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MARCH/APRIL 2015 | VOLUME 16 | NUMBER 3
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CONTENTS
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COVER
STORY
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 actionpacked Divergent sequel
BY INGRID RANDOJA
REGULARS
THIS PHOTO BY BENNETT RAGLIN/GETTY IMAGES
COVER PHOTO BY TIM PALEN
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…
FEATURES
28 DOUBLE TROUBLE
30 NOTE PERFECT
Funnymen Kevin Hart and
Will Ferrell talk about
teaming up — and dressing up
— for their topical comedy
Get Hard
BY ERIC COHEN
Dustin Hoffman says playing a
choirmaster in the coming-ofage drama Boychoir gave him
the chance to revisit his own
musical memories
BY INGRID RANDOJA
34 SPRING/SUMMER
MOVIE PREVIEW
Warming weather means
blockbuster season must be
close! We break down the
must-see pics
BY MARNI WEISZ
42 SPRING FASHION
We’ve got a front row seat at
New York’s Spring-Summer
Fashion Week where — thick
or thin — it was all about
eye-catching stripes
BY MARNI WEISZ
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THE 12 PERCENT
hailene Woodley continues the good fight with this month’s dystopian thriller
Insurgent. I’m not talking about the battle for individualism in The Divergent Series’
repressive society. I’m talking about an off-screen struggle that’s taking place in the
real world, in the boardrooms and offices of Hollywood.
And it’s proving to be just as tough.
According to “It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World: On-Screen Representations
of Female Characters in the Top 100 Films of 2014,” the Center for the Study
of Women in Television and Film found that only 12 percent of 2014’s top 100
movies in North America had female protagonists, as compared to 75 percent of
films with male leads. The remaining 13 percent of films had a male/female duo at the centre of the story.
That 12 percent represents a decrease of three percent over 2013, and a drop of four percent from 2002!
Ouch. Wasn’t 2011’s Bridesmaids going to teach Hollywood a lesson about the untapped female market?
That all-female comedy achieved a 90 percent rating on Rottentomatoes.com and, more importantly for the
movie industry’s decision makers, earned $288-million (U.S.) worldwide. If Bridesmaids couldn’t give
women in Hollywood a bump, what hope do we have?
Well, we have Woodley, we have Jennifer Lawrence, and we have the other mostly female stars of
Young Adult franchises. While not all have been successful (The Mortal Instruments, Beautiful Creatures,
The Host and Vampire Academy all had female protagonists but failed to make much of an impression),
the ones that have been successful have been really successful.
Did you know that, in North America, Lawrence’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 was the
highest-grossing film released in 2014? It made $336-million here and more than doubled that take
worldwide. Woodley’s Divergent came in at number 19 in North America, also earning a nice profit.
So, once again, what hope do we have? Well, as Whitney Houston once sang, “I believe the children are
our future...” If my generation can’t get it together and properly depict the 50 percent of the population that
has two X chromosomes on screen, at least there’s a chance the next generation will.
While they’re at it, they’d better close the black hole that’s swallowed up all the ethnic women. That
same study pointed out that while 74 percent of all female characters were white, and 11 percent were
black, “moviegoers were almost as likely to see another-worldly female as they were to see a Latina or
Asian female character.” Way to go, Gamora.
Turn to page 38 to read “Fearlessly Different,” our visit to Insurgent’s Atlanta set to chat with proud owner
of two X chromosomes, Shailene Woodley.
Elsewhere in this issue, Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart explain Get Hard’s cheeky concept (page 28),
Dustin Hoffman sings the praises of Boychoir (page 30), we take you down the stripy spring runways of
New York’s Fashion Week (page 42) and preview seven of the Spring/Summer’s biggest movies (page 34).
Plus, starting with this issue you can flip through the pages of Cineplex Magazine knowing that we are
using paper that is Ancient Forest Friendly, meaning no fiber is taken from ancient or endangered forests.
