Daniel Craig, and Fede Alvarez says Malek. “We’re proud of Lakeith Stanﬁeld, who plays an NSA agent. “He’s on [the film].” —Alex Suskind RELEASE DATE the hunt for Lisbeth,” says Foy, laughing, about the latter. “I’m always running away from Lakeith. I’m Ben Hardy and Rami Malek rock you 11.9 hiding around corners!” —Clark Collis 63 EW.COM PREVIEW

Nicole Kidman and Lucas Hedges

FANTASTIC STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE GRINDELWALD Lucas Hedges, Joel Edgerton BOY ERASED Nicole Kidman, BEASTS: THE Russell Crowe, 11.2 Joel Edgerton : FOCUS FEATURES; : FOCUS : WARNER BROS. (2 BROS. : WARNER STARRING Eddie Red- CRIMESOF From Lion’s Dev Patel to mayne, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Kather-

Aquaman’s Jason Momoa and ); GRINDELWALD FANTASTIC OF CRIMES THE BEASTS: ine Waterston, A PRIVATE WAR A PRIVATE the twins on Big Little Lies, Dan Fogler WHAT COULD BE CUTER THAN THE Nicole Kidman has been rack- DIRECTED BY Wizarding World’s adorable coin-obsessed

David Yates PICTURES : AVIRON ing up quite an array of on- Niﬄers? Why, baby Niﬄers, of course. A antastic Beasts: screen sons. But playing Nancy RELEASE DATE whole gaggle of them. In F Eamons, the mother to Lucas The Crimes of Grindelwald, Newt Scamander 11.16 (Eddie Redmayne) tries to wrangle a litter Hedges’ Jared Eamons in Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased, struck a deep chord with her. The story is based on Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley, the true tale of a young man sent to a Christian gay conversion therapy camp by his religious parents. Often, families in these Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dornan circumstances disintegrate, STARRING Rosamund Pike, but “the mother is very much the Jamie Dornan bridge and the glue,” Kidman DIRECTED BY Matthew says of her role. “This family is Heineman still together, and that’s fascinating, as it shows that there is RELEASE DATE a way through.” —Piya Sinha-Roy 11.2 Nobody’s Fool parliamentary reform England stars Rachel NOV. 2 comes to life via Weisz, Emma Stone, director Mike Leigh. and Olivia Colman. Tyler Perry directs Tifany Haddish as a wild ex-con help- Shoplifters ing her sister (Tika NOV. 23 Sumpter) hunt the Legendary Japanese man who’s catfishing filmmaker Hirokazu her under the scruti- Kore-eda won the nizing watch of Palme d’Or at Cannes their mother (Whoopi for this touching Goldberg). drama about a family The Ballad of of crooks bonding Here and Now Buster Scruggs with a young drifter. NOV. 9 NOV. 16 Anna and the Sarah Jessica The Coen brothers Apocalypse ( Above ) Eddie Redmayne Parker dusts of her head into the and a baby Niffler; ( right ) NOV. 30 Broadway pipes American frontier concept art shows that for this haunting baby Nifflers are the size (again) with this This yuletide comedy of a couple of coins drama about a singer Western-inspired has the trimmings contemplating feature—which of a holiday classic:

: a grim medical diag- was originally slated musical numbers, nosis while wander- to be a Netflix ugly sweaters, and a ing Manhattan. anthology series. bloody zombie out- break at Christmas. ROBIN HOOD of newborns, which are just as mischievous as their parents. “They’re wreaking havoc,” Overlord Robin Hood NOV. 9 : GKIDS; NOV. 21 Redmayne says. Other new beasts in the MIRAI ﬁlm include the Kelpie (a Scottish under- J.J. Abrams produced English folk hero this action-horror film Robin Hood (Taron water creature that can be mounted and about a band of U.S. Egerton) fronts an : NETFLIX; ridden), the Leucrotta (a large moose- soldiers who discover action-packed story supernatural Nazi of revolt against the like creature with an impossibly huge experiments behind upper class, costar- mouth), and the Augurey (an owl-like enemy lines. ring Ben Mendelsohn and Jamie Foxx. creature whose cry is believed to foretell Mirai Peterloo NOV. 30 death—hmmm, shouldn’t that be called NOV. 9 The Favourite In a world where the BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS LARRY HORRICKS/LIONSGATE LARRY a Foreshadous?). —James Hibberd NOV. 23 The 1819 massacre past and present that left around a Yorgos Lanthimos’ coexist, a young boy dozen people dead at period tale of royal meets his family at the hands of the servants gunning for various stages of their British government Queen Anne’s afec- lives in this Japanese during a protest for tions in 18th-century animated fantasy.

Rosamund Pike says that screening A Private War for the family of Taron Egerton as the title character in Robin Hood slain war correspondent Marie Col- vin—who she plays in the biopic— marked the film’s “final frontier.” As the story centers on the years leading up to Colvin’s death by bombing in Syria in 2012, loved ones “were understandably quite suspicious,” Pike says. However, “bit by bit” they came to trust her. Seek- ing to capture the truth of a woman who “went to the uncomfortable places of the earth,” the Gone Girl Oscar nominee aimed to deliver a performance that director Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land) “could film at all times—whether I knew he was filming or not.” —Nick Romano 65 EW.COM PREVIEW

Mary Poppins Bumblebee P. 70 P. Returns 69 On the Basis Spider-Man: of Sex P. 71 Into the Aquaman P. 72 Spider-Verse P. 69 Welcome to Marwen P. 72 IN THIS Ben Is Back P.72 MONTH 66 EW.COM Saoirse Ronan as Mary Queen of Scots

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Saoirse Ronan, Josie Rourke Margot Robbie 12.7 Guy Pearce as William Cecil and Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I

THE FIRST TIME SAOIRSE RONAN AND women looking at each other and being con- story. A very, very complicated love story.” Margot Robbie saw each other on the set of fronted with their choices. It’s a moment Maybe that’s why Rourke finds it simpler Mary Queen of Scots, they ended up on the that’s deeply personal.” to explain her film’s take on Mary and Eliza- floor, crying in each other’s arms. And deeply emotional. The waterworks on beth’s relationship in classic fictional, even

It was Ronan’s first day as the titular set may have been caused by it being the only comic-book, terms. “If you’re doing Sher- AND SPREAD (PREVIOUS THIS PAGE royal, and Robbie’s last as her cousin and time the stars share the screen, but Robbie lock Holmes and Moriarty, you spend more rival, Elizabeth I. The two actresses had thinks those tears also stemmed from how time with Holmes, and if you’re doing Bat- been kept apart throughout rehearsals and much they’d delved into the tragedy of their man and the Joker, you tend to be production until then; Robbie filmed in characters’ histories. (For Elizabeth: Her [sympathetic] with Batman, but to power England, Ronan would be shooting in Scot- mother was beheaded by her father. For the story, the [protagonist] is locked into an land, and at their request, they never Mary: She lost her husband before she turned amazing psychodrama with a character who crossed paths in character prior to their sole 18. Both were often targeted by religious is both like him and the opposite,” she says. ) LIAM DANIEL scene together. “We really didn’t want to see groups, political conspirators, and marriage “What I really wanted to do was to do a

each other,” Ronan says. “I love Margot and treaties.) “I had underestimated how much movie in which two women got to do that.” /FOCUS FEATURES wanted to hang out, but we wanted [the pain was wrapped up in this power,” Robbie But wait—does that mean Elizabeth is DISNEY; meeting] to be this special thing.” says. “I think it just meant more.” the villain, akin to a psychopath in clown

Yet, when the time ﬁnally came for them Based on John Guy’s 2004 biography of makeup who just wants to watch the world SPIDER (2 ); -MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE to perform the queens’ confrontation, well… Mary, the film (penned by House of Cards burn? The heavy makeup’s there, but Mary (OPPOSITE PAGE “We were blubbering like idiots,” Ronan creator Beau Willimon) follows the 16th- Queen of Scots isn’t about one queen defeat- tells EW. “We just held each other for century rulers during the seven years when a ing the other; it’s more about them dealing ages, we wouldn’t let go. We were like widowed Mary returned to Scotland hoping with factors—devious counselors, male- ) [lowers her voice to demonstrate their sobbing], to reclaim her throne from Elizabeth. Though dominated courts—beyond their control. RETURNS POPPINS MARY “ ‘Huohooouuughh.’ ” She laughs. “I’ve never Elizabeth—nearly 500-year-old spoiler “This is a movie about the cost of power, experienced anything like that.” alert!—later orders Mary’s imprisonment about how often impossible it is for women, ANIMATION PICTURES : SONY Then again, her real-life counterpart never and execution, Robbie never thought of them no matter what choice they make, to be

did either. The Queen of Scots and the Vir- as true enemies. “They have this sisterhood, able to lead,” Rourke says. “It is a plea for : JAY MAIDMENT gin Queen never met, but theater director– this love for each other, but the love is com- us to think deep and hard about that while turned–ﬁrst-time ﬁlm helmer Josie Rourke plicated by the fact that each one’s survival looking at a part of our history.” Just don’t was inspired by the 19th-century Friedrich threatens the other,” she explains. “It’s a love forget to bring plenty of tissues. —Shirley Li / Schiller play Mary Stuart, in which Mary and Elizabeth talk on stage. “The whole concep- tion of the film for me was around that IT’S A . A VERY, VERY meeting,” Rourke says of the historical drama. “We really wanted to have our ver- LOVE STORY.” —MARGOT ROBBIE ON THE “SISTERHOOD” OF ELIZABETH I AND MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS sion of that famous scene, with these two MARY POPPINS RETURNS BETTER CATCH UP ON YOUR STARRING Emily Blunt, chores before Mary Poppins Lin-Manuel commands you this Christmas. Miranda Eighty-four years after writer P.L. Travers debuted the enigmatic DIRECTED BY nanny on the page and 54 years Rob Marshall after Julie Andrews immortalized her on screen, Emily Blunt and RELEASE DATE director Rob Marshall (Chicago) are shepherding Mary back to 12.19 Cherry Tree Lane. In the new film, set 25 years after the first, an economic slump has claimed the Banks family’s home and a tragic death has left Jane (Emily Mortimer), Michael (Ben Whishaw), and Michael’s three children without hope or joy. “The thing that’s so mortifying is when people say it’s a remake,” says Marshall. “Never. No one could touch that. But can we continue the tradition of that storytelling with our own cast, with Emily Blunt’s up in the air as Mary Poppins our own world, with our own sen- sibility? There’s more story to tell.” Blunt’s Mary Poppins is eccentric from Travers’ children’s books Mary Poppins has even taught as ever when she flies in to set than Disney’s 1964 film. “I’m so the 35-year-old actress a magical dispositions right. “She’s just diferent from this character, but lesson about herself, Blunt cack- such fun to play,” says Blunt, who I know a lot of people like her, so les: “How easily it comes to sought character guidance more it does feel very familiar.” Playing me to be uptight.” —Marc Snetiker

STARRING Spiders may be solitary creatures, but Spider- Shameik People are better together. The animated Spider- Moore, Man: Into the Spider-Verse follows Brooklyn Jake Johnson teen Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) as he gains superpowers after a spider bite. He DIRECTED BY initially tries to pursue a superhero solo career, Peter Ramsey, but soon finds himself teaming up with Spider- Bob Persichetti, People from other dimensions—like older, only- and Rodney sort-of-wiser Peter Parker (Jake Johnson). “They Rothman see something special in each other that they don’t necessarily see in themselves,” Johnson RELEASE DATE says. “They don’t necessarily want to need each other, but then in the end they kind of need Jake Johnson’s Spider-Man switches to battle mode 12.14 each other.” —Devan Coggan STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Hailee Steinfeld, Travis Knight Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux 12.21

