All articles by Jennifer Green – Page 27
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KWA takes international sales on Carmen
Madrid-based sales house Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up Vicente Aranda's ambitious Carmen for international sales, and will give the film its market debut next month at Cannes.Billed as the biggest-budgeted European erotic production of the last ten years, Carmen is produced by Juan Alexander for Spain's Star Line ...
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Madrid Film Commission launched
Spain's capital city will finally boast a film commission thanks to the creation this week of the Madrid Film Commission.Backers include the Audiovisual Producers' Rights' Management Entity (EGEDA), the Spanish Producers' Federation (FAPAE) and the national umbrella org Spain Film Commission. The new commission also has the support of the ...
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Sony's Spanish production arm confirms first projects
Just a month after the company closed its German production division, Sony Pictures Entertainment's new Spanish production operation, Columbia Films Producciones Espanolas has confirmed two of its first projects in development.Iona de Macedo, head of the Madrid-based unit since its September 2001 launch, confirmed that writer-director Juan Calvo's Tam Tam, ...
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Fantasporto launches 16-title 'marathon'
Portugal's leading international film festival, Fantasporto, will launch a marathon showing of 16 hit festival titles in Lisbon next week.The initiative - dubbed 'Fantasporto Marathon' and supported by distributor-exhibitor LNK Filmes, the Cinema Quarteto four-screen cinema and various private sponsors - will mark the nationwide theatrical release of all but ...
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Casa Nova Films launched to develop US Hispanic market
Two new players have launched LA- and Barcelona-based theatrical distributor and consultant Casa Nova Films, specialising in the US Hispanic market.Partners Joshua Gabel and Walter Cuculic, both experienced marketing and business management/development consultants, aim to build up to as many as eight Spanish-language releases per year for the Hispanic market, ...
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Malaga fest unveils 16 new Spanish films
Pedro Olea's Tiempo De Tormenta is set to inaugurate the sixth annual Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 25-May 3).Starring Maribel Verdu (Y Tu Mama Tambien) and Dario Grandinetti (Talk To Her), Tiempo will open the official competition section, which also includes the following 15 new Spanish films:Dionisio Perez Galindo's ...
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Gimenez Cacho joins Almodovar's Bad Education
Actor Daniel Gimenez Cacho (pictured) looks set to take the third lead role in Pedro Almodovar's forthcoming Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) alongside Mexico's Gael Garcia Bernal and Spaniard Fele Martinez.According to reports in both the Mexican and Spanish press, Gimenez Cacho will play a priest who re-encounters a former ...
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Las Palmas awards top prize to Mr & Mrs Iyer
India's Aparna Sen (pictured) picked up the gold prize for best film for Mr & Mrs Iyer at the fourth annual International Film Festival of Las Palmas (March 28-April 5), which also hosted the first edition of the EuroForum Co-Production Market.Organisers of the first annual three-day EuroForum said that despite ...
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Production starts on The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
Principal photography gets underway today (Friday) in Madrid, on The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, a Spanish-French-UK co-production being sold internationally by Senator International.The film's star-studded cast is headlined by Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Kathy Bates. Irish director Mary McGuckian (This Is The Sea) wrote the screenplay and ...
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Spanish scriptwriting consultancy to launch in May
Four Spanish partners are preparing a May launch for their new consulting company abc guionistas (abc scriptwriters) which will offer a range of services related to film and television scripts.If successful, the company could help streamline practices in Spain for scriptwriters and those who hire them. "Agents for scriptwriters are ...
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Screwball comedy scores Spain's fifth biggest opening
Actor-turned-director Jesus Bonilla struck gold this weekend with star-studded comedy Moscow Gold (El Oro De Moscu), recording the fifth top opening weekend ever for a Spanish film.The success follows on the heels of Mortadelo & Filemon - The Big Adventure, which continues its record streak with a cumulative Euros 21.6m ...
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Salamina Soldiers (Soldados De Salamina)
Dir: David Trueba. Spain. 2003.112 mins.Based on a best-selling novel, Salamina Soldiers (Soldados De Salamina) makes the Spanish Civil War unusually accessible by weaving it into a contemporary tale less concerned with local politics and more with humanity at large. This graceful third feature film from writer-director David Trueba, seems ...
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Mango Yellow wins top prize in Toulouse
Brazilian Claudio Assis picked up the grand prize at the 15th annual Latin American Film Screenings of Toulouse, France (March 21-30) for his film Mango Yellow (Amarelo Manga).The prize comes with Euros 3,000 for the film's subtitling and distribution in France. Yellow, which is sold internationally by Brazil's Grupo Novo, ...
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Madragoa Filmes awarded Portugese production support
Paulo Branco's Lisbon-based production company Madragoa Filmes has received two of the three latest feature film subsidies granted by the Portuguese Film Institute ICAM.The ICAM (Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimedia) announced the three winners of the newest bid for direct financial support to fiction feature films out of 13 ...
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Utopia
Dir: Maria Ripoll. 2003. Spain-France. 105mins.Utopia adds to a growing body of stylish Spanish genre films and, with the right marketing and distributor Hispano Foxfilm behind it, will likely follow in their footsteps to healthy returns at the local box office. That said, it had a downbeat opening weekend, taking ...
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Telecino is Spain's only profitable broadcaster
Telecinco has posted 2002 year-end net profits of Euros 85.9m, making it the only profitable broadcaster in Spain last year.The network said it boasted the second highest audience share in Spain with 20.24% thanks to its in-house productions, and had earned the highest percentage locally of the advertising market: 27.3%."These ...
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Media Business School appoints eight-member advisory council
Pan-European training initiative the Media Business School (MBS) has appointed a new eight-person advisory council for its Master in Audiovisual Management (MEGA) program.The council appointees, named by MBS director Juan Pita, will each be responsible for co-ordinating lectures and shaping content for individual areas of instruction in the MEGA, now ...
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Lolafilms closes sales on Raggy Boy
Spanish production, distribution and sales house Lolafilms has closed a string of deals in Latin America, Europe and beyond on Sundance hit Song For A Raggy Boy.From director Aisling Walsh, Raggy Boy stars Aidan Quinn and Iain Glen in the true story of a man's struggle against the violent regime ...
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Spain's DeA Planeta announces string of pick-ups
Spain's DeA Planeta has announced a string of high-profile pick-ups including Ingmar Bergman's Saraband and Tod Williams' Door In The Floor.The company - the joint media venture of Spanish and Italian publishing giants Grupo Planeta and De Agostini - has taken all rights in Spain from Svensk Filmindustri to Bergman's ...
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Telefonica to divest Antena 3 stake as part of merger with Sogecable
Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica has announced plans to unload its 59% majority stake in local free-to-air broadcaster Antena 3. The company said it would distribute as much as 30% of its shares in Antena 3 - the equivalent of 50 million shares with a company book value of Euros 420m ...