Sony Pictures Classics is negotiating to pick up U.S. and South Africa rights to the Tanya Wexler-directed romantic comedy Hysteria, which just had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Felicity Jones and Jonathan Pryce star in the real-life-based story of a doctor in Victorian England who invents an early [...]

By Patrice Poltzer I went to City Bakery in New York City for the unveiling of the latest “Got Milk?” ad starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. While she sports the trademark milk moustache, it’s the brand’s first attempt at pushing lattes as a way to encourage drinking milk. She took some time to talk about her guilty [...]

“Your thrombus is the key to your future,” we are warned by one of the many memorable personalities in “Hysteria.” There’s a sentence you don’t hear very often. It’s part of phrenology, the study of skull patterns to determine personality and other unexpected things. It’s also entirely ridiculous, but was just as highly regarded in [...]

In the prudish days of Victorian England, a quarter of London’s female population suffered from hysteria — a misguided catch-all medical diagnosis of female malaise, melancholia, and anxiety. Suffering women of means found treatment from male medical specialists — quacks actually — who offered “pelvic massage.” Fortunately, there was a brilliant doctor willing to roll [...]

The film, which is based on the true story of the first electronic vibrator’s invention in the 1880s, premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday but even before the curtain rose, the movie’s stars and director had reporters laughing at a news conference. Maggie Gyllenhaal, who portrays one of the key characters, said [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal has revealed she’d hate to do a film sex scene which looks like “softcore porn”. The actress plays alongside Hugh Dancy in tongue-in-cheek comedy Hysteria, which is about the invention of the vibrator. On the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival, she said: “Sometimes you can do a sex scene and [...]

New candids of Maggie and Peter at LAX airport yesterday. Gallery Links: Candids from 2011 > 22.04.11 – At LAX Airport