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CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 3 EDITOR’S NOTE MAGAZINE PUBLISHER Salah Bachir Eggs for a pre-movie dinner isn’t weird. Watching all the credits is weird. 163767-1_EFC_HOLIDAY_8X10_E.indd 1 2019-11-05 10:59 AM DECEMBER 2019 CONTENTS VOLUME 20 #8 FEATURES REGULARS 4 EDITOR’S NOTE By George, I think we have 26 an ending Holiday Flicks 6 CLICK! There are seven Christmas Out and about with movies in theatres this month. Bill Murray, Renée Zellweger Which ones will you see? and Patrick Stewart BY MARNI WEISZ 8 UP FRONT Taylor Russell makes Waves, 30 Clint Eastwood takes on an Olympic-sized injustice Cat Person Cats star Jennifer Hudson 16 RED CARPET tells us about attending Timothée Chalamet “cat school” in preparation to and Natalie Portman play a kitty in the big-screen are all dressed up version of the smash musical BY MARNI WEISZ 18 IN THEATRES Your quick scan through this month’s movies 34 24 SPECIAL SCREENINGS I Am Women Lord of the Rings trilogy The latest adaptation of back on the big screen, Little Women comes courtesy INXS rocks out at Wembley of filmmaker Greta Gerwig, who says her movie is all about 50 IN THE WORKS women fighting for artistic Zoë Kravitz lands Catwoman, and financial equality Gal Gadot saves lives BY INGRID RANDOJA 52 CINEPLEX STORE Spend a relaxing night 38 in with Joker Searching... 54 SCREEN TEST Tim Roth tells us why he Rock our Dwayne Johnson went back to basics to play quiz! a man looking for a lost friend in The Song of Names 58 ART OF FILM BY INGRID RANDOJA Steve Casino is nuts 34 for nuts COVER STORY 40 Ready to Say Goodbye? The end is nigh as the Star Wars saga comes to an epic conclusion with the release of the final film, The Rise of Skywalker. We’re in Hollywood to talk with the movie’s stars Daisy Ridley and John Boyega and director J.J. Abrams about making a worthy finale, HOLIDAY and how the late Carrie Fisher fits into the send-off GIFT GUIDE PLUS: Billy Dee Williams wants us to know he’s the FOR MOVIE one and only Lando Calrissian LOVERS BY INGRID RANDOJA 46 COVER PHOTO COURTESY OF LUCASFILM DECEMBER 2019 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 3 EDITOR’S NOTE MAGAZINE PUBLISHER Salah Bachir EDITOR Marni Weisz DEPUTY EDITOR Ingrid Randoja CREATIVE DIRECTOR & DESIGNER Lucinda Wallace CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER Erin McPhee CONTRIBUTORS Adriana Floridia, Tanner Zipchen Back to where we started DIRECTOR, CONTENT STRATEGY Tina Boroviak Advertising sales for Cineplex Magazine “No one’s ever really gone.” is handled by Cineplex Media. TORONTO HEAD OFFICE Those are the words Luke Skywalker says The finale’s co-writer and director 416-539-8800 VICE PRESIDENT to his sister Leia at the end of The Last Jedi J.J. Abrams confirmed that he and his Robert Brown as she laments the loss of her son Ben team had conversations with Lucas while VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION Sheila Gregory to the dark side, and the words repeated they were deciding how this industry- VICE PRESIDENT, SALES in the first trailer for this month’s finale, changing, nine-episode behemoth should John Tsirlis EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SALES Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Only come to an end, and he also confirmed Giulio Fazzolari EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SALES this time they’re followed by the unmis- that the trailer cackle is no trick. The once Ed Villa EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SALES takable cackle of Emperor Palpatine, the dead (or thought dead) Emperor Palpatine QUEBEC/EASTERN CANADA ultimate baddie of the saga’s first two will be in The Rise of Skywalker, again Jonathan Laflamme MANAGER, THEATRICAL PROGRAMMING trilogies who was killed by Darth Vader played by Scottish actor Ian McDiarmid. Debi Kingston at the end of Return of the Jedi. When you really think about it, a call- ACCOUNT MANAGERS But when we’re talking about Star Wars, back to Palpatine — the man who turned TORONTO 416-539-8800 those words could just as easily apply to Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader — Cory Atkins, ext. 5257 Zach Beach, ext. 5269 a little filmmaker named George Lucas. was the right way to go. While we don’t Christina Clark, ext. 5278 Charting what the franchise’s progenitor know how big a role Palpatine will play, Sheree Kyte, ext. 5245 Beth Leverty, ext. 5285 thinks of each new Star Wars movie that’s or in what form, we do know it’s what Zandra MacInnis, ext. 5281 come out since he sold Lucasfilm to Disney George had floating around in his noggin Heather Marshall, ext. 5290 Jenna Paterson, ext. 5243 for $4-billion (U.S.) in 2012 could be its from the time Luke Skywalker was a Julian Pieke, ext. 5216 own saga. There’s even a hilarious deep- moisture farmer on Tatooine. And whether Brett Poschmann, ext. 5287 Lorelei von Heymann, ext. 5249 fake video — meaning it’s not really Lucas, you’re a fan of the man or not, staying true Wendell Sappor, ext. 5277 but an incredibly lifelike digital facsimile to Lucas’s vision is really the only way to