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Fanboys Nurse.Fighter.Boy A group of Star Wars fanatics A dying nurse (Karen LeBlanc), and longtime friends her 11-year-son (Daniel C. (including Jay Baruchel, Gordon) and a washed-up INTHEATRESS Sam Huntington and boxer-turned-street-fighter YOUR MONTHLY GUIDE TO NEW RELEASES BY INGRID RANDOJA Dan Fogler) drive across the (Clark Johnson) come together country to sneak into in the most unexpected ways. George Lucas’ Skywalker See Karen LeBlanc interview, Ranch and steal an early copy page 12. of Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace. The Pink Panther 2 february6 Steve Martin returns as It’s Not Me, I Swear bumbling French Inspector Set in suburban Montreal Jacques Clouseau in this sequel during the summer of 1968, to 2006’s The Pink Panther. director Philippe Falardeau’s Clouseau assembles a team dark comedy focuses on of equally inept coppers — 10-year-old Leon played by Andy Garcia, (Antoine L’Écuyer), whose Alfred Molina, Aishwarya Rai dysfunctional family leaves and Yuki Matsuzaki — to locate Steve Martin in The Pink Panther 2 him feeling suicidal. priceless stolen artifacts.

Confessions of a Under the Sea 3D Shopaholic Jim Carrey narrates this 13 Making a comedy (based on the environment-minded february book by Sophie Kinsella) about documentary about the a brand-obsessed young woman diverse creatures and (Isla Fisher) with a shopping seascapes off the coasts of addiction who finds herself deep Australia and New Guinea. in debt may have sounded like a funny idea a few years back Friday the 13th when the economy was When Clay’s (Jared Padalecki) booming, but that was then and sister goes missing, he and a this is now. few friends head to Camp Crystal Lake to search for her and Two Lovers come face-to-hockey-mask with Leonard’s (Joaquin Phoenix) serial killer Jason Voorhees. family wants him to settle down Friday the 13th co-producer Coraline (right) gets a glimpse of the good life in the 3D, stop-motion pic Coraline with Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), but Brad Fuller explains this reboot he’s obsessed with his neighbour of the horror franchise as “not a Michelle (Gwyneth Patrow), a remake of any one of the films Coraline Push Che: Part Two He’s Just Not That flighty woman who’s seeing a per se....we took kills that we Nightmare Before Christmas Nick (Chris Evans) can move Director Steven Soderbergh Into You married man (Elias Koteas). loved and story points that we director Henry Selick is a master objects with his mind, Cassie brings the second half of Based on the self-help book Writer/director James Gray thought were great and put them of stop-motion animation, and (Dakota Fanning) can see the his epic retelling of the life of by Greg Behrendt and wrote the part of Michelle into a blender.” Good to know. now he pairs the old-school future, Kira (Camilla Belle) Marxist revolutionary Liz Tuccillo, this dramedy specifically for Paltrow. art form with cutting-edge 3D can implant thoughts into Che Guevara (Benicio Del Toro) stars Jennifer Aniston, Drew The Pool technology to tell the tale of an another person’s mind, and all to the big screen. After having Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, The International Venkatesh (Venkatesh Chavan) unhappy girl named Coraline three are being chased through helped Fidel Castro and his Scarlett Johansson and An Interpol agent (Clive Owen) is a poor Indian boy who dreams (voiced by Dakota Fanning), who the streets of Hong Kong by brother Raúl bring socialism to Ginnifer Goodwin as teams with a New York Assistant of swimming in the pristine pool steps into an alternate version of The Division, a government Cuba, Che focuses on the women who have difficulty District Attorney (Naomi Watts) owned by a wealthy family. So her life. Her alternate-life parents agency that controls people rest of Latin America, and understanding the various to bring down the world’s leading he gets a job working for the dote on her, but there’s something with extrasensory powers. specifically Bolivia, where his men in their lives. bank, which uses its assets to family in the hopes of making sinister about their desire to See Dakota Fanning interview, dream of a successful revolution See Jennifer Connelly launder money, buy arms and his dream come true. keep her from returning home. page 32. comes to a sad end. interview, page 38. Confessions of a Shopaholic’s Isla Fisher destabilize governments. continued

