Jake Gyllenhaal lands in NYC amid interviews galore: 'You should get to know me. I'm actually a little funny.' A megapost!

Source Code is now a mere three days away from the theatres of the UK and US. And this means that there is so much going on that we have Source Code and Jake Gyllenhaal goodies coming at us from every angle, thick and fast. It feels like Federer is on the other side of the net, whacking the Source Code goodies at us, to the left, to the right, straight in the smacker. So, with deep breaths, it's time to hit some Jake volleys back. Take a seat (and remember no flash photography during play).


1. Jake arrived in NYC yesterday. This no doubt means that we should soon hear sightings (can you hear a sighting?) of Jake in various foodie places. He is doing the shows in NYC and on Friday, Jake and Duncan will be in the Apple store. One imagines there may be a few more screenings.



2. There are more pictures from the afterparty which followed the LA premiere on Monday. It's good to see photos of Jake with his dad again, it's been a while. These pictures are spread through the post.


It also gave Jake the chance to model a new bag. Fetching.


3. There are lots more videos from the past few days, including a better version of the Conan interview. They're all below. Many thanks also to Mermon, for alerting me to the new IMDb interview which you can find here. There is also a new interview with Jake over at Total Film.







There are also interviews with Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga.




4.We have paper interviews. There is a lovely interview with 'dreamy' Jake in Crave Online, which mentions at the beginning 'I’m amazed I got that much out of him, since I spent most of our exclusive interview lost in his eyes.' The interview is a little spoilery so you might want to take note of that. At the end, however, Jake mentions Nailed and End of Watch which, he reveals, will begin shooting in July.


'[Nailed's] been shot but there’s a scene missing from it. But David is not currently on that movie, so I follow my director, not anybody else. So right now I’m just waiting to hear from David to see how that’s going to go […] Your guess would be as good as mine. And then I have a movie that a movie that I’m prepping for now, it starts in July, that David Ayer wrote. He wrote Training Day. I play an LAPD officer. It’s a story about a partnership between two cops. It’s an amazing script. Amazing. So that’s next.'


The Scotsman also has an interview with Jake and it has this interesting snippet from Jake about himself: '"Someone said to me to me recently, 'You are really funny - and I didn't know that," Gyllenhaal recalls. "So I asked what they had thought of me and they told me, 'To be honest, I had thought you were kind of a jerk.' I was like, 'Well, you should get to know me. I'm actually a little funny.'"' It always amuses me that Jake's funnyness is treated as something new time upon time.

'"I grew up around movie sets, so you end up feeling comfortable in that context," he says. "But at the same time, I hardly ever sleep the first night before shooting. I always think I'm going to forget all the things I've rehearsed and prepared."'


Jake has also been talking to E! '"Because the train [we filmed on] was moving back and forth and we were on a stage so much, we literally had motion sickness," the hunky actor told us last night at the film's Hollywood premiere. "We thought that the earth was moving because the train had been moving, but it wasn't...I just loved the moment when Michelle and I, after a week of shooting on the train, we were at lunch and I caught her kind of holding on to the table at lunch [for support]." As for the flick itself, he dished, "It's high intensity, that's for sure! There's definitely a lot of running around, a lot of questioning people and occasionally a scuffle here and there."'


'"I have a movie that I'm about to shoot in July with David Ayer who wrote Training Day, he's directing it, about two Los Angeles police department officers and their partnership and their lives outside of work. But it's an unbelievable script." So will he be hitting the streets with real-life officers to train for the film? "Yes!" he answered quickly. "If we're allowed."'


5. Jake and MIchelle Monaghan are in the May edition of Empire magazine. IT's a wonderful interview but too brief. Click and the scans shall be embiggened. There is also a review in the magazine, and it includes such lines as these: 'Gyllenhaal shows immense range: film noir neurosis, cracked comedy, action-man intensity, tragic angst'. And the verdict: 'An exciting, intellectually stimulating science-fiction thriller which also connects emotionally. Everyone involved earns a promotion to the premiereship.'




6. There are new Spanish posters. Many thanks to Carlota for those.



Includes pictures from IHJ and WDW.

[Updated] Unscripted! Interviews with Jake Gyllenhaal on Source Code LA premiere day! Plus bowling and Brothers

Update: The Moviefone Unscripted with Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan is now available to watch. With thanks to a friend for the heads up!

There are two shorter videos with it. Here is one while the other one (which won't embed) can be found at the link above.



