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LONG LIVED THE QUEEN IN BRIEF The King’s Speech opens this month with Colin Firth playing the stuttering King George VI. Screenwriter David Seidler suffered from a similar stammer as a youth and took inspiration from King George. In 1981, he wrote George’s widow, the Queen Mum, asking permission to tell his story. She replied yes, but because the memories were still painful she asked he wait until her death to do so. She lived until the age of 101, which delayed the project for some time. —IR WHERE ARE THE FROM LEFT: The Tempest’s Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones PINEAPPLES? and Djimon Hounsou The volcanic island where Julie Taymor shot of its private ownership, but her mystical adaptation of Shakespeare’s she managed to convince The Tempest may look otherworldly, but the Dole’s chairman, David 364 square kilometre mass of black rock, Murdock, over dinner. “We white coral and red earth is actually owned had a lovely evening and it by the Dole Food Company. turns out Mr. Murdock is a Vampire. Doctor. Wizard. Detective. Lady. huge Shakespeare fan,” she The Fortune 500 company grow their pineapples. says. “He liked the idea of this bought Lana’i, which is the Producer Lynn Hendee project and thought it would sixth largest of Hawaii’s was, initially, told fi lming on be a tribute to the island that islands, back in 1922 to Lana’i was unlikely because he loved.” —MW

The Art Of Film New York artist Scott Campbell (or Scott C.) started his “Great Showdowns” series in 2007. Each depicts a famous moment of movie tension, but the protagonists are all smiling. “As terrifying as some of these mo- ments are, they are all brought to the same level of just enjoying that they are having intense moments at all,” says Campbell. “It’s like a big party that all these show- downs are invited to, to mingle and share their common tension.” From left to right: The Princess Bride, Rocky, Reservoir Dogs. See many more at greatshowdowns.com.

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98687_01.pgs 10.20.2010 20:40 PDFX1a Wonderful Mistakes For many, it doesn’t feel like the holidays until we’ve watched It’s a Wonderful Life. This month you can see George Bailey learn the true meaning of Christmas on the big screen as Cineplex presents the flick as part of its Classic Film Series. If you’ve seen the movie enough times you may have noticed its assorted continuity mistakes and gaffes. According to www.moviemistakes.com, there are 19 errors in the film. For instance, the amount of blood that flows from young George’s ear after the pharmacist, Mr. Gower, slaps him changes between long shot and close-up. And look for a piece of marking tape on the edge of the counter that little Mary leans over to whisper in George’s bad ear that she loves him. It’s a Wonderful Life screens December 8th and 12th at select Cineplex theatres. Go to Cineplex.com for participating theatres, times and to buy tickets. —IR

FROM LEFT: Joel Katz and Rick Miller

Life of Brian Timberlake’s core: A Hockey Musical proved that hockey and musicals can live in harmony, so maybe the union of Canadian Little Spolitics and opera has a chance, too. The producers of Politics is Cruel: An Opera certainly hope so. Boo Boo Based on the life of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the Sure he can sing, dance and act, but Justin Timberlake has opera was filmed for the big screen with actor/impersonator one more talent: he’s a star at mimicking cartoon voices. Rick Miller — best known for MacHomer, a one-man mash-up of You can hear him at his best in this month’s Yogi Bear as The Simpsons and MacBeth — in the starring role (bass baritone Yogi’s sidekick Boo Boo. Timberlake nails the little bear’s Daniel Okulitch delivers the singing parts). Canadian composer nasal tone, which was originally voiced by Don Messick in Alexina Louie wrote the score with funnyman Dan Redican the 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series. penning the libretto. Timberlake began imitating cartoon voices when he Politics is Cruel: An Opera is expected to screen at Cineplex was younger as part of his vocal exercises. According to theatres next spring or summer after the 2010-11 Met Live in HD Yogi Bear director Eric Brevig, Timberlake came to the series concludes. —MW audition “with a prepared Boo Boo voice that he’d been doing all his life.” —IR Quote Unquote This movie is, in so many ways, an Stars Behind Bars exploration of an 2010 saw its fair share of Hollywood during the various protests he’s stars in trouble with the law, but which attended in the last 25 years. artist’s ego and star holds the record for the most The Daily Beast website compiled that narcissistic Easy as… arrests? the list of Hollywood’s most arrested Recognize this corset? It’s one of If you guessed Charlie Sheen actors: sort of attraction Olive Penderghast’s “screw-you- you’d be close — it’s actually 1 Martin Sheen 66 to yourself and I’m-gonna-own-my-rep” costumes, Martin Sheen, his father, who revealed 2 Robert Downey Jr. 6 complete with homemade scarlet during a speech to Oxford University’s Sean Penn 6 also repulsion with letter, from Easy A. And you can Student Union in 2009 that he’s been 3 Lindsay Lohan 5 yourself. buy it — yup, the real one, worn by arrested 66 times. The 70-year-old Michelle Rodriguez 5 —Natalie Portman on Black Swan Emma Stone — for $899 (U.S.) at activist actor’s rap sheet is full of civil 4 Rip Torn 4 www.premiereprops.com. disobedience arrests that occurred 5 Charlie Sheen 3

