London Film Festival Review: ‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio’

Lowry Art Gallery has bought the iconic 1953 LS Lowry painting 'Going to the Match' for £6.6 million. The artwork has been on public display since the gallery opened in 2000 but was not owned by the venue.

Climate activist group Just Stop Oil have explained the reason behind their protest after throwing soup over a famous Van Gogh painting.

Art Brut have declared that from this year forward 27 Oct will be International Art Brut Day, upon which their debut album, ‘Bang Bang Rock & Roll’, will be made available to download for free on Bandcamp. This year (and perhaps others) the band will also play the album in full at Heaven in London.

Krysta Rodriguez (Into The Woods, Spring Awakening) and Erik Jensen (The Exonerated, Coal Country) will complete the cast of the upcoming Broadway production of Anthony McCarten’s The Collaboration starring the previously announced Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope.

Lise Pedersen Film writer and director Lee Chang-dong (“Burning,” “Oasis,” “Peppermint Candy”), one of Korea’s best-known auteur filmmakers who has contributed to putting Korean cinema firmly on the global stage, is guest of honor at the Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, where he was welcomed with a standing ovation.  The Cannes veteran – four out of his six feature films have been screened at the festival and its sidebars – engaged with the audience with characteristic humility on questions of identity, human nature, violence and love, which are central themes to all of his films.  “People sometimes ask me why I always tell stories centered on characters who are suffering. Trust me, I am not sadistic,” he smiled. “But it takes us back to the notion of family [which is central to all my films]: I grew up in a poor family, and I’m familiar with suffering,” he said. 

Hollywood star Brad Pitt, 58, has explained how taking up sculpting helped him to channel his “pain” following his divorce from ex-wife Angelina Jolie, 47.The Bullet Train actor recently debuted his first ever collection of sculpture at an art gallery in Finland, marking a move away from focusing solely on his acting career.Brad has recalled bonding with artist Thomas Houseago back in 2016 over their “mutual misery”, several months after officially splitting from Eternals actress Angelina.The pair were both dealing with difficult personal issues at the time, but Brad explained how their “mutual misery” had ultimately transformed into a “flame of joy”. Brad met Thomas at a New Year's Eve party in 2016 and, while the Fight Club star was dealing with the breakdown of his marriage, the pair had also both faced problems with alcohol in the past. “Our mutual misery became comic,” Brad reflected. “And out of this misery came a flame of joy in my life.

Ryan Reynolds is adding another accolade to the list.

Katie Reul editor The 66th annual British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival announced winners Saturday evening for a competition group representing a diverse selection of stories ranging from period pieces to eerie thrillers. Writer-director Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage,” was recognized with the festival’s highest honor — the best film award — continuing the historical drama’s festival praise after lead actress Vicky Krieps was awarded the Un Certain Regard best performance prize at Cannes. Set during Christmas in 1877, “Corsage” follows Empress Elizabeth as she attempts to find liberation from the stifling conformity of her stuffy, image-focused lifestyle as a Vienna royal. Though the film is in part based on the historical figure, who reigned for 44 years, artistic deviations are made in the former ruler’s story.

“All good things require patience,” Gepetto (David Bradley) lovingly tells his young son, Carlo (Gregory Mann). The exact same words must have been uttered by Guillermo del Toro to himself countless times over the fourteen years he spent working on his dream project, a stop-motion adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s 1886 classic tale, “The Adventures of Pinocchio.” The Mexican auteur, a well-known lover and supporter of animation, first fell in love with the tale of the wooden puppet who wished to be a real boy when he was a boy himself, going to the local cinema with his mother in Guadalajara (“Animation is a medium, not a genre.

Hailey Bieber was a sight for sore eyes on Saturday night upon her arrival at the star-studded Academy Museum Gala, which was held at the museum's headquarters in Los Angeles.The model, 25, wowed in a slinky brown cut-out dress that allowed her to flaunt in toned tummy.It hugged her slender frame as she made her way down the red carpet. Wow! Hailey Bieber was a sight for sore eyes on Saturday night upon her arrival at the star-studded Academy Museum Gala, which was held at the museum's headquarters in Los AngelesWith a sun-kissed glow and sleek hair, Hailey was the picture of effortless glam.A jeweled choker around the influencer's neck sparkled under the lights.