Instead, all inside pages are made from recycled waste paper. While we’ve been using recycled paper for
years, this new paper takes it up a notch.
n MARNI WEISZ, EDITOR
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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
Hugh Jackman walks from his
New York apartment to the
Broadway theatre where he’s
performing in The River, with his
new pup Allegra — and a stack
of pee pads — in hand.
PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS
THROWBACK
THURSDAYS
Jennifer Aniston signs an image
of herself from, we wanna say,
the Friends years (?) after
leaving The Daily Show’s studios
in New York City.
PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS
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HEY
, GIRL
Ryan Gosling is looking at
you, yes you, while shooting
a scene for The Nice Guys in
Los Angeles.
PHOTO BY INFPHOTO.COM/SPLASH NEWS
EARLY
CHRISTMAS
PRESENT
Benedict Cumberbatch is seen
filming the Sherlock Christmas
special in London, England.
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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IN BRIEF
Ryan
Reynolds
On
Home
Turf:
DEADPOOL
Chappie’s
GIRL
Chappie introduces audiences
to a robot (voiced by
Sharlto Copley) that not only
has the ability to think and
learn, but also to feel.
Co-written and directed
by Neill Blomkamp — who
was born in South Africa and
moved to Canada when he was
18 — the film also introduces
audiences to the otherworldly
Yolandi Visser (pictured above
with Chappie), a member of
the outrageous South African
rap-rave trio Die Antwoord
(which means “The Answer”
in Afrikaans). Visser and her
rapping partner Ninja play a
streetwise duo that helps to
educate and protect Chappie.
Visser’s appearance —
bleached eyebrows, gold
tooth and a horse-mane
mullet — are all part of
her “Zef” look. Zef, Visser
told Britain’s The Guardian
newspaper back in 2010, is
“associated with people who
THE ARTOF 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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soup their cars up and rock
gold and sh-t. Zef is, you’re
poor but you’re fancy. You’re
poor but you’re sexy, you’ve
got style.” Notice in the photo
the word ZEF is written on
Chappie’s back.
Blomkamp has been
a Die Antwoord fan for
years, while Ninja took his
respect for the District 9
director to another level by
getting “D9” tattooed on his
inner lip. —IR
elcome home,
Ryan Reynolds.
The Vancouver native
is in B.C. from late March
to late May to shoot
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
in superhero limbo.
Midway through last
year, however, test footage
of Reynolds being a
smart-ass and kicking butt
while clad in Deadpool’s
tight red suit leaked
online, and all of a sudden
people were interested in
Deadpool again. In fact,
the character’s creator
Rob Liefeld credits the
leak with pumping up
interesting and saving the
project. —MW
PHOTO BY GEORGE PIMENTEL/GETTY
WOMAN
IN GOLD
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
Helen Mirren movie Woman in Gold. Mirren plays the niece of the real
Adele Bloch-Bauer, who sues the Austrian government to retrieve the
painting that was stolen from her family by the Nazis during World War II.
WHEN: The film opens April 3rd.
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
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HE’S NO SAINT
Patrick Wilson poses behind a St. Bernard
cutout at the Sundance premiere of his indie
pic Zipper. His character in the film is more
dog than saint; he plays a lawyer whose bright
future in politics is ruined by his obsession
with escorts.
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.
PHOTO BY DON DIXON
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.
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SPOTLIGHT CANADA
THE AGE OF
ADALINE
HITS THEATRES
APRIL 24TH
was keen to get me on board.”
The son of a diplomat, Ingruber
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
Ingruber. “Throughout the day, the
producers, assistant director and
pretty much everyone on set was
asking me if I had met him yet and
whether or not I would like to. I, of
course, said I would but I wasn’t sure how I would react....
“After we wrapped for the day, the crew was waiting with
cameras and captured that moment for me. It was something
truly special and discovering that your childhood hero is also
such a kind and friendly person was a fantastic experience.”
—MARNI WEISZ
A GOOD
IMPRESSION
bout six years ago, Anthony Ingruber
posted a stellar impression of Harrison Ford
as Han Solo on YouTube. To date, about
370,000 people have watched the young
actor talk of parsecs and the Kessel Run,
his mouth curled into Ford’s sardonic
smile, eyes darting under suspicious
brows.
