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For the past 30 years, the filmmaking collaboration of actor Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis has stood as one of modern cinema's most beloved partnerships. From Forest Gump to their upcoming fifth film together Here, Hanks and Zemeckis have managed to walk the fine line between mainstream popular appeal and enduring artistry that has truly stood the test of time. With plenty of humor and a whole lot of compassion, Hanks and Zemeckis have done some of the best in both of their careers together.

Hanks and Zemeckis's collaboration has included incredible highs, such as their extraordinary work on Cast Away, and some lows, like the lackluster responsibility of their version of Pinocchio. However, no matter what the result, this duo has always aimed for quality and, in the process, has delivered some of cinemas most iconic characters and breathtaking works of fiction. With the 2024 release of the fixed-camera film Here on the horizon,...

Warning: spoilers for various kids’ movies.

Mentions of death and abuse.

Kids' movies can be surprisingly depressing, dealing with themes of death, abuse, and heartbreak, challenging the notion that they are always cheerful. Movies like Old Yeller, Pinocchio, and The NeverEnding Story address sad and tragic themes, leaving audiences with a mix of emotions. Disney movies are known for their sad moments, such as Bambi's mother's death, but there are also other heartbreaking films like A Little Princess and Watership Down.

Kids' movies are usually cheerful and have an uplifting moral message, but there are many that are actually quite depressing. Kids' movies give filmmakers a lot of creative freedom, as there are countless fairy tales and legends that can be turned into movies for a young audience, but it’s also a tricky genre. Making a successful movie for children isn’t easy, as there are different ways in...

Nominees in the categories of discovery of the year, public choice award and the new game music award have been revealed.

Film Fest Gent and The World Soundtrack Academy has unveiled the second and final wave of nominations for the 2023 World Soundtrack Awards, which will take place on October 21 at the Film Fest Gent in Belgium, with Golda, Avatar: The Way Of Water and The Menu among the additional titles represented.

Nominations for discovery of the year, public choice award, Wsa game music award, best original score for a Belgian production and the Sabam Award for best original composition by...

John Williams, Nicholas Britell and Taylor Swift are all nominated

John Williams, Nicholas Britell and Taylor Swift are among the first wave of nominees for the World Soundtrack Awards (Wsa) 2023.

The winners will be announced at the 23rd edition of the World Soundtrack Awards on October 21 at the Film Fest Ghent in Belgium, during which the annual celebration of film music is held.

Williams is nominated in the film composer of the year category for his work on The Fabelmans and Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny. The veteran composer is up against Volker Bertelmann who won the Oscar...

The characters of Guillermo del Toro's award-winning stop-motion Pinocchio are brought to life again by Loulou Almeyda's intricately detailed bodypaint cosplays of the titular puppet and the Blue Fairy. Del Toro's passion project is a dark retelling of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, following the tale of a young puppet given life. Gregory Mann and Tilda Swinton provided the voices for Pinocchio and the Wood Sprite, del Toro's reimagining of the character known as the Blue Fairy in many other adaptations.

In a post uploaded to her Instagram, artist Almeyda shared a photo featuring her incredible cosplays of both Pinocchio and the Wood Sprite, alongside a quote taken from one of the two character's exchanges in the film. Check it out below:

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Almeyda has utilized detailed body painting patterns inspired by the designs of...

In this video we look at the Incredible VFX for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio by the masters at Mpc. Led by VFX Supervisor Aaron Weintraub and VFX Producer Emma Gorbey, the primary objective of the visual effects work was to support the filmmaker’s vision and match the practical, stop-motion aesthetic of the film, expertly crafted by the teams at ShadowMachine and The Henson Company.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio stars Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Cate Blanchett, Christoph Waltz and was directed by Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson. We spoke to the cast and crew at the film’s UK Premiere at last year’s London Film Festival.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is on Netflix now.

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In 1930s Italy, where fascist dictator Benito Mussolini rules with an iron fist, carpenter Geppetto’s life is dominated by his grief over the loss of Carlo, his 10-year-old son.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, beating out Turning Red, The Sea Beast, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

This marks writer-director Guillermo del Toro’s third Oscar win and his first win in the Animated Feature category, as well as the first nomination and win for director Mark Gustafson and producers Alex Bulkley and Gary Ungar. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio also marks Netflix’s first win in the Best Animated Feature Oscar category.