Bumblebee

N THE ORIGINAL ’80S of the character is a webslinging Transformers cartoon, superhero who fights crime shape-shifting alien alongside novice wallcrawler-in- robots were easy to find, training Miles Morales (voiced by despite their disguises Shameik Moore), a role “so as cars, trucks, jets, and tape much fun to play around with,” decks. But good luck trying to Steinfeld says. “She kicks into spot women anywhere in that gear and that natural leader kicks boys-only universe. They were in, and then she’s Spider-Gwen.” the true rarity. Steinfeld was a natural leader With the live-action Bumble- on Bumblebee as well, according bee film (out Dec. 21), Oscar to director Travis Knight (Kubo nominee Hailee Steinfeld (True and the Two Strings). “She’s a Grit) shifts that dynamic with brilliant, intuitive actor,” he says. a lead role as teenage gearhead And most of the time she was Charlie Watson, who rescues acting opposite…nothing. The a battered Volkswagen Beetle director urged the visual-efects from the junkyard and finds her- artists to craft the Bumblebee self with a wounded Autobot that they see reflected in her warrior as her new best friend. eyes. “I told my animators, ‘She’s “It does, absolutely, feel signifi- your anchor,’ ” Knight says. cant to me,” says the actress “They are mirrors of each other. and singer. “Any opportunity in The subtlety and nuance she which I can play a role of a brings, our robot has to have that young female heroine, they’re same degree of performance.” few and far between. But this For Steinfeld, it was a was special to me because this matter of seeing Charlie as character is incredible and capa- someone who is still in a trans- ble of [changing] the world.” formation stage herself. “She’s Steinfeld, 21, is making her a mechanic,” the actress says. mark in multiple worlds, building “She’s into everything in the a second career as a pop star garage, and under the hood and also voicing the character of of a car, but she is also your typi- Gwen Stacy in the Dec. 14 ani- cal misunderstood teenager, mated feature Spider-Man: Into trying to find who she is in life.” the Spider-Verse. Her version —Anthony Breznican

Hailee Steinfeld looks into the eyes of Bumblebee PREVIEW

Felicity Jones makes room in a male-dominated space

ON THE BASIS OF SEX

“I BEGGED HER FOR ADVICE,” FELICITY JONES admits about meeting Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The actress plays her in Mimi Leder’s biopic On the Basis of Sex, which traces the life and legacy of the U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Ginsburg was “very gracious. She said, ‘I’ve seen your work and I trust you.’ ” According to Jones, Ginsburg has seen every

/FOCUS FEATURES draft of the script, penned by her nephew Daniel Stiepleman. The Oscar-nominated actress wanted to convey RBG’s humor and humanity, qualities she says Ginsburg had to suppress in the early stages of : JONATHAN WENK her legal career in order to be successful. “She had to be almost machine-like, and when you meet her, STARRING there is this wonderful empathy,” Jones says. Felicity Jones, Armie Ham- In this Time’s Up era, Jones explains that ON THE BASIS OF SEX mer, Justin Theroux Ginsburg—known for her ﬁerce defense of women’s rights and her dissenting opinions in DIRECTED BY court—has become a beacon for truth. “She has Mimi Leder never wavered from her beliefs, and there’s no Hailee Steinfeld : PARAMOUNT PICTURES; photographed RELEASE DATE hypocrisy. Not many people have lived a life like exclusively for EW that, and she truly has, which is why she has the on July 20, 2018, in

San Diego BUMBLEBEE 12.25 respect that she has now.” —Piya Sinha-Roy 71 EW.COM

PHOTOGRAPH BY BEN WATTS Amber Heard and Jason Momoa gather clues PREVIEW

Not all of James Wan’s fantastical Aquaman takes place STARRING in and around the deep blue sea. Here’s an exclusive Jason Momoa, look at a sequence in the ruins of one of the Seven Amber Heard, Kingdoms of Atlantis, located deep in the heart of the Patrick Wilson, African desert where Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) and Nicole Kidman Mera (Amber Heard) are on a quest to acquire the powerful Trident of Neptune to fight Aquaman’s brother, DIRECTED BY King Orm (Patrick Wilson). “They’ve been given an James Wan ancient recording device and this is the only place they can play it back to get a clue to the next step of their RELEASE DATE journey,” Wan says. “It’s like an ancient VHS player.” So in other words, like a VHS player. —James Hibberd 12.21

WELCOME TO MARWEN IS

STARRING While recovering from a brutal hate crime Steve Carell, that leaves him with memory loss, artist Leslie Mann, Mark Hogancamp began creating an elab- STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Janelle Monáe, orate miniature village populated by figures Julia Roberts, Peter Hedges Merritt Wever representing real and invented friends Lucas Hedges, that he would photograph in tableau. That Courtney B. 12.7 Vance DIRECTED BY real-life story was the basis of a 2010 docu- Robert mentary and is the inspiration for Robert Zemeckis Zemeckis’ latest film, which blends live IN THE BRUTALLY COLD NEW AQUAMAN

action and performance-capture animation York winter last year, Julia UNIVERSAL/DREAMWORKS; RELEASE DATE to represent Hogancamp’s own story, Roberts stood in a cemetery

and the stories he created. “He’s working as Holly, a mother asking COMICS; DC BROS./© : WARNER 12.21 out all of his emotional problems and deal- her son Ben—a recovering her- ing with the PTSD,” says Zemeckis. “And oin addict, played by Lucas then it turns out his photographs are highly Hedges—where he wants to regarded works of art.” —Dana Schwartz be buried if he overdoses again. BEN IS BACK The emotional scene comes Steve Carell halfway through Ben Is Back, WELCOME TO MARWEN during which Holly is torn by FEATURES WENK/FOCUS : JONATHAN the desire to host her son for Christmas knowing it’s not the best decision for his recovery. “While it’s in some ways a

maneuver, she’s also gotten to ARAQUEL/ : ED the point where her hope has cracked a little bit,” says Roberts of the scene.

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Sandra Bullock leads this post-apocalyp- tic horror movie about a mysterious alien force that causes violent mad- Capernaum ness in everyone who DEC. 14 sees it. Trevante Rhodes, Sarah Paul- This Lebanese son, and John Mal- drama—which won kovich costar. the Jury Prize at Cannes—tells the Holmes & Watson story of a 12-year-old DEC. 21 who sues his parents for bringing him into 221B Baker Street has the world. two new tenants. Will Ferrell dons the Mortal Engines detective’s deer- DEC. 14 stalker, with John C. Reilly as his compan- Buckle up: Producer ion. A deduction: Peter Jackson returns It’ll be a lot sillier than to fantasy for this Arthur Conan Doyle’s stylized, steampunk original text. Lucas Hedges clings to Julia Roberts adventure about dystopian cities on Untitled Adam McKay wheels. Dick Cheney Film DEC. 14

For McKay’s follow- up to The Big Short, Christian Bale went through another total body transformation to play former Vice President Dick Cheney. Amy Adams, Written and directed by thinking his son—acclaimed Sam Rockwell, and Lucas Hedges’ father, Peter for his roles in Manchester by Alita: Battle Angel Steve Carell costar. Hedges (Pieces of April), Ben Is the Sea and Lady Bird—wouldn’t DEC. 21 Back follows the Burns family be interested or available to Director Robert Roma over a 24-hour period starting play Ben. But then Roberts Rodriguez and pro- DEC. TBD Christmas Eve, when Ben signed on and Lucas’ schedule ducers James opened up. “I didn’t realize Cameron and Jon This black-and-white

: surprises his family at home; until we started what a risk it Landau bring the leg- autobiographical his mother decides to stay endary manga to drama from Alfonso with him the whole day so noth- was. He didn’t really need the big screen, with Cuarón centers on his ing goes wrong. Lucas, who to do this movie; his career’s Rosa Salazar as the middle-class family also stars in November’s Boy going just ﬁne. I needed him ass-kicking cyborg. in 1970s Mexico City.

ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL BATTLE ALITA: Erased, says the cemetery scene to do the movie more than he needed to be in the movie,” is pivotal for Ben. “It’s a Peter says, laughing. John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell in Holmes & Watson moment of real humility and : GILES KEYTE/COLUMBIA Lucas says his character deals a real ﬁght to survive.” with “something very potent.... Peter, whose writing credits include other ﬁlms like What’s In many respects, it’s a movie Eating Gilbert Grape and about shame,” he adds. For Rob- /SONY PICTURES CLASSICS;

HOLMES & WATSON & HOLMES About a Boy, explains that the erts, the ﬁlm highlights the 2016 presidential election and power of motherhood. “She’ll the national political divide do anything for her family; she is ferocious in her faith and love : FARES SOKHON inspired him to explore a family story of “the damage we do and belief,” she says. “That’s a to each other when one of us very relatable theme for every TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX; CAPERNAUM isn’t well.” He wrote the script mom.” —Piya Sinha-Roy Black 47 James Frecheville Hell Fest Slasher horror Hold the Dark Jeffrey Wright Matangi/Maya/M.I.A Doc on the pop star

Monsters and Men REALMS FOUR THE AND NUTCRACKER THE John David Washington Night School Kevin Hart, THE GRINCH Tiffany Haddish The Old Man & the Gun PICTURES; UNIVERSAL AND : ILLUMINATION Robert Redford Smallfoot Animated with

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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Nov. 2) OCT 5 FANTASTIC OF GRINDELWALD CRIMES THE BEASTS: CREED II CREED Bayou Caviar The Public The Sisters Brothers Cuba Gooding Jr.

SEPT 14 Image Is Rotten John C. Reilly, : BARRY WETCHER/MGM; Doc on John Lydon, Joaquin Phoenix The Great Buster: American a.k.a. Johnny Rotten A Celebration The Song of Sway Lake Chaos Doc on Buster Keaton SEPTE 7 Rory Culkin Doc on Trump Science Fair Documentary Living in the supporters Tea With the Dames Haal Future’s Past Eileen Atkins, Judi Doc on Hal Ashby The Angel A Simple Favor Doc with Jeff Bridges

Dench, Maggie Smith, HALLOWEEN Marwan Kenzari Anna Kendrick Kuusama - Infinity Joan Plowright Private Life Doc on artist Bel Canto White Boy Rick Kathryn Hahn, Creed II Quincy Yayoi Kusama Julianne Moore, Matthew Paul Giamatti (Nov. 21) Doc on Quincy Jones Ken Watanabe McConaughey : RYAN GREEN/UNIVERSAL; Thhe Nun Ride Where Hands Touch BROS. : JAAP BUITENDIJK/WARNER Taissa Farmiga Final Score Jessie T. Usher, Amandla Stenberg Dave Bautista Bella Thorne Peeppermint SEPT 21 Jennnifer Garner I Think We’re A Star Is Born Alone Now Colette Bradley Cooper, Sierra Burgess SEPT 28 Peter Dinklage, Keira Knightley Lady Gaga Is a Loser Elle Fanning Shannon PPurserurser All About Nina Studio 54 The House DR. SEUSS’ The Land of With a Clock Mary Elizabeth Winstead Doc on the nightclub Steeady Habits in Its Walls Ben Bad Reputation Venom Cate Blanchett, Doc on Joan Jett Tom Hardy Mendelsohn Jack Black Halloween Lizzzie Life Itself Chloë Sevigny (Oct. 19) Oscar Isaac, Maandy Olivia Wilde Niccolas Cage Little Italy MDDMA Hayden Christensen, Annie Q. Emma Roberts PaP tient Zero Love, Gilda MMatt Smith Doc on Gilda Radner The Predator Nappily Ever Affter Boyyd Holbrook Sanaa Lathan

Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (Nov. 9) Spider-Man: NOV 23 Into the Spider-Verse Becoming Astrid Shameik Moore Biopic of Astrid Lindgren Untitled Adam McKay Dick Cheney Film The Favourite Christian Bale Olivia Colman Shoplifters Family drama by DEC 19 Hirokazu Koreeda Mary Poppins Halloween Suspiria Fantastic Beasts: Returns OCT 10 Jamie Lee Curtis Dakota Johnson The Crimes Emily Blunt of Grindelwald NOV 30 The Hate U Give The Happy Prince Eddie Redmayne Amandla Stenberg Rupert Everett NOV 7 Anna and the DEC 21 Widows Apocalypse Serenity Viola Davis Holiday zombie musical Anne Hathaway, The Front Runner Alita: Battle Angel Matthew McConaughey OCT 12 Hugh Jackman Happy as Lazzaro Rosa Salazar What They Had NOV 21 By Alice Rohrwacher Aquaman Apostle Hilary Swank Dan Stevens Jason Momoa NOV 9 Creed II If Beale Street Wildlife Could Talk Bad Times Michael B. Jordan Bird Box Carey Mulligan, Directed by Barry Jenkins at the El Royale Ed Oxenbould Dr. Seuss’ Sandra Bullock Jon Hamm, Cynthia Erivo The Grinch Green Book Benedict Viggo Mortensen, Mirai Bumblebee Beautiful Boy Cumberbatch Mahershala Ali Anime Hailee Steinfeld Timothée Chalamet, OCT 26 Steve Carell The Girl in the Spider’s Web First Man 1985 Claire Foy Ryan Gosling Cory Michael Smith Here and Now Goosebumps 2: Air Strike Sarah Jessica Parker Haunted Halloween Bruce Willis Wendi McLendon-Covey The Long Don’t Go Dumb Road The Kindergarten Stephen Dorff, Jason Teacher Melissa George Mantzoukas Maggie Gyllenhaal Hunter Killer Outlaw King The Oath Gerard Butler Chris Pine Ike Barinholtz Indivisible Overlord Sarah Drew Producer J.J. Abrams OCT 16 Johnny English Peterloo Strikes Again Directed by Mike Leigh 55 Steps Rowan Atkinson Helena Bonham Carter Time Freak Maria by Callas Sophie Turner, Doc on the opera singer Asa Butterfield OCT 19 Shirkers Doc by Sandi Tan

