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32 24 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 FALL HOLIDAY 06 EDITORIAL MOVIE PREVIEW 08 SNAPS A rule of thumb for film fans: the cooler it Angelina Jolie holds on for dear life gets outside, the better the movies inside style the theatre. It’s time for Hollywood to get 10 SHORTS all serious, releasing heavy dramas, A slew of actors get behind the 40 costume flicks and family fare. Of course, camera; Queen rocks the big screen there are laughs to be had as well, and we for one day; and setting sail with the have the scoop on all of it. Plus, writer HMS Bounty Earl Dittman interviews stars from some of the season’s most anticipated movies 12 SPOTLIGHT Brooke Nevin scores laughs in 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 16 OCTOBER The Comebacks Interview: Ben Stiller on The Heartbreak Kid 40 STYLE Spotlight: Gone Baby Gone The Bold and the Beautiful: fall fashions’ daring looks 24 NOVEMBER Interview: Natalie Portman on 44 NAME OF THE GAME Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium Supernatural soldiers take on evil in 48 HOROSCOPE Spotlight: Fred Claus Clive Barker’s Jericho Keep those backup plans handy Virgo

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PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR

EDITOR MARNI WEISZ

DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ART DIRECTOR MATTHEW PICKET PRODUCTION DIRECTOR SHEILA GREGORY SEASON’S PRODUCTION ASSISTANT ZAC VEGA

CONTRIBUTORS EARL DITTMAN SUSAN GRANGER LIZA HERZ TICKETS DAN LIEBMAN e are such slaves to the sun. The colour of our clothes, ADVERTISING SALES FOR FAMOUS, FAMOUS QUEBEC AND FAMOUS KIDS IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. october 2007 | volume 8 | number 10 W our schedules, and even our moods change based on how many hours of sunlight we can suck through HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 VICE PRESIDENT ROBERT BROWN (ext. 232) our pores each day. DIRECTOR OF SALES, LORELEI OEMING (ext. 249) In summer we wear pastels and bright FAMOUS MAGAZINES FALLHOLIDAY hues, think nothing of meeting a friend DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SALES JOHN TSIRLIS (ext. 237) PREVIEW for coffee at 9 p.m., and feel light and DIRECTOR, SALES CINDY FROST (ext. 254) THREE OF THE SEASON’S BIGGEST STARS FILL YOU IN ON THEIR FLICKS: DIRECTOR, SALES ZOLTAN TOTH (ext. 233) Natalie Portman on Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium Ben Stiller on The Heartbreak Kid free. Come fall and winter, we swaddle Will Smith on I Am Legend ACCOUNT MANAGERS JENNA PATERSON (ext. 243)

PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40708019 PLUS ESSENTIAL INFO ON 62 MORE MOVIES COMING OUT BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR ourselves in brown and black, have BEN MUNGER (ext. 235) trouble leaving the house after dinner CORY ATKINS (ext. 257) and tend to feel introspective, even glum. The sort of entertainment we choose also changes as darkness MANAGER, MEDIA SALES CAROL BRATHWAITE (ext. 256) creeps in. Movies like Knocked Up and Superbad, so light and funny in those halcyon days of vitamin-D overload, seem strangely out of BRITISH COLUMBIA 604.904.8622 WESTERN SALES MANAGER DIANE RAJH place. Instead we start buzzing about films that deserve Oscar consideration — you know, the serious flicks. ALBERTA 403.266.4412 That doesn’t mean you can’t find a funny movie or a family- WESTERN SALES MANAGER ELIZABETH D’ARTOIS friendly film this time of year — two of the three movies we spotlight in this, our Fall-Holiday Preview Issue, fall into those categories. QUEBEC 514.868.0005 ACCOUNT MANAGER CHARLES DUMAS (ext. 224) It’s just that, overall, we have to think a bit more at the movies from ACCOUNT MANAGER ROBERT COLE (514.693.1221) now until New Year’s. But the payoff is usually worth the effort. SALES COORDINATOR ANNIE DESJARDINS (EXT. 223) That Fall-Holiday Preview starts on page 15. You’ll find info on almost every movie coming to theatres in the next three months, and I defy you to find a theme. Unlike past years, there’s no SPECIAL THANKS MATHIEU CHANTELOIS predominance of fantasy flicks or sequels or comic-book spin-offs. JOAN GRANT ELLIS JACOB It’s truly a mixed bag. PAT MARSHALL Ben Stiller’s The Heartbreak Kid is one of the first fall films out DAN MCGRATH of the gate, opening October 5th, and represents a last kick at CATHY PROWSE slapstick comedy before we become entirely reflective. Read our SUSAN REGINELLI Why not wake up in great skin. interview with Stiller, page 16, to find out why this actor known NATALIA WYSOCKA Discover 3-Step Skin Care. for working with the same people over and over again felt it was Famous™ magazine is published 12 times a year by Cineplex Entertainment. finally time to re-team with his There’s Something About Mary Subscriptions are $31.80 ($30 + GST) a year in Canada, $45 a year in the U.S. cohorts, The Farrelly Brothers. and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $3. Back issues are $6. All subscription inquiries, back issue requests and letters to the editor should So simple and effective, it takes just 3 minutes, morning and night, to wake up in On page 24, Harvard grad Natalie Portman talks about acting like be directed to Famous magazine at 102 Atlantic Ave., Ste. 100, Toronto, a kid again to play the clerk at a magical toy store in November’s Ontario, M6K 1X9; or 416.539.8800; or [email protected] great skin. Developed by dermatologists and custom-fit by Experts, this logical Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. routine of cleanse, exfoliate, moisturize is all you need to rouse new transparency, Publications Mail Agreement No. 40708019 clarity, life. Know how great your skin looks after a good night’s sleep—clear, And Will Smith ushers in the dark days of Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: winter with December’s lonely and Famous magazine, 102 Atlantic Ave., Suite 100, Toronto, Ont., M6K 1X9 smooth, radiant. It could be like that. Every day. atmospheric sci-fi I Am Legend. Check out our 650,000 copies of Famous magazine are distributed through Cineplex Clinique. Allergy Tested. 100% Fragrance Free. clinique.ca Will Smith interview, page 32, to find out what and Alliance Atlantis cinemas, HMV and other outlets. Famous magazine is not Star Wars had to do with his decision to play responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, artwork or other materials. the last man in New York — perhaps the world No material in this magazine may be reprinted without the express written — not infected with a virus that turns people consent of the publisher. © Cineplex Entertainment 2007. into bloodsucking monsters. —MARNI WEISZ

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1 Who’s that coquette 4 behind the fan? Why, it’s Cameron Diaz. All the women on the New York set of What Happens in Vegas… CAUGHTONFILM seemed to be carrying pretty WILL SMITH, CHARLIZE THERON, ANGELINA JOLIE, DANIEL CRAIG, ADAM SANDLER, CAMERON DIAZ fans. We’re not sure if they’re part of the movie, or it was just a really hot day.

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2 Does he ever look uncool? While preparing to shoot Bond 22 in Tuscany, Daniel Craig uses a retro- looking camera to get some shots of the Palio de Siena bareback horse race taking place below his balcony.

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3 Angelina Jolie proves she’s tougher than her cameraman and soundman combined while filming a high-speed scene for her upcoming thriller, Wanted, in Chicago. We’re sure it wasn’t the guys, but their union, that 2 insisted on all the protection while poor Angie hung from the hood of a Viper. 3 5 PHOTO BY JAMES DEVANEY/WIREIMAGE 4 Fight scene or sex scene? If you said fight scene, give yourself 10 points! Will Smith and Charlize Theron battle it out on the L.A. set of Hancock. The action pic about a superhero (Smith) who gets involved with his publicist’s wife (Theron) opens next summer.

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5 Aw, what a happy girl. Looks like Adam Sandler’s daughter Sadie has inherited her dad’s sense of humour. The one-year-old certainly found something to laugh about on the New York set of papa’s next flick, You Don’t 1 Mess With the Zohan. PHOTO BY BOBBY BANK/WIREIMAGE PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