In the words of Duncan Jones who tweeted this today: 'What do I have to do today.. trim beard, cut hair, mow lawn, wash clothes... was something else.. oh yeah. SOURCE CODE PREMIER TONIGHT!' I'm sure you'll agree that mowing the lawn and washing clothes would alone make today a special day, but throw in the premiere of Source Code and I reckon that makes it even better. Adding custard to the crumble is Jake Gyllenhaal's appearance on Conan O'Brien tonight.


And just in case Jake still has his eye on that iPad 2, on Friday, he and Duncan will be making an appearance in New York City's Apple store. Details, and product advertising, here.


Proving that it is possible to bowl without the help of a Wii, on 26 March Jake visited the Spare Room in LA with a group of friends, including Maroon 5's Adam Levine, to bowl and, according to US Weekly, drink Red Stripe beer. [Note to real ale drinking Brits, this is a lager from Jamaica.] Apparently, in addition to trying to persuade models to have a go, 'As the game progressed, the guys started high-fiving each other; at one point Jake did what looked like a little dance after bowling a spare.' Far be it from me to mention that this sounds as if the spares might have been few and far between. Possibly, this is because it's hard to bowl and have your hood up.


We have more interviews today with Jake, Duncan and, I'm delighted to say, Vera Farmiga. These include interviews from Coming Soon and Collider. You'll find these embedded below within extracts from another interview with Jake, courtesy of The Spec. The article is a little spoilery but these snippets below are not. It's interesting to hear Jake talk a little more about how fond he is of his role in Brothers, Tommy. But first a little on keeping Source Code fresh throughout.



'“We knew beforehand that the only way this was going to be engaging and intriguing and fun to watch was through variation,” Gyllenhaal said. “How Duncan staged a scene, how I responded, how I gathered information, how much I was aware of what was going, and how much I wasn’t aware. So it felt like a real tightrope walk for me. And as soon as I stopped thinking about all those cliched responses you might expect from an actor in a thriller, as soon as it became a real psychological exploration, it became fascinating to me.”'



'“I have a relatively strange mind,” Gyllenhaal says. “Some strange things are going to come from it.” While there has been the occasional payday, like “Prince of Persia” (“Even there I tried to throw in a little bit of something,” he countered), he’s also done “The Good Girl,” “Lovely & Amazing,” the grossly underappreciated “Zodiac” and, more recently, “Brothers,” the Jim Sheridan’s adaptation of the Susanne Bier’s Danish film. “I loved that story and I loved that character,” he said. “In fact, I loved that character maybe more than any I’ve played; I’d like to bring him back in some kind of incarnation again ‘cause I just loved what he was struggling with. But yeah,” he added. “I think things work the best when I listen to my own instincts.”'



Includes pictures from IHJ.

The LA Source Code junket - New pictures and interviews with Jake Gyllenhaal and Vera Farmiga

This weekend, the Source Code press conference took place in LA. Before we get on to some of the interviews from the junket, here are a couple of pictures from the day.



Below are interviews with ET and Access Hollywood. It's interesting to hear that Jake is answering a very similar question to one he was asked during the Prince of Persia promotion - if you could go back in time and change something, what would you do? This time, though, Jake doesn't say he would go back to his birth.





There is also an interview with one of my favourites, Jake the Movie Guy.



It's also great to see an interview with Vera Farmiga, who is a definite highlight of the whole Source Code experience. This comes courtesy of First Showing.



There is also an interview with Duncan Jones at Indie Movies Online. Without doubt, I will be posting more from the weekend, so don't go too far away!

Pictures with thanks to IHJ - there are more there.

Source Code's SXSW panel and Jake Gyllenhaal catches up with Nailed co-star Peewee Herman

The third post of the day takes us to the Source Code panel at SXSW, which, as we're used to with Jake Gyllenhaal panels, was guaranteed to make people laugh and enjoy themselves, but this was enhanced by Duncan Jones who has been described as being positively 'giggly'. Before we get to that, Peewee Herman tweeted today from SXSW and he had this to say: 'wanted to find out what the #SourceCode is... so I stopped by to ask Jake!'


Peewee stars in Nailed alongside Jake and so there is history there. I just hope it comes to the conclusion it deserves.

We are so lucky today to have pictures straight from the panel. Ryan Boulding wrote about the premiere last night on ManMadeMovies and today tweeted throughout the panel. I particularly like this answer of Jake's in response to the question of if can travel travel through time after appearing in so many time shifting films (Donnie Darko, Prince of Persia, Source Code): 'I do know how to travel through time. I have a time machine if you want to join me. My delorian is out back.' I'm very grateful to Ryan for letting me share his pictures from the day.


You can read a full account of the panel here. I'm delighted to hear about the Twelve Monkeys vibe (I'm still managing to avoid all spoilers...).