Fast forward a few years and Ingruber hears that a movie
called The Age of Adaline — about a woman (Blake Lively) who
has stopped aging — is looking for an actor to play the younger
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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Anthony Ingruber
as a young
Harrison Ford,
with Blake Lively, in
The Age of Adaline
ALL
DRESSED
UP
JENNIFER
LOPEZ
HELEN
MIRREN
JULIANNE
MOORE
In Pasadena, California, for
the Fox All-Star Party.
At the Woman in Gold
premiere during the
Berlin International Film Festival.
In London for the
British Academy Film Awards.
PHOTO B Y VALERIE MACON/GETTY
PHOTO BY DOMINIQUE CHARRIAU/GETTY
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PHOTO BY KARWAI TANG/GETTY
IN THEATRES
MARCH 6
Chappie
CHAPPIE
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
This Hangover-esque comedy casts
Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco and
Tom Wilkinson as businessmen who
head to Europe to win a big contract
and find themselves doing just about
anything, including drinking excessively
and visiting a sex club, to seal the deal.
MARCH 13
Short Circuit meets RoboCop
in South African-Canadian
director Neill Blomkamp’s
(District 9, Elysium) latest
sci-fi. Scientist Dev Patel
builds Chappie (voiced by
Sharlto Copley), an artificially
intelligent police robot whose
childlike curiosity spells trouble
for the police program’s
bigwigs (Hugh Jackman and
Sigourney Weaver).
’71
Jack O’Connell (Unbroken)
stars as a British soldier who
gets separated from his unit
during a 1971 riot in Belfast.
CINDERELLA
Lily James portrays fairy tale
favourite Cinderella, who, with
the help of a Fairy Godmother
(Helena Bonham Carter), escapes
the tyranny of her cruel stepmother
(Cate Blanchett) to find romance.
Maggie Smith in
The Second Best
Exotic Marigold Hotel
THE SECOND
BEST EXOTIC
MARIGOLD HOTEL
The sequel to the first
Marigold Hotel pic finds
Sonny (Dev Patel) preparing
for his wedding and trying
to franchise his seniors’
residence. The returning cast
includes Maggie Smith,
Judi Dench, Celia Imrie and
Bill Nighy, while Hotel series
newbies are Richard Gere and
David Strathairn.
RUN ALL NIGHT
Everybody’s favourite tough
guy Liam Neeson once again
protects a loved one, this time
as hitman Jimmy Conlon, who
kills the son of mobster
Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris).
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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MARCH 20
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 postTwilight 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 mafia.
Theo James and Shailene Woodley
share an intimate moment in
The Divergent Series: Insurgent
The Gunman’s Sean Penn
THE DIVERGENT
SERIES:
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 shortlived 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
twentysomething hipsters
Amanda Seyfried and
Adam Driver.
BOYCHOIR
When 11-year-old Stet’s
(Garrett Wareing) mother dies
he’s sent to a prestigious boys’
choir school. He has an angel’s
voice but a troubled soul,
making him a challenge for the
demanding choir conductor
(Dustin Hoffman). See Dustin
Hoffman interview, page 30.
THE BOLSHOI BALLET
ROMEO AND JULIET
ENCORE: SUN., MAR. 8
Home
GET HARD
Convicted fraudster James King
(Will Ferrell) is terrified about
going to prison so he hires
Darnell (Kevin Hart) — a black
man whom he mistakenly
assumes has done time — to
help him prepare for the
ordeal. See Will Ferrell
and Kevin Hart interview,
page 28.
