Guillermo del Toro Hid A ‘Mimic’ Easter Egg In His Most Recent Film ‘Nightmare Alley’

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It’s undeniable that Bradley Cooper is the star of Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley.” The actor is in nearly every scene and is the driving force for much of the plot of the film. That said, in an ensemble filled with incredible performances, it’s the three women in Cooper’s character’s life that really fill in the details of “Nightmare Alley.” READ MORE: Guillermo Del Toro Found ‘Nightmare Alley’s’ Godzilla In Cate Blanchett [Interview] With “Nightmare Alley” in theaters now and being one of the buzziest films this awards season, we’re thrilled to give our readers an exclusive look at a featurette that illuminates the importance of the women in the film.

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Who should you call when you learn that an asteroid that will wipe out all life on Earth is on a collision course with the planet? Well, the people in the world of “Don’t Look Up” were guided to a phone sex hotline.In Netflix’s new doomsday film, starring a whole slew of big names, Leonardo DiCaprio’s astronomer Randall Mindy issues a statement to the world, informing them of their impending demise. In his public service announcement, anyone looking for “peace of mind” is encouraged to call an 800 number, sponsored by FEMA and the movie’s fictional telecommunications company BASH.And as it turns out, the number actually does lead to a phone sex line.

On paper, there isn’t a whole lot that would seemingly connect Guillermo del Toro’s newest film, “Nightmare Alley,” with his upcoming animated feature, “Pinocchio.” And when del Toro was asked about that by Rotten Tomatoes, the filmmaker is quick to point out the obvious connections with their carnival settings, but he is also able to explain just how “Pinocchio” differs.

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Since his 1993 debut “Cronos,” it’s always been explicit that Guillermo del Toro is a genre filmmaker at heart. Over the years, the director has tackled several different kinds of horror films.

NEW YORK -- With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays a femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” with cunning embrace and subversion of the film noir archetype.If “Nightmare Alley” is del Toro’s lushly composed love letter to noir, the movie’s pulpy heart is in Blanchett’s conniving psychiatrist Lilith Ritter.

“Nightmare Alley” is an adaptation of the William Lindsey Gresham novel of the same name, and finds del Toro working without supernatural elements for the first time in his career. Production initially began in January 2020, but COVID shut down filming in March.

latest film — about a small-time carnival worker (Bradley Cooper) who grifts his way into high society by claiming to read minds and commune with the dead — has all the trappings of the genre: drunk degenerates and femme fatales; dimly lit streets and stalking shadows; greed, lust, murder, hubris and a creeping existential dread.

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Clayton Davis In Variety‘s Up Next, we asked four Oscar winners to pick the one person who represents the future of Hollywood.Our cover subject Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific directors working today, but he’s acutely aware that it carries an important responsibility to other upcoming filmmakers. He executes that duty by producing movies that have him working with other artists, including animator Jorge R.

Michael Nordine authorRare is the filmmaker with so many unrealized projects that there’s an entire Wikipedia page devoted to them, but “rare” has always been an apt descriptor for Guillermo del Toro.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaGuillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” exists in a kind of moral murk as its central character goes on a journey that will earn him wealth and influence but will also plunge him into a dark crisis of the soul.Now, the film will get a re-release with a color palette that more completely reflects that ambiguity. Searchlight Pictures announced Friday that it will oversee a special limited run of del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” in black and white.