As with her previous work in projects like Secretary and The Honorable Woman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, doesn't shy away from the raw underside of humanity in Netflix's The Kindergarten Teacher. In the titular role of Lisa Spinelli, Gyllenhaal explores the downward spiral of a woman projecting her poetry ambitions onto an…

After playing prostitute-turned-blockbuster porn director Candy Merrell on HBO’s gritty ’70s/’80s NYC crime drama The Deuce, portraying a Kindergarten teacher who yearns to become a poet in Netflix’s The Kindergarten Teacher “was the next step” says actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. And by “next step”, the Crazy…

In a good year for English-language remakes, Sara Colangelo's take on the 2015 Israeli film of the same name by Nadav Lapid built on the momentum it gained in Sundance with a TIFF bow in the run-up to its release by Netflix in October. Dropping by the Deadline studio with co-star Gael García Bernal, star Maggie Gyllenh…

Maggie Gyllenhaal kicks off the new Emmy season of The Actor’s Side, my Deadline series that focuses on the art and craft of acting with today’s top stars. Gyllenhaal came to our studio to talk about HBO’s The Deuce, the edgy series about the explosion of porn in the early 1970s in New York City — she plays a hooker…

“I'm interested in what it means to make a feminine movie – and that's different I guess from feminist, or maybe it isn't,” Maggie Gyllenhaal said yesterday, sitting down with writer/director Sara Colangelo to discuss The Kindergarten Teacher. An alum of Sundance’s Writers and Directors Labs, Colangelo’s second…

EXCLUSIVE: Women helping other women, this is what it looks like: Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to star in The Kindergarten Teacher, a feature based on writer/director Nadav Lapid's acclaimed Israeli film of the same name that is being produced by Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures and Pie Films. The film…

XLrator Media has acquired North American distribution rights to Keith Miller’s inner-city drama Five Star, which played at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival in the World Narrative competition. A summer release is planned on the indie distributor’s PACE label. The pic stars James "Primo" Grant and John Diaz. The East…