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The following contains spoilers for Dandadan Season 1, Episode 7, currently streaming on Netflix.

This feature also includes mentions of child kidnapping, physical abuse, and suicide. Reader discretion is advised.

Dandadan's latest episode concluded the Acrobatic Silky arc. In the second story arc of Dandadan, Momo and Okarun have to search for Okarun's missing kintama, his balls, which were stolen before Turbo Granny's defeat. While searching, they encounter a new ally, Aira Shiratoni, and another malevolent yokai: the Acrobatic Silky. In another test of their teamwork, the two have to defeat Acrobatic Silky and save the life of Aira, who has been haunted by the Acrobatic Silky since she was a little girl.

Acrobatic Silky is another yokai that series creator Yukinobu Tatsu gave a lot of thought to. Like the Turbo Granny and even the Serpo, Tatsu has integrated real-life urban legends into the yokai's design and a character-driven tragic backstory.

Gyllenhaal's next film, Guy Ritchie's In The Grey, marks his fifth collaboration with a director, Ritchie and Gyllenhaal's reunion is a testament to their strong working relationship, as seen in their previous film, The Covenant. The potential for Gyllenhaal and Ritchie to continue working together after In The Grey holds promise for future projects.

Jake Gyllenhaal's next action movie In The Grey will see him repeat an all-too-rare directing feat. Since his breakout role in cult favorite Donnie Darko, Jake Gyllenhaal's movie CV has evolved into one of the most interesting of his contemporaries. He occasionally turns up in the most mainstream projects imaginable, but he often opts for more eclectic fare like Nightcrawler. In recent years, the star seems to enjoy making action films, fronting the likes of Michael Bay's Ambulance or Amazon hit Road House.

There's more action in Gyllenhaal's future too, including the upcoming...

Oscar-nominated Debra Winger is one of the most enigmatic actresses of her generation. She burst onto the film scene in 1980 with “Urban Cowboy” and in the course of the next three years, she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards as well as two Oscar nominations (for “Officer” and “Terms”). To many female moviegoers in particular, Winger embodied the kind of tough, self-sufficient woman that they aspired to become, yet there was always room within Winger’s characters for love with the right person.

Post-1983, Winger continued to work steadily, earning a fifth Golden Globe nod for 1993’s “A Dangerous Woman” as well as a third Oscar nomination and second BAFTA nom for 1993’s “Shadowlands.” However, after 1995’s romantic comedy “Forget Paris,” Winger virtually disappeared from high-profile films, choosing a semi-retirement with occasional film work now and then. The idea of retiring at the peak of one’s career was...

Remember Baz Luhrmann’s early 2000 film about romance and music in Paris? Yes, we are referring to the 2001 release of the jukebox musical Moulin Rouge!, which film critic Roger Ebert once likened to “being trapped on an elevator with the circus”.

In the 2001 flick, we saw English writer Christian (Ewan McGregor) pen his love story on his typewriter as he mourned the loss of his beloved Satine (Nicole Kidman). You may not be aware, though, that multiple actors tried out for the role of Christian but were not selected. Among them were Leonardo DiCaprio, Heath Ledger, and Jake Gyllenhaal; Ethan Hawke was also considered for the part.

Jake Gyllenhaal in a still from Road House

During a recent interview with Howard Stern, the Prisoners actor disclosed that he and Ledger were both “disappointed” about losing the role.

Jake Gyllenhaal And Heath Ledger Almost Starred In Moulin Rouge!

Jake Gyllenhaal was...

Jake Gyllenhaal is teasing an iconic partnership: starring in a film sister Maggie Gyllenhaal directs.

Maggie made her directorial debut with Oscar-nominated 2021 film “The Lost Daughter.” Jake told People magazine that he would “adore” to be directed by her.

“We talk all the time and we rely on each other,” Jake said. “She sees me for all of my stuff and she can bring that out in me. And I think I would show her vulnerability, probably, I haven’t been able to do onscreen and otherwise, because I trust her and I love her.”

Maggie and Jake have collaborated onscreen together but never behind the camera. The duo played brother and sister in “Donnie Darko” and starred in two films their father Stephen Gyllenhaal helmed, “A Dangerous Woman” and “Homegrown.”

Jake previously told InStyle magazine that he has a project in the works with Maggie directing.

“We actually talk...

Filmmaking is quite literally in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s genes. Her mother is Oscar-winning screenwriter Naomi Foner (“Running on Empty”) who also directed the 2013 drama “Very Good Girls.” And her father Stephen Gyllenhaal has directed such films as 1992 “Waterland,” which featured his daughter, and 1993 “A Dangerous Woman.” But it took time for the Oscar-nominated actress (“Crazy Heart’) to follow in her parents’ footsteps.

