Sew your own Jake Gyllenhaal

You know what it's like. A busy weekend has left you collapsed into your comfiest armchair as the sun sets through the window behind you. How to relax? Well, here's an idea - sew your own Jake Gyllenhaal. I think I know what's next - a Jake Gyllenhaal Plushie. Many thanks to Lady Ekster for uncovering this gem among her mum's mags! Click and it shall be embiggened.


My review of the magnificently ridiculous Ironclad is now up at MovieBrit.

Source Code - new cast and new pictures. Barry Norman on Jake Gyllenhaal's career and more Japanese news on Source Code

We have some more End of Watch news today in the shape of another couple of actors signed on to feature alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena (and America Ferrera and Anna Kendrick). We also have some new photos from the set taken on 1 August. I may be completely mistaken (as it's well known that I am unable to recognise my own face in a photograph), that the woman in uniform on the left of this set photo is one of the new names signer onners, Cody Horn. If it isn't, which it may well not be, then we are told that she will be wearing a police uniform. A lot of uniforms in this film... [Updated to add I've just been told that's Lola Martinez. I am right in one thing - she's wearing a uniform. So I was 90% there...}


She can also be seen in photos taken a couple of days later:


The other new member of the End of Watch squadron is Frank Grillo who, apparently, has a 'key supporting role'. I am not aware that he's in any of the new photos. Talking of which...






Looks like the uniform isn't entirely comfortable.


It's always important to make time for a GyllenHug - one of the first rules of working with Jake.


Many thanks to IHJ for these new photos.

Source Code

With the UK DVD and blu ray release of Source Code imminent (16 August), the subscribers only edition of Radio Times Extra has a page on Jake Gyllenhaal written by arguably Britain's greatest film critic, Barry Norman. In 'Variety's the spice of life' Barry argues that Jake refuses to be typecast - and also mentions his 'vitally important following of female fans'. One should not overlook all the male fans though. Joined together we make quite a bunch! Here's the article and I've left on the Doctor Who special offers...


Following on from the Japanese poster for Mission: 8 Minutes (Source Code) we can also take a look at the Japanese torashi (or mini poster), thanks to Rintaro Watanabe. Rintaro will be reporting on the release for ManMadeMovies so when that happens I'll let you know. Here is also the official Japanese site for Mission: 8 Minutes.


Update

Updated to add a couple of new pictures from Just Jared of Jake leaving The Medical Center yesterday (Friday 5 August). Seems strange to seem him out of uniform. With legs. And feet.

Source Code tops the charts, a new poster from Japan for Mission: 8 Minutes, and Jake Gyllenhaal on set with America Ferrera

I'm delighted to report that our friends across the pond have been snapping up blu rays and dvds of Source Code by the bag full. So much so, Source Code debuted at the top of the sales and rental charts. 41% of sales were on blu rays, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Clearly, the early video on demand release has done nothing to affect sales, only serving to whet appetites for this fantastic film. Appropriately, we have a new photo of Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan (thanks to IHJ).


We shouldn't forget, though, that some countries have yet to see Source Code in the theatres, let alone on their TV screens. It isn't released in Japan until 28 October. With huge thanks to Mayumintolor in Japan, here is the poster from Japan where Source Code is known as Mission: 8 Minutes.


America Ferrera on the End of Watch set

I'm delighted to say Jake and Michael Pena were back on set in LA again yesterday. This time, they had an addition to the team, America Ferrera (aka Ugly Betty).






Pictures from IHJ and JustJared.

Jake Gyllenhaal unleashes his lethal weapon for gritty LA police drama End of Watch

When you're filming a gritty LA cop drama there's only so much fun to be had from waving a camera at burnt out cars. Yesterday (2 August), Jake Gyllenhaal took gritty police drams to a whole new level by swapping the camera for a gun. Admittedly not as big as the gun Michael Pena had modelled in initial images for the film but, nevertheless, a bit more deadly than a camera. And then there's the car that goes with it...






