contissueen 2, volume 11, Summerts 2008 Movie Preview Special 6 START YOUR ENGINES Speed Racer shifts into overdrive with Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci behind the wheel 9 GO GO GADGET Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway prove that spies can be funny in Get Smart 10 NO FOOLING AROUND Batman faces off against The Joker in The Dark Knight
14 A NEW GALAXY The Star Wars universe gets animated with its latest big screen feature, Star Wars: The Clone Wars 19 THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS 2 Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera, Blake Lively and Alexis Bledel are back in their old jeans for a Sisterhood sequel 21 POTTERMANIA The Potter gang returns for more magical mystery in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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days riding a mechanical arm that substituted for his racecar. “I’d sit here and this thing would throw me around and it could spin me 360 degrees,” he said. “It was like riding a mechanical bull on mechanical steroids.” Emile Hirsch and But the film isn’t all about flashy special effects—it’s Christina Ricci shift also about the relationships between some pretty cool into overdrive in characters. “I get to play a Speed Racer really awesome, strong girl that I think people will really like,” You can practically feel the Ricci told cinemablend.com. rush of adrenalin as the Mach “She’s sort of like the girl 5 zooms across the racetrack I always wanted to be. She kung as Speed Racer approaches the fu fights, she does gymnastics, finish line. With an all-star Ricci as Trixie she races, she flies a helicop- cast including Emile Hirsch, ter. But she has a special outfit Christina Ricci and Matthew tragically in a racing accident. for each activity and is still Fox, coupled with never- When Speed discovers that incredibly girly and always has before-used revolutionary tech- some of the biggest races are lipstick on.” nology and intense action being fixed by a handful of Whether you’re there for the sequences, Speed Racer is one ruthless moguls, he sets out to awesome visuals or the heart- of the most anticipated films save the sport he loves with the felt storyline, expect to see of the season. help of his girlfriend Trixie something completely new. Written and directed by the (Ricci) and his one-time rival “I’ve always wanted to make Wachowski brothers who Racer X (Fox). a film like Speed Racer,” Hirsch brought us The Matrix trilogy, Hirsch, who had just fin- said, “A really big summer the movie is based on the clas- ished starring in Into the Wild, movie that had something dif- sic 1960s Japanese animated went from roughing it in the ferent than the normal big series. It tells the story of a rugged outdoors to spending summer blockbusters. With young racecar driver named every day in a studio filming the Wachowskis—they just Speed (Hirsch) who was born in front of a green screen. “It bring that extra special some- into a racing family—his was really like being in a thing that just makes movies father, Pops Racer (John sauna and then jumping in an like these phenomenal.” Goodman) designs racecars ice bath,” he told Entertainment and his brother Rex died Tonight. Hirsh spent about 16 —Emily Wexler
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Preview GO GO GADGET! Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway are super spies in GET SMART. Anne Hathaway n his new film, Get and Steve Carell in spy mode Smart, funnyman Steve Carell assures audiences that his super spy action skills will kick butt. “[I I had the best] attitude In Get Smart (based on the popular Smart has always dreamt of work- going into this movie: 1965 TV series), Carell plays a low ing in the field alongside his idol, Just try not to make it on the totem poll anaylist who’s superstar Agent 23 (Dwayne “The suck,” he quipped to MTV.com. With dreamt of being a spy at his agency Rock” Johnson). “I get my ass kicked that line of thinking, and with the use Control. When Control is attacked, by the Rock!” Carell revealed. “So, of a few spy gadgets, Carell’s c har- and most of the spies’ covers are that’s pretty cool.” But instead, Smart acter Maxwell Smart is determined to compromised, Smart gets promoted is partnered with the only other agent prove he’s got what it takes to save the to super spy status, although he whose identity has not been compro- world, along with the help of Anne has no experience. “Essentially he’s mised: the lovely-but-lethal veteran Hathaway’s character Agent 99. “I a tech nerd,” Carell told MTV.com Agent 99 (Hathaway). Their first mis- didn’t get as many gadgets, so I was of his character. “But his goal and sion is to thwart the latest plot for jealous,” Hathaway admitted to dream has always been to become world domination by the evil crime MTV.com. “But I have a special com- an agent. But he’s never stepped up. syndicate known as KAOS. pact that releases gas, so we can see But some things transpire that Hathaway admits she was super lasers. And I also have something that enable him to step into that position. excited to play this character. “This explodes that’s very unexpected, but He finally gets his chance, at sort of was a role a lot of actresses chased I’ll save that one for the suspense.” an advanced age.” down,” she told MTV.com. “A lot of girls wanted to play this role. It sounds very obnoxious to say it, because a lot of the people in the movie watched the original series [when it was on the air], but I used to watch it on Nick at Nite when I was a kid. I have a cousin who’s two months older than me, and we used to play it together. I’d be 99, and he’d be Maxwell, and we’d run around New Jersey and pretend we were battling KAOS.” Now, Hathaway is re-living her childhood by actually filling the shoes of character Agent 99, in which she and Smart are faced with the heavy Hathaway and Carell are on the case task of saving the world, served with a side of laugh-out-loud comedy. —Toni-Marie Ippolito
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he last time we left the Caped Crusader he thought he’d rubbed out the thugs and cleaned up the streets in Batman Begins. But a new enemy with a twisted sense of humour is laughing his way through Gotham City, Twith treacherous plans to wreak havoc and ultimately destroy Batman. This time around, Batman (Christian Bale) has teamed up with Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and Heath Ledger District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to create transforms an alliance that aims to destroy the organized crime into The Joker. that has infested Gotham. The band of crime fighters is successful until they encounter a disturbed criminal mastermind, The Joker (Heath Ledger), who threatens to send the city back into chaos. The Joker targets Batman as the subject of his psychotic rampage and forces the
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Caped Crusader into a frenzied search to find the makeup-wearing madman before he can complete his plan. Buzz surrounding the late Ledger’s performance indi- cates his turn as The Joker won’t soon be forgotten. “It’s stunning, it’s iconic,” director Christopher Nolan tells The New York Times. “It’s just going to blow people away.” The addition of one of the series’ more popular char- acters could make The Dark Knight the finest Batman movie yet. “Now that we’ve made [Batman] a character of substance, I have no problem with him competing with someone else,” Bale tells Empire magazine. “And that’s going to make better entertainment and a better movie, which is great.” Absent from the sequel is Katie Holmes, who wasn’t able to reprise her role as Rachel Dawes due to schedul- ing conflicts. Filling her spot as Bruce Wayne’s love interest and childhood friend is Maggie Gyllenhaal. Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) and butler Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine) are also back as Wayne’s closest friends. Fans will notice that Batman sports an improved look. The newly designed Batsuit will feature more than 200 individual pieces of armour that will allow Bruce Wayne greater mobility as he tries to battle crime. It will also be the first time the Batsuit has been created to allow Batman the ability to move his head from side to side. Another new addition to the Batcave will be the mysterious new hi-tech vehicle, the Batpod. The Batsuit has been —Mark Foster souped-up for greater mobility.
