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One Jake Gyllenhaal movie became national headlines in the French media for all the wrong reasons, but the U.S. media are too busy reporting his Road House troubles. Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby were signed for the indie film, Suddenly. Gyllenhaal also agreed to produce the $26 million movie directed by Thomas Bidegain. However, the production of the film fell apart in four days due to allegedly erratic behavior from the Enemy actor.

Jake Gyllenhaal in Road House

Gyllenhaal allegedly proved to be a headache for the production crew with his weird demands on set. At one point, Gyllenhaal demanded he swim in the cold sea for a scene in the film. The film fell apart when a producer refused to agree to Gyllenhaal’s demands.

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When it comes to good looks, charisma, and strong acting chops, Jake Gyllenhaal is the complete package. With a variety of roles and films that have showcased his prowess, Gyllenhaal has proved that he can walk the fine balance between commerical success and critical acclaim.

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Sometimes, serious talent can also come with a few eccentric quirks. Recently, Gyllenhaal has been in the news for his reportedly controlling behavior back in 2021 when he was signed on to produce and star in French director Thomas Bidegain‘s film. The movie which was ultimately made in French, never saw a Hollywood release owing to the Brokeback Mountain actor’s impossible demands.

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Gyllenhaal's alleged behavior on set caused the indie film Suddenly to fall apart, according to director Thomas Bidegain. The film project changed because Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby had different visions for the film during script readings in Iceland. Bidegain faced challenges working with an actor-producer who didn't share the same vision as the director, highlighting differences between French and American filmmaking.

Jake Gyllenhaal isn't really known for displaying erratic behavior on set, but according to director Thomas Bidegain, who was in the middle of working with the actor on the indie film Suddenly, the project all fell apart because of that very reason.

During a recent interview with Technikart, via Cbr, filmmaker Bidegain appeared to reveal that his film Soudain Seuls, which was recently released, was supposed to star Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby, who previously worked together in 2015's Everest. The project was to feature the pair as a couple...

Director Bidegain reveals why Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby left the movie Suddenly: they had different visions for the film's message. Bidegain's account contradicts reports of Gyllenhaal's inappropriate behavior on set, but he does confirm that creative differences led to their departure. The movie was retooled with new actors and released as the French-language film Soudain Seuls, while Gyllenhaal and Kirby moved on to other successful projects.

The director of Suddenly is being candid about why Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby left the project. The movie was meant to be based on Isabelle Autissier's Soudain Seuls and would have told a story of two lovers desperately trying to survive on an isolated island. As director Thomas Bidegain is known for his French movies, Gyllenhaal's project was meant to be his first English film. Instead, reports of poor on-set behavior slowly emerged, before Kirby and Gyllenhaal both quietly left the movie,...

“Suddenly” director Thomas Bidegain is clarifying his viral statements about his scrapped film set to star Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby.

In a report published by France’s Technikart magazine (as translated by Film Stories UK and blog World of Reel), Bidegain claimed Gyllenhaal exhibited erratic behavior during pre-production on the survival film. Bidegain was slated to direct from a script he cowrote with Valentine Monteil, as adapted from Isabelle Autissier’s novel “Soudain Seuls.”

Gyllenhaal was a producer on the $26 million indie film set to begin production in Iceland in fall 2021. “Suddenly” starred Gyllenhaal and Kirby as a couple trapped on an island in the South Atlantic. The set was being constructed on a whaling facility, with locations already chosen in Iceland, at the time when the allegations took place. Among Bidegain’s claims included Gyllenhaal stripping down to swim in the freezing ocean and reading the script in...

There have been some wild rumors about Jake Gyllenhaal‘s behavior on the set of a movie, and the truth is coming out.

Recently, an article suggested that the 43-year-old actor and planned costar Vanessa Kirby wrought havoc and cost upwards of $26 million when they abruptly exited French director Thomas Bidegain‘s movie Suddenly.

The original story was printed in a French magazine called Technikart, and it alleged that Jake displayed bad behavior, including the claim that he used a “Pepe Le Pew-like accent” while on set in Iceland.

However, the story is not correct. Now, Thomas is correcting the narrative.

Read the truth about Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby’s movie…

Speaking to Variety, Thomas confirmed that both Jake and Vanessa did exit the project. He recast their roles, and it premiered in December 2023 under the title Soudain seuls.

However, that’s seemingly where the story diverges from truth.

French director Thomas Bidegain is setting the record straight about Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby’s exit from his project “Suddenly.”

An interview with Bidegain that ran last week in the French magazine Technikart got international attention, with the headline “Four Days to Bury a Movie.” The interview suggested that Gyllenhaal and Kirby had left the film in the last stretch of pre-production in Iceland, which resulted in a loss of $26 million.

According to the story, Gyllenhaal dove into the freezing ocean, demanded multiple rewrites and rehearsed scenes in a mocking “Pepe Le Pew-like accent.” Though Bidegain wouldn’t address those specific claims, he tells Variety that he parted ways with Gyllenhaal and Kirby over a creative clash, rather than unprofessional behavior on Gyllenhaal’s part. He also claims that, contrary to what is suggested in the French article, the company which financed “Suddenly,” Studiocanal, didn’t lose $26 million because...

Director Thomas Bidegain claims that Jake Gyllenhaal's erratic behavior caused their film project to fall apart. Gyllenhaal wanted to rewrite the film as a love note to nature, insisted on set rework, and used a Pepe Le Pew accent during rehearsal. Gyllenhaal allegedly stripped down to his underwear and jumped into the ocean, demanded set builders sleep in their cars, and departed the project after a disagreement with the screenwriter.

Jake Gyllenhaal isn't really known for displaying erratic behavior on set, but according to director Thomas Bidegain, who was in the middle of working with the actor on the indie film Suddenly, the project all fell apart because of that very reason.

