Jake Gyllenhaal at 'Source Code' SXSW: 'possibilities are endless'

Duncan Jones, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga and Jake Gyllenhaal at SXSW Festival Premiere on 11th March, 2011 in Austin, TX

"WebProNews spoke with the film’s star, Jake Gyllenhaal, as well as co-star Michelle Monaghan and director Duncan Jones about the film and the campaign.
In the movie, Captain Colter Stevens (played by Gyllenhaal) has 8 minutes to find the bomber of a train, and in the game (which utilizes Facebook Connect), the player helps him gather clues by completing various tasks.
“What I think is cool about Source Code Mission is that the idea of the source code in the movie is that it’s a computer game, and you know, off that computer game, different tangents are created,” Gyllenhaal told WebProNews. “And you affect the world as a result of that game. And the computer game that’s actually in reality – this reality – that’s on the Internet – is that same sort of idea, and is a tangent off the movie – that you can actually create other realities, and based on where you are, and the potential for the game is… just beginning now, but I think the user will create whatever it’s supposed to be.”
“To me, normally, you have a lot of games with movies [as] a way of marketing movies, and this feels like a way of creatively telling another story based on the story that was already told,” he added. “I just have all of these crazy, amazing ideas based on it, because what if we can get people on the Internet involved in the story after they’ve seen – or even before they’ve seen the movie, but particularly after they’ve seen the movie, there are so many possibilities… the possibilities are endless…”
“We’ve got this amazing interactive game, where you can take something – you can take a bus, a poster, anything like that, and you can really get a jump start on being part of the film,” said Monaghan. “Before you see it, you can go online, and you can be [on] Facebook, and you’ll have your own sort of identity and you’ll go through the five steps – you can kind of go on the mission as Captain Colter Stevens.”
On premiering Source Code at SXSW, Jones told us, “I love this festival. I came here two years ago with my fist film Moon, and immediately fell in love with it.” Source: www.webpronews.com

Michelle Monaghan wore a khaki outfit by Isabel Marant


Jake Gyllenhaal Talks Social Gaming at SXSW, 12th March, 2011

"In an exclusive interview with WebProNews on the night of the film’s premiere, Gyllenhaal said the game gives users a valuable opportunity to create their own story.
“This, to me, feels like, a way of creatively telling another story based on the story that was already told,” he said.
He went on to say that he believed the “coolest aspect” of social gaming is the concept of seeing fans inspired enough to create their own content that could potentially be better than the original". Source: videos.webpronews.com

Jake Gyllenhaal at SXSW Festival In Austin, TX (c) Source Code Facebook Page, peeweeherman March 12, 2011

Michelle Monaghan and Jake Gyllenhaal at 'Source Code' Cocktail Party - SXSW Festival 2011

“Gyllenhaal apparently grabbed the dude mid-photo, threw him against the wall and was like, ‘are we really gonna do this right now?” Tweeted Cinematical’s Erik Davis.
And JoBlo, who reportedly was in the men’s room when the “fight” occurred, updated, “Guy just tried to take Jake Gyllenhaal’s picture while he was taking a leak. Cops came. Brouhaha ensued.” Source: www.hollywoodnews.com

EW: There are rumors that there was a rather heated scuffle in the theater bathroom last night as a fan tried to take your picture at an inelegant time?
JG: (laughs) That’s true. I think it’s an appropriate space to keep privacy. I hope that people wouldn’t disagree with me on that.

EW: Why was Duncan the right fit?
JG: What always scares me is people tend to lose character and a sense of “Why?” on a behavioral, human, psychological level when they’re dealing with something that can be entertaining. When you deal with something that is potentially commercial people just say “Oh, we’ll get to that later.” The movie was not anything I wanted to make unless it was with someone who was a real visionary. And humor too. Duncan has a great sense of humor—dirty and dark and great. I think the great thing about sci fi is there’s a little bit of a campy quality always. I don’t think anybody should take themselves too seriously in time continuum.
EW: Did you stay to watch the movie?

JG: I did. My best friend lives in Austin and he came with his girlfriend. Literally he grabbed my leg at one point and then at another time, in that scene where I jump off the train, he was like “Oh my god, what the hell?!” I was like “Yes!” Source: insidemovies.ew.com


SockyTX caught a glimpse of Jake Gyllenhaal at the Paramount Theatre For the premier of Source Code at SXSW Festival


A WICID exclusive interview with the uber talented director of Source Code, Duncan Jones. At the World Premier of his latest film Source Code, Catrin Southall asks Duncan (famous for his amazing psychological sci fi "Moon") about his latest blockbuster and what it takes for a young person to become a film director!

Red Riding Hood: Amanda Seyfried, Reese Witherspoon, Anna Paquin, Christina Ricci

Amanda Seyfried and Catherine Hardwicke attending the premiere of "Red Riding Hood" on 7th March 2011 in Los Angeles


In this weekend's Red Riding Hood, Amanda Seyfried stars as a more grown-up version of the titular lady in red. We recently chatted with Seyfried about the film, which she joined thanks to Catherine Hardwicke's directorial prowess on Twilight as well as Leonardo DiCaprio's involvement as producer. Find out what Seyfried had to say about her costars Max Irons and Shiloh Fernandez, including which actor she had better chemistry with.

