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Creative & Production Services, 100 Yonge St., 5th Floor, Toronto ON, M5C 2W1 File: AD Advice+ E 8x10.5 0920 Publication: Cineplex Mag Trim: 8” x 10.5” Deadline: September 2020 Bleed: 0.125” Safety: 7.5” x 10” Colours: CMYK In Market: September 2020 Notes: Designer: KB A simple conversation plus a tailored plan. Introducing Advice+ is an easier way to create a plan together that keeps you heading in the right direction. Talk to an Advisor about Advice+ today, only from Scotiabank. ® Registered trademark of The Bank of Nova Scotia. AD Advice+ E 8x10.5 0920.indd 1 2020-09-17 12:48 PM HOLIDAY 2020 CONTENTS VOLUME 21 #5 ↑ 2021 Movie Preview’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife COVER STORY 16 20 26 31 PLUS HOLIDAY SPECIAL GUY ALL THE 2021 MOVIE GIFT GUIDE We catch up with KING’S MEN PREVIEW Stressed about Canada’s most Writer-director Bring on 2021! It’s going 04 EDITOR’S Holiday gift-giving? lovable action star Matthew Vaughn and to be an epic year of NOTE Relax, whether you’re Ryan Reynolds to find star Ralph Fiennes moviegoing jam-packed shopping online or out how he’s spending tell us about making with 2020 holdovers 06 CLICK! in stores we’ve got his downtime. Hint: their action-packed and exciting new titles. you covered with an It includes spreading spy pic The King’s Man, Here we put the spotlight 12 SPOTLIGHT awesome collection of goodwill and talking a more dramatic on must-see pics like CANADA last-minute presents about next year’s prequel to the super- Top Gun: Maverick, sure to please action-comedy Free Guy fun Kingsman films F9, Black Widow and 42 IN THE BY MARNI WEISZ BY INGRID RANDOJA BY MARNI WEISZ No Time to Die, and chat WORKS with Jungle Cruise leads Dwayne Johnson and 46 CINEPLEX Emily Blunt, Respect STORE UP FRONT star Jennifer Hudson Why The Father is such an immersive watch; three and A Quiet Place Part II 49 SCREEN ways to celebrate Christmas in cinemas; and a director John Krasinski TEST look at Tom Hanks’ Oscar bid, News of the World BY INGRID RANDOJA +08 AND MARNI WEISZ 50 ART OF FILM ON THE COVER, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET IN DUNE, SCARLETT JOHANSSON IN BLACK WIDOW, HOLIDAY 2020 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 3 DANIEL CRAIG IN NO TIME TO DIE, DWAYNE JOHNSON AND EMILY BLUNT IN JUNGLE CRUISE, JENNIFER HUDSON IN RESPECT EDITOR’S NOTE MAGAZINE PUBLISHER Salah Bachir EDITOR Marni Weisz DEPUTY EDITOR Ingrid Randoja CREATIVE DIRECTOR & DESIGNER Lucinda Wallace Advertising sales for Cineplex Magazine is handled by Cineplex Media. TORONTO HEAD OFFICE 416-539-8800 Goodbye 2020, VICE PRESIDENT Robert Brown VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION Sheila Gregory Bring on 2021! EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SALES Giulio Fazzolari EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SALES IF THIS PAST YEAR HAD BEEN A MOVIE… No Time to Die hits theatres. Emily Blunt Ed Villa It might have been a B-film written by and Dwayne Johnson will not be quaran- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SALES QUEBEC/EASTERN CANADA some hack who doesn’t know how to wrap tining during their cruise up the Amazon Jonathan Laflamme up a script. in Jungle Cruise. Vin Diesel will not sanitize MANAGER, THEATRICAL PROGRAMMING It might have been a heartbreaking the driver’s seat with a Lysol wipe before Debi Kingston drama about love and loss, separation and racing off in F9. Yay! ACCOUNT MANAGERS impossible choices. Never have we needed escape more TORONTO 416-539-8800 It might have been a political thriller, and it will arrive in abundance. Cory Atkins, ext. 5257 Christina Clark, ext. 5278 with harried leaders forced to make life- Turn to our 2021 Movie Preview, Sheree Kyte, ext. 5245 or-death decisions that affect millions. page 31, and salivate over the buffet of Beth Leverty, ext. 5285 It might have been a medical drama films you can look forward to in the coming Zandra MacInnis, ext. 5281 about heroism and selflessness. year. We’ve packed it with behind-the- Heather Marshall, ext. 5290 Jenna Paterson, ext. 5243 It might have been a sci-fi with a trailer scenes stories, insights and fun tidbits. Brett Poschmann, ext. 5287 that starts, “In a world where people have There are even mini interviews with Lorelei von Heymann, ext. 5249 to stand six feet apart…” John Krasinski (A Quiet Place Part II), Wendell Sappor, ext. 5277 It might have been a quirky indie pic Jennifer Hudson (Respect) and the pre- Lesley Taylor, ext. 5266 Tom Woyzbun, ext. 5253 about finding creative ways to pass time viously