“Animation is cinema,” said del Toro. “Animation is not a genre and animation is ready to be taken to the next step. We are all ready for it. Please help us keep animation in the conversation.”

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio delivers a visually stunning stop-motion adaptation of the Pinocchio fable, reimagining the story in 1930s Italy during the Fascist reign of Benito Mussolini.

Netflix is a real studio now.

The once and seemingly future king of streaming has taken home its first Oscar for Best Animated Feature for “​​Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” a stop-motion animated film that reimagines Carlo Collodi’s classic tale about a wooden puppet who comes to life.

Directed by del Toro, now a three-time Oscar winner, and Mark Gustafson, the film features the voices of Gregory Mann and David Bradley as Pinocchio and his father, the carpenter Geppetto, respectively, while Cate Blanchett, nominated for Best Actress again this year for her work in “TÁR,” voices the mistreated monkey Spazzatura. A visually stunning interpretation of the source material that leans into darker themes about life and death, the film fiercely proves that, despite some viewers’ preconceived notions and a frequent focus on kid-friendly stories, the animation genre is not just for children.

Following positive reviews from critics for its visuals and emotional storytelling,...

While Netflix is still waiting for its first Best Picture win, the king of streaming is on the cusp of taking home a different Oscar: the one for Best Animated Feature.

“​​Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” directed by the Oscar winner and Mark Gustafson, is a reimagining of Carlo Collodi’s classic tale about a wooden puppet who comes to life. Featuring the voices of Gregory Mann and David Bradley as Pinocchio and his father, the carpenter Geppetto, respectively, the film also includes a memorable turn from two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, nominated again this year for her work in “TÁR,” as the mistreated monkey Spazzatura.

The film received rave reviews when it premiered and is considered a visually stunning interpretation of the source material that leans into darker themes about life and death. It is a perfect example of how animation lends itself to more than just so-called movies for children.

After joining Guillermo del Toro on the project over 10 years ago, producers Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico finally got to see the fruits of their labor when Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio premiered last year. Del Toro’s Netflix adaptation of the Carlo Collodi story takes place in 1930s Italy, during the Fascist reign of Benito Mussolini. In this story, woodcarver Geppetto (David Bradley) loses his son Carlo in an aerial bombing and carves Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) from the tree at his son’s grave. Bulkley and Campodonico’s animation studio, ShadowMachine, was responsible for the stop-motion animation of the film, and the pair were incredibly excited to go on this long journey with del Toro.

Deadline: What excited you about Guillermo del Toro’s version of the Pinocchio story?

Corey Campodonico: What is so cool about a property that’s been touched throughout the years and is such an iconic property,...

Though there are different styles on display this year in the contest for animated feature Oscar, what unites them is the passionate, intuitive craft and care put into voicing these films by their dedicated talent. These affable actors have given voice to such colorful creations as a miniscule mollusk, a positive puppy, a desperate dad, a sassy stowaway, a wild wolf and a teen-turned-red panda. They range in experience behind the mic from newbies to veterans, but they all approach their performances no differently than their live-action work.

“I break it down the same way, especially with Perrito and his backstory,” says Harvey Guillén, who voices the unsinkable stray Chihuahua in “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.” “To him, it’s such a funny story, but to everyone else it’s a tragic story. In one of the first sessions, we found the voice. I wanted to find a contrast to Wagner’s character,...

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

Nana Connie and Marcel (Isabella Rossellini and Jenny Slate)

The birth of the profound and heartwarming 1-inch shell voiced by Jenny Slate was an unusual situation that began years before the movie was made, with a series of animated shorts that Slate wrote with her then-husband, director Dean Fleischer Camp, beginning in 2010.

“It actually was a character that started with her joking around in this tiny voice about how small she felt, and then I developed the design and the animation of Marcel based on that voice,” recalls Camp. “It’s been a very long journey where we are both mutually building upon this original riff and adding parts to his character and to his world. I don’t exactly know how to separate my contributions from hers, because it has been such a mind meld, but I think that Jenny brings a real...

