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While the franchise has long regulated to direct-to-video, a visually-minded director like Guillermo Del Toro can do some creative things with the IP and make it his own. Hellraiser focuses on a puzzle box when opened is a gateway to hell While it became an S&M inspiration to many, the real appeal from the film comes[...]

With Guillermo del Toro, he wrote the bestselling The Shape of Water and Trollhunters (the inspiration for the Netflix series) His novels have been Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks, Parent's Choice Gold Award winners, Bram Stoker finalists, and more.   Bent Heavens tells a story that Kraus has labeled "ET, if the[...]

Guillermo del Toro, one of the boldest story-tellers of his generation, will be appearing at San Diego Comic-Con this year to teach a Master Class on scary storytelling with the director of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, André Øvredal, according to Deadline. André Øvredal will be directing the del Toro produced Scary Stories to[...]

Deadline is reporting that Bradley Cooper is in early talks to sign on to Guillermo del Toro's remake of Nightmare Alley, the 1947 film noir classic that starred Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. Editorial credit: Denis Makarenko / Shutterstock.com Leonardo DiCaprio was originally rumored to be circling the project, but talks fell apart early. Here's what I really[...]

It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time—stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah's terrifying home. Scary[...]

demo, Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro's scrapped Silent Hills game was cancelled in 2014 The game also had a third major collaborator, horror manga writer and artist Junji Ito, who is best known for his short works like Uzumaki and The Enigma of Amigara Fault Ito was brought onto the team to design the[...]

In 2006, Guillermo del Toro brought a new vision of horror to audiences with Pan's Labyrinth, the tale of an 11 year old girl coming to terms with life in the home of her sadistic step-father. //Image Credit: Katherine Tegen Books Part of what makes Ofelia's plight so gripping is that the real-world horrors and atrocities in[...]

Zoolander Pops are still shipping, as is director Guillermo del Toro Rounding out this week is the new Little Mermaid Ariel exclusive hitting BoxLunch right now. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ While at FYE I also found new horror Tiki[...]

Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has some encouraging words for 2019- "optimism is radical". Filmmaker Guillermo del ToroPhoto by Andrea Raffin / Shutterstock.com In Time Magazine's "The Art of Optimism" issue, an essay written by del Toro aims to paint optimism as the most needed thing in the current world You can see more from the issue here,[...]

NECA is continuing its awesome partnership with director Guillermo del Toro and creating figures from his film's with the third figure from Pan's Labyrinth Ofelia will come with three different fairies, a book, a key and a pillar with an eye that comes out She will stand around 5 inches tall and comes with the[...]

Every so often, a project that is just too perfect for words ends up not happening due to unforeseen circumstances and we get robbed of the resulting project- like Guillermo del Toro's Justice League Dark film for Warner Bros Pictures. It would have been the perfect fit for the Oscar-winning director to step back into superheroes- a cast[...]

But the other, which has more of our attention, will be a stop-motion feature film by Guillermo del Toro for Netflix. Filmmaker Guillermo Del ToroPhoto by Andrea Raffin / Shutterstock.com Perhaps you're wondering why a director of del Toro's style would turn his focus to the little wooden boy tale, but he explained a bit about his kinship[...]

Lionsgate has been hard at work on a feature film adaptation, and as of today, we know when it'll be hitting theaters. Guillermo del Toro is producing, as well as co-writing the film, which André Øvredal (Trollhunter) is directing for Lionsgate and CBS. Reportedly, Scary Stories will center on a group of young teenagers as they try to solve a[...]

We shouldn't expect anything less from Guillermo del Toro who is made a career out of monsters but also has a soft spot for making materials for kids The first of the two spin-offs for Trollhunters, called 3Below, had a panel at New York Comic Con and Bleeding Cool got the chance to talk to[...]

Oscar winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is making a stop-motion feature film based on the classic tale of Pinocchio, the little wooden boy.  This long gestating project just landed at Netflix, and we're pretty excited to see how it turns out. Filmmaker Guillermo Del ToroPhoto by Andrea Raffin / Shutterstock.com In a statement released to announce the Netflix-home of[...]

