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Guillermo Del Toro's 'Pinocchio' To Be Animated And Produced By ShadowMachine

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EXCLUSIVE: ShadowMachine has come aboard to produce and steer the animation for Pinocchio, the stop-motion animated movie that is being co-directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson. Del Toro wrote the script with Matthew Robbins and Grimly, based on the classic Carlo Collodi book. They join the Jim Henson Company and are running the pre-production, production and post-production from ShadowMachine’s Los Angeles studios. It is a coup for the boutique studio, which…

‘Pinocchio’-Inspired Live-Action Film Being Developed At Disney

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EXCLUSIVE: Yet another live-action version of a tried-and-true Disney fairy tale is wending its way to the big screen. Peter Hedges is penning a feature loosely based on the original Pinocchio story about a marionette carved from wood who dreams of becoming a real boy. Pinocchio gets his wish but is prone to stretching the truth, and each time he does, his nose grows longer. The story is really about the relationship between a father and son, the ramifications of lying…

Paul Thomas Anderson Takes Crack At ‘Pinocchio’

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Hollywood’s passion for revisionist public domain fairy tales is drawing some seriously unusual bedfellows. The Master and Inherent Vice writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has taken on a rewrite job scripting Pinocchio for Warner Bros. and Team Downey. Robert Downey Jr has long been passionate about his take culled from the classic 1883 children’s book by Carlo…

Willis Pyle Dies: ‘Pinocchio’, ‘Fantasia’&‘Bambi’ Animator Was 101

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Animator Willis Pyle, whose long career saw him working on the Disney classics Pinocchio, Bambi and Fantasia as well as on the cartoon series Mr. Magoo, died June 2 in his New York Home. He was 101; his family made the news public. Born in 1914 in Lebanon, KS, Pyle studied art at the University of Colorado, afterward moving to Los Angeles where in 1937 he found work as an office boy delivering supplies to animators at Disney. By 1940 he had moved up to assistant animator…

Toni Servillo & Matteo Garrone Reteam For ‘Pinocchio’

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Italian actor Toni Servillo, who's known for his role in the Foreign-Language Oscar winner The Great Beauty, is set to star in Matteo Garrone's new imagining of the classic tale Pinocchio. He'll play the wooden puppet's father Geppetto, reteaming him with Garrone for the first time since the duo worked together on the 2008 Cannes Film Festival hit Gomorrah. Rarely revisited since the 1940 Disney classic, Garrone’s live-action version will take an “artisanal approach…

Sam Mendes In Early Talks To Direct Disney’s Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’

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EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes is in early talks to direct Disney’s live-action Pinocchio; Chris Weitz wrote the current version of the script and will also be producing through his production company, Depth of Field. The move would push forward yet another live-action reboot of the old tried and true animated classic for the studio. Disney’s feature film strategy has been working well as its live-action Beauty And The Beast has made $1.2 billion worldwide and the photorealistic Th…

‘Paddington’s Paul King In Talks To Direct Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’ For Disney

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Paddington movie director Paul King is in talks to direct the live-action version of Pinocchio based on the 1940 Disney classic of the same name. Wonder screenwriter Jack Thorne is scripting and the studio wants to put it before the cameras this fall. Pinocchio is just the latest in a long string of movies coming out of the library — re-imagined and finding box office gold. Just last year Disney released the live-action version of Beauty and the Beast which ended up with…

Guillermo Del Toro Sets His Stop Motion Animated ‘Pinocchio’ Film At Netflix

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In his first feature deal to direct since The Shape of Water won him Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, Guillermo del Toro has made a deal with Netflix to co-direct his stop-motion animated passion project Pinocchio. Del Toro has pined to make a darker version of the wooden boy tale for the past decade. He has written the script with Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall and Adventure Time), and will co-direct with Mark Gustafson (Fantastic Mr. Fox). Guy Davis will…

Roberto Benigni To Star As Geppetto In Matteo Garrone’s Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’

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Oscar winner Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) has been set to star as Geppetto in Gomorrah and Dogman director Matteo Garrone’s live action version of Pinocchio. Garrone will direct his own screenplay, an adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic about a living puppet who with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. Geppetto is the puppet’s creator. Benigni wrote, directed as starred as the title character in a 2002…

Carlo Giuffre Dies: Italian Actor From ‘Pinocchio’ Was 89

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Carlo Giuffre, who is best known for his role as Geppetto in Roberto Benigni’s live-action 2002 adaptation of Pinocchio, died in Rome November 1. He was 89. Born in Naples, Italy on December 3, 1928, Giuffre was a star of stage and screen. After attending the National Academy of Dramatic Arts Silvio D’Amico he made his stage debut with the company of Eduardo De Filippo. He would continue his work with De Filippo through the ’80s. Giuffre may have been known for Pinocchio, …