: KIMBERLY FRENCH/FOX NOV 11 22 July The Hate U Give (Oct. 19) Directed by Paul Speed Kills Greengrass John Travolta

THE PREDATOR THE Can You Ever Ralph Breaks Cold War Forgive Me? the Internet By Paweł Pawlikowski /FOX; Melissa McCarthy NOV 2 NOV 16 John C. Reilly Holmes & Watson An Evening With Robin Hood Bohemian Rhapsody Will Ferrell, Beverly Luff Linn Anchor and Hope Taron Egerton DEC 7 Aubrey Plaza Rami Malek Natalia Tena, John C. Reilly : ERIKA DOSS Second Act Ben Is Back Welcome Galveston Boy Erased Jennifer Lopez Ben Foster Lucas Hedges Julia Roberts, to Marwen Lucas Hedges Steve Carell The Guilty Nobody’s Fool Tiffany Haddish, Mary Queen of Scots THE HATE U GIVE U HATE THE Thriller Tika Sumpter Saoirse Ronan DEC 25 The Nutcracker Under the and the Four Real Silver Lake On the Basis Mackenzie Foy The Andrew Garfield Fantastic of Sex Predator Felicity Jones Beasts: The The Other Side of (Sept. 14) Crimes of Wind + They’ll Lo Grindelwald Me When I’m Dea DEC 14 (Nov. 16) Orson Welles’ DEC 28 previously unfinish Capernaum film + documentary By Nadine Labaki The House A Private War Mortal Engines That Jack Built Rosamund Pike Based on the novel By Lars von Trier Movies

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Scenes from a marriage: Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce

wrought chamber piece, a marital drama The Wife whose strained containment feels like a glass that has to crack. (And it will.) STARRING DIRECTED BY As the movie opens in wintry 1992 Con- Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Björn Runge necticut, Joe is about to ﬁnd out whether he’s Christian Slater, Max Irons reached the pinnacle of his already vaunted RATING LENGTH REVIEW BY career: a Nobel Prize for Literature. Waiting R 1 hr., 40 mins. Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats for the predawn phone call, he’s a mess; anxious, scattered, ricocheting between self-

soothing snacks and pleas for quickie sex. GRAEME HUNTER “WIFE” FEELS LIKE TOO SMALL A WORD FOR WHAT Joan is calmer, though her eyes go wide when Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) is to her novelist husband, the news ﬁnally comes. Still, she hardly lin-

Joe (Jonathan Pryce). In his day-to-day, she’s so much gers in the moment, because that’s her cue to /SONY PICTURES CLASSICS more: diplomat, consigliere, nursemaid, North Star. But go to work—navigating the celebratory calls is there something else missing from her spousal résumé, and cocktail parties, making preparations for a contribution she’s spent half a lifetime uncredited for? the upcoming ceremony in Stockholm. Director Björn Runge takes his Scandinavian time It’s also the script’s cue to ﬂash back to unpacking the answer to that question in this tense, ﬁnely Smith College circa 1958, where young Joan

76 EW.COM FALL MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 REEL In the Black Black Panther just NEWS became the third film ever to cross $700 million domestically. High Times Thousands of Mission: Impossible fans met to watch Fallout atop a 2,000-foot clif in Norway.

Jason (Close’s real-life daughter, Annie Starke) is a Statham demure WASP lit major with a real brain and friend beneath her blond curls and twinsets, and Joe (Harry Lloyd) is her professor, a Jewish The Meg boy from the city who cracks walnut shells RANKING 2018’S GIANT from his pocket and makes all the coeds STARRING Jason Statham, Rainn Wilson | RATING PG-13 CREATURES swoon with his James Joyce quotes. She has DIRECTED BY Jon Turteltaub | LENGTH 1 hr., 53 mins. BY SIZE a crush from the start; he’s married, but not BY DEREK LAWRENCE REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty happily. They both burn to write great ﬁction, though neither is successful yet. (Elizabeth McGovern has a sharp little cameo, too, as a WHAT WOULD SUMMER BE WITHOUT A KILLER- 4 boozy alumnus keen to warn Joan what lies in shark movie? Ever since Jaws attacked the store for lady novelists who dare to dream.) box oﬃce and the beaches of Amity in 1975, GEORGE Fans of the best-selling 2003 Meg Wolitzer Hollywood has been trying to duplicate its giddy Great Rampage novel on which the movie is based might White mayhem, chumming the multiplex waters with 30 feet tall (4.74 remember a slower unfurling of the secret at B-movie wannabes. Two years ago, we got The Shallows. Dwayne Johnsons) the center of the story; Emmy-winning Last summer, we had 47 Meters Down. Now we’re : UNIVERSAL/AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT/LEGENDARY PICTURES PRODUCTIONS UNIVERSAL/AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT/LEGENDARY : screenwriter Jane Anderson (Olive Kitteridge) treated to the deliriously goofy sight of bullet-headed 3 leans on it much earlier, and heavier. She also Cockney badass Jason Statham going mano a mano turns the couple’s three children into two— with not just any deep-sea predator, but a 75-foot-long including Max Irons as the son yearning for megalodon—a prehistoric killing machine long thought BRACHIOSAURUS his father’s approval—but keeps Nathaniel to be as extinct as the woolly mammoth. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Bone (Christian Slater) as Joe’s aspiring biog- Through a fluke of science too absurd to explain 41 feet tall (half the

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM rapher, a sort of ingratiating human mosquito (the movie only half-heartedly tries), this Jurassic drop of Universal’s who refuses to take no for an answer. shark has slipped through a crack in the ocean ﬂoor oﬀ Jurassic Park ride) Welsh actor Pryce (Game of Thrones) is fan- the coast of China to wreak havoc on an underwater

tastic, a fussy, adulterous egoist in the Great research facility and its hubristic billionaire benefactor 2 Man mold of Norman Mailer or Philip Roth, (a smug-but-not-smug-enough Rainn Wilson). Since with his own touchingly real frailties. But the this is a Statham vehicle, his can-do salvage specialist movie belongs to Close, whose face, as she is character, Jonas Taylor, is given a tragic and perfunc- MEGALODON : LEGENDARY PICTURES/UNIVERSAL; LEGENDARY : courted and patronized, sexually betrayed and tory backstory that offers up a chance of manly The Meg 75 feet long (Jaws’ damned with faint praise, is a marvel of emo- redemption. It’s pure nonsense. But if that’s the kind of shark times three) tional intelligence and control; in the thrilling thing that’s going to trip you up, well, there’s a wonder- release of the revelatory ﬁnal scenes, she’s a ful Mr. Rogers documentary playing two doors down. PACIFIC RIM UPRISING hurricane. “Don’t paint me as a victim,” she I’ll be honest, The Meg isn’t nearly as good (or as 1 tells Bone at one point. “I am much more white-knuckle gory) as the movie I had imagined in my interesting than that.” And it’s true, even if head. The CGI is medicore at best, and a romantic sub- the ﬁlm—like her husband, and the world at plot with a single-mom scientist (Li Bingbing)is MEGA KAIJU

: WARNER BROS. (3); Paciﬁc Rim: Uprising large—can never quite catch up. B+ sentimental hooey. But it is ridiculous, cheesy popcorn 500 feet tall (one-seventh of the

RAMPAGE fun. And Statham, God bless him, knows exactly what , THE WIFE skyscraper DID YOU LOVE ? You might also like kind of guilty pleasure he’s signed on for—Sharknado Amour (2012), Take This Waltz (2011), and in Skyscraper)

THE MEG THE Albert Nobbs (2011). with a bigger budget and a much bigger monster. B–

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IN KEVIN KWAN’S BEST-SELLER, RACHEL (CONSTANCE WU) meets Eleanor (Michelle Yeoh), the imposing mother of her boyfriend Nick (Henry Golding), while surrounded by Eleanor’s friends, but screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim wanted to make the pivotal sequence more intimate on screen. Here’s how they did it. —Shirley Li

Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding, and Constance Wu

Nick barely speaks, but that’s because 5,65+27/'%( he, like Rachel, hopes Eleanor approves. 62$&+(/ ,&.6(//50(;27<4($342)(5524 “The few lines he has, he’s setting Rachel 622!+$6'2;276($&+ up,” Lim explains. “‘She’s an economics professor—it doesn’t get more impres- Eleanor’s kitchen proved the &2120,&5 sive than that! You must like her, Mom!’ perfect setting to demonstrate Those are all the things that are unsaid.” her dominance. “The two big +(<5%4,//,$16" <5;271*(56 aspects of Asian culture are )$&7/6;0(0%(4 food and parenting,” Lim says. 2,&.$1'$&+(/<557434,5(/($12457''(1/;/($8(5 “This shows Eleanor’s power.” 6+(&218(45$6,2162,153(&6$64$;2)+245'<2(784(5 Her dismissive turn toward the +(),:(56+(64$;$1'6+(14(67415 hors d’oeuvres emphasizes that point. “She’s showing that the Rachel may be rambling 2(&2120,&565271'5 food is more important than a bit, but she’s telling &+$//(1*,1* meeting her son’s girlfriend,” 57%6/;),5+,1* Chiarelli says, laughing. her mother’s immigrant 4(;2743$4(165$&$'(0,&5622 story, which she thinks “It is kind of awful, but still.” Eleanorwilladmire. ;020','1<6*262&2//(*(+( Spoiler alert: It gets lost %$4(/;532.(1*/,5+9+(19( in translation. (Eleanor ,00,*4$6('626+(6$6(50($1 puts family, not indepen- 5+('2(5129+((8(1376 +(45(/)6+427*+4($/6245&+22/ dence, first.) “What 9+,/(9$,6,1*6$%/(5 we wanted to hit again -2.(%4$* and again is that these 295+(<5/75+,1*<5623&/25(4 Eleanor’s reaction is women are both Asian ,&.*/$1&(5$6+,5026+(4*$7*,1*+(44($&6,21 tough to read, but that and both Chinese, but was Chiarelli and speak two entirely difer- Lim’s goal from the ent languages,” Lim says. 5(/)0$'(920$1+(0756%( 8(4;3427'2);27 beginning: to have her come across warm +(.1295<03$55,21$6($%2760; and cordial, but also 924.$1'5+(<5$/9$;59$16('6+$6 cold. Yeoh “wasn’t )240( here to play the villain,” Lim says. Elea- +7457,1*21(<53$55,21 nor “reminded me of 290(4,&$1 my mother and every Just to be clear: Eleanor other Asian mother. wasn’t giving a compli- 65271'5/,.($&203/,0(16%76$&+(/,51<6(16,4(/; 574(/($12467415$9$;$*$,1626$/.62$3$55,1* [Her actions] come ment. But, Chiarelli %()24(4(6741,1*62$&+(/ from a place of love.”

explains, “that’s what SANJA BUCKO Rachel has to learn as the !(//;274026+(45271'58(4;23(1 movie goes on.” And at 0,1'(' this rate, she’ll speak flu-

BROS. /WARNER ent high-society (passive) aggression soon enough.

