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'Best Place to Make Movies': Toronto Presents Guillermo Del Toro with Key to the City
TORONTO, CANADA, JUL 24 – Guillermo del Toro was honored for his nearly 40-year career and impact on Toronto’s film industry, which generated $2.6 billion in direct spending in 2023, officials said.
- On July 24, 2025, Guillermo del Toro received the Key to the City, and the Cinespace Studios renamed its Marine Terminal campus sound stages as the `Guillermo del Toro Stages`, according to a news release from the City of Toronto.
- Since 1997, del Toro has been filming in Toronto, underscored by his ongoing investment that helps build infrastructure and creative capacity in the city.
- His signature projects include The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley, Cabinet of Curiosities and Frankenstein, and for Frankenstein, a full-scale ship floated off Lake Ontario.
- Eoin Egan, co-CEO of Cinespace Studios, said the renaming testifies to del Toro’s impact and ties to Toronto’s film industry, while Chow highlighted his commitment to storytelling with his Toronto crew base.
- The Ontario film and television sector generated $2.6 billion in 2023, underscoring Toronto's economic growth and supporting local jobs, the news release from the City of Toronto said.
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Guillermo del Toro gets key to his ‘second home,’ Toronto
Academy-award winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has been given the key to the City of Toronto, a place he describes as his “second home” and where he’s filmed a number of movies over his nearly 40-year career.
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