Lesley Taylor, ext. 5266 Tom Woyzbun, ext. 5253 — going around that imagines the film- end this journey. OTTAWA 844-870-1112 maker reacting to The Rise of Skywalker’s Turn to “The End of the Universe,” Nicole Beaudin HAMILTON/NIAGARA 416-558-7190 trailer with sarcastic zingers like, “This page 40, where star Daisy Ridley and Jennifer Wishart thing needs more Gungans” (Jar Jar Binks director J.J. Abrams tell us little, but tease a QUEBEC 514-868-0005 was a Gungan) and “I think my favourite lot, about this final chapter in the Star Wars Benoit Deschambault, ext. 224 Martine Ménard, ext. 222 part of the trailer was the very beginning saga that started more than 40 years ago. MAN/SASK 204-396-3044 when it said my name. It said Lucasfilm.” Elsewhere in this issue, Jennifer Hudson Morgan Comrie Famous for having had a tough time promises us that Cats is the most unique CALGARY 403-264-4420 Kevin Leahy when the franchise’s new overseers did musical we will ever see (page 30), EDMONTON 780-919-3011 away with most of his ideas for the re- Greta Gerwig talks about finally directing Barb Kitzan mainder of the saga, the man who thought her version of Little Women (page 34), and BRITISH COLUMBIA 604-689-3068 Matt Watson up, wrote and directed 1977’s Star Wars we’ve got Tim Roth on the Canadian drama Cineplex Magazine™ is published and was instrumental in the next five The Song of Names (page 38). eight times a year by Cineplex Entertainment. Subscriptions are $34.50 ($30 + HST) films, has continued to hover in the Plus, we’ve got plenty to put you in a year in Canada, $45 a year in the U.S. and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $5. background, much like a Force ghost, the seasonal spirit, including a rundown Back issues are $6. All subscription inquiries, as the sequel trilogy unfurled across the of all the Christmas-themed movies in back issue requests and letters to the editor should be directed to Cineplex Magazine Star Wars universe. theatres this month (page 26), and our at 1303 Yonge St., Toronto, ON, M4T 2Y9; or [email protected] So I’m glad that at least part of Lucas’s Holiday Gift Guide for Movie Lovers (page Publications Mail Agreement No. 41619533. original vision for the ending of the 46). My advice? Get that Downton Abbey Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Star Wars saga will figure into the ninth cookbook before you plan Cineplex Magazine, 1303 Yonge St., Toronto, ON, M4T 2Y9 and final film. In 2002, Star Wars producer your big holiday dinner. 656,500 copies of Cineplex Magazine are Gary Kurtz told entertainment website distributed through Cineplex Entertainment, The Globe and Mail, and other outlets. IGN that while making the original tril- Cineplex Magazine is not responsible for the return of unsolicited materials. No material ogy Lucas already had outlines for the final MARNI WEISZ, in this magazine may be reprinted without three films and they “culminated with this EDITOR the express written consent of the publisher. © Cineplex Entertainment 2019. big clash with the Emperor in Episode IX.” 4 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 © 2019 Samsung Electronics Canada Inc. All rights reserved. Samsung is a registered trademark of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., used with permission. Screen images simulated. CLICK! ↗ SOMEWHERE UNDER THE RAINBOW Renée Zellweger holds an appropriate umbrella at the London premiere of Judy. She plays Wizard of Oz leading lady Judy Garland. ↗ IS THAT CONSIDERED A SELFIE? Spike Lee takes a picture of his portrait on stage at ↗ the Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival SOMETHING IN THE WAY HE WALKS Awards Ceremony in Atlanta. Patrick Stewart has fun with a famous backdrop at the 50th Anniversary Celebration for The Beatles’ album Abbey Road in Hollywood. 6 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 ↙ WE’RE FONDA HER Jane Fonda expresses her feelings after being arrested at the “Fire Drill Friday” climate change protest in Washington, D.C. ↖ WHEN IN ROME Bill Murray (centre) walks the red carpet at the Rome Film Festival where he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from director Wes Anderson (right). Frances McDormand was just there to make trouble. ↖ DOG TIRED Owen Wilson gives his canine friend a ride while filming Marry Me in New York. PHOTOS BY DAVID M. BENETT/GETTY (RENÉE ZELLWEGER); JOHN LAMPARSKI/GETTY (JANE FONDA); VITTORIO ZUNINO/GETTY (FRANCES MCDORMAND, BILL MURRAY, WES ANDERSON); PARAS GRIFFIN/GETTY (SPIKE LEE); DECEMBER 2019 CINEPLEX MAGAZINE 7 FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY (PATRICK STEWART); ALESSIO BOTTICELLI/GETTY (OWEN WILSON) UP FRONT ↑ IN FOCUS Clint Eastwood (right) directs Paul Walter Hauser (left) and Sam Rockwell on the set of Eastwood at 89 Richard Jewell With Richard Jewell, director Clint Eastwood proves he’s in no mood to slow down HE FIRST TIME CLINT EASTWOOD WAS when he signed on, the octogenarian directed SOURCE MATERIAL tapped to direct Richard Jewell he was three other films, Sully, The 15:17 to Paris and The film is based on a 84 years old.
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