Alexandra Daddario leaned into edgy glam as she arrived at the second annual Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday night.The White Lotus star, 36, let her ample cleavage shine in a plunging white gown with a striking fishnet top adorned with small pearls.It flowed over the entire chest, as well as down the back of the dress. Edgy: Alexandra Daddario leaned into edgy glam as she arrived at the second annual Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday nightHer sleek brunette hair was swept up in a stylish top knot and her blue eyes were amped up with bold black eyeliner.Alexandra's pale complexion had a soft baby pink flush and her lips were painted a flattering nude pink shade.

Guy Lodge Film Critic The possessive claim in the title “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” is a gutsy one. There’s confidence — some would even say arrogance — in filming an oft-told story at least as old as the hills, and suddenly branding it as your own: Even two auteurs as ballsy as Francis Ford Coppola and Baz Luhrmann didn’t slap their own names on “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” and “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet,” respectively. Still, you can hardly blame del Toro’s stop-motion spin on Carlo Collodi’s 19th-century chestnut “The Adventures of Pinocchio” for wanting to advertise its distinguishing vision up top: After umpteen tellings of the wooden-boy tale, and coming on the heels of Robert Zemeckis’ wretched Disney remake, Netflix’s rival adaptation has to announce itself as something different. That it is; it’s often delightful too.

Mark Wahlberg and his funky bunch have left California!

Perhaps best known for his role as Rubeus Hagrid in eight Harry Potter films, Robbie Coltrane OBE was a larger-than-life character whose presence was immediately evident whenever he graced the screen.

Activists from Just Stop Oil have been arrested after throwing tins of soup over Vincent Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery - and then gluing themselves to a nearby wall.

Naman Ramachandran Indonesia’s KawanKawan Media has partnered with Singapore’s Momo Film Co on Nelson Yeo’s “Dreaming & Dying” and Duong Dieu Linh’s “Don’t Cry Butterfly,” it was revealed at this week’s Asian Contents & Film Market, held on the sidelines of the Busan International Film Festival. “Dreaming & Dying,” about three middle aged individuals who are forced to confront their inner demons as a long-buried love triangle between them resurfaces, is currently in production. Yeo said: “ ‘Dreaming & Dying’ is the accumulation of my obsession with dreams and memories. Primarily, it is about how we choose to remember things in our own ways, and as time passes, that fantasy becomes the reality.”

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are proud parents to their three kids, Michael, Lola, and Joaquin Consuelos, and they've all definitely taken after them in some way or the other.MORE: Kelly Ripa opens up about discovering third pregnancy and Mark Consuelos' reactionMichael and Lola, in particular, have followed their parents into the arts, with the former studying filmmaking and the latter in music production, both at NYU.VIDEO: Kelly Ripa's son Joaquin shares glimpse into lavish family vacationWhile Joaquin left the family home for the University of Michigan for their wrestling program, he has more in common with his parents than you'd think.In her book, Live Wire, Kelly discussed how her kids eventually left for university, and wrote about her youngest son's interest in the arts as well.MORE: Kathie Lee Gifford reveals reason she won't read Kelly Ripa's new book"As a wrestler, he interviewed virtually with athletic coaches," she penned, also adding that he had the acting bug, just like his parents."As a burgeoning actor, he auditioned for the various drama departments, virtually.

'Terrifier 2' audiences fainted during screenings in the US last week. The long-awaited sequel to the 2016 controversial horror sees maniacal mime Art the Clown butcher and main unsuspsecting victims on Halloween and the first showings of the movie sparked extreme reactions from audiences, with some cinemagoers vomiting due to its "brutal depictions of horror". Producers have issued a warning about the film's "graphic" content to ensure viewers are fully prepared for what they are about to see.

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success on their hit HBO series Silicon Valley, Mike Judge and Alec Berg have found their next comedy to partner on. Sources tell Deadline Picturestart is financing and will produce Automated Trucking, a new feature film comedy based on an original idea from Judge and Berg. Judge will direct with Rob Turbovsky and Matteo Borghese penning the script.