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MAY 2012 | VOLUME 13 | NUMBER 5 Inside Chris EvAns TiM BurTon Josh Brolin EdwArd norTon AlExAndEr skArsgård Why everything’s rosy for BAnks PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 41619533 ThE 10 MoviEs You ABsoluTElY MusT sEE This suMMEr, Page 42! /universalpicturescanada www.universalpictures.ca Untitled-1 1 23/03/12 4:46 PM CJ26427_Battleship_Print_Ad.indd 1 3/23/12 12:22 PM /universalpicturescanada/universalpicturescanada/universalpicturescanada www.universalpictures.cawww.universalpictures.cawww.universalpictures.ca Untitled-1 1 26/03/12 9:55 AM CJ26427_SnowWhiteHunstman_Print_Ad.inddCJ26427_SnowWhiteHunstman_Print_Ad.inddCJ26427_SnowWhiteHunstman_Print_Ad.indd 1 1 1 3/23/123/23/123/23/12 12:25 12:25 PM12:25 PM PM COntents MAY 2012 | Vol 13 | Nº5 COVer STOrY 38 Banking On Her Elizabeth Banks has become a Hollywood player. She landed the sought-after role of The Hunger Games’ Effie Trinket, and stars in this month’s baby-crazy comedy What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Plus, she’s a new mom herself and runs a production company By BoB STrauss REGULars 6 EdiTor’S NoTE 8 SNaPS S i 10 In BriEf B 14 SPoTligHT ay/Cor m 16 All dressed uP E 18 In THEaTrES al d 46 CastiNg Call y B o 48 At HomE T 49 ReturN ENgagEmENT o PH 50 FiNally... r VE Co must-See features summer 22 Cap’s BaCk 26 kingdOm COme 30 COpY Cat movies! Chris Evans returns as Edward Norton on finally Josh Brolin admits it was the Page 42 Captain america in the teaming up with directing pal chance to impersonate his superhero mash-up Wes anderson to play a No Country for Old Men co-star The Avengers, a film that scout master in the quirky Tommy lee Jones that sold required super teamwork comedy Moonrise Kingdom him on making Men in Black 3 32 Vampire Lover By BoB STrauss By marNi WEiSz By AshlEy JudE ColliE Dark Shadows director Tim Burton says his ’70s-set vampire comedy isn’t trendy, because for him vampires have always been cool By mark PilkiNgToN 36 sea WOrtHY Alexander Skarsgård tells us how serving in the Swedish navy helped prepare him to play a commanding officer in this month’s Battleship By maTHiEu CHaNTEloiS 4 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | MAY 2012 EDITOR’S NOTE PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR EDITOR MARNI WEISZ DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ART DIRECTOR TREVOR STEWART ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR STEVIE SHIPMAN DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION SHEILA GREGORY CONTRIBUTORS MATHIEU CHANTELOIS, ASHLEY JUDE COLLIE, MARK PILKINGTON, MATHILDE ROY, BOB STRAUSS ADVERTISING SALES FOR CINEPLEX MAGAZINE AND LE MAGAZINE CINEPLEX IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 VICE PRESIDENT ROBERT BROWN (EXT. 232) VICE PRESIDENT, SALES JOHN TSIRLIS (EXT. 237) NATIONAL SALES MANAGER AnD In HER GIULIO FAZZOLARI (EXT. 254) SALES DIRECTOR, MAGAZINES THERESA MCVEAN (EXT. 267) SALES MANAGER, MAGAZINES Spare Time… ENZO LOSCHIAVO (EXT. 251) ACCOUNT MANAGERS lizabeth Banks has a lot going on. CORY ATKINS (EXT. 257) CHRIS CORVETTI (EXT. 233) It’s only May and her third movie of 2012, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, HANNE FLAKE (EXT. 243) is about to hit theatres — just two months after her scene-stealing performance ZANDRA MACINNIS (EXT. 281) SHEREE MCKAVANAGH (EXT. 245) in the pop-culture phenomenon The Hunger Games. Next month she’ll star in ED VILLA (EXT. 239) People Like Us, and later this year Pitch Perfect, a musical comedy she produced, LORELEI VON HEYMANN (EXT. 249) JENNIFER WISHART (EXT. 269) comes out. She also directed one of the short films in the upcoming Movie 43, and STEVE YOUNG (EXT. 265) her comically neo-con newscaster Avery Jessup returns to 30 Rock this month. DIRECTOR, MEDIA OPERATIONS CATHY PROWSE (EXT. 223) Oh yeah, and she has a one-year-old son. DIRECTOR, CREATIVE MEDIA SOLUTIONS You wouldn’t think Banks would be looking for stuff to do in her spare time. That’s why I was a bit SEAN O’DONOGHUE (EXT. 250) surprised to come across www.elizabethbanks.com, a