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The Banshees of Inisherin stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson have been tapped to receive the Cinema Vanguard Award at the 38th annual Santa Barbara Film Festival.

at the world premiere of his animated film Pinocchio just one day after she died.Guadalupe Gómez passed away on Friday (October 14) shortly before the opening of Pinocchio at BFI London Film Festival yesterday (October 15).According to Variety, del Toro, the visionary director behind films including Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape Of Water, became emotional as he revealed the news to the audience.“I just want to say, my mother just passed away, and this was very special for her and me,” del Toro said. “This is not only the first time you’ll see the movie, it’s the first time she’ll see the movie with us.

There was a very special guest at the Pinocchio red carpet premiere – a tiny statue of Pinocchio!

An enthusiastic rendition of Happy Birthday rang through the auditorium at the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio as the London audience was informed Gregory Mann, the film’s lead voice actor, had just turned 13. 

EXCLUSIVE: Guillermo del Toro will add a further string to his bow this season as part of the songwriting team behind the music of Pinocchio. Del Toro directs his warm and wild stop-motion animated adaptation of the classic story from Carlo Collodi with Mark Gustafson (Fantastic Mr. Fox). It is a project the Oscar-winning filmmaker has nurtured for years, and he also co-wrote the screenplay with Patrick McHale. The film makes its world premiere at the London Film Festival on Saturday.

Russ Weakland After a stop in Venice earlier this month, Walter Hill’s latest film, “Dead for a Dollar,” headed west for the U.S. premiere. The prolific filmmaker of such movies as “The Warriors,” “48 Hrs.,” “Streets of Rage” and “Red Heat,” was the talk of the evening on Wednesday at the Directors Guild Theater in Los Angeles. The film’s stars Willem Dafoe, Christoph Waltz, Benjamin Bratt and Warren Burke praised the writer-director, already renowned for his revival of the Western genre, for making another Western. Speaking candidly, Dafoe, who last worked with Hill in 1991 on “Streets of Rage,” described the director as a “no-nonsense kind of guy.”

Daniel Craig suits up in a cream suit coat for the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation’s 2022 Pioneer Dinner held at The Beverly Hilton on Wednesday night (September 21) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Woody Allen is not bringing his career as movie director to an end.

For many years now Venice has been a respectful platform for those big-name directors of the 1970s and early ’80s who are happy to go back into the fray long after those juicy studio budgets dried up: Brian De Palma, William Friedkin, Paul Verhoeven, John Carpenter and — to a lesser extent — George Romero all found a home here for their late-period passion projects. Walter Hill, now 80, joins their ranks with an improbably youthful horse opera, and while it shows up the limitations of both writing and shooting a Western in the modern age (concessions to modern sensitivities have to be made, and digital cinematography somehow just doesn’t cut it with the subject matter), it’s nevertheless a wickedly enjoyable genre romp and full of violent surprises.

Willem Dafoe and Christoph Waltz have joined the raft of famous faces making appearances at the Venice International Film Festival. The Hollywood heavyweights were pictured in apparent good spirits, as they arrived for the event on Tuesday evening ahead of the premiere of their film Dead For A Dollar. The pair star in the Western, which is written and directed by Walter Hill, alongside actress Rachel Brosnahan.

can judge a film by its title. Consider “Dead for a Dollar:” It certainly sounds like a Western, doesn’t it? The “dollar” might call to mind some of the classics of the genre, while the “dead” at least promises a few good shoot-outs, a bit of bloody fun.

Dead For A Dollar stars Christoph Waltz, Rachel Brosnahan, Willem Dafoe and Benjamin Bratt pose with director Walter Hill at the film’s photo call during the 2022 Venice Film Festival on Tuesday (September 6).

Pinocchio film directed by Guillermo del Toro is set to receive its world premiere at London Film Festival.The 66th BFI London Film Festival announced today (August 31) that Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio would be among the 22 features receiving a world premiere during the October event.Guillermo del Toro (The Shape Of Water) co-directed the film alongside Mark Gustafson.

