Guillermo del Toro

Although extremely early plans for a third Hellboy film were teased last summer, nothing definitive has, as of yet, materialized. Today, in conversation with IGN, leading man Ron Perlman reaffirms his belief that a new adventure should hit the big screen sooner rather than later.

"[Del Toro and I] both walked away from 'Hellboy 2' agreeing that there would never be another one," he says. "But, with the passage of time, it became clear to me that he really always designed it as a trilogy. [Guillermo] has a very well-articulated idea of what the resolve would look like and it's amazingly theatrical and is epic in scope and would make for amazing cinema, with or without the first two movies."

The Strain continues to build momentum as Guillermo del Toro winds up his Pacific Rim promotional campaign and prepares to direct the Strain pilot for FX before moving on to Crimson Peak.

The latest on the Strain-front?  Well, yesterday, Corey Stoll joined the cast and, today, we're learning that Kevin Durand will also appear in the pilot.

Durand was on Lost for a bit and appeared in Real Steel and Cosmopolis.

One of Guillermo del Toro's many gestating projects is the Dark Universe project detailing the darker characters from the DC Universe.

Though the film started out as a rumor, Del Toro liked the idea enough to make it a reality.  Speaking with Total Film, Del Toro says the film is on the right track.

Updated: Gris Grimly offers a clarifying statement; head inside for that.

The 3D stop motion-animated re-imagining of Pinocchio was something that was always on our radar because Guillermo del Toro was on board as a co-director (with Michael Gustafson).  We didn't track the project's every move, but we brought you the major updates.  And this morning, we have some bad news.  

Writer Gris Grimly took to Twitter to post a brief progress report (his tweets appear to have been removed, but the fellas at Bleeding Cool had 'em).  

The first read: "Short to the point update on Pinocchio for those inquiring: It appears that this is not the right time for such a superior-adventurous flick."

But why?

Syfy's longest-running unscripted series, Ghost Hunters, goes Hollywood for its ninth season premiere on Wednesday, January 16 at 9 PM ET/PT with two Los Angeles-based investigations and a Twitter takeover by famed film director Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy series, Pan's Labyrinth), executive producer of Universal Pictures' upcoming supernatural thriller, Mama.

In the Season 9 Ghost Hunters premiere episode, "Hollywood Horror Stories," which airs at 9 PM ET/PT, Jason Hawes leads TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) on spooky Los Angeles investigations at the historic Sowden House - said to be the site where Elizabeth Short, aka "The Black Dahlia," was gruesomely murdered - and Madame Tussauds Hollywood.

First rumored by Latino Review last fall, IGN has now confirmed with Guillermo del Toro that plans are underway for a DC Comics ensemble film that will star quite a few of the company's supernatural characters. Similar in lineup to the current "Justice League Dark" series, the film version is being developed with the title Dark Universe and has just hired a mystery writer.

"I'm working on it," Del Toro says. "I'm writing the outline and we're already in talks with a writer. A very, very good writer. People are probably going to be happy with who we have chosen. He accepted. I've been courting this writer, who I think is the perfect guy for this job. We're doing it. Hopefully it will happen."

The Pacific Rim director goes on to hint that the lineup for the project includes Swamp Thing, The Demon, John Constantine, Deadman, The Spectre and the father/daughter pair of Zatara and Zatanna.

All is not lost when it comes to Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft tale "At the Mountains of Madness."   Yes, the project has faced its ups and downs - losing a studio (Universal) at one point over budgetary concerns.

But Del Toro is not giving up.  In an interview with The Playlist, he says he's going to take another crack at finding a home for the story.

Last year, he did express concern over parallels between Prometheus and "At the Mountains of Madness," however, "I saw it finally and...yes, there are things in common, but, you know, screw it. Lovecraft was there first," he told the outlet.

With the way Hellboy 2 ended, well, you definitely expected a sequel.  

Yes, the sequel's main story was tied up, but Hellboy's life on a personal level was going to take an interesting turn.  Further, HB was careening towards a certain destiny that director Guillermo del Toro always considered "dark."

After Hellboy 2 was released, grossing $75 million domestically ($84 million overseas), Del Toro seemed less enthusiastic about the notion of a third entry.  One could speculate that perhaps he wasn't thrilled by the second film's performance - or the studio's desire for a threequel.  Then again, even if he wanted do Hellboy 3 - where would he fit it into his busy schedule?

But after a recent Make a Wish function, in which Ron Perlman took on the Hellboy guise one more time (read about that here), it appears things might be turning around for Hellboy 3.

Guillermo del Toro and novelist Chuck Hogan bring their New York Times best-selling series of novels, the Strain Trilogy, to Dark Horse Comics with an ongoing adventure that takes a terrifying spin on the vampire genre.

Renowned comics creator David Lapham (Stray Bullets, Silverfish) and artist Mike Huddleston (The Coffin, Butcher Baker) join forces in this comic book adaptation unlike any other - bringing del Toro and Hogan’s vision to life in a story that casts a deadly plague over the whole of humanity. The Strain Volume 1, collecting issues #1-6 of this ongoing series, is a horror story unlike any other.

When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Centers for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly pawnbroker from Spanish Harlem suspects a darker purpose behind the event - an ancient threat intent on covering mankind in darkness.

Total Film has debuted the first image - and Moviehole has scanned it - from Guillermo del Toro's sci-fi action film Pacific Rim.

The picture below shows Idris Elba (Prometheus, Thor) in the film, which opens July 12, 2013 and also stars Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, Max Martini, Willem Dafoe, Robert Kazinsky, Clifton Collins Jr., Diego Klattenhoff and Ron Perlman.

Synopsis: When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Head inside for a larger look!

Look, if you're dealing with giant monsters, furthermore, giant robots...shit's going to get wrecked.  So, when you think about Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim and the on-screen carnage, you think B-I-G.  After all, it's about the human race creating giant robots to contend with the giant monsters that threaten the planet.

In an interview with Total Film, Del Toro was asked about the scale of which his film is dealing with, the maniac responded with this: "When we’re talking about the physicality of the fight, we ended up building several blocks of Hong Kong. And literally demolished them. We built a building and then we took down the buildings.  We built command centres of the robots that were the size of the house. We started them on hydraulic rigs that shoot and elevated them and moved them round so you could really get a sense of the physical nature driving a robot like this."

A few years back, the film community lost a dear friend - Paul Prischman - to brain cancer.  

He was a close friend I knew from his Dave's Video days.  If you live, or lived, in Los Angeles, you knew the joint.  Everyone went there.  Paul's career took him beyond the shop, however, and into the realm of DVD special features production.

If you have the incredible Alien Quadrilogy collection, you've probably spotted his name.  He was a great guy.  A hard, committed worker and - as is rare here in Hollywood - a straight-shooter.  Honest and funny.  Then, in late 2009, he passed away, leaving behind a wife and two daughters.

An auction has been set up - called Paul's Brain Trust - to help his family out.  Movie memorabilia, posters, scripts, prints and other collectibles are up for grabs - many signed by the likes of Ridley Scott and Guillermo del Toro (both friends of Paul's).  You can check out the auction page right here.