Here’s your first look at Christian Bale’s suited-up as Frankenstein’s monster in actress-turned-filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal’s take on the classic monster with The Bride, her forthcoming feature at Warner Bros.
Gyllenhaal shared the first look of Bale today on her Instagram, alongside an image of Jessie Buckley as “The Bride.”
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Bale and Buckley star in the pic alongside Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz, and Peter Sarsgaard. The film’s logline reads: A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aid of Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police, and a wild and radical social movement.
The movie is being produced by Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Gyllenhaal, Talia Kleinhendler (The Lost Daughter), and Osnat Handelsman-Keren (The Lost Daughter). EPs are Courtney Kivowitz (The Lost Daughter) and Carla Raij.
The pic will mark Gyllenhaal’s second directorial effort following The Lost Daughter, her screen adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel of the same name, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, and Jessie Buckley. The film was nominated for three Oscars: Best Actress (Colman), Best Supporting Actress (Buckley), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Gyllenhaal).
The Bride is currently slated for release in IMAX on October 3, 2025. The pic is just the first Frankenstein adaptation audiences can expect on the big screen soon. Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has a Frankenstein feature set at Netflix with Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, and Christian Convery signed on to star.
Jessie Buckley as “The Bride.”...
Gyllenhaal shared the first look of Bale today on her Instagram, alongside an image of Jessie Buckley as “The Bride.”
View this post on Instagram
A post shared by Maggie Gyllenhaal (@mgyllenhaal)
Bale and Buckley star in the pic alongside Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz, and Peter Sarsgaard. The film’s logline reads: A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aid of Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police, and a wild and radical social movement.
The movie is being produced by Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Gyllenhaal, Talia Kleinhendler (The Lost Daughter), and Osnat Handelsman-Keren (The Lost Daughter). EPs are Courtney Kivowitz (The Lost Daughter) and Carla Raij.
The pic will mark Gyllenhaal’s second directorial effort following The Lost Daughter, her screen adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel of the same name, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, and Jessie Buckley. The film was nominated for three Oscars: Best Actress (Colman), Best Supporting Actress (Buckley), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Gyllenhaal).
The Bride is currently slated for release in IMAX on October 3, 2025. The pic is just the first Frankenstein adaptation audiences can expect on the big screen soon. Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has a Frankenstein feature set at Netflix with Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, and Christian Convery signed on to star.
Jessie Buckley as “The Bride.”...
- 4/4/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Christian Bale will shave his head to play Frankenstein in Maggie Gyllenhaal's upcoming movie.The 50-year-old actor revealed he will start shooting the untitled movie in the next few weeks but delayed shaving his head for as long as possible because he had media commitments for the groundbreaking for a project to build a village of homes where foster siblings can live under one roof.He told The Hollywood Reporter: "I’ve got to shave my head next week [for a movie. I asked them to please let me hold off on doing that but everyone was going, ‘What’s wrong with Bale? What’s up with him?’ I said, ‘Just let me get through the groundbreaking and then I’ll be off to join you.'"Bale will star opposite Jessie Buckley, Annette Bening, Penelope Cruz and Peter Sarsgaard in the film, which was originally a Netflix production before it moved to Warner Bros.While the movie's title is being kept under wraps, it will focus on Frankenstein search for love.The logline for the movie states: "A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aide of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The...
- 2/10/2024
- by Colette Fahy 2
- Bang Showbiz
Billie Lourd, Colin Hanks and Aisling Bea have boarded the transatlantic comedy “And Mrs,” which is set to start shooting in east London this fall.
The British feature centers on Gemma, a woman living in London (Bea) whose American fiancé Nathan (Hanks) dies shortly before their wedding day. When, with some encouragement from her sister-in-law, she decides to go ahead and marry him anyway, she has to overcome public opinion, the law of the land and even her own family’s objections.
Bea is best known for “This Way Up,” “Living With Yourself” and “Doctor Who,” and will soon be headlining the much-anticipated film based on the songs of Take That, “Greatest Day.”
Hanks was recently seen in Paramount+ drama “The Drama,” and will soon star in Peacock’s true crime limited drama series, “A Friend of the Family.”
Lourd, who landed her breakout turn in Olivia Wilde’s feature...
The British feature centers on Gemma, a woman living in London (Bea) whose American fiancé Nathan (Hanks) dies shortly before their wedding day. When, with some encouragement from her sister-in-law, she decides to go ahead and marry him anyway, she has to overcome public opinion, the law of the land and even her own family’s objections.
Bea is best known for “This Way Up,” “Living With Yourself” and “Doctor Who,” and will soon be headlining the much-anticipated film based on the songs of Take That, “Greatest Day.”
Hanks was recently seen in Paramount+ drama “The Drama,” and will soon star in Peacock’s true crime limited drama series, “A Friend of the Family.”
Lourd, who landed her breakout turn in Olivia Wilde’s feature...
- 9/8/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Rosemarie DeWitt (The Staircase), Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Judith Light (American Crime Story) are set as leads joining Phoebe-Rae Taylor in Out Of My Mind, Disney+’s film adaptation of Sharon Draper’s award-winning novel, from Big Beach, Participant, Everywhere Studios LLC and Disney Branded Television. Also joining the ensemble cast are Michael Chernus (Severance) and Courtney Taylor (Insecure). Production is currently underway in Toronto.
Directed by Amber Sealey (No Man of God) from an adapted screenplay by Daniel Stiepleman (On the Basis of Sex), Out of My Mind follows Melody Brooks (Taylor), a girl with cerebral palsy. Melody has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but due to her being non-verbal and using a wheelchair, she is not given the same academic opportunities as her classmates. However, when Katherine, a young educator notices her student’s untapped potential, she encourages Melody to participate in mainstream education,...
