SUMMER 2020 CONTENTS VOLUME 21 #3

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COVER STORY 16 22 24 32 UPCOMING MA’S PA EXCELLENT TIME TO BLOW 4 EDITOR’S MOVIE Veteran actor Tzi Ma FRIENDS YOUR MIND NOTE PREVIEW is proud to play Keanu Reeves Tenet’s breakout star Our moviegoing drought Mulan’s father in and Alex Winter John David Washington 10 UP FRONT is coming to an end. Disney’s live-action discuss their 30-year talks about shooting Take a deep dive redo of Mulan, friendship, the power Christopher Nolan’s 38 IN THE WORKS into 10 of the most and even prouder of great dialogue, and latest time-bending anticipated movies that the film is a why the time was right brainteaser and the 40 CINEPLEX scheduled to arrive by big-budget showcase to reunite for Bill & Ted football injury that led STORE year’s end, including for Asian actors Face the Music him to acting Wonder Woman 1984, BY INGRID RANDOJA BY MARNI WEISZ BY INGRID RANDOJA 46 RECIPES FROM Black Widow, Dune, THE VIP The French Dispatch and West Side Story WELCOME BACK 48 SCREEN BY INGRID RANDOJA From enhanced cleaning to physical distancing, we explain TEST AND MARNI WEISZ the new measures put in place for your return to theatres +8 50 ART OF FILM

COVER PHOTO BY LORENZO AGIUS SUMMER 2020 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 3 EDITOR’S NOTE MAGAZINE PUBLISHER Salah Bachir

EDITOR Marni Weisz DEPUTY EDITOR Ingrid Randoja CREATIVE DIRECTOR & DESIGNER Lucinda Wallace CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER Darryl Mabey CONTRIBUTORS Sheri Block

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VICE PRESIDENT Robert Brown Times VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION Sheila Gregory VICE PRESIDENT, SALES IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT We also spoke with experienced time- John Tsirlis director Christopher Nolan, you know travellers and EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SALES Keanu Reeves Alex Winter Giulio Fazzolari that the concept of time looms large in for this issue. Their 1989 comedy classic EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SALES his movies. His new thriller Tenet is no Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure saw their Ed Villa EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SALES different. The film’s characters utilize a characters travel through time in an old QUEBEC/EASTERN CANADA Jonathan Laflamme process called “inversion” to reverse the phonebooth to research a history project. MANAGER, THEATRICAL PROGRAMMING very flow of time. In “A Most Excellent Reunion,” page 24, Debi Kingston While we don’t quite understand how they explain why Bill and Ted now have to ACCOUNT MANAGERS inversion works, we certainly know how visit alternate timelines for the third film, TORONTO 416-539-8800 Cory Atkins, ext. 5257 it feels to have time move in weird ways. Bill & Ted Face the Music. Christina Clark, ext. 5278 Over the past few months, time has not Then in “Father Figure,” page 22, we Sheree Kyte, ext. 5245 Beth Leverty, ext. 5285 always behaved as expected. Has it really talk with Tzi Ma about being transported Zandra MacInnis, ext. 5281 been four months since movie theatres 1,500 years back in time to play the father Heather Marshall, ext. 5290 Jenna Paterson, ext. 5243 closed their doors; since we packed our in Mulan, which is based not just on the Julian Pieke, ext. 5216 bags and left the office to work from home? animated film but also a 6th-century poem. Brett Poschmann, ext. 5287 Lorelei von Heymann, ext. 5249 Though time has passed at an unnatu- And you should probably start thinking Wendell Sappor, ext. 5277 rally rapid rate, we somehow have more about how to make time to see all the Lesley Taylor, ext. 5266 of it. It’s time that some of us have used big movies still to come this year. In Tom Woyzbun, ext. 5253 OTTAWA 844-870-1112 to re-watch entire movie franchises like our movie preview “Looking Forward,” Nicole Beaudin The Lord of the Rings in a single shot page 16, we tell you about 10 major HAMILTON/NIAGARA 416-558-7190 before emerging, bleary-eyed, into our films expected to arrive in theatres Jennifer Wishart QUEBEC 514-868-0005 own reality wondering if it was time for from September to December. You’ll see Benoit Deschambault, ext. 224 second breakfast. It was. It always is. Wonder Woman 1984, Black Widow and Martine Ménard, ext. 222 MAN/SASK 204-396-3044 Time also feels formless. What day of Top Gun: Maverick, which in another Morgan Comrie the week is it? Saturday? Wasn’t yesterday timeline would have been out by now, CALGARY 403-264-4420 also Saturday? Time used to be linear. squeezed in amongst the fall and winter’s Kevin Leahy EDMONTON 780-919-3011 Now, not so much. previously scheduled blockbusters like Barb Kitzan Is this how Christopher Nolan has Dune and West Side Story. What a slate. BRITISH COLUMBIA 604-689-3068 always perceived time? I’m feeling positive that once we get Matt Watson Cineplex Magazine™ is published One of the few people who knows how going this will be one of the best years ever by Cineplex Entertainment. Subscriptions inversion works is Tenet’s compelling star at the movies. But, of course, the unfolding are $34.50 ($30 + HST) a year in Canada, $45 a year in the U.S. and $55 a year John David Washington. No surprise, of time may still take a few surprise turns, overseas. All subscription inquiries and letters to the editor should be Washington couldn’t say much about the so please check Cineplex.com for current directed to Cineplex Magazine at top-secret plot point for our cover story, release dates and theatre information. 1303 Yonge St., Toronto, ON, M4T 2Y9; or [email protected] “Time to Act,” page 32. He did however Time to start working Publications Mail Agreement No. 41619533. tell us how Nolan made being on the on the next issue. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Cineplex Magazine, 1303 Yonge St., set of this massive blockbuster feel like Toronto, ON, M4T 2Y9 working on an indie, about his transition 656,500 copies of Cineplex Magazine are from pro football to acting, and whether distributed through Cineplex Entertainment, MARNI WEISZ, The Globe and Mail, and other outlets. it’s time to work with his dad, Denzel. EDITOR Cineplex Magazine is not responsible for the return of unsolicited materials. No material in this magazine may be reprinted without the express written consent of the publisher. © Cineplex Entertainment 2020.

