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Live-Action ‘Pacific Rim’ Series Being Developed By Legendary and Amazon MGM

Photo by Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture – © 2013 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Legendary Pictures Funding, LLC A live-action Pacific Rim TV series is now reportedly being developed at Prime Video as part of an arrangement between Legendary Television and Amazon MGM Studios. The upcoming series is being written and executive-produced by Eric Heisserer…

Death Stranding Live-Action Movie Has Its Director

  Michael Sarnoski, the filmmaker behind “Pig”, has just discovered his next major task: transforming Hideo Kojima’s ‘Death Stranding’ into a big-screen version, Deadline first reported that Sarnoski will write and direct the adaptation for A24, with game creator Hideo Kojima’s Kojima Productions producing. ‘Death Stranding’ is a highly-acclaimed PlayStation game that has long drawn…

Hideo Kojima Explains Why He Chose A24 to Distribute Live-Action ‘Death Stranding’

Game developer Hideo Kojima has revealed why he chose A24 Films to distribute the live-action adaptation of his Death Stranding video game. The highly acclaimed game has sold more than five million copies since its release in 2019. In a recent interview with Civil War director Alex Garland, Kojima said he had been courted by…

Dario Argento Panico : Simone Scafidi Probes the Psyche of a Legendary Filmmaker

@The Courtesy of IFC Films  Dario Argento Panico is a documentary about the legendary Italian director of horror and slasher films who has been a master of the horror/slasher genre for half a century. Now in his eighty-fourth year, Dario Argento has always preferred to write his scripts in hotel rooms, which here provide a familiar…

Dario Argento Panico | Official Trailer | Shudder

@Shudder Shudder has dropped a brad new official U.S trailer for “Dario Argent Panico.”  The film was initially premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival’s “Venice Classics” section. The films marks the first biopic doc about a legendary filmmaker Argento.  The man behind classics such as Suspiria and Deep Red is celebrated by impressive list if…

Mia Goth to Star in Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming ‘Frankenstein’ film

Guillermo del Toro is casting the aptly named Mia Goth as the Bride of Frankenstein in his upcoming adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic for Netflix. Also appearing in the cast will be Andrew Garfield as Doctor Frankenstein and Oscar Isaac as the monster he created, and Christoph Waltz in a yet-to-be-disclosed role. It’s not…

BEYOND FEST ANNOUNCES 2023 FULL FESTIVAL LINE UP

THE BIGGEST GENRE FILM FESTIVAL IN THE US, BEYOND FEST, RETURNS FOR ITS 11TH OUTING WITH A 55-FEATURE SLATE SPANNING 15 DAYS OF CINEMATIC EXCESS. Beyond Fest announces its 11th edition including the World Premiere of IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE, special screenings of THE ABYSS Special Edition with James Cameron in attendance, DREAM SCENARIO, ALL OF…

Guillermo del Toro Adapting Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novel ‘The Buried Giant’ as a Stop-Motion Animated Movie for Netflix

Photo by Kerry Hayes – © 2017 – Twentieth Century Fox/ Photo by Npt – © Andrew Testa. Guillermo del Toro is reuniting with Netflix to make another stop-motion animated movie. The acclaimed filmmaker, who recently won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Film Award for Best Animated Feature for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, will direct another major animated…

Film Review – Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ is an Imaginative and Involving Retelling of the Classic Story

There are some stories that have become immortalized in time, made famous by a particular adaptation but remade numerous times nonetheless. The 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi was the inspiration for the 1940 animated film that won two Oscars, for its score and for the now-classic song “When You Wish Upon…

Guillermo del Toro Defends Scorsese After ‘Cruel’ Essay Published

Photo by Kerry Hayes – © 2017 – Twentieth Century Fox In an essay recently published by U.K. publication the Critic write Sean Egan, calling Scorsese an “Uneven Talent,” Egan goes on to say, “New Scorsese films are routinely an hour too long…his directorial talent has never been as great as occasional masterpieces like “Goodfellas” tricked us…

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…