Overview

• Two new promo images provide the first official look at a twisted Jiminy Cricket voiced by horror icon Robert Englund.
• Coverage notes the creature design recalls Englund’s Freddy Krueger persona from A Nightmare on Elm Street.
• Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield says the film leans on practical effects at every turn, with makeup FX veteran Todd Masters building the Pinocchio puppet and a larger budget than past entries.
• Richard Brake is cast as Geppetto, with Cameron Bell, Jessica Balmer, Jack Art Gray and Peter De Souza-Feighoney also set to appear.
• ITN Studios and Premiere Entertainment are handling sales, the film is being shopped at the American Film Market, and a limited theatrical run is expected next year with timing still unannounced as part of the wider Poohniverse.