THE RIOT CLUB
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DOCUMENTARY
THE DROP BOX
WED., MAR. 4; THURS., MAR. 5
FAMILY FAVOURITES
THE BOOK OF LIFE
SAT., MAR. 7 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
SAT., MAR. 14 FANTASTIC MR. FOX
SAT., MAR. 21
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS:
THE SQUEAKQUEL
SAT., MAR. 28
HOME
Will Ferrell
gives Kevin Hart
a lift in Get Hard
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
THE MERRY WIDOW (LEHÁR)
ENCORE: MON., MAR. 2
THE LADY OF THE LAKE
(ROSSINI)
LIVE: SAT., MAR. 14
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
(OFFENBACH)
ENCORES: SAT., MAR. 28;
MON., MAR. 30
STRATFORD FESTIVAL
KING LEAR
SAT., MAR. 7; SUN., MAR. 22
While We’re Young’s
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts
It’s girl meets alien in this
animated tale in which an
alien race called the Boov
invades Earth. Oh (voiced by
Jim Parsons) is a banished
Boov who befriends human
teen Tip (Rihanna). Together
they try to broker peace
between humans and aliens.
IN THE GALLERY
REMBRANDT FROM
THE NATIONAL GALLERY
& RIJKSMUSEUM
SUN., MAR. 1
In this big-screen version of
Laura Wade’s play Posh,
two naive Oxford students
(Max Irons, Sam Claflin) are
recruited into an elite club.
But when they attend one
of the club’s fancy dinners,
things quickly, and violently,
get out of hand. CONTINUED
CLASSIC FILM SERIES
CASABLANCA
WED., MAR. 11; SUN., MAR. 15;
MON., MAR. 16 THE SOUND OF MUSIC
50TH ANNIVERSARY
SUN., MAR. 29
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE
BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL
FOREVERS
LIVE: THURS., MAR. 12
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
LIVE: THURS., MAR. 26
CONCERT
DRAKE’S HOMECOMING:
THE LOST FOOTAGE
THURS., MAR. 25
SPECIAL SCREENING
THE BREAKFAST CLUB
30TH ANNIVERSARY
SAT., MAR. 21, WED., MAR. 25
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WRESTLEMANIA 31
SUN., MAR. 29
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APRIL 3
From left: Tyrese Gibson,
Michelle Rodriguez and
Paul Walker in Furious 7
Woman in Gold’s
Helen Mirren and
Ryan Reynolds
WOMAN IN GOLD
FURIOUS 7
This fact-based tale casts
Ryan Reynolds as an
American lawyer who helps
Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren),
a Jewish World War II
survivor, battle the Austrian
government to win back her
family’s Gustav Klimt painting
that was looted by the Nazis.
The seventh installment of the
series sees the team of car
enthusiasts and thieves — led
by Brian (Paul Walker) and
Dom (Vin Diesel) — facing off
against Deckard Shaw (Jason
Statham), who’s looking for
revenge after the death of his
brother in the previous film.
APRIL 10
Jonah Hill (left) with
James Franco in True Story
TRUE STORY
Jonah Hill plays disgraced
New York Times reporter
Michael Finkel, who befriends
convicted killer Christian
Longo (James Franco). The
twist is that Longo used
Finkel’s name while on the run
and claims he’s innocent.
Kyle Catlett and
Helena Bonham Carter
in The Young and
Prodigious T.S. Spivet
THE YOUNG AND
PRODIGIOUS
T.S. SPIVET
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie)
directs this whimsical tale of
10-year-old genius T.S. Spivet
(Kyle Catlett), who leaves his
family ranch in Montana to
travel alone across America
to collect a prize from the
Smithsonian.
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THE MOON
AND THE SUN
King Louis XIV (Pierce
Brosnan) captures a mermaid
(Bingbing Fan) hoping she
can make him immortal.
Based on Vonda N. McIntyre’s
Nebula award-winning novel.
THE
LONGEST RIDE
CLOUDS OF
SILS MARIA
A young woman
(Britt Robertson) who is
questioning her relationship
with a rodeo rider (Scott
Eastwood) befriends an
elderly man (Alan Alda) who
shares his life story with her.
Based on yet another romantic
novel from Nicholas Sparks.
Aging actor Maria Enders
(Juliette Binoche) agrees to return
to the stage to play an older
woman who falls in love with a
troubled younger woman
(Chloë Grace Moretz). However, life
may be imitating art when Maria
finds herself drawn to her assistant,
Valentine (Kristen Stewart).
