All articles by Jennifer Green – Page 35
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Every Stewardess goes to France
Spain's Wanda Vision has sold all French rights on Berlin Panorama entry Every Stewardess Goes To Heaven (Todas Las Azafatas Van Al Cielo) to Pretty Pictures.Wanda's Jose Maria Morales and Miguel Morales said the deal was closed in Cannes. The film from up-and-coming Argentine director Daniel Burman (Waiting For The ...
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Spain's Grupo Pi announces string of deals
Spanish sales consortium Grupo Pi announced a string of deals on various titles from its growing slate of feature films.At Cannes, Pi closed all rights for Colombia to Cineplex on women-driven comedy My Mother Likes Women (A Mi Madre Le Gustan Las Mujeres) starring Leonor Watling (Talk To Her). The ...
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Banderas, Cruz may re-unite with Almodovar for Tarantula
Two of Spain's hottest properties, Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz, are likely to co-star in Tarantula, a futuristic film noir by director Pedro Almodovar. Producer Agustin Almodovar was quoted in Cannes this weekend confirming that the long-mooted project (see Screendaily July 10, 2001) would star Banderas and Cruz. Tarantula, the ...
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Sogepaq wraps Asian deals
Spain's Sogepaq has closed a range of sales to Asia on four recent pictures from sister company Sogecine.Daniel Calparsoro's Kosovo-set action drama Guerreros has sold to Japan (Gaga), Korea (Cinestar), Hong Kong (Winson), Taiwan (Spring Cinema) and Thailand (MJC Entertainment). Japan's Gaga also picked up English-language sci-fi pic Stranded from ...
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Spain's MediaPro buys 60% stake in Ovideo
Spanish audiovisual company MediaPro has bought out 60% of film and TV producer Ovideo TV.The company has also bought a 20% share in Italian producer and consultancy Gruppo Comunicazione Italia (GCI) with an option to raise the stake later this year.The deals follow MediaPro's announced full-fledged entry into feature film ...
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Luque enrolled as head of Film Business School
Former director of creative affairs at Lolafilms UK, Nadine Luque has been appointed new director of the Film Business School, part of the MEDIA Programme-backed pan-European training initiative the Media Business School (MBS).Luque's initial one-year contract with MBS will span two intensive four-day sessions of the Film Business School, a ...
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Spanish, Italian publishing giants unveil production and distribution push
Spanish publishing giant Grupo Planeta and Italian partner De Agostini have finally unveiled full details of their joint multi-media venture, DeA Planeta, including the creation of a new production division to be headed by former Esicma chief Pau Calpe.Calpe will oversee the as yet unnamed production division, which plans to ...
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Spanish-French PHF Films' partners prepare separate slates
Partners in Spanish-French production venture PHF Films, co-producers of Directors' Fortnight title Nada +, are dismantling their joint banner but will continue to co-produce projects together.Antonio Perez of Maestranza Films and Sarah Halioua of MDA Films, who formed PHF at Cannes in 1999 with Thierry Forte of France's DMVB, call ...
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Tesela heads new slate with Manas project
Firming up its reputation as a wellspring for new talent in Spain, start-up Tesela Producciones is prepping four new films for its second-year slate headlined by writer-director Achero Manas' follow-up to his multiple award-winning debut feature Pellet (El Bola).Manas, who won four of Spain's top Goya awards and the EFA's ...
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Spain's Mate Productions unveils new sales division
Spanish production outfit Mate Productions has launched an international sales division which will make its market debut at Cannes.Sales will be co-ordinated under executive Pablo Davila, formerly with Lolafilms. The first title on the company's sales slate is Argentine co-production Private Lives (Vidas Privadas) starring Cecilia Roth (All About My ...
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The City Of No Limits (En La Ciudad Sin Limites)
Dir: Antonio Hernandez. Sp-Arg. 2001. 118minsAntonio Hernandez's ensemble feature is a dramatic gem, a beautifully scripted and acted film with a glossy look and universal tale that has the capacity to move audiences anywhere. It represents a marketing challenge to distributors due to its complex storyline and straddling of genres, ...
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San Sebastian to honour Schlondorff, Powell for 50th edition
The San Sebastian International Film Festival will honour multifaceted filmmakers Volker Schlondorff and Michael Powell with retrospectives at this year's 50th anniversary edition, to be held September 19-28 in the northern Spanish coastal town.The festival, Spain's premiere competitive event, has also organised a thematic sidebar in honour of its anniversary, ...
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Government to close one of Portugal's national TV stations
Portugal's public broadcaster looks set to get cut in half if the government follows through on a promise to close down one of its two nationwide channels. The broadcaster has amassed a multimillion dollar debt which in recent months led to accusations in the local film and TV industry of ...
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New-look Good Machine continues to focus on Almodovars' El Deseo
Good Machine International (GMI), newly renamed Focus International, will handle worldwide sales on the forthcoming My Life Without Me, produced by the Almodovar brothers' Madrid-based El Deseo.The Almodovars look set to continue their ongoing relationship with a redefined Good Machine following its acquisition last week by Universal Studios. GMI handled ...
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Smoking Room
Dirs: Julio Wallovits, Roger Gual. Spain. 2002. 89mins.This low-budget debut feature film seemingly came out of nowhere to quietly storm last week's Spanish Film Festival in Malaga, where it created buzz among critics, crowds and even international buyers gathered for a sidebar market. The film marks the debut of ...
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Spanish media giants agree to merge their pay-TV operations
Spain awoke this morning to the prospect of a dramatic revolution in its media landscape, with the announcement that industry giants Grupo Prisa and Telefonica have agreed to merge their pay-TV units. According to the terms of the deal, which must now be approved by both groups' administrative boards, as ...
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Portugal's Gaia Film Festival reveals inaugural competition line-up
The newly launched Gaia International Film Festival of Portugal is carving a niche as the first stop for international summer releases in the Portuguese market with a high-profile line-up of 12 feature films competing in this year's first annual edition (June 14-22).Among the titles to compete for the festival's non-monetary ...
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Via Digital, Canal Satelite Digital merger rumoured in Spain
In the face of the pending closure of local digital terrestrial pay TV platform Quiero TV, rumors have flared once again in Spain that rival digital satellite platform owners Telefonica and Grupo Prisa are courting a fusion between Via Digital and Canal Satelite Digital (CSD).Insiders say that Spain's conservative government, ...
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Spain's Aurum picks up Lazaro's Girlfriend
Spain's Aurum Producciones has picked up international rights to Malaga Film Festival best actress prize winner Lazaro's Girlfriend (La Novia De Lazaro) from director Fernando Merinero.Under head of international sales Mocha Aguilar, Aurum will screen Lazaro and other recent pick-ups, Miguel Albaladejo's Resentment (Rencor) and Miguel Angel Sanchez's thriller Liable ...
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Malaga festival's best film award-winner pulled from screenings
The Other Side Of The Bed and Julio Wallovits' and Roger Gual's low-budget debut feature Smoking Room shared the top awards at the fifth annual Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 26-May 4). Inexplicably, however, co-producer Telecinco pulled multiple-award winner The Other Side Of The Bed from the screenings, leaving ...