When Hugh Jackman isn’t flexing his claws as Wolverine, he’s out there trying to prove he’s a good actor. Although he hasn’t found a ton of success without his adamantium skeleton, he’s usually guaranteed to turn in a good performance. It looks like he has another powerful film coming up starring opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in [...]
Recently, we reported that Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal were circling the role as the two princes in Disney’s adaptation of the Broadway musical INTO THE WOODS. Now it looks as though the lovely Emily Blunt will be signing on for the lead. Most of the cast is still in negotiations but we do know [...]
When it was first announced that Richard Gere would be singing a pretty big part in the big screen adaptation of the musical CHICAGO, I cringed. That was director Rob Marshall’s first major film role and I thought the casting of Gere was going to make that his last film. But Gere nailed all the [...]
For those of you hoping that your favorite X-Men character was going to get his own movie, I’m sorry to disappoint you. As much as I want to see the German acrobat back on the big screen, this news is about a different NIGHTCRAWLER all together. In this film, NIGHTCRAWLER is about a determined man [...]
END OF WATCH follows Officer Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Officer Mike Zavala (Michael Peña), two young ambitious cops who patrol in highly dangerous South Central Los Angeles. The story is really about these two partners and friends as they encounter some brutal experiences as an every day product of their job. They are heroic [...]
Jake Gyllenhaal is looking to add another project onto his growing list, this time with a possible re-teaming with director Denis Villeneuve whom he worked with on AN ENEMY. Now he is in talks to star alongside Hugh Jackman and Melissa Leo in the upcoming drama PRISONERS. PRISONERS follows a small town carpenter (Hugh Jackman) [...]
Jake Gyllenhaal‘s next film END OF WATCH hits theaters next month, but the actor seems to have taken a break in promoting the movie to sign on for another role. Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in the drama MISSISSIPPI GRIND from directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (HALF NELSON, IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY [...]
Another trailer has been released for the upcoming cop drama END OF WATCH starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña, only this time it’s a red band trailer and is a little more gritty than anything we’ve seen so far. END OF WATCH follows two cops who are not only partners but best friends. Together they [...]
A new cop film is hitting the big screens this fall, and though it’ll probably be something we’ve all seen before there is something a little different. Director David Ayer is taking a different approach with this film and is using a found-footage/documentary style to tell the story of two cops (Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Jake Gyllenhaal was attached to the film MOTOR CITY…for a day. Then he dropped out and we all moved on with our lives. But today Jake Gyllenhaal attached himself to the film THE DOUBLE for director Denis Villeneuve. Villeneuve, as you may recall, just landed Hugh Jackman in PRISONERS, but [...]
So here’s a debate for you; is Jake Gyllenhaal an upgrade or a downgrade over Dominic Cooper? I can see arguments for both, but Cooper has had some really strong performances lately, so I might lean towards the side that’s disappointed he won’t be starring in Albert Hughes’ MOTOR CITY. The film is about an [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant A project called THE WAY, WAY BACK, from writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (THE DESCENDANTS), has been swimming around Tinseltown for over four years and may finally be coming to the surface. After suffering a delay from the 2007 WGA strike and a handoff from Fox Searchlight to Mandate Pictures, [...]
What would you do if you had a vision about the end of the world, and slowly realized you had the power to change it? DONNIE DARKO is a film that tries to answer this question, but often the answers just bring more questions. This freshman effort from Richard Kelly (SOUTHLAND TALES, THE BOX) takes [...]
Have you ever wondered what it might look like to see GROUNDHOG DAY as a science-fiction/action movie? Subtract Bill Murray, add Jake Gyllenhaal (DONNIE DARKO, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN), put him on a train and give him 8 minutes to find a terrorist. Those are the elements of SOURCE CODE in their most simple form, but the [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant It’s almost insulting to label Anna Kendrick a “Twilight alum” since the actress has already established herself in films outside of the Twilight universe, most notably in UP IN THE AIR. But for millions of fans out there, she’ll always be known as Jessica Stanley in TWILIGHT. But she continues to [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Summit Entertainment has announced that the sci-fi thriller from director Duncan Jones called SOURCE CODE, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga, will be released on Blu-ray July 26, 2011. The film follows soldier Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) who is part of a government project that is set up to prevent [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant The below pictures are a little confusing since the film END OF WATCH isn’t technically supposed to start shooting until July, so I’m not sure what they’re doing in the images below. A cop drama isn’t something that would normally shoot promotional photos, but that appears to be what’s they’re doing. [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant There are no surprises this weekend as the kid-friendly HOP captured first place at the box office and the Swiss-cheese-plot SOURCE CODE came in a distant second. Even though HOP seemed to have grabbed every cheap joke it could possibly find, the fact remains that kids need something to see at [...]
Part GROUNDHOG DAY, part 12 MONKEYS, director Duncan Jones has taken on the challenging concept of time travel for his latest science fiction film SOURCE CODE. No concept is more difficult to film than time travel as the idea brings up moral, ethical and scientific questions that oftentimes can’t be answered. Many films that try [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant I wasn’t sure DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: RODRICK RULES was going to be able to capture the success of the first one, only because the first one didn’t live up to expectations. But as it turns out, it’s actually going to end up with about $24 million, beating the original’s [...]
Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a young charming pharmaceutical drug rep that has no attachments and a successful lust for women. Jake meets Maggie (Anne Hathaway), a no-nonsense free spirit with stage one Parkinson’s. They immediately connect because of their shared passion for sex without obligations. However, the more time the two spend together, the [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in the cop drama END OF WATCH from director David Ayer (who wrote TRAINING DAY and directed HARSH TIMES). The film’s story is being kept under wraps at this time, but we know that it will be “gritty” (how original, a gritty cop drama) and [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant It’s finally March and warm weather should be coming soon- so what better way to ride out the chilliness of winter than to curl up with some great films from last year. March is a great month for Blu-ray releases so keep an eye out for good stuff each week. To [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Flix66.com and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment are proud to offer you a chance to win LOVE & OTHER DRUGS on DVD. Smooth-talking salesman Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is on the fast track to the top of the pharmaceutical sales industry- promoting the miracle drug Viagra by day and charming the [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant We all knew that with the success of the other Bourne films that another one was going to get made and the next installment will be called THE BOURNE LEGACY. It will be directed by Tony Gilroy who actually helped write the first films but ended up hating what Paul Greengrass [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Colter Stevens, a soldier who is trying to figure out who set explosives on a train by using state-of-the-art technology called Source Code that sends him back in time over and over again. Until he figures out what happened and solves the crime, he has to relive [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Just a few days ago, we reported that Warner Bros. was planning on remaking the famous novel THE STAND from Stephen King and that he was going to be involved with it one way or another. Today we learned that Mr. King was unaware of these procedings and states: “I didn’t [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced that the comedy LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt and Hank Azaria, will be available on Blu-ray March 1, 2011. The film follows Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) who is a smooth talking salesman who moves into the pharmaceutical industry. [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant I think the Thanksgiving holiday weekend was a case of too many movies opening up at once. As far as new movies, we had FASTER, TANGLED, BURLESQUE and LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS. Some of those are films that have shared audiences (mainly BURLESQUE and LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS) and probably ended [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant It’s still early, of course, but it looks like HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 will easily take the Thanksgiving weekend box office with an estimated $90 million, despite some promising new films opening up. Disney’s TANGLED is the strongest of the bunch, which makes sense given that only [...]
Despite how hard it tried not to be, LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS is a romantic comedy and as such, it follows the romantic comedy outline pretty closely. But the subject matter of the film and the catalysts for the conflict amongst the characters is a little more serious than what we’re used to when it [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant SOURCE CODE stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Colter Stevens, a soldier who wakes up to find that he is the only person who has witnessed a train explosion and his mind has been transferred into a computer’s body to solve the crime. Until he can figure out how the explosion happens he [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant The question was never if HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 was going to be #1 at the box office, but the question was whether or not it would break the all time records. For those of you hoping HP would beat out the TWILIGHT films for the the [...]
It might be important for all you gamer purists to know that having never played the video game PRINCE OF PERSIA, I have zero previous knowledge for what the film is based on. So my review will be strictly based by how enjoyable the film is. Unfortunately, PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME was [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant I know this is going to be considered sacrilege by so many of his adoring fans, but I’m still not sold on Jake Gyllenhaal as a leading man. I was one of the few that actually liked PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME, but even with that, I’m still not [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant The normally successful Jerry Bruckheimer has had a rough year so far. His first summer movie, PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME fell kind of flat with audiences while his second feature, THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE wasn’t seen at all. Personally, I thought PoP was kind of fun and I think [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant David O. Russell is a notoriously difficult director to work with. He had the famous spat with George Clooney on the set of THREE KINGS and then a shouting match with Lily Tomlin on I HEART HUCKABEES, which I’ve always found odd because both of those actors are seemingly nice people. [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant I have to say that I’m a little shocked at the box office numbers this weekend. I predicted last week that PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME would finish behind SEX AND THE CITY 2, so that was a no-brainer. But what I didn’t see was such low numbers from [...]
I have to confess that I had little to no interest in PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME. Although I consider the video game the film is based on to be one of the greatest video games of all time, I couldn’t get excited about the movie adaptation. But as I was watching the [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Kids movies always do well, so it’s no surprise that SHREK FOREVER AFTER pulled in $71.2 million on opening weekend. To put it in perspective, the first SHREK did $42 million, SHREK 2 did $108 million and SHREK THE THIRD did $128 million. So even though #4 did well, maybe this [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant Jake Gyllenhaal, his new muscles and his what-country-is-that-from accent are back in the second trailer to the film PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME. This one actually doesn’t look that much different, but we get a slightly better idea of the story and of course, more shots of Jake G. [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Michelle Monaghan is set and Vera Farmiga is in negotiations to star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in the thriller SOURCE CODE. The story revolves around a guy (Gyllenhaal) who wakes up in the body of an individual on a train and must live through and discover who bombs the train. Farmiga will [...]
In my short time as a military wife I remember clearly the few brief discussions I had with my husband about him deploying overseas. Although I was blessed and fortunate to never have to deal with watching a loved one go to war, I remember the subject always looming in the back of my mind. [...]
Posted by: Kristy Sturdivant Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks to star in the upcoming sci-fi thriller SOURCE CODE. The story “centers on a soldier who wakes up in the body of a commuter and must solve the mystery of a train explosion.” Duncan Jones has signed on to direct, his last film was MOON. Jake [...]
Posted by: Brad Sturdivant The new trailer for the upcoming summer-blockbuster PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME has arrived and I have to admit, it looks pretty decent. I wasn’t excited about Jake G. taking on my favorite video game, but he’s clicking on all levels in the trailer. I can’t believe I’m saying [...]