CONTINUED
CONTINUED
APRIL 17
CHILD 44
Set in Stalin-era Russia, this
thriller stars Tom Hardy as a
disgraced military intelligence
agent searching for a serial
killer who targets children.
Based on the real-life crimes of
notorious killer Andrei Chikatilo.
Desert Dancer’s Freida Pinto
and Reece Ritchie
PAUL BLART:
MALL COP 2
Kevin James returns as the
accident-prone mall cop
Paul Blart, who takes on
a group of casino thieves
while attending a security
convention in Las Vegas.
DESERT DANCER
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
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Monkey Kingdom
CORBO
Quebec teen Jean Corbo’s
(Anthony Therrien) disgust
at the slow rate of change in
his home province during the
1960s pushes him to radical
actions that in turn help form
the FLQ.
APRIL 24
MONKEY
KINGDOM
Disneynature’s 2015
Earth Day pic is set in the
jungles of Sri Lanka and
follows the adventures of
a toque macaque monkey
and her newborn son.
THE AGE
OF ADALINE
It’s the 1930s and Adaline
Bowman (Blake Lively)
survives a near-death
experience that halts her
aging. She leaves her family
and spends the next 80
years moving about until
she eventually falls for the
handsome Ellis Jones (Michiel
Huisman). Her secret may be
revealed when she realizes
Ellis’s father (Harrison Ford)
was once her lover.
THE WATER
DIVINER
The Age of Adaline’s
Michiel Huisman and Blake Lively
Russell Crowe makes his
directorial debut with this
post-World War I drama that
sees an Australian farmer
(Crowe) travelling to Turkey to
search for his three sons who
were reported missing and
assumed dead after the brutal
Battle of Gallipoli.
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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.”
HARD
QUESTIONS
Writer Eric Cohen travelled to Get Hard’s
New Orleans set to ask stars Will Ferrell
and Kevin Hart about their film
What’s the movie about?
WILL FERRELL “The film is about my character, James King,
who is basically brought up on charges of embezzlement.
He’s a very top-notch, high-earning member of the financial
world and he’s been accused of embezzling $200-million
from his company. He gets convicted. The judge is sick of people
like me going to the country club prisons and he throws the book at
me, sentences me to 10 years in San Quentin. Now, I meet Darnell
[Kevin Hart]. He’s just a guy trying to get by.... We meet one day — even
though he works in my building and we’ve passed each other countless 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.”
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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 discussion as to how he can receive protection on
the inside. So James takes it upon himself to
dress the part and comes out in a costume
that would immediately get him beat up in
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
very excited about how he looks.”
KEVIN HART “He’s happy; he can’t wait for me to see it.”
What was it like working together?
KEVIN HART “I can say the best thing about working
with Will Ferrell is that I’m working with a guy that
honestly I respect on such a different level. We can talk
about comedy, we can talk about improvisation, we can
talk about character acting. Will Ferrell is the top of that food chain,
man. So to get the opportunity to work with him and jump in and
really embrace two different sides of characterization, it’s a good thing.”
WILL FERRELL “It’s funny that Kevin mentioned food chain because
he is trying to devour me in the comedy world. This is all an attempt to
slowly poison me at some point and get rid of me.”
Eric Cohen is a Montreal-based freelance writer.
Share your favourite
Ferrell Moments: #Ferrellisms
BOYCHOIR
HITS THEATRES
MARCH 27TH
Music
MAN
Dustin Hoffman recalls his dream of
becoming a classical pianist as Boychoir
hits theatres n BY INGRID RANDOJA
ong before two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman
decided to become an actor he dreamed of a career as
a classical pianist. Now, at age 77, Hoffman gets the
chance to indulge his passion as Boychoir’s inscrutable
Master Carvelle.
“I wanted to be a musician but I was never talented enough,” says
Hoffman during an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Initially, he studied music at Santa Monica College before making the
switch to acting.
“I have small hands so I can’t reach much more than an octave,”
he says with his fingers stretched over an imaginary keyboard. “And,
I think you have to have one of two qualifications; you have to have a
really good ear or be a good sight-reader, and I’m neither.”