78 EW.COM FALL MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 BlacKkKlansman

STARRING John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace

DIRECTED BY Spike Lee | RATING R

LENGTH 2 hrs., 15 mins. | REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty

SPIKE LEE HAS NEVER BEEN noticing a recruitment ad for the Klan in what you’d call a subtle film- the newspaper, he calls the number posing maker. His implement of choice as a white racist eager to join up. The bile is the cudgel rather than the scalpel. But if he spews into the receiver quickly gets him there were ever a time where a light touch a meeting with the leader of the local chap- was beside the point, it’s America in 2018. ter (Ryan Eggold). Stallworth obviously Lee’s latest joint, BlacKkKlansman,isset can’t go himself, so he enlists his fellow four decades in the past, yet its ﬁery mes- officer Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), sage couldn’t be more timely—and its rage who happens to be Jewish, as his surrogate, more justiﬁed. It’s easily the director’s best like Cyrano de Bergerac in a white hood. JOHNDAVID movie since 2002’s 25th Hour. BlacKkKlansman is essentially a tense Based on the impossibly true story of Ron (and occasionally hilarious) sting-operation WASHINGTON

Stallworth, an African-American police offi- procedural. But it carries the urgent and WHY YOU WHY YOU KNOW HIM WILL KNOW HIM cer in Colorado Springs who went unmistakably foul stench of truth as He is Ricky on He leads Lee’s undercover in the late ’70s to slip into the Ku Stallworth and Zimmerman work their way Ballers and played a BlaKkKlansman student in Spike Lee’s and supports in Klux Klan, Lee’s film is like “history written up the Klan’s organizational ladder to 1992 film Malcolm Monsters and in lightning.” That phrase was once used to Grand Wizard David Duke (a businesslike, X—in which his dad, Men and The Old describe 1915’s The Birth of a Nation—an banality-of-evil Topher Grace). You don’t Denzel, starred. Man & the Gun. incendiary, race-baiting epic about the Klan, have to squint very hard to see the sicken- ACTOR JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON which Lee injects into his movie. The gambit ing parallels between Colorado in the ’70s plays a diferent law enforcement may be on the nose, but it’s artful and it and, say, a place like Charlottesville just last oficial in each of his three theatrical releases this year: He’s Lieutenant works. After all, his story is just as repellent. summer. But Lee isn’t trying to observe Kelley in the Robert Redford starrer Stallworth is played by John David Wash- niceties or be coy. He wants to rub our The Old Man & the Gun and a Brooklyn ington (son of Denzel), and he has much of noses in the ugliness of the now. These days, policeman in Reinaldo Marcus Green’s drama Monsters and Men, and impres- his father’s cool poise and charisma. After the stakes are too high for subtlety. B+ sively spearheads Spike Lee’s BlacK- kKlansman (out Aug. 10) as Ron TERSTOCK Stallworth, a real-life Colorado Springs Adam Driver and John David Washington get their KKK membership card detective who infiltrates the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in the ’70s. “I don’t know if in another life I was in law enforcement, because it all worked out that way,” he says. “I have a deeper and more in-depth perspective of what the men and women of color who are serving their communities have to go through to protect strangers.” For Stallworth, serving the community means gathering intel on the KKK’s schemes with phone calls to David Duke (played by Topher Grace) and sending his white cohort Flip Zim- merman (Adam Driver) to in-person meetings. The result is a mix of drama, horror, comedy, history, and even romance. “This story couldn’t have /FOCUS FEATURES; WASHINGTON: STEPHEN LOVEKIN/VARIETY/REX/SHUT been told by anybody else. Spike Lee and [producer] Jordan Peele were the

: DAVID LEE only ones...with pedigree and skills to make the perfect balance. The nature of these scenarios was so ridiculous that you‘d think somebody made this up. Which gave us license to—for lack of a

BLACKKKLANSMAN better term—keep it real.” —Katie Hasty

FALL MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 EW.COM 79 ETHAN HAWKE TWOFER! OUTWITHA BLAZE Late country singer-songwriter Blaze Foley is revered by peers like Willie Nelson and John Prine but remains a cult figure. Director Ethan Hawke, 47, explains why he told Foley’s captivating, complicated tale in Blaze. BY SARAH RODMAN

Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke meet cute How does Blaze difer from other films of its ilk? One of the things that I get so frustrated Juliet, Naked down on his bird-surname destiny). about when I watch music biopics is almost Working from Nick Hornby’s novel, direc- every musician I’ve ever met in my life is STARRING Ethan Hawke, Rose Byrne tor Jesse Peretz (GLOW, Girls) has made the not famous. And yet every music biopic is about a giant Grammy-winning millionaire, DIRECTED BY Jesse Peretz kind of shaggy, low-key comedy whose mod- whereas most musicians are met with esty is half its charm. O’Dowd’s Duncan is the absolute indiference their whole lives. And RATING R | LENGTH 1 hr., 38 mins. perfect archetype of an insufferable culture I thought that Blaze could really be a champion of all those people. That was my hope. REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats vulture, a film professor who regales students with his elaborate theories (don’t they know What songs are the best primers for A NO. 1 FAN, AS ANYONE WHO’S The Wire is really just a stand-in for Greek Foley’s music? I would listen to “If I Could Only Fly,” “Picture ever seen Misery knows, is a dan- myth, and also Dickens?) and buries Annie in Cards Can’t Picture You,” “Cold Cold World,” gerous thing. But the love Duncan indie-rock esoterica. Hawke, fresh off the and “Oval Room,” start there. (Chris O’Dowd) has for Tucker Crowe, “one surreal intensity of his disturbed minister in Ben Dickey as Blaze Foley and Ethan Hawke of the most seminal and yet unsung figures of First Reformed, is all shambolic flannel and alternative rock,” is mostly just a drag to his regret as a star who walked away at the peak long-suffering girlfriend, frustrated museum of his ’90s-demimonde fame and disap- curator Annie (Rose Byrne). Their little life peared into legend—or, more accurately, an together in a British seaside village seems ex-wife’s garden shed. The plot is a wisp and depressingly settled until, in a twist of inter- Byrne is far too luminous for her sad-sack net fate, Annie connects with the actual role, but Juliet still feels winning; the small, Crowe (Ethan Hawke, apparently doubling sweet grace note on a familiar melody. B+

ActorSeekingFranchise After three consecutive films covering tragic true stories, Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg are ready to have some fun—and start a possible franchise with Mile 22 (out Aug. 17). BY DEREK LAWRENCE JULIET, NAKED NO OFFENSE, TRANSFORMERS, Berg, 56. “It would be nice passionate and excited about was intrigued by the chance to but Mark Wahlberg is on the to have,” says Wahlberg, 47, and can rev up and deliver is of play the film’s villain James Silva, hunt for a signature action fran- who also has another possible great interest. I’ve played some the character eventually evolved : ALEX BAILEY/LIONSGATE/ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS; chise to call his own. That search franchise-worthy story line set memorable characters during into the film’s protagonist and BLAZE led the star to Mile 22, his latest up with the director. “Finding my career, but something you head of a covert government collaboration with helmer Peter something of my own that I’m can continue to come back to, team tasked with bringing a key : SUNDANCE SELECTS; I haven’t done that.” asset—you guessed it—22 miles Mark Wahlberg in Mile 22 Mile 22 wasn’t originally to safety. “[Silva] reminded me that: It was first eyed as a smaller of Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugi- movie starring Iko Uwais and tive,” shares Wahlberg. “He didn’t

Ronda Rousey (who now play give a s---. This is what I got to do. MILE 22 supporting characters), but the Everybody else, figure it out.” studio wanted to go bigger—and Now Wahlberg waits to : STXFILMS it doesn’t get much bigger than see if—like Jones—he can bring the Ted actor. Though Wahlberg his character back for more. “FAST-PACED, Movies FEMINIST, AND A MORE ON EW.COM NOW PLAYING To read full reviews, head to PERFECT Your complete guide to films in theaters this week ew.com/movies SUMMER ADVENTURE READ.”

: FILMRISE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT Directed by Christopher McQuarrie Starring Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson W –BUSTLE It delivers. More than that, it’s become the rare franchise that seems to just get better, twistier, and more deliriously fun with each installment. A

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN | Directed by Marc Forster Starring Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael W Robin (McGregor) grows up, but Forster (Finding Neverland) never quite finds the magic in A.A. Milne’s timeless tale, or in THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST CAMERON OF MISEDUCATION THE his koan-spouting bear. This Pooh, alas, is no Paddington 2. B–

THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME | Directed by Susanna Fogel Starring Kate McKinnon, Mila Kunis, Justin Theroux W Imagine Spy but about a third as funny and you’ve got something like this half-baked action comedy with McKin- non and Kunis as two BFFs unwittingly swept up in a globe- : LINDA KALLERUS/NETFLIX; trotting espionage plot with many missed opportunities. C–

LIKE FATHER LIKE ESCAPES

THE DARKEST MINDS | Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson Starring Amandla Stenberg, Harris Dickinson, Mandy Moore W Ruby’s (Stenberg) tribulations, on the run with a group of trope archetypes, mean we’re left with a Mad Libs version : DANIEL MCFADDEN/FOX; DANIEL : of a dystopian YA adaptation: no depth, no new ideas. D+

LIKE FATHER | Directed by Lauren Miller Rogen Starring Kristen Bell, Kelsey Grammer NL A type A ad executive brings her estranged dad on what THE DARKEST MINDS DARKEST THE should have been her honeymoon cruise. The movie is minor, but Bell and Grammer have real, sweet chemistry. B

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Mayans MC follows the eponymous South- Mayans MC ern California club through the eyes of a

DATE TIME NETWORK REVIEW BY prospect named Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes (J.D. Debuts Sept. 4 10 p.m. FX Kristen Baldwin @KristenGBaldwin Pardo), a college kid-turned-convict with a heart for poetry and a photographic memory. EZ also has a secret, one that keeps him SONS OF ANARCHY MADE REGULAR ALLUSIONS TO THE BROADER on the fringes of this band of outsiders, and biker world beyond its setting of Charming, California. one that could prove deadly to his brother The club had frequent run-ins with rivals the Mayans, Angel (Clayton Cardenas), a full-patch and there were hints of SOA charters as far-flung as Rus- member of the Mayans. sia. The new FX series Mayans MC shares some DNA The club earns their living smuggling her- with Sons: Emilio Rivera reprises his role as Oakland oin for the Galindo cartel, led by Miguel charter president Marcus Alvarez, a major SOA charac- (Danny Pino), a Cornell grad with impec- ter pops up in a flashback, both shows bear creator Kurt cable suits and a taste for torture. Much of Sutter’s penchant for graphic violence and gratuitously the action in the first two episodes centers shirtless studs. But Mayans already feels like a new, on Miguel’s war with Los Olvidados, a Mexi- albeit comfortably familiar, entity. can rebel group that wants to destroy the Taking place two-plus years after the Sons finale, cartel. That battle provides bursts of

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testosterone-fueled action (explosions, wrecked cars, a full-on brawl in a dog shel- THIS ter), but the core of Mayans MC—like Sons SEASON before it—are the stories of the leather-clad CONTAINS men behind the muscle. Angel, a gentle There’s way more John Krasinski looking his vest giant with a kind smile, harbors ambitions than motorcycles in the first season that could put him at odds with the club’s of Mayans MC Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan stern president, Bishop (Michael Irby). EZ DATE Launches Aug. 31 | TIME Streaming regularly seeks refuge from club drama in the butcher shop owned by his pop (Edward NETWORK Amazon

James Olmos). As Felipe Reyes, Olmos REVIEW BY Darren Franich @DarrenFranich radiates gruﬀ warmth and papa-bear protec- tiveness; his steely gaze can transform anything, even a piece of trivia about bovine TOM CLANCY’S BEST SELLING BOOKS ABOUT

anatomy, into a chilling threat. PARTY DRESSES CIA agent Jack Ryan wrought a whole indus- Lurking under the machismo is a fierce The Mayans use try. There was the oft-rebooted film series, shipments of love that binds the Mayans together, and this flouncy quince- variously starring Indiana Jones, Batman, Captain Kirk, brotherhood is drawn with heart and humor. añera dresses to and Jack Donaghy. There is the ongoing videogame smuggle the The bikers always have an action-hero quip cartel’s drugs. franchise offering meticulous fantasies of killfest impe- at the ready (Angel to a driver whose car just rialism. Taken together, the Clancy pantheon comprises flipped: “How was your visit to the Upside an insane universe brimming with nuclear terror and Down?”), and American Crime’s Richard political hysteria. That also describes a typical Tuesday Cabral is a sly delight as Coco (the scruffy in 2018. So the time feels right for Amazon’s Jack Ryan, Mayan’s corny-but-endearing catchphrase: an intriguing, yet exasperating, reboot. COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES; “My bad!”)—though his haunted eyes signal A prequel to Clancy’s novels, the first four episodes there’s more to him than comic relief. The capture the unwieldy realities of modern warfare. least interesting thread so far is the love tri- FRESH MEAT A mysterious powermonger named Suleiman (Ali angle: Miguel is married to EZ’s ex, Emily The butcher shop Suliman) rises in Syria, and his suspicious money trail owned by EZ’s dad (Sarah Bolger), which feels more like a doubles as the puts him in the path of Ryan (John Krasinski), a Lang- perfect place to “something for the ladies” network mandate hold clandestine ley number cruncher unexpectedly promoted to than an organic part of the story. meetings. gun-toting field work. The expansive storytelling Mayans benefits from the richness of its finds room for fascinating supporting characters— source material, and for Sons fans it’ll fit like Suleiman’s wife Hani (Dina Shihabi) has a complicated a well-worn cut. The premiere opens on the agenda, Ryan’s boss James Greer (Wendell Pierce) image of a dog digging into the guts of a finds complex solace in his own Islamic practice—but dead crow. There’s a roar in the distance, sensitivity dwindles against jingoistic excess. Mysteri- and the mutt darts away just as a motor- SOA CAMEOS ous brown people kill innocent white Parisians; a cycle crushes the bird’s carcass under its Two very familiar Muslim character describes an American drone strike