“I saw the Disney film when I was very, very young, and it made a huge impression,” Guillermo del Toro said during a panel for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio at Deadline’s Contenders: The Nominees event, where he was joined by director Mark Gustafson. “What sat wrong with me was the idea that you needed to be obedient to be a real boy, and that you needed to be transformed into something you were not to be loved.”

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is a new take on the familiar tale with the stop-motion animated movie that is filled with several songs that add to the film's story. Similar to Disney's Pinocchio, this iteration of the lively wooden puppet is filled with music that makes it stand out within the animated sphere, earning a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. Directed by del Toro and Mark Gustafson, Pinocchio's music is crafted largely by Alexandre Desplat, who previously worked with del Toro on The Shape of Water.

The stop-motion Pinocchio boasts ten songs that were created specifically for the film, with the film’s main song, “Ciao Papa,” written by composer Alexandre Desplat, lyricist Roeban Katz, and del Toro himself. Nine out of the ten songs are original, while one has a history behind...

It’s impossible to talk about Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio without considering the music. Del Toro’s Netflix adaptation of the Carlo Collodi story takes place in 1930s Italy, during the Fascist reign of Benito Mussolini. In this story, woodcarver Geppetto (David Bradley) loses his son Carlo in an aerial bombing and carves Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) from the tree at his son’s grave. Composer Alexandre Desplat, who worked with del Toro on The Shape of Water, was tasked with capturing the “joyous melancholy” of the wooden boy in music. To enhance the connection between the character of Pinocchio and the music, Desplat made the choice to only use wooden instruments in the score. Below, Desplat breaks down three key pieces of the score – “Carlo’s Theme,” “Going to Town” and “Saving Geppetto” – with the corresponding scenes included for reference.

“Carlo’s Theme” was the first piece of the score that Desplat wrote.

The stars turned out this evening at The May Fair Hotel in London for the 43rd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards Ceremony. Hosted by Anna Leong Brophy luminaries of the industry gathered on the red carpet to kick off awards season here in the UK.

This year’s winners in all categories were announced at London’s May Fair Hotel — with the Circle returning to an in-person gathering after two years of virtual awards ceremonies due to pandemic precautions. Last year’s ceremony saw Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog take four awards, including Film, Director and Actor of the Year. Full details of the winners will appear here shortly after the announcements.

Colin Hart was on the carpet for HeyUGuys, here are the interviews.

43rd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards Interviews

Film Of The Year

Tár

Foreign-language Film Of The Year (tie)

Decision to Leave

The Quiet Girl...

Todd Field’s Tár claimed the top prize at the 43rd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards on Sunday night, where it was named film of the year. Meanwhile, Cate Blanchett won actress of the year — the third time she has done so — and Field landed director of the year.

Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin was another big winner in London, winning five prizes, including the Attenborough award for British/Irish film of the year, screenwriter of the year, actor of the year for Colin Farrell, and both supporting actor and supporting actress for Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon. Another Irish title, The Quiet Girl, won foreign-language film of the year in a tie win alongside Park Chan-wook’s noir thriller Decision to Leave. Laura Poitras’ pointed Nan Goldin film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was named documentary of the year.

The ceremony was capped with the presentation...

The 43rd annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards was a well-attended affair that crowned the provocative culture war drama “Tár” as the Film of the Year on Sunday.

“Tár” won three major awards, with Todd Field named Director of the Year and Cate Blanchett Actress of the Year. Blanchett is no stranger to this award, having won it previously in 1998 for “Elizabeth” and in 2013 for “Blue Jasmine”.

“‘Tár’ is about female experience, but it’s also beyond female experience. It’s really, really complicated and you’ve made room for that complication,” Blanchett said during her acceptance speech. “Personally, it was the most freewheeling, free form, free flowing, exhilarating, challenging and creatively dangerous film set that I’ve ever been on. And it was full of ambiguity and the stuff that we as a species, find so hard to unpack and discuss and and pin down, not only the stuff...

For acclaimed re-recording mixer Jon Taylor, getting the chance to work on “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” was an entirely new experience.

“I’ve never done a film like this before,” Taylor, a four-time Oscar nominee for “Unbroken,” “Birdman,” “The Revenant” and “First Man,” tells Gold Derby about the stop-motion animated feature in an exclusive video interview as part of our Meet the Experts: Sound panel. The medium, Taylor says, provided the sound team with many advantages, but also some challenges. Watch the exclusive video interview above.

