Jake Gyllenhaal & Guy Ritchie Talk ‘The Covenant’ And The “Begrudging” Friendship At Its Heart [The Playlist Podcast]

EXCLUSIVE: Survivor remains a mainstay on CBS and is returning to the BBC this year, and now distributor Banijay Rights has struck a deal to send the adventure reality format back into Argentina.

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Iranian director Ali Abbasi has responded to Russia’s unexplained ban of his serial killer thriller Holy Spider just days after its theatrical release.

Eamonn Holmes has shared a cryptic message after being accused of weighing in on the ongoing speculation and drama surrounding Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield. A fan accused him on social media of taking part in a "Phil and Holly witch-hunt", writing: "I am a huge fan of you Eamonn and will continue to be.

They work together and live together, but that doesn’t stop John Torode and Lisa Faulkner making time to have a date night every single week.The couple first met when Lisa won Celebrity MasterChef in 2010, bonded over their love of cooking and married in 2019.They are now on their eighth series of John And Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen, and say they are never happier than when they are on the same team. “It’s really lovely,” grins Lisa. “Lots of people say it must be really hard to work together but actually it’s not like that at all.

Not many people want to be dropped into the middle of Guyana’s jungle for three weeks and even fewer would want to do it naked and alone. But one man who took on the challenge is Jamie Frizzell, also known as WildMan.The survivalist, 29, is no stranger to being alone in the wilderness, and first got the taste of it on his family holidays. “When I was younger, my family used to go camping instead of going abroad,” he says.

Star of Doctor Foster,Vigil , and Gentleman Jack , Suranne Jones is known for the clever, gutsy and determined women she plays on screen. However, in ITVX drama Maryland she plays against type as the messier and more submissive of two sisters. “I felt like I wanted to play a younger sister, someone who was kind of dragged along or felt stuck rather than had things all clued up and ran the show,” says the 44-year-old actress.

Meghan Markle looked absolutely incredible as she accepted the Women of Vision award in New York City last night, Tuesday 16 May. And she was accompanied by doting husband Harry, 38, who supported his wife on her big night as the pair put on their usual loved-up display. It was the pair's first official appearance together since the Duchess of Sussex missed King Charles' Coronation.

Paris Brosnanpaid tribute to his father,Pierce Brosnan, on his 70th birthday.  The artist shared a collection of touching photos featuring himself, his dad, and his brother Dylan, 26, over the years with the caption: "happy 70th to the creator @piercebrosnanofficial; more life, more art, more blessings…"View this post on InstagramThe first image shows Pierce and his sons in matching white suits posing in the ocean, looking as dapper as ever.

Indian exhibitor PVR Inox, recently formed by the merger of the PVR and Inox cinema brands, has launched a new motion pictures arm, PVR Inox Pictures, which will ramp up acquisitions of international content for the India market. 

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Killers of the Flower Moon” executive producer Niels Juul is in Cannes with several projects based on IP from the vault of Italy’s storied Cecchi Gori movie company that include a remake of the Dino Risi-directed classic “Il Sorpasso” and “Kafka,” a script about the turbulent love life of Franz Kafka by John Briley (“Gandhi”). The IP and some other assets of the movie company that once dominated Italy’s film industry and collapsed in the mid-1990s were acquired late last year by a group of Italian investors under the new management of Rome-based CEO Federico Canfora and U.S-based Javier Balliero Madrid. Madrid is president of the new company, which is backing a partial relaunch of the Cecchi Gori brand, which is behind such Oscar-winners as “Life Is Beautiful,” “Mediterraneo” and “Il Postino.”

Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Anne Hathaway and Zendaya made a stylish splash in Venice.The celebrated stars hit the carpet at the Bulgari Mediterranea High Jewelry event on Tuesday, and posed together in their stunning ensembles that stole the spotlight at the black tie event.Chopra lit up the scene in a crimson Miss Sohee two piece that featured a matching top and flowing skirt, adorned with a white beaded flower embellishment. Meanwhile, Hathaway shimmering in a gold and silver Atelier Versace number.Zendaya brought come classic Hollywood elegance with a lush, black Richard Quinn dress, which showed off her toned arms with off-the-shoulder sleeves.

As we walk into the library room of London’s Covent Garden Hotel, we’re instantly hit with a heady dose of star power. Kelly Brook, 43, sits coolly in an armchair wearing a floaty top and a pair of fitted jeans, no doubt from her new summer collection with Tesco’s F&F, and before we even have the chance to find a chair of our own, she proudly introduces us to a rail full of her designs.

You’ve reached the middle of the working week - find out what lies in store for you as we step closer to the weekend. There are 12 zodiac signs - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces - and the horoscopes for each can give you the lowdown on what your future holds, be it in work, your love life, your friends and family or more. These daily forecasts have been compiled by astrologer Russell Grant, who has been reading star signs for over 50 years.

