It’s been four years since Guillermo del Toro‘s Academy Award-dominating “The Shape of Water,” and following that win, the Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker is back with his new film, “Nightmare Alley,” a reimagining of a 1940a noir about seduction, treachery, deception, gaslighting, manipulation and more, starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett.
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The film features an ensemble cast that includes Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, and David Strathairn, arguably the biggest all-star cast of 2021.
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The film features an ensemble cast that includes Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, and David Strathairn, arguably the biggest all-star cast of 2021.
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- 9/16/2021
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
What happens when you win the Best Picture for your surreal but enchanting and romantic woman-falls-for-a-Merman movie? Well, if you’re Guillermo del Toro and your movie is “The Shape Of Water,” you get a kind of blank check for your next project and a whole hell of a lot of actors that probably already wanted to work with you, lining up to work with you. Case in point, after “Shape Of Water,” del Toro was able to make “Nightmare Alley,” and the cast?
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- 9/14/2021
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Bradley Cooper quickly racked up eight Oscar nominations over the course of just seven years, but he hasn’t won yet. However, this year he has two chances for acting prizes: Best Actor for Guillermo Del Toro‘s “Nightmare Alley” and Best Supporting Actor for an as yet untitled Paul Thomas Anderson film. Those happen to be our top two Oscar contenders for Best Picture according to our early odds. So could he end up with two nominations? And if so, could he win one or both of them?
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It’s crucial to preface all this by pointing out that Del Toro and Anderson’s films haven’t screened for press or audiences yet, so everything could change once they see the light of day. But with Del Toro hot off...
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It’s crucial to preface all this by pointing out that Del Toro and Anderson’s films haven’t screened for press or audiences yet, so everything could change once they see the light of day. But with Del Toro hot off...
- 9/3/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
After a year that marked a record number of women nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards (albeit only two), it looks like Jane Campion could throw her cowboy hat into the ring — again! Twenty-eight years after she made her Oscars debut with “The Piano” (1993), becoming the third woman to win solo for Best Original Screenplay and the second ever nominated for Best Director (after Lina Wertmuller for “Seven Beauties”), she hopes to continue achieving Oscar feats with her new film “The Power of the Dog.”
Judging from the teaser trailer that recently released and the critical reception it’s getting from the Venice Film Festival, audiences can expect strong performances courtesy of Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and Jesse Plemons against a backdrop of the tense wild west. Based on the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage, “The Power of the Dog” is set in 1920s Montana where a pair of brothers,...
Judging from the teaser trailer that recently released and the critical reception it’s getting from the Venice Film Festival, audiences can expect strong performances courtesy of Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and Jesse Plemons against a backdrop of the tense wild west. Based on the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage, “The Power of the Dog” is set in 1920s Montana where a pair of brothers,...
- 9/3/2021
- by Nick Ruhrkraut
- Gold Derby
There may be no director more embedded in Film Twitter than Guillermo del Toro, who expresses his adoration for cinema–from gems both beloved and lost to history, to championing modern directors from all of the world. So, it should be no surprise, that word has it he’s staging a reunion of the stars from one of Film Twitter’s most enduring favorites, Todd Haynes’ Carol.
With Bradley Cooper set to lead the director’s reimagining of the William Lindsay Gresham-penned Nightmare Alley (which Edmund Goulding turned into a 1947 film) as con man Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, Cate Blanchett has now come on board the film, according to Variety. Collider then broke the news of the impressive supporting cast he’s eying to lock down, including Blanchett’s Carol co-star Rooney Mara, as well as Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins, Willem Dafoe, Michael Shannon, Ron Perlman, and Mark Povinelli.
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With Bradley Cooper set to lead the director’s reimagining of the William Lindsay Gresham-penned Nightmare Alley (which Edmund Goulding turned into a 1947 film) as con man Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, Cate Blanchett has now come on board the film, according to Variety. Collider then broke the news of the impressive supporting cast he’s eying to lock down, including Blanchett’s Carol co-star Rooney Mara, as well as Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins, Willem Dafoe, Michael Shannon, Ron Perlman, and Mark Povinelli.
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- 8/4/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The next film project that Guillermo del Toro is directing is a new thriller called Nightmare Alley and he’s looking to fill it up with an all-star cast of actors!
Bradley Cooper was already cast in the film in the lead role and he will most likely be joined by Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Povinelli. According to Collider, all these actors are currently in talks. What an incredible cast that would be!
The film will be an adaptation of the 1946 novel about an “ambitious young con-man who hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more corrupt than he is. At first, they enjoy success fleecing people with their mentalist act, but then she turns the table on him, out-manipulating the manipulator.”
This is the synopsis from the book:
Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description...
Bradley Cooper was already cast in the film in the lead role and he will most likely be joined by Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Povinelli. According to Collider, all these actors are currently in talks. What an incredible cast that would be!
The film will be an adaptation of the 1946 novel about an “ambitious young con-man who hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more corrupt than he is. At first, they enjoy success fleecing people with their mentalist act, but then she turns the table on him, out-manipulating the manipulator.”
This is the synopsis from the book:
Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description...
- 8/2/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Guillermo del Toro‘s return to directing is attracting some serious talent. New reports indicate Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Michael Shannon, and more are all in being considered or are in talks to join del Toro’s Nightmare Alley cast. Bradley Cooper is already set to star in the adaptation of the novel of the same name, about […]
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- 8/2/2019
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
We were just talking about how Guillermo del Toro was knocking it out of the park with his first two stars that are reportedly involved with his upcoming film, “Nightmare Alley.” But now, it appears that even more incredible talents are also being looked at for potential roles in the follow-up to the filmmaker’s Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water.”
