Guillermo Del Toro's dark fantasy epic Pan's Labyrinth is to be adapted into a stage musical.

The Mexican filmmaker has spent four years developing the show, which will feature a score by Academy Award-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla and lyricist Paul Williams.

Santaolalla tells Deadline.com, "I'm so excited about translating Guillermo's magical vision into music and songs. I'm such a longtime fan of both Guillermo and Paul that to work on this with them is truly a dream come true."

A premiere city or date has not yet been confirmed.

The 2006 movie tells the story of a girl who...

Mexican-born moviemaker Guillermo Del Toro refuses to return to his troubled homeland following the kidnapping of his father in 1998.

The Pan's Labyrinth director fears he and his family will become targets for drug lords seeking ransom money if he goes home.

He tells Time magazine, "I cannot go back to Mexico as a director because of the kidnapping of my father. A film is a highly visible venture, and I can't risk it."

And Del Toro admits he always regrets the fact he can't simply go home: "Every day, every week, something happens that reminds me that I am in involuntary exile... As...

A movie studio in New Zealand which was due to host filming of The Hobbit has been wrecked in a serious fire.

The Portsmouth Miniatures Studio in Wellington was used to film iconic scenes for Peter Jackson's "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy and his monster movie remake "King Kong," and had been booked for use on the upcoming blockbuster, which the director will produce.

Fire crews were called to the building on Friday afternoon and they spent three hours tackling the monstrous blaze, which caused extensive damage to the structure. No one was hurt, according to local reports.

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Creepy comedy family The Munsters are heading back to the small screen in a new TV show with help from director Guillermo del Toro, according to reports.

The original series, starring Fred Gwynne and Yvonne De Carlo, ran for two years between 1964 and 1966 and it spawned several films before it was revived in the 1980s for a spin-off called "The Munsters Today," which ended in 1991.

Now executives at Universal are reportedly planning to bring the ghoulish group back once again, with "Pan's Labyrinth" director Del Toro taking a behind-the-scenes role in the project.

Bosses at TV network N...

The music video for My Chemical Romance's "Desolation Row" has finally made its North American debut. The song, a reinterpretation of the Bob Dylan classic, was recorded specifically for the upcoming feature film Watchmen. Watchmen: Music From the Motion Picture, which contains the song, is due from Warner Sunset/Reprise Records on March 3rd, three days before the film hits theaters nationwide.

The video, which was helmed by Watchmen director Zack Snyder, transports the viewer into the world of Watchmen in an alternate 1985. My Chemical Romance is performing at a dive bar, reigning as...

(Hollywoodchicago) – Hellboy is plugged as the world’s brawniest, kitten-loving superhero. While that paradox is supposed to be both funny and action packed, “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” from famed writer and director Guillermo del Toro falls flat on the funny front and instead winds up on the funny farm.

Amid a superhero-laden 2008 with true blockbusters including “The Dark Knight” (opening on July 18, 2008), “Iron Man,” “Hancock,” “The Incredible Hulk” and “Punisher: War Zone” (opening on Dec. 5, 2008), “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” had just as much potential but reveals only semi-b...

Iron Man has already grossed over $400 million worlwide. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull became the second biggest Memorial Day movie opening ever. With both of these films already in the books, what are the top 10 remaining summer movies to see? This list picks 10 films out of all the remaining movies from now until the end of August. Judging by this list, July looks like it could be one of the biggest months in years.

10. The Incredible Hulk

Release Date: June 13th

Director: Louis Leterrier (Transporter 1 & 2)

It is never a good sign when a franchise n...

Director Guillermo Del Toro was inspired to make horror movies after being so scared as a child he wet himself. The Hellboy 2: The Golden Army filmmaker, 43, can still remember the film that terrified him as a five-year-old.

He says, "When I was a kid I was incredibly scared of a TV show called Night Gallery. I literally peed in my pants when I was about five years old watching it. I lost control of my bladder and peed like a hose."

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With a signature blend of action, humor and character-based spectacle, the saga of the world's toughest, kitten-loving hero from Hell continues to unfold in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Bigger muscle, badder weapons and more ungodly villains arrive in an epic vision of imagination from Oscar®-nominated director Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy).

After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens ...

Paris Hilton was booed as she went onstage to present a preview a clip from her upcoming horror movie at the 2007 Scream Awards in Los Angeles on Friday night.

The hotel heiress took the Greek Theater stage, joined by her Repo! The Genetic Opera! co-stars Bill Moseley and Anthony Head, when some members of the audience decided to express their displeasure at the sight of the former jailbird.

Hilton appeared unfazed by the unwanted attention.