Emmy nominated actress Keri Russell may be joining a film with FOX Searchlight that's being produced by Oscar winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. Editorial credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com The Hollywood Reporter confirmed earlier rumors today that Russell has entered into negotiations to appear in Antlers, a supernatural horror thriller written by Nick Antosca and Henry Chaisson.  Scott Cooper is directing the film, and[...]

This is my favorite Guillermo del Toro film, and it was robbed from winning all of the Academy Awards in 2007 Granted, it won four statues, including well-deserved wins for Best Art Direction, Cinematography, and Makeup It was also nominated for Score, Screenplay, and Foreign Language Film (which somehow it didn't win!) That it wasn't[...]

Guillermo del Toro is becoming an action figure NECA will produce a limited run of 2,000 action figures of the most recent Best Director Oscar winner for SDCC this year NECA is also producing figures based on his films, such as Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone The figure features cloth clothing, stands at eight[...]

Credit: Kerry Hayes Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) is turning to Netflix to house the horrors of his new anthology series Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight. Del Toro created the series, described as a collection of personally curated stories, equally sophisticated and horrific The filmmaker will write and direct certain episodes; and will[...]

In another example of perfect decisions to breathe a modern life into an existing property, Oscar winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has co-written and will produce a film based on the "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark" book series by Alvin Schwartz. Entertainment One and CBS Films are financing the project, which will start filming in Toronto this[...]

Here we are on Oscar Night, and one of the films being nominated is Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water It's an interesting film that has captured a lot of people's imaginations, including the people over at '80s Style Trailers, who have put together a new trailer for the film — but instead of[...]

The Amphibian Man is raised on one leg, as though floating in water, with an outstretched finger. Check them out: One of the most talented directors in the film industry – our friend Guillermo del Toro –  will now be memorialized as a Pop!, alongside characters from his Oscar-nominated film The Shape of Water! The unique relationship between Amphibian Man and Elisa[...]

Last night, the 2018 Directors Guild Awards happened, and while maybe there weren't many surprises, the results went pretty much how the other Awards Season shows have been going. Here's the list of categories, nominees and winners from the ceremony- FILM CATEGORIES:  FEATURE FILM- Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,[...]

Namely, fans of the Guillermo del Toro directed Ron Perlman starring pair of movies being up in arms about a new Big Red/story rather than finishing out a trilogy. The first look at David Harbour as Hellboy from 2017 for the 2019 film. "I was approached by some very prominent nerds who I know very well, and I respect their[...]

Pacific Rim: Aftermath brings us into the near-future after the events of the first film. The Jaeger pilots have been discarded and forgotten, and Griffin, a former pilot himself, is trying to make a living in black market dealing, scavenging, and smuggling. Is it a good read?

Peele was also not nominated for a Globe or BAFTA. The Shape of Water garnered another nomination for director Guillermo del Toro, who took home best director at the Golden Globes This is his first DGA nomination, as well. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri director Martin McDonagh has been nominated in the category as well, another first-time DGA nominee. Christopher Nolan got his[...]

Netflix has released a few new sneak peeks of the second season of Dreamworks and Guillermo del Toro's Trollhunters The story tells of how for centuries, a grand clash between good and evil has been waging between the the trolls beneath our feet Now, Jim and friends battle the evil Trolls of the Darklands. Mark Hamill[...]

Blige, Mudbound Hong Chau, Downsizing Alison Janney, I, Tonya Laurie Metcalfe, Lady Bird Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water Best Director — Motion Picture Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk Ridley Scott, All the Money in the World Steven Spielberg, The Post Best Screenplay — Motion Picture Guillermo Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of[...]

Yesterday, we reported that Guillermo Del Toro was going to be presenting something at the Game Awards sending rumours of Death Stranding making an appearance into overdrive Well, those are now absolutely roaring, as it seems the game's director is set to turn up too. Announced by host Geoff Keighley over Twitter, Hideo Kojima is set to[...]

Director Guillermo Del Toro will be at the awards presenting something, be that an award or footage of, say, a hotly anticipated video game from Kojima Productions, it isn't clear yet Del Toro and Kojima famously were working together on Silent Hills before that fell through However tying straight into Death Stranding itself, Del Toro[...]