According to Collider, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, and Mark Povinelli are all being looked at by del Toro as people he wants to co-star in his period film “Nightmare Alley.”
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The film is said to be based on the novel of the same name by author William Lindsay Gresham and the report says the film “follows roustabout Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, who joins a traveling carnival...
According to Collider, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, and Mark Povinelli are all being looked at by del Toro as people he wants to co-star in his period film “Nightmare Alley.”
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The film is said to be based on the novel of the same name by author William Lindsay Gresham and the report says the film “follows roustabout Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, who joins a traveling carnival...
- 8/2/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
After winning the 2018 Academy Award for Best Picture for his sci-fi romance The Shape Of Water, you can be sure that Hollywood is hungry to sink their teeth into filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's next star-studded affair. As it happens, a remake of Nightmare Alley is the in-demand director's next major project, and today we've learned that Cate Blanchett is in talks to star alongside…...
- 8/2/2019
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Two-time Academy Award-winning Aussie icon Cate Blanchett is currently in talks to join Guillermo del Toro’s next project as director, “Nightmare Alley,” Variety reports. The follow-up to “The Shape of Water,” which earned the Mexican auteur Best Director and Best Picture Oscars, will also star Bradley Cooper. As previously reported, Cooper replaced Leonardo DiCaprio earlier this summer.
Del Toro is developing “Nightmare Alley” at Fox Searchlight, the studio that took “The Shape of Water” all the way at the 2018 Academy Awards. Del Toro is working with screenwriter Kim Morgan to adapt William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 true crime pulp novel of the same name.
The novel was previously adapted by director Edmund Goulding in 1947, but sources close to del Toro’s film say this iteration of “Nightmare Alley” is not a remake of that film, but rather, a faithful interpretation of Gresham’s text.
The novel plunges us into the...
Del Toro is developing “Nightmare Alley” at Fox Searchlight, the studio that took “The Shape of Water” all the way at the 2018 Academy Awards. Del Toro is working with screenwriter Kim Morgan to adapt William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 true crime pulp novel of the same name.
The novel was previously adapted by director Edmund Goulding in 1947, but sources close to del Toro’s film say this iteration of “Nightmare Alley” is not a remake of that film, but rather, a faithful interpretation of Gresham’s text.
The novel plunges us into the...
- 8/2/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
When you win Oscars, suddenly you’re able to get the cream of the crop to star in your films. At least, that appears to be the case for filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. While he’s never been one to struggle to find big names for his casts, the filmmaker appears to have already outdone himself for the upcoming film “Nightmare Alley,” as he’s courting Cate Blanchett to star in the film.
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- 8/2/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Cate Blanchett is in talks to star in Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming “Nightmare Alley,” starring alongside Bradley Cooper, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Del Toro is directing the film and wrote the script along with Kim Morgan, and Fox Searchlight is handling worldwide distribution rights. Del Toro is also producing along with J. Miles Dale of Tsg Entertainment, and he’s additionally financing the project.
“Nightmare Alley” is the story of a corrupt con man who teams up with a female psychiatrist to swindle people out of money, up until the point that they double cross one another.
The story is based on a novel by William Lindsay Gresham and was first adapted into a Fox film in 1947 directed by Edmund Golding and starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell and Coleen Gray. However, del Toro’s film will adhere more closely to the original novel.
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Del Toro is directing the film and wrote the script along with Kim Morgan, and Fox Searchlight is handling worldwide distribution rights. Del Toro is also producing along with J. Miles Dale of Tsg Entertainment, and he’s additionally financing the project.
“Nightmare Alley” is the story of a corrupt con man who teams up with a female psychiatrist to swindle people out of money, up until the point that they double cross one another.
The story is based on a novel by William Lindsay Gresham and was first adapted into a Fox film in 1947 directed by Edmund Golding and starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell and Coleen Gray. However, del Toro’s film will adhere more closely to the original novel.
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- 8/2/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Cate Blanchett is in talks to star opposite Bradley Cooper in Guillermo del Toro and Fox Searchlight’s adaptation of “Nightmare Alley.”
The production is eyeing a shooting start at the top of 2020.
Del Toro will direct the pic and co-wrote the script with Kim Morgan. “Nightmare Alley” is being produced and financed by del Toro and J. Miles Dale with Tsg Entertainment, with Fox Searchlight acquiring worldwide distribution rights to the film.
While Fox made a “Nightmare Alley” movie in 1947, this film will be based moreso on the William Lindsay Gresham novel of the same name. The 1947 movie starred Tyrone Power as an ambitious young con-man who teams up with a female psychiatrist who is even more corrupt than he is. At first, they enjoy success fleecing people with their mentalist act, but then she turns the tables on him, out-manipulating the manipulator.
After “The Shape of Water” went on to win several Oscars,...
The production is eyeing a shooting start at the top of 2020.
Del Toro will direct the pic and co-wrote the script with Kim Morgan. “Nightmare Alley” is being produced and financed by del Toro and J. Miles Dale with Tsg Entertainment, with Fox Searchlight acquiring worldwide distribution rights to the film.
While Fox made a “Nightmare Alley” movie in 1947, this film will be based moreso on the William Lindsay Gresham novel of the same name. The 1947 movie starred Tyrone Power as an ambitious young con-man who teams up with a female psychiatrist who is even more corrupt than he is. At first, they enjoy success fleecing people with their mentalist act, but then she turns the tables on him, out-manipulating the manipulator.
After “The Shape of Water” went on to win several Oscars,...
- 8/2/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Cate Blanchett is in talks to join Bradley Cooper in the Guillermo del Toro-directed remake of Nightmare Alley.
