YOUR GUIDE TO OCTOBER’S HOTTEST RELEASES OVER 40 REVIEWS INSIDE INCLUDING: MAGIC MIKE XXL SPY TERMINATOR GENISYS SHARKNADO 3 LOVE & MERCY VV124_10_FrontCover.indd 1 16/09/2015 3:11 pm Mature themes, violence and coarse language AVAILABLE ON DVD 15 OCTOBER ROSE NICK BOBBY JOEL BYRNE KROLL CANNAVALE McHALE ADULT BEGINNERSSOME PEOPLE JUST CAN’T HANDLE GROWING UP. Strong coarse language AVAILABLE ON DVD 1 OCTOBER AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY ™ & DVD 15 OCTOBER © 2015 Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia Pty Limited. All Rights Reserved. TKE24_10_02.indd 8 16/09/2015 2:10 pm Air_AdultBeginners_CopCar_Rental_Ad.indd 1 7/09/2015 5:43 pm TKE24_10_03.indd 8 16/09/2015 1:57 pm hotnewreleases 1st OCT 1st OCT 7th OCT 7th OCT Artwork not final and subject to change. 7th OCT 15th OCT 15th OCT 21st OCT Artwork not final and subject to change. Artwork not final and subject to change. 21st OCT 21st OCT 28th OCT 29th OCT Artwork not final and subject to change. Artwork not final and subject to change. TAKE A MOVIE STAR HOME TONIGHT VV124_10_P4.indd 8 16/09/2015 12:39 pm &A YOUR MONTHLY FIX OF NEWSREEL NEWSREEL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS AMY DIRECTOR RETURNS TO FICTION British fi lmmaker Asif Kapadia, the director of the acclaimed documentary Amy, has taken a break from factual projects to helm the romantic drama Ali and Nino, which is currently in post-production. Based on a lost classic written by Azerbaijani writer Kuban Said, the fi lm charts the affair between a young Muslim man Ali Khan (Adam Bakri, Omar) and the Christian Nino Kipiani (Maria Valverde, Exodus: Gods and Kings) in the fi rst decade of the 20th Century. Co-stars include Mandy Patinkin (Homeland) and Connie Nielsen Amy Winehouse (The Following), while the screenplay is by Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement). Kapadia won a BAFTA for his 2010 motorsport documentary Senna and his portrait of the tragic soul singer Amy Winehouse has also received widespread acclaim. However, he is no stranger to the world of fi ction, with his credits including the supernatural thriller The Return and the Arctic drama Far North. For more on Amy, see page 16. Asif Kapadia GHOSTBUSTED TV TREATMENT The team behind the hugely successful Paranormal Activity FOR TOMORROW series promise that all the questions surrounding the franchise’s storylines will be answered in the concluding installment, which hits cinemas this month. Filming has just begun on a TV version of the Young Adult bestseller Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension is due to open Tomorrow, When The War Began. on October 22 and is the fi rst in the series to be released The fi rst book in John Marsden’s bestselling series about a group in 3D. This time around, a family discover a video camera of teenagers who are separated from their families following an and a box of tapes in the garage in their new house. When invasion of Australia was fi lmed in 2010 and was intended to kick they look through the camera’s lens, they begin to see off a trilogy of movies. paranormal activity happening around them, including the However, that idea looks to have been shelved, with ABC re-emergence of two girls. announcing that fi lming has just begun on a six part series, due to While Paranormal Activity might be coming to an end, air next year. Sibylla Budd (The Secret Life of Us), Deborah Mailman creators Oren Peli and Jason Blum already have another (Redfern Now), James Stewart (Packed to the Rafters) and Alison Bell lucrative horror franchise on the go in the form of Insidious, (Offspring) are the fi rst stars to be confi rmed for the series, which will the third chapter of which is due on DVD and Blu-ray at the follow the stories of both the young rebels and their parents. end of next month. 5 TKE24_05-10_NewsReel.indd 5 16/09/2015 3:33 pm SOFÍA TOPS TV RICH LIST THE MOST POPULAR RENTAL TITLES ACROSS AUSTRALIA Sofía Vergara Her character in the sitcom magazine, raking in over $40 with just under $17 million in Modern Family may not be the million a year. However, this annual earnings. brightest bulb in the box but time she ended up sharing The sixth season of Modern the actress who plays her, Sofía the top spot with Kaley Family has just been released Vergara is one smart cookie. Cuoco-Sweeting, star of the on DVD, while Vegara can be For the fourth consecutive long-running sitcom Big Bang seen this month opposite SPY year, the Latino star has been Theory, although Vergara’s Reece Witherspoon in the 1 named the highest earning Modern Family co-star Julie action comedy Hot Pursuit. woman