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OSCARS CRITICS’ PICKS THE GOLDEN GGLOBES Awards season kicked AWARDSS off with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association handing out its annual Golden Globe Awards. The Association, WRAPEvery year critics from acrossP comprised of 95 journalists from 55 North America anoint a handful of nations, has been films and performances as the year’s accused of pandering to best and, increasingly, the critics’ picks the Hollywood studios are lining up with Oscar’s picks. and stars, but make no mistake, GG winners carry clout with Academy TORONTO FILM CRITICS NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW members, and the public. ASSOCIATION Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire This year’s winners: Top: Heath Ledger’s Best Picture: Wendy and Lucy Best Director: David Fincher (The Curious maniacal Joker in Best Director: Jonathan Demme Case of Benjamin Button) Best Picture (Drama) The Dark Knight (Rachel Getting Married) Best Actor: Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino) Slumdog Millionaire This picture: Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) Best Actress: Anne Hathaway Best Picture (Comedy or Musical) Penélope Cruz as the Best Actress: Michelle Williams (Rachel Getting Married) Vicky Cristina Barcelona mentally unstable (Wendy and Lucy) Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin (Milk) Best Director: Maria Elena inVicky Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) Cristina Barcelona (The Dark Knight) (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) Best Actor (Drama) Best Supporting Actress: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married) BOSTON SOCIETY OF Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) FILM CRITICS Colin Farrell (In Bruges) NEW YORK FILM CRITICS Best Picture (tie): Slumdog Millionaire and WALL•EALL•E Best Actress (Drama) CIRCLE Best Director: Gus Van Sant Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road) Best Picture: Milk (Milk and Paranoid Park) Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) Best Director: Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky) Best Actor (tie): Sean Penn (Milk) and Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) Best Actor: Sean Penn (Milk) Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) Best Supporting Actor: Best Actress: Sally Hawkins Best Actress: Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) (Happy-Go-Lucky) Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger Best Supporting Actress: Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin (Milk) (The Dark Knight) Kate Winslet (The Reader) Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) CHICAGO FILM CRITICS WASHINGTON D.C. NATIONAL SOCIETY OF LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS SAN FRANCISCO FILM ASSOCIATION AREA FILM CRITICS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION CRITICS CIRCLE Best Picture: WALL•E ASSOCIATION Best Picture: Waltz with Bashir Best Picture: WALL•E Best Picture: Milk Best Director: Danny Boyle Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire Best Director: Mike Leigh Best Director: Danny Boyle Best Director: Gus Van Sant (Milk) (Slumdog Millionaire) Best Director: Danny Boyle (Happy-Go-Lucky) (Slumdog Millionaire) Best Actor (tie): Sean Penn (Milk) and Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) (Slumdog Millionaire) Best Actor: Sean Penn (Milk) Best Actor: Sean Penn (Milk) Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) Best Actress: Anne Hathaway Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) Best Actress: Sally Hawkins ® Best Actress: Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) Best Actress: Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) (Rachel Getting Married) Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Doubt) (Happy-Go-Lucky) A.M.P.A.S.

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger © Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Marsan (The Dark Knight) (The Dark Knight) (The Dark Knight) (The Dark Knight) (Happy-Go-Lucky) Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei Best Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet Best Supporting Actress: Best Supporting Actress: Hanna Schygulla OSCAR STATUE OSCAR STATUE

(Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Elegy) (The Wrestler) (The Reader) Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married) (The Edge of Heaven)

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OSCARS PARTY TIPS Sebastien Centner 10 tips for throwing the perfect Oscar party

Word is Sebastien Centner is the man to faces onto the cover of a DVD case for a see about throwing Oscar parties. As the specific movie and each guest left with director of Eatertainment Special Events, a copy — not of the movie, just the case. he’s thrown bashes at this country’s biggest affairs — Fashion Cares, Fashion Create a themed photo booth. Pick up Week, The Toronto International Film 5some great props and let your guests Festival — with guest lists that include dress up and take digital snapshots of each Matt Damon, Bill Clinton and, ahem, other. Especially funny when you email Martha Stewart. them to everyone a few days later! He’s also in charge of Toronto’s celebrity hotspots Bloor Street Diner and An Oscar Pool. Much like fantasy Panorama Lounge. So, yeah, he has some 6football, send out the ballots ahead cred. That’s why we asked Centner for his of time so guests have time to fill them Top-10 insider tips for celebrating Oscar. out before they arrive. Make up teams with, for each category, the losing team Make your invitation look like an being assigned a task (do the dishes, 1envelope containing the winner of an drink a specialty shot, etc.). Oscar. With “The Envelope Please” scrawled DON’T across the outside, this sort of invitation Create a red-carpet entrance. Pick up immediately sets the tone for your party. 7remnant red carpet and cut to size or look into one-use event carpet. This will Make the evening a glam one with surely set the tone as guests arrive. 2shiny trays (silver/gold/mirrorred) for Accentuate by getting your kids to snap RUN PART Y serving canapés or displaying drinks. It’s photos of guests — paparazzi style! the Oscars for God’s sake…the palette should be gold, white and black! Create fun movie snacks such as exotic 8popcorns in Asian takeout containers Fill commercial time with mini-games (the containers even come in silver, black 3— Oscars trivia, favourite movie and gold). moments or my personal favourite, OUTIt’s always the biggest issue: “The Newlyweds Movie Game,” where you Make miniature versions of fan faves How much liquor do I need? PART Y test spouses on how well they know their 9— Caesar-salad spears, miniature partner’s favourite movies. steak sandwiches, bite-size pizzas, How much ice? What about food? smoked-salmon or cheesecake lollipops Sebastien Centner has Create great parting gifts in true (made by putting small pieces on spears). designed an easy-to-use 4Hollywood style. The real stars may be spin wheel that calculates getting a bag of goodies worth $50,000 at Create movie-inspired cocktails how much of each item you their Oscar parties, but at least your guests 10 such as “The Junotini” — a Sunny D need based on the number can leave with some bling too (movie specialty martini with vodka and mandarin of guests expected. You passes make a great gift, or classic movie orange garnish (based on Ellen Page’s can download it at: posters). For one party I hosted I had a Sunny D-loving character from last year’s www.eatertainment.com/ graphic designer Photoshop all my guests’ nominated pic Juno). lifestyle/ PART24 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2009 Y FEBRUARY 2009 FAMOUS 25 OscarFashion_Feb09:Fcontents 1/21/09 2:24 PM Page 26 OscarFashion_Feb09:Fcontents 1/21/09 11:20 AM Page 27