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Change is Coming IN A RACIST SOCIETY IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO be non-racist, we must be anti-racist. It took millions of people flooding the streets in hundreds of locations, across many countries, and countless arrests and deaths and injuries to charge four police officers in connection with the murder of a Black man captured on video in plain sight. We believe this is not a time for us to be silent, but the SALAH BACHIR ELLIS JACOB, (HE/HIM), PRESIDENT time to take action and make a real change in how PUBLISHER, AND CEO, our society functions. We know we can do more, we CM OONT CINEPLEX, CM want to do more. We have always strived to celebrate diversity and inclusion in our pages, and we will continue to do so. comfortable and welcoming. That priority has been at We value every one of our readers and feel that Black the heart of our preparations from the very beginning. lives matter in every possible way, including the We have used the past months to re-examine all of stories we tell. We also have a reason to thank every our buildings and processes, so that when our theatres one of you readers right now. For the first time in our and entertainment venues reopen, we will have imple- history, Cineplex Magazine is the most-read magazine mented an industry-leading program with end-to-end in Canada with more than 4.3-million readers. health and safety protocols. This magazine launched more than 20 years ago We are heartened that, while we’ve seen some ter- as Famous, back when it was distributed mostly in rible examples of human behaviour recently, we’ve Famous Players theatres. In addition to stories about also seen some of the best over the past few months. mainstream Hollywood movies, the magazine was This pandemic has shown us that we have incredible committed to putting the spotlight on Canadian films compassion for one another. For us, being kind and and filmmakers, and to focus on movies and the joy taking care of each other has always been what a they bring us, since our love of movies is what unites true democracy does. We are so proud and incredibly us. It was never about criticism, as we all have different grateful to all the front-line workers who have set new tastes and likes and dislikes, and we never covered standards for us all. gossip because it simply doesn’t interest us. Please do what you can to help wherever you can as We’re glad so many of you have come along for we continue to battle two pandemics, the coronavirus the ride. and racism. We, as a collective group, can only get And that ride continues. It has been almost four better through dialogue, knowledge and using our months since we temporarily closed our network of own positions of privilege, where they exist, to help theatres and entertainment venues, and the day our better the world in which we live. doors closed was the day our team began diligently As Rosa Parks once said, “People say that I didn’t preparing for their safe reopening. give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t Throughout the planning process, our top priority true… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” has always been the health and safety of our employees and guests and ensuring that your time with us is safe, SALAH BACHIR & ELLIS JACOB

6 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 STJ_2020_WEW_Ad_Cineplex_FINAL.indd 1 2020-06-11 11:46 AM WELCOME BACK! We are so excited to get back to theatres and enjoy movies the way they were meant to be seen — on the big screen

Sure, we’ve watched a ton of films on small screens over the past months. But it’s not the same. We’ve missed the darkened theatre, the communal experience, the smell of popcorn, the big sound, the escape, having two hours at a time when we can’t check our phones, and that feeling of being completely immersed in a fantastic story. Going to the movies has always been an integral part of our lives and it will continue to be. But as theatres reopen, things will be a little different. We know you have questions and so we’re going to walk you through the new measures in place at Cineplex theatres. Of course, things can change. We will be following guidelines set by public health agencies and staying on top of best practices as we welcome everyone back. For the most up-to-date information please go to Cineplex.com/Safety.

PURCHASING IN THE TICKETS LOBBY

The first step, of course, is to As you enter the lobby, you’ll get your tickets. For contactless notice a few changes, starting purchase, buy your tickets with hand-sanitizer dispensers. online at Cineplex.com or use Look for floor decals to help the Cineplex app. If that’s not you stick to physical-distancing possible, kiosks will be open guidelines. Staff members, in theatre lobbies and will be in masks, will also be there to cleaned regularly, or you can help you maintain distance. purchase tickets at concessions. You’ll be expected to stay with Once online you’ll notice that your group and ensure enough showtimes have been both space between your party reduced and staggered. This and your fellow moviegoers at is to limit traffic in common all times, and you may notice areas. Auditorium capacity has some sections, like tables and also been reduced to allow for gathering areas, are closed. physical distancing. When gaming areas are open,

8 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 some machines may still be with reserved seating will ensure off-limits to provide a safer that seats between parties amount of space. Also, we will remain empty. Please stay in be working on a cashless your assigned seat. As you leave system, so only debit, credit the auditorium please remember and gift cards can be used for to dispose of your own trash. in-theatre purchases. This helps to keep not only the other guests safe, but our staff too. And, while we know you’ll be CONCESSIONS caught up in thinking and talking about how much you loved that When you get your popcorn, movie, please keep physical hotdogs, candy, nachos and distancing in mind as you exit drinks you’ll notice that plexiglass the theatre. shields have been installed at the point of sale and that every other till is closed to allow for physical VIP THEATRES distancing. As with all auditoriums, when the VIP theatres open, seating INSIDE THE capacity will be reduced. AUDITORIUM VIP theatres are known for their in-seat food and drink service Now it’s time to sit down and and servers will be available to enjoy the show! Cleaning will take your order. However, if you take place between screenings, haven’t already downloaded the and reduced capacity combined Cineplex app, do it now! Not only can you buy tickets on the app, you can order food directly to your VIP seat. VIP lounges will be open, but with limited seating.

WHAT ABOUT THE WASHROOMS?

Of course, there will be enhanced cleaning in all washrooms, and don’t be concerned if you notice that some stalls, urinals and sinks are closed — this is, you guessed it, to help us all maintain physical distance. And as if you haven’t heard this enough, please wash your hands thoroughly!

WHAT IF I’M NOT FEELING WELL?

If you have any symptoms of COVID-19, cold or flu after you’ve purchased tickets please do not enter the theatre. Instead, contact Guest Services for a full refund at 1-800-333-0061 or [email protected].

SUMMER 2020 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 9 UP FRONT

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↑ Janelle Monáe Hallowed Ground in Antebellum Explore the disturbing history of the real plantation where Janelle Monáe’s horror Antebellum was filmed

The premise of the horror-thriller Antebellum is website (evergreenplantation.org) contains SING IT terrifying. Modern-day author Veronica Henley a Slavery Database that lets you search rare Janelle Monáe is also a celebrated (Janelle Monáe) is kidnapped and sent back in documents to find the names of individual singer with three time to live as a slave on a southern plantation slaves, as well as the Ancestor Project, which albums to her name, where she has to navigate the atrocities of takes an in-depth look at the lives of five slaves. The ArchAndroid (2010), The Electric slavery while finding a way to escape. You can also explore the site’s 37 buildings, Lady (2013) and Some of the plantation scenes were filmed on including a main house originally constructed in Dirty Computer the grounds of the real Evergreen Plantation. 1790 and 22 slave quarters. (2018) Situated on the banks of the Mississippi River Filming Antebellum on the grounds of a HARRIET’S HELPER near Wallace, Louisiana, Evergreen was also real plantation was emotional, especially for In last year’s Harriet Monáe played a free used by director Quentin Tarantino as the setting star Monáe. In the June issue of Vanity Fair, Black woman in the for Big Daddy’s (Don Johnson) plantation in Antebellum co-director Gerard Bush said, “It was 1840s north who Django Unchained. an incredibly difficult experience for her. These helped former slave Harriet Tubman adapt Privately owned, the National Historic plantations — where people are getting married to her new life Landmark continues to function as a working — these are places that should be considered THE HORRORS sugar cane plantation. However, Evergreen hallowed ground. It should be Auschwitz. You Antebellum was is also committed to honouring the more should walk this ground with that kind of respect produced by than 400 men, women and children who were for the suffering that took place on that land. She QC Entertainment, the company behind enslaved there over the course of 150 years. Its was committed to honoring the ancestors.” —IR Us and Get Out

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Notes MASTER KEYLINE - COMMON SIZING Proofreader ANNIVERSARY GIFT Celebrate UP FRONT Back to the Future’s 35th anniversary TOYING with Playmobil’s new Back to the Future WITH THE 64-piece set ($60, toy stores). You get FUTURE Marty McFly, Doc Brown, Doc’s dog Einstein and of course the DeLorean. So what if Doc looks more like George Washington? Maybe that’s a good idea for a fourth film. Our time-travelling heroes and their flux capacitator first hit theatres on July 3rd, 1985.

