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It’s official. Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is fully aboard Disney’s live-action remake of its animated classic Pinocchio. He’ll direct, and co-write the next draft with Chris Weitz for a possible year-end production start. Casting is still being determined. Zemeckis and Weitz will write off the previous…

On Greta Gerwig's Little Women, composer Alexandre Desplat was asked to bring a sense of vital modernity to a classic tale. When the two-time Oscar winner spoke with Gerwig about the film early on, he was met with a memorably bold and specific brief. "She said, 'I'd like the score to be a mix of Mozart and David…

In the wake of a string of bombs, i.e. last Christmas’ Welcome to Marwen ($13M) and the Brad Pitt-Marion Cotillard WWII spy romance Allied ($120M off an $85M production cost), Forrest Gump Oscar winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is in early talks to direct a live-action version of Pinocchio for Disney. It’s the same…

Here’s a first look at Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) as Geppetto in writer-director Matteo Garrone’s (Dogman) update of classic Italian fairytale Pinocchio.  Shoot began on March 18, 2019 in Italy and will continue for 11 weeks. Garrone’s Italian-language French-Italian co-production is produced by…

Don Lusk, an animator and director who worked on Disney classics including Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio before moving to Hanna-Barbera in the 1960s, died Sunday. He was 105. His longtime friend Navah-Paskowitz Asner, announced the news on social media. Born on October 28, 1913, in Los Angeles, Lusk was just 20 when…

Carlo Giuffre, who is best known for his role as Geppetto in Roberto Benigni’s live-action 2002 adaptation of Pinocchio, died in Rome November 1. He was 89. Born in Naples, Italy on December 3, 1928, Giuffre was a star of stage and screen. After attending the National Academy of Dramatic Arts Silvio D’Amico he made…

Oscar winner Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) has been set to star as Geppetto in Gomorrah and Dogman director Matteo Garrone’s live action version of Pinocchio. Garrone will direct his own screenplay, an adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic about a living puppet who with the help of a cricket as his conscience…

In his first feature deal to direct since The Shape of Water won him Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, Guillermo del Toro has made a deal with Netflix to co-direct his stop-motion animated passion project Pinocchio. Del Toro has pined to make a darker version of the wooden boy tale for the past decade. He has…

Paddington movie director Paul King is in talks to direct the live-action version of Pinocchio based on the 1940 Disney classic of the same name. Wonder screenwriter Jack Thorne is scripting and the studio wants to put it before the cameras this fall. Pinocchio is just the latest in a long string of movies coming out…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes is in early talks to direct Disney’s live-action Pinocchio; Chris Weitz wrote the current version of the script and will also be producing through his production company, Depth of Field. The move would push forward yet another live-action reboot of the old tried and true animated classic for the…

Italian actor Toni Servillo, who's known for his role in the Foreign-Language Oscar winner The Great Beauty, is set to star in Matteo Garrone's new imagining of the classic tale Pinocchio. He'll play the wooden puppet's father Geppetto, reteaming him with Garrone for the first time since the duo worked together on the…

Animator Willis Pyle, whose long career saw him working on the Disney classics Pinocchio, Bambi and Fantasia as well as on the cartoon series Mr. Magoo, died June 2 in his New York Home. He was 101; his family made the news public. Born in 1914 in Lebanon, KS, Pyle studied art at the University of Colorado, afterward…