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DESIGNS ON OSCAR Bronwyn Cosgrave helps us ID six top red-carpet designers

EMILY BLUNT

Bronwyn Cosgrave

oronto-born fashion writer Bronwyn Cosgrave has lived in London, England, for the past 16 years where Tshe’s made a living pontificating about MARION designers and style for Harper’s Bazaar, YSTONE BBC4 and, for several years, as British COTILLARD Vogue’s features editor. Cosgrave recently put her fashion smarts to use in the book Made for Each Jean-Paul FranFrancisco Giorgio Other: Fashion and the Academy Awards, Gaultier CostCosta for Armani CATE a look at Oscar fashion that reaches all BLANCHETT the way back to the early days of What typifies a CalvCalvin Klein What typifies an Mary Pickford and Marlene Dietrich. Gaultier dress: risqué, What tytypifies a Armani dress: muted “I was working at Vogue and covering sexy, inventive, proper Costa dress:dr minimalist, opulence, subtlety, the Oscars for BBC TV,” Cosgrave says couture, takes risks, the simple, non ruffles or frills Old-Hollywood nostalgia over the phone from her London home. closest you’ll get to avant- Who wearswea Costa: Who wears Armani: “I’m a fashion historian so decided to garde at the Oscars Emily Blunt,Bl Amy Ryan Cate Blanchett, Sharon Stone do some research…. I had this amazing Who wears Gaultier: Marion Cosgrave’sCosgrav take:“Calvin Klein Cosgrave’s take: “Probably Vogue library at my disposal and started Cotillard, Nicole Kidman is a designerdesi that is known the best dress I’ve seen at looking through biographies, and Cosgrave’s take: “I think for doing very minimalist the Oscars in a long time is fashion books and back issues of Vogue.” what’s great about Jean- clothes, Francisco Costa has the silver column that So we asked Cosgrave to identify six Paul Gaultier, his dresses carried ono that minimalism. Cate Blanchett wore two designers who are red-carpet mainstays do look sexy, but women Two yeayears ago he did this years ago. I can’t say I like at the Academy Awards. You know, those who are going to the Oscars dress forfo Emily Blunt that Armani dresses all the time names you hear over and over again on never want to look too sexy. was almostalm like, to me, a at the Oscars, because it’s the Oscars Pre-Show. With her help, you It’s a very fine balance, they night sksky. It was midnight often very subtle, but this should be able to recognize some of don’t want their dresses blue and had a real sparkle to dress was this great crystal-y these designers’ creations before their falling off when they run up it, and it was strapless. And it gray and had this great PHOTOS : MARION COTILLARD BY RICHARD HARBAUGH, COURTESY A.M.P.A.S.; EMILY BLUNT BY DAVID WIMSETT/KEYSTONE; CATE BLANCHETT BY KE BY BLANCHETT CATE WIMSETT/KEYSTONE; DAVID BY BLUNT EMILY A.M.P.A.S.; COURTESY HARBAUGH, RICHARD BY COTILLARD : MARION PHOTOS

names even slip from the starlets’ lips. to the podium.” just lookedlook beautiful on her.” Hollywood nostalgia.”

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Marchesa Valentino John What typifies a What typifies a Galliano Marchesa dress: colourful, Valentino dress: elegant, for Dior ethnic chic, beadwork, Roman, lace, red, coral, What typifies a embroidery, younger take classy, fits like a glove Galliano dress: inspired by Who wears Marchesa: Anne Who wears Valentino: Old Hollywood, glamorous, Hathaway, Jennifer Lopez Cameron Diaz, Calista huge bows, trains Cosgrave’s take: “Marchesa Flockhart, Julia Roberts, Who wears Galliano: is a label that is designed by Miley Cyrus Diablo Cody, Charlize Theron, two girls, Keren Craig and Cosgrave’s take: “He’s one Gisele Bündchen, Heidi Klum Georgina Chapman, and of those designers who Cosgrave’s take: “Last year, Georgina Chapman is the romanticizes Hollywood Diablo Cody wore this wife of Harvey Weinstein. and it goes back to his leopard-spotted number It’s a bit of a controversial childhood. He opens up his which was very wild and one because people say archives. He has an old- theatrical. John Galliano is a YORK TO THE POWER OF 50. Fifty years ago a dream began. A vision of bringing that everyone just wears school approach. He will very theatrical person, he together researchers, teachers, students and partners from different disciplines to address the Marchesa because they want send his tailor to Hollywood dresses up for all of his to keep a good relationship to fit the stars. I think the runway shows. When he complex challenges of tomorrow. This is the essence of our interdisciplinary approach. going with Harvey. But I do thing about his dresses is takes a bow he’s always Each year, York University welcomes 50,000 students helping them transform into innovative think that the dresses are they’re rich, there’s a dressed in some sort of thinkers prepared to tackle real-world issues. As we look back on our first fifty years, PHOTOS: ANNE HATHAWAY BY MICHAEL YADA, COURTESY A.M.P.A.S; CAMERON DIAZ COURTESY A.M.P.A.S; DIABLO CODY BY MICHAEL YADA, COURTESY A.M.P.A.S COURTESY YADA, MICHAEL BY CODY DIABLO A.M.P.A.S; COURTESY DIAZ CAMERON A.M.P.A.S; COURTESY YADA, MICHAEL BY ANNE HATHAWAY PHOTOS:

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DISSECTING OSCAR The Oscar statue was Total number of designed in 1928 by statues presented MGM art director (not including last PICTUREE Cedric Gibbons. year’s ceremony Test your Mexican actor and honourary Emilio Fernández awards): 2,658. knowledgee served as the model, and Gibbons had to Oscar’s official name of Oscar’s convince him to is the Academy Award Best Picturee pose naked. of Merit. How did 4 the Award get the winners The statue depicts nickname Oscar? a knight holding a There’s no definitive crusader’s sword on answer, but the top of a reel of film most probable 1. Nineteenth-century London is the setting for this Best Picture, which picked up an additional four Oscars. with five spokes, explanation harkens THIS2. Wes Bentley, Thora Birch and Mena Suvari heat up this Oscar champ. which represent the back to 1931 when 3. Hats off to this Best Picture winner, whose hat-obsessed costume designer also picked up an Oscar. Academy’s five Margaret Herrick, 4. Alec Baldwin (standing centre) brought his gruff appeal to this testosterone-fuelled Best Pic. original branches — the librarian for the Actors, Writers, Academy of Motion 5. This Best Picture winner cast Jimmy Stewart (far right) as a clown who never takes off his makeup. Directors, Producers Picture Arts and and Technicians. Sciences, noted the statue “looked just Stands 13½ like my Uncle Oscar.” inches tall. Reporter Sidney Skolsky published Diameter of base is her comment and 5 five and one-quarter the name stuck. inches. After 1950, the Weighs eight and Academy had all one-half pounds. Award winners sign an agreement that Made of britannium stipulates that they, and gold-plated. or their heirs, could (During WWII the not sell their statue statues were made without first offering of plaster, which were to sell it back to the 2 traded in for metal Academy for $1. If ones after the they do not sign, their war ended.) Oscar is returned to the Academy. Approximately 40 Oscars are Oscars presented manufactured every before 1951 can year by the Chicago be sold. In 1999, ® firm R.S. Owens Michael Jackson paid A.M.P.A.S.

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INTERVIEW DAKOTA FANNING Sweet

On the eve of her 15th birthday, child star Dakota Fanning talks about voting for the Oscars, starring in the stop-motion 3D fantasy Coraline, and getting15 all punked up for Push BY MARNI WEISZ

t’s a cold and rainy December afternoon in Los Angeles and Dakota Fanning has just gotten home from school. “It’s the last week before winter break so there’s not much homework to do,” she says over the phone, “so I’m just relaxing.” That’s good, she’ll need her rest come February. Not only does the star of 19 movies — including War of the Worlds, Dreamer, Charlotte’s Web and The Secret Life of Bees — turn 15 on February 23rd, she also stars in two of the month’s biggest movies. There’s Coraline, the first stop-motion animated movie ever shot entirely in 3D. Fanning is the voice of the title character, a girl who finds a door to an alternate universe in her bedroom wall, and meets Ianother version of her family on the other side. And then there’s Push, a dark-edged superhero movie that takes place in Hong Kong. Similar to X-Men or Hellboy, Push’s world is populated with outcasts born with supernatural abilities. Some, including Fanning’s character Cassie, are Watchers, they see into the future and record their visions in drawings. A punky Dakota Fanning Others, like Nick (Chris Evans), are Movers, they have telekinetic powers so can move objects with their teams with Chris Evans for minds. And others still are Pushers and can place thoughts in other people’s heads. Government factions the sci-fi action pic Push are trying to capture the mutants to use their powers as weapons, but Cassie, Nick and a Pusher named Kira (Camilla Belle) won’t go down without a fight. Oh, there’s one more reason this is a big month for Fanning. The Academy Awards. No, she wasn’t nominated — she gets to vote. In 2006, Fanning became the youngest member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an honour that comes with full voting privileges. In fact, the 14-year-old’s plan for this evening is to go downstairs, turn on the fireplace, and watch some of the screeners Oscar hopefuls have been bombarding her with all month. continued

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Can you say which movies you’re voting for? “I don’t think I’m allowed to say who I’ll be voting for, but there are FOR HOT, SMART PEOPLE. some wonderful movies out and I just enjoy getting them all and getting to watch them, watch everybody’s work. It’s just a wonderful part of being an actor.” A Is that what you’ve been doing with all of your free time lately? T BL CKB S ER E R “Well, it’s kind of hard to balance free time and school. But I have about N Y N three weeks off for winter break so I’m sure I’ll be doing a lot of that.” Coraline (right) with her Other Mother I C H U T R

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P filmed it and I think I was playing a real kind of a teenager in now. It’s obviously very different. There’s so much shopping to do that movie. It was a character I got to develop with the director there. Malls underground and aboveground and in buildings and in [Paul McGuigan] and something different than I’d done before.” hotels, there’s always shopping to do and that was so much fun.”

