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Perth Now
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Jake Gyllenhaal set for Code Black
Jake Gyllenhaal is to star in Code Black. The 44-year-old actor's Nine Stories are to develop the political thriller, which is based on a new short story by Harrison Query, as a starring vehicle for Jake, with the film's rights secured by Amazon MGM Studios as part of their first-look deal with the company, Deadline reports. Amazon MGM secured the rights for a guaranteed seven-figure sum, in what is believed to be one of the biggest deals of all times for a short story. Harrison himself will adapt the tale for the big screen. Code Black will see Jake play the US' top heart surgeon, who is flown to Washington D.C. to carry out a high-stakes operation, only to be embroiled in a trap that he needs to work his way out of to stop a plot that threatens both his family and the country. As well as Jake and Nine Stories' Josh McLaughlin, producers in talks for the film include Lynn Harris and Matt Reeves of 6th + Idaho, and Scott Glassgold of 12:01 Films. Nine Stories' three-year deal with Amazon MGM Studios was announced in April last year. As well as 'Road House', which was helmed by Doug Liman, Jake starred in Guy Ritchie's 'The Covenant' for Amazon MGM Studios before inking the deal. He said in a statement at the time: "I've worked with Amazon MGM on two films this past year, and they've been a wonderful partner both times. "Their dedication to filmmaking is contagious, and I so admire their commitment to fans all over the world. I am thrilled to formalise what is an already fruitful collaboration-especially on the heels of Road House's outstanding debut.' Julie Rapaport, head of film production and development at Amazon MGM Studios, commented: "Jake is a one-of-a-kind talent whose passion and eye for filmmaking makes him a powerful storyteller both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. "Following the record-breaking success of Road House, we could not imagine a better time to officially cement our relationship. Jake has been an incredible partner, and we look forward to collaborating with him and the Nine Stories team to create needle-moving and compelling films from visionary filmmakers."
Time of India
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Guy Ritchie, Jake Gyllenhaal team up for 'Road House 2'
Picture Credit: X English filmmaker Guy Ritchie is once again joining forces with actor Jake Gyllenhaal as he is set to direct the sequel to 'Road House'. Jake Gyllenhaal will reprise his lead role as ex-UFC fighter Dalton in the film, reports 'Variety'. ' Road House 2 ' marks the third collaboration between Ritchie and Gyllenhaal and their second for Amazon MGM Studios following 'Guy Ritchie's The Covenant'. The filmmaker and the Oscar and Tony-nominated actor also collaborated on the forthcoming action thriller 'In the Grey'. Will Beall ('Bad Boys: Ride or Die', 'Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F') is writing the script for the sequel, plot details for which are being kept under wraps. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Google Brain Co-Founder Andrew Ng, Recommends: Read These 5 Books And Turn Your Life Around Blinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Undo As per 'Variety', producers include Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven and Alex Gartner, as well as Gyllenhaal for his Nine Stories Productions with Josh McLaughlin. Ivan Atkinson will executive produce. 'Road House' is a reboot of the 1989 classic starring Patrick Swayze, and followed Gyllenhaal as a former UFC fighter struggling to make ends meet. After the owner of a Florida Keys roadhouse finds him sleeping in his car, Dalton becomes the bar's bouncer and finds himself roped into a war of outlaws and bikers (including real-life mixed martial artist and first-time actor, Conor McGregor) and a developer determined to build a lavish resort for "rich a*******". The movie was viewed as a success for Amazon MGM and the studio announced a sequel was in development last summer during its inaugural Upfronts presentation. The film launched on Prime Video last March and broke records for the streamer - attracting nearly 80 million worldwide viewers in its first eight weeks to become the studio's "most-watched produced film debut ever on a worldwide basis," per then-studio chief Jennifer Salke. Ritchie's prolific filmography includes high points like 2019's 'Aladdin', the Disney live-action adaptation grossed over $1 billion worldwide, which is his box office pinnacle - and the British gangster comedy 'The Gentlemen', which spawned a successful spinoff series at Netflix with a second season going into production this spring.
