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38 SURGING STAR We visit the Atlanta set of The Divergent Series: Insurgent to catch up with star Shailene Woodley, whose eclectic off-screen lifestyle attracts as much attention as her excellent acting. Here, Woodley tells us what to expect from the action- packed Divergent sequel BY INGRID RANDOJA REGULARS

4 EDITOR’S NOTE 6 SNAPS 8 IN BRIEF 12 SPOTLIGHT CANADA 14 ALL DRESSED UP 16 IN THEATRES 44 CASTING CALL 46 RETURN ENGAGEMENT 48 CINEPLEX STORE 50 FINALLY…

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28 DOUBLE TROUBLE 30 NOTE PERFECT 34 SPRING/SUMMER 42 SPRING FASHION Funnymen Kevin Hart and Dustin Hoffman says playing a MOVIE PREVIEW We’ve got a front row seat at Will Ferrell talk about choirmaster in the coming-of- Warming weather means New York’s Spring-Summer teaming up — and dressing up age drama Boychoir gave him blockbuster season must be Fashion Week where — thick — for their topical comedy the chance to revisit his own close! We break down the or thin — it was all about Get Hard musical memories must-see pics eye-catching stripes BY ERIC COHEN BY INGRID RANDOJA BY MARNI WEISZ BY MARNI WEISZ

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EDITOR MARNI WEISZ DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ART DIRECTOR TREVOR THOMAS STEWART VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION SHEILA GREGORY CONTRIBUTORS ERIC COHEN ADVERTISING SALES FOR CINEPLEX MAGAZINE AND LE MAGAZINE CINEPLEX IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SALES LORI LEGAULT (EXT. 5242) VICE PRESIDENT ROBERT BROWN (EXT. 5232) VICE PRESIDENT, SALES JOHN TSIRLIS (EXT. 5237) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SALES GIULIO FAZZOLARI (EXT. 5254) ACCOUNT MANAGERS CORY ATKINS (EXT. 5257) THE 12 PERCENT JASON BAUER (EXT. 5233) hailene Woodley BRENDAN DEVINE (EXT. 5280) continues the good fight with this month’s dystopian thriller LESLEY TAYLOR (EXT. 5266) Insurgent. I’m not talking about the battle for individualism in The Divergent Series’ BETH LEVERTY (EXT. 5285) LORELEI VON HEYMANN (EXT. 5249) repressive society. 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CRAIG JACKSON QUEBEC 514.868.0005 Ouch. Wasn’t 2011’s Bridesmaids going to teach Hollywood a lesson about the untapped female market? SALES DIRECTOR, EASTERN CANADA GEORGE GOULAKOS (EXT. 225) That all-female comedy achieved a 90 percent rating on Rottentomatoes.com and, more importantly for the DIRECTOR, SALES LOUISA DI TULLIO (EXT. 222) movie industry’s decision makers, earned $288-million (U.S.) worldwide. If Bridesmaids couldn’t give ACCOUNT MANAGER women in Hollywood a bump, what hope do we have? DAVE CAMERON (EXT. 224) OTTAWA 613.440.1358 Well, we have Woodley, we have Jennifer Lawrence, and we have the other mostly female stars of ACCOUNT MANAGER NICOLE BEAUDIN Young Adult franchises. While not all have been successful (The Mortal Instruments, Beautiful Creatures, MANITOBA/ SASKATCHEWAN 204.396.3044 The Host and Vampire Academy all had female protagonists but failed to make much of an impression), ACCOUNT MANAGER the ones that have been successful have been really successful. MORGAN COMRIE Did you know that, in North America, Lawrence’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 was the ALBERTA 403.264.4420 ACCOUNT MANAGER highest-grossing film released in 2014? It made $336-million here and more than doubled that take KEVIN LEAHY BRITISH COLUMBIA 604.689.3068 worldwide. Woodley’s Divergent came in at number 19 in North America, also earning a nice profit. ACCOUNT MANAGER So, once again, what hope do we have? Well, as Whitney Houston once sang, “I believe the children are MATT WATSON SPECIAL THANKS our future...” If my generation can’t get it together and properly depict the 50 percent of the population that MATHIEU CHANTELOIS, ELLIS JACOB, PAT MARSHALL, DAN MCGRATH, has two X chromosomes on screen, at least there’s a chance the next generation will. ÉDITH VALLIÈRES While they’re at it, they’d better close the black hole that’s swallowed up all the ethnic women. That Cineplex Magazine™ is published 12 times a year by Cineplex Entertainment. 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Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Elsewhere in this issue, Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart explain Get Hard’s cheeky concept (page 28), Cineplex Magazine, 102 Atlantic Ave., Toronto, ON., M6K 1X9 Dustin Hoffman sings the praises of Boychoir (page 30), we take you down the stripy spring runways of 750,000 copies of Cineplex Magazine are distributed through Cineplex Entertainment, The Globe and Mail, and other outlets. New York’s Fashion Week (page 42) and preview seven of the Spring/Summer’s biggest movies (page 34). Cineplex Magazine is not responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, artwork or other materials. No material in this Plus, starting with this issue you can flip through the pages of Cineplex Magazine knowing that we are magazine may be reprinted without the express written consent of the publisher. using paper that is Ancient Forest Friendly, meaning no fiber is taken from ancient or endangered forests. © Cineplex Entertainment 2015. 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SNAPS

ROSARIO’S HERE! Rosario Dawson arrives at the 2015 amfAR New York Gala. PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

JACKMAN’S NEW PUP THROWBACK Hugh Jackman walks from his New York apartment to the THURSDAYS Broadway theatre where he’s Jennifer Aniston signs an image performing in The River, with his of herself from, we wanna say, new pup Allegra — and a stack the Friends years (?) after of pee pads — in hand. leaving The Daily Show’s studios PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS in New York City. PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

