Jamie Foxx is making a documentary about, one speculates, his career. So far untitled, it's scheduled for release in 2012 and there, topping the list of contributors is Jake Gyllenhaal. Of course, Jake and Jamie have known each other for some time, most famously making Jarhead together back in 2005. Jake also featured in a cameo for Jamie's single Blame It back in February 2009.
The contributors for the documentary include the other Blame It cameo stars, not all of whom had any idea what they were committing too when they turned up for filming shortly after the inauguration of President Obama. Apparently, Foxx had used that occasion to hoodwink Ron Howard (read more about that here)! It will definitely make for some interesting stories.
According to IMDb Pro, the documentary was filmed in LA and New Orleans in December 2009.
Love and Other Drugs
Source Code has not yet opened in Japan, but neither has Love and Other Drugs. It doesn't open until 19 November and the publicity is underway. With thanks to Maumintolor, here is a look at Japan's poster as well as a link to the website.
TIFF 2011
Amid rumours that Jake has joined Maggie in Toronto to support her at TIFF for the opening of Hysteria, Anna Kendrick is also in attendance. PoPSugar reports that she gushed to them about her latest handsome co-star, Jake. Good on you, Anne! If there's one thing I can empathise with, it's someone gushing about Jake.
We've heard a lot about Jake Gyllenhaal's Prince of Persia accent - Mike Newell and Sir Ben Kingsley have had a little disagreement over exactly which postal code in London it hails from, while Gemma Arterton confidently places it as Estuary. Jake, on the other hand, has admitted that it did have a tendency to wander due to the indluence of the multi-Brit crew, until Mike Newell would pull him south again. However, in this video from Lovefilm, Jake is informed that he sounds just like the bloke at the interviewer's local fish and chip shop.
I wonder if Jake's as handy with the deep fat frier.
Appropriately enough as we enter semi-final stages at Wimbledon, we've been hearing a little more about the filming up Vampire Weekend's Giving Up the Gun video. Apparently, its influence, as far as sticking it together went, was Jamie Foxx's Blame it. That's an interesting comparison because Ron Howard has said that he was in the Blame It video without actually knowing why he was in the video; it was something he'd sort of agreed to during the euphoria of the Obama inaguration ceremony.
Back to Vampire Weekend and the interview with the video's director Emmett Malloy: 'Jake Gyllenhaal literally had bought the record the day before. I knew him through a friend of a friend. He was driving down from San Francisco, and he literally just pulled over and did it. It was a combination of second-hand connections and timing. Joe Jonas was just a fan of the band, and my brother has done a few of the Jonas Brothers' videos... It's like that Jamie Foxx video where Ron Howard's in it. There's no rhyme or reason. But they all seem to work. They all came, and we found something for them to grab a hold of.'
'Pitchfork: Were all of these people hanging out with each other on set? EM: [laughs] No, man. That's the bullshit thing about cameos, I swear to God. Every time, I'd be like, "OK, we're going to shoot the fire effect," and then they'd be like, "Jake Gyllenhaal just showed up." I'd be like, "OK, we're not shooting the fire effect right now; we're shooting Jake Gyllenhaal."'
Jake 'literally just pulled over and did it'? Makes it sound like they filmed it in a layby.
And finally...
It seems that Russian audiences have been left nonplussed by Toy Story 3, preferring instead Disney's offering Prince of Persia. Read more here.
You may recall from my earlier post today, that I've been comparing Jake Gyllenhaal to London Buses. Well, the coincidence is getting spooky. For the third time in one day, Jake has popped up again, this time having fun with good mate Jamie Foxx. I think they've just spotted Ron Howard.
This Sunday, the Grammy Awards take place at the Staples Center in LA, and Jamie Foxx is up for three of them, including best R&B performance and best R&B song for Blame It. To celebrate, Jamie held a party at l'Ermitage Hotel in LA on Friday night and Blame It video star Jake Gyllenhaal came along. Apparently, the party had to move from the hotel rooftop because, strangely, it went past 11pm and people were still having fun.
Many thanks to IHJ for keeping track of Jake today!
If you've not been following the voyages of the Enterprise or have avoided raucous goings on in the Smithsonian, you may have noticed that Tom Hanks is back in the theatres sorting out the mysteries of the universe in scenic places. The success of Angels and Demons for director Ron 'I Love Richie' Howard will no doubt be huge, giving him an escape from his part time job of appearing in music videos.
Ron appeared on The View last week alongside Tom Hanks and others who were entertained by Ron's cameo in Blame It and he was asked to explain how it happened. Jamie Foxx asked Ron at the Obama Inauguration and, caught up with the love and good feeling of this historic event, Ron assumed he was being asked to appear in a We Are The World type video. Instead, he got red lights, booze and dancing girls. The upside is that he did get to sit in a car with Jake Gyllenhaal and he too may have been allowed to keep a hat. You can see a video of this interview with Ron here.
The video below gives us a little taster of the jollity that went on behind the scenes during the video shoot when all concerned were encouraged to show their 'party face'. Fortunately, we get a glimpse of Jake's.
The song is released in the UK at the end of June so we may get to see Jake on our TV screens this summer after all.
Film of the Day - Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko gets a showing on Britain's BBC2 tonight as the Film of the Day, hopefully allowing new audiences a taste of a film that for them too could become a discussion point for years. In 2001, a snippet about rising star Jake appeared in Interview magazine: 'A self-professed "odd, wacky, weird kid" growing up, Gyllenhaal, 20, is playing the same kinds of characters. And that's fine by him: "There should be more movies that say, 'So you're going through some abnormal shit? Hey, it's just a part of growing up. Feeling like an oddball is OK.'"' IT's difficult to think of any film in which this is better expressed than Donnie Darko, or any other actor who could possibly have embodied it more convincingly and soulfully. So, if you're able, 10.30pm, tonight, BBC2.
