Rulebreakers
"I never had a plan for my life," Jolie says. "I do what I want to do. And if suddenly tomorrow I couldn't do anything, I could deal with that. I'd be happy at home being a mom."
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Jolie
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Joe Pugliese Jolie has been breaking rules for so long that it's impossible to imagine her ever giving it up. And despite the 39-year-old's recent nods to conformity, there's still a flash of iconoclasm in every choice she makes.
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‘Maleficent’ star
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Joe Pugliese In May, she starred in her first Disney fairy tale, Maleficent, but instead of playing the sorceress who put Sleeping Beauty to bed as a jaundiced-eyed storybook villain, Jolie turned her into a sympathetic maternal anti-hero (and the movie grossed $758 million worldwide).
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Taylor Swift
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley Taylor Swift has a cover of her own for the Rule Breakers issue.
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Duo
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Smallz + Raskind Director James Gunn with star Chris Pratt.
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Gunn and Pratt
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Smallz + Raskind "Every rule said, 'You don't make a movie with a talking tree,' 'You don't spend this much money on a raccoon with a gun,' " says Pratt, 35. "For me, I was like, 'Oh, so this movie is going to bomb. Done. This is the end of my career.' "
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Christopher Nolan, Judd Apatow, Edgar Wright, J.J. Abrams and Bennett Miller
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Austin Hargrave The directors were photographed by Austin Hargrave on Dec. 12 at the Vista Theatre in Los Angeles.
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The ‘Boyhood’ team
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater and Ellar Coltrane.
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Ellar Coltrane
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley The Boyhood star grew up on screen.
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Richard Linklater
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley In an industry where 12-week commitments are the norm, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke did the unthinkable. They made a 12-year pledge to director Richard Linklater and his vague vision: the story of a broken family to be shot over the span of more than a decade.
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Patricia Arquette
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley Though Arquette and Hawke are being singled out for their performances by everyone from SAG to the Golden Globes, she insists that the maverick sensibility of Boyhood star Ellar Coltrane, now 20, is at the center of the film. "He has a really beautiful, gentle, powerful nature, and I don't feel like he's succumbed to any of the 'normal' social pressures of who you're supposed to be," she says. "He's very much his own person and confident about who he is."
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Ethan Hawke
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Miller Mobley "There are no stars; it's a huge ensemble, and it could fall totally flat on its face," recalls Hawke of his concerns when Linklater pitched his idea in 2002
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Michael Keaton
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Mack Sennett "I go from one thing to the other, and sometimes I stop acting altogether," says the actor. "Sometimes I raise a kid, and sometimes I build a house in Montana."
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‘The Lego Movie’s’ Phil Lord and Chris Miller
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Jeff Forney Ten years ago, on his way to Hollywood meetings, writer-director-producer Chris Miller often would conduct phone conversations with his mill-owner father that ended in him being told to turn his car around and change clothes because "that's no way to dress for a business meeting." Miller's creative partner, Phil Lord, hails from a Cuban immigrant family in which "the phrase, 'I have my art history degree to fall back on,' would not fill any parent with confidence."
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‘The Lego Movie’ team
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Jeff Forney Surprisingly, one of the toughest tasks while making the movie was persuading the studio to keep the live-action segment that gives the film its heart. "It is kind of a crazy move," says Miller. "You're following characters in this Lego world, and then you're supposed to follow new characters and then go back to the old world and still care. What we told the studio was, if it didn't work, we had a backup plan. We didn't have a backup plan."
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Jon Favreau and Taco-truck king Roy Choi
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Emily Shur "It turns out that portraying a struggling L.A. chef in the May release Chef wasn't far afield from Jon Favreau's day job. "Being a chef and a director actually aren't that different," says the 48-year-old filmmaker. "Chefs are also very aware they are leading a team. They are teachers and leaders. The word comes from 'chief' — there's a military tradition in the culinary culture! It's definitely present in Roy's food trucks and kitchens."
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‘The Fault In Our Stars’ Team
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Austin Hargrave Producer Wyck Godfrey with author John Green, star Shailene Woodley and producer Marty Bowen.
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Jill Soloway and Jeffrey Tambor
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Ramona Rosales "A couple of years ago, my father came out as transgender to me," says Transparent showrunner Jill Soloway, 49. "For most of the phone call, I said, 'I love you, I'm proud of you, you're so brave.' And pretty much in the same instant I was like, 'This is going to be my show.' "
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‘Transparent’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Ramona Rosales "Go where your heart is, not the dollar sign," says Tambor, 70. "I love getting emails saying, 'I just binge-watched the whole season!' Recently, even my doctor said, 'I watched five episodes last night.' "
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Viola Davis, Anthony Anderson and ABC’s Paul Lee
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Smallz + Raskind The only network to launch a hit drama (How to Get Away With Murder) and a hit comedy (Black-ish) this season, ABC as led by Paul Lee has accomplished that feat while simultaneously defying DVR trends — drawing live viewers to scripted programming — and furthering its already formidable push into diversity with leads Viola Davis and Anthony Anderson on Murder and Black-ish, respectively.
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Disney’s Jay Rasulo and Maker’s Ynon Kreiz
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Christopher Patey Big media has been testing the YouTube waters tepidly for years, but Disney dove in headfirst when it agreed to acquire Maker Studios for nearly $1 billion in March.