CONTENTS NOVEMBER 2013 | VOL 14 | Nº11 COVER STORY 38 REBEL YELL Liam Hemsworth returns as Katniss Everdeen’s rebellious District 12 homeboy Gale Hawthorne in the Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire. Here, he talks about prepping for his role and watching Jennifer Lawrence kick butt. Plus: 10 reasons to love J.Law BY BOB STRAUSS AND SARA YONIS REGULARS 4 EDITOR’S NOTE 6 SNAPS 8 IN BRIEF 12 SPOTLIGHT 14 ALL DRESSED UP 16 IN THEATRES 58 CASTING CALL 60 AT HOME 61 RETURN ENGAGEMENT 62 FINALLY… FEATURES TIM PALEN BY PHOTO COVER 22 MISCHIEF MAKER 26 GAME ON! 34 WEIGHTY ROLES 47 HOLIDAY GIFT Is he a hero or an antihero? Harrison Ford and co-star Dallas Buyers Club stars GUIDE Tom Hiddleston gives us his Asa Butterfield talk about Matthew McConaughey and How’s that holiday shopping take on playing charismatic Ender’s Game, the month’s Jared Leto on transforming coming along? 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PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS 6 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | NOVEMBER 2013 LEO’S RIDE Leonardo DiCaprio ups his environmentalist cred by riding a Citi Bike through New York. PHOTO BY MORGAN DESSALLES/KEYSTONE PRESS SEYFRIED ON SET Amanda Seyfried shoots While We Are Young in New York City. PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS NOVEMBER 2013 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | 7 IN Sam BRIEF Rockwell gain. But when the bank is about to foreclose on his master’s temple he’s lured into an underground fight On club run by the villainous Donaka Mark (Reeves) where Home he fights for money. “There are so many Turf: things about Tai Chi that are POLTERGEIST fantastic for drama because It seems like it’s taken a long it deals so much in opposites time for Poltergeist’s cast to and contrasts,” says Reeves. materialize, especially since “So the idea of hard force the remake of the 1982 horror and soft force. You know, penned by Steven Spielberg about taking someone’s should be shooting in Toronto energy or giving energy, or as you read this. (Pulitzer Prize- the idea of light and dark, or winning scribe David Lindsay- traditionally yin and yang.” Abaire puts his name to the RELEASING Reeves’ next film, new screenplay.) 47 Ronin (expected out If all has gone as planned, this Christmas) also takes it will be Jared Harris, place in the martial arts Rosemarie DeWitt and HIS CHI milieu, albeit three centuries Sam Rockwell in town to ago. Reeves plays one of play the film’s leads. Expect hile it’s not likely directorial debut Man of Tai Chi 47 18th-century samurai some major plot departures there will ever as a character named, well, warriors who set out to from the 1982 version, which be another Tiger Chen. avenge their leader’s murder. starred Craig T. Nelson and Matrix movie, this month’s “We became friends, stayed Now that he’s had a taste JoBeth Williams as a couple Man of Tai Chi was, in a sense, in contact and wanted to of directing, Reeves admits whose family is tormented by born on the set of that work together,” says Reeves it’s hard to simply act. “I spirits peeved their family’s groundbreaking trilogy. during a round table interview can’t help but call up the new home is built on top That’s where Matrix star at the Toronto International producers and go, ‘So how’s of their cemetery.