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PRE-PRODUCTION Las Vidas De Celia(Oberon Cinematografia, TAU [Mex], Altavista [Mex]) A woman trying to makesense of her life finds her own unsuccessful suicide attempt interweaves withthe investigation of a young girl's murder on the same night. Dir: AntonioChavarrias. Main cast: Najwa Nimri, Luis Tosar, Daniel Gimenez Castro, AlexCasanovas, Aida Folch, ...
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Almodovar leads Spanish production boom
Pedro Almodovar cranks up filming July 18 on his new movieVolver, a black comedy starring Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura, just one of aslew of new projects in the works from Spain's leading international talents.The $11m Volver, has not yet closed adistributor in Spain but has been pre-sold to several ...
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Heavenly intervention boosts market share for Spanish film
New government figures on the performance of Spanish cinema have set tongueswagging thanks to the inclusion of two high-profile minority co-productionsincluding Ridley Scott's Kingdom Of Heaven.Theofficial figures published by the Ministry of Culture's Film Institute ICAAshow Spanish films' market share rose slightly in the first five months of 2005to 14%. ...
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Almodovar preps collector's editions of his own work
The Almodovarbrothers' El Deseo has bought into Spanish DVDdistributor Cameo Media and will pump the bulk of its catalogue and newproductions through the company, including Pedro Almodovar'supcoming feature Volver.Funding a capital increase, El Deseo joins Alta Films, Wanda Vision, TornasolFilms, Continental Producciones, Golem and Cameomanaging director Juan Carlos Tous as ...
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Alquimia set 4 Dances with Ripoll
Spain's Alquimia Cinema is preparing a new English-languagefeature from Tortilla Soup director Maria Ripoll called 4 Dances.The tale revolves around the magical imaginings of anautistic teenager and her relationships with her dancer brother and the youngman he hires to care for her. Casting is underway in Spain and the UK ...
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Sogepaq scores Euro sales for 20 Centimetres
Sogepaq has announced a cache of European sales on RamonSalazar's musical drama 20 Centimetres, building on the North America deal with TLA Releasing announced lastweek.The title was picked up by Lady Film for Italy, We & Cofor France, Paradiso for Benelux, Castello Lopes for Portugal and Provision forEx-Yugoslavia."Cannes was the ...
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Asian buyers dive for Sogepaq's Real movie
Spain'sSogepaq has unveiled the first sales concluded on its highly anticipatedfootball feature Real, The Movie to a slew of Asian territories.Pony Canyon and Phantom Film picked up rights in Japan,while other distributors include Unikorea (Korea), Prime Pictures (Middle East)and Jiant Pictures (Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia).The film,which made headlines ...
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KanZaman boards Basic Instinct 2
Spanishproducer KanZaman has entered a new phase of growth with the announcement ofits participation in the estimated $80m Sharon Stone-starrer Risk Addiction:Basic Instinct 2.KanZaman co-founders Denise O'Dell and Mark Albela willtake executive producer credits on the film, to which they have a licence onall rights in Spain for an unspecified ...
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Spain's Vertigo stocks up with Cannes goodies
Spanish distributor Vertigo Films has acquired rights to theDardenne brothers' Palme d'Or winner The Child and Francois Ozon's UnCertain Regard screener Le Temps Qui Reste.Together with previous acquisitions made by Vertigo chiefAndres Martin earlier this year, the distributor now boasts a strong slate ofCannes titles including Jim Jarmusch's Grand Jury ...
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Latido kicks up Longest Penalty deals
Spanish sales consortium Latido has seen brisk sales onSpanish box office hit The World's Longest Penalty.The company sold rights on the comedy to Italy (Blue Moon),Greece (Prooptiki), Portugal (Eco Filmes) and Thailand (Logo), and wasunderstood to be closing rights for an English-language remake as well.Penalty (El Penalti Mas Largo Del ...