Fox Searchlight, which made del Toro's best picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water, is behind the project.
Nightmare Alley will be based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham, which was adapted into a Fox feature in 1947 that starred Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. The story centers on an ambitious con man who hooks up with a female psychiatrist for a mentalist routine, but she eventually turns the tables on him.
Del Toro wrote the new ...
Fox Searchlight, which made del Toro's best picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water, is behind the project.
Nightmare Alley will be based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham, which was adapted into a Fox feature in 1947 that starred Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. The story centers on an ambitious con man who hooks up with a female psychiatrist for a mentalist routine, but she eventually turns the tables on him.
Del Toro wrote the new ...
Cate Blanchett is in talks to join Bradley Cooper in the Guillermo del Toro-directed remake of Nightmare Alley.
Fox Searchlight, which made del Toro's best picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water, is behind the project.
Nightmare Alley will be based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham, which was adapted into a Fox feature in 1947 that starred Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. The story centers on an ambitious con man who hooks up with a female psychiatrist for a mentalist routine, but she eventually turns the tables on him.
Del Toro wrote the new ...
Fox Searchlight, which made del Toro's best picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water, is behind the project.
Nightmare Alley will be based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham, which was adapted into a Fox feature in 1947 that starred Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. The story centers on an ambitious con man who hooks up with a female psychiatrist for a mentalist routine, but she eventually turns the tables on him.
Del Toro wrote the new ...
As a director, screenwriter, author, and artist, renaissance man Guillermo del Toro has created magical works of art both on and off the screen that will endure and inspire future generations. It's more than fitting, then, that the passionate Oscar-winning filmmaker is being presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 6th.
J.J. Abrams and Lana Del Rey will join President & CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Rana Ghadban, at the unveiling of del Toro's star, and fans will be able to watch the ceremony at www.walkoffame.com on August 6th at 11:30am Pst, just a couple of days before del Toro's latest project, Scary Stores to Tell in the Dark (directed by André Øvredal), haunts theaters. For more details, we have the official press release from the Hollywood Walk of Fame:
"The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that film...
J.J. Abrams and Lana Del Rey will join President & CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Rana Ghadban, at the unveiling of del Toro's star, and fans will be able to watch the ceremony at www.walkoffame.com on August 6th at 11:30am Pst, just a couple of days before del Toro's latest project, Scary Stores to Tell in the Dark (directed by André Øvredal), haunts theaters. For more details, we have the official press release from the Hollywood Walk of Fame:
"The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that film...
- 7/30/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Guillermo del Toro has written 33 screenplays, but only directed 10 to date. But he’s keen to make up for lost ground, including the recently greenlit Netflix picture “Pinocchio,” his animated feature film directing debut that will be set in 1930s fascist Italy.
Certain common themes run throughout Del Toro’s films, many linked to his childhood influences.
In an in-depth conversation with American journalist and co-screenwriter Kim Morgan at the Marrakech Film Festival, he offered a riveting stream of personal revelations, ranging from the monsters that haunted his crib to his aborted video-game projects with Hideo Kojima, and his upcoming projects “Pinocchio” and “Nightmare Alley.”
Wiping away a tear from his eye while watching the final scene from “The Shape of Water” Del Toro captivated the local Moroccan audience, saying “I have a kinship with Morocco that’s amazing. Perhaps it’s thanks to my couscous god. I feel at home with the people,...
Certain common themes run throughout Del Toro’s films, many linked to his childhood influences.
In an in-depth conversation with American journalist and co-screenwriter Kim Morgan at the Marrakech Film Festival, he offered a riveting stream of personal revelations, ranging from the monsters that haunted his crib to his aborted video-game projects with Hideo Kojima, and his upcoming projects “Pinocchio” and “Nightmare Alley.”
Wiping away a tear from his eye while watching the final scene from “The Shape of Water” Del Toro captivated the local Moroccan audience, saying “I have a kinship with Morocco that’s amazing. Perhaps it’s thanks to my couscous god. I feel at home with the people,...
- 12/4/2018
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
On the December 13, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film writers Chris Evangelista and Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest news, including Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, our reaction to the Annihilation trailer, Rian Johnson tells us the story of how Disney agreed to his new Star Wars trilogy, American […]
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- 12/14/2017
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Guillermo del Toro may have recently made a film about a god of the seas, but the Mexican-American director is the king of unfinished projects. The Shape of Water director has announced that he will be helming a new project, a remake of the 1947 noir Nightmare Alley. But to add more to his ever-growing slate, del […]
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- 12/13/2017
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
Guillermo del Toro has jumped on board a couple new film projects since The Shape of Water landed seven Golden Globe nominations this week. The film projects are set up at Fox Searchlight and he's looking to produce one of them and co-write and direct the other.
The film he's producing is a supernatural film called Antlers, and the studio is currently in talks with Scott Cooper (Hostiles, Out of the Furnace, Black Mass) to direct it. Apparently, Del Toro is a fan of Cooper's work and has been wanting to work with him. This will definitely be a different kind of project for Cooper.
Antlers is based on a short story called "The Quiet Boy" by Antosca and the script was penned by Henry Chaisson and Nick Antosca. The horror story follows "a young teacher who discovers that her troubled student’s father and younger brother harbor a deadly supernatural secret.
The film he's producing is a supernatural film called Antlers, and the studio is currently in talks with Scott Cooper (Hostiles, Out of the Furnace, Black Mass) to direct it. Apparently, Del Toro is a fan of Cooper's work and has been wanting to work with him. This will definitely be a different kind of project for Cooper.
