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“The more “I guess they finally visible we are, figured out it only the less they takes one woman to do the job of two men.“ can act like we’re — Reba McEntire, referring to invisible.” serving as host again after five straight years of dual male — Lena Waithe, accepting the award hosts, on the Academy for Outstanding Individual Episode, of Country Music Awards at the GLAAD Media Awards NBCU/GETTY IMAGES; MCDERMOTT, SHER: MICHAEL ANSELL/ABC (2); DESCH (2); ANSELL/ABC MICHAEL SHER: MCDERMOTT, IMAGES; NBCU/GETTY

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JAMIE STONE SORECER’S THE AND POTTER HARRY

PARKER CHILD CURSED THE AND POTTER HARRY

The actor playing the now-grown Harry Potter talks to EW’s Jessica Derschowitz about the wizard life

How has performing the H (2), BROS. MOUNTAIN/WARNER : PETER

show on Broadway com- PAR GRAY; CHARLIE MILLER: POPPY AND CLEMMETT SAM (2); HARLAN : MANUEL pared with London?

In London, we had a big clock ticking down to opening, and we were still building the show from scratch. Here, there’s more prep time, and 2 PART HALLOWS, DEATHLY THE AND POTTER ARRY the new theater is stunningly beautiful—audiences have felt at home when they arrived. It has a wonderful kind of completeness to it.

What’s Harry like as an

adult and a father? WOOLLER/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK DAN KER:

Ultimately, the ques- BROS; : JAAP BUITENDIJK/WARNER tion becomes to HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD what extent Harry ever managed to get The beloved magical saga continues with this epic, emo- past his childhood tional two-part play—about Harry’s son Albus’ very diferent at all, given how traumatic it was. It con- adventure at Hogwarts—that finally lands on Broadway stantly takes me by after a smash debut in London. Prepare to be spellbound.

6 EW.COM SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY LINCOLN AGNEW surprise to remember that in the play, Harry is more or less twice the age his father ever made it to before he died, and in the case of parenthood, Harry’s just been making it up. That pressure is what comes to bear on the relationship between him and his middle child, Albus. And that’s the main meal of the play.

Do you think you have to be a Potter fan to see Cursed Child?

You don’t have to know the books to enjoy the show at all, but there will be revelations in the play THE where the rest of the audience will be HANDMAID’S gasping or going “Ahh!” about something somebody said. TALE Given the way everyone else will be reacting to it, you might After an acclaimed, want to read them all award-winning by the time you first season, the finish it. [Laughs] dystopian drama returns with no And is it better to intensity lost (see read the script before- review on page 92) hand or go in blind? for heroines June (Elisabeth Moss), I know that a lot of Moira (Samira people have bought Wiley), and Emily the script and delib- (Alexis Bledel). “She erately not read it, finds the strength because the script is she never knew she the script; it’s not the had,” says Moss of experience of seeing LIVE AT THE her formidable char- the show. For my acter. “She rises money, I wouldn’t like a phoenix and read it—I’d discover becomes a new BBC: HARRY June.” (Hulu) the show in real time.

If you were to compare New York to a part of ; GEORGE KRAYCHYK/HULU GEORGE ; STYLES the Wizarding World, what would it be? The former One Direc- and charming, Styles I don’t know Fantastic tioner’s 2017 debut intersperses interview Beasts very well, album has only gotten segments and colorful THE HANDMAID’STHE TALE but that’s New York, isn’t it? The hustle better with age, proven visits to his Manchester and bustle of Diagon especially true in Styles’ roots with the stuf Alley, I suppose! fascinating first solo TV he loves best: good special, courtesy of the vibes, great tunes, and Broadway’s Lyric BBC and host-slash-BFF even better suits. (BBC Theatre, tickets at

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AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

ER PARKER: CHUCK STUDIOS; PARKER: ZLOTNICK/©MARVEL ER BLACK WIDOW: Marvel is destined to adventure includes so dominate movie the- many beloved charac- aters with the first part ters, we wrote this A-to-Z of this epic superhero guide to ensure you team-up (out April 27). and your super-squad The galaxy-spanning are ready to rumble.

AVENGERS FALCON N EW YORK TEENS Or what’s left of them, after The most levelheaded Avenger If an alien invasion can make Civil War’s bitter team breakup. in both attitude and altitude. it here, it can make it anywhere. Peter, Groot, and Shuri learn

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H ULK, INCREDIBLE The other key to making sure Tony Stark’s heart works. Back on Earth. Still pissed. B U LTRON LACK Q UILL, PETER I NFINITY STONES Widow, Panther, and Order (you (LOL, remember Ultron?) Most likely to distract Thanos haven’t met that last one yet). Thanos’ jewelry obsession. with a dance-of. Useful. V ISION C J ROSSOVER AMES “BUCKY” R AGNAROK BARNES Watch your gems, J.A.R.V.I.S.!

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The one thing Thor Hawkeye’s much better half. The time left until Avengers 4. and Nick Fury now have S CARLET WITCH in common. M AN Z EMO, BARON From science experiment Iron, Spider-, and Ant-, oh my! to psychic chic. Why we can’t have nice things.

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2. BUSCEMI AS WARHOL

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DIRTY COMPUTER by Janelle Monáe

Three incredible singles and three unforgettable videos (most recently: the poppy, provocative “PYNK”) have solidified Monáe’s third studio album as one of 2018’s most anticipated new releases, bound to generate as much conversation about the WESTWORLD genre-fluid artist as it will THE SEASONS hours on the dance floor. OF MY MOTHER After a 16-month by Marcia Gay Harden hiatus, HBO’s mind- bending sci-fi drama The actress turns (Sundays at 9 p.m.) to memoir with this returns for its eagerly heartbreaking love let- awaited second sea- ter recounting her son, full of brand-new intimate relationship worlds and double with her mother. the android-apocalypse Through tender slices mayhem. Here are of life, Harden paints a three things EW’s humane but devastat- James Hibberd learned ing portrait of a woman about the upgraded battling Alzheimer’s. lineup of episodes.

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London-born Ronit (Rachel Weisz) fled her strict, ultra-Orthodox upbringing years ago for the bohemian freedom of New York. But when ALL THE THEME PARK’S “HOSTS” ARE IN FULL REBELLION! her father dies suddenly, she’s forced to confront S C OOP C A N After a debut season in which they her past—and the former YOU were largely stuck in their programmed E ! US “loops,” the bots are now free to lover (Rachel McAdams) make their own decisions—which she left behind. This means killing any stray human guests English-language debut unwise enough to have chosen from Chilean director a sex-robot theme park for a vacation. As Thandie Newton, who plays Maeve, Sebastián Lelio (who just puts it: “They’re creating Armageddon.” won a Best Foreign Film Oscar for his landmark A Fantastic THE SHOW’S SCOPE EXPANDS—A LOT trans drama Woman) treats a titillating Expect to see the outside world subject with grace and beyond the park for the first time, and the other Delos Inc. destinations as well sensitivity, and pulls lovely, (such as the feudal Japan-themed Shogun nuanced performances World, which inspires a standout episode from his two big stars. midway through the season). “We’re going to see a lot of territory we didn’t see the first season,” notes showrunner Lisa Joy. “Yet there’s also a push into the interior lives of these characters.”

DOLORES IS SHOCKINGLY BRUTAL NOW

The Western park’s iconic prairie princess (Evan Rachel Wood) now remembers everything that’s happened to her over 30 years of servitude—and is, understandably, rather peeved. “The way the writers have described it to me is ‘Dolores is not good or bad—she’s just right,’ ” says Wood. “She’s just doing what needs to be done so she can be free.”

SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 EW.COM 11 BIRTHDAY TRIPLETS (APRIL 29) Michelle Pfeiffer | Daniel Day-Lewis | Duke Ellington

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In honor of her 60th birthday (on April 29), go full stream ahead through some of Michelle Pfeifer’s best movies, starting with this 1988 Jonathan Demme farce that stars the actress as the wise, hilarious widow of a whacked mafioso. (Hulu)

CADDYSHACK: THE MAKING OF A HOLLYWOOD CINDERELLA STORY by Chris Nashawaty

Director Harold Ramis’ 1980 sports movie is beloved by golfers and comedy fans alike, and EW’s film critic reveals in his comprehensive history just how the flick’s legendary cre- ators scored such a perfect game. LARS NIKI/GETTY IMAGES; ELLINGTON: BETTMANN ARCHIVE; IMAGES; ELLINGTON: BETTMANN NIKI/GETTY LARS

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The first draft of the screenplay MARRIED TO THE MOB

made no mention of Murray’s Carl BROS/PHOTOFEST; : WARNER Ghostbusters PFOUR MORE PFEIFFER PFAVORITES Spackler, so the future star would ultimately ad lib many of his lines as the deranged groundskeeper.

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Few celebrated more heartily during the debauched shoot than Dangerfield, as costar Peter Berkrot discovered after hiding marijuana from the veteran comedian—and being encouraged not to.

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Beyday Beyoncé’s historic Coachella performance may be the best of all time. BYI ALEX SUSKIND

INDIO, CALIF.—BEFORE SHE GAVE ONE OF THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL live performances of the year (and—it feels pretty safe making this claim—of the 21st century), Beyoncé posted a brief message to her Facebook page: I am so excited to see the BeyHive tonight at Coachella. We have been working hard and have a special show planned for you so please be safe and stay hydrated. We need your energy! There will be an hour intermission before my performance, so mark your spot, charge your phones, grab your drinks. Can’t wait to see y’all at 11:05pm! ( From top ) Beyoncé and In hindsight, this wasn’t a mild tease; it was a warning shot. By the All of it dates back to early 2017, when Bey her band; a reunited time the 36-year-old artist ﬁnished her expansive, nearly two-hour had to cancel her Coachella headlining slot Destiny’s Child headlining set at weekend 1 of Coachella—one that featured a full due to her pregnancy and promised she’d be salute the Coachella marching band, a Destiny’s Child reunion, cameos by husband Jay-Z back the following year. She then spent the crowd and sister Solange, and Beyoncé herself floating high above the next few months dreaming up something crowd on top of a lift while singing “Drunk in Love”—it felt like the a bit more audacious. The result was an music space-time continuum had permanently ripped. HBCU-themed musical gathering—dubbed

16 EW.COM SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 IN MEMORIAM

1952–2018 Harry Anderson’s Iconic Roles The actor, who passed away April 16 at his home in Asheville, N.C., was one of the most beloved TV actors. We look back at his most memorable roles and appearances. BY WILL MENDELSON

1 NIGHT COURT Anderson received three Emmy nominations for his starring role as the unconventional Judge Harry T. Stone on the NBC sitcom Night Court, which ran from 1984 to 1992.

2 IT Anderson played the adult jokester Richie Tozier in the 1990 TV miniseries It. In a 2015 oral history of the film, director Tommy Lee Wallace revealed that he specifically selected Anderson for the role.

3 DAVE’S WORLD Anderson hilariously portrayed humor columnist Dave Barry on the CBS sitcom that ran from “Beychella”—that featured updated versions exploring the full breadth of the black 1993 to 1997. of classics, from the methodical tease of diaspora. During the set, Bey sang a cover 4 THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING “Formation” to the chopped-and-screwed of the black national anthem, “Lift Every JOHNNY CARSON coda of “Crazy in Love.” Voice and Sing”; paid tribute to Fela Kuti Anderson made 11 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Watching the show was an exercise in and Nina Simone; and featured horn-heavy Carson, in which he dazzled multitasking. There were so many different cuts of C-Murder’s “Down With Them N’s” viewers with magic tricks. Carson would call Anderson “one of the things happening at once, it was hard to and Juvenile’s “Back That Azz Up.” Beyoncé best comedy magicians around.” know where to look: dancers krumping, tuba was playing singer, soror, band director, CHEERS players bouncing up and down, violinists antagonizer, dancer, and slayer of men 5 Anderson cracked up audiences swaying back and forth, Beyoncé singing and all at once. during his six appearances twerking and curling her way around the This was a pop star 20 years into her on Cheers as Harry “The Hat” Gittes, the wisecracking, con- stage, using every inch of space she could. career, at the top of her game, producing the artist bar patron. And it somehow still sounded good, despite type of concert–meets–history lesson– being held in a setting where good sound is meets–social media explosion viewers will Harry Anderson on Night Court notoriously difficult to pin down. The horn be talking about for years to come. section had depth, the snares popped, and, “Thank you for allowing me to be the first most important, Beyoncé’s voice was sharp, black woman to headline Coachella,” she strong, and crystal clear. said at the end of the evening, to deafening This wasn’t a festival gig as much as applause. “I just want to say thank you, guys. a Broadway-scale production with a 70- I am so happy you are here.” plus-person backing band—one that dis- “God, thank you,” one fan shouted back at

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Whether you want to voyage to outer space in SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, hit up a New York City heist in OCEAN’S 8, set sail for a Greek island on a return trip to MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN, or just journey back to simpler times in CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, use this 58-page guide jammed with 88 exclusive photos as your map to the best in warm-weather entertainment!

JURASSIC MAYJUNE JULY AUGUST CALENDAR WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM CHRIS PRATT returns to the island of misfit dinosaurs

in this summer's JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM,

the franchise’s darkest, most dino-tastic installment yet.

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Chris Pratt and the Indoraptor photo- graphed exclusively for Entertainment Weekly by Matthias Clamer on March 7, 2018, at Universal Studios Hollywood

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Every few minutes, the swells of John Wil- GRO GROUP; WALL PSALTIRAS/THE ANNIE STYLIST: SPREAD) (PREVIOUS liams’ iconic score stir up again, and the vocal terror of thousands of families being S A URS… scared by an animatronic T. rex can be O F DINO heard ringing through the Universal Stu- THEN COME THE dios Hollywood amusement park, where Jurassic Park—The Ride remains a hugely popular attraction. What most riders don’t know is that just several hundred feet away on the movie studio’s backlot, director J.A. Bayona (A Monster Calls) is combing through footage of the latest installment in

the series, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. COLE KELLY

After seeing Steven Spielberg’s 1993 OMER: STARRING DIRECTED BY Chris Pratt, Bryce J.A. Bayona Dallas Howard, Justice Smith, Toby Jones

original, a young Bayona was transformed. “I remember perfectly that I felt I was watching a moment in movie history,” says the Barcelona native. “I thought from that moment on, everything you could imagine, no matter how crazy that could be, would be possible to see on screen in a realistic way. It was movie history.” Now Bayona is poised to make his own history with Kingdom, which arrives in theaters on June 22 and is the highly anticipated sequel to 2015’s Jurassic World. That film, costarring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, finally opened the dinosaur theme park promised in the original film and naturally led to bloody chaos. (The film would also go on to gross more than $1.6 billion worldwide, making it the most successful installment in the series.) Bayona’s Kingdom is perhaps the most ambitious Jurassic film to date, with a genre- shifting twist halfway through the film: The island is destroyed and the action ( From top ) moves to an enormous American estate Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas where characters are trapped indoors Howard, and Isabella Ser- with a rampaging new terror, the Indo- mon; Howard raptor. Think Jurassic meets Panic Room. and Justice Smith “The first half, you have a whole dino- KINGDOM PICKS UP FOUR YEARS saur movie on the island, so you have after the events of World, with Jurassic what you expect from a Jurassic movie,” World in ruins and the dinosaurs now roam- says Bayona. “Then the second half moves to a totally different ing free. But the threat of an erupting

RY environment that feels more suspenseful, darker, claustrophobic, volcano brings about a debate over the pre- and even has this kind of gothic element, which I love.” The only viously extinct creatures. Explains other time the Jurassic franchise has seen the dinosaurs leave their writer-executive producer Colin Trevorrow, tropical locales was the climactic moments of 1997’s The Lost who directed World, “You have this extinc- World: Jurassic Park, when the T. rex stampeded San Diego. Adds tion-level event on that island, and the world Pratt, “At the end of the day, we’re all trying to make something is looking at these creatures that we created that will be part of the Jurassic empire and tonally match the previ- and asking, ‘Well, what is our right? Do we ous movies, but we’re going oﬀ in a new direction.” let them die because we created them and So will audiences be okay with this whole new World? “I feel like they shouldn’t be here in the ﬁrst place, or anxiety is a burden of the hyper-intelligent,” says Pratt with a do we have a responsibility to save them?’ ” laugh. “It’s someone else’s job to worry about that. I just show up, Jurassic World’s former operations man- stand on the x, say the lines, and give them all three of my scared ager, Claire (Howard), used to think of faces.” dinosaurs as only a monetary tool, but in UNIVERSAL PICTURES AND AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT; INC. AND LEGENDA INC. AND UNIVERSAL PICTURES AMBLIN AND ENTERTAINMENT; PICTURES (2) PRODUCTIONS; LLC.

SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 EW.COM 23 the new installment we find her leading the Spoiler alert: We go back. I’m in the movie!” charge to save them, founding an activist But in typical Jurassic fashion, everything organization called the Dinosaur Protec- goes to hell pretty quickly after the volcano tion Group. “Basically, her sense of purpose explodes and decimates the island—but now is to ensure that these animals have not before Owen, Claire, and fellow activist the same protections as any other endan- Franklin (The Get Down’s Justice Smith) gered species,” explains Howard. Joining escape. forces with Benjamin Lockwood (James Eventually the group and some surviving Cromwell), who’s the former partner of dinos end up back at Lockwood’s grand John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), estate, and Owen and Claire begin to real- the pair launch a rescue mission to save ize that the dinosaurs are actually being dinos from the island and bring them back sold, not saved. “Whether that’s a sanctu- to a sanctuary that Lockwood has created ary or not is all part of where the story in America. takes you,” says Trevorrow. “The worst The change in Claire extends to more instincts of mankind are revealed. The first than just her dino feelings. After the inter- film was very clearly about corporate greed. net complained about Claire spending the This is just about human greed.” entirety of World running in heels, the char- Kingdom’s twist also provides a show- acter has found a happy medium in her case for Bayona’s background in horror and footwear. “I wanted it to be clear from the suspense—his debut film was the 2007 beginning that Claire has changed, but critically acclaimed haunted-house movie she’s still wearing heels. A person can have The Orphanage—with the aforementioned an inner journey and still love heels!” says Indoraptor, a new hybrid dino, running Howard with a laugh. “But she’s prepared loose in Lockwood’s compound. “It has a to go to the island, and she also has boots.” wonderfully, deliciously scary third act,” Though Claire’s love of Louboutins says Spielberg. “J.A. knows how to create hasn’t diminished, her romance with Pratt’s terror, but he also knows how to orches- Owen has definitely fizzled. She is, how- trate it so you’re not brutalized by it, and he ever, able to woo the island’s former raptor has the gift of restraint. But when he needs trainer back by playing on his feelings for to open up the throttle, he really knows his favorite dino. “She appeals to my better how.” Adds Howard: “What becomes scary dinosaurs in that kind of an environment. self when she brings up Blue because she’s about it is it becomes more contained, like And let me just tell you, there’s so much still alive,” says Pratt. “Claire’s going to try we have an Indoraptor in a little girl’s bed- carnage!” to get the dinosaur out of harm’s way, and I room. That’s a kind of hell that we haven’t With the tension ratcheted up, Pratt can join her if I want. And, of course, I do. seen in a Jurassic movie. It’s surreal to see admits that this installment was far more UNIVERSAL PICTURES AND AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT; INC. AND LEGENDARY LLC. PICTURES PRODUCTIONS;

It’s hard to think about Jurassic Park without Jef Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm. The chaos theorist was at the center of the first two films in the franchise but then sat out Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World. Well, the black-leather-jacket aficionado is back, albeit briefly, for Kingdom. “I saw him as kind of Al Gore,” says writer Colin Trevorrow. “He’s got a beard now, and he’s like, ‘I told all of you this was going to be a disaster, and sure enough it is.’ ” Malcolm has one pivotal scene where he testifies in front of Congress about whether or not the dinosaurs should be rescued from the island. “You’ve heard me on the subject of the misguided reanimation,” says Goldblum. “My best advice, as dificult as it is, is that we should let evolution course-correct, keep everyone away and let the volcano do its stuf. But as we know, there are other agendas afoot.” —TIM STACK

Jeff Goldblum Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard

physically demanding than World. “We The intensity of the shoot wasn’t exactly lessened by Pratt’s struggles in upped the stunt game,” he says. One epic his personal life. Last December, the actor ﬁled for divorce from his wife, sequence involves Howard, Pratt, and Anna Faris, after eight years of marriage, which produced a son, Jack, now

ANITY; Smith running from the exploding volcano 5. They separated in July 2017, shortly after Kingdom wrapped production. and then ending up submerged in the “Divorce sucks,” says Pratt. “But at the end of the day, we’ve got a great kid ocean, with Howard and Smith trapped in a who’s got two parents who love him very much. And we’re finding a way to Gyrosphere. “It was the result of about a navigate this while still remaining friends and still being kind to one week’s worth of work in a water tank,” says another. It’s not ideal, but yeah, I think both of us are actually probably Pratt. “It ruined my hair. My eyes got so doing better.” bloodshot. They were weeping for three Pratt will next shoot the comic-book adaptation of Cowboy Ninja Viking straight days because there was so much before returning for Jurassic World 3 alongside Howard. Trevorrow, who’s chlorine—since you know you have like 45 currently writing the third and final installment in the trilogy, will also be crew guys in the water. I’m like, ‘Um, no back in the director’s chair to wrap up the series. “If I could contextualize one is taking a bathroom break, so I’m defi- each film, I would say Jurassic World was an action adventure, Fallen King- nitely swimming in everyone’s piss, right? dom is kind of a horror-suspense film, and Jurassic World 3 will be a science Just to be clear that’s your urine in my eye- thriller in the same way that the original Jurassic Park was,” Trevorrow balls? Got it.’ ” says. One thing we definitely know: There will be screams. X BOOTS: FRYE; DALLAS BODYSUIT: ALIX, JEANS: ALIX, GRLFRND; NECKALCES: VINTAGE BODYSUIT: DALLAS FRYE; BOOTS: PRATT JACKET: ASOS; SHIRT AND KELLY COLE; BELT: JEANS: CITIZENS OF HUM