6 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | MARCH/APRIL 2015 EARLY HEY, GIRL CHRISTMAS Ryan Gosling is looking at PRESENT you, yes you, while shooting Benedict Cumberbatch is seen a scene for The Nice Guys in filming theSherlock Christmas Los Angeles. special in London, England. PHOTO BY INFPHOTO.COM/SPLASH NEWS PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS

CHRIS KISS Christopher Pratt graciously accepts his Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award in Cambridge, Massachusetts. PHOTO BY DARREN MCCOLLESTER/ GETTY FOR IMAGE.NET

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Ryan Reynolds On Home Turf: DEADPOOL elcome home, Ryan Reynolds. The Vancouver native is in B.C. from late March to late May to shoot Chappie’s Deadpool, his second kick at the wisecracking Marvel superhero. Also known as Wade Wilson, Deadpool was introduced in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine and has since been relaxing GIRL in superhero limbo. Chappie introduces audiences rap-rave trio Die Antwoord soup their cars up and rock Midway through last to a robot (voiced by (which means “The Answer” gold and sh-t. Zef is, you’re year, however, test footage Sharlto Copley) that not only in Afrikaans). Visser and her poor but you’re fancy. You’re of Reynolds being a has the ability to think and rapping partner Ninja play a poor but you’re sexy, you’ve smart-ass and kicking butt learn, but also to feel. streetwise duo that helps to got style.” Notice in the photo while clad in Deadpool’s Co-written and directed educate and protect Chappie. the word ZEF is written on tight red suit leaked by Neill Blomkamp — who Visser’s appearance — Chappie’s back. online, and all of a sudden was born in South Africa and bleached eyebrows, gold Blomkamp has been people were interested in moved to Canada when he was tooth and a horse-mane a Die Antwoord fan for Deadpool again. In fact, 18 — the film also introduces mullet — are all part of years, while Ninja took his the character’s creator audiences to the otherworldly her “Zef” look. Zef, Visser respect for the District 9 Rob Liefeld credits the Yolandi Visser (pictured above told Britain’s The Guardian director to another level by leak with pumping up with Chappie), a member of newspaper back in 2010, is getting “D9” tattooed on his interesting and saving the the outrageous South African “associated with people who inner lip. —IR project. —MW THE ART OF FILM

It’s not a complete shock that Christine Parisi, the painter behind these mash-ups of Star Wars muscle Chewbacca and great works of art, has a good sense of humour. And if you go see the English/art teacher perform during open mic night at Reed’s Local, a bar in her native Chicago, not only can you enjoy her stand-up, but also a smattering of her Chewbacca series. “These wookies have generated many jokes by local amateur comedians who have come to do sets wildly unprepared,” she says. So, why this wookie? “Chewbacca is sexy,” she says. “Beards are sexy and, let’s face it, that dude is, like, all beard.” To see more go to www.facebook.com/christineparisiart. —MW

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WOMAN

IN GOLD PIMENTEL/GETTY GEORGE BY PHOTO

WHAT: “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer 1” by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. WHY: The painting, one of Klimt’s most famous, is at the centre of the HE’S NO SAINT Helen Mirren movie Woman in Gold. Mirren plays the niece of the real Patrick Wilson poses behind a St. Bernard Adele Bloch-Bauer, who sues the Austrian government to retrieve the cutout at the Sundance premiere of his indie painting that was stolen from her family by the Nazis during World War II. pic Zipper. His character in the film is more WHEN: The film opens April 3rd. dog than saint; he plays a lawyer whose bright future in politics is ruined by his obsession with escorts. Quote Unquote I was interested in the script because I thought it was a unique relationship, and I thought it was an interesting commentary on a world that I lived in. —KRISTEN STEWART ON PLAYING THE ASSISTANT TO A FAMOUS ACTRESS IN CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA

10 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | MARCH/APRIL 2015 SENSORY FRIENDLY SCREENINGS Not everyone appreciates dark auditoriums, loud sound and packed theatres. Which is why Cineplex Entertainment and Autism Speaks Canada have partnered to create Sensory Friendly Screenings — a series of movies held on Saturday mornings where the auditorium lighting is a little brighter, sound levels are a little lower and crowds are kept small. The program, which kicked off in February, continues with two screenings in April, Cinderella on April 4th and the animated alien pic Home (pictured above) on April 18th. Go to Cineplex.com/SensoryFriendly for more information.

ALL THE WORLD’S A CINEMA The Stratford Festival has just kicked off an impressive project: committing all of William Shakespeare’s 38 plays to film within the next 10 years. Of course, as those plays are being filmed, they will be screened — both at Cineplex theatres in Canada and other theatres in the U.S. and around the world, allowing an international audience to discover one of our country’s cultural gems. Interested? Catch Colm Feore in King Lear March 7th and 22nd, Tom McCamus and Seana McKenna (pictured left) in King John April 9th and 12th, and Geraint Wyn Davies and Yanna McIntosh in Antony and Cleopatra May 21st and June 7th. For more info go to Cineplex.com/Events. DID YOU KNOW? Russell Crowe’s first feature film as director, The Water Diviner, hits theatres April 24th. He also stars in the drama that’s set four years after World War I’s Battle of Gallipoli. He plays the father of three soldiers feared dead, who goes looking for their bodies. PHOTO BY DON DIXON DON BY PHOTO