Antlers is based on a short story called "The Quiet Boy" by Antosca and the script was penned by Henry Chaisson and Nick Antosca. The horror story follows "a young teacher who discovers that her troubled student’s father and younger brother harbor a deadly supernatural secret.
- 12/13/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Nick Harley Dec 13, 2017
Following The Shape Of Water, Guillermo del Toro has lined up a pair of new film to add to his slate...
With The Shape of Water earning rave reviews and racking up seven Golden Globe nominations, Fox Searchlight is raring to get back into bed with director Guillermo del Toro, pushing two of his gestating projects into development, according to Variety.
Though the sale of 20th Century Fox to Disney is looming and the future of Fox Searchlight could be up in the air, the studio is nonetheless in negotiations with Scott Cooper (Hostiles) to direct the del Toro-produced supernatural film Antlers. Apparently, the two are fans of each other and were eager to collaborate on a project.
In other del Toro news, the prolific director has laid out plans to write and direct a remake of the 1947 carnival-set thriller Nightmare Alley.
“I am delighted to continue...
Following The Shape Of Water, Guillermo del Toro has lined up a pair of new film to add to his slate...
With The Shape of Water earning rave reviews and racking up seven Golden Globe nominations, Fox Searchlight is raring to get back into bed with director Guillermo del Toro, pushing two of his gestating projects into development, according to Variety.
Though the sale of 20th Century Fox to Disney is looming and the future of Fox Searchlight could be up in the air, the studio is nonetheless in negotiations with Scott Cooper (Hostiles) to direct the del Toro-produced supernatural film Antlers. Apparently, the two are fans of each other and were eager to collaborate on a project.
In other del Toro news, the prolific director has laid out plans to write and direct a remake of the 1947 carnival-set thriller Nightmare Alley.
“I am delighted to continue...
- 12/13/2017
- Den of Geek
Fresh off leading yesterday’s Golden Globe nominations in seven categories with The Shape of Water, writer/director Guillermo Del Toro has announced not one, but two upcoming projects! The first is a supernatural film called Antlers, which he will produce and Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart and Black Mass) is attached to direct. The second is a remake of the 1947 film-noir Nightmare Alley, which del Toro plans to direct himself and cowrite with Kim Morgan, according to Variety. Antlers was written by Henry Chaisson and Nick Antosca and is based on a short story by Antosca. It follows a teacher who tries to protect one of her students after learning a disturbing secret about his family. It sounds like an intense ride for...
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- 12/13/2017
- by J.S. Lewis
- Movies.com
Following the release of perhaps his most well-received movie to date, Guillermo del Toro is wasting no time lining up future projects.
Variety reports that del Toro is looking to team up with Fox Searchlight Pictures once again for a remake of Edmund Goulding's 1947 film noir Nightmare Alley. While the project is still in the early stages of development, del Toro is reportedly attached to direct and produce from an adapted screenplay he plans to write with Kim Morgan.
Del Toro is also staying busy on the producing side with the new film Antlers, which could be helmed by Scott Cooper (Black Mass, Out of the Furnace), who is in talks with Searchlight to helm the supernatural film adaptation of Nick Antosca's short story "The Quiet Boy."
Here's what del Toro had to say about continuing to work with Fox Searchlight:
“I am delighted to continue the producing...
Variety reports that del Toro is looking to team up with Fox Searchlight Pictures once again for a remake of Edmund Goulding's 1947 film noir Nightmare Alley. While the project is still in the early stages of development, del Toro is reportedly attached to direct and produce from an adapted screenplay he plans to write with Kim Morgan.
Del Toro is also staying busy on the producing side with the new film Antlers, which could be helmed by Scott Cooper (Black Mass, Out of the Furnace), who is in talks with Searchlight to helm the supernatural film adaptation of Nick Antosca's short story "The Quiet Boy."
Here's what del Toro had to say about continuing to work with Fox Searchlight:
“I am delighted to continue the producing...
- 12/12/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
(c) New Line, Courtesy Everett Collection Fresh off leading yesterday’s Golden Globe nominations in seven categories with The Shape of Water, writer/director Guillermo Del Toro has announced not one, but two upcoming projects! The first is a supernatural film called Antlers, which he will produce, with Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart and Black Mass) attached to direct. The second is a remake of the 1947 film-noir Nightmare Alley, which Del Toro plans to direct himself and co-write...
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- 12/12/2017
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Guillermo del Toro keeps packing his schedule for his year long sabbatical away from directing. The filmmaker has already penciled in interviews with Michael Mann and George Miller, though he’s not quite sure what he’ll do with the results just yet. Now, he’s adding two more projects to his slate.
Variety reports that del Toro has signed up co-write and direct a remake of the 1947 film noir, “Nightmare Alley.” The classic film stars Tyrone Power as a swindling carnival barker who eventually gets outmatched by a woman with an equally strong scheming streak.
Continue reading Guillermo del Toro Directing Noir Remake ‘Nightmare Alley,’ Producing Scott Cooper’s ‘Antlers’ at The Playlist.
Variety reports that del Toro has signed up co-write and direct a remake of the 1947 film noir, “Nightmare Alley.” The classic film stars Tyrone Power as a swindling carnival barker who eventually gets outmatched by a woman with an equally strong scheming streak.
Continue reading Guillermo del Toro Directing Noir Remake ‘Nightmare Alley,’ Producing Scott Cooper’s ‘Antlers’ at The Playlist.
