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Spain's Tesela readies three new films
Spanish production company Tesela is preparing three new feature films including the next project from Argentinean veteran Adolfo Aristarain (Common Places).The films are the first new projects following Achero Manas' Noviembre (now in post-production with an eye to a Cannes release) since Grupo Prisa-backed Plural Entertainment bought out 80% of ...
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Giannini, Roth to star in Taviani brothers' Dumas project
Italian heartthrob Adriano Giannini (Swept Away) and Argentina's Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother) are set to star for the Taviani brothers in Luisa Sanfelice, an ambitious Italian feature film and miniseries, Rome-based producer Cattleya announced in Berlin.Originally planned only as a miniseries, Cattleya, which is producing for Germany's Victory ...
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Local film rocks Spanish box office
Effects-laden, cartoon-inspired Spanish feature film Mortadelo & Filemon - The Big Adventure achieved the top grossing opening weekend ever for a local title this weekend in Spain, earning Euros 5.1m from 325 prints through distributor Warner Sogefilms.Sogecine-Sogepaq, co-producer and sales agent on the Euros 8m film, also closed a ...
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Spain's Zebra Films lines up three features
Madrid-based production company Zebra Films is preparing three new feature films including the as-yet-untitled next project from recent best original script Goya Award winner Antonio Hernandez (The City Of No Limits).The project is a surreal mystery with a twist about a woman haunted by her dead lover. Zebra chief Antonio ...
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Kevin Williams Associates adds to Berlin line-up
Madrid-based sales house Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has added Chiqui Carabante's debut feature film Carlos Against The World (Carlos Contra El Mundo) and Palm Springs Film Festival entry The Impatient Alchemist (El Alquimista Impaciente) to its line-up for Berlin.The story of a working class twenty-something who leads a double life ...
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Kevin Williams Associates adds to Berlin line-up
Madrid-based sales house Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has added Chiqui Carabante's debut feature film Carlos Against The World (Carlos Contra El Mundo) and Palm Springs Film Festival entry The Impatient Alchemist (El Alquimista Impaciente) to its line-up for Berlin.The story of a working class twenty-something who leads a double life ...
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Mondays In The Sun basks in Goya Awards
There was one clear victor in the battle for the top prizes at Spain's 17th annual Goya Awards ceremony held Saturday night in Madrid: Fernando Leon's Mondays In The Sun. Mondays (Los Lunes Al Sol) triumphed with five top awards including best film and director, new actor for Jose Angel ...
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Spanish digital merger goes ahead
Today marks the deadline for Spain's Sogecable and Telefonica to accept or decline the 34 conditions placed by the Spanish government on the merger of their pay TV platforms Canal Satelite Digital and Via Digital.While there were rumours that the partners might delay their decision by a week, all other ...
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For better or worse - Canal Satelite Digital & Via Digital merge
Spain's two mammoth digital satellite pay-TV platforms are merging, an event which will drastically transform the Spanish media landscape - for better or worse.Partners Sogecable and Telefonica met the government's January 29 deadline for the merger of their platforms Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) and Via Digital. The merger of the ...
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Mini-studio planned for Barcelona
Six Catalan media firms have merged to create a single holding company with plans to forge a new mini-studio in Barcelona.The partners are further understood to be negotiating an agreement with a major European group which could facilitate international distribution of the as-yet unnamed holding's content.Distribution is the least-developed business ...
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Goats, Goddesses and AC/DC feature in Lolafilms slate
Spanish production company Lolafilms is readying several new films for production in 2003."I foresee making four or five films this year," says Lolafilms CEO Andres Vicente Gomez, co-producer on Aisling Walsh's Sundance title Song For A Raggy Boy and this season's biggest domestic hit in Italy, Christmas On The Nile ...
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LaZona launches into Spanish production sector
Three producers are braving the choppy waters of the Spanish film sector to launch new Madrid-based production outfit LaZona Films.Merging their combined experience in some of Spain's top media companies, LaZona partners Douglas Wilson and brothers Ignacio and Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson (pictured, left and right) say they aim to produce two ...
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Entera appoints int'l production & acquisitions team
New international production-distribution company Entera has appointed three executives to form its cross-Atlantic production and acquisitions team. Los Angeles-based Keith Resnick will act as head of production for the US; Christopher Brough, head of production in Canada; and Madrid-based Margaret Nicoll, director of international production. Entera was formed by US ...
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Spanish Film Academy predicts 'The Crisis to Come'
Titling its annual report on the state of the national film industry 'The Crisis to Come,' the Spanish Film Academy has warned that '2003 will be a critical year' for Spanish cinema.The report, which analyses statistical data on the industry (official year-end figures have not yet been released by the ...
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Italy's Mediaset takes control of Spain's Telecinco
Italy's Mediaset has agreed to pay Euros276m to Spanish media conglomerate Grupo Correo Prensa Espanola for an additional 12% stake in Spanish broadcaster Telecinco.Mediaset - controlled by the family of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi - thereby ups its interest in the broadcaster to a majority 52% while Grupo Correo ...
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Cuban Film Institute unveils 2003 slate
The Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) unveiled its slate of films for 2003 at the 24th annual edition of the Havana Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema (Dec 3-13).ICAIC director Camilo Vives presented seven feature films in development, at least four of which are anticipated to begin shooting in Cuba ...
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First Hand Films takes int'l rights on Truth & Lies
First Hand Films has picked up international rights on Seville-based Maestranza Films' forthcoming English-language "false documentary" Truth & Lies, a co-production with Germany's Broadview.tv and France's Dune. Billed as a "journalistic thriller" mixing real events and news clips with fiction, Truth & Lies tells the story of two journalists investigating ...
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Mondays In The Sun shines in Goya nominations
Fresh from his sweep of the European Film Awards last weekend, Pedro Almodovar now faces stiff competition at home for Spain's Oscar-equivalent Goya Awards, the nominations to which were revealed today in Madrid prior to their February 1 ceremony.Almodovar's internationally acclaimed Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) earned seven nominations, ...
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Ex-Admira president plans new Spanish media group
Juan Jose Nieto, former executive president of Admira (Telefonica Media), is understood to be in final negotiations to buy Das Werk's remaining interests in Barcelona-based En Efecto in a bid to create a new media group in Spain. Through his own start-up holding company Palmera Capital, Nieto is negotiating the ...
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Spanish producer duo prepare two new features
Pedro Costa and Enrique Cerezo, the co-producers behind Eduard Cortes' Nobody's Life (La Vida De Nadie) and last year's Spanish nomination to the foreign language Oscar, Mad Love (Juana La Loca), are prepping two new feature films, including Cortes' next project.Cortes and Nobody's Life co-scripter Piti Espanol are currently writing ...