Becoming a champion boxer takes years of hard work, dedication and sacrifice. For Jake Gyllenhaal, playing a winning fighter took all that, but compressed into just five grueling months. Gyllenhaal ...

The first fight scene began with Jake nervous and weary of his skills. Claybon recalls, "I was wrapping his hands and getting prepared him prepared to go out for his first fight scene, and he kept ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. The Weinstein Company has unveiled the very ...

"When I set my mind to something, I just won't stop until I do it." By Ashley Lee When tragedy strikes, Billy “The Great” Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal) lost everything: his family, his house and his manager.

Jake Gyllenhaal's latest transformation turned him into an intense prizefighter trying to get his life back on track in the coming drama "Southpaw," in theaters July 24. To convincingly play character ...

I’ve been conducting a running argument with myself about director Antoine Fuqua’s “Southpaw,” a near-classic boxing drama set in a mythological alternate-universe version of America that features a ...

With so many celebrity 'transformations' taking place in Tinseltown today it's easy to become jaded by the news of yet another star getting stacked for the screen. But when the first images of Jake ...

We’re far enough into the year to say that “Southpaw” is one of the great films of 2015. It’s a boxing movie that hits most of the stations of the boxing genre — the cruelty of the business, the ...

The films of Antoine Fuqua apply hyper-realism to scripts that couldn’t have less to do with reality. From the gruesome deaths that upset the peerlessly silly “Olympus Has Fallen” to the ...

Much like its title, Southpaw has a blunt, anonymous quality, this tale of a world-class boxer laid low who must pick himself up and regain his former glory intermittently compelling but mostly ...

If you've ever wondered what might have happened to the biblical Job if had a strong left hook, “Southpaw” may be the film for you. If you’ve ever wondered what might have happened to Job if had a ...