THE CHAT Escape to Italy If you dream of leaving it all behind and moving to a small European town, From the Vine will appeal. Joe Pantoliano (Memento, The Matrix, TV’s The Sopranos) plays Marco, an American-born transplant to Canada who, disillusioned with his life, escapes to his birthplace, the tiny hilltop town of Acerenza, Italy, to spend time at his late grandfather’s vineyard. His wife (Wendy Crewson) and daughter (Paula Brancati) follow and try to bring him home, but the magic of Acerenza — a real town where the movie was filmed — has already taken hold. Pantoliano was in New York when he spoke with MARNI WEISZ by phone.

Who is Marco? gifted from the gods have the means, they I saw him as someone because we’re up get out of there and who I identified with, in the mountains, go down toward the there’s a lot of me you can’t get any south for the winter, in that guy ’cause I equipment up there…. so there was only one struggled with that, A couple months restaurant. They got Why did you want to No, I never met her I had the American ahead of time they one guy to open up do this little Canadian before that day. And Dream and believed scouted locations his restaurant and he movie? It was nice that they that if I worked hard and realized that you made us breakfast, It’s an Italian-Canadian cast people of age. and my dreams came couldn’t get trucks he catered the food, co-production and it I think Wendy and I are true and I married the up to Acerenza, and then at dinner was shooting in Italy! So the only two people trophy wife and I got everything had to be we went there and he pretty much that was in show business three kids and had a brought in on carts. had his six-year-old the reason, to be able that haven’t had a good job that I would son and five-year-old to work in Italy. And facelift [laughs]. It’s be happy. And he And this is the first daughter help. His wife then getting to know so great because if discovers that there’s film ever shot there? was in the kitchen Sean [director Sean it was an American, other things going on. I believe so. When we cooking. And his son Cisterna]. I also knew Hollywood movie my shot there, it was like wound up playing the of Wendy Crewson, wife would have been What was it like mid-October to mid- young version of Marco and I’ve been a big fan 35 years old. shooting in Acerenza? November, and that’s and his daughter was of hers. It is magical. I think when it starts to get the young version of FROM THE VINE HITS that part of the magic cold so everything [Marco’s childhood Had you worked CINEPLEXSTORE.COM of this movie was closes. People, if they friend] Amelia. with Wendy before? JULY 10TH.

14 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 SOME OF THE FINEST ACTORS, DIRECTORS, STORYTELLERS, ANIMATORS & GAME DEVELOPERS ARE MADE HERE.

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16 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 WONDER WOMAN 1984

DIRECTOR PATTY JENKINS (WONDER WOMAN) STARRING GAL GADOT, CHRIS PINE, KRISTEN WIIG

Gal Gadot’s mighty Wonder Woman arrived like a lightning bolt, illuminating screens as the morally upright DC superhero in director Patty Jenkins’ 2017 blockbuster Wonder Woman. Gadot is back as Diana Prince in this sequel set in the greed-infused 1980s that sees her working at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum, where she befriends gemologist Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig), who will ultimately transform into adversary Cheetah. Of course, what we really want to know is how Diana’s true love (and presumed dead) Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) has managed to return and look so good in 1980s pleated pants, complete with fanny pack. New cast member Pedro Pascal plays baddie Max Lord, while Connie Nielsen and Robin Wright return as beloved Amazons Hippolyta and Antiope respectively. Jenkins says this film harkens back to the exceedingly entertaining films of the 1980s, which ensures it will be totally wicked awesome. A QUIET PLACE PART II THE FRENCH

DIRECTOR JOHN KRASINSKI ( A QUIET PLACE) STARRING EMILY BLUNT, DISPATCH MILLICENT SIMMONDS, NOAH JUPE DIRECTOR WES ANDERSON (THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL) STARRING OWEN WILSON, Writer-director John Krasinski’s BILL MURRAY, breakout horror A Quiet Place (2018) FRANCES MCDORMAND was set in a post-apocalyptic world in which a family was forced to live in silent isolation to keep deadly creatures at bay. The sequel about carefully emerging from that isolation couldn’t be timelier as the film’s family — mom Evelyn (Emily Blunt), kids Regan (Millicent Simmonds), Marcus (Noah Jupe) and the newborn baby — leave the farm in search of other survivors, who may be just as dan- gerous as the ravenous creatures.

Director Matthew Vaughn’s stylish Kingsman series — 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service and 2017’s THE KING’S MAN Kingsman: The Golden Circle — overflow with outlandish action set-pieces that both pay tribute to, DIRECTOR MATTHEW VAUGHN and poke fun at, spy pics. Here, we ( KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE) STARRING HARRIS DICKINSON, go back 100 years to discover the RALPH FIENNES, GEMMA ARTERTON origins of the independent intel- ligence agency as young Conrad (Harris Dickinson) is recruited by the suave Duke of Oxford (Ralph Fiennes) to learn the tricks of the spy trade in order to fight a collection of tyrants and criminal masterminds.

TARGET RELEASE DATES AS OF PRESS TIME* A Quiet Place Part II SEPTEMBER 4TH ▪ The King’s Man SEPTEMBER 18TH ▪ Wonder Woman 1984 OCTOBER 2ND ▪ The French Dispatch OCTOBER 16TH ▪ Black Widow NOVEMBER 6TH *RELEASE DATES MAY CHANGE. GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR CURRENT DATES

18 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 This 10th movie directed by Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Wes Anderson may be the most Jason Schwartzman, and Wes Andersonish of them all. Why? Willem Dafoe. And he’s also made Because it uses the filmmaker’s room for some newcomers, like beloved New Yorker magazine Timothée Chalamet, Jeffrey Wright as inspiration for its setting and and Benicio del Toro who, now raison d’etre, a weekly called anointed, will surely show up The French Dispatch that’s located in future Anderson pics. in France despite being an offshoot Set in the fictional French of a Kansas newspaper. town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, the film Anderson has created roles for weaves together the daily trials the basketball team worth of actors of The French Dispatch with the he’s collected over the years stories on which its reporters are including Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, working, including one about a Owen Wilson, Frances McDormand, student protest and another about Bob Balaban, Adrien Brody, an art dealer.

