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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Julianne Hough has landed a role in The Bride!, writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s follow-up to her Academy Award-nominated drama The Lost Daughter. A Warner Bros title steeped in the Frankenstein lore, the film also stars Christian Bale, Jessie Buckley, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening…

EXCLUSIVE: Annette Bening is joining Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein lore feature at Warner Bros; the studio making it official that this is a go-project. Cameras roll in Q1. This package with its attachments has been out there since it was at Netflix, and the deals have finally closed with everyone…

Maggie Gyllenhaal won the DGA Award for Best First-Time Feature on Saturday night. Taking home the gold for Netflix’s The Lost Daughter, for which she is also Oscar-nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, she wrote the script from a book by Elena Ferrante and shot the majority of the film on the Greek island of Spetses…

Maggie Gyllenhaal won the USC Libraries’ Scripter Award on Saturday for her adaptation of Netflix’s The Lost Daughter, based on the novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante, making Gyllenhaal a frontrunner to take home the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Since 2011, the Scripters have proven a remarkable bellwether…

When Maggie Gyllenhaal picked up the phone to talk her about her Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay for the writer/director’s debut film, The Lost Daughter, she said she hadn’t intended to celebrate but soon gave in. “I drank a lot of champagne already today!” The film came together because the producing…

Spoiler Alert: The description below has spoilers about the Netflix movie The Lost Daughter After a long, dark journey into her soul at a Greek seaside resort, does Olivia Colman’s Leda actually die at the end? She is stabbed by Nina, the young mother she’s fascinated by, but then… “Everyone is so into this,” beams…

A few years back, when Maggie Gyllenhaal was making The Kindergarten Teacher with Pie Films' producing partners Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman-Keren, the idea arose that Gyllenhaal herself should direct a project. Securing the rights to Elena Ferrante's novel, The Lost Daughter, Gyllenhaal re-teamed with Pie…

Maggie Gyllenhaal returns to our Deadline studios today for my video series, Behind The Lens to discuss her feature film writing and directing debut The Lost Daughter which has already won her awards from Venice where it had its World Premiere, the Gothams which it swept, the New York Film Critics Circle and many more…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series returns to exclusively reveal the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Maggie Gyllenhaal made her directorial debut with The Lost Daughter, the adaptation of pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante's 2006 novel. Gyllenhaal, an…

The Lost Daughter filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal and actress Dakota Johnson were attracted to the hard, often unattractive truths — particularly about motherhood — that too often go unexplored in cultural conversation that the film explores. "Elena Ferrante, who wrote the book that the film is based on, she really in all…

The Gotham Awards named Netflix’s The Lost Daughter its Best Feature during a Monday night ceremony in lower Manhattan honoring the best independent films of 2021 with a vaccinated, Covid-tested, in-person fest at its longtime Cipriani Wall Street home. The drama written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal swept to a…