Actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Momoa and Josh Brolin along with tennis icons Venus and Serena Williams are among the final batch of celebrities who have been added to the Oscars telecast, producers Will Packer and Shayla Cowan announced Wednesday.

Also on the list is Australian actor Jacob Elordi, known for his role as Nate Jacobs on the hit show “Euphoria.”

Jill Scott, J.K. Simmons and “West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler will also be presenters at the ceremony, which returns to the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on Sunday, March 27.

They join the ranks of previously announced presenters Vanessa Hudgens, Terrence J, Brandon Maxwell, Lady Gaga, Bill Murray, Lupita Nyong’o, DJ Khaled, Tony Hawk, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Shawn Mendes and Zoë Kravitz, along with last year’s winners Daniel Kaluuya, Anthony Hopkins and Youn Yuh-jung.

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Jake Gyllenhaal is attached to star in and produce Cut & Run, a heist thriller from Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer’s New Republic.

John Glenn (Eagle Eye, Law Abiding Citizen) is behind the spec script, which was picked up in a competitive situation by New Republic. The logline for the project reads: “A group of thieves using high-powered speedboats to rob superyachts steal the wrong thing from the wrong group of people.”

Gyllenhaal will produce through his Nine Stories Productions, along with Oliver, Fischer and Glenn.

Cut & Run is the latest partnership for Gyllenhaal and New Republic, having worked together on the upcoming Universal title Ambulance, directed by Michael Bay. New Republic and Nine Stories are also teaming up on an adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s graphic novel Oblivion Song.

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All of us here at IHeartJake.com want to wish Jake a Happy 41st Birthday! In honor of Jake’s birthday, I’ve added 27 previously unseen outtakes from his 2019 portrait session for USA Today to our gallery. Enjoy!

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Universal Pictures is officially delaying Michael Bay’s Ambulance movie release date two months from February 18 to April 8, 2022. Based on the 2005 Danish film of the same name, the action thriller centers on war veteran William Sharp as he reaches out to his adoptive criminal brother Danny for help to get $231,000 to pay for his wife’s surgery. The two head out for a $32 million bank heist, though when things go wrong and a Los Angeles Police officer is shot, they hijack an ambulance with an EMT and the dying officer as their hostages and race to find a way to escape the law.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II lead the ensemble cast of Ambulance alongside Eiza González, Garret Dillahunt, A Martinez, Keir O’Donnell, Moses Ingram and Wale Folarin.

The film was originally set to hit theaters on February 18, where it was pitting itself against Sony’s Tom Holland-starring Uncharted movie adaptation and Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel. at the time of writing, no specific reason from the studio was given for the shift in Ambulance’s release date.

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Extraction filmmaker Sam Hargrave are teaming up for Studio 8’s Prophet, a period comic book adaptation.

Gyllenhaal will star as John Prophet, a man conscripted by Germans near the end of World War II and subjected to scientific experiments that gave him superhuman strength. Hargrave will direct the film, which is based on Rob Liefeld’s comic books. Marc Guggenheim, the scribe known for his work on The CW’s Arrowverse TV shows, is penning the script.

In the film, John Prophet volunteers for a German experiment near the end of World War II in order to feed his family. After a bombing buries him alive and traps him underground for 20 years, he reawakens in 1965, where things are not great for Prophet. The world has moved on without him, his daughter resents him, and KGB agents are after him to create super-soldiers from his blood.

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