Directed by Canadian François Girard (The Red Violin), Boychoir
stars Garrett Wareing as 11-year-old Stet, a troubled kid blessed with
a golden singing voice.
When Stet’s mom dies, his long-lost dad (Josh Lucas) shows up
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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 watchful 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 performance 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
was a discussion to keep the characters
two-dimensional except for the lead,
it’s the story about the boy,” says Hoffman, adding that the decision
mirrors a choice made in another of his films.
“When we did All the President’s Men, in the first cut —
[Robert] Redford produced it — we had scenes with our wives and
our girlfriends at home, and the first thing Redford said was cut the
scenes out, we should be two-dimensional, it’s the story that’s threedimensional. We shouldn’t know anything about them outside the
newsroom, and I think that was the decision made here, you should
know nothing about me outside of what I do.”
Hoffman bonded with Wareing, and when asked if he considers
himself a mentor to the young actors he works with, he smiles and
says, “I think what the public maybe doesn’t understand is that’s what
we actors do constantly.
“Most of us, we mentor each other, and sometimes the director
doesn’t like it so you have to talk out of the side of your mouth like in
those old prison movies, ‘The next take, just do it the way you want,
you were great, oops here comes the guard.’ We want the scene to be
as good as it could be. If you are better than the other actor then the
scene’s not going to be as good.”
Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor of Cineplex Magazine.
The late
Paul Walker
FURIOUS 7
HITS THEATRES
APRIL 3RD
FASCINATING
THINGS ABOUT
FURIOUS 7
Iggy Azalea
PHOTO BY KEVIN WINTER/GETTY
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.
Rapper Iggy Azalea
is expected to make
her feature-film debut
with a cameo in Furious 7.
“I’m kind of the head of this
monster truck crew of people
and I’m like the girl in charge
and I have this big truck,” she
told Access Hollywood.
While Furious 7 is
the seventh movie
in the franchise,
chronologically it’s the fourth
film, and the first one that
takes place after the events
of 2006’s The Fast and
the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
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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,
2014, which was one day
before the film’s original
release date of July 11th, 2014.
Furious 7’s budget
is reported to have
reached $250-million
(U.S.). That’s $90-million more
than the franchise’s most
recent movie, and $212-million
more than its first.
Michelle Rodriguez
and Vin Diesel
According to a
2002 article in
USA Today, Vin Diesel
and Michelle Rodriguez
dated briefly in 2001. Diesel
has now been with Mexican
model Paloma Jimenez
for eight years; they have
two children. Rodriguez
has had celebrity partners
of both genders, including
both Zac Efron and
Cara Delevingne in 2014.
Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man
(Robert Downey Jr.)
Thor (Chris Hemsworth)
May 1
Captain America (Chris Evans)
SpringSummer
Black Widow
(Scarlett Johansson)
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
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Ultron (James Spader)
Hulk (Mark Ruffalo)
May 15
Mad Max:
Fury Road
Mel Gibson has gotten too old for
this post-Apocalyptic franchise,
but its original director, 70-yearold 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.
June 12
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
to a “place where nothing is impossible.” In
reality, that place is somewhere in B.C., where
much of the film was shot.
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Jurassic World
At this point, we think anyone dumb enough
to wrangle with dinos deserves what they
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.
July 10
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).
July 24
July 17
Ant-Man
Did we see Paul Rudd as a
Marvel superhero before he was
cast as Ant-Man? No. But now
we love the idea! The adorable
comic actor whipped himself
into shape to play Scott Lang,
who uses Dr. Hank Pym’s
(Michael Douglas) technology
to shrink in size while vastly
increasing his strength.
Pixels
Kevin James as the U.S.
President? We’re laughing
already. But seriously,
President Will Cooper has a
unique situation on his hands
when aliens intercept feed
from classic videogames,
misinterpret them as threats,
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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Like her character in The Divergent Series,
Shailene Woodley has never entirely fit
in — which, of course, is her strength.