Queen Camilla has "further alienated" Prince Harry from the royal family, according to a royal expert. Camilla has used Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle's status as non-working royals to continue the fractured relationship between Charles and his son, Christopher Andersen, author of "The King," told Fox News Digital. "The king hates being caught in the middle, but when push comes to shove, he will always choose Camilla," Andersen said.

Guy Ritchie is opening up about his new movie, The Covenant, and revealed that they didn’t use real firearms for any scenes.

T. Swift muse, Jake Gyllenhaal (he of the good hair, affable disposition, rampant sarcasm and dimples you can eat ice cream out of) is Sagittarius energy incarnate. Jamie Lee Curtis’s sourdough baking godson is known for such iconic roles such as the eponymous, troubled teenager “Donnie Darko” and closeted rodeo king/ranch hand Jack Twist in “Brokeback Mountain.”Gyllenhaal returns to the screen this spring as Sgt.

Guy Ritchie‘s new movie The Covenant is now in theaters and it’s getting some great reviews!

EXCLUSIVE: In Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Jake Gyllenhaal throws on the military fatigues he hasn’t worn since 2005’s Jarhead, this time joined by an award-winning actor and real-life veteran in Dar Salim. In the new action movie from Miramax and MGM, Gyllenhaal plays U.S. Army Master Sgt. John Kinley, whose bond with his interpreter, Ahmed (Salim), only grows after their unit is ambushed by the Taliban. After Kinley is injured during the escape, Ahmed embarks on a Herculean effort to carry Kinley across the Afghanistan mountains to safety. When Ahmed is unable to get a visa to get him and his family to the U.S., Kinley risks his life to return to Afghanistan and save him.

Kelly Clarkson’s interview with Jake Gyllenhaal quickly descended into laughter, unintended insults and stories about peeing on people during Friday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show.” The singer and talk show host was caught putting her foot in her mouth when she asked Gyllenhaal, “Did you ever have any real jobs, like, regular jobs?”The second the words left her mouth, Gyllenhaal began laughing and Clarkson knew she had unintentionally insulted a career in acting. Gyllenhaal looked at her in faux shock. “I just heard it,” Clarkson said, getting ready to defend herself.

New Line and Warner Bros’ Evil Dead Rise freaked out $2.5M last night from previews that began at 7PM at 3,000 locations.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Guy Ritchie announced in a new interview with Newsweek that he is no longer using real guns on his film sets following the October 2021 “Rust” shooting, in which cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed by a prop gun filled with real bullets. Ritchie is a veteran of the action movie genre, with the majority of his films prominently featuring firearms and bombastic shootouts. His latest directorial effort, “The Covenant,” was filmed with Airsoft pellet weapons in place of real guns. “The Covenant” stars Jake Gyllenhaal as U.S. Army sergeant John Kinley, who returns to Afghanistan in an effort to rescue an interpreter named Ahmed (Dar Salim) from the Taliban. The two men became close years earlier when Ahmed served as John’s interpreter during the height of the War in Agahnistan. Ahmed saved John’s live during the war, so John sets out on a mission to do the same. Suffice to say, guns and shootouts are a plenty in the film.

If one were paying close attention to the recent career of actor Jake Gyllenhaal one might think he was on a mad quest to a) become a buff action star thriller and b) elevate the careers of mid/middling directors. The last three live-action Gyllenhaal movies –“Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “The Guilty,” and “Ambulance”—have all seemed like an attempt to subvert his narrative as arthouse darling, and the latter two were the best films of those director’s careers in quite some time (Antoine Fuqua and Michael Bay, respectively).

Matthew McConaughey smoking a joint in Guy Ritchie’s new movie “The Covenant.” The prolific British director has, for the moment, left behind quirky crime and comedy for his Afghanistan War film — and it’s not hard to understand why. The story the movie is based on is a harrowing and special one. A US Army sergeant and an Afghan interpreter are on the run from the Taliban, when the American is knocked unconscious and his companion must go to extraordinary lengths to save him.Running time: 125 minutes.

Decades after he first broke out with “Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels,” film fans probably think they know what a Guy Ritchie film is going to look and feel like. Well, when you bring Jake Gyllenhaal into the equation, Ritchie throws all of those preconceived notions out of the window, and you end up with “The Covenant,” a no-nonsense war film about a life-altering debt and the lengths someone will go to shed a curse, of sorts.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” will rule again in its third weekend at the box office. In maintaining the No. 1 spot in North America, the family film is expected to take down two newcomers, the supernatural horror sequel “Evil Dead Rise” and action-war thriller “Guy Ritchie’s the Covenant,” as well as A24’s mind-bender “Beau Is Afraid,” which is expanding nationwide. Universal and Illumination’s animated “Mario” adventure has grossed $366.3 million domestically to date. In the next few days, it will surpass “Minions: The Rise of Gru” ($369 million) as the highest-grossing animated film of the pandemic era. With $724 million globally, it already stands as the biggest movie of the year so far. Now in its third outing at the domestic box office, “Mario” is looking to bring in roughly $45 to $50 million, a massive result at this point in its theatrical run.

