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Zoe Colletti is the first to join Guillermo Del Toro’s Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark

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The Guillermo Del Toro-produced horror film Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark has found its first actress, with Deadline reporting that Zoe Colletti (Annie) has joined the film’s ensemble cast. Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark follows a group of young teens who must solve the mystery surrounding sudden and macabre deaths in their small town. Colletti […]

Netflix orders Guillermo del Toro’s horror anthology series 10 After Midnight

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Guillermo del Toro is expanding his partnership with Netflix to take the helm of a new live-action anthology horror series, which will be titled Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight. Deadline reports that the streaming giant has hired Del Toro to act as the guiding light behind its first original horror anthology series. SEE […]

Golden Globes 2018: Winners and Losers from the World of Film

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Tom Beasley takes a look at the winners and losers from the Golden Globes, and what that means for the Oscars… Hollywood’s biggest and brightest starts packed into the Beverly Hilton Hotel last night for the 75th Golden Globes. The spectre of movie industry harassment loomed large over proceedings, whether it was in the stars […]

Guillermo del Toro has lined up Nightmare Alley as a future project

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Guillermo del Toro is looking to the future and has lined up another directorial project. While he may be celebrating all the awards buzz being generated by his latest movie, The Shape of Water, del Toro does have an eye on the future. Variety has confirmed that the del Toro produced Antlers could be gaining Scott […]

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio movie isn’t happening

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Guillermo del Toro has revealed that his planned Pinocchio movie is no longer happening. The director’s stop-motion adaptation of the classic tale had been in the works since 2008, wanting to base his film on Gris Grimly’s art of Carlo Collodi’s famous 1883 novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio. The idea was to make a much […]

Guillermo del Toro was offered the reins of Universal’s Dark Universe, regrets turning it down

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Earlier this year, Universal Pictures unleashed The Mummy, which was intended to launch a brand new shared ‘Dark Universe’ featuring the studio’s classic monsters and would lead into a host of movies such as Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Unfortunately for Universal, The Mummy wasn’t […]

Guillermo del Toro expands Trollhunters into a trilogy with Tales of Arcadia

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With Trollhunters Part 2 set to arrive on Netflix next month [watch the trailer here], Guillermo del Toro has announced that the Emmy winning series is being expanded into a full trilogy of series entitled Tales of Arcadia. Trollhunters, the first installment in the Tales of Arcadia trilogy, will be followed by two additional series 3 Below in 2018 […]

Guillermo del Toro discusses the Psycho shower scene in clip from documentary 78/52

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Next month sees the release of the documentary 78/52, which explores the creation and legacy of one of cinema’s greatest ever sequences – the shower sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho. Check out a clip from the documentary here, featuring Guillermo del Toro and more… An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred […]

Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele among nominees for 2018 DGA Awards

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In the midst of the furore around all-male director shortlists for the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs, the Directors Guild of America has given Greta Gerwig a spot on their list of nominees, for her work on coming-of-age comedy Lady Bird. Gerwig will compete against Globe winner Guillermo del Toro, who is nominated for romantic […]

53rd Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The Shape of Water (2017)

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The Shape of Water contains physically intimate expressions of love between two different sets of characters, both inordinately different in tone. One is rather awkwardly aggressive with no real affection shown by either member of a married couple, while multiple other sequences depict Sally Hawkins’ sign language communicating mute Elisa and the film’s centralized human reminiscent amphibian […]