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Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – The Guilty

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The Guilty, 2021.Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Eli Goree, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, David Castañeda, Paul Dano, and Peter Sarsgaard.SYNOPSIS:A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.Mere months after it was shortlisted […]

Jake Gyllenhaal commands the screen in first trailer for The Guilty

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Antoine Fuqua re-team for The Guilty, and the first trailer teases the high-concept premise coming to Netflix this fall. Set in one location, we see Gyllenhaal leading the film as a 911 operator attempting to save a life. The official synopsis reads, “a troubled police detective demoted to 911 operator duty scrambles […]

First teaser and images for Antoine Fuqua’s The Guilty starring Jake Gyllenhaal

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Netflix has released a teaser and images for director Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming remake of the Danish thriller The Guilty which stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a 911 call operator who receives a call from a woman in grave danger. Check them out here…The Guilty takes place over the course of a single morning in a 911 […]

Jake Gyllenhaal to star in graphic novel adaptation Oblivion Song

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Jake Gyllenhaal will produce and star in an adaptation of Oblivion Song, the acclaimed series of graphic novels created by Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici.Deadline reports that the Oscar-nominated actor will take the lead in the film, as well as producing the film alongside Riva Marker via his Nine Stories company, along with Kirkman, David […]

Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby to be stranded on an island for survival thriller Suddenly

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Brace yourselves for the most high-calibre desert-island duo since Tom Hanks and a volleyball, because news has emerged from the Cannes virtual market that the Oscar-nominated pair of Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby are set to be stranded for survival thriller Suddenly.Deadline report that the film will be directed by Thomas Bidegain, who wrote the […]

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 tells […]

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 and […]

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 film […]

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 that […]