“I think that now I have directed, I can see in a way I always was a director,” she noted in a recent American Cinematheque Zoom conversation with Oscar-winner Guillermo Del Toro (“The Shape of Water”). She added, though, it was so deep into her psyche that “it was even a secret for me.” She recently picked up Gotham Independent Film honors for writing and directing her first film, Netflix’s “The Lost Daughter,” starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris and her husband Peter Sarsgaard.

A graduate of both the Seoul Institute of the Arts and the Korean Academy of Film Arts, Yi Ok-seop has been carving a name for herself with a variety of shorts, most notably her 2010 debut ‘Please, Find My Mom’, 2014’s ‘A Dangerous Woman’ (Yi’s first collaboration with actor/producer Koo Kyo-hwan), and 2017’s ‘Girls on Top’. After her contribution to the anthology film ‘Now Playing’, Yi began work on her feature film debut ‘Maggie’, premiering at Busan International Film Festival where it picked up a whole host of awards including the Citizen Critics Award as well as Actress of the Year for lead Moo So-ri.

Since 2019 ‘Maggie’ has embarked on an extensive festival run including a recent stop at Fantasia, where this snippet of a panel discussion is lifted from. During the event, the panel divulged its captivated audience with the social problems affecting Korea’s youth, the meaning behind the titular catfish,...

Happy birthday to the great Oscar-nominated Debra Winger who turns 64 on May 16, 2019. One of the most enigmatic actresses of her generation, Winger burst onto the film scene in 1980 with “Urban Cowboy” and in the course of the next three years, she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards as well as two Oscar nominations (for “Officer” and “Terms”). To many female moviegoers in particular, Winger embodied the kind of tough, self-sufficient woman that they aspired to become, yet there was always room within Winger’s characters for love with the right person.

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Post-1983, Winger continued to work steadily, earning a fifth Golden Globe nod for 1993’s “A Dangerous Woman” as well as a third Oscar nomination and second BAFTA nom for 1993’s “Shadowlands.” However, after 1995’s romantic comedy “Forget Paris,” Winger virtually disappeared from high-profile films, choosing a semi-retirement with occasional film work now and then.

Jake Gyllenhaal has won over plenty of fans throughout the years. While he may have kicked off his career as a child actor in films like City Slickers and A Dangerous Woman, it wasn't until he broke back into the Hollywood scene as a young adult starring in movies like Donnie Darko and Bubble Boy that people started noticing he was just as hot as he was talented. Some could argue that he has gotten better looking with age, but we can't seem to forget how adorable he was at the start of his adult acting career. So we rounded up 25 photos of the Hollywood A-lister from back in the day. Please enjoy.

A Panel on Screenwriting: Features vs. TV Series

There has been an explosion in TV series over the last five years which has opened more opportunities worldwide to writers, directors and producers than feature film writing.

Paul Federbush, International Director, Feature Film Programs for Sundance Institute moderated a riveting panel of such TV/ feature writers as D.V. DeVincentes who wrote three episodes of the limited TV series (and exec produced five), “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” which won two Primetime Emmys and the feature “High Fidelity”; Erik Jendresen who won a Primetime Emmy for the miniseries “Band of Brothers” and is now working on a limited series which may go from four segments to eight; Naomi Foner who created “The Electric Company” aimed at children ages 7 to 10 to teach basic reading concepts to its young viewers. She won the Golden Globe for the screenplay and...

To celebrate the brand new 4K restoration of Donnie Darko – out 9th Jan. 2017 on DVD & Blu-ray – we are giving away a DVD of the Theatrical Cut courtesy of Arrow Video.

Fifteen years before Stranger Things combined science-fiction, Spielberg-ian touches and 80s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the template – and the high-water mark – with his debut feature.

Described by its director as “The Catcher in the Rye as told by Philip K. Dick”, Donnie Darko combines an eye-catching, eclectic cast – pre-stardom Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, heartthrob Patrick Swayze, former child star Drew Barrymore, Oscar nominees Mary McDonnell and Katherine Ross, and television favourite Noah Wyle – and an evocative soundtrack of 80s classics by Echo and the Bunnymen, Tears for Fears and Duran Duran.

This brand-new 4K restoration, supervised by Richard Kelly, allows a modern classic to finally receive the home video treatment it deserves.

Pre-order today: http://amzn.to...

Recently, CBS released the new promo/spoiler clip (below) for their upcoming "Days Of Our Lives" November 16th, 2015 episode, and it gives us new looks at some very dramatic and highly emotional stuff as Bo and Hope are spotted in a passionate embrace just before Bo drops that bad news that he a life-threatening tumor, and more! A few spoilers for the week of November 16th, read like this: There will be more laughter and tears as Salem's celebrations won't be over yet. A new threat will threaten one couple on already shaky grounds. A killer's web will become even more tangled, but justice may finally be served. University Hospital will welcome a new doctor with some interesting bedside manner. A dangerous woman is going to return to Salem with a dark secret ,and perhaps, an even darker agenda. The new November 16th episode is due to air on Monday afternoon,...