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• Like her father Clint before her, Alison Eastwood makes the leap from performing to directing. Although not a household Ben Affleck directs name, Alison Eastwood Gone Baby Gone. (Midnight in the Garden Inset: David Schwimmer on of Good and Evil, Poolhall the set of Run, Fat Boy, Run Junkies) has been acting since she made an Picture Deal at Disney, appearance in Bronco Billy must have felt a little (starring her father) at family support was in age eight. Her first flick order and cast brother behind the camera, the t’s not uncommon for Casey in the lead role. family drama Rails & Ties, Iactors to become Also, by adapting a is being produced by her Artifact directors, but it is rare to Lehane book — Affleck dad’s production company. This month’s objet de film: have four actor-directed wrote the screenplay as HMS Bounty features hit the screen in well — he had the benefit • Rounding out the list is the same month, as is the of working in his the most interesting movie he HMS Bounty — Hollywood’s case this month. hometown of Boston. of them all, Oscar-winner T oft-used stand-in for history’s Anthony Hopkins’ second HMAV Bounty and other ships of the time • Ben Affleck kicks things • Unlike Affleck, Friends feature, the stream-of- — sits docked in Liverpool, England, prior off with his first film, the star David Schwimmer has consciousness effort to a trip to Tahiti. That journey, which was crime drama Gone Baby a long list of small-screen Slipstream. Opening in scheduled to begin September 30th in Gone, based on Dennis directing credits to his limited release in the Spithead, England, will retrace the real Lehane’s (Mystic River) name — 10 episodes of U.S., Slipstream is an Bounty’s 1787 voyage during which book. Affleck, whose only Friends, two of Joey, the almost experimental work mutineers took control of the ship in the other directing credit is TV movie Since You’ve that unfolds in the mind of South Pacific (they didn’t want to return the 16-minute short Been Gone — and chose an aging Hollywood home to England). In 1960, Lunenberg, I Killed My Lesbian Wife, to stick to what he knows, screenwriter (Hopkins) Nova Scotia, shipwrights Smith and Hung Her on a Meat Hook, comedy, for his big-screen while he’s on the set of his Ruthland used archival drawings to build and Now I Have a Three- debut, Run, Fat Boy, Run, latest whodunit. —IR this seaworthy replica for 1962’s Mutiny on the Bounty. After the shoot, some wanted to destroy the ship but QUEEN WILL ROCK YOU Marlon Brando — who played head n 1981, Queen marched into the Montreal Forum and played two incredible shows, which, mutineer Christian Fletcher — lobbied to Ithank the rock gods, were filmed on 35mm and stand as the only Queen concerts shot on film. save it. The ship went on to star in a number First released in 1983 as We Will Rock You, this concert film, now titled Queen Rock Montreal, of TV shows and movies, including 1983’s returns to the big screen digitally restored for one night — October 17th. The chance to see Yellowbeard, the 1990 TV movie Treasure Freddie Mercury and his prodigious overbite strut across a 60-foot screen while the band plays Island with Charlton Heston, and the recent rock anthems such as “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Under Pressure” is a Queen fan’s dream. Pirates of the Caribbean flicks. —MW

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BROOKE NEVIN’S got game

t’s fitting that Toronto-born actor and I’m really glad to be part of a film passage for teenage Canadian actors Brooke Nevin stars as the daughter of that’s the first to do it.” because if you look back you’ll see I a coach in this month’s sports parody Michelle Fields is the kind of gal your Hayden Christensen or Ryan Gosling, a The Comebacks, considering her dad, parents’ parents would call “easy,” and whole bunch of actors, we either did Bob Nevin, played in the NHL for 19 anyone with a Y chromosome is fair game Goosebumps or Are You Afraid of the Dark?” season, won two Stanley Cups and served to her. “Michelle is very spunky, she has After appearing in a string of TV projects as an assistant coach for the L.A. Kings in issues around rebelling against parental and training with Second City’s improv the 1970s. figures, and that takes many forms, group in Toronto, Nevin moved to L.A. in “The thing with my dad is that he including sometimes inappropriate 2003 — “I heard Hollywood call my name” actually retired before I was born,” says the displays in public or dating boys that she — and is now starting to land movie roles 24-year-old Nevin on the line from L.A. “He doesn’t think her father would approve of,” (look for her in the upcoming films wasn’t off playing hockey games, but sports says Nevin with a laugh. Sherman’s Way and Infestation). was a big part of my upbringing, I would The blond-haired, brown-eyed actor was “You just keep persevering, do a good play tennis and golf and that sort of thing.” born and raised in Toronto and knew early job and people finally put the dots In The Comebacks, Nevin plays on that performing was her calling. together,” she says of her increasing Michelle Fields, the rowdy daughter of “I started begging my mom to get me profile. And, unlike her cinematic alter washed-up football coach Lambeau Fields into commercials or on TV where I could ego, Michelle Fields, Niven is not prone to (David Koechner), who’s hired to coach a act outlandish and be the centre of making poor choices. ragtag college team. The comedy is a attention at a very young age. I remember “I keep saying I have yet to go through send-up of jock flicks such as Remember when I was 13 I gave her an ultimatum my teenage, young adult rebellion. I try the Titans, Radio and Invincible. saying, ‘Mom, that’s it, I’m getting old and take part in more productive activities, “No one’s taken a shot at inspirational now. In Hollywood you gotta start young.’ you know hiking, watching old movies and sports movies yet,” notes Nevin. “People So at 13 I finally got an agent. just connecting with people, things that were just waiting for it, and I think “My first professional paid gig was don’t necessarily involve illicit

[The Comebacks] is a really great romp, Goosebumps, which I call the rite of substances.” —Ingrid Randoja PHOTO BY TROY BORRUSO

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Lust, Caution, It’s a Boy-Girl Thing, The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, The Darjeeling Limited, The Heartbreak Kid, Feel the Noise, Michael Clayton, Poor Boy’s Game, Grace is Gone, We Own the Night, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, December Boys, Rendition, Reservation Road, Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D, 30 Days of Night, My Kid Could Paint That, Gone Baby Gone, Rails & Ties, Dan in Real Life, Sleuth, Martian Child, Run, Fat Boy, Run, The Tracey Fragments, The Comebacks, Things We Lost in the Fire, Saw IV, Bee Movie, The Kite Runner, American Gangster, I Could Never Be Your Woman, Fred Claus, Lions for Lambs, Love in the Time of Cholera, No Country for Old Men, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, Beowulf, My Blueberry Nights, Enchanted, Hitman, This Christmas, August Rush, The Mist, Margot at the Wedding, I’m Not There, Pathology, The Christmas Cottage, Cassandra’s Dream, Atonement, Walk Hard, The Golden Compass, Leatherheads, Perfect Christmas, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Juno, I Am Legend, Be Kind Rewind, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Sweeney Todd, P.S. I Love You, Alien Vs. Predator 2,

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Actually, Eddie (Ben Stiller) is the one who feels burned after marrying the wacky Lila (Malin Akerman) in The Heartbreak Kid Ben Stiller GIVES THE HEARTBREAK KID A SECOND CHANCE I BY EARL DITTMAN

he first time Ben Stiller away from hard-edged comedies like worked with the Farrelly Mary, Zoolander and Meet the Fockers. “I Brothers, Bobby and remember trying not to even use the Peter, the result was word ‘Fockers’ around my daughter for There’s Something About as long as I could, because I didn’t want Mary. The crude, slap- her going around saying it.” stick comedy was a huge But Stiller started to feel that he was success, thanks in part limiting himself. to several memorable “Like any parent, I realized that if I bits of physical humour, didn’t want my kids to see some of my including a scene in movies until they were older, then I could which Stiller’s character always change the channel, block it or gets his privates caught something like that,” says Stiller, whose in his fly, and another own parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, in which Cameron Diaz have been successful actors since the 1950s. film, which earned a handful of Oscar 1987’s Ishtar — did a tremendous job. music. Just as this sad picture is becoming worked with his mom in last year’s mistakes a bodily fluid for hair gel. While there have long been rumours and Golden Globe nominations, was “So when Peter and Bobby started clear, Eddie meets Miranda (Michelle Night at the Museum. “It’s interesting to Funny, yes. But not exactly family fare. of a There’s Something About Mary sequel, written by Neil Simon based on the short talking to me about doing an updated Monaghan) and instantly feels she’s the kind of go back and forth with someone Which might explain why fans have one Farrelly brother says it just ain’t so. In story “A Change of Plan” by Bruce Jay version of it, I knew it would have to be one with whom he should spend the rest you’re related to, especially when you’re Tbeen waiting nine years for the trio to a phone interview last year, Bobby Farrelly Friedman, who wrote the screenplays for something that just knocked me out,” he of his life. playing father and son,” he says. reunite. In that time Stiller and his wife, told me that he and Peter had considered films like Stir Crazy and Splash. It starred says. “The first one was very much about “It definitely earns its R-rating,” Stiller Stiller says he often wonders what line of actor Christine Taylor (Dodgeball: A True the idea, but quickly rejected it. Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepherd as love, relationships and the society of the says. “The Farrellys aren’t worried about work he’d be in had he not grown up Underdog Story), have had two kids, “The studio that we did Mary at wanted star-crossed lovers who meet right after 1970s. It was funny, but in that ’70s cynical being politically correct or if anyone is surrounded by actors, but insists that he daughter Ella and son Quinlin. And, another one really bad,” he says, “but we he’s married another woman. kind of way. So the guys completely shocked by some of the scenes, they and his wife won’t be disappointed if there like so often happens, living in a house had a lot of other ideas that we wanted to “It’s always risky to remake a great updated everything, and it has made it so just want every joke, gag or antic to be is no third generation of acting Stillers. full of rugrats made Stiller’s movie choices try out first. Will we ever do one? You movie or adapt a television show for film fresh and funny.” hilarious. The thing about The Farrellys “We’re going to let [our kids] make more, shall we say, conservative. Witness learn to never say never, but there’s not because there are a lot of ways to go This time, Stiller plays Eddie Cantrow, is that you know what you’re going to get their own decisions and definitely not last year’s surprise hit Night at the Museum, one planned in the immediate future. I wrong,” says Stiller, who starred in the an aging bachelor who’s worried he may before you walk into the theatre. It might throw them in front of a camera until they or the voice work he did for the animated think people just get anxious when we big-screen redo of TV’s Starsky & Hutch. end up old and alone, particularly after make you blush at times, but it’s always want that,” he says. “I’d like to give them a feature Madagascar. are making a movie and just call it Untitled “But if you can bring something new, attending an ex-girlfriend’s wedding. So, going to make you laugh.” fighting chance to decide what they want “When you have kids, you want to be Farrelly Brothers Project, thinking we are fresh and exciting to the story, then the just six weeks after he starts dating the Intensely close to his folks, Stiller was to do. If either of them decides to become able to go to movies that you can take the trying to hide the fact it is a Mary sequel.” chances of it being accepted and given a lovely Lila (Malin Akerman), he proposes. delighted when The Farrellys asked if an actor when they’re older, that’s cool whole family to and actually all enjoy For their second outing together — fair shake go up tremendously.” After the wedding, Eddie and Lila take he’d like his own father to play Eddie’s with me. I’ll support them 100 percent, together — especially if you are starring in labeled Untitled Farrelly Brothers Project Stiller says he loved Charles Grodin’s off for a honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas, dad. “It’s always great to work with my just like my parents stood behind me.” it,” says the 41-year-old native New Yorker throughout most of its early life — the performance in the original, and thinks Mexico. And that’s when Eddie starts to parents, it’s really an honour for me in a recent L.A. interview. That desire to trio chose to remake the 1972 mid-life director Elaine May — whose directing realize he’s made a huge mistake — Lila because I consider them both such great Earl Dittman is a Houston-based show his kids his movies meant a shift crisis comedy The Heartbreak Kid. That career came to a crashing halt with is crude, dumb and has terrible taste in actors and comedians,” says Stiller, who entertainment writer.