They really roughed you up. You have the big boots, dark circles Did you find anything you wouldn’t have been able to find in under your eyes and dyed hair. How did that wardrobe feel? the States? “Oh. it was great, it was so much fun to be able to pick the costume “Well, I got a lot of beautiful jewellery, a lot of jade and Buddhas. and get into that every day, I loved it. They gave it to me at the end, There’s this place called The 10,000 Buddhas and you take this long so I have my whole costume and everything.” walk up these steps and it’s all lined with these golden Buddhas, and then you get to the temple and the four walls are covered with 10,000 You helped pick out the wardrobe? miniature Buddhas, that’s why it’s called The 10,000 Buddhas, and “Well, yeah, on every film you get to do the fitting, try everything on while I was there I got this really neat necklace that I love.” and see what I’m most comfortable with, and what everyone else is most comfortable with. It’s always a fun experience.” And then there’s Coraline, which didn’t even have a real set, being animated. You worked on that for three-and-a-half years. ALL NEW You’ve already done some very grown-up movies, the very Why so long? BLACKBERRY® CURVETM 8320 BLACKBERRY® CURVETM 8900 BLACKBERRY® PEARLTM FLIP 8220 controversial Hounddog comes to mind. But do you find people are “There were a lot of rewrites and changes and I would go back and $ 99† $ 99 $ 99† $ 99 $ 99† $ 99 549 no term 599 no term 399 no term always waiting for that first real grown-up Dakota Fanning role? rerecord that, so that was the only reason. Especially for this movie, 99 199 49 “I don’t know. I’ve been working since I was six and every movie that it’s not just an animated movie, it’s 3D stop-motion animation so EXCLUSIVELY FROM ROGERS I’ve done has kind of been the age that I am. I never do anything it takes a lot longer than just a regular computer-animated movie.” that’s younger or older or too old or too young, it’s always good for the time that I am in my life. I don’t know really, when people say Have you seen the finished product in 3D? NOW GET that, what they mean, ‘grown-up role,’ because I’m not grown yet “I saw a 20-minute clip edited together. It was really great. I didn’t and I don’t know if anyone’s ever totally grown-up. We’re all aging want it to end…. It’s kind of spooky at times and a very fun movie and learning as we continue to get older.” to watch especially because of the 3D stop-motion animation, it’s almost like you’re really in the story.” UNLIMITED That’s an interesting take on it. * “I think people kind of don’t realize that I am as old as I am. They Do you have any idea why there are so many acting siblings? don’t realize how much time passes in between the movies…. So a There’s you and your sister, Elle, the Breslins, the Culkins… TXT, EMAIL & IM lot of people are surprised when I say I’m almost 15.” “I don’t. My sister, she just enjoys it. She played me at a younger age in I am Sam. That was her first experience, then it took on a life of its ONLY FOR A LIMITED TIME The script describes your character as 13 going on 30. I think own. She does her own thing, and we never talk about it, ever, really.” rogers.com/unlimited people think of you that way; did you relate to that? “You know, I’ve never really felt any different than anyone else my Why not? CANADA’S MOST RELIABLE NETWORK; FEWEST DROPPED CALLS, CLEAREST RECEPTION age. I think Cassie, the character, has seen a lot and experienced a lot “We’re just sisters, I don’t know.” F because of her situation and maybe that’s why they say that about ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// her. She’s street-smart and very wise.” Marni Weisz is the editor of Famous. †On select 3-year plans. Offers subject to change without notice. *Available with any BlackBerry device with subscription to select plans and activation with BlackBerry Internet Service. Includes unlimited personal e-mail (up to 10 accounts) while using BlackBerry on the Rogers Wireless network. See rogers.com/unlimited for plans and details. Usage subject to Rogers Terms of Service & Acceptable Use Policy available at rogers.com/terms. TMRogers & Mobius Design are trademarks of Rogers Communications Inc. used under license. All other brand names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. © 2008 Rogers Wireless. 34 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2009

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LOOKS Rocky, masculine, just- Rocky, masculine, just- CLIVE walked-into-a-wall face that walked-into-a-wall face that somehow works somehow works OWEN VOICE Deep, gruff English accent Deep, gruff English accent TRAINED Guildhall School of Music Royal Academy of and Drama, a classmate of Dramatic Art, a classmate NEVER Joseph Fiennes of Ralph Fiennes FAMILY Parents split when he was four Parents split when he was three