- 12/12/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Two obscure Robert Wise titles reach Blu-ray release this month, both direct follow-ups to some of the auteur’s more iconic works. First up is 1962’s Two for the Seesaw, a romantic drama headlined by Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine following the famed 1961 title West Side Story. But the decade prior would fine Wise unveiling one of his most stilted efforts, The Captive City (1952), a sort-of noir procedural which followed his sci-fi social commentary The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). Providing John Forsythe with his first starring role (a performer who would find his most famous roles decades later on television, as Blake Carrington in “Dynasty,” and of course, the famous voice in “Charlie’s Angels”), it has to be one of the most unenthusiastic renderings of organized crime ever committed to celluloid. A scrappy journalist defies the mob ruled police force and a slick Mafia boss in a tired...
- 1/5/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Jules Dassin didn’t do much in the way of subversion. At least not cinematically. He didn’t have many overarching themes to his work, he didn’t twist his genre films into something they weren’t. What he did was utilize every one of the handful of tools he was given, and pushed his films to their absolute breaking point. His subversion was a sort of perversion, an excess of imagination and a willingness to show the world as he saw it. If that meant creating a filmography that looked suspicious to the House Committee of Un-American Activities, well, that was just the natural result of having an eye and an ear for how the common man lived.
It can’t have helped that his last film before the blacklist order came down was Thieves’ Highway, an all-out indictment of capitalism cloaked in the noir-drenched mode of a typical Fox gritty,...
It can’t have helped that his last film before the blacklist order came down was Thieves’ Highway, an all-out indictment of capitalism cloaked in the noir-drenched mode of a typical Fox gritty,...
- 12/1/2015
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
BAMcinématek
This is the final weekend for marathon screenings of Out 1. We highly recommend taking the plunge.
Museum of the Moving Image
“Lonely Places: Film Noir and the American Landscape” highlights a different atmosphere of the noir picture, and it makes its case with some great films. Out of the Past shows on Friday; Saturday...
BAMcinématek
This is the final weekend for marathon screenings of Out 1. We highly recommend taking the plunge.
Museum of the Moving Image
“Lonely Places: Film Noir and the American Landscape” highlights a different atmosphere of the noir picture, and it makes its case with some great films. Out of the Past shows on Friday; Saturday...
- 11/13/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Coleen Gray in 'The Sleeping City' with Richard Conte. Coleen Gray after Fox: B Westerns and films noirs (See previous post: “Coleen Gray Actress: From Red River to Film Noir 'Good Girls'.”) Regarding the demise of her Fox career (the year after her divorce from Rod Amateau), Coleen Gray would recall for Confessions of a Scream Queen author Matt Beckoff: I thought that was the end of the world and that I was a total failure. I was a mass of insecurity and depended on agents. … Whether it was an 'A' picture or a 'B' picture didn't bother me. It could be a Western movie, a sci-fi film. A job was a job. You did the best with the script that you had. Fox had dropped Gray at a time of dramatic upheavals in the American film industry: fast-dwindling box office receipts as a result of competition from television,...
- 10/15/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Coleen Gray actress ca. 1950. Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror 'classic' Actress Coleen Gray, best known as the leading lady in Stanley Kubrick's film noir The Killing and – as far as B horror movie aficionados are concerned – for playing the title role in The Leech Woman, died at age 92 in Aug. 2015. This two-part article, which focuses on Gray's film career, is a revised and expanded version of the original post published at the time of her death. Born Doris Bernice Jensen on Oct. 23, 1922, in Staplehurst, Nebraska, at a young age she moved with her parents, strict Lutheran Danish farmers, to Minnesota. After getting a degree from St. Paul's Hamline University, she relocated to Southern California to be with her then fiancé, an army private. At first, she eked out a living as a waitress at a La Jolla hotel...
- 10/14/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Coleen Gray actress ca. 1950. Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror 'classic' Actress Coleen Gray, best known as the leading lady in Stanley Kubrick's film noir The Killing and – as far as B horror movie aficionados are concerned – for playing the title role in The Leech Woman, died at age 92 in Aug. 2015. This two-part article, which focuses on Gray's film career, is a revised and expanded version of the original post published at the time of her death. Born Doris Bernice Jensen on Oct. 23, 1922, in Staplehurst, Nebraska, at a young age she moved with her parents, strict Lutheran Danish farmers, to Minnesota. After getting a degree from St. Paul's Hamline University, she relocated to Southern California to be with her then fiancé, an army private. At first, she eked out a living as a waitress at a La Jolla hotel...
- 10/14/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
James Quandt in the new issue of Artforum on Jafar Panahi's Taxi: "That the director of such teeming, expansive works as The Circle (2000) and Offside (2006) should find himself limited to the confines of a car may seem lamentable, but Taxi has illustrious cab-bound ancestors, most obviously Ten (2002) by Panahi’s mentor, Abbas Kiarostami, as well as Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth (1991). And with the intrepid Panahi in the driver’s seat as both novice cabbie and veteran filmmaker, spatial restrictions predictably provide ample opportunity for formal innovation." Also today: David Bordwell on Edmund Goulding's Nightmare Alley, La Furia Umana on Manoel de Oliveira—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/1/2015
- Keyframe
James Quandt in the new issue of Artforum on Jafar Panahi's Taxi: "That the director of such teeming, expansive works as The Circle (2000) and Offside (2006) should find himself limited to the confines of a car may seem lamentable, but Taxi has illustrious cab-bound ancestors, most obviously Ten (2002) by Panahi’s mentor, Abbas Kiarostami, as well as Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth (1991). And with the intrepid Panahi in the driver’s seat as both novice cabbie and veteran filmmaker, spatial restrictions predictably provide ample opportunity for formal innovation." Also today: David Bordwell on Edmund Goulding's Nightmare Alley, La Furia Umana on Manoel de Oliveira—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/1/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Actor who flourished during the 40s in films like Kiss of Death and Nightmare Alley, as well as Kubrick’s celebrated heist movie, has died
One of the last links to the glory years of the Hollywood film noir, Coleen Gray, has died at the age of 92. Gray was best known for her roles in the 1940s thrillers Kiss of Death and Nightmare Alley, both released in 1947 by 20th Century Fox for whom she was a contracted player, and for Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing, almost a decade later.
