Two new movies ransack 19th century literary classics in search of 21st century resonance.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bad news for Maggie Gyllenhaal and her stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale: their big new release "The Bride!" flopped at the ...

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The Bride! is Maggie Gyllenhaal's bold retelling of Mary Shelley's landmark 1818 novel Frankenstein in a chaotic and gloomy romance set in 1930s Chicago. Christian Bale is Frankenstein's monster Frank ...

With a few minutes on screen and no dialogue, the Bride leaves a lot off the table, something that inspired The Bride! director Maggie Gyllenhaal when she watched the film and tore through Shelley's ...

And beyond her protagonist, Gyllenhaal’s daring script contains a handful of radical conceits, from making a character of Mary Shelley herself, to setting her action in Prohibition-era America, to ...

Polina Zelmanova receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to support the research undertaken as part of her PhD.. Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was ...

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In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s ...

The new Maggie Gyllenhaal film, The Bride!, is set to release in theaters this week. This marks the actress-turned-filmmaker's second directorial effort after The Lost Daughter, which was released in ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal joined The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast to discuss her latest directorial effort, “The Bride” and revealed how the studio test screening process took her to task over the ...