MARCH/APRIL 2015 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | 11 SPOTLIGHT CANADA THE AGE OF ADALINE was keen to get me on board.” HITS THEATRES The son of a diplomat, Ingruber TH APRIL 24 was born in the Philippines but grew up in Australia, Cyprus, New Zealand, Holland and Canada. From age two to five he lived in Ottawa, where he learned to skate and play hockey. Then, in 2011, he moved back to Canada where he spent nearly three years in Toronto trying to get his acting career in gear. When his visa ran out he moved back to Holland to be near family. That’s when the call came to return to Canada, specifically Vancouver, to shoot The Age of Adaline. “Absolute bewilderment and shock comes close to describing my reaction to that phone call, followed by excitement and a feeling of a boyhood dream come true.” An image of Ingruber in the film’s trailer looks as though special effects were used to morph his face with Ford’s. “Ha ha, thanks very much, but no that was me,” he says. Of course, Ingruber and Ford’s scenes take place in different eras, so there was no guarantee the two would even meet. “We were filming a scene in the late evening in which [Ford] has a flashback to when he first meets Adaline as a younger man,” recalls A GOOD Ingruber. “Throughout the day, the producers, assistant director and pretty much everyone on set was asking me if I had met him yet and IMPRESSION whether or not I would like to. I, of bout six years ago, Anthony Ingruber course, said I would but I wasn’t sure how I would react.... posted a stellar impression of Harrison Ford “After we wrapped for the day, the crew was waiting with as Han Solo on YouTube. To date, about cameras and captured that moment for me. It was something 370,000 people have watched the young truly special and discovering that your childhood hero is also actor talk of parsecs and the Kessel Run, such a kind and friendly person was a fantastic experience.” his mouth curled into Ford’s sardonic —MARNI WEISZ smile, eyes darting under suspicious brows. Anthony Ingruber Fast forward a few years and Ingruber hears that a movie as a young called The Age of Adaline — about a woman (Blake Lively) who Harrison Ford, with Blake Lively, in has stopped aging — is looking for an actor to play the younger The Age of Adaline version of Harrison Ford. “I submitted my video and didn’t give it a second thought as I was under the impression I would be just one of hundreds auditioning for this part,” says Ingruber, now 25. “I learned later that the director, Lee Toland Krieger, had actually found my YouTube video personally and had spoken to production and

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LLA DRESSED UP JENNIFER HELEN JULIANNE LOPEZ MIRREN MOORE In Pasadena, California, for At the Woman in Gold In London for the the Fox All-Star Party. premiere during the British Academy Film Awards. PHOTO B Y VALERIE MACON/GETTY Berlin International Film Festival. PHOTO BY KARWAI TANG/GETTY PHOTO BY DOMINIQUE CHARRIAU/GETTY

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IN T HEAT RES MARCH 6

Chappie

CHAPPIE meets Maggie Smith in Short Circuit RoboCop The Second Best in South African-Canadian Exotic Marigold Hotel director Neill Blomkamp’s (District 9, Elysium) latest sci-fi. ScientistDev Patel THE SECOND builds Chappie (voiced by BEST EXOTIC Sharlto Copley), an artificially MARIGOLD HOTEL intelligent police robot whose The sequel to the first childlike curiosity spells trouble Marigold Hotel pic finds for the police program’s Sonny (Dev Patel) preparing bigwigs (Hugh Jackman and for his wedding and trying UNFINISHED BUSINESS Sigourney Weaver). to franchise his seniors’ This Hangover-esque comedy casts residence. The returning cast Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco and ’71 includes Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson as businessmen who Jack O’Connell (Unbroken) Judi Dench, Celia Imrie and head to Europe to win a big contract stars as a British soldier who Bill Nighy, while Hotel series and find themselves doing just about gets separated from his unit newbies are Richard Gere and anything, including drinking excessively during a 1971 riot in Belfast. David Strathairn. and visiting a sex club, to seal the deal.

RUN ALL NIGHT MARCH 13 CINDERELLA Everybody’s favourite tough Lily James portrays fairy tale guy Liam Neeson once again favourite Cinderella, who, with protects a loved one, this time the help of a Fairy Godmother as hitman Jimmy Conlon, who (Helena Bonham Carter), escapes kills the son of mobster the tyranny of her cruel stepmother Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris). (Cate Blanchett) to find romance. Shawn wants an eye for an eye, so sends an army of thugs to kill Jimmy’s son (Joel Kinnaman) knowing they’ll have to get by Jimmy first. THE COBBLER Adam Sandler stars as a lonely shoe repairman who, when he puts on a customer’s shoes, magically assumes their identity. Co-starring Ellen Barkin, Dan Stevens and Dustin Hoffman. CONTINUED

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DANNY COLLINS Aging rocker Danny Collins (Al Pacino) is given a letter John Lennon wrote to him 40 years ago, praising his artistry. The letter inspires him to get back to his musical roots and reconnect with his estranged family. Co-starring Jennifer Garner, Annette Bening and Christopher Plummer.

Danny Collins’ Al Pacino (left) and Christopher Plummer

THE GUNMAN Best Actor Oscar winners Sean Penn and Javier Bardem give this familiar-sounding thriller a dramatic lift. Penn plays a black-ops agent who wants out of the business, but his superior (Bardem) won’t let him go. TRACERS Taylor Lautner — whose post- Twilight career highlight is starring in the British TV show Cuckoo — returns to the big screen playing a bike messenger who uses his parkour skills to outrun The Gunman’s Sean Penn the mafia. THE DIVERGENT Theo James and Shailene Woodley share an intimate moment in SERIES: The Divergent Series: Insurgent INSURGENT The sequel to Divergent sees Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) seeking refuge at the Amity farming faction after surviving Jeanine’s (Kate Winslet) attack at the end of the first film. But their respite is short- lived as the battle between the warring groups heats up, and the Factionless — led by Four’s mother (Naomi Watts) — get in on the action. See Shailene Woodley interview, page 38. CONTINUED

