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Del Toro discusses Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark at Comic-Con
The 1973 TV version of DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK
Reuters has posted a Q&A interview with Guillermo Del Toro, who discusses upcoming projects, including DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK and FRANKENSTEIN. The former is a remake of a 1973 tele-film starring Kim Darby, written by Nigel McKeand, and directed by John Newland (ONE [...]
Del Toro on his future projects
The best news today is not that Peter Jackson will be directing THE HOBBIT. It’s that Guillermo Del Toro, having left THE HOBBIT, can now focus his attention on the myriad other projects he has in development. He discusses them at length in this interview with Collider.com, given during the Saturn Awards. Unfortunately, the bottom [...]
CYBERSURFING: WANTED – 1 Director For “The Hobbit”, Will Pay Handsomely
Guillermo Del Toro leaves THE HOBBIT. There was only one cure for the fan freak-out that followed: LISTS!
Guillermo Del Toro departs Hobbit over delays due to MGM’s financial crisis
My friends over at The One Ring Net posted this shocking news at their site today:
Guillermo Del Toro announced today that he is no longer directing the two movies based on J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”, but will continue to co-write the screenplays. Out of respect to the legions of loyal Tolkien fans, [...]
The Hobbit Scripts Finished
Director Peter Jackson
Moviefone have been talking with Peter Jackson (THE LORD OF THE RINGS, THE LOVELY BONES), who is producing the two HOBBIT movies, and he’s cleared up a lot of the rumours surrounding the delay in production. Jackson says that scripts for both parts of THE HOBBIT have now been handed to the studio [...]
Time quizzes Del Toro on vampires
Time magazine has posted an interview with Guillermo Del Toro, in which the filmmaker discusses his first novel, a vampire story co-written with Chuck Hogan and titled The Strain. Del Toro talks about his preference for old-fashioned vampires (i.e., re-animated corpses rather than “beautiful people of the night”), his love of folklore and fairy tales, and [...]
Sense of Wonder: Hellboy 2 – The Critical Divide
In a summer that saw critics and audiences often in agreement, the much-praised sequel fizzled at the box office
This summer, the critical divide is not so wide.
There is a common perception that a sharp division in taste separates people who pay to see movies and people who get paid to review them. Perhaps there is some [...]
Box Office: Hellboy rising
It was a good weekend for cinefantastique at the box office. If you are only a bit liberal with the definitions of fantasy and science fiction, nine of the Top Ten films fell into the genres. If not for KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN GIRL at #8 (which pushed INCREDIBLE HULK down to #11), genre films [...]
Confirmed: Del Toro to Direct Hobbits
The Los Angeles Times confirms what has been expected for months: Guillermo Del Toro will direct two films inspired by Tolkien’s The Hobbit. The first will portray the events of the book; the second will cover the gap between the book and LORD OF THE RINGS. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will executive produce the [...]
Horror Filmmakers & Authors Pick Their Favorite Horror Movies
Last month, we ran a list of the American Film Institute’s nominees for the best Fantasy and Science-Fiction Films of all time. Many readers were angry over the exclusion of horror from the genres under consideration; some were unhappy about certain titles that made or did not make it onto the A.F.I.’s lists; a few were [...]
Del Toro’s Lovecraftian Madness
MTV’s Movie Blog has a brief interview with writer-director Guillermo Del Toro, in which he expresses his enthusiasm for a film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s novel At the Mountains of Madness:
“I remember when I was a kid out of the studios came the big event horror movies, ‘The Exorcist,’ ‘Alien,’ ‘Jaws,’ ‘The Shining,’” del Toro [...]
The Devil’s Backbone – Horror Film Review
EDITOR’S NOTE: Because of their similar settings and genre tropes, some viewers have been drawing parallels between the current release THE ORPHANAGE, which was executive produced by Guillermo Del Toro and THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE , which was directed and co-written by Del Toro. Personally, we think the similarities are mostly generic, and the details are [...]
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) – Film Review
Guillermo Del Toro’s fantasy-horror-war film, set in the war-torn Spain of 1944, is an obvious attempt to follow-up his previous THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE, which also set supernatural elements in the context of the Spanish Civil War. The film is beautiful and frequently moving, but it cannot quite match the heights of its predecessor, due to [...]