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ecognize this guy? The hat should be a clue. It’s Zack Ward, who played bully Scut Farkus in A Christmas Story. You remember Scut, the yellow-eyed monster who terrorizes little Ralphie until, one day, Ralphie snaps. The result is one of the most cathartic scenes in cinema history. “One thing that helped sell it, when Peter Billingsley’s punching me in the face, obviously his little fi sts are not hitting me, but as most Canadian kids will remember, he had idiot strings on his mittens. And those mittens were 1940s-style leather mittens that when they got wet

and then went back out in the cold they froze. So, TM basically, even though his hands were missing me, these mittens, these frozen popsicles, are slapping the bejesus out of my cheeks,” recalls Ward, now 41, on the phone from L.A. He’s lived, and worked there — including small parts in Almost Famous, Transformers and TV’s Lost — since he was 25. “If you look at my face, my cheeks are bright red from being slapped repeatedly,” he continues. “That’s not acting, that’s being slapped around. And when I sit up and I sniffl e and I rub my nose and look all weak; that was my revenge on all the bullies who’d beaten me up.” Though the 1983 fi lm was shot largely in Toronto, Ward is one of the cast’s few Canadians. He grew up all over Ontario because his mother, an actor, moved to where the work was. And starting over so often meant that Ward was often the one being bullied. “If you have red hair, and your name is Zack, and your mom’s a single parent, and you’re not playing hockey, and you’re the new kid in class over and over again you get picked on,” he says. “For me, playing the bully was revenge because I got to Showtimes. Trailers. Tickets with no enact the aspects of the bully that I despised.” * Ward plans to be in Toronto visiting his mom this “When I sit up and I sniffl e and I service fees. Download our App or month. “So everybody can walk down the street rub my nose and look all weak; and go, ‘Oh my God, it’s that guy,’” he says. go to m.cineplex.com Does he get that a lot? “I do.” And more around that was my revenge on all the

Christmastime? “You betcha.” —MARNI WEISZ bullies who’d beaten me up” RICHARD SNIDER BY PHOTO *Standard data rates may apply. ®™Cineplex Entertainment LP or used under license. iPhone logo™, iPhone® and App Store™ are trademarks of Apple Inc. used under license. 14 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | DECEMBER 2010 BlackBerry AppWorld & Design™ and related trademarks, names and logos are the property of Research In Motion Limited and are registered and/or used in the U.S. and countries around the world.

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RedCarpet_EN_December2010.indd 16 10-11-12 1:49 PM RedCarpet_EN_December2010.indd 17 10-11-12 1:49 PM IN THEATRES December 3 The Tempest If Shakespeare didn’t find it in his heart to feature a woman in a solo leading role, director Julie Taymor does. She turns The Tempest’s hero Prospero into Prospera and casts the indomitable Helen Mirren as the wife of the Duke of Milan, who learns the art of sorcery after being shipwrecked on a barren island. Mirren’s cast mates include Russell Brand, Alan Cumming, Djimon Hounsou and Ben Whishaw.

Black Swan Director Darren Aronofsky brings us this psychological thriller starring Natalie Portman as Nina, who’s plucked from the ballet corps to dance the lead in Swan Lake. But the pressure placed on her by the troupe’s director (Vincent Cassel), and the emergence of a manipulative rival dancer (Mila Kunis), pushes Nina over the edge.