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MARCH 27 WHILE WE’RE YOUNG Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s latest finds fortysomething couple Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts getting back in touch with their youthful selves after

they start hanging out with IN THE GALLERY twentysomething hipsters REMBRANDT FROM Amanda Seyfried and THE NATIONAL GALLERY & RIJKSMUSEUM Adam Driver. SUN., MAR. 1

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA BOYCHOIR THE MERRY WIDOW (LEHÁR) When 11-year-old Stet’s ENCORE: MON., MAR. 2 ( ) mother dies THE LADY OF THE LAKE Garrett Wareing (ROSSINI) he’s sent to a prestigious boys’ LIVE: SAT., MAR. 14 choir school. He has an angel’s THE TALES OF HOFFMANN (OFFENBACH) voice but a troubled soul, ENCORES: SAT., MAR. 28; making him a challenge for the MON., MAR. 30

demanding choir conductor DOCUMENTARY (Dustin Hoffman). See Dustin THE DROP BOX Hoffman interview, page 30. WED., MAR. 4; THURS., MAR. 5 STRATFORD FESTIVAL KING LEAR While We’re Young’s SAT., MAR. 7; SUN., MAR. 22 Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts FAMILY FAVOURITES THE BOOK OF LIFE SAT., MAR. 7 HOME HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 It’s girl meets alien in this SAT., MAR. 14 FANTASTIC MR. FOX animated tale in which an SAT., MAR. 21 alien race called the Boov ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL invades Earth. Oh (voiced by SAT., MAR. 28 Jim Parsons) is a banished Boov who befriends human THE BOLSHOI BALLET ROMEO AND JULIET teen Tip (Rihanna). Together ENCORE: SUN., MAR. 8 they try to broker peace Home CLASSIC FILM SERIES between humans and aliens. CASABLANCA WED., MAR. 11; SUN., MAR. 15; MON., MAR. 16 GET HARD THE SOUND OF MUSIC Convicted fraudster James King 50TH ANNIVERSARY (Will Ferrell) is terrified about SUN., MAR. 29 going to prison so he hires NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE Darnell (Kevin Hart) — a black BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS man whom he mistakenly LIVE: THURS., MAR. 12 assumes has done time — to A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE LIVE: THURS., MAR. 26 help him prepare for the ordeal. See Will Ferrell CONCERT and Kevin Hart interview, DRAKE’S HOMECOMING: THE LOST FOOTAGE page 28. THURS., MAR. 25

SPECIAL SCREENING THE RIOT CLUB THE BREAKFAST CLUB In this big-screen version of 30TH ANNIVERSARY Laura Wade’s play Posh, SAT., MAR. 21, WED., MAR. 25 two naive Oxford students WWE LIVE (Max Irons, Sam Claflin) are WRESTLEMANIA 31 SUN., MAR. 29 recruited into an elite club. But when they attend one GO TO CINEPLEX.COM/EVENTS of the club’s fancy dinners, FOR PARTICIPATING THEATRES, Will Ferrell gives Kevin Hart things quickly, and violently, TIMES AND TO BUY TICKETS a lift in Get Hard get out of hand. CONTINUED

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APRIL 3

From left: Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez and Paul Walker in Furious 7

WOMAN IN GOLD FURIOUS 7 This fact-based tale casts The seventh installment of the Ryan Reynolds as an series sees the team of car American lawyer who helps enthusiasts and thieves — led Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), by Brian (Paul Walker) and a Jewish World War II Dom (Vin Diesel) — facing off survivor, battle the Austrian against Deckard Shaw (Jason government to win back her Statham), who’s looking for family’s Gustav Klimt painting revenge after the death of his Woman in Gold’s Helen Mirren and that was looted by the Nazis. brother in the previous film. Ryan Reynolds

APRIL 10

Jonah Hill (left) with James Franco in True Story

TRUE STORY THE MOON Jonah Hill plays disgraced AND THE SUN New York Times reporter King Louis XIV (Pierce Michael Finkel, who befriends Brosnan) captures a mermaid convicted killer Christian (Bingbing Fan) hoping she Longo (James Franco). The can make him immortal. Kyle Catlett and twist is that Longo used Based on Vonda N. McIntyre’s Helena Bonham Carter Finkel’s name while on the run Nebula award-winning novel. in The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet and claims he’s innocent. CONTINUED

THE YOUNG AND THE CLOUDS OF PRODIGIOUS LONGEST RIDE SILS MARIA T.S. SPIVET A young woman Aging actor Maria Enders Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) (Britt Robertson) who is (Juliette Binoche) agrees to return directs this whimsical tale of questioning her relationship to the stage to play an older 10-year-old genius T.S. Spivet with a rodeo rider (Scott woman who falls in love with a (Kyle Catlett), who leaves his Eastwood) befriends an troubled younger woman family ranch in Montana to elderly man (Alan Alda) who (Chloë Grace Moretz). However, life travel alone across America shares his life story with her. may be imitating art when Maria to collect a prize from the Based on yet another romantic finds herself drawn to her assistant, Smithsonian. novel from Nicholas Sparks. Valentine (Kristen Stewart). CONTINUED

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APRIL 17

CHILD 44 PAUL BLART: Set in Stalin-era Russia, this MALL COP 2 thriller stars Tom Hardy as a Kevin James returns as the disgraced military intelligence accident-prone mall cop agent searching for a serial Paul Blart, who takes on killer who targets children. a group of casino thieves Based on the real-life crimes of while attending a security notorious killer Andrei Chikatilo. convention in Las Vegas.