Pictures from IHJ and many congratulations to IHeartJake for its wonderful new look. I know it wasn't easy but I think the results are tremendous!

Jake Gyllenhaal on set in LA for End of Watch and Jake's impeccable and flawless style

Jake Gyllenhaal was back at work on 1 August, filming End of Watch with Michael Pena in LA and giving us all some tips on what to do if we should come across a bunch of burning cars. This mostly comprised taking film of it and showing his partner how to take film of it. End of Watch certainly won't be one of Jake's most glamorous roles, nor does it feature LA at its most happy and shiny, but it's clear that the film will be action-packed and gritty, just as director David Ayer likes it.







GQ Australia

As we've mentioned here before, Jake covers the August/Septmember issue of the Australian edition of GQ. We now have a quote from its editor Nick Smith about why Jake is the epitome of Hollywood style, the theme of this summer issue:

'He started out playing Billy Crystal’s son in City Slickers. Twenty years later, Gyllenhaal is still one of Hollywood’s hottest properties. His career judgment has been impeccable.. Gyllenhaal’s personal style is similarly flawless: the guy knows how to wear a suit. Tuxes are never a problem and he’s equally adept at a motorcycle-cut leather jacket, slim-cut jeans and Wayfarers. He seems unassuming, but you never forget the star power that lies beneath.'

Includes pictures from IHJ - there are many more there!

Anne Hathaway praises Jake Gyllenhaal and a WDW Coastal Interlude

Anne Hathaway's been talking about Jake Gyllenhaal and I'm sure it'll come as a surprise to no-one - or at least to those who've witnessed just a moment or two of that Love and Other Drugs chemistry - Anne has nothing but praise for her twotimes co-star: 'I know actors always say this about each other but he really is lovely. I worked with him on 'Brokeback Mountain' and then five years later on 'Love and Other Drugs'; he was a great guy then and still is. He's a real person.'



Talking of movies, my non-spoilery review of Super 8 is now published at Bleeding Cool.

A WDW Coastal Interlude

For the next part of the post, I beg your indulgence because it's Interlude Time. The promise of those rarest of summer gifts - sunshine and heat - persuaded Mr WDW and I to take off for the most beautiful south western reaches of England. We set off for Lime Regis (I have a real weakness for The French Lieutenant's Woman and Persuasion) but in the end we went a couple of counties further on to northern Cornwall. I am now back, complete with a fetchingly erratic sunburn pattern, an empty wallet, and a full camera.

Lyme Regis, possibly the most beautiful and historic seaside town imaginable - unfortunately I didn't discover a new species of dinosaur.






Branscombe in Devon is one of the most beautiful villages I've ever seen. Over the years we've visited it several times, paying respects to its stunning Norman Church and its Fountain Head pub. And then there's Beer (I cannot resist a town called Beer - even one that serves the most revolting coffee known to man - clearly I should have stuck to its ale).



From there it was Padstow - home of Rick Stein, the famous fish chef (his cafe was locked to stop more people getting in - an unusual move for a cafe), and the pasty capital of the universe.



Port Isaac is the home of the favourite UK tv show Doc Martin but it's far better than that.





I used to think of Tintagel as being the extremely tacky home of the Arthur legend - you can barely move without tripping over Ye Olde Merlin Post Office or Ye Olde Arthur Car Park but now I know it's much more than that - the castle was built on an island at the end of the promontory and there is nothing for it but steps and steep climbs to reach it and its heights. At the top, I fell down and had to eat a banana...





Other places I'd like to show you are Boscastle, ravaged in the flash flood of 2004 and now recovered and beautiful, the gorgeous inn of St Kews, hidden away, and the stunning St Swithin Church at Launcells, the 'least worst spoilt church in Cornwall' according to Betjeman.




If you can get to Dorset, Devon and Cornwall do! Even if it's in a tent...

Photos from the LA Times and WDW.

I have a guest reviewer on For Winter Nights - a review of Napoleon's Pyramids to mark the launch of the new Ethan Gage website. Very exciting!