LOS ANGELES, July 22 (UPI) — Hollywood actor Jake Gyllenhaal is no longer slated to play a prince in the big-screen musical fairy tale “Into the Woods,” Indie Wire reported. …read more
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Alyssa Miller’s IMG Contract Shows She Has Another New Relationship
By The Huffington Post News Editors
We’ve noticed a dating trend: When it rains, it pours.
The same can be said for Alyssa Miller‘s relationship pattern, since she just went public with her new boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal. So what other new courtship is on the horizon for the Sports Illustrated model? A brand new contract with IMG Models.
There’s been speculation that the 24-year-old made the switch from Elite Model Management to IMG, but we finally received official confirmation via Twitter yesterday:
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post
Jake Gyllenhaal's Performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Now Available as an Audio Do
By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Now Available as an Audio Download at Audible.com
NEWARK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Audible Studios, the production arm of Audible.com, today announced the publication of Jake Gyllenhaal‘s masterful audio interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s preeminent novel, The Great Gatsby. The release marks the first audiobook performance by Academy Award nominee Gyllenhaal, and the first of Audible Studios‘ series of definitive recordings of the Fitzgerald canon in association with the Fitzgerald Estate. Forthcoming audio editions will include Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon as well as other works of fiction.
“We are thrilled to bring this remarkable new recording of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s masterpiece to our listeners,” said Audible EVP and Publisher Beth Anderson. “Jake Gyllenhaal‘s subtle pacing of the narrative and his portrayal of these fabulous characters showcase his versatility as an actor. Fans of his theater and film work will love hearing Jake’s interpretation of Gatsby.”
Anderson added, “Everyone who’s planning on seeing the new film version of The Great Gatsby will want to listen to this audiobook first for the fullest experience of Fitzgerald’s language.”
Baz Luhrmann‘s much-anticipated film version of The Great Gatsby will open this year’s 66th annual Cannes Film Festival and will be released nationwide May 10.
“We are delighted that Audible Studios will be bringing an avid and growing audience of listeners to F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s works,” said Jake Elwell of Harold Ober Associates, which represents the Fitzgerald Estate.
Audible will announce its casting choice for Tender is the Night shortly.
Among the acclaimed actors who have performed works of literature for Audible Studios in the past year are Anne Hathaway, Claire Danes, Colin Firth, Diane Keaton, Dustin Hoffman, Kate Winslet and Samuel L. Jackson. Audible Studios secured 31 nominations for this year’s Audie Awards, which honor outstanding audiobooks and other spoken-word performances. Earlier this year, Audible Studios received its first Grammy Award, for its production of Janis Ian‘s memoir Society’s Child.With Audible Studios, Audible.com has become the largest producer of audiobooks in the world.
Audible, the world’s largest seller of digital spoken-word content, invented and commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook download segment. In 2012, Audible members downloaded an average of 18 books over the course of a year.
Exclusive audio excerpts of The Great Gatsby are available at www.soundcloud.com/audiblestudios.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
End of Watch Blu-ray Review
Let’s dive right into the deep end: If you haven’t seen End of Watch, you should. I admit that the idea of a gritty “found footage”-style movie about the LAPD seemed needlessly gimmicky to me, but after about 10 minutes, one pretty much just forgets that Jake Gyllenhaal‘s patrolman Brain Taylor started off the story with the distracting contrivance of filming everyone in his downtown LA-adjacent precinct.
From there, this movie, which is first and foremost about the friendship between Taylor and his partner Mike “Z” Zavala (Michael Peña), plays out episodically, as if your watching webisodes about these two hotshot officers as they bust criminals, investigate kidnappings, rush into burning buildings and, in Taylor’s case, fall in love and enter a serious relationship with anna Kendrick’s Janet. Oh yeah, and along the way the duo’s over-eagerness on the job gets them targeted for death by a Mexican cartel.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
They Dated?! Celebrity Couples From the Past!
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and we’ve already taken a look at over 100 hot celebrity PDA pictures, and now we’re rounding up a bunch of fun star matchups from the past. Remember when Matt Dillon dated Cameron Diaz and Julia Roberts went out with Kiefer Sutherland? How about Jake Gyllenhaal‘s relationship with Kirsten Dunst? Click through to see those duos and more celebrity pairs now!