Related: Coleen Gray obituary
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One of the last links to the glory years of the Hollywood film noir, Coleen Gray, has died at the age of 92. Gray was best known for her roles in the 1940s thrillers Kiss of Death and Nightmare Alley, both released in 1947 by 20th Century Fox for whom she was a contracted player, and for Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing, almost a decade later.
Related: Coleen Gray obituary
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- 8/5/2015
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor who was often cast as the understanding girlfriend or steadfast wife in film noirs of the 1940s and 50s such as Kiss of Death and The Killing
The 2001 book Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir contained interviews with six female stars of the genre who were at their peak in the 1940s and 50s. One surprising inclusion was Coleen Gray, who has died aged 92. Surprising because she was seldom cast as a femme fatale in the classic film noirs in which she appeared.
In fact, Gray, with her pretty features, slightly pointed nose and wide eyes, was often the only ethical or innocent element in the dark, doom-laden crime dramas. In Kiss of Death (1947), she is the understanding girlfriend of an ex-con (Victor Mature), helping him to make a new life. In Nightmare Alley (1947), she is the steadfast wife and partner of Stan (Tyrone Power) in a carnival mind-reading act,...
The 2001 book Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir contained interviews with six female stars of the genre who were at their peak in the 1940s and 50s. One surprising inclusion was Coleen Gray, who has died aged 92. Surprising because she was seldom cast as a femme fatale in the classic film noirs in which she appeared.
In fact, Gray, with her pretty features, slightly pointed nose and wide eyes, was often the only ethical or innocent element in the dark, doom-laden crime dramas. In Kiss of Death (1947), she is the understanding girlfriend of an ex-con (Victor Mature), helping him to make a new life. In Nightmare Alley (1947), she is the steadfast wife and partner of Stan (Tyrone Power) in a carnival mind-reading act,...
- 8/5/2015
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Coleen Gray ca. 1950. Coleen Gray dead at 92: Leading lady in early Stanley Kubrick film noir classic Actress Coleen Gray, best known for Stanley Kubrick's crime drama The Killing, has died. Her death was announced by Classic Images contributor Laura Wagner on Facebook's “Film Noir” group. Wagner's source was David Schecter, who had been friends with the actress for quite some time. Via private message, he has confirmed Gray's death of natural causes earlier today, Aug. 3, '15, at her home in Bel Air, on the Los Angeles Westside. Gray (born on Oct. 23, 1922, in Staplehurst, Nebraska) was 92. Coleen Gray movies As found on the IMDb, Coleen Gray made her film debut as an extra in the 20th Century Fox musical State Fair (1945), starring Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews. Her association with film noir began in 1947, with the release of Henry Hathaway's Kiss of Death (1947), notable for showing Richard Widmark...
- 8/4/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Nightmare Alley
Written by Jules Furthman
Directed by Edmund Goulding
U.S.A., 1947
A carny cons his way up to high society through cold-reading and (un)timely circumstance. Based on that one-liner, who would you cast? If you say Tyrone Power, I’d say that my friend Stan Carlisle is on his way (The name Stan Carlisle being a con-industry handshake of sorts, informing one con-artist that he’s stepping in on another man’s con, or at least according to Eddie “The Czar of Noir” Muller’s introduction of this film at Tcmff). In Nightmare Alley, Tyrone Power, the 20th Century Fox matinee idol, plays a lowlife con man, who lies and cheats his way from a podunk carnival to becoming a spiritualist amongst the more gullible of Chicago’s upper crust. His character is also the namesake of the above con slang.
And any which way, yes, Tyrone Power...
Written by Jules Furthman
Directed by Edmund Goulding
U.S.A., 1947
A carny cons his way up to high society through cold-reading and (un)timely circumstance. Based on that one-liner, who would you cast? If you say Tyrone Power, I’d say that my friend Stan Carlisle is on his way (The name Stan Carlisle being a con-industry handshake of sorts, informing one con-artist that he’s stepping in on another man’s con, or at least according to Eddie “The Czar of Noir” Muller’s introduction of this film at Tcmff). In Nightmare Alley, Tyrone Power, the 20th Century Fox matinee idol, plays a lowlife con man, who lies and cheats his way from a podunk carnival to becoming a spiritualist amongst the more gullible of Chicago’s upper crust. His character is also the namesake of the above con slang.
And any which way, yes, Tyrone Power...
- 4/17/2015
- by Diana Drumm
- SoundOnSight
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a 40th anniversary screening of “Young Frankenstein” with special guests Mel Brooks, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr and executive producer Michael Gruskoff on Tuesday, September 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Film historian Leonard Maltin will introduce the comedy classic and host a live onstage discussion with Brooks, Leachman, Garr and Gruskoff.
“Young Frankenstein,” Brooks’s 1974 homage to the Golden Age of monster movies, features a large ensemble cast including Leachman, Garr, Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars and Gene Hackman. It earned Oscar® nominations for Adapted Screenplay (Wilder, Brooks) and Sound (Richard Portman, Gene Cantamessa).
