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Chatting away to Sally Hawkins, as you do, in the fabled Abbey Road Studios in posh North London neighborhood of St. John's Wood, she tells me "I feel fine" when I inquire after her well-being. Our feet are planted in the very spot where The Beatles recorded the track for “I Feel Fine,” a single that…

The Art Directors Guild will present Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro with the William Cameron Menzies Award, to honor his visually striking and emotionally rich body of work. Del Toro will receive the award at the 27th ADG’s Excellence in Production Design Awards on Saturday, February 18 at the…

The last time Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu released three new movies in the space of the same year was 2006. By then, their reputations at home had been established by early successes like Y tu mamá también (Cuarón), The Devil's Backbone (del Toro) and Am…

It’s been a cold, hard place at the box office for not just adult movies but also artsy titles in the awards conversation. After winning the Golden Globe for Animated Film for his Pinocchio on Tuesday, the two-time Oscar winner was asked backstage by a reporter if he had any concerns about the state of…

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is the second Pinocchio movie of the year. But, while Robert Zemeckis and Disney remade its animated adaptation in live action, del Toro returned to the original Carlo Collodi book for a stop-motion take. It took him 14 years to bring it to life, but Guillermo del Toro's Pino…

When Guillermo del Toro takes his shot at an animation classic, he doesn't mess around. He and co-director Mark Gustafson took the Carlo Collodi creation Pinocchio but made a version unrecognizable compared to the 1940 Disney classic. In the stop-motion animated film, Geppetto, the wood-carved boy and the…

Capping a 15-year process to reach the screen, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio arrives on Netflix on Friday after a limited theatrical run. The writer/producer/director appeared with co-director Mark Gustafson, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos and others in the cast and crew Tuesday night at the film’s New…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer and director Guillermo del Toro and composer Alexandre Desplat give a behind the scenes look at the creation of “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. The song has been entered into the Best Original Song race for this Oscar season. Guillermo del Toro directs this warm and…

The Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC), the body in charge of the country's preservation and development of cinema, said Thursday that it is in a "serious financial crisis" and will suspend the 2023 Ariel Awards, the country's leading film awards. Mexican filmmaker and…

Director Guillermo del Toro is known for the intense originality of his work, on vivid display in Oscar-winning films from Pan's Labyrinth to The Shape of Water. For his latest, the Netflix animated film Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, he again set a high bar for himself. "We believe that we should…

Alexandre Desplat opened Deadline’s Sound & Screen awards-season event representing the music from his latest project, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. The Netflix animated film currently available to stream and is the duo’s second collaboration following Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape of…

An enthusiastic rendition of Happy Birthday rang through the auditorium at the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as the London audience was informed Gregory Mann, the film's lead voice actor, had just turned 13.  Mann was joined on stage by Del Toro, co-director Mark Gustafson, and…