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bachelor Eddie Cantrow, who decides to marry his new girlfriend Lila (Akerman) because his friends convince him it’s the best he’ll ever do. But while on his honeymoon he a) discovers he can’t stand Lila, and b) falls in love with another woman (Michelle Monaghan). See OCTOBER Ben Stiller interview, page 16. FEEL THE NOISE WHO’S IN IT? Omarion Grandberry, PREVIEWS Giancarlo Esposito WHO DIRECTED? Aljandro Chomski (Today and Tomorrow) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? When a young man from the Bronx gets into trouble with some local thugs he flees to Puerto Rico to hide out with the father he hardly knows.

MICHAEL CLAYTON WHO’S IN IT? George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson WHO DIRECTED? Tony Gilroy (debut) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Lawyer Michael Clayton (Clooney) is in charge of “fixing” the dirtiest and most difficult cases represented by his law firm, including a class-action suit against U-North, a pesticide company accused of poisoning Christopher Eccleston in people. But when one the firm’s partners The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (Wilkinson) is overcome by guilt from having represented the company for years, OCTOBER 5 particularly special about himself — until Clayton’s job gets a whole lot harder. Mechanical Approval the day he finds out he’s the last in a long Date: Aug, 2007 LUST, CAUTION line of immortal beings called the Old Ones. POOR BOY’S GAME Internal: Client: Playtex WHO’S IN IT? Tony Leung, Tang Wei What do the Old Ones do? Just protect all WHO’S IN IT? Danny Glover, Rossif Sutherland Client: 7 Ad #: pla_0209_07_A1 WHO DIRECTED? Ang Lee of humanity from an evil force called WHO DIRECTED? Clément Virgo (Lie With Me) Experience the Studio #: PINPLA_0074_1037 (Brokeback Mountain) The Dark, that’s all. Based on the book by WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Donald Sutherland’s son Agency #: ADVPLA_0199_1037 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Set in Japanese- Susan Cooper. Rossif plays Donnie, a white boxer who occupied Shanghai, this World War Two spy went to jail for nine years after beating NEW Advanced Design Job Description: Soft Comfort Adapt Print New drama stars rising Chinese star Wei as a THE DARJEELING LIMITED Charlie, a black kid, so brutally it left him ® ® young woman who is assigned the task of WHO’S IN IT? Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman handicapped. Now that Donnie’s been of Playtex Soft Comfort. Mechanical Size: 7 7/8” x 10 1/2” seducing — then killing — a powerful WHO DIRECTED? Wes Anderson (Rushmore) released, the black community wants Colours:4 colour Chinese businessman (Leung). WHAT’S IT ABOUT? With a script co-written revenge in the form of a boxing match by Anderson, Schwartzman and between Donnie and unbeatable black Publication List or Component IT’S A BOY-GIRL THING Roman Coppola (Francis Ford’s son and boxer Ossie Paris (Flex Alexander). But an Famous, Fashion, Flare, Glow, Inside Entertainment, LouLou, People, Tribute WHO’S IN IT? Samaire Armstrong, Kevin Zegers Schwartzman’s cousin), this comedy unlikely bond develops between Donnie NEW 360˚custom fi t design opens all around WHO DIRECTED? Nick Hurran (Little Black Book) revolves around three brothers (Wilson, and Charlie’s father (Glover) that may help WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This latest in a long line Schwartzman, Adrien Brody) who have heal the deepest wounds. of body-switching teen comedies sees grown apart. After their dad dies and their brainy Nell (Armstrong) and jock Woody mom disappears, the boys take an eventful OCTOBER 7 (Zegers) swap bods after having a fight in train trip through India in the hopes it will NEW worry-free, anti-leak core front of an Aztec statue. strengthen their bond. WWE NO MERCY Art Director/Date Live Event 8-11 p.m. ET / 5-8 p.m. PT THE SEEKER: THE DARK IS RISING THE HEARTBREAK KID Primal rage takes over as WWE Champion WHO’S IN IT? Alexander Ludwig, Ian McShane WHO’S IN IT? Ben Stiller, Malin Akerman John Cena, Randy Orton, Triple H, Batista, Studio Manager/Date WHO DIRECTED? David L. Cunningham (After…) WHO DIRECTED? Peter and Bobby Farrelly Rey Mysterio and Undertaker collide. Check Ultra-Glide™ applicator WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Young Will Stanton (There’s Something About Mary) www.cineplex.com for a list of theatres where NEW Copy Writer/Date

(Ludwig) doesn’t think there’s anything WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Stiller plays aging you can watch it live, and to buy tickets. M M

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analyst Douglas Freeman, who is unnerved M M OCTOBER 12 after participating in a brutal interrogation of GRACE IS GONE Egyptian-born chemical engineer and terror WHO’S IN IT? John Cusack, Alessandro Nivola suspect Anwar El-Ibráhimi (Omar Metwalley) Spotlight: WHO DIRECTED? James C. Strouse (debut) at a secret detention facility outside of the WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Stanley’s (Cusack) wife States. Back in the U.S., Anwar’s American Gracie is killed while serving in Iraq, leaving wife Isabella (Witherspoon) desperately him to inform his two daughters that their searches for her missing husband and mother is dead. But Stanley, never a eventually crosses paths with Douglas, whose touchy-feely kinda guy, can’t do it, and conscience demands he tell her all he knows, instead takes the girls on a road trip to their including details about his own “hands-on” favourite amusement park hoping to work involvement. up the courage to tell them along the way. RESERVATION ROAD WE OWN THE NIGHT WHO’S IN IT? Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo WHO’S IN IT? Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg WHO DIRECTED? Terry George (Hotel Rwanda) WHO DIRECTED? James Gray (The Yards) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Two fathers, Dwight WHAT’S IT ABOUT? It’s 1988 and (Ruffalo) and Ethan (Phoenix), have their Bobby Green (Phoenix) manages a hot lives tragically enmeshed when one is Manhattan nightclub owned by the Russian behind the wheel during an accident that mafia, which doesn’t sit too well with his takes the life of the other one’s son. Based OCTOBER 19 cop father (Robert Duvall) and cop brother on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz. GONE BABY GONE (Wahlberg). It’s only a matter of time until What does everyone have against Bobby is forced to choose between NIGHTMARE BEFORE Ben Affleck? becoming a full-fledged baddie or working CHRISTMAS IN 3D A quick Google search for “Gone undercover to catch the criminals. VOICES: Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara Baby Gone,” Affleck’s directorial debut, WHO DIRECTED? Henry Selick (Monkeybone) reveals almost unanimous praise for the ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE WHAT’S IT ABOUT? For the second year in a film’s gloomy and foreboding trailer — WHO’S IN IT? Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen row, those who live near a theatre with 3D but most of it is couched in phrases of WHO DIRECTED? Shekhar Kapur capability (Colossus Toronto, SilverCity disbelief that Affleck’s first film behind (The Four Feathers) Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, the camera may actually be good. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This sequel to Elizabeth Banque Scotia Montreal, Niagara Square) Based on a novel by Dennis Lehane once again stars the luminous Blanchett as will be able to see the spooky story of (the author of Mystic River, as the film’s Queen Elizabeth I. It’s been almost 30 Jack Skellington, King of Halloweentown, website, trailer and official synopsis years since we last saw the monarch, who in eye-popping 3D. won’t let you forget), Gone Baby Gone now faces her greatest challenges as revolves around two private England’s ruler — the impending invasion 30 DAYS OF NIGHT investigators — Patrick Kenzie of the Spanish Armada and a brewing WHO’S IN IT? Josh Hartnett, Melissa George (Ben’s brother Casey Affleck) and Angie assassination plot. Thank goodness she WHO DIRECTED? David Slade (Hard Candy) Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) — who can count on trusted advisor Walsingham WHAT’S IT ABOUT? For one month each are asked to help out when four-year-old (Geoffrey Rush) and the hunky seafaring year there is absolutely no sunlight in Amanda McCready is abducted. Patrick Sir Walter Raleigh (Owen) for advice. Barrow, Alaska. What a great place for grew up in Dorchester, the tough part of bloodthirsty vampires — what with their Boston where the crime took place, and DECEMBER BOYS allergies to the sun — to wreak havoc! Only the girl’s family hopes he may have WHO’S IN IT? Daniel Radcliffe, Teresa Palmer the sheriff (Hartnett) and his wife (George) better luck than the cops convincing its WHO DIRECTED? Rod Hardy (Route 52) can save their town from becoming the tight-lipped residents to talk. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Radcliffe plays the world’s Number One destination for It goes without saying (but we’ll oldest of four orphan boys spending their fanged tourists. say it anyway) that one of the reasons summer holidays on the Australian coast Affleck chose this story for his with a young couple who may adopt one of MY KID COULD PAINT THAT directorial debut is that it takes place them at season’s end. WHO’S IN IT? Marla Olmstead, Mark Olmstead in his beloved Beantown. Aside from his WHO DIRECTED? Amir Bar-Lev (Fighter) brother, obviously also a Bostonian, OCTOBER 19 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Imagine swirling Affleck cast Robert Wahlberg patterns in vibrant hues composed with (brother to Donnie and Mark) as a RENDITION depth and, apparently, great thought. No, police detective. The Wahlberg clan WHO’S IN IT? Jake Gyllenhaal, not the works of Kandinsky or Pollock, but grew up right in Dorchester, where Reese Witherspoon of a four-year-old girl. Marla Olmstead is they were very well acquainted with WHO DIRECTED? Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) the barely-out-of-diapers painter featured both the cops and the robbers. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Gyllenhaal plays CIA in a skeptical 60 Minutes piece a M M