Recently, Soapcentral served up some new teaser spoilers for the upcoming "Days Of Our Lives" week of November 16th, 2015, and it turns out that we're going to see some very dramatic and high intense stuff take place as a new threat haunts a couple. A very dark and dangerous woman makes her return, and more! The new week of November 16th teaser spoilers, read like this: There will be more laughter and tears as Salem's celebrations won't be over yet. A new threat will threaten one couple on already shaky grounds. A killer's web will become even more tangled, but justice may finally be served. University Hospital will welcome a new doctor with some interesting bedside manner. A dangerous woman is going to return to Salem with a dark secret ,and perhaps, an even darker agenda. It all begins on Monday afternoon, November 16th at 12pm central time on NBC.

Jake Gyllenhaal has admitted that he cried when his parents said no to him starring in Mighty Ducks.

The actor, aged 11 at the time, desperately wanted to appear in the 1992 sports comedy, but he was advised by his parents to focus on his education.

"I definitely remember crying on the kitchen counter," said the Southpaw star on Howard Stern's Sirius Xm radio show. "I was like, 'You guys are crazy'.

"My parents were like, 'Look, you're about to enter junior high school, you gotta get your education, that's the most important thing. I promise you, you hate us now, but you'll thank us later,'" Gyllenhaal added. "And I do."

However, the young Gyllenhaal wasn't disappointed for long as his parents allowed him to take a role in A Dangerous Woman the following year. The drama was directed by his father and written by his mother.

His big break...

Rom-com and sci-fi top industry selection of hot unproduced screenplays.Scroll down for full list

Romantic comedy Matinee Idol by writer Richard Galazka and sci-fi Gateway 6 by Malachi Smyth lead this year’s Brit List, the industry selection of hot unproduced screenplays.

Both scripts recorded nine industry votes to top the list.

Rooks Nest Entertainment are producing Matinee Idol, about a cinephile who tries to win a girl’s heart by pretending to be someone he’s not, only to learn that it takes more than grand gestures to turn fantasy into reality.

Sentinel Entertainment are behind futuristic sci-fi Gateway 6, in which on a war-ravaged Earth, four soldiers man the last bastion – an outpost in a sea-covered continent.

Jay Basu’s The Pier, produced by 42, and Krysty Wilson-Cairns’ Aether, from FilmNation, followed with eight votes.

The list is compiled by a combination of UK producers, agents, distributors and sales companies.

There were 140 entries...

The Boyfriend Experience: Foner’s Directorial Debut a Derivative Shard

Screenwriter Naomi Foner makes her directorial debut with Very Good Girls, though her preceding reputation makes this sedimentary, uninspired film even more surprising. Mother of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Foner penned several of ex-husband Stephen Gyllenhaal’s more notable titles, such as Losing Isaiah (1995) and A Dangerous Woman (1993). Considering the authoritative, complicated, and resilient female characters portrayed famously by the likes of Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, and Debra Winger, this trifling and tedious story of a late adolescent friendship tested by mutual attraction to the same boy seems born from the pen of a novice writing about her only familiar focal point,

In New York City during their last summer before going away to college, best friends Lilly (Dakota Fanning) and Gerri (Elizabeth Olsen) vow to lose their virginity. Gerri has her eyes set on David (Boyd Holbrook), who...

As the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy approaches next year, award-winning director Stephen Gyllenhaal has signed on to the feature film The Kennedy Detail as Screenwriter and Director.  The motion picture focuses on the men of the Secret Service protective detail assigned to President John F. Kennedy. The project is targeted for a November, 2013 release, coinciding with the tragic anniversary.

.This is the project of a lifetime and I could not be more excited to be part of it,. said Gyllenhaal. .Everyone knows how this story ends, but the true stories told through the eyes of this extraordinary band of brothers, from JFK.s election to that awful day in Dallas, have never been told.  It is time to share their perspective with the world..

Gyllenhaal has begun work on the script with his research including interviews with many of the surviving members of President...

After months of news items regarding her personal life, Demi Moore returned to the spotlight for professional reasons with Deadline reporting from Cannes that the veteran actress joined writer/director Naomi Foner’s upcoming drama Very Good Girls, starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen as two young women who pledge to lose their virginity their first summer out of high school. Moore signed on to play the mother of Olsen’s character alongside Dustin Hoffman, Anton Yelchin and Peter Sarsgaard. Foner was a producer on The Electric Company and wrote the scripts Bee Season, Losing Isiah, A Dangerous Woman and Runnig on Empty.