ACTION-PIC Played double-crossing Alex West, Played CIA sniper The Professor, GOT TO PEDIGREE who steals from Lara Croft, sent to kill Jason Bourne, in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. in The Bourne Identity. His character doesn’t survive His character doesn’t survive MAKE FILM QUANTUM OF SOLACE THE INTERNATIONAL few years ago, when CHARACTER British MI6 Agent British Interpol Agent Pierce Brosnan’s successor as James “007” Bond Louis Salinger James Bond was still up in the air, Clive Owen seemed like a PLOT Bond discovers that Dominic Salinger discovers that the natural choice. In fact, an Greene, the head of a secret evil world’s most powerful bank is October 2005 poll by the organization called “Quantum,” using the public’s money to fund British news network is using money he raises posing terrorism, war, murder, and a Sky News named Owen as an environmentalist to help a political coup the people’s choice for the coveted role. Bolivian general overthrow the ATall, dark, suave, masculine and British government in return for an — what more could Her Majesty want? important piece of land Well, the franchise’s big brains chose squat, blond Daniel Craig instead, and to MAJOR THEME Trust no one; everyone Trust no one; everyone many fans’ surprise he turned out to be is involved is involved an extraordinary Bond. Still, it’s hard not to wonder how Owen would have been. LOCATIONS He travels the world trying to He travels the world trying to Wonder no more. Owen’s new movie, uncover the conspiracy with uncover the conspiracy with The International, bears striking stops in Panama, Chile, Italy stops in Berlin, New York, similarities to the Bond films, particularly and Austria Istanbul and Milan Quantum of Solace. There’s the gun-pointing stare down, the walking protectively BABE Olga Kurylenko plays Bolivian Naomi Watts plays American next to a gorgeous babe, and of course Camille Montes, Greene’s former Eleanor Whitman, an Assistant the traversing of red tile roofs…in a lover out for revenge District Attorney out for justice suit…with no tie…while holding a gun. Here we compare the two men DIRECTOR: Marc Forster, born in Germany Tom Tykwer, born and raised and their movies. —MW and raised in Switzerland in Germany

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CONNELLY MAKES A

COMEDYYou won’t believe? how many years it’s been since Jennifer Connelly made her last funny movie. But the solemn actor finally goes The Cineplex Online DVD Store is NOW OPEN! GET OUT. for laughs with the ensemble You can now buy your favourite DVDs rom-com He’s Just Not That Into You from our extensive selection of new releases and all-time classics. BY BOB STRAUSS Relive the excitement of the movies at home.

ennifer Connelly needed a break. The girl needed to lighten up, big time. So it’s no wonder she After winning the 2001 Supporting Actress Oscar for was eager to make He’s Just Not That Into You, her first comedy the psychodrama A Beautiful Mind, the New Yorker had since Career Opportunities way back in 1991. appeared in a series of emotionally searing films — House of “It’s entirely lighthearted, so it’s a complete departure for me,” Sand and Fog, Little Children, Blood Diamond. Her venture acknowledges the 38-year-old actor, looking skinny in a floral-print Jinto horror, Dark Water, was seriously grim when most of its ilk are sundress on a warm December day in Los Angeles. “The last job escapist scary. And even Connelly’s sci-fi entertainments demanded I’d done before that was Reservation Road, which was the most more than the usual sit-back-and-let-the-CGI-do-the-work approach; harrowing subject matter [she played a grieving mother]. I was just, 2003’s Hulk was directed by Brokeback Mountain’s Ang Lee, of all ‘I…can’t…do…it…again! Frankly, I don’t want to see myself do it, people; and in the recent remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, I’m sick of that, it’s just time to do something entirely different.’” Connelly’s character had to save the very planet by locating, and Adapted from Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo’s best-selling advice touching, the deep inner humanity of…Keanu Reeves. book, the film’s studded with stars — Jennifer Aniston, continued Check it out at cineplex.com and click STORE! 38 FAMOUS FEBRUARY 2009 ® Cineplex Entertainment LP or used under license.

