FEBRUARY 2010 VOLUME 11 NUMBER 2 EMILY MORTIMER GOES MAD FOR SHUTTER ISLAND JAMES MCAVOY RESURFACES IN RUSSIA PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40708019 SNAPS: ROBERT DOWNEY JR., PENÉLOPE CRUZ, JAVIER BARDEM, MILEY CYRUS, KIEFER SUTHERLAND ©2010 SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ©2010 E1 FILMS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. IN THEATRES MARCH 12TH InsideFamous FEBRUARY 2010VOLUME 11•2 regulars EDITOR’S NOTE6 CAUGHT ON FILM8 ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF10 SPOTLIGHT18 IN THEATRES20 STYLE42 HOT PLAY44 DVD RELEASES46 HOROSCOPE48 TRIVIA49 FAMOUS LAST WORDS50 features LET THE GAMES BEGIN12 Heard about the CTV Olympic Games Broadcast at Cineplex? We’ve got your schedule of events, and a list of theatres that’ll be screening the 2010 Games on the big screen cover YOUR OSCARS GUIDE 25 story 26 Sizing up Best Picture 28 Oscar fashion quiz 30 Critics’ picks ISLAND GETAWAY32 Emily Mortimer says playing an escaped mental patient in UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH STUDIOCANAL AND RELATIVITY MEDIA 38 Shutter Island was stressful, HEAVENLY MATCH It’s a meeting of deranged minds (and we mean that in a good way) as Tim Burton but acting crazy in front of A WORKING TITLE PRODUCTION A PAUL GREENGRASS FILM MATT DAMON “GREEN ZONE” adapts Lewis Carroll’s trippy classic Alice in Wonderland. Here, Burton discusses bringing Carroll’s co-star Leonardo DiCaprio strange creatures to life, casting an unknown as Alice and why he called on his long-time cinematic and director Martin Scorsese GREG KINNEAR BRENDAN GLEESON AMY RYAN KHALID ABDALLA AND JASON ISAACS co-conspirators Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter to join in the fun • By Sheila Roberts was enough to drive her mad CASTING BY AMANDA MACKEY CSA CATHY SANDRICH GELFOND CSA DAN HUBBARD JOHN HUBBARD • By Bob Strauss MUSIC VISUAL COSTUME BY JOHN POWELL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR PETER CHIANGDESIGNER SAMMY SHELDON TACKLING TOLSTOY36 PRODUCTION DIRECTOR OF After starring in Wanted, EDITOR CHRISTOPHER ROUSE ACE DESIGNER DOMINIC WATKINS PHOTOGRAPHY BARRY ACKROYD BSC CO- EXECUTIVE PRODUCED James McAvoy craved a PRODUCER MAIRI BETT PRODUCERS DEBRA HAYWARD LIZA CHASIN BY BEVAN ERIC FELLNERTIM talky role, and he got his INSPIRED BY THE BOOK “IMPERIAL wish playing a naive lad LLOYD LEVIN PAUL GREENGRASS LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY” BY RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN who becomes Leo Tolstoy’s WRITTEN DIRECTED BY BRIAN HELGELAND BY PAUL GREENGRASS 32 36 25 12 secretary in The Last Station • By Bob Strauss THIS FILM IS A UNIVERSAL PICTURE NOT YET RATED © 2009 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS 4 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2010 EDITOR’S NOTE Famous PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR EDITOR MARNI WEISZ DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ART DIRECTOR MATTHEW PICKET ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR ALIZA KLEIN DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION SHEILA GREGORY CONTRIBUTORS MATHIEU CHANTELOIS, SCOTT GARDNER, LIZA HERZ, DAN LIEBMAN, SHEILA ROBERTS, BOB STRAUSS ADVERTISING SALES FOR FAMOUS, FAMOUS QUÉBEC AND FAMOUS KIDS IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. 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CATHY PROWSE (ext. 223) “You want to see Alice in Wonderland?” “Yeah,” said the kid, “it’s Tim Burton.” Dad’s confusion — and, QUEBEC 514.868.0005 quite honestly,a touch of fear — evaporated. “Oh, Tim Burton, yeah,” dad said, the image of his son DIRECTOR, SALES SOPHIE JODOIN (ext. 222) restored. Everything fit. Whew. ACCOUNT MANAGER We’ve been hearing buzz about Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland for so long (he signed on in 2007) GENEVIÈVE ROSSIGNOL (ext. 224) SALES COORDINATOR that it no longer seems like odd source material for the genius director with macabre tendencies. 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Usually “hot couple” PENÉLOPE CRUZ 1 Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz instead opt JAVIER BARDEM for “adorable couple” in this CAUGHT shot taken while they were MILEY CYRUS scuba diving off Brazil’s KIEFER SUTHERLAND Fernando de Noronha Island. Bardem’s also a bit scary, we HUGH JACKMAN think, but just because his wet helmet hair reminds us of ON FILM No Country for Old Men. PHOTO BY MJL/BROADIMAGE/KEYSTONE Nothing in that outfit is 2 remotely Victorian, and yet when Robert Downey Jr. puts it all together he looks like he’s still channelling Sherlock Holmes. Maybe it’s the backdrop. Downey and his wife Susan Levi depart their London, England, hotel hand in hand. PHOTO BY KEYSTONE We had this crazy dream. 3 Hugh Jackman was there. And he was running with his kids on Copacabana Beach in Rio. The lighting was wild, and his eyes were glowing, and his son was doing this really freaky dance. Weird. PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS We love how Parisian 4 teens care more about their croque-monsieurs than about watching Miley Cyrus and 2 3 her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth smooch on the Champs-Élysées during a recent trip to the City of Lights. PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS Would it be rude for 5 us to examine what Kiefer Sutherland has in his cart during a trip to L.A.’s Gelson’s supermarket? Rice Dream rice-based beverage, olive oil, spaghetti sauce... Oh, it would? Sorry. PHOTO BY AHMAD ELATAB/SPLASH NEWS 8 FAMOUS1FEBRUARY 2010 4 5 FEBRUARY 2010 FAMOUS 9 SHORTS ENTERTAINMENT Artifact THIS MONTH’S OBJET DE FILM “FILMING IN NEW YORK” Brazilian mixed-media artist Hely Lima has been living and working in IN New York since 1972 where Getting under theBRIEF Wolfman’s skin...and hair...and teeth. he’s become famous for Plus, the Sex and the City gals are flat capturing the city in three- dimensional dioramas of constructions sites, subways, storefronts — all the things you’d see on a typical day.