During a recent interview with Technikart, via Cbr, filmmaker Bidegain revealed that his film Soudain Seuls, which was recently released, was supposed to star Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby, who previously worked together in 2015's Everest. The project...

New films from Cristian Mungiu, Abderrahmane Sissako, Bertrand Bonello and Nikolaj Arcel have also receieved funding.

French director Houda Benyamina’s All For One and Austrian Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero are two of the 37 European co-productions set to receive of a share of Eurimage’s latest round of funding, totalling €9.1m ($10.3).

Benyamina’s All For One will receive €500,000, the largest share of funding, The co-production between France and Belgium (Versus Production) is the second feature from from Benyamina, whose debut Divines won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes 2016. Her latest title is a Three Muskateers-style adventure, with a female focus.

European film-tv powerhouse Studiocanal has clinched major territory sales across a powerful slate of new movies, led by Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby survival thriller “Suddenly,” and “Baghead” with “The Witcher’s” Freya Allan.

“Boldangles” and “Cat Person,” starring “Succession’s” Nicholas Braun and “Coda’s” Emilia Jones, are also finding trading traction, as is Cannes Festival player “Peaceful,” headlining Catherine Deneuve, also has deal momentum.

Multiple deals are in advanced negotiations, and will close by festival end, said Chloé Marquet, Studiocanal head of international film sales as she drilled down on deals done.

“Suddenly” will be put through Studiocanal direct distribution operations in the U.K., Germany, France and Australia/New Zealand. In major deals, it has now closed distribution in half the biggest film markets in the world, adding Latin America (California) and Italy (Leone).

Other key sales take in Eastern Europe (Prorom), Blitz (ex-Yugoslavia), Turkey (Tanweer), Portugal...

European studio to plough more than $1bn into film and TV production between now and 2024.

Canal+ Group/Studiocanal chairman Maxime Saada and Studiocanal CEO Anna Marsh were in an ebullient mood on Tuesday (July 6) as the Paris-based European studio kicked off its 30th-anniversary edition of Cannes with its traditional pre-festival show-reel event.

“The story started right here in Cannes, three decades ago with our first nominated movie The Double Life Of Véronique,” said Saada, noting that 55 films in the studio’s catalogue had won awards at the festival.

This year the company has two films debuting Out of Competition: Marseille-set...

How exactly did we get by in a year in which without a Cannes Film Festival, there were no standing ovations over films from European auteurs, elaborate PR stunts on the Croisette and seemingly daily controversies over the latest persona non grata?

It’s been a long two years and change since “Parasite” started its historic awards run by winning the Palme D’Or at 2019’s Cannes, becoming the first film since “Marty” to win the Palme and the Best Picture Oscar. But now that Cannes is finally back, there’s already no shortage of buzz and French-ness, not to mention even a few sales.

Jury president Spike Lee, the first Black jury president in Cannes’ history, finally made his way to the Croisette after last year’s festival was canceled. He’ll lead a jury that includes people like Melanie Laurent, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tahar Rahim and Song Kang-ho, and...

“Paddington 3” is officially set to begin shooting in Q2 of 2022, Studiocanal CEO Anna Marsh confirmed in a press conference at Cannes on Tuesday.

Paul King, the director of the first two “Paddington” films, will return to executive produce the third film about the beloved bear, but the film’s director, additional casting updates and location details are still being kept under wraps.

Paul King, Simon Farnaby and Mark Burton wrote the story for “Paddington 3,” and the screenplay is by Mark Burton, Jon Foster and James Lamont.

Studiocanal is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and as part of the company’s presentation out of Cannes, they also announced some other films that would begin production, including the previously announced “War Magician” with Benedict Cumberbatch to kick off in 2022 with Colin Trevorrow attached to direct, “Cat Person” starring Nicholas Braun and Emilia Jones, which will begin filming this fall, “Suddenly” with...

Paddington 3 is set to begin shooting in Q2 2022, Studiocanal announced Tuesday during the Cannes Film Festival.

The anticipated threequel, which will have a story by Paddington 1 & 2 collaborators Paul King, Simon Farnaby and Mark Burton and a screenplay by Burton, Jon Foster and James Lamont, will be one of the company’s flagship movies in coming years as it looks to invest $1 billion in content between now and 2024, it said.

Studiocanal, which celebrates it 30th anniversary this year, is doubling down on the bear franchise with a third season of TV series The Adventures of Paddington, which is also made with Heyday.

During a Cannes presentation, the Euro studio also confirmed the Kaley Cuoco project Role Play, which we revealed today, and confirmed that long-in-the-works Benedict Cumberbatch movie War Magician, with Colin Trevorrow attached to direct, is due to begin in 2022.

Cumberbatch-starrer The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is due to release this fall,...

“Paddington 3” is among a host of slate titles revealed by Studiocanal at an event in Cannes on Tuesday.

Studiocanal CEO Anna Marsh said that principal photography on the keenly anticipated project would commence in the second quarter of 2022. The film reunites Studiocanal with Heyday Films, as previously reported by Variety.

The director, cast updates and location are currently under wraps. The story is by “Paddington” 1 and 2 collaborators Paul King, Simon Farnaby and Mark Burton, and screenplay by Mark Burton, Jon Foster and James Lamont. King will executive produce.

Studiocanal also announced that it has acquired Lailaps Films Germany and will welcome producer Nils Dünker’s company lineup to the Studiocanal folds, including films and series such as “Wild Republic,” “Eine Unerhörte Frau,” “Spurlos in Marseille,” “Vorsicht vorLeuten,” “Beste Aller Welten” and “Hannes,” which opens theatrically in Germany this fall. The Lailaps production team is currently in pre-production on the...