{"id":73573,"date":"2021-12-13T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=73573"},"modified":"2021-12-13T13:33:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:33:52","slug":"toronto-filmed-nightmare-alley-premieres-at-tiff-bell-lightbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/toronto-filmed-nightmare-alley-premieres-at-tiff-bell-lightbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto-filmed Nightmare Alley premieres at TIFF Bell Lightbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a series of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic,\u00a0Guillermo del Toro\u2019s <em>Nightmare Alley <\/em>premiered at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Dec.1 one year after its initial release date.<\/p>\n<p>The film continues del Toro's longstanding collaborations with Toronto and the Canadian film industry, working closely with the Directors Guild of Ontario members on the sets and production.<\/p>\n<p>Various set locatons include the city's downtown core including Massey hall, as well as areas around Northern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nightmare Alley<\/em> is del Toro's fifth picture to be filmed in Toronto, after <em>Mimic<\/em>, <em>Pacific Rim<\/em>, <em>Crimson Peak<\/em> and the <em>Shape of the Water<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing partnership between del Toro and the guild was acknowledged by TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey in opening remarks prior to the film.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_73585\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73585\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73585\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nightmare_Alley_2-1-500x250.jpg\" alt=\"A man and a woman looking at each other in a hotel room.\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nightmare_Alley_2-1-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nightmare_Alley_2-1-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nightmare_Alley_2-1-320x160.jpg 320w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Nightmare_Alley_2-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-73585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rooney Mara and Bradley Cooper star in Nightmare Alley. The is Guillermo del Toro's 11th feature length picture. After COVID-19 delayed production, its release date was pushed back by one year. Photo courtesy of TIFF.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Further, this was the lightbox\u2019s first world premiere since closing to the public in March 2020 due to the pandemic. It was also one of the first full-capacity events since Toronto entered phase three of reopening in July.<\/p>\n<p>Production on <em>Nightmare Alley<\/em> was halted due to the pandemic in March 2020, and gradually returned under a set of restrictions throughout 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The film is\u00a0del Toro\u2019s 11th full length feature film and its noir theme and plot are departures from his previous works, which focused more on creature design and the supernatural.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows the rise and fall of carnival worker, Stan Carlisle, in the 1940s, played by Bradley Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett and Ron Perlman are featured in supporting roles.<\/p>\n<p>The general release date for Nightmare Alley is Dec.17.<\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to CJRU's coverage of the event here:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a series of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic,\u00a0Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Nightmare Alley premiered at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Dec.1 one year after its initial release date. The film continues del Toro&#8217;s longstanding collaborations with Toronto and the Canadian film industry, working closely with the Directors Guild of Ontario members on the sets&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":73583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219],"tags":[11365,11363,4569,11364,11367,11366],"radio":[1380],"origine":[267,269,273],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73573"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=73573"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=73573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}