The first look at Guillermo Del Toro‘s upcoming horror anthology, Cabinet of Curiosities, is here!
27.07.2022 - 16:21 / variety.com
Wilson Chapman editorPinocchio is coming to life. A new trailer for director Guillermo del Toro’s animated film version of the classic tale has been released by Netflix.“From my many wanderings on this earth, I had so much to say about imperfect fathers and imperfect sons,” Ewan McGregor’s Sebastian J.
Cricket narrates at the start of the trailer. “I want to tell you a story.
It’s a story you may think you know, but you don’t — the story of the wooden boy.”The trailer, which follows the first teaser footage from January, reveals footage of lonely woodcutter Geppetto’s (David Bradley) creation of Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) and the puppet boy’s adventures alongside his creator.The film marks del Toro’s first feature animated effort, bringing his protective love of features’ creatures to the classic fable. The film relocates the tale to the time period of the 1930s, setting it against the backdrop of growing fascism in the country as Benito Mussolini consolidates control of the government.
The film is narrated by McGregor, with additional voice actors including Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, Finn Wolfhard, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson, Burn Gorman, Cate Blanchett and John Turturro. Guillermo del Toro co-directs the film with Mark Gustafson and co-wrote the screenplay with Patrick McHale.
The movie is the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s first feature for Netflix, but follows several TV projects he’s created for the streamer, including animated series “Trollhunters,” “3Below” and “Wizards” as well as the live-action horror anthology series “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” which will premiere this fall.Del Toro’s film is one of three movies this year to center around the world’s most iconic puppet. In March, Lionsgate
.The first look at Guillermo Del Toro‘s upcoming horror anthology, Cabinet of Curiosities, is here!
Creepy creatures have never looked this good.
Guillermo del Toro is a huge fan of horror films, particularly those that feature beautiful, but terrifying monsters. So, it’s no surprise that when crafting his new horror anthology, “Cabinet of Curiosities,” he aimed to include stories with scary monsters and horrific stories. As seen in the new trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s “Cabinet of Curiosities,” we get a first look at the individual stories that comprise the new anthology.
Michaela Zee editorSomething sinister is lurking in the shadows. Netflix has shared a special first look at “Cabinet of Curiosities,” its upcoming horror anthology series from Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.
“Day Shift” almost made the list), there is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to new library titles on the streaming service.In August there’s something for everyone on Netflix, from Keanu Reeves as a paranormal detective (“Constantine”) to a controversial Tom Cruise classic (“Eyes Wide Shut”) to a 1980s favorite that only gets better with age (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”). Plus so much!If you’ve watched the new Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman,” you undoubtedly took notice of Jenna Coleman’s Johanna Constantine, a paranormal investigator.
Guillermo del Toro has shared his frustrations at the cancellation of Silent Hills, as fellow director Hideo Kojima commemorates the eight-year anniversary of its playable teaser.Yesterday (August 12), Kojima took to Twitter to share an image of P.T. alongside the caption “it’s been eight years”, referencing the release of the playable demo that also acted as a teaser to Silent Hills – the planned Kojima-produced instalment of the Silent Hill franchise.However six months later, Konami cancelled the game after three years of development with Kojima then going independent with his studio Kojima Productions.It looks like Guillermo del Toro, who was set to direct the game alongside Kojima, is still frustrated by the studio’s decision to scrap Silent Hills.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThe book of Genesis contains two competing creation stories: There’s the one where an all-powerful deity conjures everything in six days, and the version where a more anthropomorphic god rolls up his heavenly sleeves and makes man from clay.Guess which one visionary stop-motion artist Will Vinton would have preferred.Co-inventor of the “Claymation” technique, Vinton wanted to be the second Walt Disney. Colorful eyegasm “ClayDream” celebrates all that Will Vinton Studios achieved — its most beloved characters include the California Raisins, rabbit-eared Domino’s Pizza menace “the Noid” and Eddie Murphy series “The PJs” — while musing about what might have been, had control of the company not been wrested away from him by Nike honcho Phil Knight, who rechristened it Laika and put his son Travis in charge.
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Drake took a trip down memory lane at this year’s October World Weekend. The Canadian MC reunited with his «first girlfriend,» Keshia Chanté, during his annual OVO Fest, bringing the singer onstage and introducing her set.«This next person coming to the stage, I used to get in my mom's car and I used to drive all the way to the west for this one right here, you feel me? So I have to personally introduce her,» Drake said ahead of the TV personality's performance.
EJ Panaligan editorThe spookiest time of the year is just around the corner, and with it comes a new look at “Spirit Halloween: The Movie,” an upcoming film based on the ubiquitous pop-up costume store.The new teaser trailer chronicles a group of boys, played by Donovan Colan, Dylan Martin Frankel and Jaiden J. Smith, who decide to spend a night at an abandoned Spirit Halloween store, only to find out that its products and animatronic creatures have come alive and set out to haunt them.
Real-life couple Justin Long and Kate Bosworth feature in the new trailer for “House of Darkness”.
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Former Big Brother contested Liam McGough has shared how becoming a celebrity overnight changed his life - and not in a good way.The TV personality, who finished third in series 8 and won £100,000 in the process, told ChronicleLive why he's much happier now that he's looking after trees in The Royal Parks and for five-star New York hotels, rather than making easy money by simply turning up to a nightclub and wave. It seems the 35 year old's days of hectic TV appearances and wild nights out are over after his overnight success at the tender age of 22. From making a million pounds and feelings of loneliness to reportedly dating TV star Emily Attack, let's take a look at Liam's life as it is now...
A first look at the upcoming Guillermo del Toro adaption of "Pinocchio" is here. On Wednesday, Netflix released the official trailer for the stop-motion animation film scheduled to be released in December.The film will briefly be played in theaters in November before moving over to the streaming service the following month.
The official trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinnochio” is here.
Guillermo del Toro's inspired take on a familiar story on Wednesday, as Netflix shared the first teaser trailer for the Oscar-winning director's stop-motion adaptation of Based on the original fairy tale by Carlo Collodi, and set against the backdrop of 1930s Fascist Italy, the animated film is a stark contrast to the live-action Disney adaptation also set to hit the big screen this fall. As Sebastian J.
Netflix has dropped the teaser trailer for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” the stop-motion animation film based on the classic story of the wooden puppet boy Pinocchio from the Oscar-winning master behind “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “The Shape of Water.” Guillermo del Toro’s take on Pinocchio is naturally far darker, introducing us to the wooden boy’s cricket conscience that is hardly as dapper as Disney’s Jiminy Cricket. But the first trailer has a lot of heart and fantasy, too; del Toro aims to tell “a story you may think you know, but you don’t.” Here’s the full synopsis, per Netflix:Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents Carlo Collodi’s classic tale of the wooden marionette who is magically brought to life in order to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto.
Not many directors would follow an Oscar Best Picture win with a genre remake of a film with a mixed reception on its release almost 75 years ago. But that’s what Guillermo del Toro did with last year’s luxurious noir “Nightmare Alley,” his follow-up to 2017’s “The Shape Of Water.” “Nightmare Alley” didn’t quite catch on despite a great case, but maybe del Toro’s next film will bring a real shot of life.