There are more details of the premiere here on Wired. Duncan's enthusiasm for being back in front of the SXSW crowd is catching.


You can read a SXSW interview with Mark Gordon, the producer of Source Code over at Hollywood Reporter.


It's going to take a while to take stock on the treats that SXSW has delivered to us but the buzz for Source Code is immediate. I'm avoiding reviews at the moment but I hear, for example, that the Guardian gave it four stars. There is more to post - it'll follow tomorrow. Congratulations to Duncan, Jake, Michelle and Vera and everyone else who represented Source Code in Austin!

Many thanks to Ryan for sharing his pictures and experience with us.

As the panel is about to begin, report no 2 from the SXSW Source Code premiere

In a few short minutes - 11am local time in Austin, Texas (5pm I think over here) - the Source Code panel will take place, stage two in Source Code's triumphant SXSW opening. Before that here's a brief update to this morning's post. I'll start with a repeat of the video of the Q&A in case you've not seen that yet - plus a rather fun little prelude video.




There is a new account of Jake Gyllenhaal on the red carpet last night and here is an extract. I rather like its opening: 'Even on a red carpet in front of the Paramount Theatre amid the screeches of adoring fans, he focuses just on you. His eyes do not wander. He answers question after question with the deft intelligence of a trusted advisor, but the down-to-earth quality of the star next door.'


'“I love the artistic aspect of Austin,” he said about his frequent visits here. “It’s a city but also a town. And unlike elsewhere, everyone at this festival is kind.” He walked the carpet for “Source Code,” the thriller receiving its premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival. And like his director and co-stars, Gyllenhaal spoke persuasively about the project concerning a time-traveling soldier sent to avoid a train explosion. “It depends on how you define science fiction,” said Gyllenhaal, trimly attired in a gray shirt and neat jeans, when asked about his roles in the genre. “There’s always a bit of science fiction going on in my mind when I’m creating a character. We create our own roles when we act in science fiction, so you can make any choice you want.”'


There is a great sitdown interview with Jake at cnet. This is a wonderful interview and I suggest you read every scrap. Jake talks some more about the Source Code game and how it means the audience can interact with the film and its actors. 'What I think is cool is that storytelling doesn't just have to be linear [and the] movies we see are just one form of it. I think it's actual storytelling. You can tell one story, make a movie, and it's not just marketing a movie, it's about telling another story off of that movie, and having different stories. You're used to that with comic books, but to have something online where you're actually participating with your own computer, which is what happens in the movie, you know, it's a computer program that allows someone to enter someone else's body for the last eight minutes of their life, so you kind of get to do the same thing, and it just allows for millions of stories to be made off of one base story.'


'And the movie has a great opportunity to alter your sense of reality, and the game is just another one of those forms of being able to mess with people a little bit.' It's also interesting to hear Jake say that such a game may have been suitable for Donnie Darko.

Flynnofilm has presented his account of last night over at ManMadeMovies along with a great video interview recorded with Duncan Jones. Do check it out. There will be more there later too, from last night and from today.


According to tweets, Jake is 'in the building', the press are gathering for the panel, and the stage is set. So see you later!

Many thanks to IHJ for the pics.

[Updated] Source Code premieres! Jake, Vera, Michelle and Duncan shine at SXSW - a first report

Updated to add this great video of the Q&A!



Thanks to Mermon for the heads up.

What a night! Source Code premiered in Austin, Texas, and Jake Gyllenhaal was back on the red carpet, along with Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Duncan Jones and writer Ben Ripley. There's a huge amount to catch up with and so this post is a preliminary report. There will be more to come. But now it's time to dive in to a night of Source Code goodies.


I particularly liked this first interview with Jake, in which he talks about how fans can be inspired by a movie and can develop its ideas further. This took me right back to 2006.



You can read Jake's words here. “What I think is cool about Source Code Mission is that the idea of the source code in the movie is that it’s a computer game, and you know, off that computer game, different tangents are created,” Gyllenhaal told WebProNews. “And you affect the world as a result of that game. And the computer game that’s actually in reality – this reality – that’s on the Internet – is that same sort of idea, and is a tangent off the movie – that you can actually create other realities, and based on where you are, and the potential for the game is…just beginning now, but I think the user will create whatever it’s supposed to be.”


“To me, normally, you have a lot of games with movies [as] a way of marketing movies, and this feels like a way of creatively telling another story based on the story that was already told,” he added. “I just have all of these crazy, amazing ideas based on it, because what if we can get people on the Internet involved in the story after they’ve seen – or even before they’ve seen the movie, but particularly after they’ve seen the movie, there are so many possibilities…the possibilities are endless…”


I've purposefully avoided reviews of the film but there are lots of photos around of the Q&A that followed the screening. KVUE has a couple of galleries - of the whole gang, of Just Jake. They also have a video from the red carpet.