The The Tourist’s sexy stars Chronicles Angelina Jolie and December 10 of Narnia: Johnny Depp The Voyage of the Dawn The King’s The Tourist Treader Speech Like molecules colliding, The third Narnia pic finds Afflicted with an the pairing of superstars Lucy (Georgie Henley) and overpowering stammer, Johnny Depp and Angelina Edmund (Skandar Keynes) Britain’s King George VI Jolie generates heat this Pevensie, along with their (Colin Firth) is stymied when holiday season. Depp plays a irritating cousin Eustache speaking with, and leading, brokenhearted tourist visiting (Will Poulter), transported his people during the onset Venice who’s seduced by a onto a Narnian ship of World War II. So his wife, mysterious woman (Jolie) called The Dawn Treader. Queen Elizabeth (Helena intent on using him as a pawn Skandar Keynes returns Captained by King Caspian Bonham Carter), enlists an to protect her former lover, as Edmund Pevensie in (Ben Barnes), the vessel eccentric Australian speech a criminal mastermind. See The Chronicles of sails the seas searching King George VI (Colin Firth) therapist (Geoffrey Rush) to Angelina Jolie interview, Narnia: The Voyage of learns to speak his mind in the Dawn Treader for the Seven Lost Lords The King’s Speech help the king take control of page 40. of Narnia. his stuttering. CONTINUED 

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TRON: LEGACY Light cycles, fl uorescent fl ying discs and futuristic bodysuits can only mean one thing — TRON lives! The sequel arrives 28 years after the original and stars Garrett Hedlund as Sam Flynn, who enters a long-forgotten cyber universe to fi nd his father Kevin (Jeff Bridges). While the fi lm took only 64 days to shoot, the post-production lasted a lengthy 68 weeks to incorporate all the state-of-the-art special effects. See Jeff Bridges interview, page 28.

How Do You Know’s Owen Wilson and Reese Witherspoon Yogi Bear

HOW DO THE FIGHTER YOGI BEAR Road Runner short fi lm, YOU KNOW The real-life tale of Lowell, Hanna-Barbera’s famous Rabid Rider, screens before The season’s only romantic Massachusetts, boxer cartoon bear Yogi the movie. comedy comes courtesy “Irish” Mickey Ward comes (Dan Aykroyd) — along with of writer/director James L. to the big screen with Mark his little buddy Boo Boo RABBIT HOLE Brooks (As Good as it Gets), Wahlberg as the struggling (Justin Timberlake) — are Based on the Pulitzer Prize- and casts Reese Witherspoon fi ghter who parts way with his the only CGI elements in winning play by David as a softball player who can’t trainer — who also happens this live-action family fl ick. Lindsay-Abaire, the fi lm decide between her baseball to be his drug-addicted A documentary fi lm director fi nds Becca (Nicole Kidman) player beau (Owen Wilson) stepbrother Dickie (Christian (Anna Faris) making a movie and Howie Corbett (Aaron and a failing, but charming, Bale). But when Dickie cleans about Yogi and Boo Boo also Eckhart) struggling to keep businessman (Paul Rudd). up his act, he may be the one captures the bears’ battle to their marriage together after Longtime Brooks collaborator who can resurrect Mickey’s save Jellystone Park from a the loss of their child. Oscar Jack Nicholson pops up as faltering career. See Mark greedy developer. Plus, a pundits are talking up Kidman’s Rudd’s father. Wahlberg interview, page 24. new 3D Wile E. Coyote and performance. CONTINUED 

