Guillermo del Toro‘s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein launches at the Venice Film Festival today and the filmmaker, cast and backers Netflix were at the film’s Lido press conference. Oscar Isaac stars as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, the brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature (Jacob Elordi) to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately […]
Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a centuries old Gothic novel penned in 1818, generated a wide variety of hard-hitting questions at today’s Venice Film Festival press conference as the filmmaker was asked about artificial intelligence, Netflix’s strategy of theatrical releases and the real monsters in present day society. The veteran filmmaker fielded […]
Cinema has few greater — or more vocal — champions than Guillermo del Toro. Whether advocating for animation being taken seriously during Pinocchio‘s awards run, leaning into the possibilities of 3D with Pacific Rim, or simply stretching the canvas with his vast imagination to give us a Pan’s Labyrinth or The Shape Of Water, the […]
I was always drawing or building things, or we would make some giant scarecrows for the fruit fields. I would carve those with a chainsaw” Sometimes, del Toro’s characters develop in dreams and daydreams. “I end up staring at a wall for an hour or so and all these images and ideas pop into my […]
To close out San Diego Comic-Con with a bang, George Lucas made his first appearance at the long-running pop culture fest alongside filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and award-winning Lucasfilm designer Doug Chiang. But the panel topic wasn’t a new Star Wars project; it was the importance of keeping art accessible to the public, especially during […]
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