BLACK WIDOW

DIRECTOR CATE SHORTLAND ( BERLIN SYNDROME) STARRING SCARLETT JOHANSSON, FLORENCE PUGH, DAVID HARBOUR

Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel broke the glass ceiling to lead their own superhero pics, but they owe a debt of gratitude to Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), who’s been fighting the good fight since she first appeared in 2010’s Iron Man 2. Set just after the events of 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, in which the Avengers splintered, the film finds Natasha Romanoff returning to Russia and reconnecting with her former KGB family — fellow Black Widow agents Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Melina Vostokoff (Rachel Weisz) and father figure Red Guardian (David Harbour). Romanoff is determined to make amends for her past misdeeds, and that includes stopping the Taskmaster, who now controls the Red Room, the program responsible for creating Black Widow agents.

TARGET RELEASE DATES AS OF PRESS TIME* A Quiet Place Part II SEPTEMBER 4TH ▪ The King’s Man SEPTEMBER 18TH ▪ Wonder Woman 1984 OCTOBER 2ND ▪ The French Dispatch OCTOBER 16TH ▪ Black Widow NOVEMBER 6TH *RELEASE DATES MAY CHANGE. GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR CURRENT DATES

SUMMER 2020 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 19 which similarly examines human SOUL passions. Jamie Foxx voices Joe Gardner, a jazz musician who lives for his DIRECTOR PETE DOCTER tunes. But when Joe falls into a ( INSIDE OUT) manhole and is separated from his STARRING JAMIE FOXX, TINA FEY body he finds himself in a place where souls develop their passions It’s no surprise Pete Docter, the before being placed into newborn writer-director who came up with babies, including one mopey little Pixar’s Inside Out, which brilliantly soul (Tina Fey) who needs some dissected and illuminated human special inspiration if she’s ever emotions, is behind Pixar’s Soul, gonna make it to Earth. DUNE

DIRECTOR DENIS VILLENEUVE NO TIME ( BLADE RUNNER 2049) STARRING TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET, REBECCA FERGUSON, TO DIE OSCAR ISAAC

DIRECTOR CARY JOJI FUKUNAGA ( BEASTS OF NO NATION) STARRING DANIEL CRAIG, RAMI MALEK, ANA DE ARMAS

The postponement of No Time to Die from April 8th to November 20th made saying goodbye to Daniel Craig as James Bond that much more difficult as we’ve had months to contemplate just how good he was as the dour 007. In his farewell film, Bond comes out of retirement to help find a kidnapped scientist. Getting in on the action is Rami Malek as new villain Safin, Christoph Waltz as returning baddie Blofeld, Lashana Lynch as cocky 00 agent Nomi, Ana de Armas as CIA agent Paloma and Naomie Harris as Bond’s most trusted ally, Moneypenny.

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20 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 With all the great images and stories universe since it can extend life, that have been shared by star expand intelligence and make Timothée Chalamet and director “foldspace” travel possible. But TOP GUN: Denis Villeneuve about their it’s a planet that is also plagued adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 by vicious spiceworms the size of novel Dune, we’re already having apartment buildings, among myriad a tough time remembering the other mortal dangers. MAVERICK atrocity that was David Lynch’s 1984 Chalamet plays our protagonist version. And that feels good. Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto Villeneuve and team take us back Atreides (Oscar Issac) and DIRECTOR JOSEPH KOSINSKI (OBLIVION) to Arrakis, the dusty and perilous Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), STARRING TOM CRUISE, planet that’s home to spice, the who develops great powers and tries JENNIFER CONNELLY, most valuable resource in the to become a benevolent leader. MILES TELLER

Tom Cruise’s real-life need for speed has driven his career, so it’s no surprise the 57-year-old star was itching to get back into the cockpit but back in time to the roiling 1950s once more to play navy pilot WEST SIDE when a love affair between a Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the Puerto Rican girl named Maria long-awaited sequel to 1986’s STORY (Rachel Zegler) and a Polish boy Top Gun. In the new film Maverick’s named Tony (Ansel Elgort) inflamed still patrolling the skies but it’s as a a neighbourhood. Although Spielberg flight instructor whose new charges DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG and his Pulitzer Prize-winning screen- include the son (Miles Teller) of his ( READY PLAYER ONE) writer Tony Kushner have said this late pal Goose. Of course, the STARRING ANSEL ELGORT, adrenaline-loving actor does some RACHEL ZEGLER version harkens back more to the Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, of his own flying, giving both him Stephen Sondheim stage musical and us the rush we crave. Consider Steven Spielberg’s adapta- than the 1961 film, they did cast tion of the 1957 Broadway musical a Rita Moreno, who played Puerto Rican virtual getaway to New York, letting den mother Anita in the first movie, in us travel not only across the border, the supporting role of Valentina.

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SUMMER 2020 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 21 Tzi Ma as Hua Zhou in Mulan. Inset, Liu Yifei as our hero Mulan

Father Figure Had you ever been part of such Legendary actor Tzi Ma travels 1,500 years back a huge production, complete with massive battle scenes and sets? in time to bring Mulan — and its story of family, No. My scenes, which are basically con- bravery and equality — to a new generation fined to the village, that set is magnificent. It was a total construction of a real village. BY INGRID RANDOJA The main building had these foot-wide, huge beams. Very impressive. And the vistas were magnificent. I am so sad they ZI MA IS THE DEFINITION OF that makes her take matters into her own tore it down. I think they could have kept it working actor. In a career that’s hands. He’s the doting, loving father who and made it, I don’t know, a hotel or a bed spanned more than 40 years, he’s knows that his child is very gifted. So, it’s and breakfast. Everything was just so solid. Tappeared in more than 100 movies quite a conundrum for him to recognize (Rush Hour, Arrival, last year’s indie hit her gifts and then have to squash them Being in such an authentic The Farewell) and TV series (24, Veep). So, because she is a she, and this is 1,500 environment must inspire your it makes sense that when Mulan director years ago. performance. Niki Caro needed to cast the pivotal role That’s what money can do. Normally, of Mulan’s father, Hua Zhou, in the live- Liu Yifei plays Mulan. By all accounts when you do a film that has an all-Asian action adaptation of Disney’s animated she fully committed to the role. What cast, you normally don’t get that kind of film, she turned to Ma. did you see? financial support. You know, when we Born in Hong Kong, Ma immigrated to the I’ve been around, I’ve worked with a lot of tell these stories, they’re normally much U.S. with his family as a child and began actors through the years, and there are a smaller in scope and more independently his career in theatre before making his handful — and she’s one of the handful — produced, and not supported by a major debut alongside Andy Warhol in 1979’s that is the real deal. She’s something else. studio, so this is a first. Cocaine Cowboys. She’s so committed. She never tired of We caught up with the 58-year-old over building on this character. All the training, Mulan had its world premiere, and the phone from his home in Pasadena I mean there was physical training, there then moviegoing suddenly came to where he’d been busy speaking up against was military training, there was strength a standstill. You must be excited for anti-Asian hate crimes. “I’ve been doing training, there was endurance training, audiences to finally get to see it. Public Service Announcements, trying to weapon training. And on top of that being Yes, our premiere happened but there was nip it in the bud, trying to rally the human beautiful. Hello. What more do you want? no follow through, unfortunately. We’re race to combat this other virus.” very excited and very proud of this project And how about working with director and maybe this time we can open and Describe your character, Hua Zhou. Niki Caro? present a kind of global unity, that would He is the catalyst that creates this legend She was a wonderful director who gave be a positive. of Mulan because she goes to war because us perspectives that I don’t believe a male of him, because he cannot fulfill his duty. director can. I think her sensitivity, her Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor Obviously, it’s Mulan’s love for her dad way of seeing the world, is very unique. of Cineplex Magazine.