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M M couple of years ago. This documentary asks similar questions about the nature of modern art, the talent of our young artist, and the veracity of her parents’ claims.

TM OCTOBER 26 RAILS & TIES WHO’S IN IT? Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden WHO DIRECTED? Alison Eastwood (debut) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Clint’s 35-year-old daughter makes her directing debut with this drama about a mother who brings her son along when she parks her car on a railroad track with a train approaching. The crash kills the mother, but the son survives and forms a bond with the guilt-ridden conductor (Bacon) and his wife (Harden). Josh Hartnett in 30 Days of Night DAN IN REAL LIFE WHO’S IN IT? Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche WHO DIRECTED? Peter Hedges (Pieces of April) debut with this comedy about chunky THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Widowed father of three English bloke Dennis (Pegg), who leaves WHO’S IN IT? Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro Dan Burns (Carell) is ready to get back into his fiancée at the altar. Years later he WHO DIRECTED? Susanne Bier (Brothers) the dating game, and wouldn’t ya know it, the realizes his mistake, and in order to WHAT’S IT ABOUT? After Audrey’s (Berry) woman he falls for happens to be his brother’s impress her vows to get in shape and run husband is murdered, she asks her hubby’s (Dane Cook) new girlfriend (Binoche). the New York City Marathon. best friend, Jerry (Del Toro), to move in with her and her two kids. The thing is, SLEUTH THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS Jerry has some substance abuse issues that WHO’S IN IT? Jude Law, Michael Caine WHO’S IN IT? Ellen Page, Slim Twig are not exactly under control. WHO DIRECTED? Kenneth Branagh (Henry V) WHO DIRECTED? Bruce McDonald WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Twenty-five years ago (Picture Claire) SAW IV Caine starred in the 1972 film version of WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Fifteen-year-old WHO’S IN IT? Tobin Bell, Lyriq Bent the Broadway play, portraying hairdresser Tracey Berkowitz (Page) is going nuts WHO DIRECTED? Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw III) Milo Tindale, who engages in a game of cat dealing with a horrible home life, a brother WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Halloween is upon us, and mouse with his lover’s jealous husband who thinks he’s a dog and an aspiring rock which means the latest installment from (then played by Laurence Olivier). In this star boyfriend (Twig). Director McDonald the gruesome Saw franchise. Yes, master remake, Caine stars as the scheming employs multiple split screens and the torturer Jigsaw (Bell) is dead, but we get husband while Law plays Milo. music of Broken Social Scene to tell the feeling he’s left enough traps and

Tracey’s tale. games lying around to inflict some serious TM MARTIAN CHILD damage...even from the grave. WHO’S IN IT? John Cusack, Bobby Coleman THE COMEBACKS WHO DIRECTED? Menno Meyjes (Max) WHO’S IN IT? David Koechner, Brooke Nevin OCTOBER 28 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? When his fiancée passes WHO DIRECTED? Tom Brady away, a sci-fi writer (Cusack) decides to fill (The Hot Chick) WWE CYBER SUNDAY 6-DISC COLLECTION INCLUDES the hole in his life by adopting a boy WHAT’S IT ABOUT? It’s about time someone Live event 8-11 p.m. ET / 5-8 p.m. PT NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN BONUS FEATURES (Coleman) who believes he’s from Mars. parodied the cliché-ridden sports movie. Log on. Take over. WWE Cyber Sunday puts Based on the book, and life, of sci-fi writer Koechner stars as Lambeau Fields, a fans in control by basing the matches on David Gerrold, a single parent who washed-up football coach who tries to turn write-in suggestions from folks like you. SAW TRILOGY available on adopted a boy. a team of ragtag college players into a The result should be an unpredictable rd well-oiled machine. Canadian Nevin pops event featuring WWE Champion John Cena, October 23 RUN, FAT BOY, RUN up as Coach Fields’ daughter, while former Batista, Undertaker, Rey Mysterio and WHO’S IN IT? Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton NFLers Eric Dickerson, Lawrence Taylor Triple H, to name a few. Check WHO DIRECTED? David Schwimmer (debut) and Michael Irving make cameo www.cineplex.com for a list of theatres SAW IV only in theatres WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Friends alumni appearances. See Brooke Nevin interview, where you can watch it live, and to buy th Schwimmer makes his big-screen directing page 12. your tickets. October 26

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Natalie Portman in Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium

Natalie Portman TAKES YOU INSIDE MR. MAGORIUM’S WONDER EMPORIUM

Natalie Portman was “I’m always trying to do different things, on the Berlin sound- because I feel like if I can keep myself stage of the dark, interested then there’s the hope of futuristic political keeping an audience interested.” thriller V For Vendetta The film co- stars Jason Bateman as the when she got a letter store’s accountant and Dustin Hoffman as from Zach Helm the zany Mr. Magorium. A few years ago explaining what he Hoffman lobbied hard for the role of wanted to do with his Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate directorial debut — a Factory but lost out to Johnny Depp. movie that could not “I was so excited that we were all going be more different to be in the film together, especially than V. Dustin because I knew he was looking to “It was so passion- play a character unlike any one he had “The set was so incredible, overflowing says Portman, who even praises Toronto’s co-stars, but when it comes to discussing whether it’s a friend or a boyfriend, who ate and sweet, it really done before,” says Portman “We were go- with toys, games and everything fun paparazzi for their good-natured behav- her beaus, she does indeed keep her are really engaged in trying to make the moved me,” the 26-year-old Portman ing to be like kids let loose in a toy store.” you can imagine, it was like we were in iour. Unlike many of her 20-something lips sealed. world a better place,” says the devout recalls in a recent New York interview. Portman plays Molly Mahoney, an Mr. Magorium’s actual store, it was Hollywood contemporaries, Portman “College definitely helped my love life vegetarian and animal-rights activist. “Basically, in the letter he said that he employee of the most fantastic toy store fantastic,” beams Portman, recalling the says she seldom has problems with the is all I’ll say,” she says of her years as a 4.0 “There are too many people who are Nwanted to make a movie that was just as known to man. The Emporium is a massive Toronto soundstage that housed tabloids or the paparazzi — even in L.A. student at Harvard. “Other than that, involved in themselves too much and important to children as roller coasters, magical world where the toys come to the Emporium. “A lot of the people who get all the there’s not much to talk about. But I’m aren’t looking out…. I don’t care for boxed apple juice and raisins are. life, but only to those who believe in the “It was wonderful to be back in a city attention sometimes invite it themselves,” still young, so anything can happen. Plus, that type of person much because we Then, when I read Mr. Magorium’s Wonder store’s miraculous powers — which, that I love so much and knew so well,” she she says. “The way that I’m usually out of I don’t have to spend my summers have to make this world a better place for Emporium, I was like, ‘I want to do this!’” initially, doesn’t include Molly. says. “When I was younger, my cousins the public eye is that I go out and party beaming around the galaxy [anymore],” our children.” Portman was already committed to Eventually, the store’s eccentric, 243- used to live in Toronto, so my parents with my friends who are not famous she says, referring to her years spent Empathy and an awareness of the make Goya’s Ghosts, Milos Forman’s quasi year-old owner, Mr. Edward Magorium and I would drive out to visit them every people, or we go to each other’s apart- playing Queen Amidala for George Lucas. world around oneself are qualities that bio-pic of the legendary Spanish painter, (Hoffman), decides it’s time to find year. We didn’t fly, we drove, and it was ments, not the Hollywood clubs with “I would be in school during the year and are evident in Portman as well. In fact, before she could report to Mr. Magorium’s someone to take care of his enchanted an adventurous 13-hour car ride from movie stars. That’s not the group of people then during the summer break I would those qualities seem to inform her deci- Toronto set. But Helm didn’t mind toy kingdom after he’s gone, and he wills New York. I always had fun when we went, that I hang out with and do things with — do Star Wars. So I definitely can do more sions about which roles to take, and even waiting. “He is a big fan of Milos Forman, the Emporium to a shocked and bewil- so being there brought back so many nothing newsworthy. My friends are now that I’m done with school and done her choice to be in this profession at all. so he was like, ‘I understand, I’d want to dered Molly, who doubts her ability to fond memories. Whenever I would have amazing people, but they are not tabloid with Star Wars, so you never know who or “As an actor, my job is to imagine other work with him, too,’” recalls Portman, still manage the store. time off, I would explore every place I fodder. So I think that it’s probably just what I might meet.” people’s lives, and what a better thing to sporting her short hairdo. Although Henry Weston (Bateman), remembered in Toronto, and explore new not interesting to the press, and I also If you’re hoping to snag a date with the practice than that, to think about what “I just wanted to have fun and get lost the Emporium’s uptight and conservative places. I just wish we had more time there.” generally feel respected. I also have apparently available Portman, there is one other people experience,” she says. in Zach’s fantasy world, because I get accountant, had expected to inherit the Portman even ventured out to enjoy learned not to talk about my private life.” attribute she says she finds particularly bored easily,” says the Jerusalem-born, store, he starts to warm up to Molly and some of Toronto’s nightlife. Over the years, Portman has been attractive. Earl Dittman is a Houston-based Harvard-educated Portman with a smile. becomes an unlikely supporter. “I always go out when I’m not working,” romantically linked to some of her male “I really do admire other people, entertainment writer.