Here Jake, Michelle and Vera talk about being in Austin: '“This is not my first time in Austin. I love this city,” said actor Jake Gyllenhaal... “I already had a bike ride this morning. Would like to hit up some of the food trucks around town. Whatever I can run into. That's what I love about Austin,” Gyllenhaal said. “This is my first time in Austin...really happy to be here,” said Monaghan. “I'm going to go for a run around the lake tomorrow. I'm really excited about that actually.” Faniga said, “I'm excited to do some exploring, eat some fabulous food, listen to some great music.”'

'“We're opening the film festival with a movie I'm really excited about," Monaghan said. "And some guy named Jake Gyllenhaal. He's all right.”'


It was exciting last night following events on Twitter - there were some thrilled tweeters about, capturing photos of Jake and Michelle during their Unscripted interview for Moviefone. Here are some links to just a few: tweet 1, tweet 2, tweet 3, tweet 4, the theatre, and this great picture from a meet and greet with Jake. One can get slightly over enthusiastic though... ahem.


Many, many thanks to IHJ, who has done a magnificent job and so quickly! There are many more pictures there. I must say that Vera Farmiga looks absolutely sensational and I love Duncan's t-shirt! Duncan showed Moon at SXSW back in 2009 and it was clear that he was glad to be back at this his favourite festival.

The panel takes place today and so there will be details of that later as well as, no doubt, much, much more from last night as the hours go by. So stay tuned.


And finally...

Going off in a completely different tangent, we have our first taster of Jake on Shalom Sesame...

New Source Code Stills, Vera Farmiga, LAOD in the home and play along with Jamie - and a northern WDW interlude

As I sit here watching Jurassic Park and rather wishing that Jake Gyllenhaal could fit a movie about dinosaurs into his forthcoming schedule, there's time to catch up a little from the weekend. There are couple of new stills from Source Code, thanks to IHJ - I prefer the first one. Something to do with the zips...



There is also a video interview with Vera Farmiga, who was so wonderful in Up in the Air, I'm excited to see her in Source Code. Vera's interview features in the first part of this clip.



Love and Other Drugs in the home

Two new deleted scenes from the Love and Other Drugs DVD and Blu-Ray have made it to the net although, more accurately, they are two parts of one scene. Here is the first part:



You can see part two here. But still this does not complete the scene so I suggest you get hold of the DVD or Blu-ray when you can. To mark the home release of the film, if you follow this link you can play along with Jamie Randall. Thanks to Monica for the heads up.


Incidentally, I got a fantastic score - try and beat it at your peril! 230 - I kid you not...

A WDW Manchester Interlude

I headed up north this weekend to the city of Manchester - my teenage stomping ground. Much has changed since the bomb of 1996 - the ultramodern now mixes with the 17th- and 18th- centuries of industry, trade and civic business. And pubs. Unfortunately, and not uncommonly, it was a grey day in Manchester.

Duncan Jones on Jake Gyllenhaal: 'incredibly gracious and talented'. Source Code is on the way!

Our good friends at ManMadeMovies have done us all proud and published an interview with young Brit director Duncan Jones, providing us with a much welcomed update on Source Code, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga. As we've seen, Jake has enthused about SC and Duncan Jones throughout the PoP tour and so it's great to hear more from the man himself, especially when he has things like this to say: 'fortunately I was supported by the incredibly gracious and talented Jake G, who really got behind me and trusted my instincts'. It is good to learn that SC continues Duncan's habit of working closely with his actors, as demonstrated so wonderfully with Sam Rockwell in Moon. It gets great results.


We learn that SC will be out early next year, and that 'Source Code is very different than Moon… its quite a bit different from a lot of films, to be honest, and I'm hoping when we are ready to show people, the patience will pay off.'

'I know that performance-wise we got some great stuff from Jake, Michelle, Vera and Jeffrey [Wright]. I know that the script was always tight, and the film has a hell of a fast pace to it. I know that I did my best to inject some humor where I could.'

Read the full interview at ManMadeMovies - and it's a goodie. I'm more excited than ever about Source Code and it's great news that it's moving along quickly. And Judge Dredd?


Pictures from IHJ.

New post on MovieBrit on Women, RomComs and The Rebound.

Oscar recap (part 2) - misbehaving dresses, Rachel picks Jake's pocket, difficult questions and dancing with joy

It might not have escaped your attention, but I am a Jake Gyllenhaal fan. I know... I hide it well. However, through all the hoopla of the Oscars, the centre of it all for Jake was his sister Maggie and so I want to start this second recap of Oscar night with this fabulous photo from the Vanity Fair party.