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oston loyalty is a fierce thing. only that, but Wahlberg had to jump in and out of fighting-trim shape It’s fuelled such memorable films as for nearly half a decade, as other jobs came along for the famously Good Will Hunting, The Departed, Mystic River ab-tastic former Marky Mark. and the recent hit The Town. Demanding as that was, Wahlberg has no complaints. It also runs deep in Mark Wahlberg’s soul. “I like to be able to do some sort of physical preparation for roles,” The youngest of nine brothers and sisters he says. “I love to have something…not only physical, but just a movie from the working class neighbourhood of that’ll take me a couple of months to get ready for. Really go off and Dorchester, Wahlberg let his street alle- become this character, live in that headspace for a portion of the giances get him in a good deal of trouble as a production, and then just walk away from it, try to figure out what teenager. Now, after successful careers as a hip-hop artist, underwear am I going to do next, who am I going to try to become next? For model, Oscar-nominated movie star (for The Departed) and accom- The Fighter, I was actually training on and off for four-and-a-half years. plished producer, the 39-year-old family man has channelled his “I’ve always wanted to play a fighter,” Wahlberg reveals. “I built a devotion to Massachusetts into a true labour of love. gym in my backyard with a boxing ring in it when I was going to do The Fighter recounts the true story of “Irish” Micky Ward, who Out on My Feet with Robert De Niro at one point, and I was going to rose from humble beginnings in Lowell, Massachusetts (about 48 do a small part in The Black Dahlia just to play a fighter. These movies kilometres northwest of Boston), to become one of the greatest junior didn’t work out for all of the right reasons. You know, Micky’s story, his welterweight boxers of all time. Along with his many trials and come- life and his journey and [he and Dickie’s] journey together, I just felt backs, the film focuses on the athlete’s relationship with his older like it would make a fantastic movie. And the relationship I had with half-brother Dickie Eklund, whose positive and negative influences him, obviously, made me feel obligated to bring his story to the big on Ward made for a sibling bond of biblically fraught proportions. screen…it became my obsession. Every other movie that I did after “The first time I saw the movie, I didn’t really pay attention to it,” reading that script, I was always preparing for that. I’d bring the trainers Wahlberg, who stars as Ward and produced the film, says during a re- with me. Two hours before work we’d be in the gym, and then we’d cent interview in downtown L.A. “I was just so happy that I got it done, have the trailers on set with the boxing equipment and everything.” and that I got it done for Micky and for Dickie and for the rest of their Behind the scenes, Wahlberg sparred with investors and collabo- THE FIGHTER family, and for Lowell. And then I went back and watched the movie rators until he finally secured enough money for the project and to actually see what we had. It’s a special film, I’m very proud of it.” got David O. Russell, who directed him in Three Kings and I Heart Hits tHeatres He ought to be. The movie was a years-long struggle that included Huckabees, and Christian Bale (who plays drug-addicted ex-boxer tH deCeMBer 17 numerous false starts, financing fall-throughs and talent changes. Not Dickie) to commit. CONTINUED

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“We faced lmmaker and co-star and all types of di erent prob- things for yourself.  at’s how I got into the business and how I got to lems,” Wahlberg acknowledges. “But this was a movie that I had where I’m at, by just going out and making it happen.” to make, so I just decided that I would take it upon myself to get it When he’s not working, Wahlberg devotes himself to other passions: made. I produced it, I got David to direct it, I got Christian and Amy golf; the Catholic faith he credits with rerouting him from a life of Adams to be in it. I got the nancing from Relativity, I got HBO [which crime; and his four young children. Asked if he’s thinking about airs the Wahlberg-produced hit Entourage] to bend over backwards to breaking his father’s record for procreation, Wahlberg initially seems help us to make the movie. I had to get it done — and I probably won’t spooked. But then he laughs. “No! We don’t even know what the attempt anything like that anytime soon!” number is with my dad. I mean, there are nine of us, then I met a How does, we wonder, someone evolve from urban hoodlum, couple [more] not too long ago. You know, daddy was in the military tween idol and billboard bod into such an e ective dealmaker? and travelled the world, so who knows how many kids he had.” “I was always a hustler, always putting things together or xing When it comes to certain kinds of commitment, Wahlberg admits The 2011 BlueTEC SUV Family. things,” Wahlberg says with a shrug. “So producing feels like a natural that sometimes limits can be a good thing. “Four was always the Starting from $56,700*. progression, to create your own opportunities. I mean, the business magic number,” he says of his children. “My wife really wanted two has changed so much.  ey’re not making as many movies as they boys and two girls. So we’re blessed to have everything we wanted.” used to.  e kind of movies that they’re making, too, don’t necessarily