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NOVEMBER 9 FRED CLAUS NOVEMBER Vince Vaughn makes his Elf. But where Will Ferrell’s candy- coloured Christmas movie saw him playing an innocent man-child out of PREVIEWS place among the little people of the North Pole, Vaughn is a surly bad seed, more in line with Billy Bob Thornton’s conman from Bad Santa. Vaughn plays Fred Claus, older brother to that jelly-bellied saint, Santa Claus (Paul Giamatti). All his life Fred has been compared to his little bro, and come up lacking. So he left the Pole and moved to the big city where he made a living as a repo man, and a dishonest one at that. When he’s caught stealing items he’s repossessed, it looks like Fred will go to jail. Santa, no surprise, comes to the rescue, agreeing to bail Fred out on the condition that he move back to the Bee Movie North Pole and repay his debt by helping the elves make toys. David Dobkin, whose last movie was NOVEMBER 2 Afghan-born man (Abdalla) living in the Vaughn’s Wedding Crashers, directs the States who returns to his homeland after film. Expect the same acerbic wit BEE MOVIE his childhood friend is killed and his son is here. A fantastic supporting cast VOICES: Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger kidnapped by the Taliban. Based on the should also push this film from WHO DIRECTED? Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini. seasonal piffle to annual fave. Look for WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Seinfeld’s first movie Miranda Richardson as Mrs. Claus, role since pulling the plug on his beloved AMERICAN GANGSTER Kathy Bates as the Claus boys’ mom, sitcom — in fact, his first movie role ever WHO’S IN IT? Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey as the business-minded — sees him voicing disgruntled honeybee Danzel Washington Clyde and John Michael Higgins — who Barry B. Benson in this animated feature. WHO DIRECTED? Ridley Scott (Gladiator) played Jennifer Aniston’s harmonizing After graduating from college Benson does WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Washington plays real-life brother opposite Vaughn in The Break-Up the unthinkable and, instead of making drug kingpin Frank Lucas, who built a drug — as Willy the elf. • The only condensed soup in Canada made with whole grain pasta honey like everyone else, leaves the hive to empire in the 1960s and ’70s by smuggling explore New York City. That’s where he heroin out of Vietnam in the coffins of dead • The lowest sodium of any condensed soup in Canada discovers that humans, including a soldiers. Crowe — doing his best American sympathetic florist (Zellweger) with whom accent — plays Richie Roberts, an ✁ he becomes friends, actually steal and investigator-turned-lawyer who’s trying to eat the honey bees work so hard to make. nail Lucas, all the while developing a Barry decides to sue. reluctant respect for the criminal. Buy one (1) Get one (1) FREE when you purchase ANY one (1) Campbell’s® Mega Noodles, Chicken Noodle O’s®, THE KITE RUNNER NOVEMBER 9 GoldfishTM Pasta in Chicken Broth or GoldfishTM Tomato Splash Condensed Soup 284 mL WHO’S IN IT? Khalid Abdalla, Shaun Toub WHO DIRECTED? Marc Forster I COULD NEVER BE YOUR WOMAN exclusively at these fine retailers (Stranger Than Fiction) WHO’S IN IT? Paul Rudd, Michelle Pfeiffer Vince Vaughn (top) and WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Forster’s final film WHO DIRECTED? Amy Heckerling (Loser) John Michael Higgins © 2007 Campbell Company of Canada before helming the next 007 blockbuster, WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The Year of Pfeiffer ®® Bond 22, is this drama about an continues with this romantic-comedy M M

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motion. Lee plays the sheriff saddled with Enchanted’s Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) the case and Javier Bardem steps in as a Action Packed. professional killer with a bad haircut.

MR. MAGORIUM’S WONDER EMPORIUM WHO’S IN IT? Natalie Portman, Get your Cineplex Entertainment gift card Dustin Hoffman WHO DIRECTED? Zach Helm (debut) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? From the outside, at our theatres and cineplex.com Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium looks like any other toy store. Inside, it’s anything but. The shop is clearly magical — toys come to life, can behave or misbehave, and turn on and off all on their own. But when Mr. Magorium (Hoffman) decides that he’s leaving and his assistant Molly (Portman) will be in charge, this wondrous place develops a dark side. See Natalie Portman interview, page 24.

BEOWULF WHO’S IN IT? Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins WHO DIRECTED? Robert Zemeckis (Cast Away) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? You may remember the old English poem Beowulf from school. Written it the Middle Ages it involves the warrior Beowulf (here played by Winstone) battling the demon Grendel (Crispin Glover). This live-action, but digitally enhanced (it looks like a videogame), retelling of the epic poem embellishes in which she plays a middle-aged TV certain parts of the story, including a M M NOVEMBER 16 producer who falls for a younger guy trumped up role for Grendel’s mother (Rudd). Actually, this film was made a LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (Angelina Jolie, using the same accent she couple of years ago — before Pfeiffer’s WHO’S IN IT? Benjamin Bratt, Javier Bardem developed for Alexander). other 2007 films, Hairspray and Stardust WHO DIRECTED? Mike Newell — but has been bumping around the (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS schedule for quite some time. Before this WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Based on the novel by WHO’S IN IT? Norah Jones, Jude Law summer, Pfeiffer hadn’t had a film in Gabriel García Márquez, this drama stars WHO DIRECTED? Kar Wai Wong theatres since 2003. Bardem as Florentino Ariza, who has been (2046) in love with Fermina Daza (Giovanna WHAT’S IT ABOUT? “Come Away With Me” LIONS FOR LAMBS Mezzogiorno) since they had a youthful singer Jones’s big-screen debut sees her WHO’S IN IT? Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise fling. But she rejected him and married starring in this episodic romance about a WHO DIRECTED? Robert Redford Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Bratt). That doesn’t young woman who takes a trip across the (The Legend of Bagger Vance) mean Ariza can’t keep trying. States encountering strange characters — WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This intricate political including a gambler (Natalie Portman) and drama is the first movie developed by NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN an alcoholic cop (David Strathairn) — Tom Cruise since being dumped by WHO’S IN IT? Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones along the way. Law plays a café owner who Paramount and taking over the WHO DIRECTED? Joel and Ethan Coen feeds her pie. United Artists branch of MGM. Redford, (Intolerable Cruelty) ®

who also directs, plays a professor who WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The Coen Brothers put NOVEMBER 18 license. under used or LP Entertainment Cineplex unwittingly inspires two former students to their quirky twang on this thriller about join the fight in Afghanistan, while Cruise Llewelyn Moss (Brolin) who discovers a WWE SURVIVOR SERIES plays an ambitious Presidential hopeful whack of cash in the back of a truck that’s Check www.cineplex.com for a list of who reveals something to a reporter surrounded by dead bodies. He takes that theatres where you can watch it live, cineplex.com GO BIG. (Streep) that may harm those soldiers. cash, setting a bloody chain of events in and to buy tickets. M M

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the critically acclaimed The Squid and the Whale once again taps the creative treasure trove of dysfunctional-family dynamics. Kidman plays Margot, who can’t figure out why her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is marrying Malcolm (Black). After all, as Margot puts it, he’s the kind of guy they used to reject when they were 16.

NOVEMBER 28 I’M NOT THERE WHO’S IN IT? Richard Gere, Christian Bale WHO DIRECTED? Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Very strange. Six different actors — Gere, Bale, Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw and even Cate Blanchett — play multifaceted rocker Bob Dylan at different stages of his life.