“It’s all so precise in the sound that there’s nowhere to hide. You just don’t add extra things to cover production flaws or help loop lines,” he adds. “All of the dialogue and all the music is recorded generally in many different places over the past three years or so. And stringing that together to make it sound like one is definitely a challenge.

It's a new year and I'm sure we're all tired of Top 10 lists, but here's one more before we say adieu to 2022! My list makes no sense as a whole — there are major blockbusters and indies, films truly epic in scope and some that are more intimate fare. I took the Marie Kondo approach to this list — every film here brought me joy. Sometimes that joy was terrible joy, and sometimes it was light, fluffy, and cozy joy. I need both in my life, depending on how I'm feeling, and these films all helped keep me afloat through the past year.

Before I get to the final list, I want to give shout-outs to some who didn't make the Top 10, such as "Rrr", the cheeseburger from "The Menu," Robert Pattinson's emo Caped Crusader in "The Batman," and the bromance between Nic Cage and Pedro Pascal in "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

Disney swept the animation category with three nominations last Oscar season, culminating in a win for Encanto. This year, Netflix is coming on strong with more than a few contenders, including Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. DreamWorks Animation is back with a few contenders of its own, while Apple, A24 and Gkids are seeking their first Oscar win for Best Animated Feature. With only five nominations available, who will go on to compete for the prize?

Walt Disney Studios has a few contenders this year, but their frontrunner is Pixar’s Turning Red. Director Domee Shi revisited her own awkward teen years to create a story of a young girl struggling to please her family as she enters adolescence. Turning Red follows Meilin Lee (Rosalie Chiang), a 13-year-old Chinese Canadian girl from Toronto who works at her family’s temple to make her mother, Ming (Sandra Oh), proud. Due to a family blessing/curse,...

Shortlists have been revealed for the music categories for the 95th Academy Awards, and 15 semifinalists each for the Best Original Score and Best Original Song categories will compete for nominations that will be announced on Jan. 24, 2023.

As expected, the song category shortlist is chock-full of pop superstars such as Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Selena Gomez among the 15; however, last year’s Best Original Song victors Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell did not make the cut for their contribution of “Nobody Like U” to Pixar’s “Turning Red.”

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And while she was the recipient of an honorary Oscar just this year after 13 nominations in the Best Original Song category, superstar pop songwriter Diane Warren could sneak in for No. 14 with “Applause,” her shortlisted song from the under-the-radar movie “Tell It Like a Woman.

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 Pinocchio is now streaming on Netflix after it debuted December 9 and made it to the Top 10 in 79 countries.

Del Toro first announced the film in 2008. By 2011 he’d hired Mark Gustafson and artist Gris Grimley, who illustrated a 2002 edition of the Collodi book, to direct a stop-motion adaptation. Del Toro was producing, but he eventually replaced Grimley as co-director. It still took until 2018 for the project to land at Netflix and animation to begin.

The faithful adaptation is necessarily darker than the Disney version. It introduces Geppetto (voice of David Bradley) and his 10-year-old son Carlo (Gregory Mann...

Finn Wolfhard shares the amazing experience he had while working on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. The infamous puppet has had a popular year with two vastly different adaptations of Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel The Adventures Of Pinocchio debuting: Disney's live-action adaptation and del Toro's stop-motion animation. While Disney's is obviously heavily influenced by the 1940 animated film, del Toro takes a darker approach to the story.

In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Wolfhard breaks down how working on del Toro's Pinocchio was his best experience in voice acting. He explained how he usually becomes frustrated while recording his lines and how this was avoided on this project. Wolfhard also revealed he was able to record with Gregory Mann, who voices Pinocchio, in the booth.

Finn Wolfhard: I had such a good time doing this movie, especially because I actually got to work in a booth with Gregory for one of the scenes.

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No one expected "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" to be a lighthearted romp, given that it's set in fascist Italy and the director is known for dark fairy tales. Still, there are some moments in the Netflix film that might make audiences wonder if it's really a kids' movie at all. It has all of the hallmarks of a children's film, including musical segments ready-made for singalongs and comical sidekicks like Sebastian J. Cricket (Ewan McGregor) and Spazzatura (Cate Blanchett), but it's also occasionally a little dark. Like, Pinocchio dies multiple times and hangs out with the personification of Death levels of dark. It's all in service of a beautiful, touching story about life being precious precisely because it ends, but it all might be a bit too much for the youngest or most sensitive viewers.