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fter four decades, Jeff Bridges has gotten a career upgrade. Long considered one of the film industry’s most underrated actors, this year the 60-year-old Hollywood veteran received some overdue, and welcome, recognition. His performance as a broken-down country crooner in Crazy Heart won him a Best Actor Oscar. And he’s starring in two of the holiday season’s most anticipated films. In TRON: Legacy, he reprises his role from 1982’s Tron, the sci-fi in which he played Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer transported to a digitally generated universe. In the sequel, Kevin’s son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) goes looking for his father and is You’ve had an exceptional year, first the pulled into the same digital universe where dad’s Oscar for Crazy Heart and now both TRON been living for the past two decades. and True Grit. Then in True Grit, Bridges reunites with the Coen “It’s intense. And sometimes the intensity can feel Brothers — who directed him in The Big Lebowski overwhelming, sometimes too much.” — for their gritty remake of the classic John Wayne Western. He assumes Wayne’s role of grizzled U.S. I remember when you were doing the marshal Rooster Cogburn, who’s hired by a teenage interviews for Crazy Heart, you said you were girl to track down her father’s killer. looking forward to slowing down a bit. We sat down with Bridges in San Diego to chat “Yeah, and now it’s picking up speed [laughs]. I about the two roles and the unexpected direction pushed the button the wrong way, put the gear the his professional, and creative, life has taken. wrong way.” CONTINUED

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You always hear actors have the fear of never working There’s already talk about more TRON sequels. Would you be again. So when they’re on a roll, they’re afraid to not take interested in coming back again? advantage of the opportunities coming their way. “It all depends on the script and how they want to go.” thumbs up. “ ere is that impulse, certainly. With the success of Crazy Heart, that ignited all my music, which I’ve been doing since I was a kid. And now And then there’s True Grit. Any hesitation about remaking it? it’s like you say, strike while the iron is hot kind of thing. So if there was “I was pretty quick to come to that one just because it was the ever a time to get into my music, now’s the time.” [Coen] brothers, who I had had such a great time with before. I was a little curious why they wanted to remake True Grit. It’s Is the music consistent with what people heard in Crazy Heart? kind of a classic of the genre. And then they told me they were Add social networking “Yeah, we’ve put a little band together, we’re going out on local gigs not really making a remake of that movie, but were making a in Santa Barbara and we’re doing songs from Crazy Heart and other film based on the book. I read the book and saw what they were $ songs that are in the genre. We’re in the process of discovering what talking about; it’s a wonderful book.” for 10/month. we’re going to sound like.” And certainly about as removed from the high-tech world of You point out that you’ve always played music. When you’re TRON as you can get. In Legacy, there are actually two versions touring, and possibly recording, and thinking about it in a of you — you as you are now as well as a younger version. more professional light, does it become less enjoyable? What was your reaction when you saw your young CG self? “It’s a double-edged sword. In a way, it’s more fun because when you “I haven’t seen the finished, polished version yet. But I’m very get to become professional, there’s a chance to play with some great impressed with the direction they’ve gone so far.” players. ey’ve been doing it for a long time. It’s like if you play tennis against a tennis player who’s better than you, you rise to the occasion. Do you have your image copyrighted like some other actors do? So that’s wonderful. So far I’m only seeing positive things about it.” “ at’s a good question [laughs]. I should  gure that out.”

There have been rumours about a TRON sequel for years. Because, someday, if a producer wants to hire the real What drew you back now? Tom Cruise, they’ll pay full price. But if they just want his “It was important to me to have Steven Lisberger [who directed TRON digital clone, they can get it for a discount. and is one of the producers of TRON: Legacy] on board so it would be “Yeah, exactly! I’m concerned about it. But I’m more concerned I faithful to the original one. We wanted TRON: Legacy to stand on its can’t really answer your question. I don’t really remember the legality own. But we did want people who were familiar with it and loved the of it. But the future of it is really amazing — they’ll be able to combine  rst one to enjoy it. And then another concern of mine was it would di erent actors and di erent traits and have no physical actors at all. be a movie about the technological wizardry we can do now. I wanted It’ll be whatever you imagine.” it to have some substance to it. I was interested in making a modern myth that would deal with some of our challenges in this day and age Kevin Williamson is a Calgary-based movie columnist for Sun Media. and technology is certainly one of those. So this deals with some of the darker sides of technology.” TRUE GRIT In 1982, when the original was released, there was still this HITS THEATRES ND feeling that technology was going to make our lives easier DECEMBER 22 and free up our time. “And it’s the opposite. It’s imprisoned us in a lot of ways. I’m sort of a prisoner to my computer at home, dealing with all this email, and it’s a funny relationship you have with a computer.”