Here the up-and-coming star talks about
picking up where she left off for the
franchise’s second movie, Insurgent n BY INGRID RANDOJA
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THE DIVERGENT SERIES:
INSURGENT
HITS THEATRES MARCH 20TH
here she is in the middle of the crowd,
The Divergent Series:
Insurgent’s stars
Theo James and
Shailene Woodley
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.”
Fans of the series have speculated that Woodley and James are an
item off-screen, but that seems like wishful thinking. James, now 30,
is said to be dating actor Ruth Kearney, and has been CONTINUED
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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
role of Kyle Reese
(John Connor’s father)
in Terminator Genisys
(July 1st).
James and Woodley
prepare to shoot a scene
on the Insurgent set
for a long time, while Woodley has been linked to
Hawaiian folk rocker Nahko Bear.
As for their on-screen connection, Woodley tells
us to expect Tris and Four to hit a rough patch in
the new film.
“Their relationship definitely does progress in
a manner that I think a lot of relationships go
through,” says Woodley. “There is distance, and
there are wedges that come between them, which I
sort of love because it’s very realistic.”
While Divergent set the table, showing us how the
series’ structured, post-apocalyptic society works,
Insurgent is all about going deep to uncover the
massive secrets lurking beneath the regulated society. Insurgent introduces us to the Factionless —
people who have been rejected by factions and left
to fend for themselves — and their leader, Evelyn,
played by Naomi Watts.
The fact that Insurgent features three female
characters calling the shots is not lost on Woodley.
“The one thing that’s so interesting about this
film is that between Tris, Evelyn and Jeanine, they
are all very strong and they all have very different
viewpoints on society, on the ways to heal, or
change, this community.
“And I think it’s interesting that the story doesn’t
necessarily pinpoint any of them as being bad, they
just have different opinions.”
Woodley isn’t shy about expressing her own
views. She’s a feminist who believes in sisterhood
but also says women must stop hating each other.
She dismisses the unrealistic beauty standards
placed on women, makes her own eco-friendly
health and beauty products (she wears beet juice as
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lipstick), and is a dedicated naturalist.
Born in Simi Valley, California, Woodley began
modelling at age four and acting at five. At 15 she
was diagnosed with scoliosis and was forced to
wear a brace around her torso to realign her curving
spine. At the same time she landed the lead role
of pregnant teen Amy Juergens in the TV series
The Secret Life of the American Teenager.
But her breakout role was as George Clooney’s
thoughtful, troubled daughter in 2011’s Oscarnominated The Descendants, her very first film,
and suddenly the girl with the fresh face and even
fresher opinions was on Hollywood’s radar.
Woodley is committed to the final two Divergent
films (Allegiant: Part 1 and 2 are due out in 2016
and 2017 respectively), and her next role casts
her as Edward Snowden’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
girlfriend Lindsay Mills in director Oliver Stone’s
bio-pic of the NSA whistleblower.
She seems to love roles that take a kick at the
establishment, and says even Insurgent mirrors
some of today’s real-life issues.
“I think if you were going to relate Insurgent to
society it would be more about the secrets that,
in my opinion, are being kept from the public
in a very corporate manner. I live in corporate
America, and in this movie you have these powerful figures who have a lot of information and use
it in order to move people around like on a chessboard. And I think that’s most relevant to today’s
society.”
Ingrid Randoja is the deputy editor
of Cineplex Magazine.
Miles
Teller
u Miles Teller, devious
Peter in Insurgent, will
next be seen as the
elastic Mr. Fantastic
(Reed Richards) in the
Fantastic Four reboot
(August 7th).
Theo
James
u Woodley’s on-screen
love interest Theo James
has three movies set to
hit screens this year —
London Fields, Franny
and The Secret Scripture,
and takes over from
Kate Beckinsale as
the new face of the
Underworld franchise in
the next Underworld pic,
Next Generation, opening
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
jumped overboard. The
story was told in the 2006
documentary Deep Water.
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...
Production on one of
Marvel’s most anticipated
superhero flicks begins in
May at Britain’s Pinewood
Shepperton Studios.
