Introducing Jake Gyllenhaal - and PoP to have more than 'exploding horses'

So, it turns out that there's another way to attract the attention of Jake Gyllenhaal - form a band, get on TV and have Jake introduce you - before you know it, you're friends for life (well, for the length of an award show, which can feel as long). With big thanks to the lovely Xenia, here is a video of Jake introducing lucky Avril Lavigne during TRL 2004.





Also in 2004, Jake was a presenter on the MTV movie awards alongside Scarlett Johansson and their job was to introduce the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Jake and Scarlett were themselves introduced by Lindsey Lohan.



Moving along to 2007, Jake was back on TRL to introduce a host of bands, but not Celine Dion.



On SNL in January 2007 it was the turn of the Shin Shins...


Jake appears on TRL every three years, we therefore have a couple left in which to form The Next Big Thing. With any luck we may get Jake involved.


And finally...

Jordan Mechner has been talking to Entertainment Weekly about the movie adaptation of his creation Prince of Persia. Jordan says that he had only one requirement for the film: 'This goes all the way back to the original 1989 game: somewhere in the story, there has to be an hourglass.' Which, if you have a film about sands of time, is a reasonable request.


I was also struck by this quote 'For a movie, it's all about the story. No matter how spectacular, the action is only gripping if it's happening to characters we care about. Otherwise, in the midst of all the Dolby fireworks and exploding horses, we'll start to get that restless feeling... you know, wishing we had our ten bucks back and that we were back home playing a video game.' Exploding horses? What kind of a film is this?


Includes pictures from IHJ.