NOVEMBER 30 The Mist PATHOLOGY WHO’S IN IT? Milo Ventimiglia, Alyssa Milano

M M NOVEMBER 21 AUGUST RUSH WHO DIRECTED? Marc Schoelermann (debut) WHO’S IN IT? Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A group of medical ENCHANTED WHO DIRECTED? Kirsten Sheridan (Disco Pigs) students studying pathology (the nature WHO’S IN IT? Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Highmore (that cute kid and cause of disease) try to figure out the WHO DIRECTED? Kevin Lima (102 Dalmations) from Finding Neverland) plays orphaned best way to kill someone so that it can’t be WHAT’S IT ABOUT? An evil queen banishes August Rush, a brilliant musician who detected. But what starts out as a game fairy tale, cartoon princess Giselle (Adams) uses his talent to try and track down his doesn’t end that way. to modern-day Manhattan (cue the live cellist mom (Russell) and guitarist dad action). There, she falls in love with the (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), whose intense THE CHRISTMAS COTTAGE only New Yorker who’s nice to her, a divorce relationship came to an unfortunate end. WHO’S IN IT? Peter O’Toole, Jared Padalecki lawyer (Dempsey). WHO DIRECTED? Michael Campus NOVEMBER 23 (The Passover Plot) HITMAN WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Campus — who hasn’t WHO’S IN IT? Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott THE MIST directed a feature film since something WHO DIRECTED? Xavier Gens (Frontier(s)) WHO’S IN IT? Thomas Jane, called The Passover Plot came out in 1976 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Olyphant plays Marcia Gay Harden — returns to the helmer’s chair for this Discover new Life in The Globe and Mail. genetically enhanced clone Agent 47 — WHO DIRECTED? Frank Darabont seasonal story about how mega-popular named for the last two digits of the barcode (The Shawshank Redemption) Thomas Kinkade (Padalecki) became an on the back of his skull — whose ice-cold WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This third Stephen King artist after learning that his mother was demeanour and mad shooting skills make story adapted by Darabont (after Shawshank about to lose their house. him the world’s most efficient hitman. and The Green Mile) takes place in a small town being attacked by strange creatures CASSANDRA’S DREAM THIS CHRISTMAS that arrived with a violent thunderstorm. WHO’S IN IT? Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell globeandmail.com/arts WHO’S IN IT? Columbus Short, Mekhi Phifer Jane plays one of several people who take WHO DIRECTED? Woody Allen (Scoop) WHO DIRECTED? Preston A. Whitmore II refuge in the local supermarket. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? McGregor and Farrell (Crossover) play brothers who turn to crime in order to WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The Whitfield family MARGOT AT THE WEDDING relieve their financial woes. But going illegit gathers for their first Christmas together in WHO’S IN IT? Nicole Kidman, Jack Black does very bad things to their relationship. four years. And before they can open the WHO DIRECTED? Noah Baumbach This is Allen’s third film in a row that was presents, there’s a lot of baggage that (The Squid and the Whale) shot in England. Has the director turned his needs to be unwrapped. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Baumbach’s follow-up to back on his beloved New York for good?

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Will Smith’s ON HIS OWN FOR I AM LEGEND I BY EARL DITTMAN

ill Smith has marvel at the mind that first conceived made plenty the story, novelist Richard Matheson. Who’s there? Will Smith of science- “I read it straight through, and it stars as the lone human fiction movies. absolutely blew me away,” Smith says of fending off monsters in Some of his the script, which was based on Matheson’s I Am Legend most success- 1954 novel of the same name. “It was a ful films fall character I felt like I had to play, because into that genre he’s pure emotion. He’s basically the last — Men in Black, man alive, so you can only imagine the Independence Day. emotions he’s feeling. Even though the But, when Smith story was written in the ’50s and there are dreams big about a lot of science-fiction elements in it, the his career, there’s film could take place today.” sucking New Yorkers, the Infected, who you know that it has some deep things to tions later, Smith was approached to star his purpose in life is, Smith offers up a another sci-fi — In fact, the story has been updated are determined to rid the planet of the say. It’s just that good.” in a version of I Am Legend directed by surprising answer. “I think that’s some- one that he had from the late 1970s (when Matheson’s last true human being. (Hence the film’s Barely three years old when The Omega Frances Lawrence, whose only big-screen thing that you can’t really put words to, nothing to do with — the actor thinks tale takes place) to the present day. eerie tagline “The Last Man on Earth is Man came out, the Philadelphia native credit to date was Constantine. But with a but I feel that it’s definitely not acting for about. Star Wars. Smith plays military scientist Robert Not Alone.”) But as the attacks on Neville’s had a big life ahead of him — as a new script penned by Oscar-winning me,” he says. “I remember when I sat and watched Neville, who may be the last human being heavily barricaded habitat begin to platinum-plated recording artist, a TV screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful “I know that there’s something else. I WStar Wars for the first time, it really on Earth. When a manmade virus unex- escalate (the vampires have to avoid the sitcom star (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) and Mind), Smith needed little convincing. think that the amount of goodwill that I’ve changed my life,” says Smith in a recent pectedly mutates and escapes the confines sunlight), he starts to fight back. one of Hollywood’s biggest movers and “I don’t think most people need to be been able to create and the energy and the New York interview. “I think I might have of a classified lab it quickly infects the This is the third time Matheson’s book shakers — before he would become the told, but this is a crazy business, you hope that people feel watching the movies, been 11 or 12. Star Wars really messed me world’s population, transforming its has been adapted. It first hit screens in new Robert Neville. never know what is going to happen,” I think that there’s absolutely something up so bad. I’m sitting and watching, and victims into bloodthirsty mutants. 1964 as the forgettable Vincent Price, The project itself also went through a Smith says with a laugh. “There were so else for me to do. I feel like acting is kind I couldn’t believe that a human mind Neville, apparently the only person on B-movie The Last Man on Earth. But its long and complicated history before many times that this film could have of a steppingstone at this point to what- actually conceived Star Wars. And, to this Earth not affected by the virus, spends his second celluloid incarnation, 1971’s hooking up with Smith. fallen through — for good.” ever that greater purpose is. I think that day, I still talk about the way Star Wars days transmitting radio messages from The Omega Man, was a big hit thanks to In the mid-’90s, after Tom Cruise and Speaking of long-term projects, Smith God, Mother Nature, the universe or inspired me. I still get a chill remembering his home base in a desolate New York City star Charlton Heston’s performance as a Michael Douglas passed on a version of and his wife, actor Jada Pinkett Smith, whoever you believe in will show me the when I first saw it. So I wanted to be able across the globe in hopes of contacting lonely hero on the edge of sanity. I Am Legend, Arnold Schwarzenegger and celebrate their 10th anniversary this path. I think that my only job is to stay in to do that for people. I wanted to be able others who were able to avoid the pan- “I’ve always loved that movie, and I can director Ridley Scott decided to bring month. Over those 10 years, Smith has touch, just to stay in touch with people, feel to inspire people with a movie I was in.” demic. The rest of his daylight hours are watch it over and over again,” says Smith. the story back to the screen. In late 1997, developed a reputation for being a family people and feel the energy, and I think Star Wars is a pretty high bar to set for spent trying to reverse the effects of the “It’s one of those kind of movies that you they were just about to begin filming in man first, often bringing the couple’s that the universe will call me to wherever.” yourself. While his December release plague by using his own disease-free have to stop and watch, especially if Houston (as a stand-in for L.A.) when the three children, Trey (from a previous A greater purpose? Feel the energy? I Am Legend isn’t likely to have the same blood to find a cure. Oh, and hunting you’re channel surfing. It doesn’t matter film’s budget ballooned to $108-million marriage), Jaden (his co-star in The Pursuit The universe will call him? Sounds like effect on movie history, it certainly has down and killing vampire-like creatures. what scene you come in on, you just have (considered pocket change these days) of Happyness) and Willow, along to movie an idea for Smith’s next sci-fi. the potential to give moviegoers a few You see, Neville’s sharing Manhattan to see it until it’s over. The story just and the moneymen got cold feet. premieres and other public events. chills, and perhaps even inspire them to with an organized group of mutant, blood- draws you in. Even when you are young, Several years, directors and permuta- When asked if he ever wonders what Earl Dittman is a Houston-based writer.

