People love Guillermo del Toro, and that’s not hyperbole. Hollywood’s affection for the Oscar-winning auteur goes far beyond mere admiration. The Mexican filmmaker, who won best picture and director for “The Shape of Water” in 2017, has become one of the industry’s most beloved figures. His presence in any Oscar race is never just about the work he presents on …
Read More »Jacob Elordi is reborn as a movie star at the ‘Frankenstein’ premiere The Washington Post ‘Frankenstein’ Review: Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi in Horror Classic The Hollywood Reporter Jacob Elordi is reborn as a movie star at the ‘Frankenstein’ premiere yahoo.com Frankenstein: Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix adaptation debuts in Venice BBC Jacob Elordi stuns critics with ‘revelatory performance’ as the monster in ‘Frankenstein’ USA Today …
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Guillermo del Toro’s lifelong passion project Frankenstein jolted to life on Saturday night in Italy where the Netflix film received a splashy world premiere during the Venice Film Festival. When it was over, and as the credits rolled, the fest audience responded with a 14-minute standing ovation that brought the filmmaker and his title star Jacob Elordi to tears. The …
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Oscar and Golden Lion winner Guillermo Del Toro unveiled his long-in-the-works Frankenstein at the Venice Film Festival this evening. Playing to a very enthusiastic crowd, the monster movie was greeted by a 15-minute ovation. Del Toro has charmed the Lido before, winning the festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion, with 2017’s The Shape of Water, which ultimately went on to …
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Guillermo del Toro‘s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein launched at the Venice Film Festival this evening and the notices are coming in. Oscar Isaac stars as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, the brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature (Jacob Elordi) to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. The early reaction from …
Read More »VENICE, Italy (AP) — Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi arrived at the Venice Film Festival Saturday for the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” the kickoff to what’s expected to be the film’s major awards season push. Isaac plays Victor Frankenstein and Elordi is the monster in this adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, which del Toro has been …
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It’s alive! It’s at the Venice Film Festival! But it’s not a cautionary tale about artificial intelligence. Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein,” starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, follows a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a monstrous creature to life, only for the experiment to lead to the destruction of them both. Though it’s a timely tale about hubris, corruption …
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Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a centuries old Gothic novel penned in 1818, generated a wide variety of hard-hitting questions at today’s Venice Film Festival press conference as the filmmaker was asked about artificial intelligence, Netflix’s strategy of theatrical releases and the real monsters in present day society. The veteran filmmaker fielded a much softer one to …
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When Guillermo del Toro accepted the Bafta for best director in 2018, he used his speech to pay homage to Mary Shelley, calling her “the most important figure from English legacy”. “She picked up the plight of Caliban and she gave weight to the burden of Prometheus,” Del Toro said. “She gave voice to the voiceless and presence to the …
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Jacob Elordi is unrecognizable in “Frankenstein.” He’s not the high school jock who struts the halls of “Euphoria” High, the college boy worth killing for in “Saltburn,” the taller-than-life rock star from “Priscilla.” In Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of the classic horror novel, Elordi is a creature locked in a deadly feud with his maker, Victor Frankenstein (played by Oscar …
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