Check out "Amanda Seyfried’s eerie acoustic cover of Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs’ “L’il Red Riding Hood” at EW’s Music Mix: Much like that folk tale, this song is probably stored somewhere in the recesses of your mind. Just think, "Hey there Little Red Riding Hood, you sure are looking good" sung in the voice of the "Woolly Bully" guy" Source: music-mix.ew.com

"The Twilight films have proven that audiences go crazy over hot, supernatural, cross-species action. This Friday, the doe-eyed Amanda Seyfried will attempt to grab a piece of that box office gold with her starring role in Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, a dark, sexy take on the classic fairy tale. Seyfried is hardly the first starlet to have played a version of Little Red. In fact, several of Hollywood's biggest young actresses have used the role as a stepping stone in their careers. Here are five who've donned the iconic crimson cape.

In 1996, Reese Witherspoon was still best known as the sweet girl who'd been in The Man in the Moon and Jack the Bear. A few years before she would hit her dark, twisted stride with Cruel Intentions and Election, she made Freeway. In this cult favorite, Witherspoon plays Vanessa, a prostitute's daughter who gets picked up by a serial killer and rapist on her way to her grandmother's trailer park. The psychopath's name? Bob Wolverton. Best part of the trailer: Watching Witherspoon pretend to be illiterate, and then hearing her ask Kiefer Sutherland, "Are you going to do sex to me now?"

Anna Paquin as Laurie/Red Riding Hood in "Trick 'r Treat" (2007)

In 2007—the year before she became the belle of Bon Temps on True Blood—Anna Paquin starred in a direct-to-video horror-comedy called Trick ‘r Treat. In one of the film's four Halloween-set storylines, Paquin plays a virgin who gets lost in the woods while costumed as Little Red Riding Hood. But—spoiler alert—this damsel has a secret.

Ellen Page as Hayley Stark in "Hard Candy" (2005)

Hard Candy was essentially Ellen Page's debut. Two years before Juno, she played a 14-year-old girl who goes all vigilante against a man whom she's convinced is a pedophile. Her character wears a red hoodie, but the filmmakers claimed that any resemblance to the fairy tale was strictly coincidental. ("The hood was red," said Page, "and I like to put my hood up.") Still, like Freeway, Hard Candy fits neatly into the Little Red-Strikes-Back school of revisionist fantasy.

In 2005, the year before she made her breakout hit The Devil Wears Prada (as another girl who makes some striking fashion choices), Anne Hathaway provided the voice of Amanda "Red" Puckett in Hoodwinked, an animated whodunit inspired by Charles Perrault, Rashomon, and The Usual Suspects.

Remember when Christina Ricci was a weird little moon-faced Goth girl? In 1997, she starred in an 12-minute black-and-white adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood. (Actually, it owes more to the version known as "The Tale of the Grandmother.") In director David Kaplan's ode to the silent film era, Wednesday Addams engages in cannibalism, performs a way-too-knowing striptease, and outwits the wolf—who bears a striking resemblance to Magical Mr. Mistoffelees"
Source: www.slate.com

Duncan Jones talks Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code, Moon, Inception, etc.

Wired.com: Source Code takes place basically inside the hero’s head. In that regard, the film resembles the mind-twisting dream world that Inception explored with such great success last year. Were you aware of Inception as you filmed Source Code?
Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page in sci-fi action film INCEPTION

Jones: "I knew nothing about Inception when we started working on it but I have to admit: When we heard Inception was coming out, there was a lot of nervousness on our part, not because of the subject matter, but because we wondered, “Is there an audience out there for this kind of film?”
So when Inception became such a big movie, it gave us an awful lot more confidence to push things even that little bit more and make the film even a little more surreal in places than we had originally intended.
Wired.com: You talked about initially wanting to pitch Gyllenhaal a movie that you’d written yourself, but for this project you’re working basically as a Hollywood director for hire. What’s that adjustment been like for you?
Jones: This is a tricky one. Moon was obviously a huge labor of love for me and the people who worked on it. We also have other projects that we care with equal passion about getting made.
Hopefully, audiences like this movie enough that I’ll get an opportunity to make some more of my own films and then go back and forth between working on other people’s projects and doing things that are real labors of love.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays a military man who enters the body of another person for the last eight minutes of their life in "Source Code"

Wired.com: Can you give a hint about what this new project is going to be about?

Jones: Other than the fact that it will be another science fiction piece, the story has a very different approach than Source Code, since I will have written it.
Wired.com: And Sam Rockwell — you have him on speed-dial?