DESERT DANCER Desert Dancer’s Freida Pinto and Reece Ritchie Although it is forbidden to dance in Iran, young dancer Afshin Ghaffarian (Reece Ritchie) creates an underground dance company that performs in secret in the desert. However, it doesn’t take long for the authorities to discover the group’s activities. Based on a true story. UNFRIENDED Teenager Laura Barns (Heather Sossaman) committed suicide after an embarrassing video of her was posted online. A year later, six of Laura’s pals go online to chat and discover someone using Laura’s account is stalking them, and will kill each of them until the person who posted the video is revealed. CONTINUED

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APRIL 17

CLASSIC FILM SERIES THE SOUND OF MUSIC 50TH ANNIVERSARY WED., APR. 1; MON., APR. 6

SPECIAL PRESENTATION NFINITY CHEERLEADING CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2 Monkey Kingdom THURS., APR. 2 SENSORY FRIENDLY SCREENINGS CINDERELLA SAT., APR. 4 MONKEY HOME CORBO KINGDOM SAT., APR. 18 Quebec teen Jean Corbo’s Disneynature’s 2015 FAMILY FAVOURITES (Anthony Therrien) disgust Earth Day pic is set in the HOP at the slow rate of change in jungles of Sri Lanka and SAT., APR. 4 his home province during the follows the adventures of AIR BUD SAT., APR. 11 1960s pushes him to radical a toque macaque monkey DOLPHIN TALE 2 actions that in turn help form and her newborn son. SAT., APR. 18 the FLQ. CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE SAT., APR. 25

STRATFORD FESTIVAL THE AGE KING JOHN APRIL 24 OF ADALINE THURS., APR. 9; SUN., APR. 12 It’s the 1930s and Adaline THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Bowman (Blake Lively) IOLANTA (TCHAIKOVSKY) survives a near-death & BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE experience that halts her (BARTÓK) ENCORES: SAT., APR. 11; aging. She leaves her family MON., APR. 13 and spends the next 80 PAGLIACCI (LEONCAVALLO) & CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA years moving about until (MASCAGNI) she eventually falls for the LIVE: SAT., APR. 25 handsome Ellis Jones (Michiel IN THE GALLERY Huisman). Her secret may be VINCENT VAN GOGH FROM revealed when she realizes THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM, Ellis’s father (Harrison Ford) AMSTERDAM WED., APR. 15; SUN., APR. 26 was once her lover. NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE THE HARD PROBLEM THE WATER LIVE: THURS., APR. 16 DIVINER BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL Russell Crowe makes his FOREVERS ENCORE: SAT., APR. 18 directorial debut with this post-World War I drama that THE BOLSHOI BALLET sees an Australian farmer IVAN THE TERRIBLE LIVE: SUN., APR. 19 (Crowe) travelling to Turkey to search for his three sons who GO TO CINEPLEX.COM/EVENTS were reported missing and The Age of Adaline’s FOR PARTICIPATING THEATRES, Michiel Huisman and Blake Lively assumed dead after the brutal TIMES AND TO BUY TICKETS Battle of Gallipoli. SHOWTIMES ONLINE AT CINEPLEX.COM ALL RELEASE DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

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GET HARD HITS THEATRES MARCH 27TH

Get Hard’s mismatched couple Will Ferrell (left) and Kevin Hart

KEVIN HART “And being that I don’t have a prison record — I’ve never been at all — but me being in the position I’m in in life, I see an opportunity the same way he sees an opportunity. So what I decided to do was to take advantage of a person who thought they were taking advantage of me…. And I train this guy. But in training him I figure out this guy isn’t really an a--hole…. This guy actually is just disconnected with a certain portion of life, so in doing so I try to make him aware of his situation and what it could be.”

Tell us about the costume James wears when he goes to meet Darnell’s cousin. WILL FERRELL “Another aspect of Darnell’s training is James is going to be taken to a cousin who’s actually in a gang and hopefully there can be a discus- sion as to how he can receive protection on the inside. So James takes it upon himself to HARD dress the part and comes out in a costume that would immediately get him beat up in QUESTIONS a second. Pretty much Lil Wayne’s wardrobe line, pants hanging low. And James is very proud of it. He did a lot of research and he is Writer Eric Cohen travelled to Get Hard’s very excited about how he looks.” New Orleans set to ask stars Will Ferrell KEVIN HART “He’s happy; he can’t wait for me to see it.” and Kevin Hart about their film What was it like working together? What’s the movie about? KEVIN HART “I can say the best thing about working WILL FERRELL “The film is about my character, James King, with Will Ferrell is that I’m working with a guy that who is basically brought up on charges of embezzlement. honestly I respect on such a different level. We can talk He’s a very top-notch, high-earning member of the financial about comedy, we can talk about improvisation, we can world and he’s been accused of embezzling $200-million talk about character acting. Will Ferrell is the top of that food chain, from his company. He gets convicted. The judge is sick of people man. So to get the opportunity to work with him and jump in and like me going to the country club prisons and he throws the book at really embrace two different sides of characterization, it’s a good thing.” me, sentences me to 10 years in San Quentin. Now, I meet Darnell WILL FERRELL “It’s funny that Kevin mentioned food chain because [Kevin Hart]. He’s just a guy trying to get by.... We meet one day — even he is trying to devour me in the comedy world. This is all an attempt to though he works in my building and we’ve passed each other count- slowly poison me at some point and get rid of me.” less times — and I naturally assume that he has a prison record and offer him $30,000 to train me in how to go to prison.” Eric Cohen is a Montreal-based freelance writer.