: FX; TOM CLANCY’S JACK RYAN: JAN THIJS/AMAZON STUDIOS faces from Sons wheels. The crow is a nod to one of the ﬁnal make surprise as an act of God. You never want to make 24 look appearances early : PRASHANT DRESS: GUPTA/FX; : STEAK: FOOD PHOTO; STOCK PRESS/ALAMY PACIFIC images in Sons, and the message from Sutter on—one via subtle. Krasinski works hard to balance explosive spy is clear: Sons of Anarchy is dead. Long live flashback. action with moral complication, but, ultimately, Jack MAYANS MC MAYANS SONS OF ANARCHY OF SONS the Sons! B+ Ryan hasn’t ﬁgured out Jack Ryan. B–

FALL MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 EW.COM 83 Welcome (Back) to The Break out your Chrismukkah sweater! Fifteen years after filming the first episode of his soapy teen drama, creator

THE YEAR 2003 SAW THE END HOLLYWOOD’S of Buffy the Vampire Slayer GREATEST and Dawson’s Creek, and, UNTOLD STORIES therefore, the end of an era of not just teen dramas but teen phenomenons. Suddenly, there was a hole in network television, and it was one The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz would fill. “This was a space that Fox really wanted aggressively to get into,” Schwartz says. “It was definitely in the air that it felt like there hadn’t been a new show like this in a while.” Enter Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie), the handsome outsider from the wrong side of the tracks. His journey from grainy Chino to shiny Orange County introduced him (and viewers) to a world filled with secrets, McMansions, and Cohen-y Cohenisms. Over its 27- episode first season, The O.C. became a phenomenon of its own. And it all began with one heck of a pilot.

THE GEEK WHO MADE IT CHIC With a comic-book-loving Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) at the center of the story, The O.C. introduced a new kind of male lead.

SCHWARTZ At first, [Seth] was even nerdier—a little bit more Freaks and Geeks energy. But the biggest change was when we found Adam Brody. He added a confidence in his insecurity, and obviously he was also very appealing

( Clockwise from top left ) Tate Donovan, Rachel Bilson, Melinda Clarke, Peter Gallagher, Kelly Rowan, Chris Carmack, Adam Brody, Ben McKenzie, and Mischa Barton in 2003

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to women; he really helped sell EUREKA, RYAN! the character. The model had It’s never a given that a pilot always been “Get your Luke is going to work, but Schwartz Perry and your Jason Priestley.” recalls a few scenes that made them feel like they had some- Not “Get your Luke Perry and thing. (Remember Chester?) then a nerdy Jewish kid who has a plastic horse that he talks to.” SCHWARTZ The first time Ryan and Seth met, we were laughing FATHER FIGURE and enjoying ourselves. Then Guiding Seth and Ryan was there’s a scene at Marissa’s the very wise—just look at those eyebrows!—Sandy Cohen [Mischa Barton] fashion show (Peter Gallagher), a New York and Ryan and Seth sit with the transplant with a lifelong little kids and Chester, the one desire to help the little guy. kid who goes to [Seth’s] sailing lessons. Seeing those two guys SCHWARTZ We loved the idea sitting at a table of young kids, of this Jewish liberal from New and there’s Luke [Chris Carmack] York who had kind of settled and his water-polo posse, and into the California dream with Marissa’s coming out on the the shiksa goddess whose fam- catwalk. That was a moment ily could not be WASPier, but I remember feeling like, “This that he was still trying to hold feels exciting and fun.” on to his values and be a voice of good and a conscience in A LITTLE HELP FROM a place that wasn’t known for MOTHER NATURE that. That was just a really fun No teen drama is complete with- character and something that out a will-they/won’t-they couple. For The O.C., that was Ryan, the Peter really ran with. He was bad boy with a big heart, and the first person we cast. Marissa, the girl next door with ( From top ) Ben McKenzie and Peter aloveofChanel(andvodka). CALIFORNIA, HERE WE COME Gallagher are tied up; Mischa Barton gets lit In the midst of writing the pilot, SCHWARTZ A wind picked up Schwartz & Co. were also craft- when we were shooting the ing a trailer to show executives. scene where Ryan and Marissa AN UNFORGETTABLE THE FIRST MUSIC MOMENT It was during that process that WELCOME first meet in the driveway. You The O.C. would become known they found the theme song, All fans know the line: On the for its musical choices, which Phantom Planet’s “California.” know how some actors can beach at Holly’s party, Luke started when Schwartz wrote always find the light? Mischa punches Ryan before telling Joseph Arthur’s “Honey and the SCHWARTZ We worried the song found the wind. It was also the him, “Welcome to the O.C., Moon” into the pilot’s ending. was overplayed, but we thought first and only time we had a bitch.” But what would become it would be efective for the teenager smoking a cigarette a catchphrase for the series SCHWARTZ Doug Liman shot trailer. What we came to realize started as Schwartz’s way to the pilot and there was a scene on network TV. The deal with simply get the series title into was a lot of people hadn’t heard the network was “It’s a moment the episode. where Ryan’s backing out of the the song when it first came out, of Marissa showing a little bit driveway. The sun was setting, so it became the obvious of rebellion, and after this Ryan SCHWARTZ People from Orange and Doug jumped into the car choice for the main title song. will never smoke again.” County were like, “No one calls with the camera and got this it the O.C.” But I’d gone to shot from Ryan’s point of view [the University of Southern Cali- of Marissa just as the sun is fornia] with kids from Orange flaring out, and it was this really County who would refer to incredible moment. But that THE MODEL HAD ALWAYS BEEN it as “the O.C.” as if it were like song was always scripted to ‘GET YOUR LUKE PERRY AND YOUR JASON “the LBC.” It gave some people play there. It was always how from Orange County pause, but we wanted the end of the show PRIESTLEY.’ NOT ‘GET YOUR LUKE I think they’ve surrendered now. to feel before even knowing what exactly the end of the PERRY AND THEN A NERDY JEWISH KID.’ ” show was going to be. —JOSH SCHWARTZ

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TOO COOL FOR BACK-TO- SCHOOL YOUR SCHOOL SPECIAL The end of summer break wouldn’t be so bad if the classroom really was like these fictional high schools

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU THIESS SANABRIA; REBECCA SLAW: SPROUTS BRUSSELS WITH REUBEN PASTRAMI If the huge, castle-like, lakeside campus C. KAELSON/FOX; isn’t appealing enough, apparently rock bands are allowed to play on the roof. GREASE : PARAMOUNT/RSO/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK;

THE O.C. The Harbor School had it all: a beautiful courtyard, a fancy cofee shop, and a Pump Up Your Packed Lunch! new start for a troubled kid from Chino. Make heading back to the classroom a little more appetizing with this Pastrami Reuben recipe from Saved by the Bell’s HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE SORCERER’S HARRY THE AND POTTER Tifani Thiessen. BY RUTH KINANE GRANITZ STEVE EN:

1 Prepare the Brussels and pepper to taste, and stir INGREDIENTS Sprouts Slaw: Bring vinegar to combine. Cover and chill GREASE /WIREIMAGE; to a boil in a large skillet until ready to use. Why did Frenchy drop out of beauty BRUSSELS SPROUTS SLAW or saucepan over medium. school to return to Rydell High? How ½ cup apple cider vinegar about a massive carnival? Add brussels sprouts, and 4 Assemble the Reuben: 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU 3 cups shaved brussels sprouts (from 13 oz. brussels sprouts) cook, stirring occasionally, Spread desired amount of ¼ cup mayonnaise until just soft, about 5 Russian Dressing on 6 of the : PETER MOUNTAIN/WARNER BROS; MOUNTAIN/WARNER : PETER 2 tbsp. whole buttermilk minutes. Remove from heat. bread slices; top evenly with 4 tsp. fresh lemon juice pastrami. Add some of the (from 1 lemon) 2 Whisk together mayonnaise, 1 tsp. granulated sugar Brussels Sprouts Slaw and one 1 tsp. Dijon mustard buttermilk, lemon juice, sugar, slice of Swiss cheese to each.

½ tsp. celery salt mustard, celery salt, kosher Spread desired amount of COLLECTION; EVERETT PICTURES/COURTESY VISTA : BUENA ¼ tsp. kosher salt salt, and pepper to taste in dressing on the remaining 6 Freshly cracked black pepper a medium bowl until blended bread slices, and place, dress- HARRY POTTER and smooth. Add brussels ing side down, on top of Swiss Hogwarts is everyone’s dream educa- RUSSIAN DRESSING tional institution: magic! Quidditch! sprouts, and stir to coat. cheese. Cut each sandwich CLUELESS 1 cup mayonnaise Oh, and the teensy-weensy risk of dying. ¼ cup ketchup Cover and refrigerate at least in half; serve with dill pickles. 1 tbsp. dill pickle relish 4 hours or up to overnight. : PARAMOUNT/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK 1 tbsp. prepared horse- MAKES 6 radish, drained 3 Prepare the Russian Serving Size1 sandwich ½ tsp. paprika Active Time 30 minutes Kosher salt Dressing: Whisk together Total Time 4 hours, 30 minutes Freshly cracked black pepper mayonnaise, ketchup, pickle relish, horseradish, and “This classic Reuben has a ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS paprika in a small bowl until crunch and tangy twist and never 12 (1 oz.) pumpernickel blended. Sprinkle with salt disappoints,” says Thiessen. bread slices “And it’s a cinch to throw together.” 1½ lbs. pastrami slices (from your CLUELESS THE O.C. favorite local deli) Recipe adapted from Thiessen’s If high school was all sipping soda and 6 (1 oz.) Swiss cheese slices new cookbook, Pull Up a Chair, setting up teachers instead of studying,

Dill pickles available Oct. 2. would you even want to graduate? As if! :

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chelor in Paradise America’s Got Talent 10PM | ABC 8–10PM | NBC ason 5 of the successful Bach- America’s Got…Oscars? Not or spin-of—featuring Grocery quite, but “everybody wants to tore Joe, Wills, and more—may be on that stage where you get Everyone will of to a sluggish start after the Academy Award,” judge be talking abouut st week’s premiere, but host Howie Mandel says of these it tomorrow ris Harrison says it won’t last live shows (which he prefers ng: “It was a slower boil. But over pretaped episodes) at it turned out to be one of the Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. crraziest, greatest, most success- “If they make it here, they make l seasons we’ve ever had.” it worldwide.” —Joseph Longo —SSamantha Highﬁll

Series Debut Teachers Ronny Chieng: International Student 10:30–11PM | TVLAND STREAMING | COMEDY CENTRAL APP In the summer The Daily Show correspondent says he “set out to tell a finale of this edgy story that no one else was in a position to tell” when mak- elementary school- ing a sitcom about a Malaysian law student in Australia set comedy, Ms. (loosely based on his own experience). Still, the story is Snap persuades universal: “It’s about these young adults who are not quite Ms. Bennigan that adultsy, yet, but they y think they’re y adults.” —Esme Douglasg “Hot Dad” is an at- It’s okay to let large serial killer. In almost equally these build up alarming news, Ms. on your DVR Cannon decides to wear some highly questionable leg- gings to school. STUDENT

No Passport Required SJODIN/ABC;HARRISON: CRAIG STREAMING | PBS.COM Born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, : COMEDY CENTRAL; : COMEDY Chopped judge/renowned chef Marcus Sam- uelsson traverses America in this six-episode “dream project” to “humanize the conversation about immigration” via food—a method

he finds less divisive than political or religious REQUIRED TEACHERS

debates. Outside Detroit he met recent Syr- INTERNATIONAL CHIENG: RONNY ian refugees; in Chicago, a Mexican family Devour : CHRISTINE CARREIRA/PBS dealing with DACA. The result: Statistics LAND; : TV it all at once become “very personal.” In the Washington, D.C.-set season finale (Aug. 14, 8 p.m., PBS), he revisits his Ethiopian roots. “Diversity is NO PASSPORT not something you can take for granted,” he says. “We can learn so much from breaking bread with other people.” —Gerrad Hall