Del Toro set out to create...

What is it about Pinocchio? It’d merely be a funny coincidence if Guillermo del Toro’s dark new take on this classic tale were only the second adaptation in recent memory, after Robert Zemeckis’s Disney version from earlier this year, which starred Tom Hanks as Geppetto. But both were beaten to the punch by Pauly Shore’s that went viral back in March. And that version was relatively fast on the heels of a live-action version from a few years ago directed by Matteo Garrone, an Italian director most famous for his slim,...

Warning: Spoilers For Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio AheadThe villain for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio was changed halfway through production. Based on the novel by Carlo Collodi, the film sports a talented ensemble featuring Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Burn Gorman, Ron Perlman, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Christoph Waltz, and Tilda Swinton. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is out on Netflix and is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a 98 percent rating from critics.

In the Netflix documentary Handcarved Cinema (via Slash Film), it's revealed that del Toro changed the main villain of Pinocchio halfway through production. He found that the character from the book was a cliché and changed it for his adaptation. Specifically, del Toro stated, "I think our main villain is crap, and I want to change it." Instead, del Toro put his own spin on the original Pinocchio story's villains.

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For a production that began well over a decade ago, the long-awaited release of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is just as exciting for its young cast members as it is for fans. Having been only 10 at the time he was cast, newcomer Gregory Mann and Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard provide the voices for the titular Pinocchio and his friend Candlewick, respectively, and were just as thrilled to see the final product as viewers.

Just over a year after Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard revealed that he was working on his first feature film as a director, we finally have some more details about what to expect from his debut Hell of a Summer. Collider's own Steve Weintraub spoke to him and Gregory Mann for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Wolfhard described the film that he co-wrote and co-directed with Billy Bryk as a horror-slasher-comedy set at a camp. He said:...

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio introduces the audience to Candlewick (voiced by Finn Wolfhard), a boy from Pinocchio’s town who the puppet befriends at training camp. Pinocchio showed the fates of the title character and his loved ones, but what happened to Candlewick after their time together at the camp? 2022 saw the arrival of two very different versions of Carlo Collodi’s famous 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio: a live-action version from Disney, which is also a remake of the Mouse House’s 1940 animated classic, and a stop-motion animated version by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, which is darker and more loyal to the original tale.

Set in 1930s Italy, Pinocchio followed the title character (voiced by Gregory Mann) as he struggled to blend in with the rest of the town and make his father, Geppetto (David Bradley), proud, all this while also finding his own identity and...

Stars: Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton | Written by Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale | Directed by Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father’s expectations.

The fact that we got two Pinocchio movies this year is quite strange to think about. The first was Robert Zemeckis‘ live-action adaptation which was absurdly awful in every sense of the word. Not only was it a hugely uninspired mess, but it failed to recapture the magic that the original story contains. That’s why I was crossing my fingers that legendary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro wasn’t going to let me down with his brand new stop-motion animated musical fantasy Pinocchio, and now that I’ve seen it, I can breathe a sigh of relief and assure you that it’s amazing.

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio does not feature either “I’ve Got No Strings” or “When You Wish Upon A Star”, but there is a reason for it. Three months after Robert Zemeckis’ live-action Pinocchio remake recreated the 1940 animated classic in the style of recent Disney live-action remakes, Pinocchio is back on screens now with a Guillermo del Toro stop-motion animated film. While Del Toro’s Pinnochio borrows elements from both Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio and the 1940 film, it offers a unique take on the classic tale.

Given how iconic Disney’s 1940 Pinocchio film is, to the point other Pinocchio adaptations have followed more the Disney classic than the original story, audiences were likely waiting for familiar, recognizable moments in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. The stop-motion animated Pinocchio film does have some instantly recognizable moments,...

The handcrafted, stop-motion animation of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio takes center stage in a new behind-the-scenes featurette. Based on the 1883 children's book, The Adventures of Pinocchio, del Toro's new movie is the latest in a long line of adaptations, with Disney's 1940 animated film being the most well-known. Del Toro's adaptation features voice performances from Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, Finn Wolfhard, Ron Perlman, David Bradley, Tilda Swinton, and Cate Blanchett, and had a limited theatrical run before its release on Netflix. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio has already earned very strong reviews from critics and audiences, with particular praise directed at the movie's beautiful animation style.

