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Road House Review: A Ripped Jake Gyllenhaal Doesn’t Rip Any Throats In Solid B-Movie Remake
Doug Liman directs the Prime Video release (which he wishes wasn't premiering on Prime Video). Road House Review: A Ripped Jake Gyllenhaal Doesn’t Rip Any Throats In Solid B-Movie Remake Liz Shannon Miller
Jake Gyllenhaal Hits Flying Knee at UFC Event for Road House Scene: Watch
Gyllenhaal plays a retired UFC fighter in the upcoming remake. Jake Gyllenhaal Hits Flying Knee at UFC Event for Road House Scene: Watch Eddie Fu
Jake Gyllenhaal to Star in Road House Remake
Prime Video has greenlit a remake of the classic 1989 film Road House starring Jake Gyllenhaal. It will be directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), with Joel Silver returning as producer after serving in the same role for the original. The reimagining centers around a former UFC fighter, played by Gyllenhaal, who takes a job as a bouncer at “a rough-and-tumble roadhouse in the Florida Keys, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems in this tropical paradise.” Gyllenhaal has some big shoes to fill. The late Patrick Swayze starred in the original as the now-iconic Dalton, a bouncer with a philosophy degree hired to clean up the rowdy Double Deuce bar in a small town in Missouri. Though it was nominated for five Razzie awards — including Worst Picture and Swayze f...
Jake Gyllenhaal Belts Out Celine Dion Hit During ‘SNL’ Monologue: Watch
Jake Gyllenhaal showed off his musical chops during his triumphant return to hosting Saturday Night Live. During his opening monologue on April 9, the 41-old-actor — who appeared on the sketch comedy show to promote his new film Ambulance — fondly recalled hosting SNL for the first time in 2007 before belting out Celine Dion‘s 1996 hit song “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.” “I never thought SNL would come calling again. It’s been 15 years and I wasn’t sure I’d remember how to host,” Gyllenhaal said. “But being here tonight, it feels like everything is suddenly… coming back.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news From there, the actor dramatically delivered the soft opening lines of Dion’s Falling Into You opening tack, which peaked at No. 2 o...
Ambulance Review: Some Deranged Grandeur, Courtesy of Michael Bay
The Pitch: In his 2019 Netflix film 6 Underground, Michael Bay stages an opening car chase where his heroes smash through the streets of Italy, goring bad guys and yelling nonsense at each other. “I’m conducting surgery!” one character screams while, essentially, just tending to a wound. But maybe that moment stuck in Bay’s head. Maybe he regretted not making that set-piece more surgical, to the point where he built an entire movie called Ambulance around the premise: What if you were performing life-saving surgery during a car chase? Technically, Bay did not come up with this premise. Ambulance is a remake of a 2005 Dutch film, and Bay is not a credited screenwriter. But his penchant for breaking tension with over-explained jokes, or breaking jokes with melodramatic bombast, transcend any...
Sorry, But Jake Gyllenhaal Also Doesn’t Shower Often
Jake Gyllenhaal has recently been selected as the face of Prada’s new fragrance, Luna Rossa Ocean. Hopefully, he’s stocking up on a few bottles, because — and we hate to be the ones to break this to you — the A-list actor is admittedly lax about his shower schedule. Not long after Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Dax Shepard, and Kristen Bell all divulged their slightly irregular bathing routines, the Brokeback Mountain star has also revealed some compromising details about his own hygiene in a new interview with Vanity Fair. “More and more I find bathing to be less necessary, at times,” Gyllenhaal said. “I do believe, because Elvis Costello is wonderful, that good manners and bad breath get you nowhere. So I do that. But I do also think that there’s a whole world of not bathing that is also re...
Jake Gyllenhaal and Denis Villeneuve Reuniting for HBO Limited Series The Son
Seven years after their back-to-back film work on Prisoners and Enemy, Jake Gyllenhaal and Denis Villeneuve are reuniting for new HBO limited series. Titled The Son, it’s based on Norwegian author Jo Nesbø’s 2014 bestselling novel of the same name. The forthcoming project is described as a “tale of vengeance set amid Oslo’s brutal hierarchy of corruption.” Gyllenhaal will executive produce, as well as star as Sonny Lofthus, an escaped convict and drug addict wanted by police. As TVLine reports, this marks the Oscar-nominated actor’s first series-regular TV gig. Villeneuve has signed on to direct. “Denis is a master at weaving visually exquisite and unique narratives, Jake is a gifted actor and producer whose work often traverses provocative and compelling terrain, and of course, he an...
Oscar Isaac to Star as Francis Ford Coppola in Francis and the Godfather
Oscar Isaac will star as Francis Ford Coppola in Francis and the Godfather, a new feature film about the making of — you guessed it — The Godfather. Via The Hollywood Reporter, Barry Levinson will direct and Jake Gyllenhaal will play legendary Paramount head Robert Evans. The Godfather had a famously troubled production history. Evans picked up the rights to Mario Puzo’s book The Godfather for a pittance after learning that Puzo was up to his eyeballs in gambling debt. As he explained in his autobiography The Kid Stays in the Picture, he then offered the director’s chair to half of Hollywood before landing on Coppola. Personally, Coppola didn’t want anything to do with the “sleazy” story, but wouldn’t you know it, he was also deeply in debt. Things didn’t impr...
