Venice Film Festival Jury: Johnnie To, Kaouther Ben Hania, Shahrbanoo Sadat and More Join President Maggie Gyllenhaal

The main jury roster for this year’s Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, with Hong Kong filmmaking giant Johnnie To, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania and Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat among those joining previously announced competition president Maggie Gyllenhaal. To will be returning as a Venice juror after previously being on the same jury in 2008. Four […]

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Maggie Gyllenhaal to Direct ‘Creation Lake’ for Warner Bros. After Spectacular Flop ‘The Bride’

Just months after delivering one of the year's biggest box-office disappointments, Maggie Gyllenhaal is already moving forward with her next project at Warner Bros.

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Donnie Darko is a psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze and Noah Wyle,

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The original poster art for the movie had used an Arabic-style font, but this…

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Following The Bride! Flop, Maggie Gyllenhaal Is Set for a ‘Dark Humor’ Spy Movie

After the box office disappointment of The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal is already moving toward a dramatically different project. This time, it takes her into the world of espionage, dark humor, and political intrigue. Maggie Gyllenhaal to adapt Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake next Warner Bros. is continuing its collaboration with Maggie Gyllenhaal despite the commercial performance […]

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Adam Carter Rehmeier on ‘Frank’

The director of DINNER IN AMERICA and CAROLINA CAROLINE has a secret, but it's not hidden under a giant papier maché head. He's spent much of his life as an avid home recorder, generating thousands of songs. There's a direct line between that background and the earworm musical climax of his DINNER IN AMERICA. And when he saw 2014's FRANK, a quirky little movie about a band with no interest in…

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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jesse Eisenberg to Be Honored at Karlovy Vary Film Festival

The Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival will honor actress, director and screenwriter Maggie Gyllenhaal and actor, director and screenwriter Jesse Eisenberg at its 60th edition, which runs July 3-11. Artistic director Karel Och said, “Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg are distinguished by a certain ‘trans-Atlantic’ sensitivity. Their work as actors and directors has the ability […]

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard to Attend Slano Film Days, Joining Paweł Pawlikowski, Ruben Östlund, Michel Franco, Michael Seresin

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard will be among the guests at Slano Film Days, which runs June 16-20 in Slano, a small coastal town in Croatia. Other guests at the event include directors Paweł Pawlikowski, whose “Ida” won an Oscar, and Ruben Östlund, a two-time Palme d’Or winner. Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard will introduce audiences to […]

Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Superstar N’Kenge Takes Over NYC With Music Will Benefit At Marriott Marquis Times Square!

N’Kenge The Reigning Queen Of Music Commands the Music Will Benefit in Times Square: Standing Ovations, Cheers, Fundraising and her talented singer daughter in the audience. She mesmerized all New York City! N’Kenge takes over Manhattan Hosting Music Will NYC says H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe An extraordinary gathering of music legends, celebrated actors, cultural […]

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Maggie Gyllenhaal to Preside Over Venice Film Festival Jury

Maggie Gyllenhaal will preside over the main jury of the upcoming Venice Film Festival. The Oscar-nominated actor, director, producer and screenwriter was last in Venice in 2021 with her directorial debut “The Lost Daughter,” an adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel of the same name starring Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard, which […]

Episode #447: ‘Spacewoman’ with Kevin Smokler

We’re capping off a month at looking at different films directed by women with Hannah Berryman’s documentary, Spacewoman. Kevin Smokler, author of Breaking the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers joins us to talk about this close look at the stellar career of astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot, and later command, a Space Shuttle mission. What’s Good Alonso - Calm…

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The Frankensteined Feminism of The Bride!

Even before Ida (Jessie Buckley) becomes a black-bile-spewing revenant, you wouldn’t call her a proper lady. At a shady gin joint in Chicago, 1936, she’s vacant-eyed, slurring, and lurching in her seat when she launches into a tirade against the local Mafia _._ The gangsters tolerate her until she rises up and vomits all over their king (Zlatko Buric), a toad-faced godfather who promptly orders…

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With The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal Clumsily Exhumes 200 Years of Zombie Girls

Whether Doctor Frankenstein likes it or not, the zombie story has always belonged to women. Ever since teenaged political radical Mary Shelley (daughter of feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft) poured her maternal anguish into the party game ghost story that eventually became Frankenstein, this cultural lodestar has come heavy with feminine, not to mention feminist, valences. Perhaps it’s no…

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Episode 445: ‘The Bride!’ with Harmony Colangelo

Podcaster and writer Harmony Colangelo joins the gang to track the many movements of THE BRIDE! Then we talk about actors we’d love to see paired up on the big screen. What’s Good Alonso - matzoh Drea - filing (not clipping!) nails Harmony - definitely NOT Daylight Saving Time Kevin - zero degrees of Kevin Bacon?? ITIDIC

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Critical Drinker Reviews Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “Unashamedly Terrible” The Bride!

Here comes The Bride! Or rather, here comes a brash, confused, feminist monster. In his recent review video, The Critical Drinker tears apart The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s reimagining of Frankenstein, which you can check out below. Everything you’ve heard about this film is worse than reported, according to The Critical Drinker, and he believes The […]

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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Monster Mash

In the opening beats of The Bride!, the second feature written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the ghost of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) mutters to herself from some dark corner of the subconscious ether. She rasps about the sequel to her most iconic work, Frankenstein, that she never got to write before she died in 1851. What would this hypothetical book be, she wonders: “Is it a horror…

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Star-studded monster movie on track to become one of 2026’s biggest flops

The Bride! is on track to lose millions after a disastrous opening weekend (Picture: AP)

We might only be in March but 2026 has already seen more than its fair share of film flops.

From horror sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and Chris Pratt’s sci-fi epic Mercy, through to the much-maligned documentary Melania, there are already a host of stars with their names next to box office…

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