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t’s been only a few hours since Paul Giamatti landed in Toronto, direct from the Venice Film Festival where he attended the world premiere of Barney’s Version. He plays the title character in the movie based on the late Mordecai Richler’s popular, and arguably best, novel, which came out in 1997. It seems the 43-year-old actor is still high on the hype from the prestigious Italian lm festival, where the movie got very positive reviews. “It was insane. Italians almost have this Beatlemania thing with Mordecai Richler,” he says, excitedly, while taking a seat on the edge of a chair in his Toronto hotel suite. “He’s kind of a serious rock star over there. People love him! I kept asking Italians, ‘Why?’ It seemed odd to me.” Yeah, really: Why? “ ey all said to me that it was sort of the bluntness, the kind of politically incorrect thing and the sense of cynicism of the guy. And he also had the kind of romantic nature underneath it. It makes sense, I guess, if you think about Italians; they’re pretty romantic and cynical.” Giamatti is clearly more fascinated with the attention Mordecai Richler receives than the attention he gets on the red carpet at events like Venice, and the one he’s here for, the Toronto International Film Festival. “I don’t love the attention,” says Giamatti. “But it’s part of the whole thing, and it’s nice, it’s  attering and everything, but I get kind of uncomfortable. I don’t want to be seen as a big f-cking star.  at’s kind of scary.” Even though Giamatti has been an actor for more than 20 years, he’s not used to this much attention. Sure, he played the leading man, Miles, in Sideways and protagonist Cleveland Heep in Lady in the Water, but he usually plays supporting characters, the kind of parts that are essential to the plot, and that viewers remember (Cinderella Man, e Illusionist, Duplicity). But in Barney’s Version he’s at the centre of it all. “I talk a lot and I’m there in every scene,” he con rms. “But I never thought of this lm as sort of my movie or as if I’m sort of carrying it. It always felt like an ensemble thing to me.” And it’s quite an ensemble. Giamatti plays Barney, a short-tempered TV producer with a loving, and inappropriately caring, dad (Dustin Ho man) and a free-spirited old pal (Scott Speedman). But it’s Barney’s triumvirate of wives who map out his character’s trajectory.  e rst is a troubled young woman (Rachelle Lefevre) who’s unable to be happy.  e second is an annoying Jewish American Princess (Minnie BARNEY’S Driver). In fact, she’s such a pain that Barney meets his third wife (Rosamund Pike) at his second wedding. VERSION  e result, directed by Richard J. Lewis (Whale Music), is a look at Barney’s life over a period of almost 40 years. And, just like the book, it’s also a semi-autobiographical memoir of Mordecai Richler. In fact, HITS THEATRES Giamatti says his performance is partly a tribute to the writer, as he studied old footage and photos of DECEMBER 24TH Richler to create the character. CONTINUED

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It was also cool that several Canadian filmmak- ers had cameos, including Atom Egoyan (“very nice, a great guy”), David Cronenberg (“eccentric and interesting guy”) and Denys Arcand. “I did not know what Denys Arcand looked like,” says Giamatti. “He came in and I was like, ‘This guy is f-cking great as the maître d’. ’ And then I was like, ‘Oh, wait a minute. It’s him.’ He has such a funny attitude about himself. I loved him. There were clockwise from top left: “He was very interesting to watch speak,” says no lines necessarily written for him so he created paul Giamatti with rosamund pike; rachelle lefevre and Giamatti. “He had this combination of being refined some for himself. At one point, he had to tell us minnie Driver and intelligent and very rough and kind of working the specials of the day, and he made up the whole class. He was a tough guy in some ways. So it was thing. Every time we redid the scene I could not a really fascinating combination. And then there stop laughing because he did it perfectly, he did it is also his physicality — this wonderful kind of brilliantly. He was totally absurd and very funny.” slouchy, kind of heavy thing. You know, the way That scene, as were many others, was shot in that all those cigars and heavy drinking affects the Montreal (the rest of the movie was filmed around way somebody just lives their life. Quebec and in Rome). Giamatti’s eyes light up “I remember being halfway through the movie when Montreal is mentioned. “What a f-cking great thinking, ‘I really like this guy, and I really like play- city! I immediately felt very relaxed. The people ing this character,’” he continues. “It was nice to were great and the food was great. It had a lot play somebody with this crazy vitality all the time.” of character to it and it felt old, you know what I Something else on set kept reminding Giamatti mean? There is a lot of just weight and gravity to it. of Richler. The writer’s widow, Florence, and son I just really, really, really liked it. I thought it was a Better Noah visited the set many times. It was a strange fantastic city. And it’s not too far from New York. I wIth Age? reality check for the actor. “On any set, it’s a f-cking thought about getting a place. I really did.” Paul Giamatti doesn’t tricky thing to have the family around. It could be It’s not too late. Although, Giamatti may have have a problem with weird. And I’m sure in a way it was weird for them, trouble avoiding all that dreaded attention in his wrinkles. In fact, he but they had a very lovely attitude about it. It’s kind Montreal after the release of Barney’s Version. can’t wait to get more. of as if they were telling me, ‘It’s your thing and we For Barney’s Version, the don’t want to get in they way.’ They just observed Mathieu Chantelois is the editor of makeup team had to age and were being nice. So it was cool.” Le magazine Cineplex. him quite a bit. “I thought I looked better old! I hope I do end up looking that For more on Barney’s Version, okay when I’m older.”—MC CheCk out the CIneplex pre-Show