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• Terminal p.29 • The Seagull p.30 • Beast p.31 • Overboard p.31 • Breaking In p.32 • Book Club p.32 STARRING DIRECTED BY • Tully p.32 Alden Ehrenreich, Ron Howard Donald Glover, • Deadpool 2 p.34 Emilia Clarke • Bad Samaritan p.36 • Life of the Party p.37

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Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian

HAN SOLO IS STEERING INTO THE SKID. THAT’S THE says. “The story sends him on an unex- “Their relationship is many different technique a driver uses when things are pected journey that hurtles him into a things, as it is when you see them in the going totally wrong, when the vehicle is dangerous world surrounded by charis- original films,” Ehrenreich says. “I think slipping out of control: Turn in the direc- matic but lawless characters. And that’s they have very diﬀerent styles.” tion you really don’t want to go and, where he needs to try to make his way and Han likes to keep things rough-hewn. counterintuitively, you can swing yourself gain his freedom. So, so much of this is Flying something that looks like a hunk of back on course. about trying to satisfy that yearning to junk through the galaxy attracts fewer We already know how the rest of his life really be free, to really call his own shots in scumbags and Imperials than a stylishly plays out, but in Solo: A Star Wars Story, set a very lawless part of the galaxy and at a appointed starship. But Lando can’t help about 10 years before Han meets Luke in time when it was wide-open.” himself. Savoir faire is a weapon in his that Mos Eisley cantina, the galactic smug- Freedom—as someone in our own gal- arsenal. (PREVIOUS SPREAD AND THIS PAGE) gler (Alden Ehrenreich, taking over from axy once noted—is just another word for “Lando’s always the best-dressed person Harrison Ford) is making all the wrong nothing left to lose. But as young Han goes on that set. And I don’t say that lightly. moves. He tries to join the Empire but on his quest to assemble a team for a dan- There’s a lot of cool costumes and a lot of washes out of its Imperial Flight Academy. gerous train heist, he ends up collecting cool clothing,” Glover says. “He takes pride He’s a fugitive from the authorities, along some unwelcome baggage: friends. Most in the clothing. It makes things easier.

with Qi’ra (Emilia Clarke’s Bonnie to his important, an alliance with a familiar When people see you and you’re debonair, STORY A STAR WARS SOLO: Clyde). And he’s eager to prove his worth Wookiee (Joonas Suotamo, inheriting the they tend to want to give you stuﬀ easier.” among the worst denizens of the galactic Chewbacca role from Peter Mayhew). Lando’s direct partner in crime is the underworld. Later in his life Han Solo may “Joonas is a really funny guy, and he also shape-shifting droid L3-37 (Phoebe Waller- prove to be selﬂess, but in Ron Howard’s brings a lot to the role,” Ehrenreich says. Bridge), who has literally built herself from

new ﬁlm he’s still trying as hard as he can to “It’s clear when you’re up close and seeing the ground up during her travails through : JONATHAN OLLEY/LUCASFILM LTD. (2); be selfish. him do it just how much Wookiee craft he the galaxy. If there’s one quality all of these The movie seems to relish how mis- really has to do, knowing how to move in outlaws share, it’s that they are all guided Solo is about himself. “I’ve got a the suit to convey the right things.” self-made. really good feeling about this,” he declares Han also crosses paths with a much The movie has a warning from Tobias at one point—a twist on the old “I’ve got a smoother operator, Lando Calrissian Beckett (Woody Harrelson), the low-grade bad feeling about this” line that has turned (Donald Glover in the role originated by scoundrel who serves as Solo’s mentor: up in nearly every Star Wars ﬁlm. Billy Dee Williams), who assures him that “Assume everyone will betray you, and you TERMINAL “It really is a rite of passage,” Howard every story he has heard about him…is true. will never be disappointed.” It’s ominous advice, and a cynical lesson. But that’s just : RLJE FILMS (4) FILMS : RLJE one more thing that Han Solo will need to unlearn—once he stops sliding toward the edge. —ANTHONY BREZNICAN

EW.COM STARRING DIRECTED BY Margot Robbie, Vaughn Stein Mike Myers, Simon Pegg

MARGOT ROBBIE STARS IN TERMINAL AS A CON WITH one hell of a costume closet. Vaughn Stein’s blood-soaked thriller has a whole seedy underworld populated with criminals and assassins, but at its center is Robbie’s enigmatic and glamorous Annie. “I loved that there were all these male characters running around thinking they’re the boss of everything and they’re in charge, when really she’s pulling the strings,” Robbie says with a laugh. To achieve her nefarious aims, Annie can melt into whatever role best suits her purpose— the femme fatale, the kooky waitress, the tough- talking stripper—and first-time writer-director Stein describes her as a “chameleonic, vengeful wraith” who can transform both her style and her personality. “She can find the sweet spot in any of the men that she deals with,” Stein says. “She can assess what they need and adapt in order to become the best possible predator.” Here, Robbie, Stein, and costume designer Julian Day break down a few of Annie’s 1 killer looks. —DEVAN COGGAN

1 THE FEMME FATALE had a real noir feel to it.” Set in an anonymous A blunt wig helps to amp neon-lit city, Terminal’s up the vibe, evoking Bar- style is part vintage bara Stanwyck in Double glam, part futuristic dys- Indemnity or Sean Young topia. That allowed Day in Blade Runner. to experiment with anachronistic colors and 3 THE BURLESQUE silhouettes. “It’s this sort BOSS of timeless [story] that Robbie’s favorite look is wasn’t set in any particu- this lavish lingerie-plus- lar era,” the costume fur-coat ensemble, designer explains. “And I which Annie wears while wanted to just sort of working in an under- cherry-pick all the best ground dance club. “I clothes from the last loved it,” she says. “I’m century.” First up is this counting cash in a big dramatic fire-engine-red fur coat with a cigarette jacket, which Day hanging out of my designed based on a mouth, and just telling vintage ‘50s coat. “We these gangster guys to 2 3 tested two dozen reds shut up.” Stein sprinkled just to get the exact Alice in Wonderland ref- color,” he adds. erences throughout the 4 film, and the name of 2 THE SERPENTINE the club—Le Lapine ‘50s-era uniforms, and SEDUCTRESS Blanche—is echoed in Robbie wore light foun- Early in the film, Annie Annie’s flufy white coat. dation and accentuated goes to confession with For that extra toxic twist, the bags under her eyes blood-red lips, a faux fur Robbie suggested black for what Stein calls “a collar, and stockings lipstick with a sparkly haunted, lunatic look.” emblazoned with green undertone. “All the way through, snakes. “I remember the Margs had been wearing first time Margot tried on 4 THE NURSE costumes that were that costume,” Stein FROM HELL designed to bring out says. “She walked with a Day modeled this Nurse the beauty,” Stein real sort of serpentine Ratched-inspired cos- explains. “This was purpose, and her walk tume of of actual designed to inspire fear.” SUMMER

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ANNETTE BENING FIRST encountered the character Irina Arka- dina when she was in her early 20s. As a master’s student at San Francisco’s Amer- ican Conservatory Theater in the early 1980s, Bening starred in Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, playing the narcissistic and aging actress who obsesses over her own stardom while belittling her son’s artistic aspirations. Now the 59-year-old star is returning to the role, this time playing Irina in Michael Mayer’s film version of the Russian tragicomedy. “On the stage, of course, it’s alive, and that’s what’s so key about going to the theater and what can be so energizing about it,” Bening says. “But there’s something that a camera can do. It can sneak into moments that the stage just can’t.” One of Chekhov’s earliest plays, The Seagull unfolds as Irina, a celebrated Moscow stage actress, travels to her brother’s lakeside estate with her much younger lover, the writer Trigorin (Corey Stoll). A twisty story

BENING: MATT DOYLE/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES; THE SEAGULL: ABBOTT GENSER/SONY PICTURES CLASSICS; BEAST: 30WEST/ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS; OVERBOARD: METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES/PANTELION FILMS Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn of unrequited love for the role. Before and artistic jealousy casting a single other plays out in the Rus- part or even hiring a sian countryside, as screenwriter to adapt Irina’s son Konstantin the play, the Tony- (Billy Howle) stages winning director an experimental play (Spring Awakening) to try to win his asked Bening to join mother’s approval and the film. “Whenever one-up the famous you watch a perfor- Trigorin. Starring in mance of hers, she his play is the lovely never panders, and Nina (Saoirse Ronan), she never tries to get whose youth, beauty, the audience to like and admiration for her or be on her side,” Trigorin come as a Mayer says. “She’s just major threat to Irina. playing a human Although Irina can being, who isn’t per- STARRING DIRECTED BY be vain, thoughtless, fect and who maybe Jessie Buckley, Michael Pearce and manipulative, Johnny Flynn does some really terri- Bening imbues her ble things sometimes. with a winking charm. But she still has a kind She also has a much At first, director Michael Pearce’s feature-length of dignity and pos- kinder view of Irina debut Beast appears to be a love story between sesses a life force that than she did as a young outcasts Moll (Jessie Buckley) and Pascal is undeniable, so in twentysomething stu- spite of yourself, you (Johnny Flynn), who strain against conservatism on dent, especially as an end up rooting for the the British isle of Jersey. But when Pascal becomes a actress and mother character.” murder suspect, things take a turn, and the biggest herself. “I suppose if For Bening, she mystery isn’t whether he’s guilty—it’s about what anything, I just have jumped at the chance darkness inside Moll causes her to find him attrac- more empathy,” the four-time Oscar nomi- to revisit one of her tive. “I never see her as someone who’s vulnerable,” nee says. “I think one favorite roles—and says Buckley. “She’s somebody who has been making of the great things bring Chekhov’s herself invisible because she’s scared of the power about getting older is 122-year-old master- simmering underneath her.” —CHRISTIAN HOLUB that your scope of piece to a wider audi- experience becomes ence. “I hope that this so much wider. project and projects [Empathy] is the like it are a boon to greatest spiritual gift.” people and help lift It’s that empathy people up,” she says, that made her Mayer’s “because I think first and only choice what’s going on politically in the country for many of us—not for all of us, but for many of us—is very, very troubling. The Eugenio classics like Chekhov Derbez and can lift us up out of Anna Faris our present moment and remind us of what OVERBOARD is timeless, and why

artistic pursuits are STARRING DIRECTED BY valuable, and reassure Eugenio Derbez, Rob Greenberg us about something Anna Faris deeply good in human beings.” —DEVAN COGGAN Remaking this popular ’80s billionaire struck with rom-com sounds about as amnesia, and Anna Faris’ risky as tipsily strolling on a Kate is the single parent Anntette boat deck in choppy who convinces him he’s her Bening and waters. But when the idea husband/nanny/maid/chef. Brian was floated to actor The less-stereotyped roles Dennehy in Eugenio Derbez, he knew attracted Mexico-born Der- The Seagull how to keep it smooth sail- bez because, “as a Latino ing. “We switched the gen- I’m ofered the same roles— ders of the main roles,” he drug dealer, criminal, gar- explains. “That way we dener,” he says. “It was could avoid direct compari- important for audiences to sons and make it fresh.” see me play a diferent Now Derbez plays the character.” —RUTH KINANE

EW.COM Ajiona Alexus STARRING DIRECTED BY and Gabrielle Charlize Theron, Jason Reitman Union Mackenzie Davis

THERE ARE THINGS ABOUT TULLY THAT CAN’T BE EXPLAINED, only experienced. The more you know in advance, STARRING DIRECTED BY Gabrielle Union, James McTeigue the more the magic will be dispelled. But once you Billy Burke, Richard Cabral know, you’ll want to watch it again. Right away. On the surface, director Jason Reitman’s film A mom is on the outside of her house, her kids are looks like a dramatic comedy about a desperately inside, and bad guys stand between them. That is overburdened wife and mom, Marlo (Charlize BREAKING IN the nightmare scenario that Shaun Russell (Gabri- Theron), who is rescued from the breaking point by elle Union) faces in director James McTeigue’s a wise and upbeat night nanny named Tully (Mack- : PAUL SARKIS/UNIVERSAL; thriller. “For parents, there’s nothing like the passion and the sense of duty that you have towards your enzie Davis). And it is that. But it’s also more than children,” says Union. “The superhuman strength that. The third ﬁlm from Reitman and writer Diablo and savvy and strategy that you will employ to save Cody (who collaborated on Juno and Young Adult) your children just reminds us that we are the super- plays a game of hide-and-seek with the audience, heroes that we’re waiting to see.… We are the Black delivering plot twists you expect from a thriller— BOOK CLUB Panthers, we are the Avengers.” Wait, is it too late to only these are happy ones. add Iron Mom to Infinity War? —DEREK LAWRENCE

“It’s such a cliché to describe it as ‘brave’ when an : MELINDA SUE GORDON/PARAMOUNT; actress does something devoid of vanity, but it really was brave,” Cody says of Theron. “She’s very, very vulnerable in this role, and she had to be, because that’s the point.” Reitman says Theron’s choice to gain weight, get swallowed up by ill-ﬁtting sweatsuits, and go make-

up free was only half of what she took on to achieve TULLY

a particularly raw performance. “The other half of it : FEATURES KIMBERLY FRENCH/FOCUS

Diane Keaton is ‘In this scene you’re going to scream at your kids, and Andy and you’re not screaming at them in a funny way. Garcia You don’t hate your kids, you’re just at the end of BOOK CLUB your rope,’ ” he says. “And we’re portraying a private moment that no one ever wants to be seen living.” STARRING DIRECTED BY But then, help arrives in the form of Tully. Diane Keaton, Bill Holderman Candice Bergen, —ANTHONY BREZNICAN Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen

Book Club isn’t based on a by Diane Keaton, Candice true story, but it certainly Bergen, Jane Fonda, and sounds like it could be: Bill Mary Steenburgen) experi- Holderman and Erin ence a jolt to their sex lives Simms’ screenplay is with the help of love inter- about four mature women ests played by Andy Gar- who set out to add more cia, Richard Dreyfuss, Don spice to their lives after Johnson, and Craig T. Nel- reading Fifty Shades of son. “Even though the Grey, an idea the producers got after sending the women poke fun at the erotic E L James trilogy to book, the theme of the their (very receptive) movie is so positive,” says moms. In the film, after Holderman. “The book is devouring the painful the agent of change for prose, the women (played them.” —LYNETTE RICE

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AFTER GROSSING $783 MILLION WORLDWIDE AND BECOMING ONE OF THE biggest box office surprises in recent history, Ryan Reynolds’ Merc With a Mouth returns for another round of R-rated superhero fun. “Wade has settled into his new life, new looks, and his relationship [with Morena Baccarin’s Vanessa] in a pretty positive way,” says Reynolds. “But he’s also a victim of STARRING DIRECTED BY Ryan Reynolds, David Leitch his own hubris, and that’s what sort of creates the conflicts and Josh Brolin, Zazie Beetz the issues he has to deal with in this.” CENTURYTWENTIETH FOX One of the most substantial obstacles he has to face now is time- traveling badass Cable (Avengers: Infinity War’s Josh Brolin). “Cable feels like an angry, violent dad on a mission,” says Reyn- olds. “He’s one of those guys who doesn’t care what’s in his

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Ryan Reynolds An unflinching documen- as Deadpool tary about Ruth Bader with Zazie Ginsburg after nearly Beetz as 25 years on the Domino Supreme Court.

actor that he is, Josh was just like a godsend from heaven.” Leitch, who co-directed John Wick, is also a newcomer to the franchise but fit right in with the somewhat scrappy production. “We still had a budget that is incredibly small compared to the Marvel and DC cinematic universe,” says Reynolds. “David is ANYTHING MAY 11 so used to having $12 million to make An unconventional love something look like $50 million. In a lot of story involving a widowed instances you’d rely a little bit more on man (John Carroll Lynch) doubles or CGI, and David tends to lean and his transgender neighbor (Matt Bomer). towards down and dirty and real. I love that you can see that and feel that. They’re incredibly visceral these fight sequences.” THE ESCAPE While the actors and filmmakers are MAY 11 A stay-at-home-mother mum on plot details, we do know that (Gemma Arterton) Cable arrives from the future tasked with loses interest in her capturing a teen with special abilities (Hunt husband (Dominic for the Wilderpeople’s Julian Dennison) and Cooper) and children, prompting a getaway. ends up at odds with Deadpool. “They both have their competing agendas: one is to capture the kid and one is to save the kid,” says Leitch. “He’s valuable to both of them in different ways, and it becomes personal for both of them.” To battle Cable, Deadpool decides he needs a support system and rallies together a team of mutants called the X-Force. (In SOLLERS POINT the scene at left, he’s attempting to woo MAY 11 way. He’s a bit of a goal-oriented psycho- potential ally Colossus by paying homage to A hardened drug dealer (McCaul Lombardi) path, if that makes sense.” Say Anything…) Also included in this motley comes out of house Casting the role proved challenging, with crew is Domino (Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz), arrest and back onto the a lot of names rumored to be in contention, who can control the laws of probability, and streets of Baltimore. including Kyle Chandler and David Har- her personality provides a nice mellow con- : OSCILLOSCOPE LABORATORIES OSCILLOSCOPE : bour. Says director David Leitch (Atomic trast to Deadpool. “It’s sort of like she FIRST REFORMED Blonde): “From my action background I can smoked a bowl of Matthew McConaughey MAY 18 Ethan Hawke and

SOLLERS POINTSOLLERS take somebody and help transform them before each scene,” says Reynolds. “She just Amanda Seyfried play a physically. But you can’t teach that other had this kind of ‘Everything is cool, man’ grieving military father

: PALADIN; : part that the actor is responsible for, like thing. It’s so funny to see that around Dead- and a widow grappling bringing the humanity to the character and pool’s high-strung neuroses.” Alright with her husband’s sui- cide who bond over per-

ANYTHING —TIM STACK the soul to the character. Being the level of alright alright. sonal tragedy, in Paul Schrader’s latest drama. like myself, brought up as a Scottish Pres- byterian whose engine is guilt, it’s quite liberating to portray a character who doesn’t sufer any of that.

Ireadthatyou’rea huge fan of Alfred Bad IN BAD SAMARITAN, Actors are always Hitchcock. Samaritan former Doctor Who saying that when clearly star David Tennant they play a villain, owes a debt to pays a rich psycho- they try to find his films. path/serial killer aspects of the If you’re going to named Cale Erend- character with which steal, steal from the reich whose next they can empathize. best! Yeah, there are intended murder vic- But Cale Erendreich definite Hitchcockian tim is found bound and just seems like an moments in there, gagged at Erendreich’s out-and-out terrible and that’s part of house by a burglar, person. what I love about it. Sean (Robert Shee- Yes. [Laughs]Tofinda There’s something han). Sean calls the positive aspect in unashamedly cine- cops, but belatedly, Cale is quite tricky. He matic about that. I which doesn’t just clue is definitely a mon- love sitting in a cin- Cale in to Sean’s ster. But yes, you’re ema and everyone knowledge about his right, as an actor jumping out of their homicidal ways—it you’ve got to try and seats all at once. You gives Cale time to find the reality within want the popcorn fly- stash his victim away. that, you’ve got to try ing all over the seat in “He gets stuck in my and find the bits of front of you. I think crosshairs,” says Ten- humanity in there, the that’s one of the joys nant. “And I set out to little bits of vulnerabil- that this film will ofer. ruin his life.” ity, or the reasons why The role is the sec- that person feels justi- ond recent villainous fied in doing the part for Tennant, fol- things that they do. lowing his portrayal of the Krysten Ritter- How did you prepare torturing Kilgrave on to play the role? Netflix’s superhero I’d been reading a bit show Jessica Jones. about psychopaths “Nothing’s ever delib- when I did Kilgrave, erate with me, I’m so a lot of that afraid,” says the Scot. research carried for- “But there is some- ward. He’s a slightly thing delicious about diferent character, playing people that go but they both enjoy a to really dark corners lack of empathy, and of the human experi- that’s quite an inter- ence. I’m certainly not esting headspace to complaining!” get into. For someone

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Is it true you were in the running to play the also villainous Hannibal Lecter on ON CHESIL BEACH theTVshow MAY 18 Hannibal? Yes, I was. I met This romance starring [Hannibal executive Saoirse Ronan explores producer] Bryan tensions between sex, : HOPPER STONE/WARNER: BROS. Fuller a couple of marriage, and fulfillment. times, and we talked about it. But I think they quite wisely POPE FRANCIS—

LIFE OF THE PARTY chose Mads Mikkel- A MAN OF HIS WORD sen. He did things MAY 18 with that character Wim Wenders’ doc that I wouldn’t have examines the reformist managed, so I think pontif’s modern ideas.

: DEAN ROGERS/A24; the right man got the job.

