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Sea Inside is top Goya contender
Alejandro Amenabar's The Sea Inside dominated the nominations at Spains Goya Awards, the local Oscar equivalent, with 15 nods including best film and director.No other title came close to as many nods as Sea, which last weekend picked up best director and actor prizes at the European Film Awards in ...
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Fragil deal for new Spanish distributor
On Pictures, the new distributor-producer launched bySpanish media conglom the Zeta Group, has picked up distribution rights inSpain to director Juanma Bajo Ulloa's Fragil.The film marks the return of Bajo Ulloa, whose award-winningdebuts Butterfly Wings and TheDead Mother were followed by commercial boxoffice hit Airbag (1997).Screening this week in both ...
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Filmax wraps up Shroud rights
Spanish mini-studio Filmax has acquired the rights toSpanish novel The Brotherhood Of The Holy Shroud as part of a new push to adapt local best-sellers as English-languagefeature films for the international market.According to Filmax chief Julio Fernandez, the project willbe developed next year to follow in the vein of its ...
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Guadalajara festival to focus on Latin cinema
Mexico's Guadalajara FilmFestival is expanding its reach to all of Iberoamerican cinema, beyond itstraditional Mexican film focus, in time for next year's 20thanniversary edition (March 11-18, 2005).Under the new name theInternational Film Festival of Guadalajara, the event will add a competitivesection with a hefty US $50,000 award for best Iberoamerican ...
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Zentropa, Filmanova strike two picture deal
Spain's Filmanova and Denmark's Zentropa Productions havesigned a two-picture co-production agreement starting with Filmanova co-founderAnton Reixa's Tivoli Hotel.The second film of the accord has not yet been agreed.The deal marks Zentropa's first such move with a Spanish company. It brings 10% of the film's estimated Euros 2.6m budget.A romantic comedy ...
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Real-life stories all the rage in Spain
While Hollywood has foundinspiration in recent years culling its own archives for remake possibilities,Spanish cinema has been doing another kind of navel-gazing: bringing real-lifestories to the silver screen. There are currently a slew of reality-based filmsin the works in Spain and all the major production houses have at least onesuch ...
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Buyers court Warner Bros' Spanish Queens
Spanish film Queens(Reinas), Warner Bros' Pictures first 100% Spanish production, has sold toa raft of European territories while the film is still in post-production.International sales handler Fortissimo Films has closeddeals to France (ARP), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Prooptiki), Israel(Orlando Films) and Hungary (Mas Kepp Foundation).An offer is on the table for ...
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Sitges unveils festival line-up
Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, ThePhantom Of The Opera, Christopher Smith's Creep and JohnnieDepp-starrer Finding Neverland will comprise the gala screenings of theupcoming International Film Festival of Catalunya (Dec 2-11), better known asSitges.Located just outside Barcelona, Sitges plans to tie in itsclosing weekend events with the December 11 ...
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Gomez buys back Lolafilms from Telefonica
Andres Vicente Gomez has bought out100% of production-distribution house Lolafilms, the company he founded in1981.Gomez, who has owned 30% ofthe company since a 2002 restructuring and is its CEO, bought out telecomsconglom Telefonica's 70% stake in a transaction undertaken last July butpreviously unreported.Reporting its third quarterresults Thursday, Telefonica underscored its ...
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Coixet embarks on Secret Life shoot
Spanish director Isabel Coixet begins shooting today(Monday, November 8) on her new English-language film, The Secret Life OfWords, starring Tim Robbins and SarahPolley.The Euros 4m film is a co-production between the Almodovarbrothers‚ El Deseo, which backed Coixet's award-winning My LifeWithout Me, and MediaPro. Focus Features,which also handled My Life, hasinternational ...
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Sogepaq sells on de la Iglesia's Crime
Spain's Sogepaq hasannounced the first sales on cult director Alex de la Iglesia's new blackcomedy Ferpect Crime.The film, which willscreen twice for buyers at this weekC;s American Film Market, has sold broadlyin Europe and Latin America.Distributors in Europeinclude La Fabrique de Films in France, Eco Filmes in Portugal, Audiovisual inGreece, ...
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Warner Bros wraps first solo Spanish shoot
Warner Bros Pictures has wrapped shooting on its first soloSpanish production, Manuel Gomez Pereira's Reinas.The Euros 4.5m filmheadlines a star-studded ensemble cast in a comedy turning on the first gaywedding in Spain.Reinas is the first100% Warner production since the company opened its local production arm inSpain with plans to produce, ...
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Spanish, Swiss partners go to Boarding School
Spain's Morena Films and Switzerland's ZodiacPictures have agreed to develop two new feature films together, starting withEnglish-language comedy Swiss Boarding School.School (workingtitle) is set in an uppity institute in the Swiss Alps which is turned upsidedown by the arrival of an outrageous Spanish student. Morena regular writerJuan Carlos Rubio (Slam) ...
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Sorin takes to El Camino as Bombon follow-up
Spain's Wanda Vision is set to co-produce Argentine directorCarlos Sorin's El Camino De San Diego, his follow-up to San Sebastianhit Bombon - The Dog.The Spanish-language film, which Sorin will co-producethrough his own Guacamole Films, is a road movie about a diehard fan of soccerlegend Diego Maradona who travels thousands of ...
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Aranda gathers high profile cast for White Knight
Spanish director Vicente Aranda has united a high-profilecast for his new Euros 13.6m English-language medieval romantic adventure TheWhite Knight, headlining veteran Victoria Abril with rising stars Paz Vegaand Pilar Lopez de Ayala.Argentina's Leonardo Sbaraglia and Briton Caspar Zafer roundout the cast, expected to be finalized with a couple of high-profile ...
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De La Iglesia wraps The Child's Room
Alex de la Iglesia will wrap shooting next week on the firstin a landmark series of six genre TV movies for Filmax and Telecinco dubbed "Filmsto Keep You Awake."Theseries is the first of its kind in Spain. Filmax is presenting thetitles to buyers this week at Mipcom. Other directors involved ...
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Valladolid unveils festival line-up
Wong Kar Wai's 2046, Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss,John Boorman's Country Of My Skull are among the feature films competingat Spain's upcoming Valladolid International Film Festival (Oct 22-30).The titles vie for prizes including the Golden Spike, withEuros 35,000 for the Spanish distributor, and the Silver Spike, with Euros17,500 for the ...
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Spain's MediaPro, Globomedia negotiate merger
MediaPro, one of Spain's largest media companies is about to grow significantly bigger if merger talks with local TV powerhouse Globomedia are successful.MediaPro confirmed that it had entered negotiations earlier this summer with Globomedia on a possible merger or, what may be more likely in the short term, a wide-ranging ...
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New Portugese indie festival celebrates success
Portugal's newly-createdInternational Independent Film Festival, IndieLisboa (Sept 24-Oct 2), closedits first annual edition with resounding public success.Eugene Green's The LivingWorld (Le Monde Vivant) won the grand prize in the official competition offirst and second works by international directors.Sergio Trefaut's Lisboetaswon best Portuguese film, Miguel Gomes' A Cara Que Mereces the ...
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Filmax, Telecino present 'Films To Keep You Awake'
Alex de la Iglesia (The Day Of The Beast, Perdita Durango, 800 Balas) will wrap shooting next week on the first in a landmark series of six horror TV movies for Filmax and Telecinco dubbed 'Films To Keep You Awake.'The series is the first of its kind in the genre ...