Video won’t start rolling on Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new bite-sized streaming service with the billion dollar backing until the end of 2019, but talent keeps signing up to come along for their ride into the future of serialization. The latest marquee director to sign on the dotted line with Quibi is Catherine Hardwicke, […]
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Guillermo del Toro is making a stop-motion Pinocchio movie for Netflix
Guillermo del Toro, the Academy Award-winning director of “The Shape of Water” (not to mention “Hellboy,” “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Pacific Rim”) is making a new version of “Pinocchio” for Netflix. I’d thought that after del Toro’s awards victory earlier this year, he might finally make his long-thwarted adaptation “At the Mountains of Madness.” And while […]
View More Guillermo del Toro is making a stop-motion Pinocchio movie for NetflixNew stop-motion ‘Pinocchio’ project from Netflix to be directed by Guillermo del Toro
Pinocchio, the classic fairytale made famous by Disney in 1940, is getting the stop-motion treatment thanks to Netflix and director Guillermo del Toro, Entertainment Weekly reported Monday.
Del Toro, known for directing fantastical movies like Pan’s …
Guillermo del Toro legit bullied Alfonso Cuarón into directing ‘Harry Potter’ :)
Some heroes wear capes. Others are nerds who call you the eff out when you need it most.
Such is the case for Guillermo del Toro, who quite literally bullied Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner o…
7 ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ facts for Guillermo del Toro’s biggest fans
Guillermo Del Toro is fresh off a huge night at the Oscars and the sequel to his Pacific Rim is right around the corner, so boy does this feel like the right time for a look back at Pan’s Labyrinth or what?!
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‘Revenant’ director on Mexican filmmakers: “We’ll build a wall made entirely out of Oscars”
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According to President Trump, you can supposedly reduce all Mexican immigrants to either “drug dealers,” “criminals,” or “rapists.” Yet it seems he conveniently left out one of the actual occupations Mexicans are dominating in America: Best Picture Academy Award-winning directors.
After Guillermo del Toro’s big win for The Shape of Water on Sunday, his friend and fellow Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu had the best response to Donald Trump’s ongoing obsession with building his “beautiful wall” (that neither Mexico nor the United States appear willing to pay for).
“!Vamos a hacer un muro de puros Oscars!” he reportedly exclaimed to an El Pais reporter. Or, as People translated, “We’re going to build a wall made entirely out of Oscars!” Read more…
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View More ‘Revenant’ director on Mexican filmmakers: “We’ll build a wall made entirely out of Oscars”It’s okay if ‘Shape of Water’ made you horny
Warning: This post is swimming in sexy spoilers.
A fish-sex movie won big at the Oscars, and the bright spotlight seems to have heightened discomfort around the erotic interspecies romance at the center of The Shape of Water.
From film critics …
A brief history of humans having sex and loving sea creatures in media
Guillermo Del Toro’s Shape of Water winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards is historic for a number of reasons: it’s one of the few horror films to win Best Picture, and it’s Del Toro’s first Oscar.
It’s also probably one of the only Oscar-…
Don’t be surprised when ‘The Shape of Water’ wins Best Picture
Mark Ellis (@markellislive) returns to talk about Guillermo del Toro’s cold war era fish-man romance. Is The Shape of Water the best movie of the year? Or is it too many genres all at once? Read more…More about Oscars, Guillermo Del Toro, Cinefix, M…
View More Don’t be surprised when ‘The Shape of Water’ wins Best PictureGuillermo Del Toro loved Natalie Portman’s ‘all-male’ director joke
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Natalie Portman used her stage time at Sunday’s Golden Globes to call out the gender inequality of directing in Hollywood, and The Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro loved it.
Del Toro – whose took the stage just seconds later to receive a directing award for The Shape of Water – told IndieWire that he loved his introduction.
“I think it was great!” he said. “She should say exactly what she feels. There is phenomenal work being done by female directors.”
Del Toro named some of the year’s outstanding female directors, including Wonder Woman‘s Patty Jenkins, Lady Bird‘s Greta Gerwig (whose film won Best Picture, Musical or Comedy), and Mudbound‘s Dee Rees. Read more…
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View More Guillermo Del Toro loved Natalie Portman’s ‘all-male’ director jokeGuillermo Del Toro totally shut down the Golden Globes’ attempt to hurry up his speech
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When Guillermo Del Toro is making a speech, you had better damn well listen.
During Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony, del Toro picked up the award for Best Director for his new film The Shape of Water.
Mid-way through his victory speech, though, someone working behind-the-scenes at the Globes decided to turn the music up — a not-so-subtle hint that he should hurry things along a bit.
The thing was, del Toro wasn’t having any of it.
You know you’ve made it when you’re getting applauded by a roomful of celebrities for casually telling an awards show to give you more time for your victory speech. Read more…
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