Jones: Absolutely. If I get to do another one and it’s mine, I will by hook or by crook get Sam in there somehow. I also think I made a good deal with Jake: When the time is right hopefully he’ll help me out on one of my films.
Wired.com: Thinking of Moon and Inception, and now Source Code, it looks like there’s a resurgence of brainy sci-fi that goes beyond exploding robots and superpowered men in tights. Do you think we’ll continue to see more cerebral types of sci-fi movies coming out of Hollywood?
Jones: There’s absolutely a robust future for technology-themed movies in Hollywood. I remember when Jurassic Park came out, a microbiologist friend constantly told me how outlandish it was, but within a few years, he said it was interesting how far things have come". Source: www.wired.com

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan in "Source Code" clips

Jake Gyllenhaal plays Colter Steven in "Source Code"
Michelle Monaghan plays Christina in "Source Code"


In the first clip, Gyllenhaal pauses in his bomb-sniffing duties long enough to get a little sugar from fellow train passenger Michelle Monaghan. Who says there's no time for a little romance when you're on a train loaded with explosives and you've shuttled back in time to save the day?


In the second clip, Gyllenhaal and Monaghan again share an intimate connection, this time centered on that eternal question, What would you do if you knew you only had a brief period left on this earth? Many of you, we have a feeling would answer, Hang out with Jake Gyllenhaal! Source: moviesblog.mtv.com


In next month's Source Code, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a man who tries to prevent a commuter train from crashing by going back in time and boarding the train as many times as it takes to accomplish his mission. Even though the movie is an action flick, there's romance, too, as the stakes are raised when Gyllenhaal falls for a passenger, played by Michelle Monaghan. Before the movie comes out April 1, watch this behind-the-scenes look at the movie's love story, and hear what Gyllenhaal and Monaghan have to say about their characters' connection! Source: www.buzzsugar.com

Jake Gyllenhaal covers Men's Journal April 2011

Jake Gyllenhaal covers the April 2011 issue of Men’s Journal. What a dreamboat! Grooming by Molly R. Stern for Starworks Artists Source: starworksartists.tumblr.com

Jake Gyllenhaal jogging at Runyon Canyon at 4th March 2011

"Jake Gyllenhaal is something of a cardio monster. You might not guess this at first glance. At 6 feet and about 180 pounds, the 30-year-old is visibly in shape, but he doesn’t sport the typical road-biker, my-body-fat-is-lower-than-your-mortgage-rate frame. For his past two action roles, as the title character in Prince of Persia last spring, and as Captain Colter Stevens in the new thriller Source Code, he’s cultivated more of a military build. But left to himself, what he likes to do is run or bike. Inevitably, though, he pushes hard, even too hard. He says he suffered shin splints before he started barefoot running. “I’ve had to teach myself to slow down a bit,” he confesses. “Because I get so into it, it becomes a real addiction. But it’s like a New Year’s resolution.”“To sit down and read a book. Life’s not a bike ride. I wouldn’t say exercise less, but sit with myself.” Good thing there’s the action-star loophole — Jake believes he can “sit with himself” while he’s running. “It’s not: ‘I’m having a shitty day and I’m going to go for a run,’ but ‘I’m having a shitty day and I’m going for a run and I’m going to try to work out what’s going on.’ Not just get my serotonin levels up and feel good. I’m going to think about things. And the only way you can do that is to slow the pace down.”
“I like to think of my toes as always moving forward,” he says. “Don’t push down. Try to even out the forces between pushing and pulling. Find a cadence and stay in it.” This works almost instantly; I close in on him and feel the way up the road getting easier. “Stay relaxed. You ever see the riders in the Tour de France getting up in the saddle? They’re not rocking from side to side. Their spines are loose, and they look like fish.” He stands on his pedals and turns to me. “When I start getting tense, I breathe out.” Source: www.mensjournal.com

Duncan Jones's "Source Code" featurette with Jake Gyllenhaal

"Summit has debuted a new featurette on Apple for Duncan Jones' Source Code, the upcoming time-travely sci-fi thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan (trailer) that's premiering at the SXSW Film Festival this weekend. Not only is great to explore the concept of Source Code with the writer, producer and cast, but this video includes an appearance by the awesome theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku (his website) talking about the kinds of cool stuff physicists talk about. This video is pretty much straightforward explanation as to the plot and dynamics, so if you don't want any of it ruined, stay away.
Watch the new "What is the Source Code?" featurette for Duncan Jones' Source Code:

Source Code "What Is The Source Code?" (Featurette)
Director: Duncan Jones
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright Writers: Ben Ripley

Alamo Drafthouse & Mondo present the Source Code SXSW poster from Olly Moss

Source Code is directed by one of our very favorite up-and-coming British filmmakers, Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie whose feature debut was the brilliant sci-fi film Moon. The screenplay was written by TV writer Ben Ripley, making his feature debut, and was featured on the Black List a few years ago. Vendome Pictures and Mark Gordon produced. Summit Entertainment is bringing Source Code to theaters everywhere starting April 15th this spring".
Source: www.firstshowing.net