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COVER STORY JENNIFER CONNELLY Self-help me turn this into a good movie Before it became a movie, He’s Just Not That Into You was a best-selling self- help book by Sex and the City writers Liz Tuccillo and Greg Behrendt. Divided into 16 brutally honest chapters, it taught women how to tell when the men in their lives were not truly invested in their relationships, ie. “He’s Not Calling You,” “He’s Not Having Sex with You,” “He’s Having Sex with Someone Else,” “He Disappeared on You.” Being a self-help book it had no story, no plot twists, no character arcs. So how do you turn a series of non-fiction relationship tips into a star-studded romantic comedy? Gin and the Jens. From left: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Connelly “It’s really hard and it’s really easy,” says Tuccillo while in Toronto to promote her novel How to Be Single. “It’s not like there was a plot they could base the movie on...but the Drew Barrymore, Scarlett Johansson — playing ladies whose ideas a little more available. Apparently, the movie’s male characters Academy Award. “I just read scripts and pursue things that I feel drawn good news is that because there was no story the writers about how men should love them clash with reality. weren’t the only ones who had other things to do with their time. to: parts that I find interesting, filmmakers that I want to work with. And [Never Been Kissed scribes Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein] “My character is named Janine,” Connelly notes. “Ginnifer Goodwin “It was great, I wish there was more of it,” Connelly says of the y’know, it’s not always a perfect scenario. Sometimes I decide to work were able to make it up however they wanted.” is my best friend Gigi, I work in an office with her. Janine is incredibly female bonding. “All of those women were so busy, their schedules on something and I know that all of the elements aren’t exactly how I So how did they connect the movie to the book? optimistic and really committed to being a great girlfriend to her were kind of compartmentalized. So there wasn’t much hanging out want them to be. But those jobs don’t come up all the time, so I try to “The plotlines of the movie are titled by the chapter friend. She’s really obsessive, incredibly tidy and really convinced on the set, or like everyone’s there at the same time. People would pick the ones that I think have the most things going in the right direction.” titles,” explains Tuccillo, “and then you see that chapter that something’s going on with her husband…which is right, but come and go. I had some days with Scarlett, who I thought was lovely Next up is Creation, a film about Charles Darwin in which she plays played out in this relationship. It’s so smart to do it that way, she has it entirely focused on the wrong thing.” and really liked. Jennifer Aniston, I think we had two days together the evolution pioneer’s beloved and devoutly religious wife, Emma. rather than having to spend a lot of time talking about it.” Sounds funny. Or could be, anyway. Might be kind of heartbreaking, and I was completely…I felt like a weird stalker! I was like, ‘I wanna Sounds like another helping of deep-dish, angst-ridden drama. Tuccillo, who has a small cameo as a minister, says she actually, depending on how it’s played. be your friend, I think you’re really great, where are you going?’ She And maybe it will be. But making the film in England opposite was nervous when she was first sent the finished screenplay. “What I go through in He’s Just Not That Into You is quite a serious seemed like a very nice person.” Darwin portrayer Paul Bettany, Connelly’s British-born husband and “I was just afraid that it was going to be bad and I was event,” Connelly admits. “But tonally, it’s handled in a different way. Connelly’s been pretty busy herself most of this decade. And the father of her five-year-old son, was all smiles, she happily reports. going to be embarrassed,” she says. “I was so close to it, I The film is very obviously made in a different spirit.” although many of her post-Oscar movies have been perceived as “It was fantastic, such a joy to work with him,” says Connelly, who didn’t understand how they were going to be able to weave Working with such an amazing cast of funny women must have been financial disappointments, there is no arguing that, dark as much of hasn’t done so since the couple met while making A Beautiful Mind. “We the philosophy into an ensemble film. [But] they honoured a welcome change from the drama that’s dominated Connelly’s career it was, she has chosen challenging and provocative work whenever were like giggly kids. We were like, ‘Can you believe we get to ride to the book more than I imagined they could have, or would since she started making movies as an adolescent, beginning with given the opportunity. work together in the morning?’ It was really nice.” F have. They were very true to the book while being this Sergio Leone’s 1984 underworld epic Once Upon a Time in America. “It didn’t change the way I feel internally, in terms of how I feel ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// complete fictional ensemble comedy.” —MW Or it would have been a welcome change if those women had been about my work and the demands I place on myself,” she says of her Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about movies and filmmakers.

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THE GOODS HOTPLAY Vin Diesel is on the road again for Wheelman BY SCOTT GARDNER

Wheelman PC, PS3, XBOX 360 eputable sources define a wheelman as “a professional driver who excels at high-performance maneuvering, chase, pursuit, evasion and high-speed driving.” Real-world Rdefinitions add this key detail: “... and who typically works for underworld figures.” In other words: the perfect videogame hero. In this driving/action title, that hotshot driver has the imposing look and rumbling cadences of actor Vin Diesel. The actor stars as Milo Burik — an undercover agent on a mission to infiltrate criminal gangs in a beautifully rendered Barcelona. Wheelman, however, is not your typical movie-based game...mostly because there’s no movie. Announced in 2006, it was intended to support a Diesel-ish action flick of the same name, which has since quietly disappeared. Happily the game lives on, and it’s better for the loss, Killzone 2 X-Blades since the setting, story and action sequences are now wholly original. PS3 PC, PS3, XBOX 360 Gameplay includes some third-person shooting and fisticuffs, but The PS2’s Killzone was pretty After all that testosterone, Wheelman’s heart is combat driving — sideswiping opposing vehicles good. But Killzone 2 is probably here’s a game for the girls: or shooting at them. Special moves include hijacking other vehicles on the best-looking, most intense anime-inspired third-person the fly, and spinning 180 degrees to fire a few shots at your pursuers, first-person shooter ever seen action with Ayumi — a then spinning back to resume your escape through Barcelona’s narrow, on a console. Seriously. It has seductive-yet-tenacious obstacle-filled streets. gut-wrenching futuristic heroine who hacks her way This is Vin Diesel’s second videogame appearance, following 2004’s humans vs. aliens gameplay, through the forces of excellent Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay — a terrific robust online multiplayer, and darkness with a bladed pistol game sunk by its stinker of a tie-in movie. And like that title, both vistas and characters are and magical powers, all Wheelman is co-created by Tigon Studios — the star’s own videogame detailed and lifelike. With gritty while clad in an armoured development company. So while some of his movies may be kinda combat in ruined cityscapes, it’s thong bikini. Oh wait — this brainless, clearly Diesel is not. the PS3’s Saving Private Ryan. one’s for the boys as well. RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 16 RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 27 RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 10