Benedict Cumberbatch
will play the titular
Doctor Strange, a
neurosurgeon who is injured
in a car accident and turns
to magic to become Earth’s
protector and Sorcerer
Supreme. Scott Derrickson
(Sinister) directs, and word
is Chiwetel Ejiofor is circling
a co-starring role as either
the Ancient One, who
mentors Strange, or a villain.
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JAMES
BLUNT EYES
ROYAL ROLE
Emily Blunt is in talks to
join Chris Hemsworth in
The Huntsman. The sequel
to Snow White and
The Huntsman focuses on
the Huntsman’s (Hemsworth)
quest to find a magic
mirror, and Blunt would
play the Snow Queen,
sister to the villain Ravenna
(Charlize Theron), seen in
the first film.
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DOCTOR
STRANGE
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EFRON BOOKS
WEDDING DATE
FRESH FACE
GRETA LEE
It’s never been a better time to be a
funny, twentysomething female actor.
For native New Yorker Greta Lee that
means landing roles in TV’s Girls,
Inside Amy Schumer and New Girl, and
making the leap to films like St. Vincent,
Top Five, this month’s The Cobbler and
the upcoming Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
comedy Sisters.
LAWRENCE
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
557 feet using a single breath. No word on who will play her husband,
Francisco Ferreras, who hastily pushed his wife into attempting the dive.
ALSO IN THE WORKS
Ender’s Game star
Asa Butterfield books another sci-fi with Out of This World, about a human
boy raised on Mars who returns to Earth. Sophie Turner (Games of Thrones’
Sansa Stark) will portray the young Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse.
Elijah Wood and Nic Cage play corrupt cops in the thriller The Trust.
Dakota Johnson joins the cast of the rom-com How to Be Single.
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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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CASABLANCA
screens as part of
Cineplex’s Classic Film
Series on March 11th,
15th and 16th. Go to
Cineplex.com/Events for
times and locations.
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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 freedomfighting husband Victor
(Paul Henreid) is wanted by
the Nazis.
Amid the intrigue Rick and
Ilsa rekindle their love affair,
but is it too late for them to
find happiness? Don’t worry,
we wouldn’t dare spoil one
of the all-time great movie
endings, a perfect finale for
a timeless classic.
—INGRID RANDOJA
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Director Christopher Nolan’s
latest thinky sci-fi stars
Matthew McConaughey as
a NASA test pilot who joins
a mission to travel through
a wormhole in search of
habitable planets on the
other side. Our Earth, you
see, has turned into a giant
dustbowl and is inhospitable
to vegetation and, hence, life.
MARCH 24
THE WEDDING RINGER
Director Rob Marshall (Chicago)
adapts Stephen Sondheim’s
Broadway mash-up that takes
Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), the
Big Bad Wolf (Johnny Depp),
the Witch (Meryl Streep), a
Prince (Chris Pine) and other
iconic characters, and throws
them together in a spooky
woodland.
Socially awkward Doug (Josh Gad) has
no friends, so he hires extrovert Jimmy
(Kevin Hart) to be best man as he weds
Gretchen (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting).
Jimmy — who runs the business
Best Man, Inc. — is also tasked with
finding seven groomsmen on short
notice, which is no easy task.
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Shell-shocked from the games, and confused
by her unexpected rescue, Katniss Everdeen
(Jennifer Lawrence) finds herself recuperating in
District 13, a district long thought destroyed, but
that has instead become a rebel base. However, Peeta
(Josh Hutcherson) has been captured by the Capitol, and
Katniss can’t focus on the rebellion until he’s returned.
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MARCH 3
The strange, true story
of wealthy wrestling buff
John du Pont (Steve Carell
in the most dramatic role
of his career) makes for a
disturbing, slow-burn film that
was a hit on the festival circuit
and earned a bunch of Oscar
nominations. Channing Tatum
transforms to play
Mark Schultz, the wrestler
with whom du Pont is
obsessed, and Mark Ruffalo is
Schultz’s protective brother.
FINALLY...
A LOT
OF
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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