If someone burglar- Melissa ized your house, McCarthy and Luke what’s the strangest Benward thing they would find? Oh, that’s a lovely HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS PARTIES AT question. It would probably be a two- foot-high pink, sparkly SHOW DOGS STARRING DIRECTED BY MAY 18 Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone penis, which is a tro- Molly Gordon, phy my wife [actress An all-star ensemble Maya Rudolph Georgia Mofett] (Stanley Tucci, RuPaul, brought back from a Natasha Lyonne, Will What : ADRIAN ROGERS/OPEN ROAD; ROGERS/OPEN ADRIAN : production of Arnett) headlines this MELISSA MCCARTHY IS GIVING IT THE OLD COLLEGE TRY. the Butler Saw that comedy about a police she was in a few years canine that goes under- The comedian stars in Life of the Party as recently

SHOW DOGS SHOW ago and has pride of cover as a show dog. divorced mother Deanna, who decides to ﬁnally place on a shelf. finish her bachelor’s degree and enroll at the The strangest thing THE GOSPEL same school her daughter Maddie (Molly Gor- ACCORDING in my place is a don) attends. McCarthy co-wrote the script with Doctor Who toy TO ANDRÉ Dalek head. MAY 25 her husband, Ben Falcone (who directs), and the

: ELECTRIC ENTERTAINMENT; ELECTRIC : Well, we’ve got a few A highly personal portrait result is a rollicking fish-out-of-water comedy of them. I don’t count of fashion guru André inspired by the pair’s own experiences with that as unusual! Leon Talley. —CLARK COLLIS parenthood. “Once we started digging into the

BAD SAMARITAN BAD idea, it was like, ‘We’re fun! We’re not too old, right? We’re still cool!’ ” Falcone says. “And the answer that has come back from the universe is that we’re certainly not.” True to its name, Life of the Party is ﬁlled with ’80s-themed ragers, frat- house hookups, and a cameo by a certain, um, beautiful pop star. But the film’s heart is the

HOW TO TALK TO friendship between Deanna and Maddie, so GIRLS AT PARTIES McCarthy and Falcone wanted to portray that MAY 25 mother-daughter bond in a realistic, loving way. Nicole Kidman plays a “I’m really close to my mom, so I was like, ‘I punk-rocking alien on the hunt for an extraterrestrial would bring my mom to parties!’ ” McCarthy says (Elle Fanning) navigating with a laugh. “It was nice to show that relation- earthly romance with a ship in such a positive way without being young Brit (Alex Sharp) in John Cameron Mitchell’s saccharine or overly sweet.” —DEVAN COGGAN Cannes-debuting romp.

Kerry Condon and David Tennant in Bad Samaritan

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• Incredibles 2 p.42 • Boundaries p.43 • A Kid Like Jake p.43 • Adrift p.44 • Superfly p.44 • Under the Silver Lake p.45 • Action Point p.46 • Won’t You Be My Neighbor? p.47 • Upgrade p.47 • American Animals p.48 • Set It Up p.48 • Sicario: Day of the Soldado p.48 • Hotel Artemis p.50 STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Sandra Bullock, Gary Ross • Tag p.50 Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway • Hereditary p.51 • Hearts Beat Loud p.52

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( From left ) Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway; Mindy Kaling and Sandra Bullock

EIGHT POWERHOUSE LADIES. $150 MILLION IN Ball wasn’t originally written to be of parenting from seeing Cate and Sandy diamonds. One star-studded fashion gala. Caribbean descent, but we talked about bring their kids to set. I was very excited to And a heist to rule them all. how much fun it would be to lean into tell everyone that I was pregnant, and they Sandra Bullock and her team of grifters that. And Mindy’s character Amita wasn’t were so happy for me,” remembers Kaling. usher in this summer’s cool factor with written to be specifically from Jackson Aside from the impressive ensemble, Ocean’s 8, an expansion of Steven Soder- Heights [in Queens], where there is a for many viewers the real draw of Ocean’s bergh’s George Clooney-starring franchise thriving Indian community, but it ended 8 is the actual heist itself. Ross acknowl- that features Danny Ocean’s sister Debbie up being a wonderful fit.” edges that figuring out how all the pieces (Bullock) taking the wheel. The roles may be tailor-made to the of the story could fit together at such a “The vibe of the Ocean’s universe, which actresses playing them, but that doesn’t grand event inside the Metropolitan felt like a smooth drive in a vintage car with mean they’re the same kinds of characters Museum of Art was “obviously a little somebody who knew how to shift gears we’re accustomed to seeing these women daunting. You’re surrounded by paintings beautifully, I think we have that too,” says inhabit. Kaling’s Amita—who lives with her that are each worth more than the budget Anne Hathaway, who plays Daphne, an mother, works in her family’s jewelry busi- of the film. We used a lot of yellow caution actress who wears the diamond necklace at ness, and has to contend with a glamorous, tape.” Also on hand for the critical Met the center of the heist at the Met Gala. newly married older sister—gave the scene was Vogue editor in chief Anna Win- The con of the century deserves only the actress her biggest acting endeavor yet. tour, who oversaw the shoot and gave it best team, and Debbie and her co-conspir- “She’s more buttoned-up than almost any her blessing. The film not only re-creates ator Lou Miller (Cate Blanchett) know just character that I’ve ever played, which is a the lavish soiree in great detail, it offers a the gang: suave hacker Nine Ball (Rihanna), challenge for me,” she says. Meanwhile, rare look behind the glittering curtains of jeweler Amita (Mindy Kaling), fashion Hathaway shed her good-girl image as the fashion’s biggest night. “Women who’ve designer Rose (Helena Bonham Carter), rather unlikable Daphne. “She’s awful,” dreamt of going will finally get to experi- savvy fence Tammy (Sarah Paulson), and Hathaway says with a laugh, “and those ence it,” Kaling says of the ball. (PREVIOUS SPREAD AND THIS PAGE) BARRY WETCHER/WARNER BROS. (3) street con artist Constance (Awkwafina). are always the most fun characters to And while it’s also a world Clooney’s “We tried to make each one of these play. She’s very self-absorbed, entitled, and original Ocean’s character could enter women distinct people, who share a lot insecure—and lonely as a result.” seamlessly, Ross hopes this latest install- but reflect a wide range of backgrounds There was no loneliness on the New ment of the franchise has a unique feel. and experience,” says director and co- York set of the film, however, with the “We wanted to make something that writer Gary Ross, adding that he and cast—who remain on a text chain respected the vibe and the style of the writer Olivia Milch continued to hone the together—forming firm friendships over original but was still very much its own characters after casting the actors. “Nine shared experiences. “I learned a lot about thing,” he says before praising his hugely talented cast. “There is an amazing alchemy happening in front of you with these eight incredible actresses, and sometimes your job is to let it happen, not make —ANNE HATHAWAY it happen.” —PIYA SINHA-ROY

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THE CHOW IS HOW. High-quality protein for strong, lean muscles. STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE “MAKE ALL SUPERS LEGAL AGAIN!” Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson), Holly Hunter, Brad Bird So cheers Winston Deavor (Bob and their superpowered children Craig T. Nelson, Bob Odenkirk, Odenkirk), a PR-savvy entrepreneur facing the consequences of a very Catherine Keener who wants to help banned heroes public citywide skirmish. restore their good name in Pixar’s “It puts the public myth of Supers 14-years-in-the-making follow-up to back on the table,” explains Bird, who its 2004 smash, The Incredibles. won an Oscar for Best Animated Fea- Winston and his sister, Evelyn ture with the rest of his team for the (Catherine Keener), are among first film. “Once crowds get a little the enigmatic new additions to taste of what superheroes were and DISNEY/PIXAR writer-director Brad Bird’s sequel, are, they kind of miss them. That which picks up immediately after doesn’t mean everybody misses the first movie—with very illegal them…but the populace is starting to SUMMER Evelyn Deavor, Frozone, Elastigirl, Mr. Incredible, and Winston Deavor heroes like Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), question their banning of Supers.”

PREVIEW Kristen Schaal, Lewis MacDougall, Vera Farmiga, and Christopher Plummer Enter the Deavor siblings, tele- film “has totally changed the rela- communications bigwigs (with a tionship between the kids and their link to superheroes in their past) parents,” says Bird. “The kids have who have the money and been to Paris now, and they don’t resources to change public per- necessarily want to go back home.” ception and legalize Supers. “It’s One could make a similar argu- like when Bill Gates decides he ment for audiences, who greeted and his wife want to get rid of The Incredibles as a genre revela- malaria,” jokes Bird. Since every tion in 2004 but have watched the campaign needs a face, the Deav- superhero-movie category bubble ors select Elastigirl to lead the and burst in the decade since. mission—leaving Mr. Incredible “When we did the first one, it was with more responsibilities at home maybe just X-Men and Spider-Man A KID LIKE KID A and more time to bond with these out,” remarks Nelson. “There was increasingly active children. not the glut that there is now. So At home, baby Jack-Jack’s bud- what do you do? How do you com- ding powers are out of control—an pete against that? Brad really had to

idea Bird had fun developing over stretch his imagination and creativ- STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE the years—while invisible Violet ity to come up with something that Vera Farmiga, Shana Feste (Sarah Vowell) and agile Dash (Huck was going to be contemporary, yet Christopher Plummer : SONY PICTURES CLASSICS; PICTURES SONY : Milner) have mastered their abilities at the same time, still retain that and are finding that the banality of original story.” Fortunately, stretchy : JON PACK/IFC FILMS PACK/IFC JON : suburbia is no longer their speed. things are nothing new to the world The road-trip movie gets another wild turn in Bound- BOUNDARIES JAKE Unleashing their powers in the first of The Incredibles. —MARC SNETIKER aries, starring Vera Farmiga and Christopher Plum- mer as an estranged father and daughter who are forced to reunite for a cross-country drive. Jack (Plummer) is a weed dealer tossed out of his nursing home, and Laura (Farmiga) is an executive assistant with a son who can’t stop drawing nudes of unwit- ting adults. “I’m probably overdue for a road trip with my parents, and it’s easier to do this movie and work out my issues that way,” jokes Farmiga. She and her legendary costar got along right away. “By the end of the first day I’m yelling, ‘Plum-zilla, come share this cup of Tito’s with me!’ ” —SEIJA RANKIN

Claire Danes and Jim Parsons A KID LIKE JAKE

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Claire Danes, Silas Howard Jim Parsons, Leo James Davis

In A Kid Like Jake, Jim happens to be about gen- Parsons and Claire Danes der fluidity,” Parsons tells play a married couple with a EW. “It’s just another aspect gender-nonconforming of being human.” He hopes child. The film, adapted by the “aware but uncertain” Daniel Pearle from his own characters will speak to any- stage play, marks Parsons’ one grappling with the first feature credit as a pro- challenges of raising chil- ducer. The Big Bang Theory dren. “It takes another actor chose the project shroud of mystery of some- because of its deeply relat- thing that may or may not able depiction of human seem foreign to people.” relationships that “just —MAUREEN LEE LENKER

EW.COM STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Shailene Woodley, Baltasar Sam Claflin Kormákur

DIRECTOR BALTASAR KORMÁKUR KNOWS A LITTLE SOMETHING about filming survival movies—he’s responsible for the harrowing expedition in 2015’s Everest. But if he thought shooting Adrift was going to be any easier, he was mis- taken. Based on a true story about a couple (Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin) who set sail across the Pacific and into one of the most catastrophic storms in history, the movie was shot in Fiji, much of it on the WE ALMOST DIDN’T GET was [one] show…. I to see Trevor Jackson looked at the front open sea. “The water is so ruthless,” Kormákur says. “It in Superfly, Director row and everybody’s just goes on and on and it never stops.” Luckily, with X’s modernized faces were lit up smil- Woodley, he found a leading lady who was game to lit- remake of the classic ing, watching me 1972 blaxploitation dancing. I was like, erally jump right in. “She is one tough cookie,” he says, film. Three years ago, ‘Wow, this is an awe- marveling at the actress’ physical prowess when it came Jackson considered some feeling. I want to diving and filming underwater. “When you are under giving up acting to do this forever.’ ” entirely to focus on Eventually he a 55-foot boat doing a scene, it’s not so easy to keep it his music career departed Pride Rock

together. She never once complained, and her perfor- ADRIFT instead. “Doing both in 2008 for Los Ange- mance is simply brilliant.” Her costar Claﬂin agrees. “I got a little frustrating,” les and landed his : KIRSTY GRIFFIN/STXFILMS; JACKSON: CLAUDIO CARPI/SONY; says the 21-year-old first TV role on Cold don’t know if I could have gone through this experience musician-actor- Case in 2010; he also with anyone else but Shailene,” he says. Especially on a dancer, who currently signed with Atlantic day when the ocean was so choppy everyone on board stars on Freeform’s Records in 2012. grown-ish and, in When one passion was a little green around the gills. “I was one of the March, released his wasn’t working, he felt fortunate ones—I was only sick twice,” he says with a new R&B album, he could always shift laugh. And while the actors did learn quite a bit about Rough Drafts, Pt. 1, via focus to the other. Empire Records. His “I do so many things sailing, Claﬂin isn’t itching to get back out on the open mother persuaded because I love so water just yet. “Yeah, I’d like to keep land within my him to go on one last many things,” he says. sight.” —SARA VILKOMERSON audition in 2015—for His boundless ambi- season 2 of ABC’s tion hasn’t gone unno- American Crime— ticed by his Superfly before he oficially

Sam Claflin and Shailene Woodley SUPERFLY gave it up. He got the gig, which ended up luring him back in, and : BOB MAHONEY/SONY; : BOB the series “refueled my love of acting.” By then, Jackson STARRING Trevor Jackson, had already put in Jason Mitchell, many years of work as Michael K. Williams

UNDER THE SILVER LAKE a performer. At age 8, he landed his first DIRECTED BY professional acting Director X job as young Simba in the national tour of The Lion King, a role

: A24 he’d play for three RELEASE DATE years. “It never really felt like work,” he says. “I remember there

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costar and good friend Jason Mitchell. “He’s such a bigger-than-life character,” Mitchell tells EW. “He wants to do music that means something to him; he wants to do movies that mean something to him.”

And Jackson’s defi- STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE nitely getting that Andrew Garfield, David Robert chance with Superfly, Riley Keough, Mitchell Topher Grace in which he plays Youngblood Priest, an Atlanta drug dealer who wants one more payday before leaving David Robert Mitchell the cocaine business helped reinvigorate the for good. Priest is cool, confident, and intimi- horror genre with 2015’s dating. The sleek (and expensive) wardrobe sleeper hit It Follows. helped. “Everybody Now the filmmaker is on set said I walked diferently when I was tackling a thriller with in [Priest’s] clothes,” Jackson says. Director the Andrew Garfield- X thinks it comes natu- starring Under the Silver rally. “Trevor just has a star power to him, Lake. “It centers on a swag, the It Factor. It’s just something spe- a young man that has cial about him.” a lovely date with a The multihyphen- ate walked away from neighbor of his,” says Superfly with a lot—a new friend in Mitchell, Garfield. “Then, the next a new skill set (he did day, she’s vanished, all of his own stunts)— but most important, and it’s him trying to he also figured out a potential next step in get to the center of that his career: “I’m really mystery.” The Amazing falling in love with directing. I really, Spider-Man star was really want to do that.” —CHANCELLOR AGARD attracted to the project by both the opportunity to work with Mitchell and the script’s unusual vibe. “It reminded me of a mixture [of] Stand by Me, The Goonies, and David Lynch films,” says the actor. Lynch meets the Goonies? That’s Trevor Jackson; ( inset ) with Jason Mitchell in Superfly a trufle shufle we’re dying to see. —CLARK COLLIS STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Johnny Knoxville Tim Kirkby TOTALLY HOSED When an air-cannon-enhanced water hose that’s being used to clean the waterslide is accidentally aimed at D.C., he’s bowled over—and down the mountain. A gag intended to leave the audience in figurative stitches left Knoxville in literal ones. “It really JOHNNY KNOXVILLE IS BACK FOR A WALK IN THE knocked the hell out of me,” he says. “The only thing that broke my park—the amusement park. And actually, it’s fall was my face. I kept landing on my face and my head in this movie.” Kirkby tried to schedule the film’s stunts around the rubber more of a wipeout than a walk. The Jackass man’s recovery. “We’d do it on a Friday,” he says. “He’d go of, get ringleader stars as D.C. Carter, the owner of a stitches, and then Monday we’d finish up the rest of the scene.” fun park (based on a real-life now-shuttered New Jersey attraction) where rules and safe- guards are in short supply. “This was pre-class-action-lawsuit times,” Knoxville notes wistfully of the 1979-set Action Point, which was shot in South Africa. “I looked at it from the beginning as if Jackass had its own theme park. It’s just that poorly conceived and poorly run.” Here, Knoxville and director Tim Kirkby guide you through the ﬁner points of the fun, along with Knoxville’s frighteningly impressive injury report. —DAN SNIERSON

Eleanor Worthington Cox and Johnny Knoxville

TREE TRAUMA What happens when D.C. is chased up a tree by a bear? In perhaps the most dificult stunt of the movie, Knoxville was to plummet to the ground while trying to jump to another tree, his fall blunted by a shed. The stunt coordinator wanted to soften the blow by having Knoxville land on a sharply angled roof, but the star aimed to make a bigger splat. “I wanted more of a flat- ter angle, so he changed it for me, and I got what was coming to me,” he reports. “I slammed down on the tin roof, broke my hand, and then fell of the shed and busted my knee.”

EW.COM EYE , OH MY! “I take it you heard about the eye-popping inci- dent?” asks Kirkby. While pulling of a stunt in which D.C. tests a brake- less sled, Knoxville flew of the winding track and sufered a concussion. “I was six feet in the air and traveled over 20 feet and Fred Rogers slammed face-first into the ground,” he says. “My memory was almost com- WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? pletely erased for 15 minutes.” After being treated STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE at the hospital, he blew Fred Rogers Morgan Neville his nose and his left eye popped out of its socket. “I wasn’t expecting that,” he says, “so I pushed it back in real quick.’” Doc- Mr. Rogers has been drop- his death. “It’s the only film tors said he didn’t need ping by a lot lately. A PBS that’s told from the inside surgery, but “every time 50th-anniversary special out,” explains Neville (20 Iblewmynose,I’dpush bowed in February, and a Feet From Stardom), who air behind it and it would Tom Hanks-starring drama says he understands push the eye out.” about him is in the works. why the culture is looking In June, Morgan Neville’s again to Fred Rogers. documentary Won’t You Be “It’s the thing people are My Neighbor? will ofer craving, just the sense of another look at the unique getting back to first Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood principles of what kind of star whose lessons of kind- neighbors we want to be.” ness live on, 15 years after —ANTHONY BREZNICAN : BEN KING/BH TILT KNOCKED UP & OUT

In filming a collision with UPGRADE a sled-towing motorbike that flips D.C. upside down, Knoxville received Betty Gabriel and Logan Marshall-Green his first concussion of the shoot. (There were four.) “I’d written that thinking I was going to be standing on dirt,” he says. “But I got up there that day [to film the stunt] and I’m : LYNN JOHNSON/FOCUS FEATURES; like, ‘This is concrete. Oh, well. Too late. Action!’ ” WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR MY BE YOU WON’T

A BARNSTORMING ADVENTURE D.C. lives nearby in an Old West saloon, where he toils on his wild inventions. (“If Walt Disney had a dificult twin,” says Kirkby, “it would be D.C.”) As he’s about to try out a catapult that will fling STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Logan Marshall- Leigh Whannell him into a pool, someone bumps into the contraption, redirect- Green, Betty ing him into the side of a barn. “We had the camera on the barn Gabriel door, and it shows me coming,” says Knoxville. “It looks like we sped up the footage, but nope.” Not surprisingly, the stunt came at a cost—in the form of a “50-cent-piece-sized bald spot,” he

: COCO VAN OPPENS/PARAMOUNT (2) OPPENS/PARAMOUNT VAN COCO : In this near-future-set sci-fi thriller, Logan Marshall- notes. “I had scalped myself on the barn doors on impact.” Green (Prometheus) plays Grey Trace, a paraplegic given the ability to walk—and fight—thanks to an experimental computer-chip implant. No. 1 on ACTION POINT ACTION Trace’s to-do list? Find the thugs who killed his wife and left him for dead. The film required Marshall- Green not only to trade blows on screen, but to do so in a suitably robotic manner. “He was a godsend,” says writer-director Leigh Whannell. “He worked with a dance-and-movement instructor and

MAP: JAY VETTER/PARAMOUNT; JAY MAP: the stunt team. People ask, ‘What sort of tricks did you use to make him seem so robotic?’ And I say, ‘That’s just Logan.’ ” —CLARK COLLIS Evan Peters Benicio Del Toro and Isabela Moner

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Evan Peters, Barry Bart Layton Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson

In 2004, four college students plotted to steal priceless, one-of-a-kind books from the rare- collection library at Kentucky’s Transylvania University. American Animals is the pitch-black comedy centered on that real-life event, dubbed the “Transy Book Heist.” American Horror Story star Evan Peters portrays Warren Lipka (who also appears as himself in interviews punctuating the film). “He’s the spice in the broth,” Peters says of Lipka. “He’s the wild one, the one that gets the whole thing together. He’s a hilarious guy in real life, witty and charming and cunning—and he likes to break the laws a little bit.” —DANA SCHWARTZ

SET IT UP

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Zoey Deutch, Claire Scanlon Glen Powell, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs

In Set It Up, Zoey Deutch Liu says, “but she’s strug- (Before I Fall) and Glen gling. She’s also a woman in Powell (Scream Queens) sports, which is not easy.” star as two overworked High jinks ensue as intimate assistants working in the opportunities are forced on same building who realize the pair—like being in a AMERICAN ANIMALS they’d have more personal stuck elevator and on a time if their respective high- baseball-game kiss cam. powered bosses (Lucy Liu “They don’t really cast and Taye Diggs) coupled me for rom-coms, so when-

up. Liu’s character, Kirsten, ever I get a chance to do ORCHARD; : THE runs her own sports blog. one, I’m like, ‘Yes!’ ” adds “And she’s very successful,” Liu. —DANA SCHWARTZ

Taye UP IT SET Diggs STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Benicio Del Toro, Stefano Sollima

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RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TENSE, favor of the farmer, an unexpect- and the two face a new reality on “With this light, you have to be fast-paced thriller Sicario: Day of edly tender moment for the weary, the porch of this farmhouse: Alejan- really fast,” he says. “We did a long the Soldado, noise from car chases revenge-bent hitman. dro contemplates sparing her life, rehearsal, so when we had the and the sharp rat-a-tat-tats of mili- “In our movie, incommunicability as it was Isabela’s father who killed good light, we just shot it. We had tary guns suddenly disappear. A is one of the topics, and in this Alejandro’s wife and daughter. two amazing actors.... It was easy stifling quiet fills the air as the film’s scene, I think that we portray it per- “I think that starts working in and beautiful to watch.” protagonist Alejandro (Benicio Del fectly,” director Stefano Sollima says. Alejandro’s conscience, the idea Del Toro hadn’t anticipated Toro) and his hostage Isabela “He has to break an internal border.” that he’s inflicting on this kid what the full significance of the scene (Isabela Moner) stumble through Day of the Soldado follows Del the bad guys did to his daughter,” until he saw the film. Says the the desert and come across a ram- Toro’s hitman from 2015’s Sicario as Del Toro says. actor, “There’s something beauti- shackle farmhouse and its owner, he aids the United States Drug To capture the early-morning ful that I was not aware while we who is deaf and cannot speak. Enforcement Agency in kidnapping sunlight in the desert just west of we’re doing the scene, that it Then, a moment of surprise: Alejan- Isabela, a teenage cartel princess, Albuquerque, N.M., Sollima knew would go to another level and add dro starts to communicate in sign as part of a bigger plan to stem the he had only about 25 minutes to another texture to the relationship language and reveals an intimate flow of drugs crossing the U.S.– shoot the pivotal conversation between the characters.”

