Overview
- Mayor Olivia Chow presented the Key to the City to Guillermo del Toro, recognizing his lasting impact on Toronto’s film community.
- Cinespace Studios renamed four Marine Terminal Campus sound stages as the Guillermo del Toro Stages in honour of his decades of local productions.
- His Toronto-based work stretches from early films like Mimic and Pacific Rim to Oscar-winner The Shape of Water and the Netflix series Cabinet of Curiosities.
- del Toro is completing sound mixing on Frankenstein at local facilities before its TIFF debut and November Netflix release.
- His productions have supported a $2.6 billion film sector that employs over 40,000 people, reinforcing Toronto’s status as a global production hub.