All articles by Jennifer Green – Page 28
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New Italian-Spanish co-production market planned
The Italian Institute for Foreign Commerce (ICE) is organising a new Italian-Spanish co-production market to take place in Madrid.The first Professional Meetings for Italian Media in Spain (May 6-8) aims to promote co-productions and consolidate relationships between companies from the two countries, as well as to boost the profile of ...
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Sogepaq seals int'l sales on Mortadelo, Mondays
Spain's Sogepaq has announced a slew of sales on two local hits Mortadelo & Filemon - The Big Adventure and Mondays In The Sun.Co-produced by Sogepaq sister company Sogecine, Mortadelo & Filemon passed the Euros 20m mark at the box office this weekend, bringing it a step closer to overtaking ...
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UIP to release Spanish feature The Weakness Of The Bolshevik
UIP has confirmed local distribution plans for Spanish feature film, The Weakness Of The Bolshevik (La Flaqueza Del Bolchevique) (working title), currently in post-production.UIP will release the film in Spain next September 26 on around 100 prints and is expected to invest approximately Euros 300,000 for p&a. Producer Jose Antonio ...
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Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure (La Gran Aventura De Mortadelo Y Filemon)
Dir: Javier Fesser. Spain. 2003. 105mins.Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure (La Gran Aventura De Mortadelo Y Filemon) broke local records on its opening weekend in Spain and, fuelled by a hefty promotion effort, shot into the number three ranking of all-time top grossers after just three weekends, behind Alejandro ...
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New co-production market to be launched at Las Palmas film fest
The fourth edition of the Las Palmas International Film Festival (March 28-April 5), is to introduce a new co-production market: EuroForum (April 3-5).The event follows a growing and successful new trend in festivals whereby film projects in their early stages are presented to potential co-producers, financiers and distributors. Organisers say ...
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Rance joins Spain's City of Light studio complex
Spanish studio complex City of Light (Ciudad de la Luz) has contracted former Pinewood Studios executive David Rance as its operations manager.Rance worked for nine years at Pinewood, where he also oversaw operations. In his new position he will co-ordinate the new complex's services to the requirements of each production.Still ...
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New Spain-Argentina production company wraps first films
Start-up Spanish-Argentinean production company Altair Cinema has wrapped its first two feature films in Buenos Aires and is now preparing a similar second-year slate.Alejandro Chomski's drama Today And Tomorrow (Hoy Y Manana), a co-production with Cinema Digital starring Manuel Navarro (Alas Rotas) and Antonella Costa (Garage Olimpo), starts post-production in ...
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Spain cordinates European Film workshops
Spanish authors' rights body SGAE is coordinating three workshops on "European Films Crossing Borders" to be held just prior to the next Cannes, San Sebastian and Berlin film festivals.The workshops are co-organised by French authors' rights counterpart SACD and Spanish multimedia promotion body Fundacion Autor, and have support from the ...
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Argentinian films dominate Films in Progress event
The Latin American Film Screenings of Toulouse, France (March 21-30) and Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-27) have unveiled the five new feature films set to participate in this year's third annual Films in Progress (Cine en Construccion) program, which aims to bring needed financiers on board unfinished ...
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Portugal's LNK Filmes strengthens its slate
Portugal's LNK Filmes has announced a host of acquisitions, further strengthening its market position as well as that of its expanding umbrella holding company JRP.Pick-ups concluded at the AFM, according to commercial manager Luis Froes, who co-handles international acquisitions, include Joel Schumacher's The Phantom Of The Opera, Michael Winterbottom's Code ...
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Bulgarian Lovers goes to the US
Spanish sales company Grupo PI announced it has closed an all rights deal in the US to TLA Releasing on Berlin Panorama entry Bulgarian Lovers (Los Novios Bulgaros) (pictured).Veteran director Eloy de la Iglesia's first feature film since the 1980's, Bulgarian Lovers tells the story of an affluent Madrid lawyer ...
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Intacto takes top honours at Fantasporto
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intacto (pictured) picked up best film and best screenplay prizes in the Fantasy Section of the 23rd Oporto International Film Festival (Feb 21 - Mar 1), better known as Fantasporto.The UK's Danny Boyle went home with the best director prize for 28 Days Later, with Germany's Robert ...
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Spanish cinema takes heart from new figures
The Spanish box office looks to have enjoyed a better year last year than estimates predicted, as new figures from the state film institute ICAA reveal.Meanwhile, local films have started the year off with a bang thanks to the record-breaking performance of Javier Fesser's comic book-inspired action-adventure Mortadelo & Filemon ...
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Spain to host Cartoon Master workshop
Galicia in Spain will play host to a three-day Cartoon Master workshop dedicated to technological developments in the animation industry May 15-17.It is one of three upcoming workshops organised by Cartoon, the European Association of Animated Film, including Cartoon Creativity (April 24-26) in Erfurt, Germany and Cartoon Finance (June 20-21) ...
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Spanish gov't plans to monitor TV investment in film
The Spanish government has said its plans to clarify and regulate television investment in local films more strictly in the future.The move could help appease the film sector, which last week released a seven-page statement detailing a series of measures urgently needed to boost the Spanish film sector, including stricter ...
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Malaga fest lines up Aragon and Arias tributes
The sixth annual Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 25-May 3) will include tributes to director Manuel Gutierrez Aragon and actor Imanol Arias.Malaga will also present a posthumous homage to Juan Antonio Bardem, director of 1950's classics like Death Of A Cyclist (Muerte De Un Ciclista) and Main Street (Calle ...
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Joint venture to distribute Hispanic films in the US
Spanish production company Plural Entertainment, Mexican producer-distributor Televisa Cine and Miami-based talent management and marketing firm Latin World Entertainment have formed a joint venture to distribute Hispanic films in the United States.The new venture aims to capitalise on the growing Latino market in the US and release at least five ...
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Spain's 42nd Street boards Kill, God Will Forgive
Spain's 42nd Street Productions has boarded new Cuban-Spanish co-production Kill, God Will Forgive (Mata, Que Dios Perdona). The film, produced by Paco Millan and Eduardo Benitez of Seville-based Omnibus Pictures, is a dark tale of impossible love between cousins from director Ismael Perdomo. Shooting starts in September with co-production from ...
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Buskin branches out into co-productions
Italy's Buskin Film will expand its new production activities to include minority co-productions with other European partners, Buskin president Roberto Bessi and CEO Antonio Guadalupi said in Berlin.Bessi and Guadalupi said they are currently considering projects in the UK, Germany and Spain, with an eye to adding three minority co-productions ...
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Argentine Patagonik kicks off 2003 with strong slate
Argentina's leading production company Patagonik Film Group, in Berlin with Panorama entry Kamchatka, has a strong start to 2003, with a six-title slate of feature films.The three-way joint venture - between Buena Vista International, Spain's Admira and Argentina's Clarin Group - is in the process of selecting a director to ...