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24 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 REUNION MOST EXCELLENTThey’ve travelled through time. They’ve travelled to the afterworld. And now, three decades later, they’re travelling to alternate realities. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter tell us why it was finally time to make their beloved franchise’s third movie, Bill & Ted Face the Music, and how they’ve stayed close over the years ▪ BY MARNI WEISZ

SUMMER 2020 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 25 IT’S TIME. In 1989, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure saw lovable San Dimas, California, high school students Bill S. Preston, Esquire (Alex Winter) and Ted Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) travel through the circuits of time inside a telephone booth gathering historical figures like Napoleon, Billy the Kid and Joan of Arc to help them ace their history exam. They learned from Rufus (the late George Carlin), an emissary from the future, that their terrible band Wyld Stallyns was fated to write a song so excellent “it would align the planets and bring them into universal harmony allowing meaningful contact with all forms of life.” If the band had to break up because they failed history class that song would never be written. In the second movie, 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, our still lovable heroes were sent to the afterworld by disgruntled former gym teacher Chuck De Nomolos (Joss Ackland) who opposed the utopian future destined to be spawned by Wyld Stallyns’ most excellent music. There, the boys eventually befriended Death (William Sadler) before returning to Earth most triumphant. Nearly 30 years later, after careers that have taken them in fascinating but very different directions, Keanu Reeves, an A-list movie star with the Matrix movies and John Wick trilogy on his filmography, and Alex Winter, the celebrated documentary filmmaker behind such titles as The Panama Papers and the upcoming Zappa, reunite for a third adventure, Bill & Ted Face the Music. Now in their 50s, our protagonists have yet to write that most excellent song and time is running out. They’re given just 78 minutes to get the job done, and the solution our youth but also to look at one’s life involves visiting alternate realities. in this way. The guys write really good Reeves and Winter were in their respective California homes when we spoke dialogue and they write really interesting by phone about this third film that, like the first two, was written by Ed Solomon scenarios, so their way of looking at being and Chris Matheson, and brings back many beloved characters, including Death this age, having families, assessing your (Sadler again), Ted’s disciplinarian father (Hal Landon Jr.) and everyone’s favourite life, but through the lens of Bill and Ted stepmom, Missy (Amy Stoch). seemed like potentially a really great idea.

That’s true about the dialogue. I just watched the movies again and found the dialogue to be a lot like lyrics in a song you haven’t heard for years and Tell me about the relationship characters and for those films and the yet you know what the next line will between you two over these past writers. I guess it’s almost eight years ago be. I don’t know how many times in 30 years. now that [Solomon and Matheson] came the past 30 years I’ve said, “Strange KR: Well, Alex and I have, since our friend- to Alex and I with a real reason to do it, things are afoot at the Circle K” when ship started, remained dear and close with the script for where these characters something felt amiss. Why do you friends personally and professionally. Alex are now and for me it resonated. think the dialogue is so enduring? invited me to participate in a documentary AW: Well, they’re good writers. They both that he did [Deep Web], so it was cool to What, specifically, resonated? have a love of language; they have kind work with him on that. KR: I think in terms of the pressures that of an idiosyncratic but an educated and the characters have been under in terms of informed view of language. They’re well- So, you’ve always been in touch? trying to write the song that would unite read but I think that when I first read the AW: Yeah, very much so. I mean we both the world. And they have children now, first script and, you know, Keanu and I worked all over the place and managed to and marriages, and the kind of challenges talk about this, but when you’re that age stay in touch. We became pretty close on that they are facing, the way that they look you’re reading a lot of stuff and, especially those movies. When you become friends to solve them, overcome them. when people are writing for teens a lot of with someone fairly young, you know, just it is not particularly interesting language, sort of starting out in life, you end up with Alex, what about you? and probably especially in the ’80s. And kind of a fraternal relationship. AW: I think it really was a very good idea the thing that struck me about the script for a film. It was very sweet and the con- before anything else was the language, Of all the movies you’ve made, why ceit is very funny, or hopefully people will and it wasn’t just because it was flowery is this the one you wanted to revisit find it funny [laughs]. But it’s a good comic or ornate, it was because the specific gift all these years later? idea so it struck us that, Oh, this is an they had was to give these two very nor- KR: I have a deep affection for the interesting way to revisit characters from mal Valley-dwelling guys this passionate

