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There was a very special guest at the Pinocchio red carpet premiere – a tiny statue of Pinocchio!

Guillermo del Toro’s forthcoming adaptation of the horror classic Frankenstein.Australian actor Elordi has had a breakthrough year, appearing as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, as well as the aristocratic Felix Catton in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn.Now, it has been confirmed that he will play the role of The Monster in del Toro’s new version of the 1818 Mary Shelley novel.It had already been announced that Oscar Isaac will fill the role of Victor Frankenstein in a cast that is also set to include Mia Goth (Pearl) and Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained), as well as All Quiet on the Western Front’s Felix Kammerer.Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield had initially been lined up to play The Monster, but he left the project after scheduling conflicts were brought about by the SAG-AFTRA actors’ strike last year.Filming on Frankenstein, which is being produced by Netflix, is due to start in February. It will be the Mexican director’s first feature film since 2022’s Pinocchio, and his thirteenth directorial feature overall.

Jacob Elordi will star as Frankenstein’s monster in the new film directed by Guillermo del Toro. “Frankenstein” will premiere on Netflix, and is made up of a star cast that includes Oscar Isaac as the titular scientist and Mia Goth. Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ could star Oscar Isaac and Andrew Garfield7 Hispanic directors you should know aboutElordi’s casting was announced earlier this week after Andrew Garfield dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.

It feels like we’ve been talking about Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” for a long time already. From the first rumblings to a confirmed cast, we have covered just about every aspect of this film that is in development.

Guillermo del Toro has opened up about his Star Wars film that never got made, calling it “good practise” for him and his team.Last month, del Toro confirmed that he was once in line to direct a Star Wars film, though it ultimately never came to fruition. Now, the Pan’s Labyrinth filmmaker has begun speaking more about the axed project, even confirming that it was meant to focus on Jabba The Hutt.Speaking to Collider‘s Steven Weintraub, Guillermo del Toro revealed: “In the last moment, things go away; I’ve had it happen many, many, many times. We had the rise and fall of Jabba the Hutt, so I was super happy.”“We were doing a lot of stuff, and then it’s not my property, it’s not my money, and then it’s one of those 30 screenplays that goes away.

Guillermo del Toro has confirmed that he was once set to helm a Star Wars film that never came to fruition.While little is known of the axed film, del Toro’s Star Wars movie would have featured a script by David S. Goyer, who famously wrote on films such as Man Of Steel, Batman Begins, last year’s The Sandman series on Netflix and more.Goyer revealed the news in a new episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

Guillermo del Toro is getting ready to make a new film, this time, adapting one of the world’s most famous stories. Del Toro appears to be casting roles in “Frankenstein,” a film based on Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel.

It’s not really news that Guillermo del Toro is developing a new film based on Mary Shelley’s classic “Frankenstein” story. Even though it hasn’t been confirmed by Netflix, many assume this will be the Oscar winner’s next live-action film.

The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) presented the winners of the 4th Annual SCL Awards for score and songs in visual media tonight at the Skirball Cultural Center.

The last time Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu released three new movies in the space of the same year was 2006. By then, their reputations at home had been established by early successes like Y tu mamá también (Cuarón), The Devil’s Backbone (del Toro) and Amores Perros (Iñárritu) and they had each worked in the U.S., with del Toro and Cuarón stepping into blockbuster cinema with Hellboy and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban respectively, and Iñárritu directing Sean Penn and Naomi Watts to Oscar nominations with 21 Grams.

Refresh for updates: A24 once again dominated the Film Independent Spirit Award nominations with 24 noms this year, and their Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert directed arthouse blockbuster Everything Everywhere All at Once leading with eight nominations. That movie launched out of SWSW last March, ultimately becoming A24’s biggest grossing movie with $70M domestic, $103M WW and will close to the year later continue its rally to the Santa Monica Pier where the Spirits will take place on March 4, eight days before the Oscars on March 12, 2023. There is no broadcast partner this year for the Spirits and that there will be more info on the various ways to stream the show globally as the show gets closer.

How does a filmmaker reinvent stories told time and time again? It’s a challenge Guillermo del Toro undertakes with the legendary character Pinocchio. Far from the fantasy set by Disney — or flawed direct-to-video entries from others — his imaginative take on Carlo Collodi’s 1883 tale promises reinspection of a classic.

Near the beginning of Sean Egan’s recently-published piece in the U.K. publication The Critic, are the following assertions: “new Scorsese films are routinely an hour too long…his directorial talent has never been as great as occasional masterpieces like Goodfellas (1990) tricked us into believing it was.”

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.

2022 Oscar nominee Guillermo del Toro has a bone to pick with the Film Academy, which recently made the decision to pre-tape eight categories for the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Production Design, Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Sound, Documentary Short, Animated short and Live-Action Short.

All it takes is one bad take on social media to ignite a bit of a firestorm. And apparently, the most recent one involves Steven Spielberg and “West Side Story.” The discussion got so involved, Guillermo del Toro felt the need to come to the defense of one of the best filmmakers to ever grace the medium.

Nightmare Alley cat Guillermo del Toro is set to receive the Visual Effects Society’s career honor next month.

 «you think you know, but don’t.»In the first teaser for Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion take on the classic tale, viewers are introduced to Sebastian J. Cricket.

For years it seems, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Nightmare Alley“) has been talking up making his own version of “Pinocchio.” After many years of laboring on the project, the stop-motion musical directed by del Toro and Mark Gustafson is finally coming to life. READ MORE: The 25 Most Anticipated Horror Films Of 2022 Many of GDT’s friends and collaborators also feature in what is quite the voice cast, including Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, John Turturro, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson, and Burn Gorman.

Tributes are pouring in after director and standard-bearer for classic Hollywood moviemaking Peter Bogdanovich died today at 82.

It’s been four years since Guillermo del Toro‘s Academy Award-dominating “The Shape of Water,” and following that win, the Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker is back with his new film, “Nightmare Alley,” a reimagining of a 1940a noir about seduction, treachery, deception, gaslighting, manipulation and more, starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett.

What happens when you win the Best Picture for your surreal but enchanting and romantic woman-falls-for-a-Merman movie? Well, if you’re Guillermo del Toro and your movie is “The Shape Of Water,” you get a kind of blank check for your next project and a whole hell of a lot of actors that probably already wanted to work with you, lining up to work with you.

You might remember a while ago that Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water“) would be teaming with streaming giant Netflix for a horror anthology series formerly titled “10 After Midnight,” and would have a wave of hand-selected directors shooting various episodes including del Toro and Aussie director Jennifer Kent (“The Babadook“).

One of the biggest difficulties with being a fan of indie cinema is knowing which features are worth your time and which, frankly, aren’t. Thankfully, when it comes to the new drama, “Giants Being Lonely,” you don’t even need to watch the trailer to know this is a quality feature.