Month: September 2021

A new Guillermo del Toro show is now in production.Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images) Audiences are about to get a peek into the twisted mind of Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro—actually, eight peeks, to be precise. Netflix just announced the cast and crew for a new show called Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. It’s a series of genre-bending stories, curated by The Shape of Water and Pan’s Labyrinth director, loaded with different stars and filmmakers. Filming on the show just began in Toronto, Canada. According to the press release the show features “a collection of unprecedented and genre-defining stories meant to challenge our traditional notions of horror. From macabre to magical, gothic to grotesque or classically creepy, these eight equally sophisticated an...

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Simu Liu stars as Shang-Chi in Marvel's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings." Disney When "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" debuts in theaters Friday, it will be the first time a Marvel film will be shown exclusively in cinemas since the pandemic began, but it is its absence in a key international market that has box-office analysts talking. "Shang-Chi" is the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe not to be granted approval for distribution in China, and only the second not to be released in the country. The underlying controversy seems to stem from the film's casting and the perception of the comic book series that "Shang-Chi" is based on. The absence from the Chinese box office means "Shang-Chi" is leaving a large sum of money on ...

Wheel Of Time Photo: Amazon After years of attempted developments—including one very strange late-night broadcast that Amazon would probably prefer everyone on the planet promptly forget about entirely—the first look at the retail giant’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s Wheel Of Time books is finally here. Amazon’s big, expensive fantasy adaptation (which isn’t its other, bigger, expensive-er fantasy adaptation) stars Rosamund Pike as Moraine, a powerful witch who’s hunting for the young Chosen One who’s destined to save the world from darkness—or maybe just blow the whole thing up. (The prophecies remain annoyingly unclear.) Will she find him? Will the Dark One (evil) get shoved back into the prison he’s peeking his big, dark head out of? Will someone tug their braid, smooth their skirt...

VENICE — Denis Villeneuve, the director of “Dune,” wanted to apologize in advance. “This will be a long answer,” he said, “because of the Champagne.” We were at the Hotel Excelsior on Wednesday night for the lavish opening-night dinner of the Venice Film Festival, where the bubbly flowed freely, guests like Isabelle Huppert and Jane Campion supped on pink prawn tartare, and a wide array of major films — including “Dune,” Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel,” the Princess Diana drama “Spencer” and Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” — all waited to make splashy debuts on the Lido over the next week and a half. Though Venice was one of the few major film festivals to mount an in-person edition in 2020, this year’s program is significantly more robust. Many consider Venice to be the kickoff to a...