Elsewhere, at the sci-fi and horror-themed ceremony - organized by Spike TV, Harrison Ford was honored with the Hero Award. Transform...

With a signature blend of action, humor and character-based spectacle, the saga of the world's toughest, kitten-loving hero from hell continues to unfold in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Bigger muscle, badder weapons and more ungodly villains arrive in an epic vision of imagination from Oscar®-nominated director Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy).

After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens ...

Hollywood couple Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany are teaming up again on the big screen in psychological thriller Born. Connelly and Bettany married in 2003 after meeting on the set of A Beautiful Mind and have a child together.

The new movie is being directed by Daniel Simpson, who wrote the script with horror author Clive Barker and Paul Kaye, and is being produced by Pan's Labyrinth filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro, Lawrence Gordon and Lloyd Levin.

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CANNES, France (AP) - Martin Scorsese wants to save the world cinema. The Academy Award-winning director said Tuesday it was a ''dream come true'' to launch his international project at the Cannes Film Festival, where his ''Taxi Driver'' won the top prize in 1976.

He's backed by an advisory board of prominent directors, including Mexico's Guillermo Del Toro (''Pan's Labyrinth'') and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (''Babel''); China's Wong Kar-wai (''In the Mood For Love'') and Britain's Stephen Frears (''The Queen.'')

The idea stemmed from the work of The Film Foundation in the Unite...

Mexico's `three amigos' of the movies, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo Del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, have landed a new five-film deal with Universal Pictures. The Latino trio has formed a new production partnership, cha cha cha and the unique venture will partner with Universal for financing, international sales and distribution.

All three filmmakers will direct projects for cha cha cha, while Cuaron's brother Carlos will also submit a movie.

The Mexicans were all double Oscar nominees this year - for the films, Pan's Labyrinth, Babel and Children of Men.

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A young man finds that the moves he learned on the street may help him make a better life for himself in the youth-oriented musical drama Stomp The Yard. Also on DVD: Pan's Labyrinth, Arthur & The Invisibles, and The Fountain.

Superman Returns dominated the 33rd Saturn Awards in Los Angeles yesterday, picking up honors including Best Fantasy Film, Best Director for Bryan Singer and Best Actor for Brandon Routh. The superhero blockbuster also won Best Writing for Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty, and Best Music for John Ottman at the annual awards, presented by the Academy Of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.

Elsewhere, television show Heroes won Best Network TV Series, Best Supporting Actor for Masi Oka, and Best Supporting Actress for Hayden Panettiere.

Natalie Portman picked up Best Actress In ...

Acclaimed fantasy film Pan's Labyrinth swept the board at the Mexican film awards on Tuesday. Director Guillermo Del Toro's movie claimed nine honors at the annual Ariel Awards, Best Picture and Best Director.

One of the film's stars, Spaniard Maribel Verdu claimed the Best Actress prize and the film's cinematography, art direction, original score, makeup, costume design and special effects were also honored.

In his Best Director acceptance speech, del Toro dedicated his award to "the new generation of (Mexican) filmmakers."

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The Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan has signed on to make thriller The Happening in his hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The project will be the first movie he has made since his public falling out with film studio Disney over box-office flop Lady In The Water.

Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox has given the new film the green light. The Happening centers around a family "running from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to mankind." The movie, which Shyamalan also wrote, will be his first R-rated film.

He explains, "(We're) trying to get the kind of i...

Oscar-nominee Guillermo Del Toro had to buy his own Academy Awards suit because he wasn't important enough to get a free one. The filmmaker's movie Pan's Labyrinth picked up three awards and three losing nominations, including Del Toro in the Best Director character.

But he insists he wasn't deemed powerful enough to warrant special treatment - and instead treated himself to his first ever bespoke suit. The 42-year-old says, "First custom suit I ever had. Get it free? No, I paid. Fat foreign filmmaker nominees with Spanish-language movies get no perks."

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Dame Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker were crowned queen and king of the Oscars last night. The stars of The Queen and The Last King of Scotland won Best Actress and Best Actor respectively, while Martin Scorsese won Best Director for The Departed - his first win out of six nominations in the category and 31 years since his first nomination. Full List of Winners Below!

As she accepted her award, Helen, struggling to hold the statuette, said: "I've got my purse in one hand, my earring in the other. Thank you, Academy. You know, my sister told me that all kids love to get gold stars, and...

Minnie Driver, Taylor Dayne and Rosario Dawson were among the stars who gave the Independent Spirit Awards a few musical highlights when they performed quirky songs dedicated to the ceremony's five Best Feature nominees.

