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Sitges reveals full competition line-up
Brian de Palma's Femme Fatale, Oxide and Danny Pang's The Eye and David Cronenberg's Spider are among the films lined up to compete in the Official Fantastic Section of next month's Sitges International Film Festival of Catalunya (Oct 3-13).The full line-up includes the following 25 titles:A Snake Of June (Rokugatsu ...
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Man Without A Past, Ramsay get new FIPRESCI prizes
The Man Without A Past (Miles Vailla Menneisyytta) will receive the Best Film of the Year and UKdirector Lynne Ramsay the newly-created New Director of the Year awards fromthe International Film Critics Federation (FIPRESCI) at the opening ceremonyof this month's San Sebastian International Film Festival.The prizes are selected by ...
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Spanish regulator raises concerns over pay-TV merger
The merger of pay-TV platforms Via Digital and Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) could result in a "monopoly on rights to feature films" according to an investigation by Spain's industry regulator.A Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) report states among its conclusions that the 'two platforms already have a very clear dominant position ...
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Latin American films compete for San Sebastian prize
Thirteen Latin American films will compete for the Made in Spanish award at next month's 50th anniversary edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28).Among the films competing for the prize, which has tripled in value to Euros 18,000 after its introduction last year, are:Bolivar Soy Yo, Jorge ...
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Star Line, Parallel, Planet team for Aranda's Carmen
Madrid-based producer Star Line has signed up the UK's Parallel Pictures and Italy's Planet Pictures to co-produce the long-planned ambitious new feature film version of Carmen.The Euros 7m-plus film, from director Vicente Aranda (Juana La Loca), will begin principal photography in Andalusia on September 16 with actors Paz Vega (Sex ...
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Sogepaq takes int'l rights on Mondays In The Sun
Spanish distribution house Sogepaq will handle international sales on San Sebastian International Film Festival competition entry Mondays In The Sun (Los Lunes Al Sol).Directed by Fernando Leon (Barrio), the film stars Spanish actor Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls, The Dancer Upstairs) as an unemployed man struggling alongside his peers to ...
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The Good Thief to open San Sebastian competition
Neil Jordan's The Good Thief will open the official competition section of this year's 50th anniversary edition of Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 19-28).Thief, which will also screen at next month's Toronto International Film Festival, competes for San Sebastian's top Golden and Silver Shell awards alongside seventeen other ...
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Asian films dominate Sitges sidebar
Asian films form the bulk of titles screening in the animated features sidebar Anima't at the forthcoming Sitges International Film Festival of Catalunya (Oct 3-13).Anima't will also feature more than fifty short films in competition and an homage to Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, whose multiple award-winning Spirited Away (Sen To ...
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Antonio Banderas firmly in Tarantula's web
Antonio Banderas reiterated his interest Thursday in taking a starring role in futuristic film noir Tarantula for director Pedro Almodovar.Speaking at a press conference in Madrid for Imagining Argentina, the film he is currently shooting in Spain and Argentina, Banderas said he had Tarantula scheduled for 2004 in his busy ...
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San Sebastian unveils director's award line-up
Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled the 20 titles that will compete for the New Director's Award at this year's 50th anniversary edition (Sept 19-28).The award, sponsored by telecoms provider Jazztel, comes with a purse of Euros 150,000, touted by San Sebastian organizers as the highest prize of ...
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Spanish film industry cautious on TV merger
The planned merger of Spain's two leading pay-TV platforms, Telefonica-owned Via Digital and Sogecable-backed Canal Satelite Digital (CSD), took one step further towards reality after Friday's decision by the European Commission to send the case back to the Spanish government for consideration.Local analysts agree that the move signals the ...
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Abril signs to Alquimia's Swindled
Tie Me Up,Tie Me Down star and Spain's leading lady, Victoria Abril has signed on to star in the forthcoming Alquimia Cinema production Swindled (Incautos).Abril will star alongside Argentine veteran Federico Luppi (The Devil's Backbone) and Spanish up-and-comers Ernesto Alterio and Guillermo Toledo (both from The Wrong Side Of The ...
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Sitges to open with Darkness
Darkness, Jaume Balaguero's highly-anticipated follow-up feature to his award-winning debut The Nameless (Los Sin Nombre), is set to inaugurate the 35th edition of the International Film Festival of Catalunya, better known as Sitges (October 3-13).A co-production between Filmax's Fantastic Factory and Miramax, the English-language thriller stars Anna Paquin, Lena Olin ...
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Warner Lusomundo Sogecable expands Spanish multiplex circuit
Warner Lusomundo Sogecable, the three-way Spanish exhibition venture, is to invest Euros 65m-70m in expanding its cinema estate, building six new multiplexes with a total 62 screens before the summer of 2004. The company currently owns and operates ten multiplexes with 104 screens in Spain. The most recent, a nine-screen ...
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European local hits fight back against US blockbusters
In a reversal of fortunes for Spanish films, a musical comedy has become the third-highest grossing local title of this year after just 10 days on release. Meanwhile, continuing a robust trend, a Danish film has kicked Spider-Man off the top spot at the box office, with the fourth-best opening ...
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New regional Spanish film commission launched
A new regional film commission has been added to Spain's growing network of local organisations with the launch of an office in Castilla-LeonThe commission will oversee the Castilla-Leon Producers' Association's (ACALPA) already-functioning 'virtual commission,' an extensive on-line database of information to facilitate shoots in the region.The website (www.filmcommission-castillayleon.es) offers ...
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Sales chief Diederix quits Sogecine-Sogepaq for new post
Eva Diederix, director of international sales at production-distribution house Sogecine-Sogepaq, resigned from her post on Thursday July 11 to accept a new position in international sales outside of Spain. Diederix has worked for Sogepaq since 1998. She was promoted to her current position last year during the consolidation of producer ...
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Spain's Admira offloads Argentinian Azul TV
Spanish media house Admira and JP Morgan have finalised the long-mooted sale of Argentina's Azul TV to Argentine consortium HFS Media SA.The sale was prompted by an Argentine regulation which prohibits a single company from owning more than one television channel locally. Admira, the media arm of Spanish telecoms giant ...
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Carlos Saura readies two new feature projects
Veteran Spanish director Carlos Saura is preparing two new projects to follow his forthcoming feature Salome, slated for a September release.The first is a story about Spain's 16th century King Felipe II, a project which Saura foresees as 'complicated and expensive' to pull together.The second, Amor De Dios (Love Of ...
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Spain's Abaco to double its cinema circuit by 2005
Spanish exhibitor Cines Abaco has unveiled plans to invest Euros 48m over the next three years to grow its multiplex cinema circuit and entertainment chain.The expansion plans encompass seven new multiplexes across Spain with a total of 81 screens by 2005. Plans also include 20 new video game entertainment centres.Abaco ...