RICHARD FOREMAN, JR./SONY FOREMAN, RICHARD detail about himself as he asks a Mexico border. That plan goes awry, between Alejandro and Isabela. —PIYA SINHA-ROY

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STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Jodie Foster, Drew Pearce Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum

Set in 2028 Los Angeles as riots rage across the city, Hotel Artemis follows an eclectic cadre of criminals (played by Charlie Day, Sofia Boutella, and Sterling K. Brown) who come to the titular hotel seeking no-questions-asked medical treatment from the Nurse (Jodie Foster). Brown plays Waikiki, a shadowy bank robber fighting to keep his brother (Brian Tyree Jon Hamm and Jeremy Henry) alive. “When you Renner play somebody like [This Is Us’] Randall Pearson the majority of the year, you got to do TAG something to comple-

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE HOTEL ARTEMIS Hannibal Burress, Jeff Tomsic ment that,” the actor says Jon Hamm, Ed Helms, Jake Johnson, of what attracted him Jeremy Renner to the role. “[Waikiki’s] got : GLOBAL ROAD/GLOBAL ROAD ENTERTAINMENT; a purpose beyond REMEMBER THE CAREFREE SUMMERS SPENT PLAYING TAG ON THE PLAYGROUND? just himself, so he’s a Imagine continuing that game for 30 straight years into adulthood— good bad guy. Which is and that’s just what Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Ed Helms, Hannibal always fun, to dance in Buress, and Jake Johnson live out in Warner Bros.’ raunchy comedy Tag, playing childhood friends elevating the game into a new age. the gray.” —MAUREEN LEE LENKER Renner’s Jerry is the slick operator of the group who has managed to avoid ever being “it”—until now, that is, as his four friends Sterling K. Brown

team up to tag him at any cost. “Jerry’s just 10 steps ahead,” Renner TAG says. “But it kind of separated him over the years from the friend- BROS. : KAPLAN/WARNER KYLE ship—the very thing that the game was meant for—and I think that’s where the ﬁlm starts to get that sentimental heart.” The characters interrupt boardroom meetings, weddings, funerals, and delivery rooms to chase and tag one another, combining the insanity of The Hangover with the nostalgia of ALEX STRANGELOVE JUNE 8 A high school kid (Daniel Doheny) plans to lose his virginity to his girl- friend until he meets a charismatic gay teen.

GOTTI Toni Collette JUNE 15 John Gotti gets the biopic treatment in Kevin Con-

nolly’s drama starring STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE John Travolta and Kelly Toni Collette, Ari Aster Gabriel Byrne, Preston as the Mob boss Alex Wolff, and his wife, Victoria. Milly Shapiro

EATING ANIMALS JUNE 15 HOW SCARY IS FIRST-TIME FILMMAKER ARI ASTER’S Jonathan Safran Foer’s horror movie? Well, cast member Alex Wolﬀ was book on factory farming unnerved just reading Aster’s script. “My mother coming-of-age friendship tales. inspired Natalie Portman walked into my bedroom and I screamed out to go vegan—and narrate It’s a narrative that sounds this documentary based loud,” he says. “I remember having a lot of trou- absurdly implausible but is on the best-seller. ble trying to sleep that night.” Wolff, Toni actually based on a true story. Collette, Gabriel Byrne, and Milly Shapiro play

“It’s adults behaving like chil- THE YEAR OF members of a family attempting to recover from dren, but there is a sweetness SPECTACULAR MEN the death of their matriarch. It is not a huge to it because these guys are all JUNE 15 spoiler to say that recovery never fully occurs as legitimately close to each A young woman (Made- they’re hit by a series of traumatic events, which lyn Deutch) navigates a other, and this is what kept quarter-life crisis with may have their origins in the family’s own them close,” Hamm says. some help from her sister twisted, mysterious history. “I guess the story And if you’re coming for the (Zoey Deutch). reveals everything she’s ever wanted to know,” : REID CHAVIS/A24 stunts, Renner and Hamm says Collette of her character. “But it happens in say they’re here to deliver— a way that she wasn’t expecting and does not HEREDITARY so much so that Renner broke enjoy. The scariest thing about it is, most ﬁlms both his arms filming a Tag have a sense of hope, and there is no sense of stunt involving a stack of chairs hope in this. It’s just impending doom!” Heredi- on the second day. But, in true tary was widely acclaimed as the most terrifying

: MAGNOLIA PICTURES; Avengers style, he got back to ﬁlm shown at this year’s Sundance Film Festival the set on the same day. and, according to Wolff, received a similarly

DAMSEL DAMSEL Injuries aside, Renner says, JUNE 22 warm reception when it played at SXSW—well, the film has a fresh take on A lovestruck pioneer maybe warm isn’t quite the right word. “People action sequences. “It’s just hys- (Robert Pattinson) flipped out at that screening,” says the actor. embarks on a quest to : BRIAN DOUGLAS; terical,” he says with a guﬀaw. rescue the girl he “People were crying and screaming. I was like,

GOTTI —PIYA SINHA-ROY loves (Mia Wasikowska) ‘Yes.’ ” Sweet dreams! —CLARK COLLIS in the Zellner brothers’ ironic Western.

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Kiersey Clemons and Nick Offerman KOORIS; ANNA : IZZY GETS THE F*CK ACROSS TOWN ACROSS F*CK THE GETS IZZY

LEAVE NO TRACE JUNE 29 In Debra Granik’s drama, STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Nick Offerman Brett Haley a father and daughter and Kiersey (Ben Foster and Thoma- Clemons sin Harcourt McKenzie)

living of the grid are STUDIOS; : SHOUT disrupted when they’re pulled into civilization. NICK OFFERMAN AND KIERSEY CLEMONS PLAY NICK KIERSEY a father and daughter who start a band in OFFERMAN’S CLEMONS’ LEAVE NO TRACE this endearing family dramedy, so naturally we asked the voracious music fans to 1 “GET BEHIND THE 1 “SELFISH” play DJ for us. “I used to really thrive on MULE” King Promise Tom Waits : STREET; SCOTT GREEN/BLEECKER making mixed tapes, back when all you 2 “FRIENDLY” had was a blank cassette and a record 2 “CAB DRIVER” J Hus Nancy and Beth button,” says Parks and Recreation star 3 “FEEL GOOD” 3 “I’VE GOT A MATCH” Gibbz (feat. Russ Oﬀerman, who tended toward more mel- They Might Be Giants Liquid) UNCLE DREW 4 “HIAWATHA” 4 “OVERDOSE OF JOY” ancholy, singer-songwriter fare from JUNE 29 Laurie Anderson Eugene Record artists like Tom Waits and included two 5 NBA star Kyrie Irving plays 5 “HEAVEN” “I HOPE YOU KNOW” tunes from wife Megan Mullally’s band Talking Heads bLAck pARty Uncle Drew, an aging UNCLE DREW former streetball legend Nancy and Beth. “I guess I’m a little bit 6 “SUMMER NOON” 6 “JAMMING” Tweedy Bob Marley & the who gets his old team

more on the contemplative side.” Clem- Wailers (Shaq!) back together. D. COLBERT/LIONSGATE : QUANTRELL 7 “VIBRATE” 7 “MS. JACKSON” ons—who previously starred in Dope—says Nancy and Beth OutKast she loves Spotify’s curation process for 8 “SUCH GREAT WOMAN HEIGHTS” 8 “SMILE JAMAICA” discovery; she went full-blown, top-down WALKS AHEAD Iron & Wine Chronixx JUNE 29 summer mode for her list. “I wanted to 9 “COLLEGE” 9 “READY FOR LOVE” keep it to reggae and funky and throw- Matt the Electrician Raging Fyah Nineteenth-century artist and Native Ameri- 10 “COME ON UP backs,” she says of jams from the likes of TO THE HOUSE” can rights activist Bob Marley and OutKast. —SARAH RODMAN Tom Waits Caroline Weldon (Jessica Chastain) paints the portrait of Sitting Bull.

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• Ant-Man and the Wasp p.58 • Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot p.59 • Blindspotting p.60 • Teen Titans GO! To the Movies p.60 • Mission: Impossible—Fallout p.62 • The First Purge p.63 • Shock and Awe p.63 • Whitney p.64 • Skyscraper p.64 • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Amanda Seyfried, Ol Parker Vacation p.65 Lily James, Cher, Meryl Streep • Eighth Grade p.66 • Sorry to Bother You p.67

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( Left ) Christine Baranski, Amanda Seyfried, and Julie Walters; ( below ) Cher

GETTING AN ENTIRE CAST BACK TOGETHER FOR A her mom’s besties, Tanya (Christine Baran- one point the director and the crew were on sequel is always a challenge. In the case of ski) and Rosie (Julie Walters), return to three different boats controlling a flotilla of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, the follow- the island to support her with tales of how other boats. We all had goose bumps. up to 2008’s blockbuster musical starring Donna came to live in Greece, how she met Shooting ten years later on this amazing Meryl Streep, booze helped. “It took a while Sophie’s three “dads,” how she opened the island with the same cast, it was a moment. to work out what it was going to be,” says hotel, and where she found her prized over- That f---ing song is a moment!” producer Judy Craymer of the film’s plot. alls. The film flashes back and forth So where is current Donna in all this “There were all kinds of chats and journeys between present day and a 22-year-old dancing merriment? We can’t say exactly, and airfares and drinks. Meryl is partial to a Donna (Baby Driver’s Lily James) graduat- but Streep definitely appears in the film. martini, of which I promised many.” ing from college. An unabashed Mamma “She has a very impactful moment with an Based on the enormously popular stage Mia! fan, James auditioned by singing the amazing song,” teases Craymer. “You feel musical featuring a score composed entirely title track and “I Have a Dream.” “I went off her presence, and her moment in the film of songs by the Swedish pop group ABBA, to the Glastonbury Festival and screamed is just such a celebration of motherhood.” the original film focused on Greek-island and danced so hard that I lost my voice, and To that end, the film also introduces us to hotel owner Donna (Streep) dealing with the following Monday the producers were Donna’s mother—and Sophie’s grand- the arrival of three ex-boyfriends—Sam like, ‘You’ve got Mamma Mia! You’re going mother—Ruby, played by Cher. The icon (Pierce Brosnan), Harry (Colin Firth), and to be recording songs from ABBA.’ I was was a fan of the stage musical and was the Bill (Stellan Skarsgård)—whom her daugh- like, ‘I can’t speak!’ ” To channel Streep, filmmaker’s ideal choice to play Donna’s CH PRIME/UNIVERSAL; JONATHAN PAGE): THIS AND SPREAD (PREVIOUS ter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), had invited James watched the original over and over. superstar-musician mama. “Donna always to her wedding to determine which one was Says the young actress, “I can quote every talked about a mother, and we kind of felt it her biological father. Craymer, who also pro- single sentence of that film down to, like, was going to be somebody that’s quite duced the theatrical show, says it took 10 an eyebrow raise.” mighty,” says Craymer. “She was the dream years to figure out the story and the songs While Again features several ABBA songs for all of us. She is rock-chick royalty.” Adds that would be used this time around. not in the original, including “When I Seyfried, “When Ol told me that Cher was Written and directed by Ol Parker (The Kissed the Teacher,” the movie revisits going to be in it, I teared up. I didn’t think it Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), the sequel some of the core hits, like “Dancing could get better.” The legend drew quite a begins with Sophie living on the island and Queen.” That number has been expanded crowd on her shooting days. Remembers renovating her mother’s hotel. “It’s like her into a massive production involving hun- Craymer: “There was a couple of days when pride and joy,” says Seyfried. “It’s every- dreds of dancing extras on boats. “It was they were all there—Meryl, Pierce, Colin, thing her mother wanted and everything’s epic and ambitious—it’s kind of Dunkirk, and Cher! Colin had his parents there, who ER: UNIVERSAL PICTURES UNIVERSAL ER: going wrong.” As opening day approaches, really,” says Craymer. Adds Seyfried, “At apparently had never visited one of his sets, and Pierce had his mother there. It was like our own rock concert, really. And everyone was completely in awe of Cher.” Talk about —AMANDA SEYFRIED something in the air that night. —TIM STACK

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EVANGELINE LILLY’S HOPE VAN DYNE something they thought was (a.k.a. the Wasp) may share the impossible,” says Lilly. “The ques- power of miniaturization with Paul tion has arisen, ‘Can Janet come Rudd’s Scott Lang (a.k.a. Ant-Man) back?’ So the entire film, my char- in this sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man, acter is hell-bent on finding a way but the film is a big deal for the to get into the Quantum Realm Lost actress. The Wasp is, after all, and bring her back.” the first female superhero to Janetisplayedbynoneother appear in the title of a Marvel Cin- than Batman Returns actress ematic Universe film. “It means a Michelle Pfeifer. “She hasn’t done lot to me,” says Lilly. “If I’m honest one of these films since she played with myself, I feel a lot of pressure Catwoman with Tim Burton,” says to make sure that it is everything director Peyton Reed. “It was really that the world wants it to be.” interesting to bring her in and get The film concerns the quest by her up to speed on all the mythol- van Dyne, Lang, and scientist Hank ogy and her place in this world.” Pym (Michael Douglas) to rescue The film’s main villain is Ghost,

Janet van Dyne—that’s Hope’s who in the Marvel comic universe © 2018 MARVEL STUDIOS mother and Hank’s wife—from the has traditionally been male, but in Quantum Realm, an alternate Reed’s film is played by actress

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE dimension into which she disap- Hannah John-Kamen (Ready Player Paul Rudd, Peyton Reed peared decades previously. “Scott One). “The Ghost character could Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas entered the Quantum Realm in the be male, female, anything, so it just first film and came back, which is seemed more interesting to us [to Jonah Hill as Donnie

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Joaquin Phoenix, Gus Van Sant Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara

“I’ve never been happier in my life than when I was playing Donnie,” says Jonah Hill of his role as the disco-dancing, caftan-wearing AA sponsor to Joaquin Phoenix’s quadriplegic alcoholic John Callahan, on whose memoir Gus Van Sant’s Paul Rudd dramedy is based. “Once and Evangeline you’ve gone through Lilly a lot of pain, it feels really

cast a woman],” says Reed. criminal-type Sonny Burch and good to be on the other “Ghost’s primary power is the abil- a former colleague of Hank Pym’s side.” Donnie’s liberation ity to ‘phase,’ which allows Ghost named Bill Foster, played by Lau- to move through solid matter. rence Fishburne. “He was a blast,” wasn’t the only superla- She has all sorts of strange ver- says Rudd of the Matrix star. “He sions of that phasing power—it told me what it was like shooting tive aspect of Hill’s proves quite dificult for Ant-Man Apocalypse Now and hanging DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T HE WORRY, DON’T experience on the film; and Wasp to deal with.” out with Marlon Brando. That was Other new characters include just about the coolest day of his connection with Walton Goggins’ low-level work I’ve ever had.” —CLARK COLLIS Phoenix, with whom he’d never previously collaborated, was among the greatest he’s had with a costar. One scene they : BEN ROTHSTEIN/© MARVEL STUDIOS MARVEL 2018; ROTHSTEIN/© BEN : shared was “probably : SCOTT PATRICK GREEN/AMAZON STUDIOS the single most important moment I’ve had as an GET FAR ON FOOT ON FAR GET ANT-MAN AND THE WASP actor,” says Hill. —MARY SOLLOSI

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DIRECTED BY VOICED BY RELEASE DATE Peter Rida Will Arnett, Michail and Kristen Bell, Aaron Horvath Scott Menville

The egocentric heroes at the center of Cartoon Network’s Teen Titans Go! will be faced with their ultimate nemesis, Slade (costar and producer Will Arnett), when they make the jump to the big screen this summer. AFTER DAVEED DIGGS Marrying spitfire Spinning out of the irrev- wrapped his nightly rap verses with erent animated series, performances as the slick dialogue that Marquis de Lafayette oscillates between TTG!TTM satirically and Thomas Jeferson comedic scenes and in the Broadway hit heart-wrenching follows Robin (Scott musical Hamilton in moments, their film Menville) and the other 2015 and 2016, he’d is a cinematic ode often find his high to Oakland, the duo’s Titans as they travel school friend Rafael hometown. It traces Casal sitting in his the trauma of Collin to Hollywood in search dressing room, plug- (Diggs) after he wit- of movie stardom. “Slade ging away at their pet nesses an unarmed project Blindspotting. black man fatally shot is an integral part of the by a police oficer. Collin is forced to story, with regards to reevaluate his friendship with childhood

the Teen Titans trying to TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES buddy Miles (Casal)— get their movie,” says who is white—and DIRECTED BY the impact of gentrifi- Arnett, suggesting his Carlos López cation in Oakland. Estrada character may be more “These two [characters] were the sympathetic than the STARRING besttwoguystotell Daveed Diggs, this story, and to Rafael Casal way he was portrayed on really represent the : WARNER BROS. PICTURES the small screen. “This Bay Area,” Diggs says. Adds Casal, “That’s Slade is much more child- RELEASE DATE because the place is so heightened, ish. He’s not as potentially and everybody defies scary as he’s been in expectations.” the past.” —CHANCELLOR AGARD SUMMER

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The Blindspotting cast reflects the diversity of Oakland. How important is inclusion and representation in your projects going forward? DIGGS We’re talking to a lot of women right now that we col- laborate with, of diferent races and diferent perspec- tives, because as woke as we like to pretend we are and as hard as we’re trying to write characters like Val (Janina Gavan- kar) or Ashley (Jas- mine Cephas Jones), the actors helped with that a great deal. CASAL There are challenges towards that progress that we are becoming aware of.... I definitely hated that we got on set and we’re blowing through our entire script, and then half- Given its timely DAVEED DIGGS People way through the angle, stellar ensem- always try to tell you shoot, we realize that ble, and rave reviews that you can’t tackle our female characters out of Sundance and too many things, never spoke to each SXSW this year, except we tackle so other. I just wanted expect Blindspotting many things in our protesting, they’re that dynamic—like, I DIGGS That scene was to stab my eyes out. to become an early lives all the time. It’s really just trying to probably bounce really hard. It was also We failed the Bechdel awards contender not like I’m walking survive, so the soap energetically around [director] Carlos test. And I was just : ARIEL NAVA/LIONSGATE ARIEL : and an important around only thinking boxiness of it got Diggs in that same [López Estrada] insist- like, “Goddamn it.” conversation starter. about #MeToo, or only to exist around them, way that Miles does, ing on us doing it all Thereareafewboxes thinking about Black and they just got to but the fight (between the way through that we didn’t check. The film talks about Lives Matter—that’s live their lives. the two characters every time, and it’s I was like, “Okay, BLINDSPOTTING Oakland through this not how your life in a parking lot) in long... and it was 2:30 that’s the deal, you friendship and the works. You just sort of How much of Collin the movie is the first in the morning. don’t get this project shootings of black live your life and these and Miles is based on time that he and CASAL We walked away that knocks it all out men in America. How movements happen. I your real-life Ihaveeverhadan in opposite directions in one.” It’s a career do you layer those think the interesting friendship? argument. That scene and then we would of chipping away, themes without thing about these two RAFAEL CASAL We’re was the furthest meet up behind the and you just try to one overshadowing is that they’re apoliti- not like that at all. moment we’ve ever lot and hug, and I’d do right every time.