on television by Forbes Bowen took out the third spot 2 TOMORROWLAND 3 ALOHA NEW NORSE FORCE Charismatic warrior leader Ragnar – played by 4 WOMAN IN GOLD Aussie star Travis Fimmel – will apparently face new challenges from both inside and outside of his family in the fourth season of Vikings, 5 EVERY SECRET THING which is currently shooting in Ireland. The US trade mags report that Finnish actors Peter Franzen (The Gunman) and JURASSIC WORLD Jasper Paakkonen (Heart of a Lion) will be 6 joining the blood-drenched hit series next year, playing the heads of a rival Scandinavian clan COP CAR who may pose a threat to Ragnar. Another 7 newcomer to the cast is Dianne Doan (Once Upon a Time), who will play a mysterious new Chinese character. MAGIC MIKE XXL 8 However, Ragnar will also have his hands full dealing with his brother Rollo (Clive Standen) and others in his extended family. 9 HOT PURSUIT Screening dates are still to be announced, but you can catch up with all the action of the third series this month on DVD and Blu-ray. 10 POLTERGEIST 6 TKE24_05-10_NewsReel.indd 6 16/09/2015 3:34 pm NEWSREEL NEW PIXAR SHORT INSIDE BORDERLANDS HEADING INSIDE OUT TO THE BIG SCREEN Disney’s policy of giving animation fans a little bit extra There have been more misses than hits, but Hollywood remains keen when it comes to DVD and Blu-ray will continue with the on bringing hit video games to the big screen, with Borderlands the release next month of Inside Out. next franchise set to get the cinematic treatment. The House of Mouse’s latest Pixar blockbuster will include Lionsgate, the studio behind the Hunger Games series, is teaming up with the publisher and creators of Borderlands to develop Gearbox a new short Riley’s First Date?, which is set one year after Software’s critically-acclaimed blockbuster video game into a tent-pole the events of Inside Out and is directed by Josh Cooley, who feature fi lm. is set to co-direct the eagerly-awaited Toy Story 4. The Borderlands fi lm creative team will be led by producers Avi and “Riley’s First Date? ventures into the minds of Riley’s Ari Arad, whose credits include Iron Man, The Amazing Spider Man, parents when a mysterious boy shows up at the front door,” X-Men, Ghost Rider and Blade. says Cooley. “Having a daughter myself, it was a lot of fun Set in the frontier of a sci-fi universe, Borderlands blends irreverent to mine my own feelings to show this emotional time in a humour and characters, with a unique comic-book art style, and parent’s life.“ co-operative four-player genre-bending, loot-grabbing gameplay. After a relatively quiet few years, Pixar has a bumper Take-Two Interactive has shipped more than 26 million copies of the line-up slated for release over the next few years. Next award-winning fi rst-person shooter video game since its launch in 2009. month will see the cinema release of The Good Dinosaur and that will be followed in June next year by another highly anticipated sequel Finding Dory. And Pixar supremo John Lasseter will be helping out Cooley on the aforementioned Toy Story 4, which is being written by Parks and Recreation’s Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (Celeste & Jesse Forever) and has been slated for a 2017 release. “For Toy Story 4, we are doing a type of story we have not done before: a love story,” according to Lasseter. “It’s a story about a relationship between Woody and Bo Peep.” 8 VV124_10_NewsReel P8.indd 8 16/09/2015 3:25 pm FROM WRITER & DIRECTOR PAUL FEIG THE DIRECTOR OF BRIDESMAIDS AND THE HEAT TAKE IT HOME ON BLU-RAY TM & DVD SEPTEMBER 30 © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and TSG Entertainment Finance LLC. All Rights Reserved. © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC. All Rights Reserved. TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX, FOX and associated logos are trademarks of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and its related entities. VV124_10_P9.inddSPY LEADING EDGE 8 FPA 976095.indd 1 16/09/20152/09/2015 11:531:23 pm am WILL ARNIE IT’S MILLER TIME! AND CO BE BACK? NEWSREEL The career of the young Aussie star of Pan, Levi Miller, is really starting to take off. China cinema audiences may have just done enough to ensure the As well as starring in the upcoming Red Dog sequel, Miller rebooted Terminator trilogy will continue as originally planned. has bagged the lead role in an adaptation of the much-loved Back in August, industry watchers were writing off the prospect of a teen bestseller Jasper Jones, which begins shooting in Western sequel following an underwhelming performance for Terminator Genisys Australia this month.