Bold Films, and Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker’s Nine Stories banner have acquired the rights to remake the Danish thriller “The Guilty,” with Gyllenhaal attached to star.

The pic won the world cinema audience award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was also named one of the top five foreign language films of 2018 by the National Board of Review. The movie, Denmark’s foreign-language Oscar entry, is also nominated for best screenwriter and best actor at the European Film Awards.

The movie follows a police officer under investigation, who’s demoted to desk work at an emergency call center. When he receives a terrified phone call from a kidnapped woman, he must battle his internal demons in order to save her.

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For Variety’s latest issue, they asked Jake Gyllenhaal to write a tribute to Ryan Reynolds, one of 50 people to make their New Power of New York list. Here’s why Reynolds, the star of “Deadpool,” represents a new generation of movers and shakers that capture the best of Manhattan.

I first met Ryan many years ago, and he struck me immediately as quick and warm and thoughtful, a gentleman in an era of foppish putzes, the unlikely love child of Mel Brooks and Dorothy Parker and Gary Cooper. He was also taller than me. Against my wishes, we became close friends.

Audiences got to know Ryan a bit through his work in a string of romantic comedies. He was undoubtedly charming and handsome (annoying), but he never quite had the space to fire on all cylinders. […]

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Earlier this summer Jake recorded the story ‘Letterform, Islandform’, an excerpt from the book ‘Attention’ by Joshua Cohen, in which a writer dreams of a letter that doesn’t exist — and then sees it. ‘Attention’ will be available in bookstores from August 14th. You can listen to Jake read ‘Letterform, Islandform’ below:

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It has been announced that Jake’s upcoming films ‘Wildlife’ and ‘The Sisters Brothers’ will premiere at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival this September.

‘Wildlife’ follows a teenage boy (Ed Oxenbould) in 1960s Montana who experiences the breakdown of his parents’ marriage and his mother’s (Carey Mulligan) struggle to keep their lives afloat after his father (Jake Gyllenhaal) leaves.

‘The Sisters Brothers’ is an adaptation of Patrick deWitt’s award-winning western novel about the picaresque adventures of two brothers sent to kill a prospector accused of stealing from a tyrannical crime boss.

The 2018 Toronto Film Festival runs September 6th-16th. Full schedule to be announced August 21st.

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Off-Broadway’s Public Theater has announced a talent-packed lineup for its 2018-2019 season. Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Tony Award nominee Tom Sturridge will make their Public Theater debut in an unforgettable and incredibly intimate evening of theater.

Sturridge, in his third collaboration with Simon Stephens, performs Sea Wall, an astonishing monologue about love and the human need to know the unknowable.

Gyllenhaal continues his artistic collaboration with playwright Nick Payne (Constellations, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet) in A Life, a meditation on how we say goodbye to those we love most.

Sea Wall / A Life runs January 26, 2018 through March 24, 2019 at the Newman Theater in NYC.

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