DIGGS AND CASAL: TIM PALEN; TIM CASAL: DIGGS AND the other? cal, they’re not There’s an element of got from ourselves. say, “I’m so sorry!” —PIYA SINHA-ROY

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FOR THE ACTION-THRILLER FRANCHISE’S LATEST ENTRY, DIRECTOR Christopher McQuarrie—who helmed Mission: Impos- sible Rogue Nation—had a unique problem to solve: How can he, as the first director to take on two installments in the series, top himself? After all, he’d thought he was done when he dangled Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) off the side of a plane in the fifth film. “I remember quite vividly after we bagged the shot: I turned to the cine- matographer [Robert Elswit] and said, ‘I feel sorry for the poor SOB who has to direct the next movie,’ ” he recalls with a laugh. “Everybody on Fallout reminded me of that, because through the whole movie we were STARRING DIRECTED BY trying to figure out what the stunt would be.” Tom Cruise, Christopher Rebecca Fergu- McQuarrie The solution was to literally take Cruise even higher— son, Henry Cavill to 25,000 feet. In Fallout (out July 27), the actor leaps off a plane and performs a one-take skydiving sequence. For another set piece, Cruise flies a CHIABELLA JAMES/PARAMOUNT (2) helicopter by himself while sur- Cinematog- rapher rounded by other helicopters. “This Rob Hardy, director movie challenged Tom in a way Christopher that I don’t think he’s been chal- McQuarrie, Cavill, lenged before,” McQuarrie says. and Cruise “We kept saying, ‘This is the

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STARRING DIRECTED BY Y’Lan Noel, Lex Gerard McMurray Scott Davis, Marisa Tomei

The fourth Purge movie is a responsible for the idea prequel, set at a time when of a Purge. “She feels America’s authoritarian rul- that a societal catharsis ing party is testing out the would be good,” says idea of a law-free night on James DeMonaco, who has Staten Island. Y’Lan Noel written all the movies in plays a local drug lord who the horror/sci-fi franchise. decides to fight back “She doesn’t see the against the authorities; Lex government has a com- Scott Davis is an activist pletely diferent agenda.” trying to save her brother A government with (Joivan Wade) from a life of a nefarious agenda? Now crime; and Marisa Tomei’s that’s science fiction. psychologist character is —CLARK COLLIS

Vanessa James Marsden Kirby, Henry Cavill and Tom Cruise

stunt,’ and then we’d get another one. So... yeah.” He laughs. “I feel even more sorry for the next director.” Even a shot like the one pictured, in which Ethan sprints through a nightclub along with Henry Cavill’s CIA Agent August Walker and Vanessa Kirby’s mysterious con artist, took a toll—though not on Cruise. “That floor was a death trap,” Cavill says. “That may have been my biggest stunt, because I’m wearing leather- soled shoes, and on that ﬂoor, you can’t stop.” But for all the ﬁlm’s feats, Fallout will also mark a STARRING DIRECTED BY : VERTICAL ENTERTAINMENT/ DIRECTV ENTERTAINMENT/ VERTICAL : deeply grounded, personal chapter in Ethan’s story. Woody Harrelson, Rob Reiner When Rogue Nation villain Solomon Lane (Sean Har- Tommy Lee Jones, James ris) returns to exact revenge, he forces Ethan on a path Marsden

SHOCK AND AWE AND SHOCK that ties into previous missions. “I wanted to make a In the aftermath of 9/11, America was poised for more emotional movie that’s more inside Ethan’s war in Iraq based on the false notion that there were head,” McQuarrie explains. “He’s living with the fear weapons of mass destruction there. But the only that the past is going to catch up with him, he just people who seemed to know this was untrue at the doesn’t know how. And what he very quickly discovers time were journalists at Knight-Ridder, the now- is, his past isn’t done with him.” defunct media company. Shock and Awe tells the story of real-life reporters Jonathan Landay (Woody : ANNETTE BROWN/UNIVERSAL; ANNETTE : Or, as Kirby puts it, “You can’t run for ﬁve ﬁlms, Harrelson) and Warren Strobel (James Marsden) as you know? Something’s going to come back around.” they attempt to uncover the truth. “It’s about guys In other words, what comes up, must skydive down. who are fighting to get the truth out,” director Rob Reiner says, explaining that these journalists were

THE FIRST PURGE FIRST THE —SHIRLEY LI doing what they’re supposed to: “Hold administra- tions accountable.” —DANA SCHWARTZ Whitney Houston in 1991, on the steps to the jet that took her to Tampa for her “Star-Spangled Banner” performance at Super Bowl XXV.

STARRING DIRECTED BY Adam Sandler, Genndy Kathryn Hahn, Tartakovsky STARRING DIRECTED BY Andy Samberg, Whitney Houston Kevin Macdonald Selena Gomez

Kevin Macdonald wasn’t a Whitney Houston super- fan when he was approached about documenting the late soul-pop diva’s life, but the award-winning Scottish filmmaker (One Day in September) admired the powerful intensity of her voice and “the feeling SUMMER ( Below ) Dracula, Griffin the Invisible Man, Murray, that she was communicating a lot more than what Eunice, and Frank ( right ) Dracula and Ericka the words were saying.... Where did the emotion come from that we hear in the voice?” With the PREVIEW cooperation of the Houston estate, Macdonald con- ducted 70 interviews about the diva; he promises “many revelations that I think will, even to people who feel they know this story, make a lot more sense of who she is.” —SARAH RODMAN PRODUCTIONS; LLC; WHITNEY

SKYSCRAPER HOUSTON; E. WHITNEY ESTATE OF THE OF : COURTESY

STARRING DIRECTED BY HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER VACATION Dwayne Johnson Rawson Marshall Neve Campbell Thurber

In some ways, Skyscraper an emotional past. “Every- is your typical Dwayne one knows [Johnson] Johnson action flick: He can pick up a dump truck plays a security specialist and throw it through a

who has to punch the bad brick wall,” says writer- GROUP; MEDIA COHEN guys and rescue his family director Rawson Marshall from the world’s tallest Thurber. “He’s bulletproof skyscraper—which is on in almost every movie he’s : SONY PICTURES ANIMATION (2); ANIMATION PICTURES : SONY fire. But it’s also a rare ever been in. I wanted to SKYSCRAPER dramatic turn for the Hol- see him be vulnerable.” lywood badass, as his Sometimes the toughest character is a war veteran Rocks have a soft, squishy PUZZLE : AND UNIVERSAL LEGENDARY PICTURES PICTURES with an amputated leg and core. —DEVAN COGGAN : LINDA KALLERUS/SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

Dwayne Johnson as Will Ford GAUGUIN: VOYAGE TO TAHITI VOYAGE GAUGUIN: : THE MONSTERS ARE LEAVING THE HOTEL BEHIND. like the movie is in the hotel, but just on Feeling lonely and overworked, Dracula the water.” Though Drac and his pack— (Adam Sandler) takes a break from plan- including daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez), ning everyone else’s vacation by going on human Johnny (Andy Samberg), mummy one of his own—an idea that was born out Murray (Keegan-Michael Key), and were- THE LEGACY of director Genndy Tartakovsky’s own wolf Wayne (Steve Buscemi)—also get to OF A WHITETAIL disastrous family cruise. “As I got on the explore exotic locales like the Bermuda DEER HUNTER boat, I got a sinking feeling, because I was Triangle and Atlantis, the cruise is actually JULY 6 trapped,” he says. “But I realized it was a a ruse: The ship’s captain Ericka (Kathryn Josh Brolin and Danny McBride are a huntsman- perfect setting for families. It still feels Hahn) is a descendent of Drac’s sworn cameraman duo on a rol- rival Abraham Van Helsing (Jim Gaﬃgan), licking weekend who plans to destroy all of monsterkind. excursion with the former’s estranged son in Well, if her newfound feelings for Drac this comedy directed by don’t get in the way. “I did the movie for Eastbound & Down co- my kids so that they could finally see creator Jody Hill. something that Mommy’s been in,” Hahn says of her first animated feature. And though it’s the third installment in the franchise, Tartakovsky is hopeful it won’t end in a trilogy. He says: “There’s always a possibility for more.” Let’s hope this one’s a graveyard smash. —NATALIE ABRAMS

GAUGUIN VOYAGE TO TAHITI JULY 11 Vincent Cassel plays the famed French painter in this peculiar tale about his love afair with a young woman in Tahiti.

MCQUEEN JULY 13 This intimate documentary stitches together the rags-to-riches story of late fashion icon Alexan- der McQueen, who revo- lutionized fashion while grappling with deep- seated personal demons.

PUZZLE JULY 13 A suburban housewife- turned-puzzle-master (Kelly Macdonald) finds a new purpose in life (and competitive obsession) after receiving a jigsaw puzzle for her birthday in Marc Turtletaub’s drama. surface, it’s really about the shared horror and excitement about this very specific and weird time.” For Burnham, casting the role of the self-conscious Kayla presented an unusual catch-22. “The idea was that the person who’s right to play this character isn’t going to want to show up to HOW IT ENDS the audition,” he says. HOW IT ENDS IT HOW JULY 13 “I met every 13-year- Forest Whitaker and Theo old actor in the world. James front a postapoca- I didn’t want it to feel : ERIC ZACHANOWICH/NETFLIX; lyptic thriller about a like a confident kid man’s quest to return to pretending to be shy, his pregnant wife after a but like a shy kid pre- mysterious event throws tending to be confi- the world into unrest. dent. That’s what the story is. Elsie was like the unicorn that had EVERY TICKET TO Agnes in the first two all of the fear that EQUALIZER 2 Eighth Grade should Despicable Me films, Kayla needed, but come with a stress in Eighth Grade Fisher was also able to ball. Documentary- is fully live-action deliver every day and like in its lack of pre- (acne and all) as was able to carry a : GLEN WILSON/COLUMBIA; tense, the film from Kayla, the girl voted production on her comedian Bo Burn- “Most Quiet” in shoulders. She never ham is gorgeously school, who has chal- froze and confidently shot, deliberately lenged herself to be delivered this very THE EQUALIZER 2 paced, and excruciat- more confident. “The unconfident

JULY 20 ingly honest—with movie on the surface performance.” EIGHTH GRADE Denzel Washington and almost every frame is the story of a typi- While Eighth Grade director Antoine Fuqua featuring 15-year-old cal eighth-grade girl is very much of-the- reteam for this sequel to Elsie Fisher. and her last week in moment—Kayla the 2014 actioner based Best known for pro- middle school,” Fisher makes YouTube vlogs : A24 on the ‘80s TV show of viding the voice of says. “But below the (ending each one with the same name.

GENERATION WEALTH JULY 20 The one percent is under the microscope in Lauren Greenfield’s inquisitive nonfiction film detailing the meteoric rise of wealth culture and the pathologies that surround it.

SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD JULY 27 Skeletons emerge from the closet in this documentary about 94- year-old Scotty Bowers, a Marine-turned-pimp- to-the-stars and author of Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. SUMMER

PREVIEW an endearingly introverts, we share a uncomfortable lot of interests. A “Gucci!”) and posts to bunch of the stuf in Instagram; she’s a fan her room is based of of Demi Lovato; her stuf I like, and she bedroom wall features has some drawings in a Wonder Woman the movie, and those poster—its heroine’s are actually mine.” experience feels star- Post-Eighth Grade, tlingly relatable. Fisher has been—fit- “These are experi- tingly enough—enjoy- ences anyone can ing her freshman year have,” says Fisher. at public high school. Lakeith “It was cool to watch Stanfield “Not just girls and not and Danny just eighth graders, her grow over the Glover and I think that’s course of the film,” what’s really impor- Burnham said. “She tant about the film. already deeply had Yeah, it is about this the lessons in her that one girl, but it’s all just Kayla was learning.” awaytoexpress Gucci! things on screen that —DANA SCHWARTZ everyone feels.” To create the character of Kayla, Fisher tapped into her own eighth-grade experience: “In real life, I’m a very awkward and weird person, so I just tried to channel a lot STARRING DIRECTED BY of myself. Kayla is a Lakeith Stanfield, Boots Riley Tessa Thompson very nervous and awkward person, and she’s kind of naive, : PETER PRATO/ANNAPURNA PICTURES PRATO/ANNAPURNA PETER : but despite this she really wants to help “WRITING A MOVIE IS A LOT LIKE PLAYING GOD, BECAUSE YOU GET TO CREATE people, and I see a lot the world that the movie is in,” writer-director Boots Riley says of that in myself,” says the actress. “Aside of the absurdist alternate reality in a parallel Oakland that he

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU BOTHER TO SORRY from just being conjured for his debut feature, Sorry to Bother You. Struggling to make ends meet, Cassius Green (Lakeith Stan- field) takes a telemarketing job and learns the benefits of adopting a “white voice”—dubbed by the nasal vocals of comedian David Cross—to quickly win over customers and, more importantly, ascend the corporate ladder. The film is bolstered by an ensemble including Tessa Thomp- son, Armie Hammer, and Danny Glover, and garnered strong reviews out of Sundance and SXSW for its original perspective on class, race, and capitalism in modern-day America (while also offering a searing takedown of viral internet memes). “Cassius’ dealings with race have to do with his struggles to survive, and that is part of a larger problem that we end up seeing; without capitalism, there wouldn’t be racism,” says Riley, who’s also a rapper with the politically driven hip-hop group the Coup. The film serves up a star turn for Stanfield, who is gearing up for a big year with the Netflix film Come Sunday, an ongoing stint on Donald Glover’s Atlanta series, and a meaty role in the upcoming sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, November’s

Kayla The Girl in the Spider’s Web. “It’s hard for the greatest actors in (Elsie Fisher) the world to seem like they’re vulnerable,” Riley says. “Few can strikes a pose do it, and Lakeith is one of them.” —PIYA SINHA-ROY

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CHRISTOPHER ROBIN HAS LOST HIS WAY, AND run through a lot of philosophical ques- “She’s worked in schematics. She he’s not even deep in the Hundred Acre tions, and Christopher Robin is there to designed planes. So, she was active in the Wood. That enchanted neighborhood answer them somehow,” McGregor says. war in that regard and had her own career,” where he once played as a boy with Winnie “And I think, largely, he’s just lost any of Atwell says. “This new man that returns the Pooh and friends feels far away now that childish wisdom and he’s a bit stuck. from war represents the loss of the man that he’s grown, with a family of his own, He’s just very work-minded and doesn’t that she married, but she sees him change weighed down by responsibilities and have any time for play. I suppose that’s when Pooh the bear comes back into haunted by experiences during World War what the film is about: finding his relation- his life. But, of course, she thinks he’s II that stripped away his innocence. But ship with his younger self again.” gone mad.” he’s not so lost that his old playmates can’t Christopher Robin is trying to do the Christopher Robin also thinks he’s los- find him again. right thing by the other families who are ing his mind, but when Pooh (voiced In this fantasy from director Marc For- counting on him, even if that means put- once again by Jim Cummings) is joined ster (Finding Neverland), Ewan McGregor ting his own family aside. “I like that about by Tigger (Chris O’Dowd), Eeyore (Brad stars as the grown-up boy we know from him, that he is fighting for a greater good, Garrett), Piglet (Nick Mohammed), and the A.A. Milne books and the Disney car- not just for his own ego,” McGregor says. the others, the presence of something mag- toons. The year is 1949, and now he’s an “It made sense, if he’d been through the war ical is undeniable—although he’s the only efficiency manager at a luggage company, experience, he would just have experienced one who knows it. tasked with finding the resources to pre- being responsible, literally, for men’s lives. Other people can see Pooh and the other vent many of his workers from being laid And now he’s come back and he’s respon- woodland creatures. “But they perceive off. That will mean missing the vacation he sible for men and women’s livelihoods.” them as stuffed animals,” Forster says. has planned with his wife, Evelyn (Hayley Christopher Robin was a real person— “It’s not that they’re invisible.” Atwell), and young daughter, Madeline the son of author Milne—and his story was The director says Pooh himself is (Bronte Carmichael). They’re heading to dramatized in last year’s Goodbye Christo- the perfect balance between childlike inno- (PREVIOUS SPREAD AND THIS PAGE) LAURIE SPARHAM/DISNEY (2) the Hundred Acre Wood while he’s stuck in pher Robin, but this movie is obviously cence and adult experience. “He’s a mixture London with work, when he gets a visit a fantasy. His wife, Evelyn, is fictitious, of toddler and old man, when you read the from his old friend Pooh. But he’s not who but she represents a real type of postwar books and watch the animation,” Forster Pooh remembers. individual: the woman who held the home- says. “He has these Poohisms that land, but “In those older stories, [Christopher front together, only to find herself relegated they are totally absurd. It always reminded Robin] purveys a lot of wisdom through the back to housework when her husband me a little of Peter Sellers’ character way he deals with Pooh. Pooh and Eeyore returns from war. Chauncey Gardiner from Being There.” To quote that character, “As long as the roots are not severed, all is well.” Fortunately, the roots to the Hundred —EWAN MCGREGOR Acre Wood run deep. —ANTHONY BREZNICAN

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For Rose Byrne, starring in director Jesse Peretz’s rom-com alongside Ethan Hawke and fellow Bridesmaids alum Chris O’Dowd was a “no-brainer.” “I’ve been in a relationship with this novel for “Seriously, who is summer, Awkwafina Awkwafina?” asks, er, stars in a pair of a very long time,” she Awkwafina. “Like, highly anticipated, who the hell is that?” highly mainstream says of Nick Hornby’s No, the 29-year-old movies: Ocean’s 8 source material. “I just isn’t having an identity (out June 8) and Crazy crisis: She’s just not Rich Asians (out Aug. thought it was very sure how to answer 17). She called EW the question these from Barcelona, where relevant and poignant.” days. A few years ago, she’s working on her The film follows the “Awkwafina” was next big-screen role, simply the stage name in the sci-fi thriller Par- surprising love story that for Nora Lum, an adise Hills. Between SUMMER NYC-born (and -bred projects, she’s been arises when a woman and -based) rapper- fine-tuning her sopho- (Byrne) posts a scathing PREVIEW comedian who made more album, which ultra-vulgar music she plans to release review of a previously videos and broke out by the end of 2018. in 2012 with “My Vag,” So yeah, it’s been never-before-heard an epic anthem a lot. “It’s literally album from a singer- about, well, you know. a night on LSD,” she “She’ll never be jokes. “If I could imag- songwriter (Hawke) with a a Billboard artist,” she ine what the most says of her persona. insane acid trip could cult following, whom her “She’s weird, and her be, that’s what it’s boyfriend (O’Dowd) is audience will always been like.” be specific.” More insanity’s obsessed with. “That level Which is why, at headed her way once this moment in time, Crazy Rich Asians of fandom is fascinating,” she’s struggling to opens. In the big- says Byrne. “But Nick just define herself. This screen adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s best- does it so beautifully, selling novel, Awkwa- fina steals every scene and it’s so funny and kind she’sin as Peik Lin, of tragic.” —DEREK LAWRENCE a wealthy college friend and confidante to the heroine, Rachel STARRING (Constance Wu). On Constance Wu, Rose Byrne Henry Golding, paper, Peik Lin mainly and Ethan Michelle Yeoh, serves to help Rachel Hawke Awkwafina adapt to her extrava- gant new surround- DIRECTED BY Jon M. Chu ings in Singapore; on film, in Awkwafina’s

RELEASE DATE hands, she becomes the blond ball of manic energy that director Jon M. Chu Awkwafina and Constance Wu

who wears oversize glasses, tosses peace signs, and raps about weed. Then, after finding her footing in music, she put Awk- wafina on the back burner to pursue acting. Before long, she’d made her big- screen debut in 2016’s Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and nabbed big-name back-to- back roles this summer (her character Constance in Ocean’s 8 is a pickpocket). The speed of all that success has made her, she admits, says “ignited” the film. a little nervous. “Honestly, I had no “I just have this really idea whether it was embedded, like, going to work,” he Asian-grandma com- marvels. “I was like, plex built in me, ‘This will either ruin the this kind of doomsday, movie or take the end-of-the-world movie to another level.’ vibe. In my experi- But she knew exactly ence in this industry, what she was doing.” when it rains, it Awkwafina doesn’t pours. When it’s slow, think so. ”I still don’t it’s nothing.” know what the hell Lucky for her, she that is,” she says, has Awkwafina, who… referring to her Peik Wait, who is she again? Lin—but then again, “Awkwafina is some- she’s made bold one that I think never leaps ever since her grew up, never felt teens. While attend- the need to be fil- ing LaGuardia High tered,” she concludes. School (yes, of Fame) “Nora is brooding, in Manhattan for neurotic, overthink- trumpet performance ing, completely full (yes, the trumpet), of anxiety, and Awkwa- she developed a taste fina kind of deafens for hip-hop and at 16 all of that noise.” created Awkwafina, See, no identity crisis an eccentric alter ego there. —SHIRLEY LI

