Cineplex Magazine
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
• We will ONLY accept PDF/X-1a files 1027653-4P – SB – eHome PRINT Ad#: • Resolution must be 300 dpi at 100% File Name: 1027653-4-SB_eHOME_CineplexMag_Ad Pub: Cineplex • Include 0.125" bleed on all sides of ad Trim: 8" x 10.5" Safety: 0.25" V.O.: • Printer’s marks must be offset by 0.1677" • Keep elements 0.25" from the trim on all sides (see margin) Bleed: 0.125" Colours: CMYK - 300 DPI Built: 22/05/19 - SM • Minimum type size is 5 points • Convert all RGB and spot colours to CMYK • Ink limit is 310% It’s what’s next in mortgages. For what’s next in your life. Introducing Scotiabank eHOME. From application to approval. Your mortgage, online. Only from Scotiabank. Learn more at Scotiabank.com/ehome 2 ® Registered trademarks of The Bank of Nova Scotia. Scotiabank eHOME is not eligible for properties in Quebec. JULY 2019 CONTENTS VOLUME 20 #5 FEATURES REGULARS 4 EDITOR’S NOTE 26 Imagine a superhero movie, with no supervillain. It’s easy Quite a Ride if you try While at SXSW, Stuber stars Dave Bautista and 6 CLICK! Kumail Nanjiani talk about We’re out and about with their Uber-based buddy Reese Witherspoon, comedy and share their Tom Holland and Elton John thoughts on masculinity, guns and fake tears 8 UP FRONT BY MARNI WEISZ Florence Pugh transforms, Isabela Moner talks about 28 Dora and the Lost City of Gold 16 RED CARPET To Live and Sophie Turner, Will Smith and Die in L.A. Elle Fanning are all dressed up Quentin Tarantino’s slick Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood 18 IN THEATRES takes us on a wild ride through Your quick scan through 1969 L.A. in a film inspired this month’s movies by the director’s childhood memories as well as a real-life 22 SPECIAL SCREENINGS actor and his stuntman Cumberbatch plays Hamlet, BY INGRID RANDOJA A Hard Day’s Night does Beatlemania 32 42 IN THE WORKS Emilia Clarke writes poetry, Hear Them Roar Uma Thurman heads into space Stunning visuals and an incredible voice cast make 44 CINEPLEX STORE The Lion King a summer Settle in with Shazam! must-see. We chat with stars Donald Glover, Seth Rogen 48 SCREEN TEST and Billy Eichner about their How well do you know recording sessions inside the summer-break films? “Black Box” BY MARNI WEISZ 50 ART OF FILM 32 Philippe Le Miere’s abstract movie moments COVER STORY 36 2019-2020 WHO’S THE NEW GUY? MET OPERA It’s appropriate that Jake Gyllenhaal remains SCHEDULE a bit mysterious during our interview about his character, Mysterio, who could either help 46 or harm Tom Holland’s Spidey in this month’s Spider-Man: Far From Home. As Gyllenhaal explains, the chance to join the MCU and act opposite rising star Holland was one he couldn’t pass up BY MARNI WEISZ JULY 2019 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 3 MAGAZINE EDITOR’S NOTE PUBLISHER Salah Bachir EDITOR Marni Weisz DEPUTY EDITOR Ingrid Randoja CREATIVE DIRECTOR & DESIGNER Lucinda Wallace CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER Erin McPhee VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION Sheila Gregory DIRECTOR, CONTENT STRATEGY Tina Boroviak CONTRIBUTORS It Takes a Villain Tanner Zipchen Advertising sales for Cineplex Magazine is handled by Cineplex Media. There’s a pattern to revealing TORONTO HEAD OFFICE 416-539-8800 a new superhero movie. VICE PRESIDENT Robert Brown VICE PRESIDENT, SALES First, the protagonist is announced — superhero jobs have dried up? If there are John Tsirlis EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SALES “Hey, we’re getting another Spider-Man no supervillains, there’s no superwork, Giulio Fazzolari movie.” Then the supervillain is revealed after all. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SALES Ed Villa — “Look who they’ve plucked from the How about a pure romance? Maybe EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SALES QUEBEC/EASTERN CANADA comic books to be the baddie.” Often, a Nicholas Sparks-type weepie based Jonathan Laflamme DIRECTOR, MEDIA OPERATIONS this second step is combined with step on Captain America’s alternate life with Cathy Prowse number three, the casting of said baddie Peggy Carter. No major threats. No wars MANAGER, THEATRICAL PROGRAMMING Debi Kingston — “Oh cool, they’ve chosen Actor X. to fight. Just a character we already love Interesting.” doing some loving of his own. Steamy. ACCOUNT MANAGERS TORONTO 416-539-8800 Things worked a bit differently with And Doctor Strange? Avant-garde, Cory Atkins, ext. 5257 this month’s Spider-Man: Far From Home. for sure. Zach Beach, ext. 5269 Sheree Kyte, ext. 5245 By the end of 2016 we knew that the Until then, I appreciate the increasing Beth Leverty, ext. 5285 Marvel Cinematic Universe was getting a complexity of Marvel’s supervillains. Zandra MacInnis, ext. 5281 Heather Marshall, ext. 5290 second Spider-Man movie, a year later we Socially conscious Erik Killmonger was Jenna Paterson, ext. 5243 learned master illusionist Mysterio would Black Panther’s most sympathetic charac- Julian Pieke, ext. 5216 Brett Poschmann, ext. 5287 be its supervillain, and a month after that ter, no? And, at the risk of