Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal Responds to Doug Liman Boycotting Their ‘Road House’ Premiere
Jake Gyllenhaal has weighed in on Doug Liman’s decision to boycott the premiere of their upcoming remake of the 1989 action movie Road House. Liman is refusing to attend the film’s March 8 world premiere at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival next month because the film’s studio, Amazon MGM Studios, is releasing […]
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s a Nice Guy With a Mean Uppercut in Trailer for Doug Liman’s ‘Road House’
Jake Gyllenhaal is the Mr. Rogers of bar brawls in the first look at Doug Liman’s updated take on the Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliott 1989 classic, Road House. In the trailer, which is nearly two and a half minutes of nonstop knockouts, Gyllenhaal leads as Elwood Dalton, an ex-UFC middleweight fighter who takes one […]
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Jake Gyllenhaal Was Considered for Batman in Christopher Nolan’s Trilogy, David S. Goyer Says
[This story contains spoilers for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises.] It’s hard to imagine anyone other than Christian Bale in the Batsuit for Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, but screenwriter David S. Goyer revealed that Jake Gyllenhaal was considered for the role. During Thursday’s episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Goyer, who helped develop […]
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How Barry’s Gym is Celebrating its 25th Anniversary
Barry’s — the bootcamp-inspired gym and fitness studio — has a big birthday coming up and a whole slate of calorie-burning activities to celebrate it. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Barry’s, long a Hollywood-favored and celebrity supported institution, will toast its milestone 25th anniversary with a massive VIP party on Oct. 5. Set for Red Studios […]
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LACMA Singles Out Artist Judy Baca, Filmmaker David Fincher as Art+Film Gala Honorees
The next edition of LACMA’s Art+Film Gala is taking shape. Artist Judy Baca and filmmaker David Fincher are confirmed as the night’s honorees, and they will be new additions to the Nov. 4 event that will feature a slew of Art+Film veterans back on the program once again. LACMA trustee Eva Chow and Oscar-winning actor […]
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Box Office: ‘Super Mario’ Hits $872M Globally, ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Opens to Big $23.5M in U.S.
The box office continues to heat up as the summer season approaches. Illumination and Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie remained a monster at the multiplex in its third weekend as it crossed the $400 million mark domestically and $800 million globally to finish Sunday with a remarkable cume of $871.8 million. It easily won […]
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Guy Ritchie Won’t Allow Real Guns on His Film Sets After ‘Rust’ Shooting
Guy Ritchie says he won’t be using real guns on his movie shoots in the wake of the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. “That whole thing has changed now, the whole game has changed,” Ritchie told Newsweek in an interview ahead of his latest movie, Afghan War drama The Covenant, hitting […]
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How Danish Star Dar Salim Became the Stoic, Steady Hand of ‘Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant’
Jake Gyllenhaal has gone out of his way to let the world know that Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant is not just a Guy Ritchie movie or a Jake Gyllenhaal movie. He’s made it clear that it’s just as much a Dar Salim movie as it is anything else. The Danish actor — who American viewers might […]
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‘Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant’ Review: Jake Gyllenhaal Plays a Man Determined to Honor a Debt in Gripping Afghan War Drama
Dar Salim co-stars as a military interpreter whose heroic efforts to deliver Gyllenhaal’s injured U.S. Army sergeant to safety put him on the Taliban’s most wanted list.
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Jake Gyllenhaal Says Guy Ritchie Forced Him to “Let Go” for ‘The Covenant’: “Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Done”
Jake Gyllenhaal is opening up about working with director Guy Ritchie and having to “let go” and “figure it out together” for their upcoming film The Covenant. When Hot Ones host Sean Evans asked the Nightcrawler actor during Thursday’s episode if he found it “more daunting, more challenging or more liberating” to work with a […]
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Mike Faist, Lucas Hedges to Star in Stage Adaptation of ‘Brokeback Mountain’
A stage adaptation of Brokeback Mountain will come to the West End this spring, starring Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges. The adaptation, which calls itself “a new play with music,” is based on Annie Proulx’s short story, which was later adapted into the 2005 film. The stage version was written by Ashley Robinson and features […]
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‘The Covenant’ Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal Goes on Risky Rescue Mission in Guy Ritchie Thriller
Jake Gyllenhaal has unfinished business to resolve in the first trailer for director Guy Ritchie’s upcoming film The Covenant. The MGM military thriller, hitting theaters April 21, stars Gyllenhaal as Army Sergeant John Kinley, who is rescued during a tour in Afghanistan by his interpreter, played by Dar Salim. The footage shows Kinley grappling with […]
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