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LEATHERHEADS WHO’S IN IT? George Clooney, Renée Zellweger WHO DIRECTED? George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck.) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Clooney is said to have watched tons of old screwball comedies in order to replicate that lost cinematic art form for this romantic-comedy about the coach (Clooney) of a 1920s football team who recruits a star college player (John Krasinski) to boost his fledging pro team. (In the first half of the 19th-century Dakota Blue Richards in college football drew the huge crowds, The Golden Compass while professional football was considered

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M M who, at the age of 43, suffers a stroke CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR that leaves him paralyzed everywhere WHO’S IN IT? Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts THE METROPOLITAN OPERA except his left eye. By mastering a blinking WHO DIRECTED? Justin Chadwick ROMÉO ET JULIETTE pattern he is able to dictate his memoirs, (Sleeping With the Fishes) which form the basis of the film. WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Texas congressman LIVE PERFORMANCE: Saturday, Charlie Wilson (Hanks) was known for his December 15 at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT). liberal leanings and partying ways (he was ALIEN VS. PREDATOR 2 ENCORE PERFORMANCE: Saturday, WHO’S IN IT? John Ortiz, Steven Pasquale nicknamed Good Time Charlie). However, January 5 at 1:30 p.m. ET (10:30 a.m. PT). WHO DIRECTED? Colin and Greg Strause he was also a keen political strategist who, WHAT’S ABOUT? The sequel to AvP brings in the 1980s, helped channel millions of Last year, Cineplex introduced live (and the creatures from Alien and Predator to a CIA dollars to Afghan rebels fighting their encore) performances straight from small Colorado town where they enact a Soviet invaders, which ultimately helped New York’s Metropolitan Opera, and monster mash for the ages. bring down the Soviet regime. audiences came out in droves. So, no surprise, the opera is back! The THE WATER HORSE: DECEMBER 26 2007/2008 season kicks off with a LEGEND OF THE DEEP sensual interpretation of one of WHO’S IN IT? Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin THE SAVAGES Shakespeare’s best-known plays (few WHO DIRECTED? Jay Russell (Ladder 49) WHO’S IN IT? Philip Seymour Hoffman, will have trouble following this WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Families that don’t want Laura Linney narrative). Plácido Domingo conducts to spend Christmas day watching monsters WHO DIRECTED? Tamara Jenkins composer Charles Gounod’s take on the rip each other to bits will enjoy this sweet (Slums of Beverly Hills) tragic love story, with Anna Netrebko monster film about a Scottish boy who finds WHAT’S IT ABOUT? An estranged brother and Rolando Villazón in the title roles. an egg that hatches a legendary sea creature. (Hoffman) and sister (Linney) reunite Check www.cineplex.com for a list of As the cute little critter grows, the boy and in order to take care of their father theatres where you can watch it live, his family decide to hide it in a loch, or (Philip Bosco) who is in the early stages and to buy tickets. lake. You may have heard of it, Loch Ness. of dementia.

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movie-game venture Demonik around. Third twist: Jericho Team (PC, X360) sunk amid financing has a few of the usual looming, woes. This time, however, he steroid-case jarheads found in seems pretty confident, saying most shooters, but adds several his new game “promises to be stylishly (okay, scantily) the most spectacular, creative dressed female commandos. and unflinching realization of a “But what about the evil,” Clive Barker nightmare.” An you ask, “and the horror?” ominous threat considering Never fear — or rather, go what lurks in the shadowy ahead and fear because it’s big. corners of the man’s mind. Ground zero is a lost desert A squad-based, first-person city where archaeological work shooter, Jericho is named for has, oops-a-daisy, opened a the Jericho Team — a seven- dimensional rift and released soldier strike force trained to an ancient evil predating (and contain paranormal events. none too fond of) humanity. While that may sound familiar, As the Jericho squad this isn’t a garden-variety run ’n’ navigates the ancient streets gun game. First twist: although and corridors they discover that proficient in the usual warriors from earlier ages have conventional weapons, each already tried to contain the evil. CLIVE BARKER’S (1987) and Candyman (1992) grunt has a parapsychological But as the troopers move in, JERICHO — are smart, terrifying and ability — like clairvoyance, their actions unbind and PC, PS3, XBOX 360 oozing with sinister sexuality. alchemy, blood magic or reanimate the old struggles, Horror author, filmmaker and Not surprisingly, Barker’s pyrokinesis — that’s vital to layer by layer, having a producer Clive Barker may not be already lent his demonic talents survive combat and solve time-travel effect as the as well known as Stephen King to videogames. About five years puzzles. Second twist: you can Jerichos encounter heroes or even Dean Koontz, but his ago Clive Barker’s Undying change characters on the fly to and monsters from ancient dark fantasies are just as (Mac, PC) was critically exploit each specialty as you Samaria, Rome, the Crusades, depraved, and his best movie acclaimed but barely sold, and need it, while simultaneously WWII and a final, super-secret adaptations — like Hellraiser two years ago the impressive ordering your squadmates era. (Don’t tell, but it’s Iraq.)

When you lose the beat it sounds like those nothing much is really different, and that’s first weeks of Idol, but keep up, work the the best possible news for fans. whammy bar and you’re a god. Gameplay is fast, colourful and Legends has new multiplayer co-op and imaginative with 3D platforming, shooting battle modes, every system finally gets and driving missions, and plenty of eccentric wireless controllers and more than half of villains. Happily, developers Insomniac the 70 songs are from the original masters have, um, ratcheted up the comedy — not sound-alikes. But here’s a taste of quotient, and dreamed up a new arsenal of what devotees really care about: “Evenflow” weapons and gadgets, including the by Pearl Jam, “She Bangs the Drums” by Groovitron — a grenade that makes enemies The Stone Roses, AFI’s “Miss Murder,” dance to the tune of “Stayin’ Alive.” “Cult of Personality” by Living Colour and Guitar Hero III: — break out your top hat — “Welcome to Legends of Rock The Jungle” by Guns N’ Roses. PS2, PS3, Wii, X360 This series is so addictive it may soon be Ratchet & Clank Future: classified as a controlled substance. Tools of Destruction PS3 Holding a guitar-shaped controller (a bit Ratchet, the furry, big-eared Lombax smaller than a real axe) you play fret adventurer, and his diminutive robot buttons on the neck and hit the strum bar sidekick Clank are back for their seventh as rhythm-based “notes” scroll across the adventure since 2002, and their first on a screen, and the virtual band rocks out. next-gen console. And this time…well, Unt

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SPIDER-MAN 3 OCTOBER 30 If you’ve already accepted that a bite from a radioactive releasess spider can turn a boy into a A MIGHTY HEART, SPIDER-MAN 3 AND REIGN OVER ME HIT VIDEO STORES I BY MARNI WEISZ web-slinging superhero, then you shouldn’t have too much newzombies abound. Gone are the first film’s in a ravine — is discovered. Fortunately, trouble believing that some OCTOBER 2 heroes, replaced by Carlyle as a dad trying his soul is able to leave his body and return mysterious black ooze from JINDABYNE to protect his two kids and Byrne as an to his high school, where it haunts the girl another planet can turn that STARS: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne American doctor searching for a cure. (Levieva) responsible for his injuries and superhero into an arrogant jerk. DIRECTOR: Ray Lawrence (Lantana) DVD EXTRAS: director and writer coaxes her into a change of heart. In one of the many plotlines STORY: This eerie drama begins as four commentary, “Code Red: Making of running through this third film friends set off on a camping trip to a 28 Weeks Later,” flash-animated graphic A MIGHTY HEART featuring Tobey Maguire as remote part of Australia. When they finally novel, deleted scenes STARS: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman Marvel Comics’ arachnid reach camp one of them discovers the body DIRECTOR: Michael Winterbottom crimefighter, a meteorite of a dead girl floating in the river. Instead SURF’S UP (The Road to Guantanamo) carrying the alien entity of returning to the city immediately, they VOICES: Shia LaBeouf, STORY: Daniel Pearl (Futterman) was crashes to Earth and attaches stay the night and then spend the next day Jeff Bridges a Jewish journalist working for the itself to Peter Parker’s Spidey fishing. When they return home their DIRECTORS: Ash Brannon, Wall Street Journal in Pakistan when he suit giving him immense families, and the media, are aghast at their Chris Buck was kidnapped by Muslim extremists, strength, but also turning the decision to put their vacation above the STORY: This animated held captive and then beheaded. mensch into an ornery s.o.b. be responsible for his needs of the dead girl. DVD EXTRAS: deleted documentary (wrap your This recounting of the futile search for This personality change Uncle Ben’s death. scenes, “Jindabyne – The Process” head around that one) follows the exploits Pearl is based on a book by his widow, puts Peter’s relationship with A single-disc version of the of Cody Maverick (LaBeouf), a cocky young Mariane Pearl (Jolie). Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) in movie ($40) features bloopers, OCTOBER 9 penguin competing in the prestigious Big Z jeopardy, but that’s the least of photo galleries and a music Memorial Surf Off. Z, you see, was a legendary THE HOAX his problems. The alien ooze video, as well as commentary REIGN OVER ME surfer who went missing after an accident STARS: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina has also bestowed extreme by director Sam Raimi and all STARS: Adam Sandler, and is presumed dead. Bridges lends his DIRECTOR: Lasse Hallström (Chocolat) power upon a new villain, a of the major cast members. A Don Cheadle voice to the Geek, a laidback hippie penguin STORY: The true story of Clifford Irving weaselly photographer named two-disc Special Edition DVD DIRECTOR: Mike Binder who may not be exactly who he seems. (Gere), a writer who, in the 1970s, Eddie Brock (Topher Grace) ($48) comes with all of that, (The Upside of Anger) pretended to be in contact with reclusive who tried to cheat Peter out of a plus an extra disc boasting STORY: Sandler’s latest YOU KILL ME billionaire Howard Hughes so that he could promotion at the Daily Bugle. about a dozen featurettes like foray into dramatic acting STARS: Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni pretend to write Hughes’ authorized Once bonded with the ooze, “Grains of Sand - Building sees him playing Charlie Fineman, a DIRECTOR: John Dahl (The Great Raid) biography. All that pretending came to a Eddie transforms into the Sandman,” “Hanging dentist who’s been living as a virtual STORY: This dry comedy stars Kingsley halt when Hughes pulled himself out of superstrong Venom. Plus, On…Gwen Stacy and the hermit in his New York apartment since as a hitman from Buffalo whose drinking seclusion just to call Irving a liar and a Peter has to contend with the Collapsing Floor,” “Tangled September 11, 2001 — the day his wife problem is having a detrimental effect fake. DVD EXTRAS: deleted scenes, director shape-shifting escaped Web: The Love Triangles of and daughters were killed in the terrorist on his job performance. Sent to commentary, “Stranger than Fiction,” convict Sandman (Thomas Spider-Man 3” and “Inside the attack. Cheadle plays an old friend trying San Francisco to dry out and attend AA “Business as Pleasure,” “Mike Wallace: Haden Church), who may Editing Room.” to coax Charlie out of his depression. meetings, he gets a part-time job at a Reflections on a Con” DVD EXTRAS: photo montage, making-of funeral parlour and falls for a hot sales documentary, “extended jam session” with executive (Leoni). DVD EXTRAS: director THE REAPING OCTOBER 23 DVD EXTRAS: deleted scenes, “Arriving in MR. BROOKS Sandler and Cheadle commentary, behind-the-scenes featurette STARS: Hilary Swank, the Future,” “Meeting Carl,” “Bowler Hat STARS: Kevin Costner, Dane Cook AnnaSophia Robb MEET THE ROBINSONS Guy’s Redemption,” director commentary DIRECTOR: Bruce A. Evans (Kuffs) 28 WEEKS LATER OCTOBER 16 DIRECTOR: Stephen VOICES: Daniel Hansen, Wesley Singerman STORY: It’s been two years since STARS: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne Hopkins (The Life and DIRECTOR: Stephen J. Anderson (debut) HOSTEL: PART II respectable, mild-mannered businessman DIRECTOR: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Intacto) THE INVISIBLE Death of Peter Sellers) STORY: Disney taps into its “World of STARS: Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo Earl Brooks (Costner) has killed anyone. STORY: This breakneck sequel to 2002’s STARS: Justin Chatwin, STORY: A former priest Tomorrow” iconography for this animated DIRECTOR: Eli Roth (Hostel) So he’s long overdue. Or at least his 28 Days Later (the film credited with Margarita Levieva (Swank) who now makes a living feature about Lewis, a spunky young STORY: Three American girls (German, bloodthirsty alter ego Marshall (William stoking the zombie-flick revival) takes DIRECTOR: David S. Goyer debunking “miracles” travels to the odd orphan inventor who just wants to be Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips) travelling Europe on Hurt) is overdue. Cook steps in as a creepy place six months after the rage virus (Blade: Trinity) southern community of Haven, Louisiana, reunited with his birth mother. But then the cheap are lured to a budget hostel where photographer who witnesses Brooks’ latest turned nearly everyone in England into STORY: After being beaten to try and explain their suddenly red river, Wilbur Robinson, a boy from the future, their inexpensive room rates are subsidized indiscretion and then asks to be taken on bloodthirsty automatons. With London and left for dead, the only all those dead frogs falling from the sky, appears and tells Lewis that he absolutely by the rich businessmen who pay big bucks as an apprentice serial killer. deemed safe for repopulation a handful of way angst-ridden teen Nick (Chatwin) will and that weird little girl (Robb) running must accompany him to the year 2037 — for the chance to hunt and kill them. DVD EXTRAS: deleted scenes, director Brits are allowed to return. Bad move, survive is if his body — which was dumped around the bayou. the fate of the world depends on it. DVD EXTRAS: “Blood and Guts Montage” commentary, “On the Set of Mr. Brooks”

