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Jake Gyllenhaal, Dylan O’Brien and Eiza Gonzalez in talks for Michael Bay’s Ambulance

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Last week it was reported that Michael Bay is set to direct a remake of the 2005 Danish psychological thriller Ambulance, and now THR is reporting that Jake Gyllenhaal (Spider-Man: Far From Home), Dylan O’Brien (American Assassin) and Eiza Gonzalez (Bloodshot) are in talks to star. The contained thriller is described as “a three-hander that […]

Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal to adapt Finding the Mother Tree

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Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal will team again, this time in adapting a groundbreaking real-life story. The pair will both produce a film based on scientist Suzanne Simard’s memoir Finding the Mother Tree, with Adams set to star. In what reports described as a competitive battle, Adams and Bond Group co-founder Stacy O’Neil teamed with Gyllenhaal […]

Animated sequel Spirit Untamed gets a first trailer and poster

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Universal Pictures has debuted the first trailer and a poster for Spirit Untamed, the next chapter in the beloved animated franchise which follows Lucky Prescott, a young girl who finds her life changed forever when she moves to Miradero, a small town on the edge of the frontier, and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit; […]

Elisabeth Moss joins Barry Levinson’s Francis and The Godfather

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Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man) has joined the cast of Barry Levinson’s upcoming film Francis and The Godfather, telling the tumultuous story behind the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia classic The Godfather. Per Deadline, she’ll star alongside Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Spider-Man: Far From Home) in the […]

Rumour: Spider-Man 3 to feature Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, Thomas Haden Church’s Sandman, Dane DeHaan’s Green Goblin and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio

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With the as-yet-untitled Spider-Man 3 now in production and Sony and Marvel assembling a very intriguing cast which includes the return of Spider-Man 2’s Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus and The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s Jamie Foxx as Electro, the rumour mill is going into overdrive on the wall-crawler’s next big screen outing. Reports are circulating […]

Movie Review – Nocturnal Animals (2016)

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Nocturnal Animals, 2016. Directed by Tom Ford. Starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney. Ellie Bamber, Karl Glusman, India Menuez, Andrea Riseborough, and Michael Sheen. SYNOPSIS: An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a […]

Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal re-team for HBO’s The Son from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy

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Jake Gyllenhaal will be re-teaming with his Prisoners and Enemy director Denis Villeneuve for The Son, an HBO limited series adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s novel from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. The Son is “a tale of vengeance set amid Oslo’s brutal hierarchy of corruption.” It focuses on Sonny Lofthus, “an escaped convict: an opioid […]

Oscar Isaac to play Francis Ford Coppola in Francis and The Godfather

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Deadline is reporting that Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) has been cast as legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the upcoming biopic Francis and The Godfather, which will also star Jake Gyllenhaal (Spider-Man: Far From Home) as producer and studio executive Robert Evans. Francis and The Godfather is being directed by Barry […]

Jake Gyllenhaal and Antoine Fuqua reuniting for The Guilty

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Jake Gyllenhaal is set to reunite with his Southpaw director Antoine Fuqua for The Guilty, a remake of the acclaimed Danish-drama thriller Den Skyldige from filmmaker Gustav Moller, Deadline has revealed. The film take place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch centre, with Gyllenhaal playing Joe Bayler, an operator who […]

Movie Review – Nightcrawler (2014)

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Nightcrawler, 2014. Written and Directed by Dan Gilroy. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Paxton, Rene Russo and Riz Ahmed. SYNOPSIS: A young man stumbles upon the underground world of L.A. freelance crime journalism. Motivation for success is a perfectly fine trait to have, but what happens when all moral consciousness is lost while climbing the ladder? […]