Directed by Amber Sealey (No Man of God) from an adapted screenplay by Daniel Stiepleman (On the Basis of Sex), Out of My Mind follows Melody Brooks (Taylor), a girl with cerebral palsy. Melody has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but due to her being non-verbal and using a wheelchair, she is not given the same academic opportunities as her classmates. However, when Katherine, a young educator notices her student’s untapped potential, she encourages Melody to participate in mainstream education,...
- 7/18/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Entertainment One has signed a multi-year first-look deal for scripted and unscripted TV programming with Mgmt.Entertainment. Under the pact, eOne will serve as the studio on all projects, in addition to managing the worldwide rights.
“I’ve known Mgmt’s David Schiff for 30 plus years and I’ve always been impressed with his eye for talent and material,” said Mark Gordon, eOne’s President and Chief Content Officer of Film and Television. “Mgmt has built an incredibly impressive roster and have established themselves as a true powerhouse in the industry. We are thrilled to embark on this new partnership to create television content for audiences worldwide.”
Launched in 2007 by David Schiff as The Schiff Company, the management firm run by partners Schiff, Courtney Kivowitz and Christian Donatelli, changed its name to Mgmt. Entertainment in early 2015.
“In the current ever-changing landscape, our partnership with eOne will provide another outlet for our extraordinary clients’ ambitions.
“I’ve known Mgmt’s David Schiff for 30 plus years and I’ve always been impressed with his eye for talent and material,” said Mark Gordon, eOne’s President and Chief Content Officer of Film and Television. “Mgmt has built an incredibly impressive roster and have established themselves as a true powerhouse in the industry. We are thrilled to embark on this new partnership to create television content for audiences worldwide.”
Launched in 2007 by David Schiff as The Schiff Company, the management firm run by partners Schiff, Courtney Kivowitz and Christian Donatelli, changed its name to Mgmt. Entertainment in early 2015.
“In the current ever-changing landscape, our partnership with eOne will provide another outlet for our extraordinary clients’ ambitions.
- 2/28/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Managers Courtney Kivowitz and Christian Donatelli have jumped from Benderspink to The Schiff Company. They bring a collective client list that includes Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lucy Punch, Colin Hanks, Sissy Spacek, James Frey, Ellen Burstyn, Cheyenne Jackson, Monica Potter, Emmy Rossum and Kevin Corrigan. Kivowitz’s work with Gyllenhaal brought her into Oscar season proximity with Schiff, who manages her Crazy Heart costar Jeff Bridges. They decided to work together and since Kivowitz shares several clients with Donatelli, it was an easy fit. It’s the second recent hire profile hire after Risa Shapiro joined The Schiff Co. “With Courtney, Christian and [...]...
- 3/30/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline Hollywood
Ellen Burstyn has signed on to the indie drama Down in the Valley for writer-director David Jacobson. Shooting is under way in Los Angeles with Element Films -- the combined company of Samy Boy Entertainment and HSI Entertainment -- fully financing. Set in the San Fernando Valley, the project revolves around a delusional man (Edward Norton) who believes that he's a cowboy and the relationship he starts with a rebellious young woman (Evan Rachel Wood). Burstyn will play the foster mother of Norton's character. Norton is producing Valley along with Holly Wiersma and Element's Adam Rosenfelt and Stavros Merjos. Element's Sam Nazarian is executive producing. Bill Migliore, Norton's producing partner at his Universal Pictures-based Class 5 Films, is serving in a producer capacity. Burstyn is repped by CAA and Benderspink's Courtney Kivowitz.
Julianne Nicholson has been tapped as the female lead opposite Jonathan Cake in "Marriage", Steven Bochco's drama series for HBO set to debut next year, while Oscar-nominated actress Jill Clayburgh is set to join the project in a recurring role. "Marriage" -- created, written and executive produced by Bochco and Alison Cross -- is described as an intimate look at the life of a husband and wife (Cake, Nicholson) five years into their marriage. The show, which has an eight-episode order, is set entirely in the couple's apartment. Clayburgh will play Nicholson's mother in the series produced by Steven Bochco Prods. and HBO. Nicholson co-starred in CBS' medical drama "Presidio Med" earlier this season. She also spent a year on Fox's dramedy "Ally McBeal". The actress, who recently wrapped Pariah's feature "Seeing Other People", is repped by CAA and manager Courtney Kivowitz. Clayburgh received lead actress Oscar nominations in 1979 and '80 for "An Unmarried Woman" and "Starting Over". She most recently co-starred on NBC's comedy series "Leap of Faith". She is repped by ICM and manager Mary Goldberg.
- 5/21/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Secretary star Maggie Gyllenhaal is in negotiations to join John C. Reilly and Diego Luna in the Warner Bros. Pictures feature Criminal (aka Nine Queens) for Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney's Section Eight Prods. The project, a remake of an Argentine feature, begins production next month with Gregory Jacobs directing. Criminal is a caper thriller about two men (Reilly and Luna) who team on a scam involving a forged set of extremely valuable stamps, the Nine Queens. Gyllenhaal would play the sister of Reilly's character, whom he swindles out of her inheritance. Jacobs, Soderbergh's longtime first assistant director, co-wrote with Soderbergh the English version of the screenplay. Soderbergh and Clooney will produce, with Section Eight's Jennifer Fox and Ben Cosgrove executive producing. Warners vp production Jessica Goodman will oversee the project on behalf of the studio, which acquired remake rights to Criminal two months ago (HR 2/6). Gyllenhaal, repped by CAA and Benderspink's Courtney Kivowitz, next stars in Revolution Studios' Mona Lisa Smile opposite Julia Roberts and IFC Films' Casa de Los Babys for writer-director John Sayles.
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