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But don’t forget TV Land, 30 COMING SOON P.16 where you’ll discover several of Ringer, Home Sweet Hell, Let’s Kill New releases to look forward Ward’s Wife, We’ll Never Have the most innovative and super to next month compelling series to be released Paris and more amongst the tube’s competitive landscape: mega popular jail 20-21 DRAMA drama Orange is the New Black The Imitation Game, Unbroken, has dropped its second season; Fifty Shades of Grey, Ask Me similarly, Matt Berry is proffering Anything, The One I Love, season two of his latest thigh- 11 The Witcher 3: Song One, Mr Turner and more slapper Toast of London; the fi nal Wild Hunt seasons of both White Collar and Delayed three times, one of the 22-23 TV most anticipated games of 2015 is Whitechapel are up for grabs; Toast of London S2, Whitechapel fi nally within sight and if you want to get caught up S4, Orange is the New Black S2, in something fresh, season one White Collar S6 and more of brand new sci-fi series The P.22 Librarians (featuring Rebecca 24 FAMILY Romijn) has also landed in store. Get around, amongst and all up in Into the Woods, Black Beauty, it, and until next time, be good. 12 Fifty Shades of Grey Sofi a the First: The Curse We take a look into how Fifty Shades’ of Princess Ivy and more THE TEAM costumers incorporated the story’s symbolism into their artistry 26 THRILLER The Captive, Coherence, 14 The Imitation Game New Neighbour and more The true story of cryptanalyst Alan Turing provided The Imitation P.24 Game’s fi lmmakers with piles of astonishing material with which to craft their Oscar-winning fi lm P.14 P.26 Publisher: Tilo Grieco [email protected], Editor: Kit Razer Sub Editor: Chelsea Graham, Contributors: Robert Hislop, Accounts: Tracy Kingman [email protected], Production: Al Netherclift, Design: Rebecca Rowlands, Contributor: Scott Hocking Address: Scribal Publishing Pty. Ltd., PO Box 2051, Richmond South, VIC 3121 TKE19_05_Contents.indd 1 16/04/2015 2:36 pm YOUR MONTHLY FIX OF NEWSREEL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS NEWSREEL REAL LIFE POOH While we all know last month’s a live-action remake of Winnie Paddington was a success, there the Pooh, which obviously has was a period prior to its release the potential to be even more when everyone thought it was freaky than Paddington. It will going to be awful. Why? Because be a modern day retelling, in initial stills depicting the bear which Christopher Robin is grown were, to be frank, horrifying. He up and navigating the trials of looked creepy and strange and adult life. He then returns to the we started to question whether Hundred Acre Wood, where its a good idea at all to subject he reconnects with his old our beloved childhood characters friends. We’re already imagining to live-action/CGI. It seems the slothy plodding of Eeyore Disney didn’t get that epistle, rendered in 3D, and it isn’t because they’ve just confi rmed comforting. PLAY-DOH PALS In other news of studios mining the annals of kids’ toys for fi lm fodder, director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat, Freaks and Geeks) has been meeting with 20th Century Fox and children’s toy manufacturer Hasbro to discuss the creation of a Play-Doh movie, slated for 2017. Hasbro are currently in the process of putting together their live-action Jem and the Holograms remake, so we’ll wait to see how that one plays out before passing judgement. Still: sentient buckets of coloured damper in an adventure narrative – what could go wrong? FAST & FURIOUS ON TOP We knew it would be big, but this big? Fast & Furious 7 – starring Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, and the late Paul Walker – absolutely clobbered box offi ce records last month, garnering opening weekend clams totalling $143.6 million USD. That’s the highest ever opening weekend in April. Internationally, it nabbed Universal the studio’s biggest ever opening: $240.4 million USD. If you’re into action of epic proportions, we recommend having a look at our review of American Sniper on page 16. 6 TKE19_06-10_NewsReel.indd 6 16/04/2015 11:18 am &A MADDER MAX THE MOST POPULAR RENTAL TITLES ACROSS AUSTRALIA In a recent interview with revealed some fascinating Esquire magazine, actor details about the fi lming Mel Gibson as Mad Max Tom Hardy let it slip that he’s process, which took place in contractually locked in for three the Namibian desert: “We’d more Mad Max movies! The lose half a vehicle in sand star has wrapped shooting for and have to dig it out. It was the hugely anticipated Mad just this unit in the middle of EXODUS: GOD AND KINGS Max: Fury Road, in which he x-million square kilometres of 1 plays hero Max Rockatansky desert, and then this group of (originally played by Mel lunatics in leathers; like a really BIG HERO 6 Gibson in the 1979, 1981 and weird S and M party, or a Hell’s 2 1985 Mad Max fi lms). He also Angels convention.” 3 THE WATER DIVINER THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE EVA IN 4 OF THE FIVE ARMIES NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3: FOR FAST & 5 SECRET OF THE TOMB FURIOUS 8? 6 INTERSTELLAR There are already rumours spiralling around tinsel town as to what’s going to happen next NIGHTCRAWLER in the Fast & Furious franchise, particularly 7 since Vin Diesel let it be known that the latest fi lm was the beginning of a new trilogy. The JOHN WICK as-yet unannounced Fast & Furious 8 will bring 8 the fi lm’s characters to New York City, and it’s reported that 2 Fast 2 Furious character Agent Monica Fuentes, played back in 2003 by Eva 9 LET’S BE COPS Mendes, is going to be reintroduced. We’re looking forward to seeing the US Customs badass kick some more butt! 10 DYING OF THE LIGHT 7 TKE19_06-10_NewsReel.indd 7 16/04/2015 2:39 pm THAT’S MS STORE: Magnum Movies Lakes Entrance NEWSREEL LOGAN TO YOU STORE MANAGER NAME: Gayle Lee (Pictured left) STORE OWNER: Merrilyn Rose (Pictured right) It’s being reported that Warner Bros., who have been toying with a remake of sci-fi classic Logan’s Run for a number of years, may change the lead character to a female. The original CAN YOU TELL fi lm was released in 1976, and starred Michael York as part US ANY QUIRKY of a superbly trained government team tasked with tracking CUSTOMER TALES? and eliminating citizens who refused to succumb to the law Best late fee excuse – which dictates that all humans must die at the age of 30, due to diminishing world resources. If the role of Logan was – movie was returned late rewritten for a woman, the essential elements of the story 1995. Excuse given was that wouldn’t be affected – and it might actually snare a wider parent had leg amputated audience who are into their futuristic heroine-led franchises which was done in 1990! (such as Divergent and The Hunger Games). Perhaps they’ll discover and launch the new J-Law! Check out that other MOST ANTICIPATED siren ascending the heights of Hollywood, Dakota Johnson, in NEW RELEASE ? Fifty Shades of Grey this month – our review’s on page 20. Most anticipated release TOP 5 ACTORS/DIRECTORS ever was Titanic /PRODUCERS YOU WOULD INVITE FOR DINNER? ALL TIME FAVOURITE MOVIE? Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Coen Brothers, Peter Aliens 2 Jackson and Martin Scorsese WHAT WOULD BE WHO WOULD YOU YOUR IDEAL MOVIE WANT TO PLAY YOU MARATHON? IN A FILM OF YOUR LIFE? Good Morning Vietnam, Melissa McCarthy.