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Among the famous auteurs working today, there are a range of opinions on why one would want to make their film at Netflix, considering the lack of theatrical distribution that comes with working at the streaming service. But director Guillermo del Toro, who won an Oscar with Netflix for his take on \u201cPinocchio\u201d offered a fresh angle on the matter during the press conference for \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d his latest Netflix film, premiering at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me, the battle we are going to find in telling stories is on two fronts. Obviously the size of the screen, but the size of the ideas is very important. The size of the ambition, the size of the artistic hunger that you bring to cinema,\u201d said the Best Director winner. \u201cIt\u2019s a matter of, can we reclaim scale, and reclaim scale of ideas? Can we challenge ourselves to that?\u201d<\/p>\n
More from IndieWire<\/strong><\/p>\n Del Toro has dreamed of making his own \u201cFrankenstein\u201d adaptation since he was a child, but \u201cI always waited for the movie to be done in the right conditions both creatively and in terms of achieving the scope that it needed for me to make it different, to make it at a scale that you could reconstruct the whole world,\u201d he said. Netflix was the studio that finally made that possible, with the film reportedly having a $120 million budget.<\/p>\n The director reminded the audience of festival press that there have been instances in the past where even a fully theatrical release of his did not go the way he envisioned. \u201cYou never know what\u2019s gonna happen. When we released \u2018Nightmare Alley,\u2019 we were released next to \u2018Spider Man [No Way Home]\u2019 and Omicron, the variation of COVID, and we lasted very little, so you never know which format it\u2019s going to be,\u201d said the director.<\/p>\n At least with Netflix, \u201cwhat I do know is to reach over 300 million viewers,\u201d he said. \u201cYou take the opportunity and the challenge to make a movie that can transform itself variably, beautifully, and that evokes the cinema, and then you provide for theaters in the beginning and that makes for me a very creative experience.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFrankenstein\u201dwill receive a limited theatrical release on October 17, 2025, and a global release by Netflix on November 7, 2025.<\/p>\n Best of IndieWire<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Indiewire’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Among the famous auteurs working today, there are a range of opinions on why one would want to make their film at Netflix, considering the lack of theatrical distribution that comes with working at the streaming service. But director Guillermo del Toro, who won an Oscar with Netflix for his take on \u201cPinocchio\u201d offered a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1988419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[103955,23191,358613,309864,327177,333428],"class_list":["post-1988418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-guillermo-del-toro","tag-netflix","tag-netflix-film","tag-press-conference","tag-streaming-service","tag-venice-film-festival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/\u2018The-Size-of-the-Ideas-Is-as-Important-as-the.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}