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BOYCHOIR HITS THEATRES MARCH 27TH

and arranges for his son to attend the prestigious American Boychoir School (a real institute founded in 1937 and located in Princeton, New Jersey). The unruly boy comes under the watch- ful eye of Hoffman’s strict choirmaster Carvelle, who helps turn him into the star of the school’s world-renowned travelling choir. It’s an unusual role for Hoffman; Carvelle is a steely disciplinarian and rather subdued. Hoffman’s perfor- Music mance lacks the lively exuberance we’ve come to expect from the actor whose résumé includes such classic movies as Midnight Cowboy, All the President’s Men and Tootsie. But keeping Carvelle somewhat in the shadows was a conscious choice. “There MAN was a discussion to keep the characters two-dimensional except for the lead, Dustin Hoffman recalls his dream of it’s the story about the boy,” says Hoffman, adding that the decision becoming a classical pianist as Boychoir mirrors a choice made in another of his films. hits theatres n BY INGRID RANDOJA “When we did All the President’s Men, in the first cut — [Robert] Redford produced it — we had scenes with our wives and ong before two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman our girlfriends at home, and the first thing Redford said was cut the decided to become an actor he dreamed of a career as scenes out, we should be two-dimensional, it’s the story that’s three- a classical pianist. Now, at age 77, Hoffman gets the dimensional. We shouldn’t know anything about them outside the chance to indulge his passion as Boychoir’s inscrutable newsroom, and I think that was the decision made here, you should Master Carvelle. know nothing about me outside of what I do.” “I wanted to be a musician but I was never talented enough,” says Hoffman bonded with Wareing, and when asked if he considers Hoffman during an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival. himself a mentor to the young actors he works with, he smiles and Initially, he studied music at Santa Monica College before making the says, “I think what the public maybe doesn’t understand is that’s what switch to acting. we actors do constantly. “I have small hands so I can’t reach much more than an octave,” “Most of us, we mentor each other, and sometimes the director he says with his fingers stretched over an imaginary keyboard. “And, doesn’t like it so you have to talk out of the side of your mouth like in I think you have to have one of two qualifications; you have to have a those old prison movies, ‘The next take, just do it the way you want, really good ear or be a good sight-reader, and I’m neither.” you were great, oops here comes the guard.’ We want the scene to be Directed by Canadian François Girard (The Red Violin), Boychoir as good as it could be. If you are better than the other actor then the stars Garrett Wareing as 11-year-old Stet, a troubled kid blessed with scene’s not going to be as good.” a golden singing voice. When Stet’s mom dies, his long-lost dad (Josh Lucas) shows up Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor of Cineplex Magazine.

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The late Paul Walker FURIOUS 7 HITS THEATRES APRIL 3RD

FASCINATING THINGS ABOUT FURIOUS 7

After Paul Walker died in a car crash midway through filming, his brothers Cody and Caleb Walker were used as stand-ins to complete the rest of his scenes.

Denzel Washington was reportedly offered the part of Frank Petty, but turned it down. The role eventually went to Kurt Russell.

Following the delay caused by Walker’s death, the shoot finally wrapped on July 10th,

Iggy Azalea KEVIN WINTER/GETTY BY PHOTO 2014, which was one day before the film’s original release date of July 11th, 2014. Rapper Iggy Azalea is expected to make Furious 7’s budget her feature-film debut is reported to have with a cameo in Furious 7. reached $250-million “I’m kind of the head of this (U.S.). That’s $90-million more than the franchise’s most monster truck crew of people Michelle Rodriguez According to a and I’m like the girl in charge recent movie, and $212-million and Vin Diesel 2002 article in and I have this big truck,” she more than its first. USA Today, Vin Diesel told Access Hollywood. and Michelle Rodriguez dated briefly in 2001. Diesel While Furious 7 is has now been with Mexican the seventh movie model Paloma Jimenez in the franchise, for eight years; they have chronologically it’s the fourth two children. Rodriguez film, and the first one that has had celebrity partners takes place after the events of both genders, including of 2006’s The Fast and both Zac Efron and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Cara Delevingne in 2014.

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Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.)

Thor (Chris Hemsworth) May 1

Captain America (Chris Evans)

Black Widow Spring- (Scarlett Johansson) Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) Summer PREVIEW! Warm up for the scorching movie season

Avengers: Age of Ultron Ooops. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) will need help from the entire Avengers team to clean up this mess. He thought creating the robot Ultron (James Spader), designed to wipe out our planet’s worst foes, was a good idea. Then Ultron decided mankind was the planet’s biggest enemy. CONTINUED Ultron (James Spader)

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May 15

Mad Max: Fury Road Mel Gibson has gotten too old for this post-Apocalyptic franchise, but its original director, 70-year- old George Miller, hasn’t, and returns with a fourth tale of Max (Tom Hardy), a lonely survivor doing his best to stay alive on a scorched, brutal stretch of Earth.

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May 22

Tomorrowland Drawing on the retro-future vibe of the Disney theme parks’ Tomorrowland, this fantasy casts George Clooney as an inventor and Britt Robertson as the teen he introduces Jurassic World to a “place where nothing is impossible.” In At this point, we think anyone dumb enough reality, that place is somewhere in B.C., where to wrangle with dinos deserves what they much of the film was shot. get. But we’re still pretty excited to see man-of-the-moment Chris Pratt take on genetically modified (what, really?!!) dinos created to boost attendance at Isla Nublar.

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Minions Summer’s must-see for kids! This Despicable Me prequel makes stars of the franchise’s bulbous, gibberish-speaking yellow henchmen as they latch onto super-villains Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock) and her husband Herb (Jon Hamm).