sounding evil, Lorelei von Heymann, ext. 5249 Wendell Sappor, ext. 5277 we knew he’d be played by Jake Gyllenhaal. I have to admit I understood where Lesley Taylor, ext. 5266 Then, just after Avengers: Endgame came Thanos — a passionate environmentalist Tom Woyzbun, ext. 5253 out the Spidey filmmakers started talking — was coming from when he tried to kill OTTAWA 844-870-1112 Nicole Beaudin about Mysterio — clearly a bad guy in the off half the universe. What will Mysterio’s HAMILTON/NIAGARA 416-558-7190 comic books — as a friend rather than a motivation be? Jennifer Wishart ATLANTIC CANADA 902-401-8152 foe. Great, bring on the ambiguity! Turn to “Who Are You, Mysterio?,” Craig Jackson But what if there was no supervillain page 36, for my talk with Jake Gyllenhaal QUEBEC 514-868-0005 at all? about Marvel’s “surprising” take on his Benoit Deschambault, ext. 224 Martine Ménard, ext. 222 With 23 movies in the can and an- character, and why it was the main reason MANITOBA/SASKATCHEWAN other half-dozen in the works, including he decided to make the film. 204-396-3044 Morgan Comrie new Black Panther, Black Widow and Elsewhere in this issue, on page 28 CALGARY 403-264-4420 Guardians movies, the Marvel Cinematic we chat with director Quentin Tarantino Kevin Leahy EDMONTON 780-919-3011 Universe is expanding at about the same about his latest stylish period piece, Barb Kitzan rate as our actual universe. So pretty fast. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, a hit at BRITISH COLUMBIA If it doesn’t slow down, at some point Cannes and the auteur’s most personal Justin Sawicz 604-761-9508 Matt Watson 604-689-3068 they’re going to have to turn the genre movie yet. Cineplex Magazine™ is published on its head. Why not do away with the And, finally, I’m not sure if you’ve eight times a year by Cineplex Entertainment. Subscriptions are $34.50 ($30 + HST) supervillain entirely? heard, but they’ve remade The Lion a year in Canada, $45 a year in the U.S. and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $5. Without some superpowered meanie King. Starting on page 32 Donald Glover, Back issues are $6. All subscription inquiries, back issue requests and letters to the editor threatening our very existence superhero Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen talk about should be directed to Cineplex Magazine movies could expand into entirely differ- voicing Simba, Timon and Pumbaa, at 1303 Yonge St., Toronto, ON, M4T 2Y9; or [email protected] ent genres — comedy, romance, drama or respectively, and giving some, um, Publications Mail Agreement No. 41619533. even avant-garde. humanity to the movie’s Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Cineplex Magazine, 1303 Yonge St., Toronto, What if the next Guardians movie was furry friends. ON, M4T 2Y9 a comedy about Star-Lord and Thor, the 656,500 copies of Cineplex Magazine are distributed through Cineplex Entertainment, franchise’s funniest two characters and The Globe and Mail, and other outlets. Cineplex Magazine is not responsible rivals in manliness, competing for the MARNI WEISZ, for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, same job at a Dairy Queen after all the EDITOR artwork or other materials. No material in this magazine may be reprinted without the express written consent of the publisher. © Cineplex Entertainment 2019. 4 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE JULY 2019 REFRESHING FLAVOURS OF WATERMELON & STR AWBER RY AVAILABLE AT LIQUOR STORES ACROSS CANADA. ADORE US ON Facebook.com/KimCrawfordWines Please enjoy our wines responsibly. © 20195 Constellation Imports, Rutherford, CA USA CLICK! ↗ ↗ ROCKETMEN SWEET RIDE Elton John (left) and Taron Egerton, who That’s Geena Davis in a familiar blue convertible plays John in the bio-pic Rocketman, enjoy their at the Bentonville Film Festival. The Thelma & Louise moment in the sun at the Cannes Film Festival. star founded the fest to highlight filmmakers from underrepresented communities. ↗ WALK AND TALK Reese Witherspoon eats a pretzel while shooting a scene for the TV series Morning Show in New York. 6 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE JULY 2019 ↖ POUNDS OF PEACHES Dennis Quaid brings his bulldog Peaches to the Hollywood premiere of A Dog’s Journey. ↗ READY FOR HIS CLOSEUP A fan in Bali, Indonesia, gets real close to Tom Holland at the Spider-Man: Far From Home Pan-Asia Media Summit. ↖ CREWSING ALTITUDE Terry Crews doesn’t need a magic carpet to fly at the Hollywood premiere of Aladdin. PHOTOS BY ALBERTO PIZZOLI/GETTY (ELTON JOHN AND TARON EGERTON); TASOS KATOPODIS/GETTY (GEENA DAVIS); AMY SUSSMAN/GETTY (DENNIS QUAID); JOSE PEREZ/GETTY (REESE WITHERSPOON); JESSE GRANT/GETTY (TERRY CREWS); ANTHONY KWAN/GETTY (TOM HOLLAND) JULY 2019 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 7 UP FRONT IN FOCUS A Good Lie? ↑ How Lulu Wang turned her family’s big deception Awkwafina (centre) with her on-screen into a touching film family in The Farewell Inset: Lulu Wang (left) IX YEARS AGO, LULU WANG WAS IN Often they don’t, for fear it will hurt their loved with the film’s star China, lying to her grandmother.