Carson Burton Walter Hill, the director behind “The Warriors” and “48 Hrs.,” is the recipient of the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award from this year’s Venice International Film Festival, Cartier and La Biennale di Venezia announced Friday. His new film, “Dead For a Dollar,” will premiere at the festival.“In the film world, one knows it’s a great honor to be invited for a special screening at the Venice Film Festival,” Hill said.

A first look at the upcoming Guillermo del Toro adaption of "Pinocchio" is here. On Wednesday, Netflix released the official trailer for the stop-motion animation film scheduled to be released in December.The film will briefly be played in theaters in November before moving over to the streaming service the following month.

Guillermo del Toro's inspired take on a familiar story on Wednesday, as Netflix shared the first teaser trailer for the Oscar-winning director's stop-motion adaptation of Based on the original fairy tale by Carlo Collodi, and set against the backdrop of 1930s Fascist Italy, the animated film is a stark contrast to the live-action Disney adaptation also set to hit the big screen this fall. As Sebastian J.

Netflix has dropped the teaser trailer for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” the stop-motion animation film based on the classic story of the wooden puppet boy Pinocchio from the Oscar-winning master behind “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “The Shape of Water.” Guillermo del Toro’s take on Pinocchio is naturally far darker, introducing us to the wooden boy’s cricket conscience that is hardly as dapper as Disney’s Jiminy Cricket. But the first trailer has a lot of heart and fantasy, too; del Toro aims to tell “a story you may think you know, but you don’t.” Here’s the full synopsis, per Netflix:Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro 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.

The teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro‘s Pinocchio just debuted online!

Wilson Chapman editorPinocchio is coming to life. A new trailer for director Guillermo del Toro’s animated film version of the classic tale has been released by Netflix.“From my many wanderings on this earth, I had so much to say about imperfect fathers and imperfect sons,” Ewan McGregor’s Sebastian J.

Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz will portray legendary Old Hollywood director Billy Wilder in a biographical film from director Stephen Frears, the film’s producer Jeremy Thomas announced Monday. “Billy Wilder and Me” is part coming-of-age-story and part true-life portrait about a young woman who begins working with Wilder during the filming of “Fedora” on a Greek island in 1977. But as she continues with him to Germany to continue the shoot, she finds herself joining him on a journey into the memory of his family history.

Christoph Waltz is to lead Stephen Frears and Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Billy Wilder & Me. 

No Time to Die, as well as movies like the original Top Gun, Call Me By Your Name, and Shaun of the Dead – no matter what you're in the mood for, we think there'll be something on this list to scratch the itch. Meanwhile, over in the UK, you can see Lady Gaga and Adam Driver's Italian accents in House of Gucci, as well as Hacks season 2, which already started airing on HBO in the US a few weeks ago. So, without further ado, scroll on to see everything new releasing on Prime Video this June.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaQuiver Distribution got into the business of producing its own movies out of necessity. “Our goal was to go out and acquire all rights to films and exploit them on as many media as possible,” says Barry Meyerowitz, the company’s co-founder. “But we found out that we couldn’t find as many high quality feature films as we needed, so we started making our own.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterBenjamin Bratt has been cast in the Natasha Lyonne-led Peacock series “Poker Face,” which hails from creator Rian Johnson.Variety has learned exclusively that Bratt is the latest addition to the rapidly expanding cast. Another recently announced cast members include Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stephanie Hsu, and David Castañeda. Plot and character details for the series are being kept largely under wraps, though sources say the show will follow a procedural format and see Lyonne’s character working to solve different murders in each episode.Bratt most recently appeared opposite Rosario Dawson in the HBO Max limited series “DMZ,” which debuted in March on the streamer.

EXCLUSIVE: The Rosenzweig Group is expanding its international client list, with the additions of actors Or Ben-Melech, Faith Omole and Aaron Poole.

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Walter Hill was honored with a Tribute Ceremony in France on Tuesday evening, which marked the opening night of the International Thriller Film Festival – Reims Polar.