How three women producers joined forces to put together a daring period movie about romance, the stirrings of feminism and the invention of the modern vibrator. On The Luxembourg set of Hysteria, Maggie Gyllenhaal is panting. But it’s not from a close encounter with the world’s first ‘electro mechanical vibrator,’ the invention of which is [...]

It has been officially announced that Hysteria a comedy about the invention of the vibrator, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy will be having it’s world premiere Toronto International Film Festival next month. The festival runs from September 8-18. Movie trailer and stills from Hysteria have been added to the site, so excited about this movie! Gallery Links: [...]

Brace yourselves! The Discovery Channel is out to make jaws drop with their long-in-the-making film series “Curiosity,” designed to explore a range of envelope-pushing universal issues. But it’s not just brainiacs doing all the talking. Hollywood types are lining up around the block to host the groundbreaking episodes. For example, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is on [...]

Actor/director Eli Roth wants to explore the nature of evil. Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar) wonders whether we could survive an alien attack. Robin Williams explores how drugs work. Maggie Gyllenhaal wants to know why sex is fun. And filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is asking if we’d be healthier if we lived as cavemen did. Curiosity, the latest [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal will play Nobel-winning scientist Marie Curie in a special reading of Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, taking over for Meryl Streep, who had to bow out due to a scheduling conflict. Streep’s spokesperson said in a statement that the two-time Oscar winner was “very disappointed to miss this important and inspiring event.” [...]

Walden Media has set actresses Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis to star in the drama Still I Rise. The story centers on two frustrated mothers (Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis) who take action to change their troubled local public school. The movie is based on a true story, and will also focus on America’s educational [...]

Simon & Schuster will publish The Golden Hat, a book by Oscar-winner Kate Winslet that will feature self-portraits of celebrities and other notable persons, including Winslet herself, all wearing a “magical” hat. The title and concept were inspired by a poem by Keli Ericsdottir, a boy suffering from a severe case of non-verbal autism whom [...]

Classic Stage Company’s acclaimed new production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Josh Hamilton, Jessica Hecht, Marin Ireland, Juliet Rylance and Peter Sarsgaard, has sold out its entire engagement through March 6. The siblings’ malady may linger on, though. A spokesman for the not-for-profit CSC told Playbill.com that management is exploring options to [...]

After scoring an Oscar nomination for Crazy Heart and starring in the third highest grossing film of all time (The Dark Knight), seeing a few familiar faces in the audience of an intimate off-Broadway theater should be no trouble for Three Sisters’ Maggie Gyllenhaal, right? Not so the actress tells Broadway.com. “Opening nights are always [...]

Moscow is far out of reach — again — in a new Off-Broadway production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, opening Feb. 3 following previews from Jan. 12. The Classic Stage Company’s staging of the Russian drama of thwarted dreams is directed by Austin Pendleton. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessica Hecht and Juliet Rylance are the siblings who [...]