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TERMINATOR DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETEI REBOOT SCENE FEMME FORCE MULTIPLIES Mackenzie Davis (Halt and Catch Fire, Blade Runner 2049) is ready FIRST for a fight in our early preview of the Terminator reboot, which sees the badass Linda Hamilton return- LOOK ing to her role as Sarah Connor alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, with Gabriel Luna (Agents of RECENT REVEALS STIRRING S.H.I.E.L.D.) stepping in as the UP BUZZ ON THE WWW Terminator. Are we ready for another round? We’re always ready. GLASSI IN CINEMAS NOVEMBER 2019 TERMINATOR REBOOT DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE GIBSON, VAUGHN GLASS brightest new filmmakers. The NEWS GET BRUTAL crime thriller also stars Jennifer SHYAMALAN UNITES LIAM NEESON’S HARD POWDER What bad things will good men do Carpenter and Don Johnson. MAD CREATIONS FLASH for their families? World premier- First came Unbreakable (2000), GETS A RELEASE DATE ing at the Venice Film Festival, “To me it’s much starring Bruce Willis as a man director S. Craig Zahler’s follow- more interesting discovering an extraordinary Middle East film distributor Selim up to the bone-cracking Bone power and Samuel L. Jackson as Ramia & Co (Grand Cinemas Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block writing people who the orchestrator of his encounters, parent company) has set a 99 stars Mel Gibson and Vince are all over the Mr. Glass. Then came Split (2016) February 7th release date for Vaughn as two overzealous cops spectrum — good starring James McAvoy as a dis- the new Liam Neeson action who descend into the criminal people who are turbed man with 24 personalities. thriller, Hard Powder. Also underworld to gain their just due. doing bad things and Now, director M. Night Shyamalan starring Emmy Rossum revenge against the drug dealers Our first look comes courtesy of bad people trying brings these three potent forces and Laura Dern, the film he thinks killed his son. We have effects artist Tate Steinsiek, who together in Glass, and our first look sees Neeson breaking no doubt that this snowplow calls Zahler “a madman of the fin- to do okay things to finds them all in a psychiatric facil- bad as a snowplow driver has a certain set of skills fit est stock”, and we can’t wait to see better themselves.” ity. Let the madness begin! driver who seeks for the task at hand. the latest from one of the industry’s S. CRAIG ZAHLER IN CINEMAS JANUARY 2019 6 GRAND CINEMAS SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 grandcinemasme.com 7 SCENEthe FIRST LOOK “There’s a word that SURVIVING people often use with courageous people, that they’re A PRIVATE WAR ‘fearless’, and I think it’s interesting Rosamund Pike walks most celebrated war correspon- dents of our time. Colvin sacrifices because she had in the shoes of heroic loving relationships and over time, fear and did what journalist Marie Colvin in her personal life starts to unravel she did anyway.” the inspiring true story as the trauma she’s witnessed takes co-starring Jamie Dornan its toll. Yet, her mission to show In our next issue, we’ll be tak- the true cost of war leads her along ing a closer look at this extraordi- he went to the uncomfort- with renowned war photographer nary woman, and the incredibly able places of the earth Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan) to difficult preparation Pike under- when other people were embark on the most dangerous went to bring her story to light. going in the opposite assignment of their lives. IN CINEMAS NOVEMBER 1 Sdirection, and spoke the truth about them,” says Rosamund Pike to Entertainment Weekly.