26 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 — blue, purple, green. That colour scheme is maintained here. Did that help you get back into character? AW: I have to be honest, mine was ac- cidental. I just gravitated towards that particular shade of blue when I was play- ing around, rehearsing with the character. It never crossed my mind that I wore those From top, down: Alex Winter colours early on. I did start to grapple with (left) and it later, but it hadn’t occurred to me at the Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted Face beginning of it all. the Music, and their younger I can’t believe they let you choose selves in Bill & Ted’s your own shirt, I thought that would Bogus Journey, be very planned. Keanu? and Bill & Ted’s Yeah, I was definitely conscious of the Excellent KR: Adventure palettes and that we had worked in them before and was trying to incorporate that and also keep in mind how Alex’s wardrobe was developing as well. Just as we were the calendar isn’t in the forefront of this — going along we would look at certain co- and we’re meeting Bill and Ted at Deacon’s lours and shapes and textures and patterns wedding. He’s my brother who’s marry- for me and just trying to complement that. ing Missy, who was Bill’s mom and then became my mom and is now marrying So, how did stepping onto the set Deacon. this time compare with how it felt that first time? Oh Missy, I should have seen that AW: I would argue they were similar in coming. And why haven’t they funny ways. For me, there are certain written the song yet? things that were familiar and there are KR: Because that’s a really tough song to certain things that were unknown. The write [laughs]. first movie required a lot of auditioning AW: It’s not for lack of trying. so by the time we got the part we’d been doing scenes from that movie for what felt Why do they have only 78 minutes like forever. I’m sure it wasn’t, but it felt to write it all of a sudden? like a long time. Keanu and I had gotten AW: Well, in typical movie logic a threat to know each other through this process a arrives and essentially we’re summoned little bit. I remember there was a sense of to the future where they’re now a little less the unknown and adventure but also the embrace of language that still felt some- happy with us than they were the last time fun of those characters when we started what natural. we were there because the fact that we to work on the first one. I know I felt KR: Also, I think that kind of the point- have not written this thing over so many something similar [this time]. Knowing edness of their emotional expression, years, the state of the universe that we the characters, obviously there are many you know, feeling happy and just saying, were supposed to put into alignment is differences…. But there was still kind of “Excellent!” Or kind of being quietly sus- now so unaligned that it’s only got 78 min- a sense of adventure being in a town that picious and saying, “Strange things are utes left to survive and so we’re essentially isn’t where you live and playing these guys afoot at the Circle K,” these are kind of the last hurrah and we’re given this time and embarking on something and hav- universal feelings of exaltation. I thought clock to write the song. So that embarks ing the fun of knowing that they’re really that they came with an original recipe or us on a journey to try to find some reality enjoyable clothes to inhabit but not really original expression of these feelings. You in which we have written the song since knowing exactly where you’re going yet. know, “Hello, my most excellent friend.” clearly in our present reality we haven’t. KR: I agree with Alex, I had the same experience. Where are we as this film begins? I noticed that in the first two movies KR: Well, where are we? We’re in San Dimas Ted was always wearing red or orange Marni Weisz is the editor of 2020 — though we don’t really state that, and Bill was always in cool tones Cineplex Magazine.

SUMMER 2020 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 27 THE RIGHT Prescription Movies entertain us, provide a welcome escape and can even help us heal if used the right way. Whether supervised by a professional, or just for fun, spending two hours engaged in someone else’s experience can have a powerful effect on our own well-being BY MARNI WEISZ

TIME, HOLLYWOOD will find its own way to make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic IN on the big screen. After 9/11 it took just a year before the fallout from the attacks started showing up in films. Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, out in December 2002, was the first mainstream movie to refer to the tragedy, but only as the backdrop for a story about a drug dealer (Edward Norton) preparing to go to jail. It would be another four years before the first big film to actually depict the attacks, Paul Greengrass’s United 93, hit theatres. When movies about the events of the past few months eventually come to theatres, they will help us heal For example, watching a movie like by filtering our shared experiences Young Adult, in which Charlize Theron’s through the eyes of skilled storytellers. self-destructive character blows up “My hope is that movies that get her friendships, may give perspective made in the future about this current to a patient who lacks accountability pandemic be historically accurate, in her social life. ask important questions about the Of course, there are ways movies personal bravery and societal dys- can help us heal beyond reflecting function that unfolded, and provide our own experiences. As Clyman says, some measure of perspective, whether “Re-watching classic and beloved that be education, insight, comfort ↑ Clyman also espouses the benefits movies and comedies are good mood or relief,” says Dr. Jeremy Clyman, Top: Lion’s of something called Cinematherapy, boosters.” Rooney a forensic and clinical psychiatrist Mara and which he describes as the study who writes the blog Reel Therapy: Dev Patel. of movies and TV as they relate Bottom: Unraveling the Mind Through Film Matthew to psychology and psychotherapy SO, WHAT ARE SOME GOOD MOVIES for Psychology Today. Broderick — “whether that’s an academic dis- to be watching now? With topics like “Inside Out: A (centre) cussion of clinical terms and mental Nancy Peske and Beverly West are in Ferris Psychologist’s Take” and “Concussion: Bueller’s illness diagnoses,” he says, “or the co-authors of the Cinematherapy Psychotherapy for Football,” Clyman’s Day Off character, plots and motifs that pro- book series, including Cinematherapy blog examines movies and TV shows vide, on a personal level, some form of for Lovers and Cinematherapy for the “through the lens of psychotherapy.” psychotherapeutic value or healing.” Soul, in which they make film →

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→ recommendations based on things ↑ to get the tears flowing, you know, and the end, things are resolved. like your mood, desires and major life Left: Anna get you in touch with your own grief.” West also recommends Deep Impact, Jacoby- changes. Heron Peske also enjoyed a recent viewing the 1998 thriller in which everyone Peske and West stress they are and Matt of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, in which around the world scrambles to prepare not therapists but come from a long Damon in a young Matthew Broderick skips for a catastrophe. Contagion. line of women who’ve used movies Right: Deep school and spends an eventful day “A huge asteroid is hurtling towards as a way to examine their own lives. Impact’s with his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) Earth and is going to destroy the Morgan They’re also cousins, and although Freeman and buddy Cameron (Alan Ruck). planet as we know it and we have the they’re so close they finish each “That’s a seeking greener pastures greatest president, Morgan Freeman,” other’s sentences, their movie rec- movie,” she says. “It’s about breaking says West. “Morgan Freeman is totally ommendations could not be more out of the familiar and the stultifying, the guy you want as president in a sit- different, with Peske finding relief and I think a lot of us are looking for uation like that. He gets all teary at the in comedies and dramas and West that theme right now.” right moments but looks resolute, and drawn to thrillers and disaster films. basically has to get on camera and tell the world, or America, that only one ON THE OTHER HAND, LIKE SO million people are going to survive ONE OF PESKE’S TOP RECOMMEN- many people, West dove right into and everybody else is going to die.” dations for challenging times is Contagion after isolating in her Lion, the true story of Saroo Brierley New York home this past March. (Dev Patel), who was separated from Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 thriller OF COURSE, THESE ARE JUST his family at a train station in India about a virus that starts in China a few suggestions. The point of when he was just five years old. Now, and rapidly spreads to the rest of the Cinematherapy — whether used in as an adult living in Australia, he uses world eerily predicts the details of psychiatric practice or just good old Google Maps to retrace his steps and the coronavirus — from the masks fashion pop-culture fun — is to use track down the beloved mother he to the fear of grocery shopping to movies to tap into our emotions and hasn’t seen since he was a boy. a cameo by CNN’s Sanjay Gupta as experiences and remain aware of what “That’s what I call a cathartic himself interviewing the head of the they’re bringing to the surface. But weeper,” says Peske. “You’re crying CDC (Laurence Fishburne) on a cable just getting lost in mindless fun is because you’re sad, you’re crying news network. healthy once in a while, too. because you’re happy, it’s all a blend “It’s dead on, like it’s freaky,” says of emotions and it gets your emotions West. “You can go through what Marni Weisz is the editor of up and out of you. you’re experiencing in real life in a Cineplex Magazine. “I’m somebody who can go for a harmless way…. Also, you’re not alone, long stretch without feeling my feel- this is something that everyone is go- ings,” she continues, “and then all of a ing through. Even Gwyneth Paltrow WATCH AT HOME You can find all the movies recommended sudden it just hits me and I’m exhaust- and Matt Damon are having to expe- here on CineplexStore.com. ed, so I like to watch movies like that rience the same difficulties.” And, in

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BY INGRID RANDOJA OHN DAVID WASHINGTON is a patient man. As we speak in May, the 35-year-old son of actors Denzel and Pauletta Washington is waiting out the pandemic with family in Los Angeles, biding his time before the release of director Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, the film that will change the orbit of his acting career. His patience extends to this interview in which he is prohibited from revealing almost anything Jabout the top-secret project. “I could tell you that Christopher Nolan directed it and that I’m in it,” he says, laughing, over the phone. “I mean, it’s unlike anything I’ve ever read before, even heard of, or seen anywhere before. I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this.”

