Mary Shelley: Last News

Bel Powley and Douglas Booth are married and there were quite a few celebs in attendance at the wedding!

Like with any great conceptual art, Japanese Breakfast’s ornate effort, For Melancholy Brunettes (and sad women), began with a mood board. In 2023, two years after the release of her last album Jubilee, the indie rock outfit’s Michelle Zauner started collecting the pieces that would shape the world of her new album. She searched out grand and misty paintings from German Romanticism artists like Eduard von Grützner and Caspar David Friedrich, and she read books.

Brent Lang Executive Editor More than 200 years after “Frankenstein” was published, Mary Shelley has never been hotter. The hulking character that the Gothic novelist conjured up — half man, half beast, all monster — will feature prominently in two upcoming movies from A-list directors that debut mere months apart. The first, “Frankenstein,” is courtesy of Guillermo del Toro, a master of the macabre whose credits include “The Shape of Water” and “Crimson Peak.” It launches on Netflix in November and stars Mia Goth and Oscar Isaac.

Although Gene Hackman‘s legacy includes a myriad of masterful dramatic performances, he also managed to elicit some laughs during his storied career.

Murtada Elfadl When a film starts with a quote from Mary Shelley, it’s tempting to predict exactly where the story might be going. Sure enough, “Dead Lover” features the resurrection of a dead creature, and yet, writer-director Grace Glowicki keeps surprising the audience and gives much more than they expected. The characters she creates and the situations she puts them in are bizarrely funny.

Harry Potter movies and Tim Burton’s Batman, Pratt passed away in December 2024, as confirmed via a statement made by the British Society Of Cinematographers (BSC). The statement did not specify the date, location or cause of Pratt’s death.Pratt was born in 1947 in Leicester, and studied at Durham University from 1966.

Although her onscreen star is continuing to rise, Mia Goth might be plotting her directorial debut.

The Shape Of Water director is currently staying in the Scottish city while filming his version of Frankenstein at Dunecht House.The upcoming adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel stars Oscar Isaac in the titular role, while Satlburn‘s Jacob Elordi will play The Monster. Other cast members include Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) and Mia Goth (Pearl).In a series of posts on X/Twitter, del Toro has opened up about his passion for ghost hunting while on location.“Whilst in Aberdeen, I am staying in an old 1800’s hotel. I am in the Most Haunted room of it – which was vacated this morning by one of our producers,” he wrote.

Guillermo del Toro has been sharing updates from a “haunted” hotel in Aberdeen, claiming “there is something in that room with me”.The Shape Of Water director is currently staying in the Scottish city while filming his version of Frankenstein at Dunecht House.The upcoming adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel stars Oscar Isaac in the titular role, while Satlburn‘s Jacob Elordi will play The Monster. Other cast members include Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) and Mia Goth (Pearl).In a series of posts on X/Twitter, del Toro has opened up about his passion for ghost hunting while on location.“Whilst in Aberdeen, I am staying in an old 1800’s hotel.

Award winning director Guillermo del Toro has announced that he is staying in Scotland while filming for his upcoming Frankenstein film is currently underway at a sprawling Aberdeenshire estate.

The real-life Paddington star known for playing Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham to Downton Abbey lovers, Hugh Bonneville is on UK screens from Thursday (June 27) in Douglas is Cancelled.

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upcoming flick “The Bride” in NYC on Tuesday, along with his youngest child, Joseph, 10 — who appears to be playing an extra. The movie will see “The Dark Knight” actor playing Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster.

Nobody will leave writer Diablo Cody’s new horror-comedy “Lisa Frankenstein” shouting “it’s alive!” “It’s amusing,” maybe.The “Juno” scribe’s wacky contribution to the litany of riffs on Mary Shelley’s novel — from Boris Karloff to “Young Frankenstein” and “Frankenweenie” — makes the gothic tale into an 1980s teen sex comedy.Running time: 101 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violent content, bloody images, sexual material, language, sexual assault, teen drinking and drug content). In theaters Feb.

Guillermo del Toro’s forthcoming adaptation of the horror classic Frankenstein.Australian actor Elordi has had a breakthrough year, appearing as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, as well as the aristocratic Felix Catton in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn.Now, it has been confirmed that he will play the role of The Monster in del Toro’s new version of the 1818 Mary Shelley novel.It had already been announced that Oscar Isaac will fill the role of Victor Frankenstein in a cast that is also set to include Mia Goth (Pearl) and Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained), as well as All Quiet on the Western Front’s Felix Kammerer.Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield had initially been lined up to play The Monster, but he left the project after scheduling conflicts were brought about by the SAG-AFTRA actors’ strike last year.Filming on Frankenstein, which is being produced by Netflix, is due to start in February. It will be the Mexican director’s first feature film since 2022’s Pinocchio, and his thirteenth directorial feature overall.

Jacob Elordi will star as Frankenstein’s monster in the new film directed by Guillermo del Toro. “Frankenstein” will premiere on Netflix, and is made up of a star cast that includes Oscar Isaac as the titular scientist and Mia Goth. Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ could star Oscar Isaac and Andrew Garfield7 Hispanic directors you should know aboutElordi’s casting was announced earlier this week after Andrew Garfield dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.

He’s currently the talk of the town in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn which, as well as still playing in some cinemas, is also available on Amazon Prime Video, and now it looks like Jacob Elordi is set to play the monster in Guillermo del Toro’s Dr. Frankenstein. The Dr Frankenstein film has been long in development with del Toro and following delays with the recent strikes, it finally looks like it is set to hit production soon.The news comes via Deadline who reports that Elordi will replace Andrew Garfield on the high-profile project after he left due to scheduling conflicts.

EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley and Christian Convery are set to be a part of the all-star ensemble cast in Guillermo del Toro‘s Frankenstein at Netflix. Elordi will play the iconic monster, replacing Andrew Garfield, who fell out due to strike postponements that led to scheduling conflicts.

Brent Simon In any year, some successful directors carve out artistic identities through a distinctive visual vocabulary, or by repeatedly mining particular themes. But it’s rare, even among highly acclaimed filmmakers, for a director to establish a new cinematic language. Yorgos Lanthimos is on his way to doing just that.

With SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP reaching a tentative agreement on a new contract, our industry’s biggest stars, previously forbidden from participating in the promotion of movies distributed and made by struck studios and streamers, are finally joining the party. 

Benidorm's Bel Powley and Hollywood actor Douglas Booth have tied the knot in a beautiful ceremony in London after being engaged for two years. The couple, who announced their engagement in July 2021, looked overjoyed as friends and family shared snaps of them at their romantic wedding. Bel, 32, looked like a princess in her dress with a fitted bodice, while Douglas, 30, opted for a classic blue suit.