Newsweek
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Jake Gyllenhaal's 'Road House 2' to be Helmed by Fan-Favorite Director
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors A whole bunch of diehard Patrick Swayze fans will ask you if the first remake should've ever been made, but that didn't stop millions from tuning in to watch Amazon's "Road House" remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Doug Liman directed that film, and now with "Road House 2" on the way, the director has been found for the sequel. Variety reports that Guy Ritchie will helm "Road House 2". Read More: 'Now You See Me 3' Releases Star-Studded Trailer It's not that much of a surprise that Liman won't be back for the sequel. The director wasn't silent about his frustrations with the release of "Road House". He said the film was initially meant for a theatrical release, which was changed after Amazon acquired MGM, at which point Liman's compensation reportedly shrank. Jake Gyllenhaal in promotional material for "Road House". Jake Gyllenhaal in promotional material for "Road House". Amazon Studios "Road House 2" will mark the third collaboration between Ritchie and Gyllenhaal. The latter starred in 2023's "The Covenant" and will star in the upcoming action thriller "In the Grey" alongside Henry Cavill. The "Road House" remake premiered on Amazon Prime last March and became a streaming hit, with close to 80 million viewers streaming it worldwide in its first eight weeks. According to then-Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke, that made it Amazon's "most-watched produced film debut ever on a worldwide basis." Gyllenhaal's Elwood Dalton is in desperate straits when we meet him in "Road House". An ex-UFC fighter living in his car and contemplating suicide, he's hired as a bouncer but finds himself facing a lot more than just drunks. Over the years, Ritchie has proven himself to be not only a prolific director but also one who enjoys working with the same actors in different projects. Along with Gyllenhaal, frequent collaborators with Guy Ritchie include Henry Cavill and Jason Statham. Ironically, even though Ritchie is known for action-heavy thrillers, financially his most successful film was the live-action remake of "Aladdin," which cracked the $1 billion mark. For a time, Ritchie was attached to a sequel, but that follow-up seems to have settled down in development limbo. Ritchie seems busier now than ever. Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan star in his organized crime series "MobLand" on Paramount+. John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, and Eiza González star in his adventure film "Fountain of Youth," which premieres May 23 on Apple TV+. More Movies: 'Weapons' Trailer Reveals Terrifying First Look at Horror Epic Dwayne Johnson Transforms Into UFC Legend in 'Smashing Machine' Trailer
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Yahoo
Covenant School trans shooter plotted Nashville attack for years, kept notebooks with plans: final report
FIRST ON FOX: Nashville police have released their final report on the Covenant School massacre – a targeted March 2023 attack on a Christian school by a transgender shooter who killed three third-graders and three adults. Rather than a highly anticipated manifesto, the report found that killer Audrey Hale left behind numerous notebooks, art books and computer documents about her plans to commit the attack and gain notoriety, partly inspired by the Columbine school shooting in 1999. Hale, the 28-year-old attacker and biological female, began "fantasizing" about and researching mass shootings as far back as 2017, according to investigators. A year later, she wrote "detailed fantasies" about shooting up the Isaac T. Creswell Middle Magnet School for the Arts, killing her father and killing her psychiatrist. Nashville School Shooting Manifesto: Why Killers Write About Motives "In this case, a manifesto didn't exist," the document reads. "Hale never left behind a single document explaining why she committed the attack, why she specifically targeted The Covenant, and what she hoped to gain, if anything, with the attack." Instead, her motivations were scattered across those many notebooks and other writings, investigators found. They included an image showing more than two-dozen notebooks seized from Hale's car and bedroom. They also said she left a suicide note addressed to her parents. Read On The Fox News App Read the Nashville police report: "In short, the motive determined over the course of the investigation was notoriety," according to investigators. "Even though numerous disappointments in relationships, career aspirations, and independence fueled her depression, and even though this depression made her highly suicidal, this doesn't explain the attack. As Hale wrote on several occasions, if suicide was her goal then she would have simply killed herself." Hale wanted people to remember her after her death, according to the document, and was partly inspired by books and documentaries on the Columbine killers. She wanted similar records of her own life and expected her guns, artwork and journals to be preserved in museums around the world. "Most disturbingly, she wanted the things she left behind to be shared with the world so she could inspire and teach others who were 'mentally disordered' like her to plan and commit an attack of their own," investigators wrote. Nashville School Shooter Manifesto: Police Group Sides With School In Lawsuit Over