More videos of Jake Gyllenhaal have emerged today including this backstage interview between Jake, the gorgeous Rachel McAdams and Nate Berkus. Apart from learning from Jake that presenters traditionally swap possessions (in this case, Jake got the purse and Rachel got Jake's wallet - I like this tradition - or else Rachel is a pickpocket), Jake is also asked what Heath Ledger's absence from the Oscars means to him. Quite apart from the fact that Heath was never a fan of awards ceremonies, one must also wonder about the timing of such a question, and yet Nate appears sincere and Jake is touchingly open to him about how this question took him by surprise. In celebrating Maggie's nomination this year, how could Jake not miss his own co-star, Maggie's co-star and last year's winning best actor, so obviously absent? It's a touching interview, mixing sadness with exuberance and a dress with a mind of its own (and Robin Williams).



Updated to add: Rachel did check her bag afterwards, one wonders if Jake checked his wallet... (Thanks to Monica for the heads up on this great photo!)


In another video from the red carpet, there's a chance to get a sense of the chaos of the occasion with questions coming from every angle. In this case, Jake reveals that his dates are his sister and brother-in-law, who, it must be said, could have done a lot worse...



And the view from the other side. I love the cut of Jake's suit (and hair for that matter).


Vera Farmiga was asked about her forthcoming role In Source Code and she revealed that she has yet to get her head round it, with her part not beginning shooting until April. It is, she tells us, 'a complicated plot'. This means I will have to engage my sense when I see this film - a challenge.


In the picture above, Rachel is clearly telling the father of her child, and some innocent Oscar winning bystander, a dirty joke. The photographer took the blame for it.



Pictures with thanks from IHJ and links.

Jake Gyllenhaal gets his Souce Code Love Interest, Peter Sarsgaard gets Green Lantern

We've got the train station, now what we need are some actors, and today came the news that Duncan Jones has lined up two actresses for Source Code, including Jake Gyllenhaal's Love Interest. Vera Farmiga, who starred alongside Peter Sarsgaard in Orphan (a film far too scarey for my delicate sensibilities) 'will play a hands-on communications officer controlling Gyllenhaal as he travels through time and space. [Michelle] Monaghan is a woman on the train with whom the man is involved romantically.' One wonders how 'hands on' that will be?


'Farmiga is flying high off her Golden Globe-nominated performance as George Clooney's love interest in "Up in the Air," one of the season's major awards players. Monaghan starred with Shia LaBeouf in "Eagle Eye" and recently wrapped "Due Date" with Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis.' Good actresses, good film - Source Code is certain to get a lot of attention.


And while we're talking about casting, yesterday came the news that Peter has won the role of chief baddie in a major film, Green Lantern, starring The Proposal's Ryan Reynolds. The success of An Education, and the acclaim that has greeted its actors, has given Peter much more exposure, as can be seen by his casting in Tom Cruise's Knight and Day. But this is a further big step. It will also be fun, much more fun than one would expect from playing a pathologist in other movies.

And to continue the chain, Peter's An Education co-star Carey Mulligan received recognition by BAFTA this week with her nomination for Rising Star. Carey also, of course, shone in her small role in Brothers. Good luck to her!


Jerry Bruckheimer has been answering more fans questions about Prince of Persia and he had this to say about a very recent screening of the film: 'Recently, in the last three weeks, we had a screening for a test audience, which ranges from eight to eighty in the audience and, fortunately for us, it tested higher than... the initial Pirates of the Caribbean. Now that doesn't really mean a lot because sometimes testing can be a little off, but it's certainly a great indication that people love this movie. A lot of the people in the audience weren't gamers and had no idea it was even a game. They just saw it as a wonderful movie and enjoyed it. It's romantic, it's funny, it's got great action, wonderful characters and that's what we've tried to bring you.'


You still have a few hours in which to place a question for Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia. Pop over to this site.

Meanwhile, the gaming fans of Prince of Persia are enjoying the first screen shots from the new game, The Forgotten Sands, which will be released to coincide with the movie. The images are stunning.


Sites have today been spreading a quote - with no source - from Jake (there have been a few over the last few days and who knows from where and when they originated - they do remind me of elements from recent interviews). In the latest quote, Jake speaks with enthusiasm of the mini-Jakes that will flood (hopefully) the toy market this summer: 'A lot of people find it weird to have little action figures of themselves, but I think it’s great. In fact it’s awesome! I can’t wait. I’m going to buy loads.' Jake's not the only one.

Includes pictures from IHJ and sources.