After Disney's live-action Pinocchio flopped with fans and critics alike this past fall, a new behind-the-scenes featurette shared by Netflix shows del Toro's drastically different approach to the source material. The new video pulls back the curtain on the painstaking artistry that went into bringing...

Spoiler Warning: This Article Contains Spoilers for Guillermo del Toro's PinocchioMost will be forgiven if they missed Cate Blanchett's bizarre role in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. Blanchett's role in Pinocchio is her second collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, following her standout supporting role in 2021's Nightmare Alley. However, the character that she plays in Pinocchio is not easily identifiable.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio takes the original 1883 Italian novel and moves the setting to the 1930s, under the historical backdrop of Italian Fascism. The critical elements of the story remain the same, as the woodcarver Geppetto (David Bradley) creates the wooden boy Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) in the image of his dead son Carlo, who is brought to life by a sympathetic Wood Sprite (Tilda Swinton). Despite protests by his guide and conscience, Sebastian J. Cricket (Ewan McGregor), Pinocchio becomes the star of a carnival show run by the shady...

Warning: Spoilers for Guillermo del Toro’s PinocchioGuillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio has finally arrived on Netflix after a long wait and fervent discussion over how it would differ from the classic Disney film. The stop-motion animation is more directly adapted from Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel than previous iterations, and acclaimed filmmaker del Toro takes the opportunity to infuse the wooden puppet's tale with a darker tone amidst the Fascist politics of Italy in the early 20th century. His screenplay, co-written by Patrick McHale and derived from a screen story co-written by Matthew Robbins, also weaves important messages about death as part of the cycle of life.

Directed by del Toro and Mark Gustafson, Pinocchio introduces audiences to a lonely drunk named Geppetto (David Bradley), who has been grieving his son Carlo's death in World War I. Sebastian J. Cricket (Ewan McGregor) narrates the story as a whimsical wood sprite...

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Guillermo del Toro’s three decades of creative work was honored and celebrated at the Museum of Modern Art’s 15th annual Film Benefit on Thursday in New York.

During an evening that featured in-person and video messages from Alejandro Iñárritu, Jessica Chastain, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Ewan McGregor, MoMA’s Chief Curator of Film Rajendra Roy and more friends and collaborators alongside a set from Grammy-winning artist H.E.R., the Oscar-winning director delivered a powerful and sentimental opus on his creative vision and love of storytelling.

Highlighting that this was a full-circle moment after bringing Cronos to MoMA 30 years ago, the Pan’s Labyrinth director spoke to the personal impact of movies on him, the beauty of art as mystery and his own style. “One of the purposes of art is to interpret what we know,” he said. “But also, there is a form...

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"Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" cobbles together the best elements of del Toro's work into a moving, bittersweet stop-motion animated film about the preciousness of life. Fans of the horror maestro's work will find his familiar themes — outsiders, existentialism, anti-war, anti-fascism — take center stage in this magical tale about a wooden puppet (Gregory Mann) destined to heal the broken heart of a grieving man named Geppetto (David Bradley). But unlike previous adaptations, Pinocchio's origin story has more of a Frankenstein's monster feel to him. As Pinocchio learns what it means to be human, the audience becomes tasked with unraveling how humane we are or could be -- a compelling premise for all ages.

Co-directed by del Toro and Mark Gustafson and co-written by del Toro and Patrick McHale ("Over the Garden Wall"), "Pinocchio" wastes no time setting up its dark opening.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio may be retelling a familiar story, but it does so in an unexpected way. Not only are the strangely vivid creatures of the stop-motion animated film a far cry from what fans of the Disney classic might expect, but the movie's narrative calls back to a dark period in Italy's history and ties the political concept of fascism to the more domestic troubles of fatherhood. Now streaming on Netflix, the latest iteration of Pinocchio also investigates the nature of death and its importance to life.

Guillermo del Toro co-directed his version of Pinocchio alongside Mark Gustafson, with a plot more directly lifted from the 1883 novel by Carlo Collodi than previous interpretations. The story streches from World War I to World War II, cycling through various lives the wooden puppet must live before becoming a real boy. A powerful cast bolsters the already top-notch film, including...