JULIET, NAKED: ALEX BAILEY/LIONSGATE AND ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS; AWKWAFINA: SARAH DUNN/WARNER BROS.; CRAZY RICH ASIANS: SANJA BUCKO/WARNER73 BROS. EW.COM a period movie, the privatization of prisons and violations against inmates is still relevant as ever.” Hunnam very much clung to that resolve when putting his body through a grueling 40-pound weight loss and confining himself PAPILLON to a cell for eight days of silence “to get a glimmer of what it was like” for Charrière, who spent

STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE more than a decade in silent, soli- Charlie Hunnam, Michael Noer tary confinement. “I kind of Rami Malek wanted to feel unwell,” he says. “I wanted to feel like I was sufering in some way, just to feel worthy of telling these guys’ stories because WHEN CHARLIE HUNNAM WAS FIRST framed for murder who repeatedly they had to endure so much. ofered the lead role in an adapta- tries to escape his life sentence There were moments I wanted to tion of Henri Charrière’s autobiog- in a French Guiana penal colony. scream. Forcing yourself to be SUMMER raphy, he said no. “I’d been “By incorporating social commen- quiet for long periods and eating actively pursuing working with tary on the state of the prison nothing at all…I felt a little crazy.” Michael Noer for a while, but system today, we felt justified Luckily, like “Papi,” Hunnam had PREVIEW I just wasn’t sure the story needed doing this adaptation,” says Hun- a “brother” in costar Rami Malek another retelling,” says Hunnam. nam, who takes on the part made (who plays fellow convict Louis But after a 12-hour “first date” with famous by Steve McQueen in Dega) to keep him sane. “It really the Danish director, the King the original 1973 version of the film. is just a love story between these Arthur actor was persuaded to Agrees Noer: “It gave us stamina— two guys,” says Hunnam. “People play the Parisian safecracker knowing that, even though this is need to be close to other human beings, and in an environment where you don’t have access to the opposite sex—like prison or in the military—we sustain our sense of nourishment, our sense of touch and emotional connection through our relationships with MILE 22 our brothers.” Which is to say that AUGUST 3 finding the right person to play An American intelligence Dega was essential. “I had just operative tries to smug- mainlined the first season of Mr. gle a policeman with sen- Robot, and it was Rami or nothing sitive information over for me,” says Hunnam. It didn’t international boundaries. take long for the stars to become Mark Wahlberg and direc- as close as their characters. “We tor Peter Berg reteam. became pretty inseparable,” says Malek, who would lure Hunnam Kelsey of set to socialize with him. “Saying THE MISEDUCATION Grammer and goodbye was quite sad because OF CAMERON POST Kristen Bell the story really infiltrated our per- AUGUST 3 sonalities. This movie’s all about Chloë Grace Moretz plays human resilience and depending a teenage girl who finds on someone in the most dire community at a gay- circumstance, and that’s a story conversion therapy camp. —RUTH KINANE STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE worth telling.” Kristen Bell, Lauren Miller Rogen Kelsey Grammer

Rami Malek and Charlie Hunnam A FRAUGHT FATHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP TAKES center stage in Lauren Miller Rogen’s directorial debut, in which a woman gets left at the altar and : EMILY ARAGONES/NETFLIX then uses the honeymoon trip to spend time with SEARCHING her estranged father. “I liked the dynamic AUGUST 3 LIKE FATHER LIKE between the father and the daughter, sort of a A father (John Cho) seeks his missing daughter rapprochement between a dad and young lady in this thriller that takes that have been apart for a long time,” says Kelsey place across everyday Grammer. His onscreen daughter Kristen Bell technological devices. was also charmed by Rogen’s take on the relationship. “You have great movies like Father of the Bride that tend to skew a little bit more into comedy,” Bell says. “Lauren’s vision wanted to be a little less broad and more intimate.” For Gram- : GRAEME HUNTER/SONY PICTURES CLASSICS; mer, the more sincere approach made it ring

THE WIFE THE especially true. “Pretty much everything I do these days passes through some kind of a per- THE WIFE sonal lens, and this one had a particular AUGUST 3 identiﬁable characteristic about it, because I did As the title character in spend several years without seeing my [daughter] this adaptation of Meg Greer, and so this is nice,” he says. “Of course,

Wolitzer’s novel, Glenn ELIZABETH: KITCHENS/SONY; Close is a woman who what’s also nice is that we see a lot of each other sacrificed a career to now.” Bell didn’t relate to the Netflix dramedy’s support her husband’s. SEARCHING dynamic quite so literally, but “I’m raising children right now, and uniquely interested in how MADELINE’S your parents affect you, whether they’re present MADELINE AUGUST 10 or not,” she says. “I thought there was a ton to Art and reality blur when mine from that relationship—how they’ve Madeline (Helena How- affected each other even though this was essen- : JOSE HARO/BLEECKER STREET; ard) works her troubled tially the first time they’ve met.” —MARY SOLLOSI relationship with her

mom (Miranda July) into PAPILLON experimental theater.

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KATE MCKINNON AND MILA KUNIS McKinnon and Kunis’ chemistry— are the BFFs you never knew you which sparked instantly. needed, and needed them very, “I think the first time I locked very badly. The actresses headline eyes with Mila, I tried to pick her the buddy action comedy The up,” McKinnon jokes. “She physi- Spy Who Dumped Me, in which they cally lifted me of the ground,” play roommates Audrey (Kunis) Kunis chimes in (and yes, they fin- and Morgan (McKinnon) who find ish each other’s sentences now). HOPPER STONE/LIONSGATE themselves on the business end “I said, ‘We’re gonna be best friends.’ of an international espionage cri- And we were.” sis after Audrey’s ex-boyfriend While the main draw for The STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE is revealed to be working for the Spy Who Dumped Me will likely be Mila Kunis, Susanna Fogel Kate McKinnon, CIA. It’s a female-friendship saga McKinnon’s dry-witted zingers, it Sam Heughan without the stereotypical romantic would be a mistake to write of the arc, so the whole thing hinges on action side of the flick. As the duo STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE Jason Statham, Jon Turteltaub Li Bingbing, Winston Chao

DOWN A DARK HALL AUGUST 17 When Kit (AnnaSophia Robb) is sent away to This action movie from boarding school, she National Treasure must contend with the direc- supernatural powers tor Jon Turteltaub finds of its headmistress. Jason Statham facing TO ALL THE off against a giant pre- BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE historic shark known AUGUST 17 as a Megalodon, which A teenage girl’s (Lana Condor) private love let- has attacked and dis- ters are sent out to all of her crushes without abled a deep-sea sub- her permission. mersible in the Pacific Ocean. The Brit actor plays Jonas Taylor, a diver who specializes in rescue missions. “He gets brought in to save the crew at the THE BOOKSHOP bottom of the ocean AUGUST 24 Emily Mortimer plays a that’s confronted with widow who finds both this 75-foot shark,” support and opposition when she opens up a Statham says. “Taylor bookshop in a small Eng- lish town. encountered this shark many years ago, but SLENDER MAN everyone thought he AUGUST 24 The viral bogeyman was crazy. Turns out, finally gets his own everybody was wrong!” movie: A group of friends summon him Hmm, sounds like we’re in a dark ritual. Sam Heughan, Mila Kunis, and Kate McKinnon gonna need a bigger movie screen. —CLARK COLLIS

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try to lose the assassins hot on their tails, they’re thrust into

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THE MEG stunt double to be found, since KIN Audrey and Morgan are meant AUGUST 31 to be espionage novices. “It really : GREENWICH: ENTERTAINMENT; helped that we were supposed A man recently released to be untrained,” says McKinnon. from prison (Jack Reynor) “Because, my God, am I not a and his brother are pur- —SEIJA RANKIN sued by a vengeful crim- THE BOOKSHOP THE MARKFIELD/LIONSGATE; graceful gazelle.” inal (James Franco). Zoë Kravitz also stars.

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STARRING DIRECTED BY RELEASE DATE BASED ON ALEXANDRA BRACKEN’S YA SERIES OF THE SAME NAME, Adam Pally, Ken Marino Nina Dobrev, the dystopian thriller The Darkest Minds stars Amandla Sten- Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wolfhard berg as Ruby, a teen among a small tribe of youths who survived a nasty child-killing disease in America and gained : DANIEL MCFADDEN/FOX DANIEL : wicked superpowers to boot. Natch, the adults don’t like what This warm-and-furry roman- the kids are cooking, so Ruby and her fellow superhumans are tic comedy—released at a imprisoned; they manage to escape, thanks to the help of a kindly doctor played by This Is Us’ Mandy Moore. There’s a lot fitting time in the summer— THE DARKEST MINDS DARKEST THE of action and mad dashes through the forests as the group features a most eclectic tries to evade bounty hunters like Lady Jane (Game of Thrones’ cast playing L.A. denizens who Gwendoline Christie), but Stenberg—who played Rue in The become charmed, chal- Hunger Games—insists this story oﬀers something that other apocalyptic tales don’t. “It’s not set too far in the future,” says lenged, and changed by their Stenberg. “It’s still a story about four kids and how they con- canine connections. “There’s

: JACOB YAKOB/LD ENTERTAINMENT; YAKOB/LD JACOB : nect to each other.” While the ﬁlm’s narrative is daunting, an easy form of connection production apparently was not. “Shooting it was a blast,” with pets, specifically dogs—

DOG DAYS DOG Stenberg continues. “It felt like summer camp.” —LYNETTE RICE not really cats, because cats are kind of d---heads,” says Mandy Moore and Amandla Stenberg Adam Pally, who plays a man- childish musician tasked

SUMMER with watching his sister’s lab- radoodle. How does he PREVIEW describe the film to his pals? “What I tell friends is, ‘Sorry, I can’t go to dinner tonight. I’m working on this cool dog movie that Ken Marino is directing. It’s kind of like Love Actually in L.A., but with dogs.’ And then for people I want to impress, I say, ‘I’m not in a dog movie.’ ” —DAN SNIERSON

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Action Point Johnny Knoxville Adrift Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin American Animals Evan Peters, PICTURES CLASSICS; PICTURES Barry Keoghan CRAZY RICHCRAZY ASIANS A Kid Like Jake Jim Parsons, Claire Danes Rodin Vincent Lindon HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER VACATION

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Willem Dafoe-narrated doc Saoirse Ronan According En El Séptimo Día THE SEAGULL to André By Jim McKay Revenge Pope Francis— Doc on André Leon Tally Beast Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz A Man of His Word Hearts Beat Loud : SONY PICTURES ANIMATION Jessie Buckley, Doc by Wim Wenders How to Talk Nick Offerman, : GENSER/SONY ABBOTT Johnny Flynn The Seagull to Girls at Parties Kiersey Clemons Annette Bening Show Dogs Elle Fanning, Boom for Real: Will Arnett Hereditary Sollers Point Nicole Kidman Most Likely to Murder The Late Teenage Toni Collette, Alex Wolff Years of Jean-Michel McCaul Lombardi Steven Tyler: Rachel Bloom Ibiza Basquiat Out on a Limb Hotel Artemis Terminal Gillian Jacobs Documentary on the artist Documentary on the Jodie Foster, Margot Robbie musician In Darkness Sterling K. Brown Breaking In Natalie Dormer Gabrielle Union That Summer Doc on Grey Gardens duo Mary Shelley The Day After Anon Elle Fanning Director Hong Sangsoo Clive Owen MAY 18 Book Club Solo: The Escape Deadpool 2 Bad Samaritan Candice Bergen, A Star Wars Story Gemma Arterton David Tennant Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Alden Ehrenreich The Guardians Mary Steenburgen Fury of the End Game Summer 1993 Nathalie Baye Fist and the Doc by Rob Epstein Cargo Golden Fleece By Carla Simón and Jeffrey Friedman Higher Power Martin Freeman Sean Stone Ron Eldard, Jordan Hinson Overboard Deadpool 2 Future World Anna Faris, Eugenio Derbiz Life of the Party Ryan Reynolds James Franco Melissa McCarthy RBG First Reformed Ruth Bader Ginsburg doc Lu Over the Wall Ethan Hawke, GKIDS anime Amanda Seyfried Tully Charlize Theron, Measure of a Man Mackenzie Davis Donald Sutherland

JULY 13 MAY 11 Hotel Transylvania 3: The Seagull Summer Vacation Ocean’s 8 Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett Won’t You Be Custody My Neighbor? By Xavier Legrand Doc on Fred Rogers Hover Cleopatra Coleman Leave No Trace Ben Foster Eating Animals Sicario: Natalie Portman narrates Day of the Soldado Gotti Benicio Del Toro John Travolta, Kelly Preston Uncle Drew Incredibles 2 Kyrie Irving Holly Hunter, Craig T. Nelson Woman MAY 4 Walks Ahead Tully Loving Pablo Jessica Chastain Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem

Set It Up Far From the Tree The Darkest Minds The Package Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs Doc based on the Amandla Stenberg Daniel Doheny best-seller Superfly Like Father Skate Kitchen Trevor Jackson Don’t Worry, He Generation Wealth Kristen Bell, By Crystal Moselle Won’t Get Far on Foot Doc by Lauren Greenfield Kelsey Grammer

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Who would you prefer the Avengers The Of course. to cross over with: The X-Men. Incredibles. the X-Men or the Incredibles? Could you Skydiving. ever live The higher, without your the better. smartphone? Say you spot $100 on Definitely not. the ground. You could’ve used As the God What do your phenomenal of Thunder and What would you do? powers for evil, Former Wielder you prioritize but even as an of Mjolnir (R.I.P.), on your outsider, you didn’t you can weather bucket list: go Ultron—which any storm, includ- skydiving makes you the ing your very com- or scuba noblest hero of all. plicated family. diving? False alarm! You’ve got some Get to free time, so what series the scene would you rather ASAP. binge: Game of Thrones or The Americans? Hey, so Gah, aliens I just peeked Heights have invaded! at the results. are not (Yes, again.) Game of The Where’s my thing. What do you Thrones. What Americans. Hawkeye? do first? else am I sup- Why hasn’t it Oh, no, posed to do won all the your laptop Gather as until 2019? Emmys? screen’s much intel broken! What as you can. are you going to do? Just let me punch something, anything. It’s been a long day, and you need to let of You’re more powerful than you I’ll just have it Fix it some steam. Would you know—and as a telekinetic telepath who replaced. myself. rather take a kickboxing can manipulate minds, you know a lot. class or a spa day? You’re always Spa day, angry—and that’s especially a good thing! if it means Plus, out of every- some peace one in this flow- and quiet. chart, you know yourself best. You’ll always prefer being a lone (white) wolf, but when you are on Curiosity can get the best of you You’re a precocious brainiac and the hippest a team, you’re one sometimes, but you’re a quick learner— member of the Wakandan royal family. of its most skilled thanks partly to all that meditation. Honestly, Thanos should fear you most. (and silent) assets. REEL Ace Move Cathy Yan is in negotiations to direct Margot Rob- NEWS bie’s Harley Quinn spin-of based on the Birds of Prey comic. They’ll Float Too Bill Hader and James McAvoy are in talks to star in Warner Bros.’ It sequel as the grown-up Richie and Bill.

More than 20 heroes will assemble on screen together for the first time in Avengers: Infinity War (out April 27), so it might be hard to remember who’s the brains and who’s the Strange (but we’ll always know who’s Groot). Here, we lay out diferences between superhumans and super- spies (and super-space-travelers), but you can also find out which hero ARE YOU? BY SHIRLEY LI YOU are. In other words, consider it super handy.

I’m up for some shawarma. How Something That’s none of On what? much would one charitable. your business. of those cost? $50?

You are Tony Stark, a genius You’re loyal, trustworthy, Congratulations, you’re a member of the spacefaring squad made billionaire playboy philan- and literally the best up of a deadly assassin, a metaphor-averse killer, an intelligent thropist who has nearly wingman anyone could raccoon, a sentient tree, the ugliest empath in the universe, and destroyed the world once ask for. (By the way...on some guy named Star-Lord! In the spirit of the sky group’s signature Might as well or twice. Key word: nearly. your left!) dysfunction, we’ll let you decide which Guardian you want to be. spend it.

I’m not a fan. Unless… could I get Nice of you! a mask? Now for Try to find something its owner at completely any cost. diferent… Haha, “cost.” How are you You’re a natural leader, You’re inventive and with public and though you’re eager to please, but speaking? Great! not without your flaws your heroics can some- I can handle When you’re I never (or claws), you’re open- times get out of hand. an audience. up there, freeze. minded and honorable— Luckily, you know that don’t freeze. and most important, with great power comes you never yield. great responsibility. It’s an excellent drama Depends. about partnership. I’d assess the That reminds me: situation and Do you prefer working decide from alone or with a team? there.

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In that case, A team, how do you always. I like Alone. usually keep being with in touch friends. with them? You’re a soldier who A dedicated No superpowers, isn’t afraid to chal- military man who super-suits, In person. lenge institutions never misses a or super-DNA? in order to protect battle, you’re known No problem. VISION, THOR, IRON MAN, FALCON, STAR-LORD, MANTIS, GROOT, what you believe. for being a formidable Your enemies tend DRAX, ROCKET, GAMORA, WAR MACHINE, SHURI, HULK: © MARVEL STUDIOS (13); BLACK PANTHER, BLACK WIDOW, CAPTAIN Now, if only someone fighter, especially to underestimate AMERICA, BUCKY BARNES, DOCTOR STRANGE: CHUCK could get you when iron-suited you—and that’s just ZLOTNICK/© MARVEL STUDIOS 2018 (5); SPIDER-MAN: COLUMBIA PICTURES; SCARLET WITCH: ZADE ROSENTHAL/© 2016 MARVEL a shield… and in the air. the way you like it. Movies

COMEDY ONTHEBRAIN More films that use lost memory, head injuries, and amnesia to tell their love stories. BY LEAH GREENBLATT

50 FIRST DATES (2004)

Adam Sandler’s vet and Drew Barrymore’s sweet amnesiac meet (and meet and meet) cute in this sunny, Oahu-set comedy. I FEEL PRETTY : MARK SCHÄFER/STXFILMS; : MARK Rory Scovel and Amy Schumer

I Feel Pretty company Lily LeClair—home of her idol, the brand’s glamorous scion and CEO Avery OVERBOARD (1987) STARRING Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams (a breathy, brilliant Michelle Williams, who

Insuferable heiress Goldie Hawn 50 FIRST DATES DIRECTED BY Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein looks like a sun-starved Barbie and talks falls of her yacht, out of her like a sexy toddler). But Renee’s new RATING PG-13 | LENGTH 1 hr., 50 mins. mind, and into the arms of Kurt perfect-10 persona also alienates her from Russell’s blue-collar single dad. REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats her two happily ordinary best friends (Busy : DARREN MICHAELS/COLUMBIA; Philipps and SNL’s Aidy Bryant). BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE If a smart, funny takedown of the absurd beholder who falls way too hard physical standards modern women are held off a stationary bike in I Feel to sounds like a great idea, it is—or it was, Pretty, a loose-cannon comedy about an in instantly iconic Inside Amy Schumer attractive blond woman who longs to be...a sketches like “Last F---able Day” and the CLEAN SLATE OVERBOARD (1994) more attractive blond woman. Amy Emmy-winning “Girl, You Don’t Need

Dana Carvey’s L.A. detective , Schumer stars as Renee, a 30ish New Makeup.” But Pretty feels like a sketch in a SLATECLEAN gets to start every day fresh Yorker who believes she’s doomed to a life diﬀerent way. As Renee careens from wry with retrograde amnesia and of low-grade disappointment until a fateful likability (in one scene she nearly wins a bad-girl model Valeria Golino. , smashup in a SoulCycle class leaves her bikini contest on wit alone, which is like DESPERATELY SUSAN SEEKING magically (or at least concussively) trans- getting a teenage boy to actually read Play- formed: Gazing back at her from the mirror boy for the articles) to oblivious brat (she is the knockout she’s always longed to be. ruins a promising triple date with her hair- Suddenly the girl who felt ignored in flipping narcissism), the movie loses its

bars, humiliated by YouTube hair tutorials, ballast too, zigging between banana-peel (3) : KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK and stonewalled at work has unleashed her slapstick and teachable-moment cliché. DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (1985) inner goddess; no man can resist her, no There’s also something depressing about carb can harm her. With her newfound con- Schumer playing off her own looks as if, A bored housewife (Rosanna Arquette) gets obsessed with ﬁdence, she even meets a nice guy (Rory without the abracadabra of her bonked- a boho grifter (Madonna) and Scovel) and smizes her way into a front- head delusions, she were some sort of smacks straight into a lamppost. desk reception job at high-end cosmetics hideous gremlin. Magician, heal thyself. C+

86 EW.COM SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 Religion, Sex, and Civil Disobedience For the quiet—but intense—Disobedience (out April 27), Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams had to tread respectfully in the shoes of lovers hiding in a conservative Orthodox Jewish community. BY JOEY NOLFI

SPIRITUAL IDENTITY AND sexual freedom are at odds in Disobedience, Sebastián Lelio’s emotionally wrought tale of forbidden love centered on a pair of women from an Orthodox Jewish community who fall for each other—and apart—under the scrutinizing gaze of family and peers. Now producer-star Rachel Weisz (who plays Ronit) and co– leading lady Rachel McAdams (who plays Esti) talk about probing into the conservative community, and the nuances of shooting one of the most beautiful sex scenes of the year.

