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We’ve learned quite a bit about Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro during the press tour for his film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Things like his ingenious use of miniatures in the movie, his desire to tackle The Phantom of the Opera, that he’s in tune with his feminine side as a creator, and the fact that he doesn’t need an Oscar …

Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein. Ken Woroner/Netflix hide caption toggle caption Ken Woroner/Netflix Guillermo del Toro has made several monster movies of a particular bent — soulful, swoony, feverish films about grotesque-looking creatures who prove themselves more deeply human than the humans who reject them. Hellboy (2004) was a half-demon with a full heart. The Amphibian Man in …

Guillermo del Toro on Creating a ‘Frankenstein’ Monster Unlike Any Before  The New York Times ‘Frankenstein’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Sorrowful Adaptation  Slant Magazine “I’m In The Regret Decade” Sparks TIFF Buzz About Frankenstein’s 2025 Dates  Red94 TIFF50 Review: del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ doesn’t have much of a pulse  Vanyaland Guillermo del Toro Says Audiences Won’t Be Terrified by Jacob Elordi’s Monster in ‘Frankenstein’  IMDb Source …

Channing Tatum was almost the star of a Guillermo del Toro fairy tale. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Tatum said he was offered the role of the Beast in del Toro’s retelling of “The Beauty and the Beast.” However, because the “Roofman” star “just had a baby” at the time and the film’s script wasn’t “totally there yet,” …

Frankenstein is one of those stories that’s been retold countless times. And yet, Guillermo del Toro has managed to make a version that not only feels true to Mary Shelley’s original, but is also imbued with the trademarks the director is known for. Maybe that shouldn’t be too surprising — when presenting the film at its premiere at the Toronto …

Regrets, he has a few, Guillermo del Toro told the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday night. The good thing, though, those regrets are creative fodder for the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s next movies. “I’m 60 now. So I’ve gone from asking who I am as a father and son to regret. I’m in the regret decade. Expect a lot of regret,” the …

On the heels of his Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, Guillermo del Toro announced a new gestating project called Fury, which will feature Isaac and is described as a “violent” pic in the vein of a murderous My Dinner with Andre (1981). “I’m writing a project to do with Oscar,” the director …

“Vertigo” star Kim Novak was honored with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on Monday at the Venice Film Festival, where the reclusive Hollywood diva made her first public appearance in decades since leaving the limelight in the mid 1960s. She was welcomed with a warm protracted ovation before Guillermo del Toro took the stage to deliver a glowing tribute. Novak, …

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 …

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 …