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Ant-Man Did we see Paul Rudd as a Pixels Marvel superhero before he was Kevin James as the U.S. cast as Ant-Man? No. But now President? We’re laughing we love the idea! The adorable already. But seriously, comic actor whipped himself President Will Cooper has a into shape to play Scott Lang, unique situation on his hands who uses Dr. Hank Pym’s when aliens intercept feed (Michael Douglas) technology from classic videogames, to shrink in size while vastly misinterpret them as threats, increasing his strength. and attack Earth. Enter Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage and Josh Gad as old-school gamers brought in to save the day.

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here she is in the middle of the crowd, blending in among a sea of 300 movie extras. We’re on the Atlanta set of Insurgent, the second film in The Divergent Series, and Shailene Woodley is filming one of the movie’s final scenes. Packed inside the High Museum of Art’s futuristic-looking lobby (which serves as Erudite headquarters), business-like, blue-suited Erudite faction members are rubbing shoulders with militaristic Dauntless types. It’s been an exhausting shoot, taking place during Atlanta’s notoriously hot and muggy summer, but Woodley shows no signs of fatigue. In fact, the 23-year-old is jumping up and down on her toes and joking around with co-star Theo James. It’s exactly what you would expect from the famously peppy, health-conscious actor (she forages for her own food and fresh water in the mountains around L.A.). While Insurgent director Robert Schwentke (RED) is busy setting up a shot, Woodley saunters over for a chat. Dressed in black pants and a green sleeveless vest that shows off her toned, tanned arms, the actor is at ease amid the bustling chaos. For those who aren’t up to speed on the Divergent phenomenon, the dystopian series is based on author Veronica Roth’s best-selling trilogy. Set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago, the story focuses on Tris Prior (Woodley), a young woman who’s deemed Divergent, meaning she doesn’t belong exclusively to one of the five acceptable societal factions — Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave) or Erudite (the intelligent). Tris is fearless, smart and honest, making her a threat to her society’s oppressive leader Jeanine (Kate Winslet). At the end of Divergent, the first film in the series, we saw Tris and her love interest Four (James) go on the run after thwarting Jeanine’s attack on the defenseless Abnegation faction at the hands of brainwashed Dauntless fighters. Insurgent picks up shortly thereafter, with Tris and Four hiding out in the Amity farming community. Getting back into character proved tricky for Woodley, who had just finished playing the very different role of a cancer-stricken teen in the drama The Fault in Our Stars. “It’s actually really hard and really weird,” says Woodley. “[Theo] and I came back and started with Amity scenes where we were both in farmer clothes, it was sunny and the tone was very different from the sort of grunge, underground Dauntless atmosphere. “And we had a hard time establishing our relationship,” she notes. “In the week or two weeks that occurs between the two films, has a lot developed, or a little developed between them? It was kinda funky territory for a few weeks just trying to figure out how to authentically bring the Tris and Four we knew from the first movie to life.” The Divergent Series: Fans of the series have speculated that Woodley and James are an Insurgent’s stars Theo James and item off-screen, but that seems like wishful thinking. James, now 30, Shailene Woodley is said to be dating actor Ruth Kearney, and has been CONTINUED

MARCH/APRIL 2015 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | 39 THE DIVERGENT EFFECT The Divergent Series jumpstarted not only Shailene Woodley’s career, it also opened doors for her co-stars, who’ll headline their own big films in 2015.

Jai Courtney

u Aussie actor Jai Courtney follows up his portrayal of ruthless Dauntless leader Eric in Insurgent with the lead James and Woodley prepare to shoot a scene role of Kyle Reese on the Insurgent set (John Connor’s father) in Terminator Genisys (July 1st). for a long time, while Woodley has been linked to lipstick), and is a dedicated naturalist. Hawaiian folk rocker Nahko Bear. Born in Simi Valley, California, Woodley began As for their on-screen connection, Woodley tells modelling at age four and acting at five. At 15 she us to expect Tris and Four to hit a rough patch in was diagnosed with scoliosis and was forced to the new film. wear a brace around her torso to realign her curving “Their relationship definitely does progress in spine. At the same time she landed the lead role Miles Teller a manner that I think a lot of relationships go of pregnant teen Amy Juergens in the TV series through,” says Woodley. “There is distance, and The Secret Life of the American Teenager. u Miles Teller, devious there are wedges that come between them, which I But her breakout role was as George Clooney’s Peter in Insurgent, will sort of love because it’s very realistic.” thoughtful, troubled daughter in 2011’s Oscar- next be seen as the While Divergent set the table, showing us how the nominated The Descendants, her very first film, elastic Mr. Fantastic series’ structured, post-apocalyptic society works, and suddenly the girl with the fresh face and even (Reed Richards) in the Insurgent is all about going deep to uncover the fresher opinions was on Hollywood’s radar. Fantastic Four reboot massive secrets lurking beneath the regulated so- Woodley is committed to the final two Divergent (August 7th). ciety. Insurgent introduces us to the Factionless — films (Allegiant: Part 1 and 2 are due out in 2016 people who have been rejected by factions and left and 2017 respectively), and her next role casts to fend for themselves — and their leader, Evelyn, her as Edward Snowden’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) played by Naomi Watts. girlfriend Lindsay Mills in director Oliver Stone’s The fact that Insurgent features three female bio-pic of the NSA whistleblower. characters calling the shots is not lost on Woodley. She seems to love roles that take a kick at the Theo James “The one thing that’s so interesting about this establishment, and says even Insurgent mirrors film is that between Tris, Evelyn and Jeanine, they some of today’s real-life issues. u Woodley’s on-screen are all very strong and they all have very different “I think if you were going to relate Insurgent to love interest Theo James viewpoints on society, on the ways to heal, or society it would be more about the secrets that, has three movies set to change, this community. in my opinion, are being kept from the public hit screens this year — “And I think it’s interesting that the story doesn’t in a very corporate manner. I live in corporate London Fields, Franny necessarily pinpoint any of them as being bad, they America, and in this movie you have these power- and The Secret Scripture, just have different opinions.” ful figures who have a lot of information and use and takes over from Woodley isn’t shy about expressing her own it in order to move people around like on a chess- Kate Beckinsale as views. She’s a feminist who believes in sisterhood board. And I think that’s most relevant to today’s the new face of the but also says women must stop hating each other. society.” Underworld franchise in She dismisses the unrealistic beauty standards the next Underworld pic, placed on women, makes her own eco-friendly Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor Next Generation, opening health and beauty products (she wears beet juice as of Cineplex Magazine. in 2016. —IR