Driver paid a musical tribute to fantasy film Pan's Labyrinth by performing a reworked version of "Melanie's Brand New Bicycle," and Dayne sang "Screwed Up Family" to the tune of Sister Sledge's disco anthem "We Are Family" to honor Little Miss Sunshine, while Dawson and Jeremy Renner duetted on "Crack-Head Teacher Man," a reworked version of Aretha Franklin's "Son of...

Little Miss Sunshine got a pre-Oscars boost yesterday after claiming four honors at the Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, including the ceremony's Best Film prize.

The movie, which is up for a handful of honors at today's Academy Awards, also earned moviemakers Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris the Best Director prize, while Alan Arkin claimed the Best Supporting Male award and screenwriter Michael Arndt was also honored.

It was also a good day for Half Nelson, which claimed both lead acting awards, giving Ryan Gosling a boost as he prepared to fight Oscars fa...

Oscar nominated moviemaker Guillermo Del Toro created the magical creatures in his hit film Pan's Labyrinth when he was a child - they visited him at night.

The Hellboy director admits he had a "spiritual" childhood and many of the fauns, goats and creatures he created in Pan's Labyrinth once showed up in his imagination at bedtime.

He explains, "I would be visited by imaginary things. As a kid, I actually saw a goat creature, a faun, coming out from behind my grandmother's dresser. I saw it every night at midnight. The hand of the creature would come first, then I would see hal...

Fantasy movie Pan’s Labyrinth has received 12 nominations for the 49th Ariel Awards in Mexico, including Best Picture and Best Director for Guillermo Del Toro. The Spanish-language film is also nominated for Best Cinematography, while Maribel Verdu is up for Best Actress at the ceremony at Mexico City's Palace Of Fine Arts on March 20th.

A total of 11 Mexican movies will fight for Ariel Awards. Facing Pan's Labyrinth in the Best Picture category is Chronicles, directed by Sebastian Cordero and Francisco Vargas produced by Del Toro and Alfosno Cuaron, and ' The Violin. Both filmmakers ...

Little Miss Sunshine, The Devil Wears Prada and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest topped the list of winners, when a Netflix survey revealed the most memorable movie lines from this season's Academy Award-nominated films and performances.

Inspired by the Academy's great movie quotes theme, the survey queried nearly 5000 devoted Netflix members and resulted in humorous and inspiring quotes from an assortment of popular movies from 2006. In addition to the aforementioned films, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, The Departed and ...

Pan’s Labyrinth writer/director Guillermo Del Toro penned the subtitles for the Spanish-language fantasy film himself because he felt translators did a terrible job of his last movie. The Mexican moviemaker spent a month working on thetranslation after he completed the film, which has landed six Oscar nominations, including Best Foreign Film.

He says, "I wrote the subtitles myself because the last movie I did in

Spanish, Devil’s Backbone, it had subtitles... for the thinking impaired -

incredibly bad. I took about a month with a friend and an assistant working on them, measuring...

The Queen and its star Helen Mirren were the big winners at Saturday's Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), winning the Best Film and Best Actress awards. Elsewhere, Forest Whitaker won the Best Actor prize for Last King Of Scotland, Little Miss Sunshine star Alan Arkin won Best Supporting Actor and Jennifer Hudson won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dreamgirls. Paul Greengrass was named Best Director for his September 11 film United 93.

The ceremony took place at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden. The full list of winners is as follows:

The Academy...

Spoof comedy Epic Movie has topped the US box office after its first weekend of release, taking $19.2 million.

The film lampoons recent movie blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, The Chronicles of Narnia and X-Men, beat off competition from gangster thriller Smokin' Aces, which took $14.3 million.

Family comedy Night At The Museum is still wowing audiences in third place, while new entry Catch And Release entered the charts in fourth place.

Oscar buzz surrounding award hopefuls The Pursuit Of Happyness, Pan's Labyrinth, Dreamgirls and The Queen ensured they all stayed in the to...

Pedro Almodovar's Volver picked up five honors at the Goya Awards in Madrid, Spain last night, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress for Penelope Cruz.

The movie, which had received 14 nominations, also won Best Original Soundtrack for Alberto Iglesias.

On collecting her Best Actress award, Cruz said, "This award is very important, very special for me. I am going to try not to cry because I'm a disaster, and these 30 seconds are not going to be enough."

Pan's Labyrinth, which is nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at next month's Oscars, collected th...

Academy awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 will be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak theatre at Hollywood & highland center, and televised live by the ABC television network at 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST), beginning with a half-hour arrivals segment, “The Road to The Oscars.” Babel is nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture.

Nominations By Category - 79th Awards

Best Motion Picture Of The Year

Babel

The Departed

Letters From Iwo Jima

Little Miss Sunshine

The Queen

Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role

Leonardo Dicaprio -...