Why is it essential now to tell a story about oppression of identity? Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams RACHEL MCADAMS There’s always oppression out there to fight against and to disobey, Is there significance to scene], so I understand the of it as a “lesbian thing,” it’s just so it felt timely, but it’s also the way you presented the attraction and appeal to that a unique sexual thing between a story that needed to be told big sex scene? in a sexual context. these two people, not neces- for the specifics—that this is WEISZ Sebastián storyboarded sarily between two women. a corner of the world where it precisely a couple weeks I certainly hope you were being gay is still not embraced. before we shot it. He made comfortable, knowing Rachel Are people still uncomfortable it clear everything he wanted: would spit in your mouth. watching gay sex in movies? Is the film criticizing religion? the wetness, me spitting in MCADAMS It’s provocative WEISZ Straight men are used RACHEL WEISZ Judaism isn’t Rachel’s mouth, and [a focus [and] brings the audience into to seeing it in pornography, but the antagonist, but [Esti] can’t on] Esti’s orgasm. something intimate…. The this isn’t that. It has love, sad- be who she is and love who MCADAMS Often, you’re trying makeup department tested out ness, pain, and power; it’s full she wants to love. The film to decide if a sex scene is gra- diferent flavors of lube the of emotion. It’s not at all for the shows the great beauty of spiri- tuitous or not. But this scene night before to use as the spit. titillation of a man. And that’s tuality, but there’s a dilemma: felt so integral to the plot and We settled on lychee-flavored! so underrepresented. Gay You can’t be gay and be in moving the story forward. women I’ve spoken to…they that Orthodox religion.… That’s The characters need this Whatwasitlikeperforming felt represented, massively an incredibly interesting one release to open up…. There a sexuality you don’t happy, and relieved that their for Esti, because she loves the was energy to that scene that identify as? sexuality is represented in film. community. I haven’t experienced in any MCADAMS It’s just humans being MCADAMS It comes down MCADAMS Sebastián embraced other sex scenes [with men] in with humans. I didn’t think of it to a lack of exposure or under- the beauty and complication my career. There was camara- as gay versus straight.… I over- standing. We haven’t told of the religion, which exists derie to it. We both felt safe heard a couple after a screen- enough of these stories. Or in every religion. The film and free…. All those things that ing say, “We don’t spit in each they‘ve been categorized or put is an exploration rather than you love about being a woman, other’s mouths. That’s not a in a certain box. It’s hardwiring,

BLEECKER STREETBLEECKER a damnation. you get to be with [in the lesbian thing!” I never thought and we’re loosening it up!

SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 EW.COM 87 If you are ready to be emotionally wrecked yet again, you are in luck.” —Hypable

Father Amorth performs an exorcism The Devil and Father Amorth

STARRING Gabriele Amorth

DIRECTED BY William Friedkin

RATING NR | LENGTH 1 hr., 8 mins.

REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @Nashawaty

FORTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER DIRECTING THE Exorcist—arguably the scariest movie ever made—William Friedkin still can’t seem to shake Satan. In the unsettling and also kind of hokey new documentary The Devil and Father Amorth, the 82-year-old director puts on his Leonard Nimoy hat, stands stiffly in front of the camera, and hosts what feels like a schlocky old episode of In Search of… With a rascally twinkle in his eye and the breathless hype of a carny barker, Friedkin explains that he’s about to show us—you guessed it—the first authentic exorcism that the Vatican has ever allowed to be filmed. First, he introduces us to Father Amorth, the elderly, elfin head exorcist of the diocese of Rome. Then we meet Cris- “A beautifully written tina, a 46-year-old Italian architect who claims to be possessed. What follows is the Catholic priest’s ninth love song.” attempt to rid this poor woman of her spiritual curse. —JACQUELINE WOODSON, author of the Shot with a handheld video camera, the documentary National Book Award winner, Brown Girl Dreaming has the cheap, grainy look of a snuff film. And regard- less of whether you were raised in the church and believe in God and the devil, there’s a chilling air of Praise for the New York Times taboo voyeurism in all of this. But as it goes on, and as best-selling author of If I Stay Cristina begins to buck and thrash, screaming, “She

belongs to me!” in a demonic caterwaul, something else WILLIAM FRIEDKIN/THE ORCHARD “Irresistible.” creeps over you: the feeling that this is something you —The New York Times shouldn’t be watching. If it’s real, you’d rather not see it. And if it’s not, then this is just exploitation of an “Beautiful.” unfortunate soul with serious mental illness. Whatever —Los Angeles Times the case, you’re better oﬀ rewatching the fake Linda Blair movie. C Pass Over

STARRING Jon Michael Hill, Julian Parker

DIRECTED BY Spike Lee

RATING NR | LENGTH 1 hr., 14 mins.

REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @Nashawaty

FILMED STAGE PLAYS ARE A PRETTY IFFY proposition. Either they suck the air out of what makes the live theater experience so intimate and electrifying, or they fail to open up the drama enough to become cinematic. Spike Lee’s new Amazon Studios joint teases at a different approach by kicking off with a busload of black teenagers traveling to Chicago’s legendary Steppenwolf Theatre to attend a production of Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over—a ripped-from-the-headlines meditation on race, urban hopelessness, and police brutality. A heated inner-city riff on Samuel Beckett’s stalemate of absurdity Waiting for Godot, the play stars Jon Michael Hill and Julian Parker as Kitch and Moses, a pair of best friends hanging out at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and 64th Street. As gunshots pop off in the distance, the two tease each other and talk trash while making plans that they know, deep down, will never materialize—like getting far, far away from this godforsaken Chicago intersection. The dialogue mixes Sunday school and the streets, and it’s funny, profane, and occasionally poignant when it’s not a bit too on the nose. Lee manages to make the intentionally static action feel less claustrophobic and stagy than it could have been, even if he emotionally cheats by panning to the audience for their reactions during the play’s most powerful moments. Pass Over won’t tell anyone anything they don’t already know, but Nwandu is an undeniably talented and timely voice—one that howls to be heard. And Lee, an important part of this conversation going on three decades now, has done right by her. B

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DATE TIME NETWORK REVIEW BY more than one kind of freedom!” bellows Premieres April 25 Streaming Hulu Kristen Baldwin Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd, as magnificently @KristenGBaldwin draconian as ever). “There is freedom to, and freedom from.” (I’ll let you guess which IN SEASON 2 OF THE HANDMAID’S TALE, WE FIND OFFRED one she’s shilling.) It is not a spoiler to (Elisabeth Moss) exactly where we left her: in the reveal that June spends much of the first

custody of the Eyes, on the way to meet her fate for three episodes grappling with her past. BLINDSPOT refusing to stone poor Janine in last summer’s ﬁnale. Through ﬂashbacks, we learn more about

The opening minutes of the second-season premiere are the last days in America before the theoc- : ERIC LEIBOWITZ/NBC/WARNER BROS. a masterful overture of brutality, as Oﬀred—whom we racy of Gilead took over, especially the now know by her real name, June—and other disobedi- insidious infringement on the rights of ent handmaids are herded into an abandoned Boston women and gay people. June comes to the landmark for a punishment so exquisitely terrifying, it realization that she and her husband, Luke almost makes the freedom of death seem preferable. (O-T Fagbenle), like so many citizens, tried The specter of freedom—how we gain it, and, more to live their lives as usual, irritated but tak- crucially, how we lose it—looms over Handmaid’s this ing no action. June’s guilt is exacerbated by

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LOGLINES Broad Horizons Comedy Central has confirmed that Broad City’s upcoming fifth season will be its last. O Canada! Martin Scorsese is reuniting SCTV stars Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, and more for a Netflix comedy special.

memories of her mom, Holly (Cherry Jones), a lifelong social activist who was MUSIC OF dismayed by her daughter’s choices: “This THE MAIDS country is going down the f---ing tubes! It’s Season 2 of Handmaid’s fea- time to get out in the street and fight—not tures a soundtrack Bill Nye and Ashley Johnson just play house.” fit for a queen Handmaid’s also broadens the narrative canvas to show us the unpleasant reality for Emily (Alexis Bledel), who has been sent to toil in the toxic-waste mines of the Colo- BILL NYEFINDS nies. Episode 2 flashes back to Emily’s harrowing attempt to escape to Montreal KATE BUSH “This Woman’s with her wife and son, only to find that in Work” HISBLINDSPOT the chaos, her rights as a citizen had The 1989 classic plays over a chill- The Science Guy icon, 62, will play a fictional changed for the worse in a matter of hours. ing opening version of himself—who happens to be Patterson’s As a cautionary tale, Handmaid’s is never sequence. Sure, a song about father?!—on Blindspot (Fridays at 8 p.m. on NBC). moralizing or hysterical, instead construct- childbirth is a BY NATALIE ABRAMS little on the nose, ing a pervasive mood of dread through but go with it. quiet, deliberate storytelling. Uncomfort- AS BLINDSPOT INCHES time on set turned into one able images linger, and some of the most closer to the ultimate big geekfest—Johnson powerful scenes have no dialogue, yet swell showdown between Roman says she “nerded out” with emotion: fear, despair, desire. By the (Luke Mitchell) and the FBI, with Nye every day. “I basi- the team will get help from cally just picked his brain time I got through a tense action sequence a surprising ally: Bill Nye about every little thing that at the end of episode 3, I was grateful that will appear as himself on I could,” says the actress, SANTIGOLD the NBC puzzle drama. who reveals that Gero had Hulu releases new installments weekly, “GO!” The twist? The renowned been teasing her with the Spoiler: People rather than all at once. As excellent as idea of Nye playing her char- go jogging in science educator is also The Handmaid’s Tale is, sometimes the free- Gilead! And this portraying the father of FBI acter’s pops since season 2. dom from binge-watching is the best kind of 2012 banger is forensic scientist Patterson “I was incredibly nervous to ideal running A– (Ashley Johnson). “Bill has meet him because I’ve been freedom to have. music, even in been a friend for 10 years such a huge fan of his, [but] a dystopia. now, and when we started he really was a dream to Alexis Bledel to talk about who could work with and far exceeded possibly play Patterson’s my expectations.” And yes, father, I could think of no the arrival of Patterson’s better person,” says Blindspot father does mean that fans boss Martin Gero, who will finally get answers about previously teamed with Patterson’s actual name, Nye on Stargate Atlantis. which, almost three full GWEN STEFANI “He was a complete joy to seasons in, has not yet been “Hollaback Girl” work with. His scenes are revealed. “One of the mys- June’s memories some of the best we’ve done teries on the show is ‘Who of her mother include an this year!” Debuting in the the heck is Patterson?’ ” says impromptu May 4 episode, Nye joins Nye. “Her name—and Bill sing-along of Patterson in her lab and Nye’s relationship to her Stefani’s catchy attempts to help the team name—is spelled out.” No 2004 hit. after they hit an unexpected word, though, on the number roadblock. Of camera, Nye’s of lab coats in the episode.

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STARS SHARE THEIR PERSONAL STORIES ABOUT GIVING BACK CAROL BURNETT The host of A Little Help With Carol Burnett (May 4 on Netflix) laughs through her six decades in Hollywood. BY MAUREEN LEE LENKER

1 3 ONCE UPON A MATTRESS THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW 1959, ’64, ’72, 2005 1967–78

Burnett made her Broadway Burnett redefined sketch debut in this Princess and the comedy with her variety show, Pea-inspired musical comedy, which won 25 Emmys during PATRICIA HEATON earning a Tony nomination for its 11-season run. The star her work. She reprised the role credits costume designer Bob FIGHTS POVERTY of Princess Winnifred on TV Mackie with helping her define twice (in black and white in her many roles, noting that he CHARITY WHAT THEY DO 1964, and in color in ’72) and sometimes designed 65 cos- World Vision The aid group partners returned to the show as the evil tumes a week for the show. (worldvision.org) with communities to queen for a 2005 TV special. The series’ movie parodies, like tackle local causes of The original production was the Gone With the Wind skit, poverty and injustice enjoying an Of Broadway run became fan favorites. Burnett WHY SHE TOOK ACTION when Burnett got the idea to recalls that the show’s parody have the cast jokingly picket of Mildred Pierce caught the World Vision is a non-proselytizing Christian the theater after the show, eye of the classic film’s star, charity that helps more than 4 million demanding a transfer to Broad- Joan Crawford. “She called me children in nearly 100 countries, but it was way. “Neil Simon made a crack and said, ‘You gave that sketch something more prosaic that led Heaton to about it,” says Burnett, 85. “He more f---ing production than become the nonprofit’s first celebrity ambas- said, ‘Have you seen Once Jack Warner gave me,’ ” says sador. “I love that 85 percent of donations Upon a Mattress yet? Don’t Burnett. “She loved it.” go directly to helping people,” she says. worry, it will soon be at your “We want to know that our dollars are really neighborhood theater.’ ” 4 making a diference and not just going to run ANNIE an ofice. These funds are actually going to 2 help build schools and clean-water pumps.” 1982 JULIE AND CAROL AT CARNEGIE HALL Burnett remembers turning to WHY IT’S IMPORTANT 1962 director John Huston for guid- ance on playing Miss Hannigan World Vision is the largest nongovernmental Burnett and Julie Andrews in the big-screen adaptation of provider of clean water in the developing became close friends—and this beloved musical. “He said, world, “but they also focus on a community’s collaborators—early in their ‘Just cavort, dear. Just cavort,’ ” long-term problems,” says Heaton. “They’re careers, and decided they she recalls. “I go, ‘Okay, I’ll implementing programs at a grassroots level should do a TV special. (CBS cavort. I’ll cavort away.’ ” It was that are stafed and run by the people who initially balked, concerned that Burnett’s decision to make live in that country; it’s not just outsiders Andrews was known only to coming in, doing something, and leaving.” Hannigan a drinker, and she New York theater audiences.) pushed for the addition of a “We did a takeof on Sound of HOW YOU CAN HELP scene between her character Music before Julie was even and Daddy Warbucks (Albert Sponsor a community for $39 a month or cast in it,” says Burnett. “We Finney). The musical’s song- contribute to specific needs through the NGO’s loaded in the night before and writers declined to write a song catalog. “You can buy someone livestock, just rehearsed it that day, and for the duo, so Burnett called in a bicycle, medical or educational supplies, then the audience came in. It Carol Burnett Show music- or clean water,” Heaton says. “It makes a huge went through the roof.” material writer Arthur Malvin. diference.” —Maureen Lee Lenker “He wrote a song called ‘Sign,’

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and it’s very funny,” she says. “I just felt that would be something the audience would get a kick out of seeing.”

5 MAD ABOUT YOU 1996–99

Burnett guest-starred on the hit sitcom several times as the mom of Jamie (Helen Hunt). “They were both consummate 2 comedic actors,” Burnett says of Hunt and costar Paul Reiser.

3 “I really love it when a show is funny because it’s character- driven as opposed to setup, setup, joke, laugh track. And that was all character-driven.”

6 GLEE 2010–15 4 The actress added another famous maternal guest-star role to her résumé when she signed on to play the Nazi- hunting absent mother of Jane Lynch’s Sue Sylvester. “I became a Gleek when it first came on,” explains Burnett. “And at one point, I just mentioned to somebody, ‘I’d carry a spear on that show,’ because I really had such fun watching it.”

7 A LITTLE HELP WITH 5 CAROL BURNETT 2018 6 Burnett hosts this unscripted series, which features a panel of 4- to 8-year-olds working to solve dilemmas presented to them by adults, including celebrity guests like Lisa Kudrow. “That’s the best age because they don’t censor themselves,” Burnett notes of her young costars. “It was just as easy as pie to do. I don’t have to run around, rehearse, worry about lines, or anything. You roll with it,” she says. “Some of the kids are priceless. They are the stars of the

7 show, I’m just kind of steering them around.”

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A day-to-day guide to notable programs* By | SAMANTHA HIGHFILL @SAMHIGHFILL The Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special

10–11PM | CBS It could get “Dirrty” when Christina Aguilera road-duets with James Corden (and a surprise guest). “I’m looking forward to the start of ‘Beautiful’ where she goes, ‘Don’t look at me,’ ” he says. “People talking at the start of songs has disappeared a bit, so I want to bring that back.” A few of Corden’s favorite things also arrive in a Sound of Music-themed “Crosswalk: The Musical.” He teases: “The prospect of Allison Janney running into a crosswalk on Beverly and Fairfax, singing, ‘The hills are alive with the sound of music,’ whilst me and Kunal Nayyar are dressed as cows is pretty ridiculous.” —Dan Snierson ( From left ) Chris Mazdzer, Tonya Hard- ing, Adam TUESDAY APRIL 24 Rippon, Mirai Nagasu, Series Debut The Real Kareem The Ice Cream Housewives of Abdul-Jabbar Show Beverly Hills Reunion, Part 1 Season Premiere 10:30–11PM | VICELAND 9–10PM | BRAVO Isaac Lappert DancingWiththeStars:Athletes of Lappert’s Ice Dorit vs. Camille. : MICHAEL DESMOND/CBS MICHAEL : Cream travels to Dorit vs. Teddi. Dorit MONDAY, APRIL 30 | 8–10PM | ABC diferent ice cream vs. Lisa Vander- parlors, trying pump. Dorit vs. Kyle. new flavors in the Dorit vs. Incorrect Figure skaters will compete against NFL, NBA, and MLB stars hope of identifying Drinkware. After (and more) on a special all-athletes edition of ABC’s long-running what makes the arguments about American Idol beloved dessert so loyalties, (ball) gag franchise. Since the addition of has encroached on good. Has he ever gifts, and tardiness, DWTS’ usual 10-week season, the celebrity hoofers—former heard of sugar? these ladies have ATE LATE SHOW PRIMETIME KARAOKE PRIMETIME SHOW LATE ATE more tifs to hash skater Tonya Harding, college basketball player Arike Ogun- out than LVP has bowale, former softball pitcher Jennie Finch Daigle, retired out- pets. #VillaRosaZoo

fielder Johnny Damon, Redskins cornerback Josh Norman, Season Premiere former Lakers star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and 2018 Winter Olym- Genius

: CRAIG SJODIN/ABC (4); L pians Adam Rippon, Mirai Nagasu, Chris Mazdzer, and Jamie 9–11PM | NAT GEO Anderson—will have just four weeks to vie for the Mirrorball. O TK In its second Some of the most popular pros are sitting this one out—we heart season, Genius is swapping Einstein you, Maks and Val Chmerkovskiy—but Witney Carson, Lindsay for Pablo Picasso, Arnold, Artem Chigvintsev, and Sharna Burgess are among those and with it, Geofrey Rush for Antonio donning the sequins again. Now if only the show would have seen Banderas. But is

DANCING WITH THE STARS:ATHLETES THE WITH DANCING it ﬁt to pair openly gay Rippon with a man. Boo! —Lynette Rice it a smart move?

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Season Premiere Season Finale The 100 Suits

9–10PM | THE CW 9–11PM | USA The fiery death wave has come and gone, The dynamic duo of Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) but no safe haven is truly safe when and Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) is coming to an end in season 5 begins. Six years after Praimfaya, the legal drama’s two-part season finale as Adams (and as glimpsed in the season 4 finale, the Bun- his onscreen love interest, Meghan Markle) departs the ker remains unopened, the Ark’s still above series. However, the show’s central relationship won’t the atmosphere, and Clarke (Eliza Taylor) end on a bad note. “There’s no bitterness,” says creator faces a new threat when a prison ship lands Aaron Korsh. “They part on really good terms.” In fact, carrying a group of criminals. “They believe shooting their final scene was quite the poignant afair. they’ve done their time and made it home, “When Mike tells Harvey goodbye, that was an emo- and it’s their planet as much as it is any- tional scene because it’s also goodbye for the actors.” body’s,” showrunner Jason Rothenberg —Chancellor Agard explains. “They want a second chance, and Season Premiere they’re going to fight for it.” Sounds like The Handmaid’s everyone else we know. —Shirley Li Tale THE 100

STREAMING | HULU CW; YU/THE : KATIE The Emmy-winning series is back for its sophomore season with more dysto- SUITS pian-set drama and

memorable perfor- : IAN WATSON/USA NETWORK; mances, not to mention the return of everyone’s favorite fashion item: the oversize red cloak. THE BEACH HOUSE

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Season Premiere A PERFECT WINE PAIRING

Quantico DAVID M. RUSSELL/HALLMARK LLC; KENNEDY: BOB HENRIQUES/MAGNUM PHOTOS/NETFLIX; The Beach House 10–11PM | ABC 9–11PM | HALLMARK Say ciao to a revamped Quan- tico. New showrunner Michael A big-city job. A small-town Seitzman (Code Black) has boyfriend. A cancer subplot. transformed the terrorism If you’re playing Made-for-TV- drama into a global spy thriller, Movie Bingo, The Beach House and season 3 finds Alex (Pri- makes for a quick game. Based yanka Chopra) living in Italy on the novel by Mary Alice three years after the season 2 Monroe, the film centers on finale. “I wanted to make Cara (Minka Kelly), who leaves something that had evolved to her job and goes home to South another level,” he says. When Carolina, where she bonds with Alex returns to New York, she’ll Series Debut her turtle-loving mom (Andie face a new threat and team Bobby Kennedy for President MacDowell) and charming ex up with new allies, including (Chad Michael Murray). Exactly STREAMING | NETFLIX Marlee Matlin’s ex–FBI agent as cheesy as you’d expect, it Jocelyn. “The real world comes Pop culture’s deconstruction of the Ken- tries to be a tearjerker, but calling again,” Seitzman says. It nedy family continues with Netflix’s new you’ll only need tissues to mop always does. —Shirley Li docuseries. Director Dawn Porter (Gideon’s up any wine you spill. C– Army) assembles an impressive group —Dana Schwartz

of talking heads and archival footage to QUANTICO illuminate the political ascendancy of RFK, from his work under such nefarious figures

as Joe McCarthy to his progressive presi- : DAMIANI/ABC VIOLA dential campaign—which was tragically cut short. Bobby Kennedy is straightforward but layered, exploring the intersection of political ambition and moral principle with riveting complexity. B+ —David Canfield

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Season Premiere John Mulaney: Anthony Bourdain Kid Gorgeous at Parts Unknown Radio City 9–10:15PM | CNN STREAMING | NETFLIX The show’s eight- Fresh of his debut episode 11th season follows Bourdain gig hosting a little all over the world— show called Satur- Uruguay, Armenia, day Night Live, John Bhutan, Berlin, Hong Mulaney is taking Kong, and more. his brand of obser- But all the action vational comedy kicks of in the most (and maybe a Timo- exotic place of all: thée Chalamet joke West Virginia. or two) to Netflix for a one-hour stand-up special.