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Lola closes pre-sales on saintly Paz Vega biopic
Spain'sLolafilms has closed three key pre-sales and is fielding broad interest on itsperiod biopic Teresa,starring Viggo Mortensen and Paz Vega.The film has pre-sold toMexico's Gussi, Brazil's Conquest Filmes and Venezuela's Blancica. Offers arealso on the table from Argentina, according to Lola's head of internationalsales, Eva Sklar.Pre-sales areunusual for any Spanish ...
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DeAPlaneta signs on for Summit duo
Spanish-Italian media groupDeAPlaneta is flexing its buying muscle with new acquisitions for Spainincluding Summit Entertainment's Michael Clayton and Harsh Times.Michael Clayton, which marks Tony Gilroy's directorial debut, willstar George Clooney as a fixer in a law company. Harsh Times stars Christian Bale and Eva Longoria in a SouthCentral Los Angeles-set ...
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Fox takes chance on Brazilian love story
Fox Latin America has boughtpan-regional rights to Philippe Barcinski's Not By Chance, a love story co-produced by Donald K Ranvaud'sBuena Onda and Fernando Mereilles' 02 Filmes.A love story between anobsessive compulsive and a control freak, Chance will shoot from October inBrazil and participated in the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab last January.Theproject ...
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Paz Vega sets Seville date with Maestranza
MaestranzaFilms, producer of Un Certain Regard closing film Habana Blues, is preparingwhat will be its biggest film to date: 17th century biopic La Roldana with star Paz Vega.Vega (Spanglish) will playthe title character, a talented, ahead-of-her-time sculptress in theartistically vibrant city of Seville in the 1600's. DeA Planeta is in ...
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Tartan wins US Battle for Reygadas' Heaven
Tartan USA has acquired USrights to Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' competition title Battle InHeaven (Batalla En El Cielo).Philippe Bober, the film'smajority producer and sales agent through his The Coproduction Office, has alsosold the film to France's Bac Films, Mexico's Gussi, Film Museum for theNetherlands and Belgium's Lumiere.Tartan Films previouslypre-bought the ...
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Ferretti named as Venice festival jury president
Legendary production designer Dante Ferretti, who has worked on filmsfrom Fellini's Satyricon to Scorsese's The Aviator, has been namedpresident of the international jury at this year's 62nd annualedition of the Venice Film Festival (Aug 31-Sept 10).Venice Biennale president Davide Croff and Mostra director Marco Muellermade the announcement at the Cannes ...
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Morena makes waves in Mexico
Spain'sMorena Films is continuing its policy of shooting outside Spain with two newfilms set in Mexico and ArgentinaTheEuros 2.5m Mexican co-production La Zona, set in a wealthy Mexico Cityenclave surrounded by slums, is being directed by Rodrigo Pla. The La ZonaFilms co-production will be sold by Wild Bunch.Andshooting next fall ...
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Darin flies in for Fairy role with Tornasol
Hot Argentinean actor RicardoDarin is to star in Spanish director Jose Luis Cuerda's The Education Of AFairy for producer Tornasol Films.Darin, who has achievedinternational recognition in films such as Nine Queens, Son Of TheBride, Kamchatka and Avelleneda's Moon, will play a man whose lifeis turned upside down when the woman ...
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UK sales outfit keeps an eye on Latin America
London sales outfit One EyedFilms, a Brazilian film specialist, has broadened its scope to include filmsfrom across Latin America and makes its Cannes debut with three multipleaward-winning titles on its slate.Among its firstSpanish-language pick-ups is Uruguayan film Alma Mater, a Rosemary'sBaby-like tale about a woman who believes she may be ...
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Spain's Zebra readies Cervantes, Shakespeare comedy
Spain'sZebra Producciones andMiguel&William Producciones are developing a Euros 8m period comedy thatasks the question what if Cervantes and Shakespeare had met'Titled Miguel &William, the feature will pull close to 10% of its budget from the public agencyDon Quijote de la Mancha 2005, set up by the Spanish government to ...