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After a season in which Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) made Academy Awards history and became the first woman of color to win the Best Director Oscar... Read More
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Full cast of Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ announced, including Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton
Netflix announced today the cast of Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming stop-motion animated musical feature Pinocchio. Newcomer Gregory Mann will star as Pinocchio... Read More
2021 Oscars: The Best Director Contenders (February)
After another year of no female Best Director Oscar nominees, and plenty of uproar and backlash about it, it’s looking like that will shape up... Read More
Principal Photography on Searchlight Pictures’ ‘Nightmare Alley’ from Guillermo del Toro begins
Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, David Strathairn Star Searchlight Pictures announced that principal photography on NIGHTMARE ALLEY began this... Read More
Production begins on ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ from André Øvredal and Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro
CBS Films and eOne announced today that Michael Garza (Wayward Pines, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1), Austin Abrams (Brad’s Status, The Americans), Gabriel Rush (Moonrise... Read More
75th Venice Film Festival welcomes the Coen Brothers, Lady Gaga, Luca Guadagnino, Jennifer Kent, Orson Welles
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] After previously announced Damien Chazelle’s First Man as the opening night film the lineup for the 75th Venice Film Festival will... Read More
Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro signs overall deal with Fox Searchlight
STUDIO AND “THE SHAPE OF WATER” DIRECTOR TO CREATE NEW LABEL FOR HORROR, SCI-FI AND FANTASY GENRE PROJECTS Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Stephen Gilula and... Read More
What Some of This Year’s Oscar Winners and Nominees Have Coming Up in 2018
Wondering what this year’s directing and acting Oscar winners and nominees are up to for 2018? Check out what’s up next for Guillermo del Toro,... Read More
‘The Shape of Water’ is NOT a conventional Best Picture winner
I suppose it was inevitable. Almost immediately after Guillermo del Toro’s adult fantasy The Shape of Water was announced as Best Picture by Warren Beatty... Read More
2018 Oscars: The State of the Race the Day Before Voting Starts and Why Get Out Can Win
It all starts tomorrow. Voting on the 90th Academy Awards begins tomorrow, February 20th and lasts just one week. Voters have had a full month... Read More
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