Guillermo Del Toro Reveals Full ‘Pinocchio’ Cast Including Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Ewan McGregor & More

Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton are both backing the Berlin Film Festival’s decision to do away with gendered acting awards and give only a Best Actor honour.

The Guardian), discussing the matter at this year’s Venice film festival, “you know life is too short for this.“And so I’m really happy to hear that about Berlin and I think it’s pretty much inevitable that everybody will follow. It’s just obvious to me.”Cate Blanchett, president of the festival’s jury this year, echoed Swinton’s thoughts, saying “I have always referred to myself as an actor.“I am of the generation where the word actress was used almost always in a pejorative sense.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorPedro Almodovar and Tilda Swinton heated things up at the Venice Film Festival this afternoon, speaking to the press after the screening of the Spanish maestro’s first English-langauge project, The Human Voice. “Freely” based on the 1930 Jean Cocteau play, the 30-minute movie was shot after the coronavirus lockdown was lifted.

2020 Venice Film Festival officially kicked off last night – and saw some of cinema's biggest names grace the red carpet for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began earlier this year.

coronavirus pandemic, many people have turned to films as a source of solace, an escape when they have felt isolated from the rest of the world.While several films have had to have their release dates delayed, Venice Film Festival is going ahead this year as planned, albeit with several changes put in place.Taking place from Wednesday 2 September until Saturday 12 September, the 77th edition of the film festival will see stars take to the socially-distanced red carpet, face coverings in hand as

Tilda Swinton is honouring Chadwick Boseman once again at the Venice Film Festival.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorAfter a day of early press screenings and conferences, the Venice Film Festival officially was declared open this evening by the directors of several major European fests including Venice’s own Alberto Barbera and Cannes’ Thierry Frémaux.But before they got to the stage of the Sala Grande, there was plenty to remark upon during the first evening of the first major film industry gathering of the COVID pandemic era.

Manori Ravindran International EditorTilda Swinton accepted her Golden Lion for career achievement at the Venice Film Festival with a touching love letter to cinema, which she punctuated with “Wakanda Forever,” in a nod to “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman.The British actor accepted the prize from Venice jury president Cate Blanchett during the festival’s opening ceremony on Wednesday evening, where the festival kicked off with a tribute to Italian composer Ennio Morricone — complete with

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorVenice Film Festival jury President Cate Blanchett is “very excited to be having a conversation with adults,” she told journalists on the Lido today, quipping, “I have been talking to pigs and chickens for the past six months.” That was one bit of levity during a press conference that touched on some more serious subjects including the implications of streaming’s growth during lockdown, certain countries’ “obtuse” response to

Cate Blanchett is looking sophisticated and stylish.

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are getting back on their bikes for Apple TV+ series Long Way Up.

Guillermo Del Toro has been working on a stop-motion animated version of Pinocchio for almost a decade. According to Del Toro,“no art form has influenced [his] life and [his] work more than animation and no single character in history has had as deep of a personal connection to [him] as Pinocchio.” Stop-motion is a type of animation that requires the physical manipulation of objects in small increments in between every frame to give the appearance that it‘s moving.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is hard at work on a Pinocchio movie for Netflix and the star-studded cast has been revealed!

Dave McNary Film ReporterGuillermo del Toro has cast Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, David Bradley and Finn Wolfhard in “Pinocchio,” his upcoming stop-motion animated musical feature for Netflix.Newcomer Gregory Mann will star as Pinocchio, with McGregor as Cricket and Bradley as Geppetto. Other cast includes Christoph Waltz, John Turturro, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson and Burn Gorman.“After years of pursuing this dream project, I found my perfect partner in Netflix.

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Ewan McGregor is to get in touch with his inner David Attenborough by narrating a new natural history series.The Star Wars actor will narrate Stormborn, a new series filming wildlife in the his native Scotland as well as in nearby Norway and Iceland.In a new trailer for the show, which will air on the Love Nature channel, the actor says: “Raising a family in a world of rock, ice and water is a tale of resilience, strength and courage.

Ewan McGregor is losing half of the fortune he’s amassed during his long acting career thanks to a tumultuous divorce with his ex-wife, Eve Mavrakis. The split came after the couple had been together more than 20 years amid reports that McGregor was spotted cozying up with his "Fargo" co-star Mary Elizabeth Winstead.The former co-stars are reportedly still together.

Star Wars royalties are part of his divorce settlement with ex-wife Eva Mavrakis. The pair split in 2017 after 22 years with the A-lister filing for divorce.