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FIRTH SETS SAIL

Colin Firth and The Theory of Everything director James Marsh are teaming up for an as-yet untitled drama based on the exploits of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Firth), who built a yacht for a round-the-world yacht race in 1968 but went mad on the voyage and is thought to have JOLIE AND PITT jumped overboard. The story was told in the 2006 documentary Deep Water. HEADING TO AFRICA? IMAGE.NET FOR E. RODRIGUEZ/GETTY ALBERTO BY PHOTO Is Angelina Jolie’s on-screen muse Brad Pitt? It sure looks that way. Jolie just finished directing Pitt in By the Sea, in which the real-life couple plays a husband and wife whose relationship is on the brink. And now word is Jolie wants Pitt for her fourth directing effort, Africa, about famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey’s work to stop ivory poaching in the 1980s.

WHAT’S GOING ON WITH... DOCTOR STRANGE Production on one of Marvel’s most anticipated superhero flicks begins in May at Britain’s Pinewood Shepperton Studios. JAMES Benedict Cumberbatch BLUNT EYES will play the titular ROYAL ROLE Doctor Strange, a Emily Blunt is in talks to neurosurgeon who is injured join Chris Hemsworth in in a car accident and turns The Huntsman. The sequel to magic to become Earth’s to Snow White and protector and Sorcerer The Huntsman focuses on Supreme. Scott Derrickson the Huntsman’s (Hemsworth) (Sinister) directs, and word quest to find a magic is Chiwetel Ejiofor is circling mirror, and Blunt would

a co-starring role as either play the Snow Queen, IMAGE.NET FOR ANTHONY HARVEY/GETTY BY PHOTO the Ancient One, who sister to the villain Ravenna

PHOTO BY GARETH CATTERMOLE/GETTY FOR IMAGE.NET FOR GARETH CATTERMOLE/GETTY BY PHOTO mentors Strange, or a villain. (Charlize Theron), seen in the first film.

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EFRON BOOKS WEDDING DATE Neighbors demonstrated that pretty boy Zac Efron has a way with raunchy comedy, so it’s no surprise the 27-year-old returns for more outlandish fun with Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. Directed by Jake Szymanski, the comedy sees the titular brothers post an online ad for wedding dates. Look for the pic to hit screens July 29th, 2016.

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PHOTO BY ROMMEL DEMANO/GETTY BY PHOTO DIVES DEEP Jennifer Lawrence reunites with one of her Hunger Games directors, Francis Lawrence, for the James Cameron-produced drama The Dive. Lawrence will portray French freediver Audrey Mestre, who died in 2002 when she attempted to break her own world record by diving to FRESH FACE 557 feet using a single breath. No word on who will play her husband, GRETA LEE Francisco Ferreras, who hastily pushed his wife into attempting the dive. IMAGE.NET FOR C. WILSON/GETTY STUART BY PHOTO It’s never been a better time to be a funny, twentysomething female actor. For native New Yorker Greta Lee that ALSO IN THE WORKS Ender’s Game star means landing roles in TV’s Girls, Asa Butterfield books another sci-fi withOut of This World, about a human Inside Amy Schumer and New Girl, and boy raised on Mars who returns to Earth. Sophie Turner (Games of Thrones’ making the leap to films likeSt. Vincent, Sansa Stark) will portray the young Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse. Top Five, this month’s The Cobbler and Elijah Wood and Nic Cage play corrupt cops in the thriller The Trust. the upcoming Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Dakota Johnson joins the cast of the rom-com How to Be Single. comedy Sisters.

MARCH/APRIL 2015 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | 45 RETURN ENGAGEMENT

Play it Again Hollywood classic and one of cinema’s greatest loves stories, Casablanca (1942) was born out of chaos. The script was unfinished and being written on the fly. Its director, Michael Curtiz, was temperamental and demanding. Its stars, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, were grumpy and confused, not knowing how to act as they didn’t know what their characters were going to do next. Set during World War II, the film finds dour American Rick (Bogart) running a nightclub in Casablanca where refugees gather. Everyone is looking for “letters of transit” that will allow them to travel freely, including Rick’s ex-lover Ilsa (Bergman), whose freedom- fighting husband Victor (Paul Henreid) is wanted by the Nazis. Amid the intrigue Rick and Ilsa rekindle their love affair, CASABLANCA but is it too late for them to screens as part of find happiness? Don’t worry, we wouldn’t dare spoil one Cineplex’s Classic Film of the all-time great movie Series on March 11th, endings, a perfect finale for 15th and 16th. Go to a timeless classic. Cineplex.com/Events for —INGRID RANDOJA times and locations.

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More than 250 metres of fabric went into the making of the iridescent blue gown worn by Lily James in Cinderella. Three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell (Shakespeare in Love, The Aviator, The Young Victoria) also used more than 10,000 Swarovski crystals and three miles of stitching to complete the dress. Impressive enough if we were talking about just one garment, but multiply those numbers by nine, as nine copies of the ball gown were created for the shoot. Cinderella hits theatres March 13th. —MW

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