Release
of Proof Film DelayedBy Andrew Gans
28 Oct 2004
The release of Miramax's film of Proof — starring Gwyneth Paltrow — has been postponed.
Originally scheduled for a December 2004 release, "Proof" will no longer arrive on screens this year. A Miramax spokesperson told Playbill On-Line that the film will likely be released "later in 2005," although no official date has been set.
The movie of David Auburn's Proof features a screenplay by Rebecca Miller. Academy Award winner Paltrow heads the cast as Catherine, a woman who may or may not be as mathematically gifted as her troubled genius of a father. The other central characters are played on screen by Jake Gyllenhaal (Hal), Anthony Hopkins (Robert) and Hope Davis (Claire).
John Madden directed the film. Madden also directed Paltrow in the London engagement of the play at the Donmar Warehouse.
Proof opened at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre on Oct. 24, 2000, playing 916 performances before closing Jan. 5, 2003. The original cast included Mary-Louise Parker, who won a Tony Award for her performance; Larry Bryggman; Johanna Day; and Ben Shenkman. Under the direction of Daniel Sullivan, the production also won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play as well as the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
Jake
Gyllenhaal Cast as Lead in Universal Pictures' 'Jarhead' for Director Sam
Mendes and Producers Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Jake Gyllenhaal ("The Day After Tomorrow," "Donnie Darko") has been cast in the lead role in Universal Pictures' "Jarhead", the adaptation of Marine Anthony Swofford's bracing memoir that took readers into his disorienting firsthand experience in the Gulf War. "Jarhead" is directed by Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes ("American Beauty," "Road to Perdition") and the producers are Oscar® winner Douglas Wick ("Gladiator") and Lucy Fisher (upcoming "Memoirs of a Geisha"), partners in Red Wagon Entertainment. The screenplay is by Academy Award® nominee William Broyles, Jr. ("Cast Away," "Apollo 13").
Joining Gyllenhaal will be a number of talented young actors as the unforgettable characters who make up Swofford's platoon. Swofford (Gyllenhaal) and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they can't fully fathom. The film is a coming of age story laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, as well as tragic and inspiring.
"Jarhead" is expected to begin production later this year.
Jake Gyllenhaal will next be seen
starring in Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" and "Proof."
His list of credits includes "The Day After Tomorrow," "The
Good Girl," "Lovely & Amazing," "Donnie Darko"
and "October Sky." He is represented by CAA and Management 360.
Kirsten
Dunst seems to regret her split from Hollywood hunk Jake Gyllenhaal. The
"Spider-Man" star broke up with the heartthrob last month, saying
she needed "space." Since then, she's hung out with Josh Hartnett,
a blond male model, and the dubious Rick Salomon, who made millions by
exploiting his sex tape with Paris Hilton. But the other night, Dunst seemed
sorry and fell right back into Gyllenhaal's arms. A spy at Brent Bolthouse's
party at Concorde in L.A. said, "They were making out like crazy."
It's
Not Just Sex. It's Love.Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger give cowpoke a whole new meaning.
When Will Smith was poised to play a gay hustler in 1993’s Six Degrees of Separation, Denzel Washington reportedly warned him: "Just don’t be kissing no man." More than a decade later, stars such as Dennis Quaid, Colin Farrell, and Peter Sarsgaard have all defied that advice and received critical acclaim. Now Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger are taking same-sex romance to a new frontier in the Ang Lee–directed Brokeback Mountain, adapted from Annie Proulx’s sexually explicit story about two Wyoming herdsman who fall in love.
But don’t expect the usual homosexual screen stereotypes from the film, which is currently shooting in Calgary. Instead of having fashion advice for straight guys or something as serious as AIDS, the characters have wives and back-breaking jobs. "These people are not really gay in whatever way we would consider that," Gyllenhaal says. "It’s about two men falling in love. But in a more complex way, it’s about two human beings falling in love." So how does Gyllenhaal feel about getting it on with Ledger? "Every love scene is awkward," he says. "But this is definitely extra awkward for both of us. It will probably disturb some people, turn other people on, and hopefully do both for everybody." However, Gyllenhaal says that sex isn’t really the film’s focus. "I don’t want to be all Dr. Phil, but while we might think we want sex, we want intimacy," he says. "That’s what this movie is about."
The
best word to describe how Jake Gyllenhaal feels about voting is
"passionate." Literally. "When somebody turns the age they
need to be to vote, they should be just as excited as they are when they
turn the age to buy porno," he told us just before his appearance at
the American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Concert in New York this week.
"I think buying porno and smoking cigarettes, as exciting as it is to
kids, I think voting should be as exciting, if not more exciting."
Jake
Gyllenhaal performs a monologue during the ACLU Freedom Concert Monday,
October 4, 2004, at the Lincoln Center in New York. The concert featuring
various artists from the performing arts, was held to draw attention to the
banning of books in different parts of the United States. Jake read
out of an iBook with great charisma. The event raised over $300,000.
Hollywood
senses a reborn Bridget in Toby the loserby,
THE AUTHOR Toby Young has clinched an £800,000 deal to turn his bestselling memoir into a Hollywood film that producers hope will be a male version of the Bridget Jones blockbuster.
Harvey Weinstein, head of Miramax films, is understood to be investing £50m in the film based on How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. It will see Young — famously short and bald — being played by Hollywood pin-up Jake Gyllenhaal, best known for The Day After Tomorrow and Donnie Darko.
“They are both very definitely on similar lines and they are both distributed by Miramax, so I suppose you could call me Midget Jones,” said Young, who is 5ft 8in.
The story is based on Young’s two-year stint as contributing editor of Vanity Fair, the American magazine, in the late 1990s and his repeated unsuccessful attempts to seduce women from his glamorous New York circle of friends.
His brushes with modern American political correctness are painfully recounted. On one occasion he arranged for a female stripper to perform in the building not realising that it was Bring Your Daughter to Work Day in the office.
Young, 40, the son of the late Lord Young, the creator of the Open University, is now back in England as the drama critic of The Spectator. He says he hopes his film will be a little more successful than his editing career in the US.
He lives in London with his English wife, lawyer Caroline Bondi, and their baby daughter, and is currently playing himself in a stage version of the book at London’s Arts Theatre. He says he is “flattered” that Gyllenhaal is being lined up for the film.
“Anyone who hasn’t met me and then sees the film will be very disappointed when they find out what I look like,” added the writer once described as a “bald homunculus” by Peter York, the style critic who bankrolled the Modern Review, which Young edited for four years before his stint on Vanity Fair. “It is the most flattering piece of casting since Colin Firth played Nick Hornby in the film version of Fever Pitch.”
Those being considered for the part of Young’s wife — whom he met in America — include the British Hollywood actresses Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kate Beckinsale. Tracey Ullman is being tipped for the part of Tina Brown, a former editor of Vanity Fair and a long-standing bête noire of Young.
However, perhaps most attention will be on the casting of Graydon Carter, Young’s fearsome former boss at Vanity Fair who fired him. Their feud appears to be simmering still. Only last week Carter described Young as “the most asinine person” he had met.