After months of news items regarding her personal life, Demi Moore returned to the spotlight for professional reasons with Deadline reporting from Cannes that the veteran actress joined writer/director Naomi Foner’s upcoming drama Very Good Girls, starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen as two young women who pledge to lose their virginity their first summer out of high school. Moore signed on to play the mother of Olsen’s character alongside Dustin Hoffman, Anton Yelchin and Peter Sarsgaard. Foner was a producer on The Electric Company and wrote the scripts Bee Season, Losing Isiah, A Dangerous Woman and Runnig on Empty.

The new indie project Very Good Girls has already lined up a prolific cast with Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Peter Sarsgaard, Dustin Hoffman, and Sissy Spacek attached to star.

Very Good Girls centers on two best friends (Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen) who decide to lose their virginity the summer after they graduate high school. Complications arise, though, when they both fall for the same artist, which tests their lifelong friendship.

Naomi Foner will make her directorial debut, working from her own original screenplay. She previously wrote the screenplays for movies such as Bee Season, Losing Isaiah, and A Dangerous Woman.

Gale Anne Hurd and Hawk Koch will produce Very Good Girls, which is slated to begin production in September.

Very Good Girls comes to theaters in 2013 and stars Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Peter Sarsgaard, Dustin Hoffman, Sissy Spacek. The film is directed by Naomi Foner.

See the resemblance?

Jake Gyllenhaal, now a star leading man at 30, is actually an old show business pro. The actor, who features in the new sci-fi thriller "Source Code," made his first major big screen appearance as a ten year old in the 1991 Billy Crystal film, "City Slickers."

Gyllenhaal plays Danny, Crystal's gregarious son. It's not a huge part, but he plays an important role, and it would start him on a career path that would get wider with "A Dangerous Woman" and truly open up in his 1999 film, "October Sky."

Watch:...

Hollywood set decorator Margaret Goldsmith has lost her battle with ovarian cancer. She was 55.

Goldsmith, who helped style films including After Dark, My Sweet and Drugstore Cowboy, died in Los Angeles on 11 August.

She got her start in music video production, working on promos such as Janet Jackson's Nasty, and moved on to film set dressing in the mid-1980s.

Her other movie credits include 1987's Less than Zero and Stephen Gyllenhaal's 1993 drama A Dangerous Woman, starring the director's son and daughter Jake and Maggie.

Later in life, Goldsmith pursued a career in real estate.

She is survived by her husband of 23 years, cinematographer Mark Plummer and two sons.

Jason Biggs and Joel David Moore will star in the independent political comedy "Grassroots." According to Variety, Stephen Gyllenhaal will direct the film, based on the memoir "Zioncheck for President" by Phil Campbell. Peggy Rajski will produce through Matthew Brady's Mrb Productions along with Peggy Case and Robin Gurland. Biggs will portray a recently fired journalist who reluctantly agrees to head the Seattle City Council campaign of his eccentric friend (Moore). The film will begin shooting in late June in Seattle. Gyllenhaal's credits include "Losing Isaiah," "A Dangerous Woman," "Waterland" and "Paris Trout." Rajski has been a producer on such films as "The Grifters," "Eight Men Out," "Towelhead" and "Home for the Holidays."...

In his fourth collaboration with the masterful Martin Scorsese, 35-year-old actor Leonardo DiCaprio delivers a captivating performance as a man haunted by his violent past. Together these two artists unravel a psychological thriller of suspense and spooks that recalls a classic Hitchcockian style.

In Shutter Island, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) gathers his nerves for a seemingly inexplicable case at a mental institution for the criminally insane, circa 1954 and the Cold War. A dangerous woman who murdered her three young children escaped from a bolted room under 24-hour watch. ”Get yourself together” Teddy tells himself in the mirror on the ferry ride over, the opening line of a mind-bending movie that rarely allows its audience a moment of comfort.

Teddy and his new partner Chuck (an understated, exquisite Mark Ruffalo) are greeted by a squadron of heavily-armed, jittery guards who bristle at protocol breaches and consistently lurk in the background.

It's true that Maggie Gyllenhaal's first two films were directed by her father Stephen (1992's "Waterland" and the following year's "A Dangerous Woman"), but no one was crying nepotism by the time she broke out of Sundance with 2002's pitch-black comedy "Secretary," an astute character study on Bdsm behavior in which she bared all -- figuratively, literally and both ways boldly. Since then, Gyllenhaal's carved out an eclectic path through indie cinema ("SherryBaby," "Donnie Darko") and mainstream fare ("World Trade Center," "The Dark Knight"), with her richest roles typically emerging from the smaller passion projects that she clearly loves most.

Such is the case with first-time filmmaker Scott Cooper's charming country-music drama "Crazy Heart," adapted from Thomas Cobb's novel and featuring the music of co-producer T-Bone Burnett. In a performance that just nabbed him a Golden Globe nomination, Jeff Bridges headlines as 57-year-old crooner legend Bad Blake,...