Additional Academy events coming up in September at the Bing Theater in Los Angeles are listed below, with details at www.oscars.org/events:
“Let There Be Fright: William Castle Scare Classics”
The...
“Young Frankenstein,” Brooks’s 1974 homage to the Golden Age of monster movies, features a large ensemble cast including Leachman, Garr, Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars and Gene Hackman. It earned Oscar® nominations for Adapted Screenplay (Wilder, Brooks) and Sound (Richard Portman, Gene Cantamessa).
Additional Academy events coming up in September at the Bing Theater in Los Angeles are listed below, with details at www.oscars.org/events:
“Let There Be Fright: William Castle Scare Classics”
The...
- 8/25/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Nightmare Alley
Written by Jules Furthman
Directed by Edmund Goulding
U.S.A., 1947
Who can tell when they are being conned? Or lied to for that matter? Some people are blessed (or cursed) with a potentially dangerous gift, that of being able to fool their way into earning other people’s confidence. It is a perverse talent to say the least, a double-edged sword. When caught in a rut, the ability to smooth talk one’s way to calmer shores is commendable, but when the same talents are applied by someone with far fewer moral scruples, then the consequences may ultimately prove painful for both the con victim and the artist. Nightmare Alley, directed by Edmund Goulding, is a bit of an anomaly within film noir for its setting and the sort of protagonist the story evolves around. In fact, the case can be made that he is more antagonist than protagonist.
Written by Jules Furthman
Directed by Edmund Goulding
U.S.A., 1947
Who can tell when they are being conned? Or lied to for that matter? Some people are blessed (or cursed) with a potentially dangerous gift, that of being able to fool their way into earning other people’s confidence. It is a perverse talent to say the least, a double-edged sword. When caught in a rut, the ability to smooth talk one’s way to calmer shores is commendable, but when the same talents are applied by someone with far fewer moral scruples, then the consequences may ultimately prove painful for both the con victim and the artist. Nightmare Alley, directed by Edmund Goulding, is a bit of an anomaly within film noir for its setting and the sort of protagonist the story evolves around. In fact, the case can be made that he is more antagonist than protagonist.
- 9/21/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Stephen King's new novel, Joyland (review here), is set to release on June 4th, and we had a chance to chat with the book's editor, Charles Ardai.
Ardai, who is also a producer on the TV show "Haven," spoke about the upcoming release and what fans can expect, working with Stephen King, and lots more.
Amanda Dyar: First off, can you tell us how you got involved with Joyland and why fans should pick it up?
Charles Ardai: In 2005, Hard Case Crime was fortunate enough to get to publish a new book by Stephen King called The Colorado Kid. We stayed in touch on and off over the next 8 years, and at one point Steve sent me email saying he’d just finished writing another book he thought might be right for us, and would I like to take a look. Would I? I’d have walked...
Ardai, who is also a producer on the TV show "Haven," spoke about the upcoming release and what fans can expect, working with Stephen King, and lots more.
Amanda Dyar: First off, can you tell us how you got involved with Joyland and why fans should pick it up?
Charles Ardai: In 2005, Hard Case Crime was fortunate enough to get to publish a new book by Stephen King called The Colorado Kid. We stayed in touch on and off over the next 8 years, and at one point Steve sent me email saying he’d just finished writing another book he thought might be right for us, and would I like to take a look. Would I? I’d have walked...
- 6/3/2013
- by Amanda Dyar
- DreadCentral.com
This week on Dead Air Shawn Savage and Jeff Konopka tackle the new Tim Burton feature Dark Shadows. While I do not believe either gentleman was a fan of the original or simply have not had the chance to get into it, each found something to appreciate about the movie. It’s not a perfect movie by any measure. With the recent loss of Jonathon Frid I hope it at least gets noticed by a few folks who would like to celebrate the life of the great horror soap opera of the recent age. I myself will be waiting for it to arrive safely on cable television where I already pay too much anyway rather than spending another dollar at the theater for a potentially sub-par release. I myself am just a wee itty bitty fan boy of the original. Having your heartbroken at no additional charge is always better...
- 5/28/2012
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
Neil Gaiman and Jim Thompson bonded by Scam Fiction?
It’s all a scam, isn’t it?
My alarm goes off in the morning and I eat some cereal some marketer scammed me into thinking tastes good and is good for me. I wash myself with products I’ve been scammed into thinking will make me more pleasant company. I buy cigarettes I’ve scammed myself into thinking won’t really shorten my life from a convenience store clerk who scams me into thinking I’m paying a fair price. I go to my day-job and scam my boss into thinking I’m working hard just as he scams me into thinking my paycheck is as much as I deserve. Then I come home and attempt to scam you fine people into thinking I know what I’m talking about when it comes to crime fiction.
But of course, you’re too smart for that.
It’s all a scam, isn’t it?
My alarm goes off in the morning and I eat some cereal some marketer scammed me into thinking tastes good and is good for me. I wash myself with products I’ve been scammed into thinking will make me more pleasant company. I buy cigarettes I’ve scammed myself into thinking won’t really shorten my life from a convenience store clerk who scams me into thinking I’m paying a fair price. I go to my day-job and scam my boss into thinking I’m working hard just as he scams me into thinking my paycheck is as much as I deserve. Then I come home and attempt to scam you fine people into thinking I know what I’m talking about when it comes to crime fiction.
But of course, you’re too smart for that.
- 4/1/2012
- by Jimmy Callaway
- Boomtron
Hack Job, written and directed by James Balsamo, is a horror/comedy about two hardcore horror fans, James and Mike. Tired of art films taking way the credit that horror films deserve, the duo receives a script from the Devil to make the greatest horror film ever made. The script consists of three short stories, the first about Nazi’s who waken a mummy’s curse, the second, a tale about an alien that crashes a battle of the bands, and finally a story about a man who gets possessed and starts killing televangelists.
