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Spain unveils Oscar contenders, Belgium submits Sea
Soldiers Of Salamina, Danube Hotel and South From Granada have made Spain's short-list for the nomination to the foreign-language Oscar. The final nominee will be announced October 1. Meanwhile, Sea Of Silence (Verder Dan De Maan) by Stijn Coninx has been selected as this year's Belgian entry for the Foreign-language ...
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Fox's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) held onto the lead in Spain for a second week, despite a 55% drop-off from its debut weekend. New releases, launching on a smaller scale than LXG, were unable to trouble the action adventure, which has grossed Euros 6.9m and sold 1.4m tickets ...
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Valladolid fest to open with Dogville
Following its tradition of attracting high-profile independent premieres for Spain, the 48th annual Valladolid International Film Week (Oct 24-Nov 1) will open with Lars von Trier's Dogville and close with Woody Allen's Anything Else.Four Spanish productions have also been unveiled for the official competition: Santi Amodeo's Astronautas, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde's La ...
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Spanish outfits mastermind de la Iglesia's Crime
Spanish sister companies Sogecine and Sogepaq are set to co-produce and handle worldwide sales respectively on cult director Alex de la Iglesia's next film, Ferpect Crime (Crimen Ferpecto).The Spanish-language black comedy about the far-from-perfect crime perpetrated by a department store sales executive will be a three-country co-production with de la ...
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Stars travel to San Sebastian for career prizes
Sean Penn, Robert Duvall and Isabelle Huppert will each receive the career achievement Donostia Award at Spain's upcoming Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).Huppert, who will receive her prize on Saturday the 20th, has starred in over 80 films. She won the best actress prize at Cannes in 2001 ...
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Sitges unveils first competition titles
Spain's International Film Festival of Catalonia, better known as Sitges, has unveiled the first of its competition titles for the upcoming 36th edition, which this year has moved dates from early October to late November (Nov 27-Dec 7).The date change is meant to bypass late summer tourism in the coastal ...
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Fox's Sean Connery-starrer The League Of Extraodinary Gentlemen did extraodinarily well in its opening weekend in Spain, its first major European territory. The success could bode well for future openings on the continent, which continue with a 95 print launch in The Netherlands this weekend.Pirates Of The Caribbean held steady ...
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Huelva festival unveils trio of tributes
Bolivian director Jorge Ruiz, Argentine actress Norma Aleandro and Spanish actor Imanol Arias will be the recipients of three tributes planned for this year's 29th edition of the Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva (Nov 8-15).This November will mark new festival director Porfirio Enriquez's first edition since replacing Salvador Augustin in ...
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Suite Habana, Open Range bookend 51st San Sebastian
Cuban-Spanish co-production Suite Habana and Kevin Costner's Open Range will open and close, respectively, the 51st edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).Open Range will screen out of competition. James Ivory's Le Divorce will inaugurate the parallel Zabaltegi section, closing with Zhang Yimou's Hero.The festival also unveiled ...
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Spain's Sogepaq scores Football Days, Torremolinos 73
Spain's Sogepaq has acquired international rights to two high-profile third-party films: much-anticipated new release Football Days (Dias De Futbol) and four-time Malaga winner Torremolinos 73.The deal links the Sogecable group's Sogepaq to successful indie producer Telespan 2000, the co-producer with broadcaster Telecinco's film arm Estudios Picasso of both films as ...
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Miramax is top priority says new Lauren chief
Spanish distributor-exhibitor Lauren Films has appointed Francesc Guardans as its new CEO to run the day-to-day operations of the company, whose financial difficulties have led to takeover talks in recent months.Guardans' most pressing task will be to ask for time and support from creditors, banks and suppliers - including Miramax, ...
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San Sebastian lifts its Latin Horizons
The 51st Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled the plethora of Latin American and Spanish films that make up its Latin Horizons, Made In Spain and Films In Progress sections.The newly-created Latin Horizons (Horizontes Latinos) section separates out Latin American films from the former, all-encompassing Made In Spanish section, ...
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San Sebastian to showcase controversial docs
Spanish director Julio Medem (Sex And Lucia) will present his new documentary about life in Basque country as one of five charged "special screenings" lined up for the Zabaltegi section of the 51st Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).La Pelota Vasca, La Piel Contra La Piedra mixes hours of ...
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Amenabar's Out To Sea gets ship shape
The cast and crew for Out To Sea (Mar Adentro), Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar's much-anticipated follow-up to international hit The Others, is taking shape prior to its October shoot in Spain.The film stars Javier Bardem in a tale based on the real life story of a paralysed man's struggle for ...
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San Sebastian unveils New Directors contenders
The 51st Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival has announced the first titles set to compete in its Zabaltegi sidebar for the New Directors prize.First or second works are eligible, and aside from the Zabaltegi titles announced today several more in the Official Section and Latin Horizons sidebar will also compete ...
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Distant, Reconstruction win top Fipresci prizes
Cannes prize-winners Distant (Uzak) and Reconstruction will take home the top FIPRESCI prizes from next month's Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27).Cannes grand jury and best actor prize-winner Distant, from Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan, was selected best film, while Denmark's Christoffer Boe was chosen for the best director ...
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San Sebastian unveils competition line-up
The Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled its official competition line-up for next month's 51st annual edition (Sept 18-27).The festival says the predominant theme of the selection is "living in a world replete with contradictions," and highlights the raft of "high-profile emerging directors" on display. More titles are expected ...
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Little Fiesta makes big noise in Spain
A new Spanish release about a hard-partying group of college-aged kids, appropriately called La Fiesta, has taken the Spanish box office by surprise and could convert its directors into poster children for struggling filmmakers in Spain.Shot on a budget of less than Euros 6,000 with a crew of unpaid actors ...
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San Sebastian cherrypicks festival favourites
Making the most of its slot near the tail end of the annual festival calendar, the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27) has cherry-picked another top-notch selection of films from other A-list events for its Festivals' Top sidebar showcase, part of the Zabaltegi section.The current ten titles - plus ...