LIKE HIS TENET CO-STAR Robert Pattinson, Washington was sequestered in a locked room to read the script for the first time. “Yeah, it was a similar story,” he recalls. “Once I got the part I got invited to [Nolan’s] office and it took about four and a half hours to read it in a locked room. I had my iPad with me, I was playing classical music, and just reading it and going back to pages, and I just keep thinking, did I just read what I think I read? There was a lot of that going on.” →

SUMMER 2020 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 33 → The film’s various trailers do give one day and one hour. ↑ crazy to me,” he says. “You can have us some clues. We see Washington’s However, even the suggestion John David all the bells and whistles, the gad- unnamed character dying and that Tenet plays with time does not Washington gets, the blowing up of the cars, the and Elizabeth being brought back to life by an get a rise out of the soft-spoken and Debicki chases and all that, but without the organization that has mastered a exceedingly polite Washington. in Tenet story it’s hollow, and he’s been able form of time manipulation called “I can’t speak on the time ele- to combine story and event-type “inversion,” which allows a person ment,” he says, chuckling. films, married them together.” to move through time. Nolan offers But he is eager to discuss working some mind-bending visuals, show- with Nolan. “Obviously, I think this ing objects and people moving man is legendary and he’s one of forwards and backwards in the my favourite directors of all time. same scene. Robert Pattinson plays And you know, he exceeded my WASHINGTON MADE HIS one of Washington’s allies, while expectations as a co-worker. What acting debut as a seven-year-old Kenneth Branagh enters the mix was most surprising was how ac- in his father’s film Malcolm X — as a Russian operative and possi- quiescent he was to other people’s he was the child who stood up in ble antagonist. The film also stars interpretations and contributions a classroom and shouted, “I am Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine, to his story.” Malcolm X!” Clémence Poésy, Martin Donovan Nolan is a staunch traditionalist, However, he shied away from and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. shooting on film, preferring peo- following in his parents’ footsteps. Nolan’s fascination with time is ple see his movies in IMAX, and It was sports that fascinated him, nothing new. His breakout feature creating jaw-dropping visuals especially football, and he became an Memento is told partly in reverse. without the use of CGI. According all-star running back in high school The Batman trilogy is awash with to Washington, Nolan was the calm- and college. He was signed by the ticking time bombs. Interstellar sees ing centre amid on-set mayhem. L.A. Rams in 2006 as part of their astronaut Matthew McConaughey “As chaotic as it may seem some- practice squad and after two seasons travelling through time and space. times, with the big set pieces and a left to play four seasons in the short- Inception manipulates time through whole bunch of background artists, lived United Football League. When dreams. And Dunkirk captures the he had this way of creating an envi- a torn Achilles ended his football WWII rescue effort through three ronment in certain parts and scenes career Washington searched his distinct time periods: one week, that felt really indie-like, which was soul and admitted that he did, →

34 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 SCE392.02_CineplexMagazine_FullPageAd_8x10.5_General_FINAL.indd 1 2020-06-12 4:44 PM → in fact, want to be an actor. He had always wanted to be an actor. DO YOU KNOW NOLAN? “That injury, that’s a bookmark THERE ARE FEW DIRECTORS WHO CAN CREATE AS MUCH BUZZ WITH A NEW event in my life,” he recalls. “Me release as Christopher Nolan. From Inception to Interstellar, he has solidified his breaking down that way also broke place in Hollywood as a filmmaker who delivers epic-looking movies with even big- the fear of me wanting to do what I ger ideas. While Tenet is Nolan’s most expensive film yet with a budget of more than really wanted, which is act. $200-million (U.S.) it was a much smaller movie told backwards, 2000’s “It felt like desperation mode, Memento, that was the British director’s big break and paved the way I was so concerned about what my for more ambitious projects, including The Dark Knight, Inception and future was gonna be, and it was Dunkirk, three movies you can enjoy right now at CineplexStore.com. almost like if I don’t do this I will fail in life. And it sounds a bit dra- matic, but that’s really how I felt, if I don’t do this now, if I don’t pursue this now, it’ll never happen and I’ll regret it for the rest of my life.” He was on crutches and painkill- ers when his mother took him to audition for the HBO show Ballers, 2 and after eight more auditions he landed the part of never-satisfied NFL wide receiver Ricky Jerret. A few years later family friend Spike Lee called and asked him to read for the role of real-life 1970s cop Ron Stallworth in BlacKkKlansman. His nuanced turn as a man deft- 1 3 ly fighting racism earned him a Golden Globe nomination. “My life changed when I found 1 - THE DARK KNIGHT 2 - INCEPTION 2010 3 - DUNKIRK 2017 out Spike wanted to shoot a movie 2008 Ten years after it The story of how more with me and when I found out that Nolan wasn’t the first premiered in theatres, than 330,000 soldiers director to take on a Inception is still were rescued from a Christopher Nolan wanted to meet Batman film, nor was considered one of beach in France during me,” says Washington. “Whatever he the last. But by Nolan’s best films with World War II, Dunkirk happens, I will always have that. focusing on character debates raging on was a different kind But also, it’s all about who I get to development and about the final scene. of movie for Nolan. work with in the future.” not just Batmobile This high-concept A sweeping epic that Could that mean teaming with chases, he was able bit of cinema stars relied more heavily on his Oscar-winning dad, Denzel? to breathe new life into Leonardo DiCaprio as sound than dialogue, the “To work with my father. That the franchise and make Dom Cobb, an expert film won three Oscars would be pretty intimidating to be himself a household in the art of extraction, and was nominated for on a set with him. I don’t know if name in the process. which means breaking five more including The Dark Knight into someone’s dream Best Picture and I’m ready yet.” featured a welcome and stealing secrets Best Director for Nolan. return performance hidden deep in their He further pushed Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor from Christian Bale, but subconscious. As a the limits with IMAX of Cineplex Magazine. it was Heath Ledger’s fugitive who’s lost cameras, attaching the dark, maniacal take on everything, Cobb has a large equipment to the the Joker that stole the chance at freedom if he wing of a fighter plane show. The late actor can complete one last to show the action right was recognized with heist — implant an idea from the cockpit of a posthumous Best into someone’s mind Tom Hardy’s character. UPGRADE Supporting Actor Oscar rather than stealing it. Like several of his YOUR EXPERIENCE for the role. The Dark He’ll just have to make movies before, Dunkirk Christopher Nolan is a huge fan Knight was also the first sure he and his team had an unconventional of IMAX and shot parts of Tenet in the format. See the film at an time a feature film was (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, timeline with three IMAX cinema to fully appreciate partially shot in IMAX — Tom Hardy, Ellen Page, stories taking place over his vision. a format Nolan would go Ken Watanabe) wake one hour, one day and on to use in future films. up alive. one week. —SHERI BLOCK