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HUM AN HEAVENLYN WINGINGIT CBS All Access’ historical drama Strange Angel has its season 1 finale on STRANGE TOUCHED Aug. 16. Here are some ANGEL BYYAN other—real, and not— CBS Alll ANNGEL small-screen seraphim. Access CCBS

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Season Premiere Series Debut To All the Boys The Real Housewives of Dallass Nightwatch Nation I’ve Loved Before 9–10PM | BRAVO 10–11PM | A&E STREAMING | NETFLIX “Dallas is renowned for After-hours EMTs respond Director Susan divorces,” says D’Andra to belligerent drunks, hard-to- Johnson wanted Simmons, justifying her four- see car accidents, and every a “bright and sweet year wedding anniversary disaster in between. Dick Wolf’s and efervescent” party in the season 3 premiere. latest production is just as actress to play Lara Come for LeeAnne Locken’s chaotic. With a literal back seat, Jean—finding her in “Just Hands” fallout, but the unfocused docuseries Lana Condor—who stay for a surprise red-hot trudges through these real lives a teen night- adoption and D’Andra’s mom scenarios in what feels like mare when secret telling her date, “You realize COPS for the trauma unit. love letters acciden- I’ve been engaged 14 times.” Squeamish bingers should tally get sent. B —Joseph Longo avoid. B– —Nick Romano —Dana Schwartz

Season Premiere WE Day Special Born This Way 8–9PM | ABC 8–10PM A&E Jennifer Aniston, TOUCHED | In the season 4 Will Ferrell, and otth-

: NETFLIX premiere of this ers celebrate young : A&E NETWORK; Emmy-nominated, people and families non-Lady-Gaga-afil- who improve theiir iated reality series communities. “Peeo- that follows seven Series Debut ple are good, andd BORN THIS WAY THIS BORN : FRANK OCKENFELLS III; DISENCHANTMENT people with Down Rustic Rehab they want to turnn it syndrome, Cristina 8–8:30PM | HGTV into action,” sayss and Angel get swept This reality series centers on a host John Stamos.

SUPERNATURAL up in wedding plan- couple working their reno-and- “Sometimes they ning, while Sean is flip magic in the Sierra Nevada don’t know wheree to : COMEDY CENTRAL; determined to get a foothills. (Sorry, VH1 fans, Rustic go and what to doo.” : TOMMY GARCIA/BRAVO; tattoo against his Rehab isn’t about big-city celebs And this show tells dad’s wishes. forced to clean up in a barn.) them. —Aja Hoggaatt DETROITERS :ABC/PHOTOFEST; Season Finale Detroiters STREAMING | CC.COM To truly understand this quirky comedy with CHARLIE'S ANGELS CHARLIE'S

: GETTY IMAGES/WE; Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson as delu- sional ad men, see the season 2 episode THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF HOUSEWIVES REAL THE DALLAS “Farmer Zack.” “Sam and I grew up listening to a very sexy grocery-store commercial

WE DAY SPECIAL DAY WE jingle,” says Robinson. “We always won- Series Debut dered: Why did a grocery store need such a Disenchantment

: HGTV; sexy commercial? Why did those two singers STREAMING | NETFLIX : CBS/GETTY IMAGES; : FRANK OCKENFELS/CBS; W. have such amazing sexual chemistry? This “Speaking of things getting poked, we’ve episode answers those questions.” The finale got a wedding to plan!” says King Zøg (John (Aug. 16, 10:30 p.m., Comedy Central) will DiMaggio). Groaners like that sink Matt RUSTIC REHAB RUSTIC

BY AN ANGEL AN BY strain the duo’s chemistry. Hints Richardson: Groening’s fantasy parody. A solid cast (Eric

STRANGE ANGEL “Some huge, unexpected news forces them to Andre!) can’t rescue limp material. Fairy freak out and make a buttload of decisions.” prostitutes? Groan. C —Darren Franich

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Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow MOURNING SICKNESS 9–10:35PM | SHOWTIME This doc about the Southern-fried rockers behind “Free Season Finale Bird” may feel as authorized as a press release, but it’s no The Afair less enthralling. It’s most powerful when the band shares 9–10PM | SHOWTIME memories of the plane crash that killed three members, The death of Alison (Ruth Wil- including frontman Ronnie Van Zant. B+ —Chris Nashawaty son) leaves everyone (on both Everyone will coasts!) reeling, but ex Cole be talking about (Joshua Jackson) will take her loss the hardest. “This season is it tomorrow making a case that the true love was between Alison and Cole,” co-creator Sarah Treem says. In other words: Sorry, Noah (Dominic West). —Shirley Li

Married to a Series Finale Murderer Shades of Blue 8–10PM | LIFETIME 10–11PM | NBC A bride-to-be (Anna After three seasons of shady Hutchison) grows policing, it’s time to say good- leery of her beau’s bye to Det. Harlee Santos sinister twin bro in (Jennifer Lopez), who faces this deliciously campy down a police commission. thriller. Done right, While a happy ending isn’t in It’s okay to let these guilty pleasures the cards for the ethically chal- can be an art form lenged cop, Lopez believes these build up unto themselves— it’s a fitting one. “It's perfect,” on your DVR and few will object she tells EW. “This is where it to such a deliberately needs to be, and this is the end dafy late-summer of that journey. It’s a tragic end- engagement. ing, but really poetic and really B+ —Isaac Feldberg beautiful.” —Chancellor Agard

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Devour SARKIS/SHOWTIME; : PAUL ment (Aug. 19, 8 p.m., Syfy). How wild does it all at once it get? “I ride on a pterodactyl,” declares Reid. Cautions Ziering: “If you don’t watch SHARKNADO it, you’re gonna get crazy FOMO.” And that would, uh, bite. —Aja Hoggatt : THE

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THEGREAT WHITEWAY She's been a TV staple for nearly 70 years. Look back at some of Betty LIFE WITH ELIZABETH THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW THE GOLDEN GIRLS HOT IN CLEVELAND White's iconic roles. 1953–1955 1973–1977 1985–1992 2010–2015

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TROPHY LIFE Betty White: Firstst Lady of Televisionn 2018 MTV VMAs 8–9:3 M | PBS 9–11PM | MTV Ryan eynolds, Valerie Bertinelli, Cardi B, Beyoncé & Jay Z, and Ariana and m re honor the 96-year- Grande are among those competing old a ress in this special high- for the Moon Person trophy. Shawn lightinng her pioneeringg work on Mendes, Grande, and Logic will take TV and how she achieveed “pop the stage to sing their current hits,, iconn status” thanks to hher roast and Jennifer Lopez will be pulling of William Shatner, thatt Snick- double duty—performing for the first eerscommercial, c and hoosting time since 2001 and receiving the SNL. This golden girl “twwinkles,” Michael Jackson Video Vanguard says friend and fellow ccomedy Award. Let’s get loud! legend Carl Reiner. “Shhe’s one of akind.” k B+ —Gerrad Haall

CRIME AND NOURISHMENT Season Finale Animal Kingdom Better Call Saul Foood Paradise 9–10PM | TNT 9–10PM | AMC 9–111PM | TRAVEL The crime-family Jimmy puts a “risky “Nachoa Nation” is drama finishes of plan” into motion, noot just a decadent its third season with Z: KEVIN MAZUR/GETTY : ALICE S. HALL/NBCU Nacho finds himself and delicious explora- a proposition from in great peril as alle-- tioon of all the creative Smurf. Our control- giances twist and turn, waays this popular ling matriarch is and you remain in dis- appetizer can be willing to give the GOLDEN GIRLS GOLDEN belief that it took all served (filet mignon boys the freedom

AGES; MANDO: MICHELE K. SHORT/AMC/SONY K. MICHELE MANDO: AGES; the way until the seaa- and Parmesan fondue! they’ve wanted, but son 4 premiere of thhis Thai chicken and “it comes at a price.” Breaking Bad prequel poork!); it’s also the Does that mean for Mike to finally quit name of a Better they’re going to his job as a parking- Caall Saul spin-of I’d have to start paying lot booth attendant. proobably check out. for those pies? : BROS JOSH STRINGER/©2018 WARNER / KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; Love Is___ : CBS :

LOVE IS STREAMING | OPRAH.COM Inspired by executive producers Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil’s love story, this earnest romantic drama has spent its first season chronicling the courtship of TV writer Nuri (Michele Weaver) and penniless aspiring : EDDY CHEN/TNT; director Yasir (Will Catlett). Ahead of the final hour : EVANS WARD/PICTUREGROUP; GRANDE: KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES; LOPE

MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW MOORE TYLER MARY (Aug. 21, 10 p.m., OWN), both Weaver and Brock Akil recommend that you check out episode 8. “This episode embodies the expansive and complex spectrum

ANIMAL KINGDOM ANIMAL of what Love Is___ is, while also representing the : PHOTOFEST; essence of our series,” says Brock Akil. Weaver adds HOT IN CLEVELAND IN HOT that the season’s penultimate installment brings the lovers’ pasts into focus and will prepare you for the “juicy” finale, which features old flames and a proposal. IMAGES; CARDI B: PRINCE WILLIAMS/WIREIMAGE; WHITE: DAVID WHITE: WILLIAMS/WIREIMAGE; PRINCE B: CARDI IMAGES; IM LIVINGSTON/GETTY PHOTO BANK; PHOTO —Chancellor Agard PICTURES TELEVISION; LIFE WITH ELIZABETH WITH LIFE

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A ROYAL TV ENGAGEMENT NOWWEHAVEANEWCASTOF CHARACTERS. THERE’S BEEN A REBOOT.” —CHRIS CONNELLY, ABC News correspondent, in an ABC and People magazine two-night special (Aug. 22–23, 9 p.m.) exploring the lives of—and revived fascination in—Britain's royal family

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Season Finale Season Finale Yellowstone Trial & Error 10–11PM | 9–10PM | NBC PARAMOUNT NETWORK Josh (Nicholas D’Agosto) may As season 1 of this have “won” Lavinia (Kristin Western closes, Chenoweth) her freedom, but Kevin Costner’s John he’s now trapped trying to Everyone will will learn which deliver justice in a new, even be talking about family members and knottier case involving her late it tomorrow friends will stay to brother. “The first half of the fight with him, and season is a relative stroll com- which of ’em might pared to the back half,” teases emerge from a magi- co-creator Jef Astrof. “Things cal cornfield at the get really, really crazy.” Well, moment of truth. when in East Peck… —Shirley Li

Alcatraz: The Quiet Heroes INSTITUTE; A ROYAL ENGAGEMENT BACHLAKOV/WARNER BROS/NBC; Greatest Escapes 8–10PM | LOGO 9–11PM | REELZ The title tells you everything QUEEN SUGAR QUEEN Laced with never- you need to know: This lovely before-seen footage, doc about a doctor and a physi- this doc spills stories cian assistant who treated AIDS : ABC; of prisoners who in culturally conservative—and BROS/OWN(5) WARNER BOLEN/©2018 : SKIP aimed to escape the very anti-gay—’80s Salt Lake San Francisco island City ofers an inspiring, uncom- TRIAL & ERROR: LADY, KILLER It’s okay to let prison. One involves plicated portrait of two women QUIET HEROES “dummy heads with who bravely fought the system. these build up real human hair to While a little too brief, only on your DVR confuse guards.” scratching the surface of an : SUNDANCE FILM : SUNDANCE Ew, where’d they underexplored and fascinating get the hair? Actu- corner of the epidemic, it still ally, where’d they ppacks an emotional wallop. : SERGEI get the dummies?

Queen Sugar STREAMING | HULU, OPRAH.COM This engrossing, must-watch Ava DuVernay-produced series has seen the Bordelon family fight to open a sugaar mill for black farmers, struggle through a very public divorce, weather a lupus diagnosis, and much more. In season 2, the brood nearly imploded when Ralph Angel revealed a letter bestowing their late father’s land to himm. It was a “painful” episode, says Dawn-Lyen Gardner, who Devour plays Charley, that was “a forced reinvention of the entirre family.” As Charley, Ralph Angel, Nova & Co. head into it all at once the 90-minute season 3 closer (Aug. 22, 10 p.m., OWN), the stakes couldn’t be higher as Charley engages in an intense negotiation to benefit her kin and community. “I began the season asking, ‘How do you get in bed with the devil and come out with your soul clean?’ ” Gardner says. “The finale is about restoration for her.” —Gerrad Haall

92 EW.COM FALL MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 ROBRIGGLE’S SKIMASTER ACADEMY The funnyman's new Sony Crackle series debuts DERMOT CHEECH CHRISTOPHER Aug. 23, and he has MULRONEY MARIN MCDONALD a few choice words to “Sexy, funny, “Sexy, legless, “Shooter’s describe three guest stars. hoagie.” Ski Master.” new bag.”

