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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio | Behind the Craft | Netflix

Netflix has unveiled a new behind-the-scenes featurette showing off Some of the incredible craftsmanship and hours of meticulous work on making of the stop-motion animated “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” which streamer will release in December. Del Toro co-wrote the script with Patrick McHale. Del Toro says: “To me, there’s a valuable difference between stop-motion as…

Pedro Almodóvar Pulls Out of His First English-Language Feature Film “A Manual for Cleaning Women” with Cate Blanchett

Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki  Acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has announced that he’s withdrawing from further work on what would have been his first English-language feature, A Manual for Cleaning Women, starring Cate Blanchett. According to Deadline, Almodóvar made his decision after he realized he was not ready to continue with the project, though in…

Francis Ford Coppola to Spend Own $120 Million on New Epic Film ‘Megalopolis’

Francis Ford Coppola is set to spend $120 million of his own money to make his long-delayed passion project, Megalopolis. The filmmaker penned the epic sci-fi drama in the early 1980s, and is now determined to self-fund the feature, he revealed during an interview with GQ magazine. The five-time Academy Award-winning writer-director has spent the…

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO | Official Teaser | Netflix

Academy Award winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is making his animated feature film directorial debut at Netflix with his lifelong passion project, Pinocchio, which he will write and produce as a stop motion musical. Del Toro has set his retelling of the classic tale of Pinocchio in Italy during the 1930s. This marks an expansion…

SAG Nominations Led by ‘House of Gucci’ and ‘The Power of the Dog’

Nominations for the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced this morning by Rosario Dawson and Vanessa Hudgens. The acting group honors film and television projects but does not differentiate between lead and supporting performances. Its film prizes are often seen as a crucial benchmark on the way to Oscar attention. House of Gucci…

Cate Blanchett to Star in Pedro Almodóvar’s First English Film, “A Manual For Cleaning Women”

Cate Blanchett will star in A Manual for Cleaning Women, the first English-language feature by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. The film, now in the early stages of development, is based on Lucia Berlin’s 2015 short-story collection about women working in subservient jobs, such as laundresses, switchboard operators, and housecleaners. During her career, Blanchett captured two…

Film Review – Nightmare Alley is a Visually Stunning, Character-Driven Neo-Noir Psychological Thriller Set in Visceral Realism

All realms of life are driven by a sense of shock and wonder, from the working class on the fringe of society to the wealthy and powerful, especially when its members are continuously driven by seduction and treachery. That’s certainly the case for the troubled anti-hero and the people of various backgrounds he forms relationships…

Film Review – ‘Don’t Look Up’ Casts a Wide Net in Its Skewering of Societal Stupidity

Much has been written in recent years about how reality has become so absurd that parody no longer has the same effect it once did since it can’t possibly top it. That’s not to say that exaggeration of moments that weren’t perhaps meant to be humorous can’t be funny, but that inventing storylines and characters…

Don’t Look Up : Press Conference with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence with Actors Scott Mescudi, Tyler Perry, Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Writer/Director/Producer, Adam McKay

Synopsis : Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem: it’s on a direct collision course with Earth. The other problem? No one really seems to care. Turns out warning mankind about a…

Nightmare Alley : Q & A with Director Guillermo Del Toro, Screenwriter Kim Morgan, Producer J. Miles Dale, Actors Bradley Cooper, Richard Jenkins, David Strathairn, Rooney Mara, and Cate Blanchett

Synopsis : When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous Molly…

NIGHTMARE ALLEY | A Film By Guillermo del Toro / Starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara

In Theaters December 17th, 2021 Synopsis : Stan Carlisle, an ambitious Carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words, hooks up with Dr. Lilith Ritter, a Psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is. Rating : R (Strong/Bloody Violence|Language|Some Sexual Content|Nudity) Genre : Mystery & Thriller Original Language : English Director…