I’ve uploaded photos of Jake horseback riding for his upcoming movie, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, in England, on Thrusday.

After a couple of false launches, DreamWorks is putting a new pilot in the cockpit of its untitled moon project.

Up-and-coming scribe Dan Mazeau has been hired to redraft the action film about lunar colonization that is slated to star Jake Gyllenhaal. Doug Liman, who will direct the film, wrote an original screenplay with John Hamburg (”Along Came Polly”). “Black Hawk Down” author Mark Bowden revamped that script.

Now Mazeau is on board to try to bring it in for a landing with a different take “based on an original story by Liman, Bowden and Simon Kinberg,” according to the studio.

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton will star in “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” mDisney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ adaptation of Ubisoft’s popular video game. Mike Newell is directing.

In the fantasy adventure, Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a young prince in 6th century Persia who must join forces with Tamina (Arterton), a feisty and exotic princess, to prevent a villainous nobleman from possessing the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard, Jordan Mechner and Boaz Yakin wrote the script, which is based on the games created by Jordan Mechner.

Bruckheimer is producing, while Mike Stenson, Chad Oman and Patrick McCormick are executive producing.

Bruckheimer praised Gyllenhaal as “charismatic” and has high hopes for Arterton, who tested for the role.

“We’ve been fairly fortunate with some our leading ladies,” Bruckheimer said. “Some of them have gone on to become major movie stars, going back to Nicole Kidman in a movie I did a long time ago called ‘Days of Thunder’ to Keira Knightley out of (’Pirates of the Caribbean’).”

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Actor Jake Gyllenhaal of Brokeback Mountain fame and actress Jessica Biel have been asked to leave director David O Russell’s Nailed because of financial issues.

The actors were asked to leave by the Screen Actor’s Guild because the makers of the film have apparently deposited insufficient funds with the guild. The movie is not yet complete and production is only way half way, perezhilton.com reports.

Russell is known for being difficult. He has been in the news earlier for having a fight with George Clooney on the sets of Three Kings and for a tiff with veteran actress Lily Tomlin, which was caught on tape.

Source: Sify Moviies

A sequel to Richard Kelly’s cult hit Donnie Darko will begin shooting this month, Screen Daily reports.

Titled S. Darko, the film takes place eight years after the events of the first film and follows Samantha Darko (Daviegh Chase), the younger sister of the first movie’s lead character, as she travels across America with her best friend Corey. On the road trip the pair start to witness strange visions.

Chris Fisher (Nightstalker) will direct the film. Kelly, who wrote and directed 2001’s Donnie Darko, is not involved in the sequel.

“I am a great admirer of Richard Kelly’s film and hope to create a similar world of blurred fantasy and reality,” said Fisher.

Donnie Darko starred Jake Gyllenhaal as a teenager who, after a near death experience, is told by a giant bunny that the world will end in 28 days.

Fisher added: “Donnie’s not in [the new film] but there are meteorites and rabbits.”

S. Darko begins production on May 18. Fox has already secured North American distribution rights for the film.

Source: Digital Spy

We have new information tonight on another casting call for the movie “Nailed.”

There was a casting call last month when casting directors were looking for girl extras. Now the movie needs adult males and senior citizens.

The extras will be used during filming Thursday.

Interested people should email a photo and their contact information to the casting office.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel are the stars of the movie.

Nailed is about a woman who goes to Washington to campaign for the bizarrely injured after she gets hit in the head with a nail.

Source: wistv.com