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FEBRUARY 17 building to help an old lady it uses to poke holes in those looks like her report will be a who accept religion and God Flash of Genius snooze — until that old lady as if they are knowable STARS: Gren Kinnear, turns on them, and the building and infallible truths. In this DVDRELEASESS Lauren Graham is placed under quarantine documentary, Maher travels BIG MOVIES COMING TO THE SMALL SCREEN BY MARNI WEISZ DIRECTOR: Marc Abraham because a virus is turning its the world with that spear, (debut) residents into bloodthirsty taking on some of the most STORY: The true story of killers. DVD Extras: “Dressing the out-there characters in the mystery show by their Robert Kearns (Kinnear), Infected: Robert Hall’s Make-Up religious realms. favourite band, and looking a professor and part-time Design,” “Anatomy of a Stunt” DVD Extras: deleted and February for Norah’s friend Caroline inventor who, in the 1960s, extended scenes, (Ari Graynor) who’s drunk came up with the design for Religulous commentary and AWOL. DVD Extras: the intermittent windshield STARS: Bill Maher, Julie Maher deleted scenes, gag reel, wiper. But the big auto DIRECTOR:Larry David (Borat) FEBRUARY 24 commentary, a puppet manufacturers didn’t want to STORY: Political commentator, rendition of Nick & Norah by give him credit for the device talk-show host and proud What Just Kat Dennings, storyboard (or any of the profits), so he agnostic Bill Maher has long Happened animations sued. DVD Extras: deleted been sharpening the spear he STARS:Robert De Niro, scenes, commentary Bruce Willis DID YOU KNOW FEBRUARY 10 DIRECTOR: Barry Levinson YOU CAN NOW BUY Quarantine (Man of the Year) THESE MOVIES, AND Blindness STARS: Jennifer Carpenter, STORY: De Niro plays Ben, a MANY MORE, ONLINE STARS: Mark Ruffalo, Steve Harris Hollywood producer whose AT CINEPLEX.COM? Julianne Moore DIRECTOR: John Erick Dowdle career already has one foot in DIRECTOR: Fernando Meirelles (Dry Spell) the crapper when the star of Simply click on the “Store” (City of Men) STORY: A reporter (Carpenter) his next action-packed thriller button to access tens of STORY: When an epidemic of shadows the Los Angeles fire (Bruce Willis, playing Bruce Willis) thousands of titles — new blindness takes over an entire departmentfor a night hoping shows up to the set overweight movies, classic films, city, the affected are thrown to get a good story. But when and sporting a bushy beard he TV series and box sets — and into a prison where they they head for an apartment doesn’t want to shave. have them shipped directly devolve to their basest to your home. natures. Even though she Both DVDsand Blu-Ray can still see, the wife (Moore) discs are available, and the of one of the incarcerated store is open 24 hours a day, (Ruffalo) pretends to be blind seven days a week. so she can enter the prison Michael Cera hooks up with Kat Dennings in Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist with her hubbie and bring some humanity to the place.

FEBRUARY 3 commentary, deleted scenes, nurse (Dhavernas) and things Zack and Miri “An Underdog’s Journey,” are finally looking up. But when Make a Porno Bottle Shock “Chateau Montelena: One her little brother decides to join STARS: Seth Rogen, STARS:Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman Winery’s Search for Excellence” the good fight, Dunne is Elizabeth Banks DIRECTOR: Randall Miller compelled to return to the front DIRECTOR: Kevin Smith (Nobel Son) Passchendaele to protect him. DVD Extras: (Dogma) STORY: The true tale of how STARS:Paul Gross, “The Road to Passchendaele” STORY: Hard up for cash, California wines finally became Caroline Dhavernas platonic friends Zack (Rogen) taken seriously around DIRECTOR: Paul Gross Nick & Norah’s and Miri (Banks) decide to the world. A British wine (Men with Brooms) Infinite Playlist make a porn film together for connoisseur working in Paris STORY: Gross’s unabashedly STARS: Michael Cera, Kat Dennings fun and profit. Can their dirty (Rickman) organizes a blind Canadian recounting of the DIRECTOR: Peter Sollett little project transform their wine-tasting contest to pit Battle of Passchendaele (Raising Victor Vargas) lives into a sweet romantic French wines against vintages revolves around Sergeant STORY: After a chance meeting at comedy? DVD Extras: a from the Napa Valley, and in the Michael Dunne (Gross), who a nightclub, nebbish Nick (Cera) two-disc edition includes process gives a boost to an returns home from the and lonely Norah (Dennings) “Money Shots Webisodes,” American vintner’s (Pullman) First World War mentally and spend a chaotic night together, “Popcorn Porn,” deleted flagging business. DVD Extras: physically scarred. He falls for a searching New York City for a scenes, commentary This just in. Jennifer Carpenter plays a reporter who, unfortunately, gets the story of a lifetime in the horror pic Quarantine

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