mentioned Blunt and Johnson HAMILTON/NIAGARA 416-558-7190 in small spaces. (Jungle Cruise) to whet your appetite. Jennifer Wishart It might have been a family flick about Elsewhere in this issue we talk with QUEBEC 514-868-0005 a parent and child who finally get to know Ryan Reynolds, star of 2021’s Free Guy, Benoit Deschambault, ext. 224 each other when they’re forced to spend about the importance of owning your Martine Ménard, ext. 222 time in the same house. own story (page 20), and sit down for a MAN/SASK 204-396-3044 Morgan Comrie It might have been a romance about an Zoom chat with Ralph Fiennes and his CALGARY 403-264-4420 online love that grows slowly, remotely, director about how the Matthew Vaughn Kevin Leahy before a dramatic real-world meeting that upcoming action pic The King’s Man fits EDMONTON 780-919-3011 probably utilizes a crane shot. seamlessly into the Kingsman franchise Barb Kitzan It might have been a zombie pic where (page 26). BRITISH COLUMBIA 604-689-3068 scores of people escape the city by mov- Plus, on page 16 you’ll find our annual Matt Watson ing north to the country but forget that Holiday Gift Guide filled with inspiring Cineplex Magazine™ is published winter is coming and it’s gonna snow up ideas. That’s right, we’ve already done by Cineplex Entertainment. Subscriptions are $34.50 ($30 + HST) a year in Canada, there…a lot. your shopping for you. You’re welcome. $45 a year in the U.S. and $55 a year overseas. All subscription inquiries We’re movie people, so it’s impossible Thanks for spending this strangest of and letters to the editor should be not to look back at a year so strange, so years with us. 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No MARNI WEISZ, material in this magazine may be reprinted 007 will not be wearing a mask when EDITOR without the express written consent of the publisher. © Cineplex Entertainment 2020. 4 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE HOLIDAY 2020 IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR HIGH CANADIAN STANDARDS, LOOK FOR THE BLUE COW. DFC-CineplexAd-Final.indd 1 2020-11-11 8:43 PM CLICK! ↗ QUEEN OF PHILLY Queen Latifah and Adam Sandler film a scene for their basketball pic Hustle in Philadelphia. ↗ LIEV FROM NEW YORK Liev Schreiber sports a classic, Saturday Night Live- era Bill Murray T-shirt while playing basketball in New York City. ↗ TIGHT SPOT A vintage Fiat 500 serves as Tom Cruise’s unlikely ride on the set of Mission: Impossible 7 in Rome, Italy. 6 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE HOLIDAY 2020 ↙ SHIELDS UP The modern world invades 14th-century France as Jodie Comer wears a face shield on the County Tipperary, Ireland, set of Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel. ↖ MEAL DEAL Kevin Smith (right) and Jason Mewes man the counter at their Mooby’s pop-up in Chicago. The fictional restaurant that appears in several of Smith’s films was open for just one week. ↖ STEPPING OUT Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Dayan look appropriately fabulous while shooting Halston, a bio-pic about the fashion icon, in New York City. PHOTOS BY GILBERT CARRASQUILLO/GETTY (QUEEN LATIFAH AND ADAM SANDLER); DEBBIE HICKEY/GETTY (JODIE COMER); HOLIDAY 2020 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 7 DANIEL BOCZARSKI/GETTY (JASON MEWES AND KEVIN SMITH); GETTY (LIEV SCHREIBER); SAMANTHA ZUCCHI/GETTY (TOM CRUISE); JOSE PEREZ/GETTY (EWAN MCGREGOR AND REBECCA DAYAN) UP FRONT IN FOCUS ↑ Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins You Must in The Father POWER TEAM Remember This… Playwright Christopher Hampton Director Florian Zeller and stars Sir Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman (Dangerous Liaisons) make dementia real for The Father’s audience co-wrote the script with Florian Zeller based on Zeller’s play IF YOU FEEL A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED WHILE sets that change inexplicably, in order to illus- watching The Father, director Florian Zeller and trate Anthony’s confusion. DREAM CASTING his stars, most notably Sir Anthony Hopkins and “You do not understand exactly what is going The protagonist’s name is Anthony Olivia Colman, have done their jobs. on, but it was a way for me to make the audi- because Zeller had Hopkins plays Anthony, an 80-year-old with ence experience what the main character was Anthony Hopkins dementia, and Colman is his daughter Anne, going through,” said Zeller during a virtual Q&A in mind when he wrote the play eight who’s trying to take care of her dad even as he session at this year’s Toronto International Film years ago refuses help.