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star | gazing | Scorpio Aries OCTOBER October 23 � November 21 March 21 � April 20 You may be a little too eager to take on You’re finally able to fulfill an old promise. causes. Do some research before getting Don’t look for excuses to postpone 2007 in over your head. Around the 15th, anything that involves health or fitness. be alert to clients and colleagues with False information arrives around the 15th. HOROSCOPE | BY DAN LIEBMAN ulterior motives. You take on a late-month It’s a good month to show off your sense of managerial assignment — and more design, with the accent on flashy touches. than rise to the occasion. Taurus Sagittarius April 21 � May 22 November 22 � December 22 Good financial news arrives early in Family remains supportive. If you’ve been October. Just be cautious about sharing waiting to pop a question or drop a the news…or the cash. Apologizing is not bombshell, this could prove the best something that comes easily to you, but month of the year. Watch out for an the longer you wait, the more difficult it occasional tendency to overspend. You gets. Make long-range plans rather than finally discover the reasons behind seeking instant results. someone’s odd behaviour. Gemini Capricorn May 23 � June 21 December 23 � January 20 October sees you and a friend switching roles Someone takes an interest in your creative — taking on each other’s responsibilities skills and is willing to mentor you. You’re and attitudes. As a result, you finally realize less critical, and it’s no coincidence that an how much pressure you’ve been putting on old friendship is back on track. Upgrading yourself. Relatives take you into their surroundings improves everyone’s mood. A confidence, and loosen their purse strings new friend brings out your quirky side. Cancer Aquarius June 22 � July 22 January 21 � February 19 Balance is the key as you mediate a family Whether your short-term goal is romantic or dispute. It’s time to make a decision about professional, you can achieve it by the 31st. an on-again, off-again friendship. Give Hey Jason Bourne, a.k.a. A competitive colleague may get out of movies and books a second chance. Things Matt Damon, do you remember control. Watch for a tendency to postpone that once underwhelmed you can suddenly that your birthday money-related decisions. You establish touch your heart and inspire you. is this month? intellectual rapport with an older relative. Leo Pisces July 23 � August 22 February 20 � March 20 Stay informed about investments, If you missed the “perfect opportunity” to proposals and suggestions made over the express feelings, apply for a job or grab a past months. Be more willing to see Virgo bargain, you get a second chance this someone else’s point of view, especially August 23 � September 22 month. Late October sees you taking a after the 15th. A neighbour’s advice is Experiment with new ideas — as long as stand on an ethical issue, and you gain more valuable than you realize, both from they don’t involve your bank account. If support from a one-time adversary. a practical and a financial perspective. travelling or arranging a social function this month, it’s good to have plans B and C in place. You’re an astute judge of OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS character, as someone you work with 1st: Julie Andrews 12th: Hugh Jackman 23rd: Ryan Reynolds definitely learns. 2nd: Lorraine Bracco 13th: Kelly Preston 24th: Kevin Kline 3rd: Neve Campbell 14th: Roger Moore 25th: Ed Robertson Libra 4th: Susan Sarandon 15th: Penny Marshall 26th: Bob Hoskins September 23 � October 22 5th: Kate Winslet 16th: Tim Robbins 27th: John Cleese Continue to perfect a skill, especially one 6th: Elisabeth Shue 17th: Margot Kidder 28th: Julia Roberts 7th: Rachel McAdams 18th: Jean-Claude Van Damme 29th: Richard Dreyfuss that puts you in touch with new people. 8th: Matt Damon 19th: John Lithgow 30th: Ivanka Trump Pressure lessens at work but intensifies, 9th: Tony Shaloub 20th: Viggo Mortensen 31st: Peter Jackson briefly, over a family matter. A last-minute 10th: Ben Vereen 21st: Carrie Fisher announcement throws you off. But, in fact, 11th: Luke Perry 22nd: Jeff Goldblum the timing could not be better.

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SANDRA BULLOCK “We really wanted to keep it quiet, so our guests thought they were invited to a barbecue at the Folded Hills Ranch, near Solvang [California], in honour of my 41st birthday.”

JENNIFER GARNER “Ben [Affleck] and I were married on Parrot Cay, an island in the British territory of Turks & Caicos…. The ceremony was on the beach of Bruce Willis’ villa. Bruce was able to help us get through the red-tape formalities.”

JULIA ROBERTS “Danny [Moder] and I were married, secretly, in a non-traditional midnight ceremony at my ranch outside WHO CHOSE SURPRISE Taos, New Mexico. We wanted to fly under 10 the radar and be with close family and WEDDINGS friends. Everyone came, thinking it was my annual Fourth of July barbecue.” STARS BY SUSAN GRANGER SEAL “We did it on a private beach in Costa Careyes, Mexico, under a white canopy strewn with white rose petals. There was only one guest, our daughter Leni.”

JOHN TRAVOLTA “Kelly [Preston] and I had wanted a big, elaborate ceremony, including friends and family, but then plans somehow spun out of control…. So we cancelled everything and flew to the Caribbean and sailed for a week, trying to sort things out. Then we discovered Kelly was pregnant with Jett, so we flew to Paris with a few close friends and eloped.”

LIV TYLER “Royston [Langdon] and I were married quietly in a private, low-key Caribbean ceremony in Barbados with only a few friends and no parents.”

SYLVESTER STALLONE “I told Jennifer [Flavin] she wouldn’t know the time of the wedding until 12 hours beforehand. She toted her Armani wedding gown to Europe without knowing the date, time or place of our wedding.”

JON BON JOVI “We went to Las Vegas. We won some money and ended up at the JENNIFER LOPEZ Graceland Chapel, for Elvis.” “When guests arrived at my home on Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills they BROOKE SHIELDS “We invited friends expected to attend a party but, instead, and family to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Marc [Anthony] and I were getting Hotel in Marina del Ray, but we never said married…. The ceremony took about anything about getting married. We got on 30 minutes, and then we had our party.” a yacht...for a 22-mile sunset cruise to Catalina. We were married on board.” PHOTO BY STARMAX-KEYSTONE

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