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Series Debut Drew Michael Season Finale Ghoul 100–11PM | HBO Sharp Objects STREAMING | NETFLIX Thhe stand-up 9–10PM | HBO In this Jason delivers dark Camille’s stay in her unsettling hometown Blum-produced, mmusings (sans winds to an end. The perfect souvenir? three-episode sttage and audience) Haunting memories to last a lifetime. horror series based thhat are more on Arabic folklore, performance art a disturbing, other- thhan comedy. Also worldly prisoner feeaturing actress at a remote military Suki Waterhouse, base makes thhe special is his interrogators’ sttrange, but also lives hell. sttrangely hypnotic. B– —Dana Schwartz

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SHARP Season Premiere With cowboy hats, country music, and 10–10:30PM | SHOWTIME 10–11PM | STARZ The Contender ex–high school sweethearts, this flick about We’re not saying Yes, we’re giving

E: BEN MARK 10–11PM | EPIX rival BBQ competition contestants hits that expectations you homework on Good news for fans every TV movie trope. But the end result is are rather high for a weekend, but : ALFONSO BRESCIANI/ of face-punching: as bland as mayonnaise. C– —Dana Schwartz the season 1 capper you won’t be disap- The Contender is of Sacha Baron pointed. This : DARREN MICHAELS/CRACKLE; DARREN : back! The boxing Cohen’s subversive revealing, endearing PREACHER SEASON FOR LOV FOR SEASON competition still fea- political comedy 10-part documen- tures brutal action in exposé, but any- tary (a Sundance the ring and moder- D/GETTY IMAGES; MARIN: MICHAEL S. SCHWARTZ/ thing less than the darling) explores ate drama outside of abrupt resignations nuanced racial it; the real star is the of three dozen issues while follow- flurry of integrated high-ranking gov- ing students at a : ANNE MARIE FOX/HBO; MARIE ANNE : : NETFLIX; DREW MICHAEL: JOHN P. JOHNSON/HBO; P. JOHN MICHAEL: DREW NETFLIX; : product placement. ernernmentment oficials is suburban Chicago B– —Dalton Ross a disappointment. hschool. AMC/SONY PICTURESAMC/SONY HOLZBERG/HALLMARK CHANNEL;HOLZBERG/HALLMARK MULRONEY: CINDY OR GETTY IMAGES; MCDONALD: RODIN ECKENROTH/GETTYRIGGLE'S IMAGES; CAMP SKI MASTER ACADEMY GHOUL OBJECTS

Season Finale Preacher STREAMING | AMC.COM, HULU Showrunner Sam Catlin sermon- izes that the season 3 finale (Aug. 26, 10 p.m., AMC) is “the biggest episode we’ve done. All our characters’ worlds crash into each other.” Sinners playing catch-up who want to see characters eat a whole horse should canter their way to “Les Enfants du Sang.” “Our props department did a wonderful job,” Catlin says of the (fake) roasted nag. “But we had trouble fitting it through the door.” Nay! —Clark Collis

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ROSAMUND PIKE 2 I love Rosamund Pike’s characters in Gone Girl and [Massive Attack’s] “Voodoo in My Blood” music video. I kept imagining Pike’s Gone Girl character—this woman who’s worked to be the perfect wife, but at a certain point feels screwed over THE PIANO and decides to change her life 1 TEACHER and everyone else’s in a really My inspiration is vengeful, violent way—in that from the protagonist [Erika video, which features a conser- Kohut]. There’s something vatively dressed woman in a elegant about her—she loves subway station losing her mind. music and art—but there’s something incredibly closed [of] about her, too. This

young man seduces her really MITSKI: BAO NGO; lightheartedly—and when she opens up, he rejects her. But she’s already opened up, so she doesn’t know how

to close it. At the end of THE PIANO TEACHER the movie, she stabs herself. Something about that film and character was very inspiring for me. : EVERETT COLLECTION; PIKE: MERRICK MORTON; HITCHCOCK: BETTMANN ARC BETTMANN HITCHCOCK: MORTON; MERRICK PIKE: COLLECTION; : EVERETT

ALFRED HITCHCOCK 3 The first Hitchcock film I saw was Psycho. Hitchcock’s perspective is very misogynistic. His films are beautiful, but he’s obsessed with blond, beautiful, old, mysterious female characters. Watching them unravel in his films, I keep thinking, “Who are these women when Hitchcock isn’t watching them? We’re seeing them through his perspective, which is the male gaze. What are they thinking when they’re alone in their room?”

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NOTEWORTHY Justin, Take the Wheel The Justin Timberlake- created game show Spin the Wheel is heading to Fox. Dancing on Her Own Dance music legend Robyn released “Missing U,” her first solo song in eight years.

CAT STEVENS— 4 “I THINK I SEE THE LIGHT” That era of songwriting is very adult, and that’s what I Jake Shears pursued for this album. My previous albums were very TITLE Jake Shears associated with adolescence, but now that I’m 27 I don’t LABEL Freida Jean Records | GENRE Pop Rock

want to pretend that I’m still REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats 21. It’s not my experience anymore. On Twitter, people are like, “I can’t wait to cry SINCE HIS MID-AUGHTS GLORY to your album!” But the point days fronting glam-pop revivalists to my album this time isn’t Scissor Sisters, Jake Shears has about crying on the floor— banged the gong for a kind of music they just it’s about adult sadness, and a little bit of exhaustion and don’t make anymore: glittery, maximalist, emptiness: “I’m heartbroken, shamelessly camp. The Sisters’ signature but I still have to go to work.” brand of winky, gender-inclusive hedonism lifted them from New York’s club-kid under- ground to the mainstream, where they sold NILE RODGERS out European stadiums, earned high praise 5 His guitar tone was a huge influence on “Nobody.” I wrote that from Bono, and even landed a No. 1 single song in Malaysia between tours, and I with their human spirit animal, Elton John. didn’t have an instrument. I went to Toys In the six years since the band went on “R” Us—R.I.P.—and bought a toy piano indefinite hiatus, Shears has found other with two octaves and wrote it on that. I ways to fill his time (duetting with Cher, knew I wanted the song to be disco, and when we went into the studio I was like, penning a musical and a memoir). But “Oh!Oh! Nile RodgersRodgers’ guitar tone, that that’s s Shears marks his first true solo outing, and what I want.” the 39-year-old has filled it with all the things he loves—beginning with the TOTO’S DUNE decade he was born in. The boogie and 6 SOUNDTRACK stomp of the ’70s is all over it, from the David Lynch is a big inffluence on me—not consciously, honky-tonk opener “Good Friends” to the buut I always find myself doing giddy exhibitionism of “Clothes Off” and things influenced by him without slow-strut cabaret “The Bruiser.” “Big nooticing it. [Album single] “GGeyser” sounds very Dune to me. Bushy Mustache” is falsetto funk for “porn- I’mm hoping that people come star handlebars”; “Everything I’ll Ever around to Toto the same way peo- Need” swims in dreamy Bee Gees psyche- ple have come around to Dave /REDFERNS/GETTY IMAGE; ROGERS: CBS; SHEARS: GREG GORMAN Maatthews Band. Toto was so big delia. If the album sometimes feels more annd dramatic, and all the guys like a broadcast from some long-lost AOR in that band were hardcore ses- radio frequency than its own fresh story, it’s sioon musicians before they joiined. I have no shame about lik- also just fun: a joyride reminder that newer

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TITLE Stay Dangerous

LABEL Def Jam | GENRE Rap

REVIEW BY Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg

COMPTON COULDN’T have asked for a more ardent advocate than YG. In an age that’s eroded rap regionalism—with titans like A$AP Rocky and Kanye West abandoning the genre’s once-holy precept in order to craft hip-hop that’s effectively placeless in its global ambition—the 28-year-old MC knows his city needs him more than ever. And on Stay Dangerous—following 2016’s Still Brazy and 2014’s debut My Krazy Life—YG springs to its defense, spin- ning hard-edged street stories through a hypnotic haze of thick, hyphy G-funk. Reuniting with DJ Mustard for half the album, YG is largely content to low-ride in his lane, swaggering across Bloods- allegiant bangers (“Suu Whoop”) and incisive tell-alls (“Too Brazy”). Beneath his brash deliveries, Mustard’s synth lines snake and snap, imbuing even more tongue-in-cheek brags (“ YG, don’t you got a daughter?/Yeah, I’m a gangbangin’-ass BenGibbard dad”) with a sense of slow menace. Thank You for Today, Death Cab for Cutie’s ninth studio album, The rapper grows solemn later, using a marks a poignant return to form for the indie-rock legends. DUDELSON YG:SCOTT Frontman Ben Gibbard chats with EW about the political, the voicemail from incarcerated artist PC to personal, and two pivotal anniversaries. BY CANDACE MCDUFFIE lead in closer “Bomptown Finest,” where he reflects on the impact of his rise for /GETTY IMAGES; GIBBARD: ELIOT LEE HAZEL; SCOTT: ERIC RAY DAVIDSON/TR RAY ERIC SCOTT: HAZEL; LEE ELIOT GIBBARD: IMAGES; /GETTY those in his orbit. Uneasy lies the head that Before the 2016 election, Howdoyouknowasongyou wears the crown, YG can admit—though he Death Cab released “Million wrote is a Ben Gibbard song as has little intention of surrendering his. B+ Dollar Loan,” which took aim opposed to a Death Cab song? at Trump. Did those emotions Death Cab always gets right of carry over into this album? first refusal on everything I write, I’ve noticed just amongst but I tend to know early on. our contemporaries that [poli- I always try to write the best song tics] seems to be a subject I can in the moment. I don’t that no one is able to stay away set out to write a solo song or a from because this administra- band song. I just write, and tion is an all-encompassing where it ends up is kind of TBD. attention-suck. Some of this subject matter started to You have two 15-year album bleed a bit into the songs I was anniversaries this year. The first writing for [Thank You for is the Postal Service’s Give Up. Today]—and I didn’t think any of Did you think the record would those songs were particularly be as big as it was?

good. I came to the conclusion We released Give Up and then ARCHIVE UNK early last year that I wanted did four weeks of shows—and to write a record that gave that was it. When we stopped people a break. touring, we had no way of

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quantifying the number of people that were into the album. We just kept getting numbers: 100,000 copies, 200,000 copies, 300,000 copies. It was a really strange thing, to have this record overtake—in terms of sales—the biggest thing I’d been a part of. We attempted a second record in 2004 [or] 2005, but the songs that we were working on felt like facsimiles of Give Up. Jimmy [Tamborello] and I both realized that if we pushed it past that point it wasn’t going to be fun anymore. When I look back at 2003, it was the best year I’ve ever had creatively, having Transatlanticism and Give Up come out in the course of six months.