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Gosling Returns to Space Ryan Gosling gave a nuanced turn as astronaut Neil Armstrong in 2018’s First Man, and he’ll head for the stars again in the upcoming Project Hail Mary, based on the new book by Andy Weir, whose debut novel The Martian was turned into the hit film starring Matt Damon. The new story, which is said to contain an abundance of plot twists, revolves around a solitary astronaut who is tasked with saving the world. Gosling is also acting as producer.

COLMAN GETS LOST

It’s hard to find a more likeable and in-demand actor than Olivia Colman. After she finished filming Season Four of The Crown, the Oscar and Emmy winner signed onto actor Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, The Lost Daughter. Based on the novel by Elena Ferrante, the story finds a divorced professor (Colman) vacationing in an Italian town where her past mistakes as a mother and wife come back to haunt her when she meets a woman (Dakota Johnson) and her daughter. Look for Gyllenhaal’s husband, Peter Sarsgaard, in an unspecified role.

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Anne Hathaway has signed on to star in French Children Don’t Throw Food, based on Pamela Druckerman’s autobiographical book, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting. Druckerman, an American journalist who had a baby while living in France, noticed that French babies and children were better behaved than their American counterparts and set out to discover the country’s parenting norms. Hathaway brings her own experiences as a mother to the role, she has two young sons with husband Adam Shulman.

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Steve Coogan (left) and Rob Brydon in The Trip to Greece

Tripping Out After galivanting through Greece with Brydon and Coogan, continue your travels with the rest of the franchise THE TRIP 2010 The boys stick close to home in the first film, TRAVEL touring restaurants in northern England and seeing who can do the THE TRIP TO GREECE best Sean Connery and Michael Caine impressions. THERE’S NO BETTER FILM FRANCHISE FOR of Socrates. The trip continues to the beautiful stuck-at-home travellers this summer than island of Hydra and then onto the picturesque THE TRIP TO ITALY 2014 The Trip movies, which send British comic actor Mani peninsula, where they explore the famed Brydon is commissioned Steve Coogan and his old friend Rob Brydon to Diros Caves. by a newspaper to review various vacation hotspots where they indulge This journey, while still brimming with banter, restaurants in Italy, in good food, drink and highly amusing — and impressions and mouthwatering meals, is also and when Coogan joins disparaging — banter. tinged with sadness and a sense of foreboding him they continue their duelling impressions and For the fourth and final film in the series, as the middle-aged men question their career Brydon does his hilarious The Trip to Greece, the pair of bon vivants journey choices, their relationships with loved ones and man-in-a-small-box to the Mediterranean to follow in the footsteps the mistakes they’ve made. routine in Pompeii. of hero Odysseus. We know Brydon and Coogan are playing That means starting off at the ruins of Troy heightened, and at times farcical, versions of THE TRIP TO SPAIN 2017 (located in Turkey), from where Odysseus began themselves, and yet their caustic wit and biting Here, the pals retrace a trip that Coogan took his 10-year journey home to Ithaca. They cross humour gives way to introspection. In this poi- through Spain when he the Aegean Sea to the seaport of Kavala, stop- gnant finale it isn’t just the homeward journey of was young and stop to ping off to visit the village where Mamma Mia! Odysseus we are tracking; we are watching our enjoy six glorious meals was filmed. Then it’s off to Athens, where they comic heroes make their way home, too, after (and do even more check out the Parthenon and re-enact the death their many travels abroad. —IR impressions).

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Cold 1. 6. Who starred in the most In which Star Wars movie Comfort recent film adaptation of do we visit the ice planet Jack London’s Yukon-set of Hoth? It’s getting hot out there. Not that we’re The Call of the Wild? a) Return of the Jedi complaining, but as temperatures rise you a) Josh Brolin b) A New Hope might want to cool off with a cold-weather b) Clint Eastwood c) The Empire Strikes Back movie from time to time. Not only can c) Tommy Lee Jones d) The Force Awakens movies transport us to different places and d) Harrison Ford time periods, but different seasons as well. So, grab a cold drink and chill out with our quiz about frigid films. 7. 2. Which of these chilly Each of these movies tells animated films features a true story related to the a squirrel named Scrat? Winter Olympics. Which a) Frozen story happened first? b) Happy Feet a) Cool Runnings c) Ice Age b) Eddie the Eagle d) The Polar Express c) I, Tonya d) Miracle 8. In which of these cold- 3. weather comedies does Which movie set atop Chevy Chase not appear? a snowy mountain stars a) Christmas Vacation Idris Elba? b) Groundhog Day a) Alive c) Snow Day b) The Mountain d) Hot Tub Time Machine Between Us c) Downhill d) Everest 9. Which movie has a shot of Jack Nicholson frozen 4. solid? Which of these penguin- a) Batman based films boasts b) Mars Attacks! the voice talents of c) The Shining Morgan Freeman? d) The Witches of Eastwick a) March of the Penguins b) Happy Feet c) Mr. Popper’s Penguins d) Surf’s Up 10. In which movie do we meet the White Witch, responsible for the 5. Hundred-Year Winter? Which of these films a) The Chronicles of Narnia: Idris Elba in is about a perpetually The Lion, the Witch and a certain moving train in a the Wardrobe snowy movie never-ending winter? b) Frozen II a) Midnight Express c) Oz the Great b) Snowpiercer and Powerful c) The Darjeeling Limited d) Lord of the Rings:

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Out of the Ashes, Neon Artist Rob Croxford has always loved vintage neon signs. But it wasn’t until 2018, when his Toronto studio and the 120 acrylic paintings inside were destroyed by fire, that Croxford started working on his new series of paintings, which he dubbed “Sign Language.” “One day I was looking at photos from a recent trip to Clockwise from left, New York City where I had Rob Croxford’s photographed dozens of signs takes on Top Gun, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and visited the Museum of the and There Will Be Blood Moving Image,” he says. “Suddenly, I was smiling. Just looking at all my photos it all came together in my head. I could combine movie quotes with old signs! BLAM-O! A new series was born.” A film buff, Croxford has no shortage of movie quotes from which to draw; but he also has to be able to subvert the quote’s meaning. “Half the fun is finding the way to combine the two elements and have it make sense,” he says. —MW

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