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Following the long-awaited releases of Black Widow and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings over recent months, the next instalment of the wildly successful Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is poised to enthral us. Slated to open on 18 November, Eternals depicts the travails of immortal beings who reunite after millennia of hiding on Earth to battle their archenemies, the Deviants – and it promises to be the most diverse to date.
Much has been made of the fact that its core superhero cast will feature the franchise’s first openly gay character (Phastos), that Pakistani-American actor Kumail Nanjiani’s Kingo will be its first protagonist of South Asian descent, and Don Lee – of Train to Busan fame – the first South Korean superhero. What’s more, both director (Chloé Zhao) and lead (Gemma Chan) are Chinese. Rather less noise has resonated, however, over the casting of Mexican screen-siren Salma Hayek as Ajak, the Eternals’ spiritual leader. After all, the Desperado star will become the series’ first Arab actress (Hayek actually boasts Lebanese ethnicity through her father).
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A 32-year veteran of the industry, Hayek is no stranger to breaking boundaries. She was one of the first Latina talents to make it big in Tinseltown, in no small part due to her versatility in the genres of drama, comedy, romance and action. But life hasn’t been all smooth sailing for the Frida thespian. We shine the spotlight on the soaring highs and challenging lows that she’s overcome&#8230;
Peace &amp; Pesos 
Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez was born far away from the shining lights of Hollywood in the southern Mexican port city of Coatzacoalcos on 2 September 1966. Her mother, Diana, was an opera singer, while her Lebanese-Mexican father, Sami Hayek Dominguez, worked as an oil executive in addition to owning an industrial equipment company. Her Lebanese surname reflects her paternal roots, while her first name ‘Salma’ means ‘peace’ in Arabic. She was fortunate to be raised in a wealthy home, which afforded her the opportunity to go to boarding school in the United States at age 12.
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Boarding School Blues 
Salma’s schooldays weren’t always easy, as she was diagnosed with dyslexia at an early age. This didn’t stop her from pranking her fellow students, however. In one interview, she recalled that her roommates – American girls – would wake early to curl their hair and put on makeup, whereas she’d rather “sleep until the last minute”. One day, she decided to turn back the clocks by an hour to mess with them. She was given detention, and ultimately kicked out of the strict Catholic boarding school in Louisiana. Despite these early hiccups and a learning disability, her innate intelligence saw her graduate from high school at just 15.
Acting Initiative 
Throughout her late teens and early 20s, her stunning looks prompted approaches from casting agents. So, halfway through pursuing a degree in international relations and political science at Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana, she dismayed her parents by dropping out to pursue a career in acting. At just 23, she had her big break, landing the starring role in Teresa, a telenovela that would catapult her to superstar status in her native land. Not content to rest on her laurels, she decided to move to Hollywood to pursue bigger roles. “I wanted to do films, and at that time in Mexico, a film industry didn’t really exist,” she explains. “So where do you go to do movies? You go to the mecca. I was already famous in Mexico by then, and they were laughing at me, asking ‘Why is she doing that?’”
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Desperado Times 
At first it seemed her critics were right since Hayek struggled for four years in California, unable to land a single role. In many cases, the reason cited by studios for her rejection was that she was too Latina. It wasn’t until 1995 that she got her chance to prove her mettle in Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado alongside fellow Spanish-speaker Antonio Banderas. Then, the floodgates opened, with the actress cast in a slew of major productions before the end of the decade – From Dusk till Dawn, Wild Wild West and Dogma, to name but three of her biggest hits.
Rosy Repertoire 
In 1999, having established herself as an A-list leading lady, Hayek launched her own production company. Ventanarosa, which is Spanish for ‘rose-coloured window’, produced the acclaimed TV dramedy Ugly Betty, which would eventually garner two Golden Globes. It also helped her hit Hollywood-legend heights by producing the historic biopic Frida (2002). Hayek’s seminal portrayal of the surrealist artist Frida Kahlo saw her become only the second Latina actress to receive a Best Actress nod at the Academy Awards.
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Charity Begins at Home 
In addition to her achievements in film, she is a dedicated philanthropist and activist. Spurred by an awareness of her own fortunate circumstances and the precarious position of those in her homeland, the Salma Hayek Foundation not only raises aid and awareness for battered women in Mexico, but has branched out to help disadvantaged street children, too. Hayek has also been involved with several Unicef initiatives, including spearheading a campaign against neonatal and maternal tetanus, and was awarded the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award by the international charitable organisation in 2018.
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Covid Survivor 
The Eternals star was recently worryingly close to death. Laid low by Covid-19, she spent seven weeks isolated in a room of the house she shares with her husband, French billionaire François-Henri Pinault (CEO of luxury group Kering), and their 13-year-old daughter. She became so ill that she was put on oxygen. “My doctor begged me to go to the hospital because it was so bad,” she reveals, “but I said, ‘no, thank you. I’d rather die at home,’” adding that she still hasn’t regained her pre-pandemic energy levels.
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“My doctor begged me to go to the hospital because it was so bad, but I said, ‘no, thank you. I’d rather die at home’”
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Auteur Ego 
In line with her go-getting spirit, though, this hasn’t stopped her from planning ambitious projects. Apart from Eternals, Hayek also appears in Ridley Scott’s biographical crime drama The House of Gucci, which was shot earlier this year, and hopes to direct a film based on a script she wrote 17 years ago. “It’s a very personal project and this is the right time. It couldn’t have gotten made two years ago or even last year [but] I don’t give up. I’ll get it made,” she says of the passion production. While she’s remained tight-lipped about any details, if her past CV is any indication, it will be an instant hit.
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<h6>(Text: Tenzing Thondup)</h6>

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What&#8217;s on the table for a March full of movies in the 852? Childhood favourites meet sci-fi, kickass female figures, video game worlds and&#8230; The Bible?!
<h3>A Wrinkle in Time vs.&nbsp;Goodbye Christopher Robin</h3>
Bring your:&nbsp;Kids / nephews / nieces!

