Pacific Rim is the giant monsters fighting giant mech suit movie that Guillermo Del Toro started work on when his adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness went the way of the Great Old Ones. In a recent interview with Wired he mentioned that filming had begun and that his old pal Ron Perlman (Hellboy) would be joining the cast. We start shooting Nov. 14 on...

To celebrate Halloween Live for Films is having a horror movie review each night in the 31 Days of Horror. You can see last years 31 days here. You can be involved by sending me your review of a horror film – new, old, good, bad, depressing, funny, disgusting, psychological. As long as it can be classed as a horror then you can send it over to me...

Science fiction and horror combine in time for Halloween as MIMIC: SPECIAL EDITION, from superstar director Guillermo Del Toro, is released on Blu-ray in the UK for the first time on 31 October, 2011, courtesy of Studiocanal. The U.S. Blu-ray debut is on September 27th Originally released in 1997, this effectively creepy sci-fi horror was Del Toro’s first...

Blackwood Manor has new tenants. While architect Alex Hurst (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) restore their Gothic mansion’s period interiors, Alex’s young daughter Sally (Bailee Madison)–neglected by her real mother and brushed aside by the careerist father–can investigate the macabre history and dark corners of...

Guillermo Del Toro was all set to film the adaptation of H P Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Live for Films had even had a poster design challenge for the film (check out the winner here). Then Universal pulled the plug due to the budget. Sadly it appeared that the project would be no more. However, Del Toro still loves the project and, in a...

In alternate version of Earth in the near future, decades after a historic date in November 2012 when the first kaiju, a towering Godzilla-like beast, emerged from a hole in the Pacific Ocean and attacked the city of Osaka, Japan. The second is “The Anteverse,” another universe on the other side of that gaping portal, 5 miles below our ocean’s...

Guillermo Del Toro produced Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. It stars Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce. It tells the story of a young girl who moves into a creepy New England mansion with her father (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend (Katie Holmes). She discovers a secret basement and ventures into...

Many of the big studios have decided not to attend this years San Diego Comic Con as the geek vote does not readily convert into box office takings. Scott Pilgrim I am looking at you. However Legendary Pictures, with Warner Brothers) will be there with four films. According to Dark Horizons, Pacific Rim will have a panel with director Guillermo del Toro, writer...

- Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Schriver have separated after 25 years of marriage – more - Johnny Depp will star in a remake of The Thin Man to be directed by Rob Marshall. Who will play the Myrna Loy character? – more - Brett Ratner is down to direct an adaptation of The 39 Clues. A series of children’s books about a big mystery...

Guillermo Del Toro is busy prepping Pacific Rim (check out the synopsis here for what sounds like it could be a Power Rangers movie) and plans to shoot it in September. In a recent interview with MovieWeb he mentions that there are currently no plans for Hellboy 3, but that he may see if they can get At the Mountains of Madness made at a different studio since...