I’m not sure why director Guy Ritchie has his name in the title of his latest film, but because this is I think the best Ritchie movie I have seen, I will pass up the chance to snark at the only misstep in Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant. It about as exciting, gripping and moving as war films get — especially one set in the murky Afghanistan conflict in which the U.S. found itself immersed for more than two decades.

Jake Gyllenhaal, who premiered his new war thriller "The Covenant" this week, said he is drawn to stories about the military because of the "pride and love" that people who "defend our country" exhibit.  "At the beginning of my career, I played a Marine, a recruit, and I got to know a lot of people in the military and learned from them," the "Jarhead" actor told The Associated Press. "And I think it changed my perspective on the world sort of just being around and touching that world a bit."  In the film, which comes out on Friday, Gyllenhaal plays an Army Special Forces sergeant who is rescued by a local interpreter he recruited.  When Gyllenhaal’s character returns to the U.S.

Jake Gyllenhaal knows all about those «Jacked Gyllenhaal» memes. The actor — who is currently in intense UFC training for the upcoming remake — recently sat down with ET's Cassie DiLaura to discuss his new film,, and weigh in on the internet's unquenchable thirst for his movie muscles.«That's a wonderful nickname,» he joked. «It's been an incredible experience and it is [amazing] working with actual real fighters, working with the UFC, reimagining a classic. There's been a lot of the physical [work].»That's not to say that filming was a walk in the park.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Last month, to my great surprise, I raved about a Guy Ritchie movie, “Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre,” as an exhilarating exception to the rule of Ritchie’s style-over-substance, more-frosting-than-cake school of crime-thriller grandiloquence. The film bombed, and more critics than not disagreed with me. But I stand by my assessment of “Operation Fortune” as a diabolically entertaining screwball action-espionage caper. If you want to talk about exceptions to the rule, though, that movie has nothing on the new Guy Ritchie film, which is called (wait for it) “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.” Ritchie’s name was reportedly added to the title because there is already a film in existence called “The Covenant.” But that sounds like an awfully thin reason to suddenly convert Ritchie into a marquee legend, and, in fact, there’s a better reason. Against all odds, he has become one of the best directors working. “The Covenant” isn’t another Ritchie underworld caper. It’s an Afghanistan war drama, and if you’re wondering whether he has made a combat film in some version of the Ritchie style (jazzy violence, fast-break comic-strip dialogue, needle drops), the answer is no. He has put his confectionary flamboyance on hold. “The Covenant” unveils something new: Ritchie the contempo classicist. We’re seeing a born-again filmmaker.

Jamie Lee Curtis has labelled herself as “proud AF” of her godson Jake Gyllenhaal ahead of the release of his new film.The pair hit the red carpet together on Monday night, 17 April, and Academy Award winner Jamie, 64, couldn’t help but show her love for the 42 year old frontman. In one photo, Jake and Jamie stood hand in hand at the premiere of his new movie The Covenant – which is due to hit cinemas this Friday. Another snap showed Jamie lovingly planting a kiss on the Southpaw actor’s cheek as he appeared to blush at his godmother’s affection.

breadfellows. The recent Oscar winner, 64, said Monday at the Los Angeles premiere of Gyllenhaal’s new thriller “The Covenant” that the pair lodged together amid the pandemic and baked bread. Curtis dished to People at the bash that she and Gyllenhaal, 42, — who is her godson — have “gotten to know each other” over some loaves.The “Donnie Darko” alum and his girlfriend Jeanne Cadieu lived next door to the “Freaky Friday” actress during the lockdown in a home that Curtis owns.“He made a lot of sourdough bread, a lot,” Curtis said, adding that the carbs were “very good.”“So singing, acting, sourdough,” Curtis continued.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Jake Gyllenhaal spent a lot of time together during the COVID lockdown.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Jake Gyllenhaal is determined to star in another Broadway musical. “There are so many musicals I love so deeply,” Gyllenhaal, who starred in a revival of “Sunday in the Park With George” with Annaleigh Ashford in 2017, told Variety at the Los Angeles premiere of his new action drama “The Covenant” on Monday evening. “At some point, I’ve always loved ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ I’d love to do that.” Gyllenhaal’s godmother, Jamie Lee Curtis, was at “The Covenant” premiere and recalled how the actor was supposed to star as Tevye in a school production of “Fiddler” when he was a high school senior. He left the show when he was offered the lead in the 1999 drama “October Sky.”

Jamie Lee Curtis was one proud godmother when she attended Jake Gyllenhaal‘s premiere for his new movie The Covenant.

Guy Ritchie is reportedly being sued by a writer who claims The Gentleman copied scenes from a script he wrote.According to a report from Variety, Ritchie is at the heart of a lawsuit which was filed in the London High Court last month by actor and writer Mickey De Hara. In his suit De Hara claims that Ritchie commissioned him to write a sequel to the 2008 gangster movie RockNRolla, which was to be based on De Hara’s “personal life experiences”.De Hara goes on to claim that he delivered a script but alleges Ritchie told him “the time of the gangster movie was over”.