rather grassroots entry into the celebrity website QUEBEC 514.868.0005 DIRECTOR, SALES genre, but — unlike many celeb sites — one that Banks seems to run largely herself. LOUISA DI TULLIO (EXT. 222) What do we find out about Elizabeth Banks from her website? She likes gold shoes, Frito pie, heart-shaped ACCOUNT MANAGER martin DÉZIEL (EXT. 224) balloons and unhindered access to the pill. “People, if you feel like I do, do something about it and tell ACCOUNT MANAGER Congress to stop trying to block women’s access to birth control,” she writes in one of two posts on the subject. GENEVIÈVE ROSSIGNOL-CHAPUT (EXT. 225) Celebrity websites are nothing new, of course, but it seems like famous people have a renewed interest in ALBERTA 403.264.4420 having their own sites, perhaps spurred by positive experiences they’ve had interacting with fans on Twitter. ACCOUNT MANAGER Banks only launched her site this past January, and Twitter was one the reasons she gave in a welcome video. KEVIN LEAHY BRITISH COLUMBIA 604.689.3068 For a while it felt like actors were only building websites for one of a few reasons: they were also musi- ACCOUNT MANAGER cians and had an album to promote (Jennifer Lopez), to highlight a pet cause (Leonardo DiCaprio), they’d MATT WATSON gotten some bad press and wanted an unfiltered forum in which to represent themselves (Charlie Sheen), SPECIAL THANKS MATHIEU CHANTELOIS, JOAN GRANT, or they were just starting out in showbiz and needed all the attention they could get (Someone You’ve ELLIS JACOB, PAT MARSHALL, Never Heard Of). DAN MCGRATH, SUSAN REGINELLI, But that seems to be changing. What’s refreshing about Banks’ site — which is still in its infancy — is MATHILDE ROY Cineplex Magazine™ is published 12 times a year that it’s not really pushing anything. Sure she’s posted trailers for her upcoming movies, pictures of what by Cineplex Entertainment. Subscriptions are $34.50 ($30 + HST) a year in Canada, $45 a year in she wore to premieres and held a Hunger Games fan-art contest. But that contest probably contravened all the U.S. and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $3. sorts of official promotional strategies rather than being part of the big marketing machine. Back issues are $6. All subscription inquiries, back issue requests and letters to the editor should The question is, will she keep it up, or is this just a temporary diversion? Celebrity websites usually end be directed to Cineplex Magazine at 102 Atlantic Ave., Suite 100, Toronto, ON, M6K 1X9; or 416.539.8800; when the star either gets bored and stops posting, or runs into some scandal and disappears, turning the or [email protected] site into a broken-down relic tumbling alone through cyberspace — a marker of the last day its owner Publications Mail Agreement No. 41619533. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: wanted to share anything so publicly. Cineplex Magazine, 102 Atlantic Ave., For a more traditionally media-filtered take on the busy Ms. Banks, turn to page 38 for our interview, Toronto, ON., M6K 1X9 “Pregnant With Possibility.” 700,000 copies of Cineplex Magazine are distributed through Cineplex Entertainment, The Globe and Mail, Elsewhere in this issue we have Chris Evans talking up The Avengers (page 22), a Q&A with Dark Shadows Vancouver Sun and Montreal Gazette newspapers, and other outlets. Cineplex Magazine is not responsible for the return of director Tim Burton (page 32), Josh Brolin on playing a young Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black 3 unsolicited manuscripts, artwork or other materials. No material (page 30), Edward Norton on making Moonrise Kingdom (page 26) and Alexander Skarsgård on in this magazine may be reprinted without the express written consent of the publisher. suiting up for Battleship (page 36). © Cineplex Entertainment 2012. 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Photo by SPlaSh newS Photo by Marc PiaSecki/Getty 8 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | MAY 2012 lookiNg S wa n k y Hilary Swank arrives at the Salvatore Ferragamo party held at the Louvre in Paris.