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Netflix has released a teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities during the show’s Geeked Week presentation Monday. The minute-plus clip confirms five new cast members – Eric André, Sofia Boutella, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Kate Micucci and Charlyne Yi — and contains snippets of footage of stories…

To celebrate its 75th anniversary, the Cannes Film Festival gathered dozens upon dozens of previous laureates and special guests at the Palais des Festival this evening. Inside the Lumière Theatre, the fest’s artistic chief and general delegate, Thierry Frémaux, and outgoing Cannes President, Pierre Lescure, did a…

Two-time Oscar winner and former Un Certain Regard Jury President Guillermo del Toro kicked off a filmmaker symposium at Cannes today, discussing the future of cinema, particularly as it’s been rattled by the pandemic. The participants at today’s festival conference was left as a surprise. Del Toro was joined by Final…

EXCLUSIVE: Over two and a half years after Titans special effects coordinator Warren Appleby was killed while prepping a shoot for the Warner Bros superhero series, a Toronto court has finally handed down some justice. Acme FX were fined $110,000 in Canadian dollars plus a "25% victim fine surcharge" on February 22 by…

For production designer Tamara Deverell, working on Nightmare Alley was like breathing life into “two different films” at once. “One day you’d be a carny,” she says, “and the next day you’d be a high society, art deco museum maven.” Guillermo del Toro’s film based on the 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham centers…

Guillermo del Toro joined Deadline's Contenders Film: The Nominees event this weekend to discuss his latest movie Nightmare Alley, nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture. The film is based on William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel, which had been previously adapted for the screen in 1947 in a noir classic…

Nightmare Alley Oscar nominee Guillermo del Toro has a bone to pick with the Film Academy, which recently made the decision to pre-tape eight categories for the 94th Academy Awards, including Best Production Design, Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Sound, Documentary Short, Animated Short and…

Guillermo del Toro needs to make more room in his trophy room. The Oscar-winning filmmaker will receive the Advanced Imaging Society's Inaugural Gene Kelly Award next month. The honor will be presented during the 12th annual AIS Lumiere Awards luncheon on March 4 at the Beverly Hilton. "Many of us think of Gene Kelly…

Nightmare Alley cat Guillermo del Toro is set to receive the Visual Effects Society’s career honor next month. The two-time Oscar winner for The Shape of Water — whose credits also include such effect-laden pics as Pan’s Labyrinth, Blade II and the Pacific Rim and Hellboy films — will pick up the VES Award for…

Respect for the underlying material is the key to film adaptation, agreed panelists tonight at the WGA Foundation's Beyond Words panel discussion featuring this year's WGA Awards nominees for adapted screenplay. For Guillermo del Toro, film adaptation is "almost like you're marrying the widow of one of your best…

The Searchlight Pictures noir drama Nightmare Alley is a Best Picture nominee, one of four noms for the film that stars Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and an ensemble that includes Willem Dafoe, Ron Perlman, Toni Collette, David Strathairn, Richard Jenkins, Holt McCallany, Clifton Collins Jr, began its…

Guillermo del Toro, Jane Campion, Nicole Holofcener, Danny Strong, Jeymes Samuel, and Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson are the honorees for screenwriting excellence at the 17th annual Final Draft Awards, which will be presented in a virtual ceremony March 16. Two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker del Toro, whose current film…