When does a movie stray from being purposely bad to being an authentically bad movie? This question has been haunting me ever since I finished watching Hack Job. It seems as if this movie was meant to be a satire look at the industry, but in the end, it missed its mark for me and quickly...
When does a movie stray from being purposely bad to being an authentically bad movie? This question has been haunting me ever since I finished watching Hack Job. It seems as if this movie was meant to be a satire look at the industry, but in the end, it missed its mark for me and quickly...
- 12/30/2011
- by Ted Brown
- The Liberal Dead
This year's AFI Fest opens this evening in Los Angeles with Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, closes on November 10 with Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's The Adventures of Tintin and, as the Playlist is reporting today, the festival will host the world premiere of Steven Soderbergh's Haywire on Sunday: "Haywire marks the big screen debut of Mma fighter Gina Carano, who takes the lead in the gritty spy thriller written by Lem Dobbs (The Limey) about Mallory Kane, a black ops soldier on a mission of revenge after she's double crossed by one of her teammates. As usual, Soderbergh has assembled a crackerjack ensemble that includes Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton, Michael Angarano, Matthieu Kassovitz and Antonio Banderas… 'People really get hit in this film and they get hurt,' the director told us this summer." Update: The Playlist's headline's been tweaked; Haywire...
- 11/4/2011
- MUBI
AFI Fest 2011 Guest Artistic Director Pedro Almodóvar has selected the following classic thrillers to be presented at the festival: Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle rouge, Edmund Goulding's Nightmare Alley, and Robert Siodmak's The Killers. Why this particular quartet? "Because in some way, albeit tangentially, they have a relationship with my present." Eyes Without a Face, in which a doctor uses the skin of young women to help restore the face of his disfigured daughter, certainly has some elements in common with Almodóvar's latest, The Skin I Live In. Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli shine in this creepily poetic classic. The crime thriller Le Cercle rouge stars Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volonté, and veteran Bourvil. Starring Tyrone Power as a carnival shyster, Nightmare Alley is less an outright thriller than a dark melodrama; it was also a box-office disappointment at...
- 10/25/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
As guest artistic director of the 2011 AFI Fest, Pedro Almodóvar has selected a program of four classic thrillers that will screen during the event. Almodóvar's choices are Georges Franju's "Eyes Without a Face," Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Cercle Rouge," Edmund Goulding's "Nightmare Alley" and Robert Siodmak's "The Killers." Almodovar said he chose the films "because in some way, albeit tangentially, they have a relationship with my present." In addition, AFI ...
- 10/25/2011
- Indiewire
A few weeks back it was announced that "The Skin I Live In" director Pedro Almodóvar had been tapped by AFI Fest to serve as Guest Artistic Director. It's been an eclectic couple of years for the position, as David Lynch served in the position's inaugural year. The festival just sent out a release announcing Almodóvar's selected classic horror films and thrillers to be screened in a sidebar program. They include Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Cercle Rouge," Georges Franju's "Eyes without a Face," Edmund Goulding's "Nightmare Alley" and Robert Siodmak's "The Killers." The quartet joins Almodovar's own "Law of Desire," which was previously announced as a...
- 10/25/2011
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
As you would expect, Pedro Almodovar's selection of films as guest artistic director at this November's AFI Fest is absolutely fabulous. (His current release The Skin I Live In, starring Antonio Banderas, is playing well in art houses.) Besides Almodovar's already planned screening of his own Law of Desire, which will play during AFI's Evening With Pedro Almodóvar Gala presentation on Monday, November 7, accompanied by Banderas, the flamboyant Spanish auteur's program of classic horror films and thrillers are all must-sees for any cinephile: Eyes Without a Face, (Georges Franju, 1960), Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970), Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947) and The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946). And they all make perfect sense as movies that influenced Almodovar's own aesthetic. The filmmaker wrote up ...
- 10/25/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Below you will find a list of movie that Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright has never seen. Not long ago Wright went out and asked his friends and fans to recommend some movies they thought he may have missed over the last thirty years of his life. He got recommendations from Quentin Tarantino, Daniel Waters, Bill Hader, John Landis, Guillermo Del Toro, Joe Dante, Judd Apatow, Joss Whedon, Greg Mottola, Schwartzman, Doug Benson, Rian Johnson, Larry Karaszeski, Josh Olson, Harry Knowles and hundreds of fans on this blog.
From these recommendations, Wright created a master list of recommended films that were frequently mentioned. The director now wants the fans to choose which of the films on the list he should watch on the big screen.
Wright is holding a film event at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles called Films Edgar Has Never Seen.
From these recommendations, Wright created a master list of recommended films that were frequently mentioned. The director now wants the fans to choose which of the films on the list he should watch on the big screen.
Wright is holding a film event at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles called Films Edgar Has Never Seen.
- 10/18/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Edgar Wright's latest epic project [1] has him partnering with Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, Joss Whedon, Bill Hader, Guillermo Del Toro, Joe Dante, Greg Mottola, Harry Knowles, Rian Johnson and, probably, several of you. Like all of us, Wright has a bunch of classic and cult films he's never seen. Unlike all of us, he has the means to see them for the first time on the big screen and will do just that in December [2] at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles during Films Edgar Has Never Seen. The director of Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World asked both his famous friends (some of which are listed above) and fans to send in their personal must see lists and, from those titles, Wright came up with one mega list from which he'll pick a few movies to watch December 9-16. After the jump check...
- 10/18/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
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