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Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for M3GAN, Pinocchio, 1923, The Best Man: The Final Chapters and The Recruit.

People’s Choice Awards

Kenan Thompson hosted the awards show live from Santa Monica on Tuesday, where Ryan Reynolds accepted the People’s Icon Award, Shania Twain received the Music Icon Award, Lizzo accepted the People’s Champion Award and Ellen Pompeo and the cast of Grey’s Anatomy reunited onstage to accept the drama show of 2022 award.

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Pinocchio NY premiere

On Tuesday, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio celebrated its New York premiere at the Museum of Modern Art with stars Finn Wolfhard and Gregory Mann.

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on December 8th, 2022, reviewing “Pinocchio,” an adaptation of the legendary story through the eyes of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. In select theaters and streaming on Netflix beginning December 9th.

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Geppetto (voice of David Bradley) is distraught after the death of his son in a bombing raid, during the 1930s era of fascist Italy. In a drunken mournful rage one night he creates the slapdash wooden boy Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) who is brought to life by the Wood Sprite (Tilda Swinton). At the same time, the piece of wood that contains Pinocchio’s heart lies a traveling cricket named Sebastian (Ewan McGregor) who becomes his conscience. As the puppet with no strings, he is kidnapped by Count Volpe (Christoph Waltz) to perform in his traveling show. Geppetto, distraught again, must find him and bring him home.

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” is here. The puppet made of pine returns amongst a mix of familiar, fantastical and first-time characters in the Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water” and “Crimson Peak” filmmaker’s latest feature. A passion project of del Toro’s, the filmmaker co-directed the film with Mark Gustafson and co-wrote the screenplay with Patrick McHale.

Several other “Pinocchio” productions have been carved out in the more recent years. Robert Zemeckis’ Disney iteration starred Tom Hanks as Gepetto just this year. Del Toro’s rendition adds many new characters as well as twists for those already familiar with this story.

For those wondering how to watch “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” we’ve got all your questions answered below.

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The film premiered at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival Oct.

Guillermo del Toro is opening up about bringing his vision to life.

Netflix shared the behind-the-scenes featurette for the director’s “Pinocchio” on Friday where he talked his process behind directing the film.

“When we started to tackle this ‘Pinocchio’, I knew I wanted to my own version,” revealed del Toro. “I didn’t want to address just an adaptation. This ‘Pinocchio’ is a retelling of a story you think you do know, but you don’t know.”

Read More: Guillermo del Toro Says Stop-Motion Animated ‘Pinocchio’ Is ‘The Perfect Way To Tell The Story’

Star Cate Blanchett echoed the sentiment, praising the award-winning director’s vision.

“Guillermo’s able to trojan horse really big discussions about humanity into a really entertaining family movie,” said the actress.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – (L-r) Count Volpe (voiced by Christoph Waltz) and Pinocchio (voiced by Gregory Mann). – Photo: Netflix © 2022 Guillermo del Toro...

"Everything has to be built, you fully create a world." One of the most stunning animated films of the year is now available to watch on Netflix! To celebrate the release, Netflix has unveiled another behind-the-scenes featurette for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, his stop-motion animated musical version of this classic Italian fable. All the reviews so far are glowing, praising so much of the film and its unique magic found in the story and all the characters. GdT reinvents Carlo Collodi's classic tale of the wooden marionette who is magically brought to life in order to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto. This stop-motion musical follows the mischievous & disobedient adventures of Pinocchio in his pursuit of a place in the world. Directed by del Toro & Mark Gustafson, the voice cast features Ewan McGregor as Cricket, David Bradley as Geppetto, Gregory Mann as Pinocchio, plus Finn Wolfhard,...

This weekend, Netflix is welcoming the first part of a highly-anticipated documentary series about a famous couple, a stop-motion animated movie by Guillermo del Toro, and a rom-com Christmas TV series. Last weekend, Netflix added a long list of licensed content, most notably the buddy cop comedy 21 Jump Street, the drama movie Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, the coming-of-age drama My Girl, the epic historical war movie Troy, and David Leitch’s Bullet Train, along with part 2 of the second season of Firefly Lane, the romantic drama Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the animated movie Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, and the documentary “Sr.”.