Speaking of which, Transatlanti- cism is also turning 15. How do Travis Scott you think that record changed the trajectory of Death Cab? TITLE LABEL We were very fortunate that Astroworld Epic album had the impact it did. It also coalesced with this unique GENRE REVIEW BY cultural moment in indie rock, Rap Brian Josephs @Bklyn_Rock which transformed from under- ground to collegiate music. When I was in college from 1994 AT SOME POINT, BETWEEN sharper focus immediately pays oﬀ to 1998, the records I listened to never sold more than 20,000 allegedly ghostwriting with opener “Stargazing.” Built oﬀ a copies. And in 2003, there was Kanye West’s Yeezus and carousel of twinkling notes and this hive-mind moment around dropping 2016’s Birds in the Trap ghoulish coos, the track peaks as indie rock and it started having a Sing McKnight, Travis Scott man- Scott cries out to a muse. Elsewhere, much larger audience. People who were making TV shows had aged to mold his sonic collage of he readily cedes the floor to his grown up listening to this music hand-me-downs into a singular aes- famous friends, putting together and were now in a position to thetic: a mélange of chillwave, punk, combinations that are unpredictable place it in front of people in a yet seamless. “Sicko Mode” is a mini- way that [it hadn’t] before. and trap covered by absurd gothic imagery. While he isn’t the charis- suite of bangers: an interrupted Hot You’ve always been open with matic frontman his peers are, Scott 100 Drake hook, a frosty duet with things like your health, your pol- acquits himself through skilled cura- Swae Lee, and Drake returning to itics, and your relationships. Are there moments where you tion; the right kind of hero for an era throw staccato boasts over a star- regret being so transparent? in which The New York Times dusted bass line. The raucousness No, I don’t. What I find interest- recently listed “director of vibes” as sticks through all the switch-ups. ing about songwriters—which is someone’s occupation. While he cuts down on the weak not necessarily a criterion that others artists are subjected to— Named after Houston’s shuttered punchlines, Scott’s verses rarely is that the listener feels cheated Six Flags park, Astroworld is the rap- show emotional complexity beyond if they find out a song that per’s second major release within the vague brooding in designer clothes. sounds autobiographical isn’t past year, following the late-2017 But there’s so much going on in autobiographical. No one com- plains if the screenplay isn’t Quavo collaboration Huncho Jack, Astroworld’s restless soundscape, taken from your life [or] the novel Jack Huncho. One feels like the it’s clear the park founder’s human- is partly fiction. Singing in inverse of the other; the new record ity isn’t the main attraction. Scott’s first person infers intimacy, and maximizes Scott’s strengths in ways persona still isn’t as sharp as his pro- I firmly believe my best songs are the ones that contain real- that, for once, don’t feel like his duction. But then again, he’s mainly life moments. ambitions are outsizing him. The here for the vibes. B

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HowHollywoodIsRekindlingtheRom-Com With a rom-com explosion happening in publishing, the romance industry is quietly revitalizing a major genre—and Hollywood is paying attention. BY MAUREEN LEE LENKER

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE—A PRECEPT by pop culture, including Kerry publishing. Sally Thorne’s The taken so long for so many to romance novels live by, but Winfrey’s Waiting for Tom Hanks, Hating Game, Christina Lauren’s see romance as a viable source a message Hollywood seemed which features a Nora Ephron- Roomies, and Helen Hoang’s for adaptation. “Producers to forget over the past decade. obsessed heroine. At St. Martin’s The Kiss Quotient have all been would rather do the 496th Jane The big screen’s loss has been Press, Nancy Naigle’s Dear Santa optioned in recent months. Austen than something with a publishing’s gain, as a rom- is a You’ve Got Mail retelling. Shonda Rhimes is hitting the ‘romance novel’ label,” she says. com renaissance in books has The list goes on. books, developing a TV show for With Rhimes’ influence (and her exploded. Cindy Hwang, editorial There couldn’t be a better Netflix out of the Regency-era championing the genre on director of Berkley Books, says time, in other words, for Holly- Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn. Shondaland.com), Quinn is her last several acquisitions have wood to finally realize the Quinn says the issue of hopeful for change. been rom-coms—many inspired untapped riches of romance “prestige” is the reason it’s It’s 2018, after all. Film has

100 EW.COM FALL MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY SONIA PULIDO BETWEEN Literary Treasure A previously unpublished short THE story by Ernest Hemingway, about Paris in the post- LINES WWII period, was publicly released for the first time. Are You There, Hollywood? It’s Me, Judy Beloved children’s author Judy Blume hinted on Twitter that she’s in early talks about having her books adapted.

been around long enough to impact romance novels, and as more books are adapted, 3 ROMANCE Flights the opposite becomes truer. NOVELS “[They’re] built on common BY Olga Tokarczuk tropes,” says Andie J. Christo- HOLLYWOOD PAGES 403 | GENRE Fiction pher, author of the upcoming SHOULD Not the Girl You Marry. ”Romance ADAPT NEXT REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats embraces the beats of film Swoony and steamy, storytelling.” these books are ready But across film and lit, for their close-up IN ITS ORIGINAL POLISH, OLGA TOKARCZUK’S romance is faced with a call to modernize. Formerly the domain Booker Prize-winning opus had another title: of turtlenecks and upper-class Bieguni, named for a fictional sect of Slavic white women, the genre has nomads who wander the planet, pursuing freedom and become more inclusive (Not the godliness in constant motion. Understandably, interna- Girl You Marry, for instance, is a gender-swapped HowtoLosea tional publishers decided that many readers might not Guy in 10 Days with a biracial her- FORBIDDEN HEARTS be wooed by a word that sounded like a small dumpling TRILOGY oine). “We need rom-coms with BY ALISHA RAI or some obscure form of Eastern European jiujitsu. And people of color, unrepresented the more prosaic stand-in they chose does feel like an apt LGBTQ pairings—not just as sup- Angsty romance and porting characters,” Sally Thorne family feuds—prime- metaphor for a novel that contains so many kinds of time soap is written all says. “Let them be the stars.” flight—of fancy, of memory, of actual airplanes. over it. Paging The CW. Christina Hobbs and Lauren But it’s also probably not quite right to call it a novel in Billings are doing just that as they any traditional sense. Instead, Tokarczuk—who is con- adapt Roomies. The original source material centers on Irish sidered a literary superstar in her homeland, though this busker Calvin McLoughlin and is only her third work to appear in English—seems to pour his marriage of convenience. the contents of her incandescent mind onto the page; an The film’s lead, however, is Mateo endless, only tenuously connected series of synaptic Perez, now playing a Latino immi- THE WEDDING DATE BY JASMINE GUILLORY grant. “Immigration is [an issue] flashes and sparks. If Flights has a theme, it’s travel: the we needed to be facing head-on A sexy meet-cute urge to slip through space and time and find revelation with this story,” Billings says. “We in an elevator? Frothy in the provisional places that don’t appear on maps or in had an opportunity and responsi- romance that tackles bility to do that.” social issues? Say guidebooks. Some bits read like campfire tales—stories How Rhimes—known for her “I do” to this rom-com. of an inebriated, Moby-Dick-quoting ferryboat captain inclusive casting—will tackle the gone rogue on his daily route, or a foolish prince straight Bridgerton series and its lily-white out of Arabian Nights. Others feel like small, unsettling characters remains to be seen. Quinn admits she wasn’t consid- survey courses in science and history (the evolution of ering diversity when she began embalming; the amputation that drove a depressive publishing the series in 1999. 16th-century Dutchman to discover the Achilles ten- “But I am now,” she says. “I’m THE LOYAL LEAGUE don) interspersed with Tokarczuk’s own idiosyncratic eager to see how Shonda and SERIES BY ALYSSA COLE her team might reimagine [it].” first-person musings. Taken all together, Flights has the Authors point to one reason Spies fight the Confed- quality of a dream, in both the best and most maddening for Hollywood’s sudden interest: eracy from the inside— sense; you almost feel as if you have to bend your brain and kiss. High stakes hope. In fraught times, the sideways to follow its trail of “moments, crumbs, fleet- romance industry can embrace send lost-cause nostal- a Hollywood ending they’ve long gia gone with the wind. ing configurations.” But when her prose lifts off, it’s deserved—one with room for all. magical: electrifying, strange, and sensationally alive. A–

FALL MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 EW.COM 101 wonders how her son could go “from being a high school football hunk…to a heroin- overdose statistic.” The answers Macy arrives at are bleak, fatalistic, and enraging. The unnamed narrator of Cherry, Nico Walker’s coarsely HEART poetic debut, feels like another case study of Macy’s. Where Dopesick takes a macro view of the crisis, covering centuries to reveal its roots, this novel OF THE provides an agonizing character study. The young man in question is of decent means, with a trail of events—he loses his job; his girlfriend, Emily, moves away—that lead him to MATTER join the Army circa 2005. He’s shipped to Iraq thereafter. Dopesick and Cherry The book is gritty, profane, illuminate the ongoing and raw. It opens on a flash- opioid crisis with vital inten- forward of sorts, with the sity—and, in the process, protagonist and Emily shooting tell urgent American stories. up heroin. He winds up on the BY DAVID CANFIELD floor, unconscious, with his pants “undone” and his “balls cold.” Walker’s first-person TWO OF AUGUST’S BIGGEST prose reads remarkably—at new books—one reported non- times uncomfortably—authen- fiction, the other memoiristic tic, lyrically clunky. It’s also fiction—jointly convey a critical brutally unsentimental. Cherry’s message: We’re in the midst hero sees nothing but death of a national emergency. and despair in Iraq and has With 2 million Americans no illusions about the war’s now addicted to opioid painkill- purpose. “We were pretending ers, like OxyContin, and nearly to be soldiers,” he says. “The 50,000 dying from opioids over Army was pretending to be the a recent 12-month span, the Army.” He encounters needles country is in the throes of and drugs in his role as a medic, a medical crisis. It emerged as which shapes his future addic- a talking point in the previous tion. Walker traces his journey election cycle, yet the problem with impressive clarity, without has only accelerated—even it seeming too calculated. as the media still tends to push Cherry has a unique back- it to the fringe. Enter Dopesick story. Walker wrote the novel and Cherry, devastating calls while in prison; he’s serving an to action that afirm the 11-year sentence for bank rob- galvanizing power of pointed, bery. Like his book’s narrator, human storytelling. he too returned from war see- Journalist Beth Macy (Factory ing more dope at home than Man) wrote Dopesick after wit- opportunity, got hooked on nessing deadly drugs spreading prescription pills, moved to around her Roanoke, Va., home- what impact mass addiction has was propelled by corporate heroin, and turned to crime to town. Her book marks a defini- had on communities blighted greed—particularly that of fund his addiction. But Cherry tive attempt at confronting the by overdoses and death. Purdue Pharma, the firm behind doesn’t ask for pity. It presents epidemic, from its source to its Macy is a terrific reporter, Oxy.ButMacy’sheartiswith a landscape ravaged by war current scale. Divided into three scrupulous in detailing the sig- the people. Dopesick’s second and drugs, and introduces a parts, Dopesick unveils how nificance of her findings. She section—filled with gut- voice that sounds ugly only doctors were prescribing pow- hits the big established points: wrenchingly candid interviews until you read closely enough erful painkillers at alarming why opioids are mostly hurting with addicts and their families— to see the beauty lying under- rates, how heroin then took over “politically unimportant places, is the most essential, placing neath an American tragedy. when Oxy and the like went into hollows and towns and fishing broken faces onto horrifying CHERRY B+ short supply, and then finally, villages,” and how their plight data sets. One grieving mother DOPESICK B+

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THE ESSENTIAL KARIN SLAUGHTER These juicy crime sagas best represent the author’s talent for per- fectly paced suspense

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Her debut—and the first book in her signature Grant County series— introduces Dr. Sara Lin- ton as she gets tangled in a dizzying conspiracy. 35 Million Books Sold, 17YearstotheScreen Karin Slaughter has been writing hit thrillers about complex women—like her new book, Pieces of Her—for nearly two decades. Why is her work getting adapted only now? BY DAVID CANFIELD COP TOWN 2014

SHE’D GIVEN UP to her new stand-alone novel, of society,” she says. “With every Slaughter uncovers on the movies. Pieces of Her, with scribe Char- page that we write, we’re hold- racial tension and Author Karin lotte Stoudt (House of Cards) ing up a mirror and saying, ‘This police paranoia in this Slaughter may and Emmy-nominated director is what’s going on right now.’ ” ambitious novel, which have seemed an Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland) Pieces of Her is filled with wonhertheIanFleming ideal fit for adap- aboard to executive-produce a Slaughter’s trademark twists, Steel Dagger award. tations, given the splashy series adaptation. In the but it marks a slight departure, addictive nature vein of Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), focusing on a troubled mother- and sheer popularity of her Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies), daughter dynamic and their work, which has sold more than and most recently Megan Abbott terrifying fallout over a secret. 35 million copies worldwide. (Dare Me), here was yet another (Her books usually center on But for 17 years, she was told her long-proved thriller writer of a fathers.) “I always want to be novels were “too female-centric” feminist bent finally getting the doing something new,” the author by producers and execs, and Hollywood call. says. “I don’t want to write the eventually she stopped trying The trend didn’t come out same book over and over again.” to get them on screen. “I was of nowhere. Slaughter has been Slaughter wants to stay cur- PRETTY GIRLS 2015 just so disillusioned,” she says. tackling key #MeToo themes— rent, too—reflecting the culture Then, as if with a snap of domestic violence, sexual in ways that matter, and she sees What connects the dis- the fingers, everything changed. harassment—her whole career. an intrinsic advantage in doing appearance of a teen- Earlier this year, Slaughter’s “Crime writers catch a lot of so. “I don’t think there’s a sense age girl and the murder books The Good Daughter and flak because we write a book of justice in the world right now,” of a middle-aged man? Cop Town moved into develop- a year, but I’d argue that with she says. “But I have a great ben- Read this gripping ment in film and TV, respectively; the immediacy of our work, efit in the fictional realm: I get to stand-alone to find out. in July, the rights were acquired we’re really touching the pulse punish the bad guy, every time.”

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