In an effervescent and expansive conversation with Alec Baldwin on Thursday at the Tribeca Film Festival, Guillermo Del Toro shared a Criterion Collection’s worth of filmmaking wisdom and appreciation. The director's debut appearance at Tribeca, according to festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal’s brief onstage…

Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to star in Nightmare Alley, the Gullermo del Toro-directed thriller for Fox Searchlight. Del Toro wrote the script with Kim Morgan and he’s producing with J. Miles Dale. It is set up to go in the fall, as del Toro’s first film since winning Best Picture for The Shape Of Water. The film is…

CBS Films, Lionsgate and eOne have opened the first door into Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark, the latest horror offering from Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro (a producer here) that will hit theaters August 9. André Øvredal is directing the pic, which Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman penned based on a screen story by del…

The Tribeca Film Festival’s speaker lineup will feature collaborators Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, as well as directors Guillermo del Toro, David O. Russell and Dee Rees, producer Irwin Winkler and performers including Michael J. Fox and Queen Latifah. Tribeca Talks, as the roster of discussions is known, will…

The 1970s-set Roma heads into the awards-season homestretch up for 10 Oscars, tying Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for the most for a non-English-language film. Since it won the Golden Lion at Venice, Alfonso Cuarón’s ravishing black-and-white drama was enough of a game-changer that it got Netflix to change its model a…

Final voting begins today for the 91st Oscars, and it probably isn’t a moment too soon for beleaguered Movie Academy officials who seem to have a new controversy to deal with every day. Ballots from the 7902 voting members will be due back next Tuesday at 5 PM PT in all 24 categories including Best Picture, which is…

UPDATED: Guillermo del Toro released the third and final teaser for the forthcoming adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The newest teasers feature a look at the nightmare-inducing Pale Lady and a nasty Red Spot. Watch the Red Spot teaser above and the rest below. PREVIOUS: CBS Films and Lionsgate have…

As of Saturday night in Los Angeles, Alfonso Cuarón can count a DGA award among the accolades piling up for his film Roma. Picking up the Best Feature Film prize, the director sealed the deal as the hottest candidate in the Best Director and Best Picture races at Oscar. Speaking to Deadline backstage, he said the…

The Directors Guild has raisedthe curtain on the initial group of presenters for its 71st annual DGA Awards next month. Check out the list of nearly two dozen below. Film nominations were announced three weeks ago for the trophy show, which is set for Saturday at Hollywood & Highland's Ray Dolby Ballroom, Aisha Tyler…

CBS Films/eOne’s feature take on Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark from Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro, who is co-writing and producing, will open on Aug. 9 next year. André Øvredal is directing the movie about a group of young teens who must solve the mystery surrounding sudden and macabre deaths in a small town…

Elvis Mitchell is hitting the road next for a new Epix docuseries. Premiering on February 4, Elvis Goes There features the veteran journalist traveling with A-list filmmakers and actors to places of inspiration around the world, exploring how each location shaped their work and identity. Guests set for the four…

An elite group of film directors have appealed directly to Warner Bros Picture Group chairman Toby Emmerich to try and save FilmStruck, the subscription streaming service that offers indie and prestige titles that are part of the Criterion Collection. This after WarnerMedia said it would shutter the service at the end…