Season Finale Season Finale Homeland LA to Vegas

9–10PM | SHOWTIME 9–9:30PM | FOX So far in the spy drama’s seventh season, Carrie (Claire Danes) has uncovered a Season 1 of the plot against the U.S. president, exposed (in multiple senses of the word) a dou- workplace comedy ble agent, and helped Saul (Mandy Patinkin) with his mission to destroy a comes to a close, Russian network—all without being employed. But don’t expect Carrie to walk with one question away completely unscathed: Season 7 will end with “at least one big surprise,” still remaining: Will says EP Alex Gansa, who adds that “the goal of any Homeland finale is to tap they remain in L.A. into some genuine emotion.” Hmm, now that he mentions it, we are overdue for or will they finally a Claire Danes Cry Face... —Shirley Li, with additional reporting by James Hibberd make it to Vegas?

WEDNESDAY MAY 2 THURSDAY MAY 3

Season Finale Being Serena Superstore 10–10:30PM | HBO 8–8:30PM | NBC Serena Williams won The season 3 finale is not just a “very big her 23rd Grand Slam episode” but also one creator Justin Spitzer in January 2017, and thinks “will surprise a lot of people.” Previous she did it while preg- season closers saw the entire Cloud 9 team nant! This docuseries walk out and a tornado destroy the store; follows the tennis here, the company CEO visits the St. Louis icon as she con- location, which is hosting a quarterly town- quers on the court, hall meeting. “For the first time we’ll get a has her first kid, and sense of the [company’s] real international then fights to return scope,” Spitzer says, adding that “a lot to the sport. So comes to fruition” with Amy (America yeah, prepare to feel Ferrera) and Jonah’s (Ben Feldman) will-they- inadequate. Season Finale won’t-they tension. As for Myrtle, Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry she’s back “in a big way.” —Gerrad Hall : TRAE PATTON/NBC; HENRY & JACKSON: TRAE PATTON/NBC 9-10PM | E! This 22-year-old medium rarely recognizes his celeb-

SUPERSTORE rity clients, but that wasn’t the case when La Toya Jackson opened her door. “I knew who she was, I knew exactly who she wanted to hear from,” Henry says, referring, of course, to her late brother, Michael. The King of Pop’s older sister was looking for answers about his death: “That was really fascinating because I thought the family knew. I figured that they had some closure around it.” But closure La Toya finally gets, as : ANTONY PLATT/SHOWTIME; MJ, through Henry, “paints the timeline” of that June 2009 day. The Real cohost Jeannie Mai and Real House-

HOMELAND wives star Teresa Giudice also appear. —Gerrad Hall

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My Next Guest... Champions With David 9:30–10PM | NBC Letterman

In this comedy’s STREAMING | NETFLIX ridiculously charm- David Letterman’s ing first season, return to television Michael (J.J. Totah) has featured in- found his father depth interviews (Anders Holm), with former presi- his uncle (Andy dent Barack Obama, Favreau), and his George Clooney, love of NYC’s theater Malala Yousafzai, scene. But will and JAY-Z. Now he his first date get a sits down for a chat rave review? with Tina Fey.

Atlanta

10–10:30PM | FX Season Premiere Atlanta’s sophomore Dear White People season has delivered a Michael Vick STREAMING | NETFLIX cameo, a German What do you do after a revolution fails? That’s the question facing Sam (Logan festival, and Donald Browning) and the other Winchester University students when this sharp satire Glover in whiteface, picks up for season 2. “The aftermath of their failed protest is where we’re at,” and now the show is says creator Justin Simien. “It has repercussions for our characters that I don’t taking things back think anyone could’ve predicted.” But there’s one thing Simien says is safe to to middle school for predict: This season won’t be a repeat of the first one. “We think it’s funnier an episode directed than last season, but it’s also a bit of a mystery,” he says. “There are a lot of by Glover himself. secrets to uncover.” —Chancellor Agard

SAT MAY 5 SUN MAY 6

HORSE SPORTS Series Premiere Sweetbitter Kentucky Derby 8–8:30PM | STARZ 2:30–7:15PM | NBC Based on the novel The longest continu- by Stephanie Danler, ally held sporting Sweetbitter tells the event in America is story of Tess (Ella back with 20 horses Purnell), a young (and 20 jockeys woman who lands a wearing fun pat- restaurant job in terns!) in the race NYC and finds her- for $2 million. Tune self in a world filled in to find out which with lust, drugs, and four-legged mam- DEAR WHITE PEOPLE fine dining. Because mal is more athletic the world is less than you. scary when there are white table- MUSIC LOVERS ONLY cloths involved. : SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX; : SAEED 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Series Debut Season Premiere Induction Ceremony Vida I’m Dying Up Here

8–11PM | HBO 8:30–9PM | STARZ 10–11PM | SHOWTIME Honor some of “Well, it isn’t a homecoming until someone calls you a puta, right?” A trip back Melissa Leo is back music’s greatest to East L.A. for their mother’s funeral comes with emotional aftershocks for sis- for the second sea- VIDA

legends as Bon Jovi, ters Emma (Mishel Prada) and Lyn (Melissa Barrera) on this quick-witted son of the drama, PARISE/STARZ : ERICA Nina Simone, and dramedy. After meeting their mom’s roommate Eddy (Ser Anzoategui), it’s clear which takes viewers more are inducted. that selling the family business will be complicated. Created by Tanya Saracho, behind the scenes As Bon Jovi might Vida is a rarity on English-language TV: a show about Latinos made by Latinos. of the comedy-club wail, they’re more But the themes—gentrification, generational bias, the surreal disconnect of world. You had us at than halfway there. returning to your childhood home—are universal. B —Kristen Baldwin Melissa Leo.

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Edited By | ALEX SUSKIND @ALEXJSUSKIND URBAN: MARK SELIGER; BROTHERS OSBORNE: JIM WRIGHT; BEACH BOYS: BE BOYS: BEACH WRIGHT; JIM OSBORNE: BROTHERS SELIGER; MARK URBAN: IMAGES; ALLMAN BROTHERS: MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES; AC/DC: RICHA

APROPOS OF THE TITLE GRAFFITI U, a songwriter, particularly with Keith Urban approached his someone I’ve never written TTMANN/GETTY IMAGES; EVERLY BROTHERS: GETTY BROTHERS: EVERLY IMAGES; TTMANN/GETTY new album (out April 27) like with,” says Urban, who recently a blank canvas. As he sketched claimed the Vocal Event of the

URBAN RENEWAL RD E. AARON/REDFERNS/GETTY IMAGES out its contours, the Grammy- Year trophy at the ACMs for “The The singer-songwriter’s latest album, Grafiti U, and CMA-award-winning artist Fighter,” his duet with Carrie recruited a crew of friends Underwood. “It’s unknown, it’s features new sounds, new collaborators (hello, Ed old and new—including pro- scary, it can be a complete Sheeran and Julia Michaels), and some background ducers and writers J.R. Rotem, disaster. It’s like being a certain BY SARAH RODMAN singing from wife Nicole Kidman. Greg Wells, Nate Ruess (of ingredient wandering around fun.), and Ed Sheeran—to lend and looking at diferent dishes their colors. and hopping in a [new] dish “The great thing I find about and seeing if I get along with the collaborating is stretching out as other ingredients.”

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NOTEWORTHY (No Need to) Be Humble Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album DAMN. Tweezy Season Kanye West returned to Twitter to talk about fashion and neck tattoos.

BROTHERLY LOVE Grafiti U’s menu ofers a wide array of flavors. Urban blends Maryland-bred duo Brothers Osborne tumbling banjo licks with stomp- join a long tradition of musical siblings. ing beats (“Never Comin Down”), But unlike, say, the feuding Gallaghers or and pulsating grooves with Fogertys, guitarist John and frontman TJ metallic guitar shredding are kindred spirits—which is evident on their superb, salty, and sweet new album, (“Gemini”). He even dabbles Port Saint Joe. Here, they pay tribute to in beachy reggae vibes (“My some of their favorite bro predecessors. Wave”). It’s an eclectic mix for BY SARAH RODMAN the musically omnivorous Aussie (by way of New Zealand), who was raised on country—but not BROTHERS THAT THEY... only country. “I grew up playing in the clubs like many musicians do, being Kimbra CITE AS INSPIRATIONS: THE BEACH BOYS AND in my share of Top 40 bands THE EVERLY BROTHERS playing ‘Free Bird’ and whatever TITLE Primal Heart artists were on the radio at the “I’d love to ask Brian Wilson LABEL Warner Bros. | GENRE Pop time. I’m many things, but there what his thought process was when he wrote ‘God is a big commercial radio side REVIEW BY Alex Suskind Only Knows.’ Those are to what I do as well.” @alexjsuskind some of my favorite chord Feeding that mainstream changes ever,” says John. jones, the new record also ofers a clutch of pop ballads with ON HER SPARKLING “That’s the goal when it winsome melodies that show- new record, Primal comes to brother harmo- case both his upper register nies,” says TJ of Phil and Heart, Kimbra sings, and a more emotional side, Don Everly. including “Parallel Line,” which “That bumper sticker’s right: counts Sheeran and Julia Only you can change your life.” WANT TO JAM WITH: Michaels among its co-writers. THE ALLMAN BROTHERS But this isn’t about change so BAND “I wish more guys would much as doubling down on speak about their own vulnera- “They are probably my bility when it comes to love,” what works: airy vocals, layered number one all-around,” says Urban of the song. “It’s not melodies, the occasional off- says TJ of the revered something we’re ever comfort- key orchestration. The New Southern rockers. Adds able talking about, but we abso- John: “That’s, like, my lutely feel it.” Zealander’s third album excels favorite band of all time. I still listen to them to In addition to Michaels, who at all three, adding punchy this day like it’s the first co-wrote four songs, Urban also ﬂourishes along the way. It all time I’ve ever heard them.” welcomed a bevy of women to reaches a blissful crescendo the 15-track collection, including WANT TO HAVE A artists Kassi Ashton and Lindsay on the standout “Recovery,” a CAREER LIKE: Ell, songwriters Nicolle Galyon, booming ode to overcoming a AC/DC Amy Wadge, Emily Weisband, painful breakup. Louder isn’t and MoZella, and his wife, Nicole “No matter what record always stronger, though, as they put out, they main- Kidman, on backing vocals (for “Version of Me” has Kimbra tained a sound,” says hit single “Female”). John. “It’s fine to adapt. The large female contingent digging into a quieter, lovelorn But it’s the most rock & was not by design, says Urban. side. “If there’s a better version roll thing ever to continue “It doesn’t matter who or what it to do your thing despite of me, won’t you stay for the is. If something speaks to me, the trends and still sell I just move closer to it ‘cause I’m person I’ll be?” The answer, via out arenas and stadiums.” interested. It’s really that simple.” Primal Heart, is yes. B– Books

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Trump’s conduct in ways that sparked obstruction talk about the president after Trump fired Comey last May. Loyalty traces Comey’s attraction to moral leadership. He shows wit and humility; he conveys urgency. But it’s calculated. Both explicitly and subtly, he draws himself as Trump’s polar opposite: Comey’s profound regret over fabricating a college basketball career is comically earnest in comparison to our “unethical” president’s lies; his agony over how best to serve the country contrasts with Trump’s reckless, selfish bluster. Comey fights surprisingly well on Trump’s thin-skinned political terrain, but he shrinks in the process, detailing Trump’s hand size (average) and facial hue (orange) and groveling over Democrats who’ve assured him, in teary embraces, that he’s a good man. This is the trap of the Trump-era tell-all. A book like Comey’s or Fire & Fury gains attention by IT IS EXTRAORDINARY THAT THE MAN engaging the president in insult- who served as FBI director less to-insult combat. Loyalty is more than a year ago has written a credible than Michael Wolf’s POLITICS memoir assailing the U.S. presi- best-seller, but the point remains: dent as “untethered to truth.” It’s Not even a former FBI director equally extraordinary that the with admirable values can escape president’s oficial (Twitter) the appeal of a Trump gaslight. response has been to dub the Which brings us to another former FBI director a “slime ball.” April tell-all: Chasing Hillary by NOT AS USUAL This is not, goes the anti-Trump Amy Chozick, a reporter who motto, normal. Yet with each worked the Hillary beat for a Two authors with intimate knowledge successive Twitter outburst, it decade, culminating in her fol- of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have feels increasingly so. lowing Clinton’s doomed 2016 written memoirs that are, if not exactly In A Higher Loyalty, James campaign, for the New York presidential, revelatory in their own ways. Comey seeks to remind us of the Times. She juxtaposes the job BY DAVID CANFIELD abnormal. He’s been battered by with her coming-of-age, revealing both sides of the political aisle how politics becomes personal. since the 2016 election, having After being on the front lines, inflamed the Hillary Clinton Chozick has an acute under- email scandal and described standing of the current climate,

OPENING LINE > A HIGHER LOYALTY There are ten blocks between FBI headquarters and Capitol Hill, and each of them is fixed in my memory from countless

104 EW.COM SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW 2018 BETWEEN Reel Life Nicole Kidman is set to produce and star in THE an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s The Female Persuasion. LINES Less Is More Andrew Sean Greer’s queer novel Less won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction; he beat out the likes of Angie Thomas and George Saunders.

THE BEST You Think It, I’ll Say It LINES FROM A HIGHER BY Curtis Sittenfeld LOYALTY PAGES 226 | GENRE Short Stories And yes, golden showers REVIEW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats are involved

THE TITLE OF SITTENFELD’S LATEST COMES from its second story, a compact tragicomedy called “The World Has Many Butterﬂies.” In it, two parents who socialize casually at their children’s shared school activities begin a private game to alleviate MISCONDUCT CLAIMS “He then began discussing the boredom of another interminable soccer practice or cases where women had bake sale. The only rules are wild speculation and brutal accused him of sexual assault, a subject I had not honesty: That couple in the corner secretly hates each raised. He mentioned other; this guy drinks to forget he works at Halliburton; a number of women, and seemed to have memo- ( Top ) Donald Trump the lady over there is wearing way too many Spanx. It’s and James Comey; ( bottom ) rized their allegations.” nasty and thrilling and it leads to trouble, at least for one Hillary Clinton and Amy Chozick of them. It’s also exactly the kind of scene Sittenfeld (Prep, Eligible) excels at: People smart enough to know and she crafts a compelling narrative that reads like a juicy better, and human enough to realize they can’t help it. novel. Chasing Hillary succeeds The majority of Think’s 10 tales (which have already because, unlike Comey, Chozick COMPARING TRUMP’S been optioned for an Apple series produced by Reese relishes the incendiary. (She says INNER CIRCLE TO THE MOB Clinton “hated” her, and that the Witherspoon and starring Kristen Wiig) center on a “As crazy as it sounds,”

ER-POOL/GETTY IMAGES; candidate’s male press aides writes Comey, “I suddenly certain kind of Midwestern middle-class ennui—charac- wanted to “destroy” her.) And had the feeling that, ters soured but not completely defeated by the Grand incendiary fits this moment— in the blink of an eye, TY IMAGES; MELANIA TRUMP: ANDRZEJ the president-elect was Canyon-size gap between expectation and reality. A pro- it’s what readers are feeling. trying to make us all AGE; WIIG: JASON LAVERIS/FILMMAGIC fessor at a conference in Kansas City has an awkward Chozick observes Clinton part of the same family.” critically but in admiration. Their ( Above ) Trump’s first chief dalliance with her airport-shuttle driver (“Gender Stud- relationship is richly complex, if of staf, Reince Priebus ies”); a terminal bachelor in St. Louis begins an emotional mostly unspoken—a fascinating aﬀair with his brother’s wife (“Plausible Deniability”); a portrait of two brilliant, prickly women unknowingly headed for woman on her honeymoon runs into the Mean Girl who a collision course. The masoch- tortured her in high school (“A Regular Couple”). In istic thrill of reliving 2016 serves each, Sittenfeld taps into the endless mystery of “our pri- a greater truth here, about what vate habits, our private selves—how strange we all are, MELANIA TRUMP we’re left with after such a his- B+ torically ugly shift in power and “He brought up what he how full of feelings and essentially alone.” norms. In its emotional messi- called the ‘golden showers thing’…adding that ness, Chozick’s story commands it bothered him if there nuance. Politics is personal, and was ‘even a 1 percent the personal is never clear-cut. chance’ his wife, Melania, A Higher Loyalty B– thoughtitwastrue.” TRUMP: CHERISS MAY/NURPHOTO/GETTY IMAGES; PRIEBUS: ALEXHULIMKA/AFP/GETTY WONG/GET IMAGES; WITHERSPOON: MIKE MARSLAND/WIREIM CLINTON AND CHOZICK: COURTESY AMY CHOZICK; TRUMP AND COMEY: ANDREW HARR COMEY: CHOZICK; TRUMP AND AMY COURTESY CHOZICK: AND CLINTON B+ Chasing Hillary Reese Witherspoon and Kristen Wiig shuttle missions up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. POETRY SPECIAL THREE MORE TO WATCH It would be a YOUNG, AT HEART poetic injustice to miss these Pop culture, politics, and history converge in Kevin Young’s deeply personal meditation on all fresh, distinct things Brown, which reminds us why poetry is not only beautiful but essential. BY DAVID CANFIELD voices in verse

hot demand—it promises the facts and the nuance that many crave. Young argues that folks should read poetry to gain perspective. “A poem AARON/REDFERNS/GETTY E. RICHARD PRINCE: DUNEA; MELANIE YOUNG: can take you to some- TRACY K. SMITH where else—a culture, a WADE IN THE WATER language far from you. You become that person, The Pulitzer win- seeing with [their] eyes.” ner is back with In Brown, Young, 47, another stunner, this time dealing brings readers up close with more than to experiences of racial two centuries of injustice—his encounters American history. with racism in childhood; the pain of losing trail- blazers like James Brown “The poems used to be divided in adulthood. Young’s between these ‘public’ poems touch is personal, like a and the ‘private’ ones,” says Kevin Young. “It became a book memoir told in verse, but when I realized those things his vision is timeless. The were intimately connected.”

collection’s final poem MIN HIEU COURTESY NGUYEN: MCCARTHY/WIREIMAGE; JAMIE SMITH: IMAGES; considers the brutal 1955 murder of Emmett Till, and HIEU MINH NGUYEN it’s written with a startling coming-of-age in Topeka, NOT HERE Kan.—the place where urgency. “I was writing poets like Gwendolyn this when Black Lives Nguyen reflects Brooks and Langston Matter was moving to with painful Hughes once lived—with the fore,” Young explains. honesty on his the pivotal time-markers In his potent lyricism, queer Vietnamese- that surrounded it. The Young argues for poetry’s American identity efect is a book that social value in the here in this powerful reflects Young’s creative and now. “A poem pro- new collection. Kevin Young perfectly their own, pierce in their evolution, fusing the per- vides testimony, a poem illustrates poetry’s endur- wisdom; together they sonal with the historical. provides solace,” he says. ing vitality—and his new connect to form a vibrant Brown is immersive, “[It’s] able to embody book reveals exactly why. tapestry of black life. reflective of how “bigger experience.” This collec- A survey of American his- Young, the poetry edi- forces of history [can] get tion, of such immense tory through the “intimate tor of The New Yorker, has played out in individuals,” emotional intelligence eye” that only poetry can been publishing collec- Young says. In this fraught and political power, provide, Brown pinpoints tions for two decades. political era, history is in proves just that. ACIERTO/FILMMAGIC MIREYA REYNOLDS: NGUYEN; H pop culture touchstones A National Book Award and their impact on how finalist and recipient of a JASON REYNOLDS we live. Young evocatively Guggenheim fellowship, FOR EVERY ONE describes how Public he made a splash last year Enemy’s politically with the prescient Bunk, First performed at charged anthems like a comprehensive volume the unveiling of “Fight the Power” served on real instances of “fake the MLK memorial as the soundtrack to his news.” Brown represents Prince in New last year, For Every college parties, and how Young still breaking new York City, 1985 One is Reynolds’ Prince’s Purple Rain still ground, albeit subtly. It’s love letter to brings to mind his com- divided into “Home” and “everyone who plex relationship with his “Field” recordings, con- wants to be.” father. His poems, on trasting portraits of his

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