Viewed as an effort to get more boys interested in their brand, Disney today announced plans for a new series of darker cartoons produced by Guillermo Del Toro.
Del Toro will produce all the films under the new Double Dare You label and he’ll even direct a few himself, including (one assumes) the first one called [...]

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Here is Charlie Rose’s 7/2/09 interview with director Guillermo del Toro. In addition to del Toros new novel The Strain, the two chat about monsters, Catholicism, the kidnapping of his father, the perils of New Zealand meringue desserts, his desire to adapt The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and his rescue of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros

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After a fruitless 8 month search to find a writer for the upcoming Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit and its followup, executive producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro have decided to write it themselves along with Lord of the Rings co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens.
We already know what Jackson, Walsh [...]

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