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A New Galaxy AANNS whw o arare aanntiticipatiinng the neww SStar Wara s fif lmm wili l ggeet ttreated ttoo a Star Wars: The Clone nnew sttylle off stotorryytteellinng for thhe famouus sererieies.s CrC eattoor GGeoorgee Lucas haas alwways Wars gets animated usedd cutu tit ngg-eeddgge specciaial effeects ini Fhhiis mooviiees, bbuut StS ara Waars: The CCloone Waarss wwill be thhe fif rsst aannimaatedd innstat lllment for the seeriiese . “II fele t thhere e wwerre a lot more Staar Wars stories lelefftt to teelll,”,” Lucas said ini a staatet ment. “II was eagger to sts art ttellliinng somem of tthem thhrough annimattion.n ” Star Wars:s The Cloone Wars follows hheroes Anakin Skyywalkere and Obi-Wan Keenobi’s sts rugglee to mainntain peace in the galactic republlic as Darth Sidiouo s, Count Dooku andd General Grievouss atteme pt to take controll. The mom vie is set in the years between Star Waars, Eppisode 2: Attack of the Clones and Episode 3: Revenge off thhe Sith, and lands the audience righg t ini the midddle of the intergalactic waar beb tween the separatist armmy and the whitte arrmoourureded (sos on to beb storm trooperr) clc ono eses.
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Preview “The first experience was so ideal for me, and I so love the material, and I love these girls. The Sisterhood of the The four of us formed a really tight bond, and in the three Traveling Pants 2 years between the first and second movie, we’ve all been Amber, America, Blake, and a part of each other’s lives.” America Ferrera on the four girls’ Alexis reunite for close friendship another journey of sisterhood tells IGN TV. “Those are things that everyone can relate to.” Having gained enormous fame with Ugly Betty hasn’t changed Ferrera, who was anx- ious to work on the film with her co-stars. “My heart was so into this movie,” she tells MTV.com. “The first experience was so ideal for me, and I so love the material, and I love these girls. The four of us formed a ROM skinny to wide-length crammed into one movie,” Bledel tells MTV.com. really tight bond, and in the three years between the tot boot cut, every girl knows “We’re older. We’re in college, so the themes are a first and second movie, we’ve all been a part of howh hard it is to find that per- little more mature. There’s more dating. We’re each each other’s lives. I go to see Amber do her poetry, fectf pair of jeans. That perfect trying to grow individually, while trying to stay and Alexis and I do dinners. And Blake’s in New pairp can take you from look- connected to the past and each other.” Yo rk, so she’s the only one who’s kind of separate ingi drab to fab instantly! The Much like the first movie, each girl has her from us, but she’s living her fabulous New York F girls from The Sisterhood of own story line and must brave the struggles that life lifestyle while the rest of us are in L.A.” the Traveling Pants 2 know this throws at them. “We deal with death. We deal with A perfect fit indeed. In theatres this August. all too well. Not only does one a broken family. We deal with loss of virginity. We pairpai fit all four best friends per- deal with falling in love for the first time,” Lively —Alaina Chapman fectly—despite their various shapes and sizes—the pants also bring good luck. Set three years after the first movie, the girls’ lives are taken in different directions, once again putting their “sisterhood” to the test. Lena (Alexis Bledel) signs up for a painting course in Providence, Bridget (Gossipp Girl’s B lake Lively) leaves for Turkey on an archaeologiical adventure, Carmen (America Ferrera) travels tot Ver mont to work on “The themes are a little a backstage crew for a theatre festival annd Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) remmains inn New York and enrolls in more mature.There’s more summer courses. dating.We’re each trying to Although the girls are sprp ead across the globe they remain close by a remarkable pair of vintage jeans grow individually, while that sommehow fit all four girls’ different bodyy types. trying to stay connected The jeans travel from girl to girl bringing themm the lluck and courage theh y nen ed to discover their to the past and each other.” strengthhs, fears, talents annd dreams. “This [movie] picks up where the last one lel ft off. It’s the second, Blake Lively says about the film third and fourth books by AAnn Brashares, all
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