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Spain's Plural embarks on US Justice shoot
Spain's Plural Entertainment has begun shooting in Miami on Justice For All (Justicia Para Todos), the first Spain-produced fiction series wholly designed for, shot and broadcast in the US.The one-hour dramatic series will be broadcast during prime-time on Univision, giving it a potential audience of 40 million.The series is set ...
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Aurum shows Spanish Passion for Gibson epic
Spanish distributor Aurum has nabbed all local rights to Mel Gibson's controversial The Passion Of Christ.The film will premiere in Spain on April 2. Despite the widespread use of dubbing in Spain, it will be released according to Gibson's wishes in original version with subtitles to highlight the original use ...
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Lorenzo steps down as Canal Plus Spain manager
Jose Manuel Lorenzo has stepped down from his position as general manager of Canal Plus and Contents at Spanish powerhouse Sogecable.Lorenzo has headed Canal Plus for the last five years, seeing it through the recent merger of Sogecable and Telefonica's pay TV interests. For the last three years he has ...
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Canary Islands offers tax incentives to lure media outfits
Beginning this month, Spain's Canary Islands will offer fiscal incentives for international media companies which set up headquarters or subsidiaries on the islands.Companies which register within the Canary Islands Special Zone (ZEC) will benefit from significant tax reductions, such as a 5% VAT versus 16% in the rest of Spain, ...
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Spanish exhibitor strikes Imax deal to convert screens
Spanish exhibitor Yelmo Cineplex is set to become the first commercial exhibitor in Spain to operate IMAX theatres out of its multiplexes, thanks to a new deal signed with the IMAX Corporation.The first two of three 35mm multiplex auditoriums to be retrofitted into IMAX theatres will be installed in 2004. ...
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Fantasporto line-up reveals US accent
North American films have a notable presence at the upcoming 24th edition of Portugal's leading Oporto International Film Festival (Feb 20-Mar 1), better known as Fantasporto.Twenty films make up the Fantasy Film selection of the Official Competition. The Director's Week competition will feature 11, mostly European titles from directors such ...
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Veteran Blanco to step down from Spain's DeA Planeta
Veteran Spanish executive Adolfo Blanco will step down from his position as director of distribution at DeA Planeta.Blanco has been with publisher Grupo Planeta for five years since it first began setting up its media division under the name Planeta 2010 prior to merging its media interests with Italy's DeAgostini ...
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Tesela emphasises new talent with 2004 slate
Spanish production company Tesela is preparing three new films to shoot in 2004 with a continued emphasis on seeking new writing and directing talents.The company, majority owned by Grupo Prisa-backed production house Plural Entertainment, is known for discovering young directing talents such as Achero Manas (Pellet), Alberto Rodriguez (The Suit) ...
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Malaga to host European Film Commission summit
Malaga, Spain will play host this week to the first-ever European Encounter on Film Commissions (Dec 18).The day-long meeting, organised by the Spain Film Commission, invites representatives of film commissions from around Europe to debate The European Film Commission Experience and Film Commissions: Instruments of Support for the Audiovisual ...
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Bigas Luna readies female coming-of-age tale for Alquimia
Spanish producer Alquimia Cinema has unveiled its slate for 2004 including new films from directors Bigas Luna (Golden Balls), Marcelo Pineyro (Kamchatka) and Maria Ripoll (Tortilla Soup).The untitled coming-of-age tale scripted by Luna for an October shoot follows a twenty-something girl as she sets out to discover the world. With ...
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Spanish producers benefit from Fund increase
The Spanish government has approved a Euros 27.8m increase to its Cinema Protection Fund, expected to result in immediate payments on outstanding subsidy obligations.The increase almost doubles the Fund's annual budget, 85% of which goes towards paying off automatic box office-linked subsidies, to Euros 61m for the new year. Producers ...
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Spain's Goya Award nominations announced
Domestic abuse drama Take My Eyes and Civil War feature Soldiers Of Salamina led the nominees with nine and eight nods, respectively, for Spain's annual Goya Awards, to be held January 31.Antonio Mercero's surprise nominee 4th Floor (Planta Cuarta) will compete for best film against Iciar Bollain's Eyes (Te Doy ...
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BVI's Finding Nemo continued to dominate the Spanish box office over the weekend, raking in Euros 3.9m off 383 copies after its record opening for BVI and as an animated film in Spain of Euros 4.68m last weekend.Columbia TriStar's SWAT placed second with Euros 1.75m off 403 copies, followed closely ...
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Almodovar eyes Cannes launch for Bad Education
Almost a year after his best original script Oscar coup for Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella), Spanish maestro Pedro Almodovar is putting the finishing touches on his next film, Bad Education (La Mala Educacion), and considering a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival."We are open to the possibility of ...
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Lanzarote wraps with flurry of deals
The Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote (Nov 27-29) closed its fifth annual edition on Saturday with general consensus that the event has consolidated as an important concentrated showcase of Spanish cinema for buyers from Europe and Latin America.Despite the presence of almost a third fewer buyers this year, 60 in ...
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KWA takes on Spanish Night and Sunset
Madrid-based international sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up two new Spanish films, The End Of The Night and Red Sunset, both of which are showing to buyers this weekend at the Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote (Nov 27-29).Now in its fifth edition, the three-day Screenings kicked off ...
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Manga snags Kill Bill for Spain
Barcelona-based Manga Films has snagged theatrical, video and DVD rights in Spain to Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, and will give attendees at the local Sitges International Film Festival (Nov 27-Dec 7) a sneak preview of Volume 1 on Saturday.It looks unlikely that Tarantino will attend the festival, which kicks off ...
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UIP's Love Actually opened to 282,029 spectators in Spain this weekend, taking Euros 1.4m - far short of the biggest openers in the territory, but enough to place it in first position over the weekend. The British romantic comedy went out on a wide 288 copies.Meanwhile, on 466 prints in ...