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tephen Dorff is feeling very grateful. It took Dorff’s longtime friend, writer and director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation), to hand the 37-year-old actor the role of his life playing a disenchanted movie star in Somewhere, which earned Best Film honours at this year’s Venice Film Festival. “Sofia’s the best. She gave me the best part I’ve ever played...the best role for a young man in the last five years, I mean nothing compares to it at all and I’ve read everything,” says Dorff during an interview in Montreal this past summer. Somewhere casts Dorff as Johnny Marco, an actor stuck in neutral, living in L.A.’s Chateau Marmont hotel where he entertains pole dancers in his room and hangs out by the pool. But his life finds meaning when his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning) comes to stay with him. Coppola based the film on her own experiences growing up as the daughter of Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola. Dorff, the son of music composer Steve Dorff, also grew up in Hollywood and started his career as a child actor. By age 21 he was being touted as one of Hollywood’s hottest young stars, largely due to his charismatic turn as fifth Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe in 1994’s Backbeat. But, in all honesty, Dorff never capitalized on his breakout turn, going on to star in a string of mostly forgettable films over the next 15 years. It was the realization that he needed to work with top directors — last year he scored a role in director Michael Mann’s Public Enemies — and, sadly, the death of his mother, that helped revitalize his career. “I think my mom has something to do with it. I lost my mom two years ago, it changed me, changed my life,” says the actor. When he heard he was on Coppola’s short list for ConTInUEd

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Angelina Jolie is fi nally getting in touch with her feminine side. It is, by her own admission, a part of her personality that rarely surfaces in her lms. On screen the 35-year-old superstar is known for being tough, fearless and gorgeous — she’s the only female lead moviegoers will pay to see re bullets and break bones — not girlish or demure. MISSION Consider her resume. In pyro-rigged thrill rides ranging from It’s almost too much to bear. Angelina Jolie 2001’s Tomb Raider to 2005’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith (on which she met in Europe, outfi tted in couture, sharing the her partner Brad Pitt) to 2008’s Wanted and this past summer’s spy screen with Johnny Depp, and kicking butt yarn Salt, she’s more ferocious than prim. She’s not the kind of as a secret agent? The Tourist makes all your woman who needs to be protected, she’s the kind of woman men dreams come true ■ BY KEVIN WILLIAMSON need to be protected from. If it’s a niche, it’s a lucrative one. Jolie is continually sought to headline big-budget studio productions — a rarity among actresses. Warner Brothers courted her for months, hoping she would sign onto their pricey 3D astronaut adventure Gravity that would co-star Robert Downey Jr. When she turned it down, the studio scrambled for a replacement until zeroing in on Sandra Bullock. And when Jolie opted out of reprising her role as an assassin in Wanted 2, the move — at least temporarily — derailed the sequel. After all, who could convincingly wear her tattoos? Even in dramatic parts, such as Girl, Interrupted or Changeling or A Mighty Heart, she’s strong-willed, determined, even relentless. So it’s with a grin and more than a little enthusiasm that she reports her character in the new romantic thriller, e Tourist, is “such a girl.” “She’s very female,” says Jolie during a recent interview at a Washington, D.C., hotel. “She’s the most female I’ve been on screen.” Jolie plays an Interpol agent on the trail of a master criminal. Caught up in the European-based intrigue is an innocuous American traveller, played by Johnny Depp. Naturally, sparks  y between the attractive mega-stars.  e movie, which was lmed in the spring, generated such positive buzz among studio executives that it was pushed up from a planned 2011 release to this year’s holiday season. Jolie, who chooses her lms carefully, says signing onto e Tourist was simple. “It was lming in Venice and Paris,” she says. “It was easy.” And yes, she was joined in Europe by Pitt and their family: three adopted children — Maddox, 9, Zahara, 5, and Pax, 7 — and three biological kids — Shiloh, 4, and 2-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. She con rms the movie — which marks the U.S. directorial debut of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who won an Oscar for 2006’s e Lives of Others — harkens back to travelogue CONTINUED