Don Lusk Dies: Disney Animator On ‘Fantasia’&‘Bambi’ Who Later Worked At Hanna-Barbera Was 105

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Don Lusk, an animator and director who worked on Disney classics including Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio before moving to Hanna-Barbera in the 1960s, died Sunday. He was 105. His longtime friend Navah-Paskowitz Asner, announced the news on social media. Born on October 28, 1913, in Los Angeles, Lusk was just 20 when he joined the Walt Disney Company just after the Great Depression, as its animation studio was riding high on Mickey Mouse shorts. He would work on those…

‘Pinocchio’: First Look At Roberto Benigni In Italian Live-Action Movie From Matteo Garrone, Rai, Le Pacte, RPC & Leone

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Here’s a first look at Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful) as Geppetto in writer-director Matteo Garrone’s (Dogman) update of classic Italian fairytale Pinocchio.  Shoot began on March 18, 2019 in Italy and will continue for 11 weeks. Garrone’s Italian-language French-Italian co-production is produced by Archimede, Rai Cinema and Le Pacte, along with Recorded Picture […]

Disney Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’ Has Robert Zemeckis Circling To Direct

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In the wake of a string of bombs, i.e. last Christmas’ Welcome to Marwen ($13M) and the Brad Pitt-Marion Cotillard WWII spy romance Allied ($120M off an $85M production cost), Forrest Gump Oscar winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is in early talks to direct a live-action version of Pinocchio for Disney. It’s the same kind of career rebound […]

‘Little Women’ Composer Alexandre Desplat Brings Mix Of Mozart & David Bowie To Coming-Of-Age Drama

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On Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, composer Alexandre Desplat was asked to bring a sense of vital modernity to a classic tale. When the two-time Oscar winner spoke with Gerwig about the film early on, he was met with a memorably bold and specific brief. “She said, ‘I’d like the score to be a mix of […]

Robert Zemeckis Closes Deal To Direct & Co-Write Disney’s Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’

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It’s official. Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is fully aboard Disney’s live-action remake of its animated classic Pinocchio. He’ll direct, and co-write the next draft with Chris Weitz for a possible year-end production start. Casting is still being determined. Zemeckis and Weitz will write off the previous draft that the latter penned with Simon Farnaby. The original […]

Disney Eyeing Tom Hanks To Play Geppetto In Robert Zemeckis’‘Pinocchio’

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EXCLUSIVE: After earning an Oscar nomination for playing Mister Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Tom Hanks is zeroing in on another children’s favorite. We are hearing that he is in early negotiations to play Geppetto in Disney and Robert Zemeckis’ live-action retelling of Pinocchio. Although insiders say negotiations are very early, we […]

Cate Blanchett, Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton & More Round Out Cast For Guillermo del Toro Netflix ‘Pinocchio’ Movie

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Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion animated musical movie Pinocchio for Netflix has set its cast with newcomer Gregory Mann in the title role, Ewan McGregor as Cricket and David Bradley (Harry Potter franchise, Game of Thrones) as Geppetto. Other cast includes Oscar winners Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz and Cate Blanchett; Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things); […]

Matteo Garrone & Roberto Benigni’s ‘Pinocchio’ Lands U.S. Deal With Roadside

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Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. wide theatrical release rights to Pinocchio, the live-action take on the classic tale from Matteo Garrone and starring Roberto Benigni. The deal was struck with HanWay Films. No release date set yet in the U.S., but the film was released in December 2019 in its home country Italy and other […]

Roberto Benigni’s New ‘Pinocchio’ Movie Going Wide This Holiday Season

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EXCLUSIVE:  Roadside Attractions is opening Roberto Benigni’s new Pinocchio movie from filmmaker Matteo Garrone on Christmas Day stateside on 2,000 screens. It’s more good news for those theaters which are braving the Christmas holiday. This past Thanksgiving proved that families will venture out during the pandemic where they feel safe and head to the movies; Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s The […]

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Will Try To Use Whatever Remaining Superpowers Over Christmas For Starving U.S. Exhibitors – Box Office Preview

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Typically, we’ve avoided weekend box office previews during the pandemic as there’s been nothing to pump up from a potential ticket sales outlook, however, Warner Bros.’ release of $200M tentpole sequel Wonder Woman 1984 merits a line, particularly with its unorthodox theatrical day and date HBO Max streaming plan on Christmas Day. Don’t expect much is […]
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