Apr 25, 2008 -
LOS ANGELES - Guillermo del Toro is directing “The Hobbit” and its sequel, New Line Cinema announced Thursday. The 43-year-old filmmaker will move to New Zealand for four years to make the films back-to-back with executive producer Peter Jackson.
Del Toro wrote and directed “Pan’s Labyrinth,” which earned six Oscar nominations in 2006 and won three awards.
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Sep 25, 2008 -
Bring it on!
Moviemaker Guillermo Del Toro, best known for the Hellboy series, is set to release a trilogy of vampire stories. Guillermo teamed up with crime writer Chuck Hogan on the three tales, with the first - entitled The Strain - due to hit stores next summer.
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Jun 10, 2008 -
I'm so late on posting this, because...the idea sucks.
New Line mulls 'Orphanage' remake
Del Toro to produce Spanish-language thriller
New Line is in advanced negotiations to take U.S. remake rights to Spanish-language chiller "The Orphanage," with Guillermo del Toro attached to produce the Stateside redo.
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Apr 30, 2008 -
Ian McKellen will reprise the role of the wizard Gandalf in the upcoming movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is set to direct two films based on The Hobbit.
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May 30, 2008 -
The new Lord of the Rings prequel movie The Hobbit, has a director but is still searching for it’s star.
Scottish actor James McAvoy is rumored to be the lead candidate to play the role of hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
The J.R.R.
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Aug 24, 2008 -
I’ve been meaning to watch this one for a long time. I’ve read a many review online singing its praises and I got to agree. I’m really beginning to dig Guillermo del Toro.
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May 27, 2008 -
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Pierrot le fou
JEAN-LUC GODARD (81)
1965 | 110m | Col | France-Italy | Road Movie, Romantic Drama
"This film, with its ravishing colors and beautiful 'Scope camera work by Raoul Coutard, still looks every bit as iconoclastic and fresh as it did when it belatedly opened in the U.S." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Selected by Julian Graffy, Samuel Fuller, Tom Gunning, Dennis Lim, Ty Burr.
Amazon Time Out Roger Ebert
Ikiru
AKIRA KUROSAWA (73)
1952 | 143m | BW | Japan | Drama, Psychological Drama
"An intensely moving film...elegiac and sometimes quirkishly funny in the manner of Kurosawa's elective model, John Ford.
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May 27, 2008 -
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FRITZ LANG (53)
1931 | 99m | BW | Germany | Thriller, Psychological Thriller
"His portrait of a character in turmoil - "Who knows what it's like to be me?" he demands climactically, insisting that "Nobody can be punished for something he can't help" - is a pathological study that has not been equaled." - Judith Christ
Selected by Michael Moore, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ian Christie, Jean-Michel Frodon, Tom Gunning.
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Jul 02, 2007 -
2006
Rated R
Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Álex Angulo
Spanish, with English subtitles
Spanish title: El Laberinto del Fauno
Pan's Labyrinth is a beautiful but very, very dark fantasy movie that takes place in Spain in the 1940's. The movie opens with a fairy tale: immortal young Princess Moanna, whose father is the king of the underworld, is curious about the world above and sneaks to the surface. The sun blinds Moanna and causes her to lose her memory and to become a mortal human.
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Jan 14, 2008 -
With the news of the final Potter film possibly being shown in two parts for "artistic" value it brings up the question of who should film it?
Who would you want to see direct?
For reference here are the past directors......
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