Release Because of Hale's consistent diaries over a period of years, police said they were able to collect far more information about her than in a typical investigation. They found no evidence of accomplices and said she wanted to prove her "superiority." The Covenant School was attached to a church that Hale once attended, and she chose the target because of her connection to it, because children wouldn't put up a fight, and because she wanted to obtain infamy, according to police. She killed three 9-year-olds: the pastor's daughter Hallie Scruggs, Evelyn Dieckhaus and William Kinney. The three adults she killed were 60-year-old Head of School Katherine Koonce, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Mike Hill, 61. Her biggest fear in the attack, at 5 feet, 2 inches tall and 120 pounds, was running into a "hero" who could physically overpower her and force her to be captured alive. So she settled on an elementary school that she described as the setting for her "happiest" childhood memories. "She never remarked of being bullied and ostracized there; on the contrary, she remarked on a couple of occasions how she established friendships, which included play-dates at the homes of other children and a sense of acceptance," police revealed. "She gave no examples of how anyone at the school belittled her or harmed her, as she did in other places she attended school. Because of this, Hale felt The Covenant was the perfect place to commit an attack, as it was the perfect setting for her death." Nashville School Shooter Audrey Hale: Who Is 28-Year-old Transgender Former Student Who Opened Fire At School The killer also had plans for "B" and "C" targets – the Opry Mills Mall and a stretch of Belmont Boulevard near Belmont University campus in Nashville. If her parents discovered her plans, she decided she would kill them and attack the Belmont target, according to investigators. She spent months practicing at the firing range and painted the phrase "Dark Abyss" on her clothes and guns. That was the name she had given to her depression. But the attack was delayed multiple times, including once after the death of a close friend in a car crash. Hale, who began using the name "Aiden Williams" in the years before her death, was killed by responding officers in harrowing bodycam video. "Hale felt she would be a failure if she killed less than 10 people during the attack. In that respect, she did fail, in no small part due to the actions of the faculty and staff at The Covenant," police wrote. "But she managed to attain the notoriety she craved simply by self-documenting her life and actions in a way no other mass killer has done before." This is a breaking news story. Check back for article source: Covenant School trans shooter plotted Nashville attack for years, kept notebooks with plans: final report
Fox News
02-04-2025
- Fox News
Covenant School trans shooter plotted Nashville attack for years, kept notebooks with plans: final report
FIRST ON FOX: Nashville police have released their final report on the Covenant School massacre – a targeted March 2023 attack on a Christian school by a transgender shooter who killed three third-graders and three adults. Rather than a highly anticipated manifesto, the report found that killer Audrey Hale left behind numerous notebooks, art books and computer documents about her plans to commit the attack and gain notoriety, partly inspired by the Columbine school shooting in 1999. Hale, the 28-year-old attacker and biological female, began "fantasizing" about and researching mass shootings as far back as 2017, according to investigators. A year later, she wrote "detailed fantasies" about shooting up the Isaac T. Creswell Middle Magnet School for the Arts, killing her father and killing her psychiatrist. "In this case, a manifesto didn't exist," the document reads. "Hale never left behind a single document explaining why she committed the attack, why she specifically targeted The Covenant, and what she hoped to gain, if anything, with the attack." Instead, her motives were scattered across those many notebooks and other writings, investigators found. They included an image showing more than two-dozen notebooks seized from Hale's car and bedroom. They also said she left a suicide note addressed to her parents. Because of Hale's consistent diaries over a period of years, police said they were able to collect far more information about her than in a typical investigation. The Covenant School was attached to a church that Hale once attended. The 9-year-old victims included the pastor's daughter Hallie Scruggs, Evelyn Dieckhaus and William Kinney. Police identified the adults as 60-year-old Head of School Katherine Koonce, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Mike Hill, 61. The killer also had plans for "B" and "C" targets – the Opry Mills Mall and a stretch of Belmont Boulevard near Belmont University campus in Nashville. If her parents discovered her plans, she decided she would kill them and attack the Belmont target, according to investigators. She spent months practicing at the firing range and painted the phrase "Dark Abyss" on her clothes and guns. That was the name she had given to her depression. But the attack was delayed multiple times, including once after the death of a close friend in a car crash. Hale, who began using the name "Aiden Williams" in the years before her death, was killed by responding officers in harrowing bodycam video. This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