It only took half a century for Disney to finally bring this childhood favourite to life. The&nbsp;science fantasy adventure follows the journey of&nbsp;Meg Murry and her brother who travel across the universe to save their&nbsp;astrophysicist father, Alex.&nbsp;
Fun fact:&nbsp;Mrs. Which is played by none other than&nbsp;Oprah Winfrey, our featured celebrity on the March 2018 print issue!
Release date:&nbsp;8 March 2018

If you prefer period dramas to other planets, however, get tickets to&nbsp;Goodbye Christopher Robin instead.&nbsp;The biographical drama takes us back to WWII in 1940s England where Winnie-the-Pooh creator A. A. Milne wrote his first comics in a country house&nbsp;with wooded acreage.&nbsp;
Fun Fact:&nbsp;Australian actress and film producer Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street, Suicide Squad)&nbsp;stars as Milne&#8217;s wife&nbsp;Daphne. The blonde&nbsp;was named in Time magazine&#8217;s 100 most influential people in the world last year and part of Forbes&#8217; 30 Under 30 list.
Release date: 15 March 2018
<h3>Red Sparrow vs.&nbsp;Tomb Raider</h3>
Bring your:&nbsp;Girlfriend(s)!

After a dearth of seriously awesome kickass female leads following the retirement of Angeline Jolie as Lara Croft in 2001, it looks like <a href="//www.gafencushop.com/gal-power/">Gal Gadot (aka Wonderwoman)</a> has propelled Hollywood into a revival of female powerhouses. And this month, we&#8217;re getting not one but TWO alpha-female showcases: Red Sparrow&nbsp;starring Jennifer Lawrence and a new&nbsp;Tomb Raider&nbsp;starring Alicia Vikander (Tulip Fever, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.).&nbsp;&nbsp;
Release date: 1 March 2018&nbsp;

In&nbsp;Red Sparrow, Lawrence plays a Russian ballerina-turned-spy who targets the CIA but obviously cannot help but fall in love with someone from Team America. Meanwhile, the latest installment of Tomb Raider takes us to&nbsp;Cape Town where Lara Croft (not unlike Meg Murry) tries to solve the mystery of her father&#8217;s disappearance.
Release date: 15 March 2018&nbsp;
<h3>Ready Player One</h3>
Bring your:&nbsp;Fellow dorks!
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If&nbsp;Tomb Raider is&nbsp;based on a 2013 video game but happens in real life, Ready Player One&nbsp;is based on a 2011 novel but happens&nbsp;in a video game. Specifically, in an interconnected virtual space called the OASIS.&nbsp;Warner Bros. and&nbsp;Steven Spielberg partner up once again to bring viewers into a fantastical world: a&nbsp;near-future dystopian Earth in which people interact via&nbsp;virtual reality. A teenager battles an evil cyber corporation and, well, you know how the story goes&#8230;
Release date: 29 March 2018
<h3>Game Night</h3>
Bring your:&nbsp;Date!

Yep, more players and more games in yet another Warner Bros. production. This one stars Rachel McAdams&nbsp;whose friends&#8217;&nbsp;interactive role-playing mystery game suddenly becomes too real to handle.&nbsp;
Release date: 15 March 2018
<h3>Den of Thieves</h3>
Bring your:&nbsp;Lads!

It looks like the gents won&#8217;t quite let the ladies do all the ass-kicking on the big screen this month.&nbsp;Gerard Butler&nbsp;carries the torch for man-kind in this heist film set in Los Angeles. L.A.P.D. blah blah&nbsp;team of robbers blah blah Federal Reserve blah blah shootout, strippers blah blah&#8230; but this time, Butler is American Irish (O&#8217;Brien), not just Irish (P.S. I Love You)&#8230;
Fun Fact:&nbsp;Curtis Jackson (as in, &#8220;In da Club&#8221; 50 Cent) plays robber&nbsp;Levi Enson Levoux
Release date: 22 March 2018
<h3>Mary Magdalene</h3>
Bring your:&nbsp;Church friends!

For those in the fold&nbsp;– the Church fold, that is&nbsp;– the end of March signifies the end of Lent for Catholics, and Easter for Christians in general. That means, time for a biblical drama film starring&nbsp;Joaquin Phoenix (Her, Reservation Road)&nbsp;as Jesus Christ. Reviews were quite unforgiving but hey, it might serve as a worthy substitute for Sunday School that week&#8230;
Release date: 29 March 2018
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Words: <a href="http://www.morenatravels.com">Julienne C. Raboca</a>

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Venue: Cinema HK-wide 
Date: From 29th September 
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Website: www.foxmovies.com
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Brace yourself as Tim Burton – the visionary director behind the likes of Edward Scissorhands – releases his latest motion picture. Based upon the best-selling novel of the same name, this time he takes us on a cinematic excursion inside Miss Peregrine’s eponymous home, where the sense of mystery and danger deepens the further you explore.
After a horrific family tragedy, 16-year-old Jacob, tired of his normal life, travels to a remote and mysterious island off the coast of Wales, where he stumbles across an apparently abandoned home. Far from being empty, Jacob soon comes face-to-face with its strangely talented residents. Before long, a series of unexplainable events begin to unfold. With danger ever present, Jacob must figure out who is real, who can be trusted and who he really is…
It’s a dark, chilling and compelling movie that combines elements of time travel, fantasy and romance, ensuring that it appeals to a particularly wide audience. Thought-provoking stuff in all. The movies stars, Eva Green and Samuel L Jackson and is in a multiplex near you from late September.

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