"Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" has been talked about as a candidate not just for best animated feature, but for best picture. And according to del Toro, that's not much of a stretch.

Now that Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is streaming on Netflix, EW caught up with the filmmaker to discuss his lifelong love of the story and how he found a personal way into it.

Academy Award winner Guillermo Del Toro has been named the guest artistic director of the 2025 AFI Fest, which is set to take place in late October. Del Toro’s addition to the annual Hollywood film ...

Guillermo del Toro, thank you so much for talking with us. Congratulations on both the journey and the arrival at the destination. DEL TORO: Thank you very much.

Pinocchio has been filming since 2019 at ShadowMachine’s Portland, Oregon-based studio according to The Hollywood Reporter, and is a product of del Toro’s deal with Netflix.

During "Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” on Netflix, Disney’s 1940 version of the old tale doesn’t pop into mind much. The House of Mouse film I kept thinking of was “Bambi.” ...

Here’s the official plot summary: Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reimagines the classic Italian tale of PINOCCHIO in a stop-motion musical adventure.

Guillermo del Toro doesn’t want parents to think his version of “Pinocchio” is a kids’ movie. “People ask us if it is for kids [and] we say, ‘It’s not made for kids but kids can ...

Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific contemporary filmmakers. Since he emerged in the early 1990s in his native Mexico, he has directed, produced, written, and even lent his voice to ...

Given this lifelong rumination, it’s no surprise that “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” currently playing in select theaters before landing on Netflix on Dec. 9, might be darker, weirder ...

Guillermo Del Toro wants his Frankenstein to be more like Pinocchio than a traditional horror story.