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And now She’S A director? Angelina Jolie is foxy. Without any fanfare, or dropping hints in the media about wanting to direct, the star has stepped behind the camera. She’s seen to the left in Budapest, Hungary, helming her first feature, which presently has the catchy moniker Untitled Bosnian War Love Story. The drama focuses on the affair between a Serbian man and Bosnian woman, who fall in love just before the 1992 Bosnian War breaks out. Jolie was all set to move filming from Hungary to Bosnia but her permit to film in that country was revoked by its government after a women’s group NEWS protested the film’s plot, saying it “offends a female war victim and distorts the truth about what that woman has suffered in a detention camp.” However, Jolie said that was a misconception, and after Bosnian officials read the script they reissued the permit.—IR h SPLAS BY SIDEBAR Photo

romps like Charade and Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. “You have to be conscious of that balance. But I don’t have a The result, she says, is intended to be romantic, thrilling and glamor- Changeling on my desk right now. I’m open to anything. I feel you ous, which is not surprising, considering its high-style locales. The should be open to anything and see what comes up.” actor says her, and Depp’s, intention from the outset was to make an And the further away the project is from her own personality — and old-fashioned crowd-pleaser that would be “fun” for the audience. appearance — the better, she says. Why? It makes viewing her films Naturally the film still contains action, a quality the trailer wisely more palatable. Despite being one of the planet’s most photographed emphasizes. At this, Jolie is an old pro; she’s worked with many of the people, Jolie, like everyone else, doesn’t like to watch herself. same stunt crew for the past decade. “We’ve become a family. And we “Whatever it is that makes me uncomfortable about watching see each other on weekends and birthdays. Our children play. So we myself is because I see some of myself in a character. The further away are very close and they are invested in me not falling to the ground it is for me, the easier it is to watch.... When it looks like me and sounds because they know my family.” like me, it’s not so interesting.” What was new for Jolie — and her stunt team — wasn’t what she Most recently it’s been reported Jolie wants to star in a new epic was being called on to do, but what she wasn’t being told to do. “A about Cleopatra. If so, that project could be years in the making. few of the people who did stunts on Salt did stunts on The Tourist…. What is certain, however, is that, despite rumours earlier this year to There’s even an action sequence, and I asked the director what I the contrary, she has no plans to retire from acting. She and Pitt are should do and he said, ‘Retreat.’ And you could tell they were think- just careful to juggle their schedules so that one of them isn’t working ing, ‘That doesn’t happen.’ It was the first time I’ve retreated during an when the other is. For example, following Salt’s promotional tour action sequence.” and release in July, she took care of the children while he filmed the The teaming of Jolie and Depp, two of the world’s most popular forthcoming baseball picture Moneyball. actors, will presumably mean hefty Christmastime tidings for all And, of course, she intends to stay committed to international issues involved. Coming off Salt, which grossed $289-million (U.S.) world- and relief work. wide, it will likely mean Jolie will be able to do whatever she wants. “I like to be very, very busy. I like to be energized. I’m always reading “You do need to balance things to make sure you can always something or wanting to make something.” continue to do different types and sizes of films,” she says of moving between intimate, small-scale dramas and expensive extravaganzas. Kevin Williamson is a Calgary-based movie columnist for Sun Media.

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