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The night before his breakfast meeting with Guillermo del Toro for his Searchlight Pictures noir Nightmare Alley, composer Nathan Johnson had the opportunity to take in a “completely dry” cut of the feature—finding that he connected strongly with the “bold filmmaking” in front of him. “I was just taken aback because…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains plot details from Searchlight’s Nightmare Alley. EXCLUSIVE: The difference in stumping for awards in years past, compared to now — when a Covid encore with the catchy Omicron variant sent everyone back to their homes — is evident when Nightmare Alley star Bradley Cooper, director Guil…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. "I wanted to render a classic story in a very alive and contemporary way – I wanted people to feel they are watching a story pertinent to our world," says Nightmare Alley…

Guillermo del Toro has been directing movies since 1986 with his first short film Doña Lupe. Many were familiar with his horror films in the 1990s but it wasn't until 2006 Pan's Labyrinth that made him a household name.  Nightmare Alley is his new cinematic venture with an all-star cast including Bradley Cooper, Cate…

Nightmare Alley director Guillermo del Toro says video game development isn't his thing anymore.  On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the award winning director who was once teamed up…

Holdovers Drive My Car, Red Rocket and The Scary Of Sixty First looked good in limited runs on a weekend with few new specialty releases and even fewer numbers. Streamers – which presented The Lost Daughter (Netflix), Swan Song (Apple) and The Tender Bar (Amazon), don't reveal them and smaller distributors often…

Guillermo del Toro’s remake of the 1947 thriller Nightmare Alley is going full noir next month. Searchlight Pictures said Friday that a black-and-white version of the new pic starring Bradley Cooper will get a limited theatrical release in Los Angeles. Titled Nightmare Alley: Vision in Darkness and Light, the b/w take…

When you hear the name Guillermo del Toro, you usually associate the Oscar-winning director with fantastical filmmaking, monsters, supernatural elements and gothic stories from another world. But maybe for the first time with his remake of the 1940s film noir Nightmare Alley, he is dealing on a smaller scale more…

EXCLUSIVE: Harry Potter star Rupert Grint has been set to star in Netflix’s anthology series Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. He joins a cast that includes Essie Davis, Luke Roberts, Andrew Lincoln, F. Murray Abraham, Glynn Turman, Ben Barnes, Elpidia Carrillo, Hannah Galway, Crispin Glover, Demetrius…

EXCLUSIVE: It has been nearly two full years since Guillermo del Toro started shooting Nightmare Alley. But now, finally, four years to the day since The Shape of Water's US release, the cast and crew are preparing to gather in New York City for the movie's global premiere at Alice Tully Hall Wednesday night. A…

Searchlight Pictures released the new trailer for Guillermo del Toro much-anticipated Nightmare Alley, the director’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning The Shape of Water. Watch it above. Starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Toni Collette, this remake of the 1947 film noir classic follows, in the words of the…

The first look clip for Searchlight Pictures' Antlers is out, featuring some creepy creature action from director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace, Black Mass and Hostiles) and horror maestro Guillermo del Toro. In an isolated Oregon town, a middle-school teacher (Keri Russell) and her sheriff brother…