Pages tagged “maggie gyllenhaal”

Fox Searchlight Picks Up Jeff Bridges Flick About Fallen Country Singer

The Jeff Bridges drama Crazy Heart, which we've told you about previously, has picked up American distribution with Fox Searchlight....  read more

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More Details Surface About Sam Mendes' Away We Go

The information keeps pouring in about director Sam Mendes' previously untitled film, which, we now know, will be called Away We Go. ...  read more

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The Dark Knight

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Of the recent attempts to reset a moribund Hollywood franchise...  read more

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Bridges, Gyllenhaal, Duvall and T-Bone get Crazy

Be warned: isolated coincidences aside, this is not Walk Hard 2. No, Crazy Heart, which will begin shooting this August in New Mexico, is a somewhat more serious tale, based on Thomas Cobb's much-hailed novel of the same name....  read more

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Maggie Gyllenhaal replaces Collette in Mendes/Eggers film

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Question: How do you live up to a legacy like American Beauty? Answer: Cast as many great actors as possible. The forthcoming, still-officially-untitled Sam Mendes-directed movie, penned by McSweeney's helmsman Dave Eggers and wife Vendela Vida (co-editor of The Believer), has attracted a new cast member. Maggie Gyllenhaal will play the role originally claimed by actress Toni Collette in the Focus Features film, recently vacated by Collette becuase of scheduling delays, Variety reports. Filming recently began in Connecticut on the romantic comedy, which will star actors John Krasinski of The Office and Maya Rudolph of SNL fame, and explores a...  read more

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