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 [...]

Screen Junkies have made a list of the 10 Best Hollywood Movie Sex Scenes Ever on surprise, surprise Secretary is on the list. The following films contain the 10 best Hollywood movie sex scenes ever. There have been plenty of steamy sex scenes in films and such scenes can cause your pulse to race and your palms to [...]

Moscow and Hollywood will come to Greenwich Village Wednesday night when a production of Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, begins its run. Academy Award-nominee Gyllenhaal was spotted walking through the Everyman Café, situated in the same building as the Classic Stage Company Theater at 136 East 13th St., for the [...]

Classic Stage Company’s presentation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, has extended its run through March 6. The show begins previews on January 12 with an opening on February 3. Austin Pendleton will direct the play, featuring a translation by Paul Schmidt. In this play about thwarted dreams, sisters Olga, Masha and Irina, are stuck in [...]