This weekend, on the licensed content front, Netflix will add the animated movie Storks, the crime thriller Emily the Criminal, the Egyptian movies The Blue Whale and The Master Plan, and Denis Villeneuve’s mystery thriller Prisoners. As for original content, Netflix subscribers will get to enjoy the first...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio may not have too much in common with Disney’s live-action version, but both films have a great voice cast playing the characters. Del Toro’s Pinocchio is a stop-motion animation that delves deep into the titular character’s adventures, but the story wouldn’t be complete without a vibrant voice cast to bring all the characters to life.

Directed by del Toro and Mark Gustafson from a screenplay the former co-wrote with Patrick McHale, the stop-motion Pinocchio is based on the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi. The filmmakers have assembled a notable cast to embody the animated characters. While some of the actors’ voices are recognizable, there are others who will surprise. Below is a full guide to the voice cast, their roles in Pinocchio, and what the...

Plot: This is the story of a grieving father’s wooden creation brought to life after the tragic death of his son. It all leads to a familiar adventure, this time in the hands of Guillermo del Toro.

Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is a beautiful film. The stop-motion animated retelling of this classic tale is yet another example of the filmmaker’s care to bring his vision to life. The new feature, co-directed by del Toro and Mark Gustafson, presents a rich animated story with an impressive cast. The talent includes Ewan McGregor, Ron Perlman, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, David Bradley, Burn Gorman, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro, and Christoph Waltz. It also features young Gregory Mann as the title character. The new take is alive with songs and music by Alexandre Desplat. There is oh so much to enjoy here, so let’s start with the story.

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There are many differences between Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and the Disney versions of the story, including the fact that its cricket character is named Sebastian, not Jiminy. Del Toro's adaptation of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, which he made for Netflix with co-director Mark Gustafson, depicts the story of the titular wooden boy puppet using stop-motion animation for aesthetic and metaphorical purposes. The movie also takes liberties with the classic story to emphasize greater personal and political themes that were important to del Toro in particular.

Additionally, the talking cricket character, who is iconically known as Jiminy Cricket in Disney's 1940 animated classic and the studio's 2022 live-action remake, was given a new name for the Netflix version of Pinocchio that he hasn't ever had before. Voiced by Ewan McGregor, the character is called Sebastian J. Cricket in Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson's retelling of the story.

To celebrate the release of Guillermo del Toro’s staggering new reinvention of Pinocchio, which comes to Netflix today, we sat down with two of its stars to find out more.

Academy Award®-winning director Guillermo del Toro and award winning, stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson reimagine the classic Carlo Collodi tale of the fabled wooden boy with a whimsical tour de force that finds Pinocchio on an enchanted adventure that transcends worlds and reveals the life-giving power of love.

Chatting to Gregory Mann (Pinocchio) and Christoph Waltz (Count Volpe), we discuss working with del Toro on his amazing new vision and his powers as a storyteller, voice acting and singing through the film, what audiences can expect and that exquisite ensemble that all bring their own magic to the film.

You can watch the interview below:

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio streams on Netflix from December 9th.

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This is not Uncle Walt’s Pinocchio. The little wooden boy has been a symbol of the Walt Disney Company ever since the original animated classic came out in 1940, and not even an ill-advised live-action remake released by the Mouse House just a few months ago could really sully the original’s reputation. But anyone who watches this new, completely separate stop-motion version of the tale, co-directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, is in for a dark surprise—and hopefully, some delight.

Del Toro’s Pinocchio is about as different from Disney’s as one could imagine, and not just because this is stop-motion and the latter is traditional animation. For one thing, this is clearly del Toro’s vision, and while it may give perhaps only the littlest viewers a few unpleasant dreams, it is nevertheless infused with the maestro’s Gothic storytelling sensibility (even more so...

Pinocchio is the movie directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, starring Gregory Mann and David Bradley. It premiered at the AFI Fest in November, and is now streaming on Netflix.

This year, Robert Zemeckis‘s Pinnochio was released, and got mixed reviews. Guillermo del Toro‘s version of the story is set in a completely different era – 1920’s Italy. This latest adaptation is largely done with stop motion animation.

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During the rise of fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father’s expectations.

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