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Jaman strikes 30-film deal with Venevision
New US-based internet filmdistributor Jaman has closed a deal for rights to 30 feature films fromVenevision in a move announced at the Donostia-San Sebastian International FilmFestival.The agreement encompassesnon-exclusive rights for broadband distribution and an option to pick upanother 50 titles. The original 30 films include 22 Latin American and eightSpanish ...
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Wenders joins Bardem's The Invisibles project
Director Wim Wenders has come on board for the new portmanteau film TheInvisibles (Los Invisibles), produced by Spanish actor Javier Bardem. In October, Wenders will travel to Congoto shoot a short film about the sexual abuse of women in that country. His isthe last of five 15-20 minute projects to ...
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Demme to make doc about Carter's book on Middle East
Jonathan Demme is preparing a documentary about Jimmy Carter'sbook Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, thedirector said at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept21-30) this week."I'm going to do a documentary film starting in aboutsix weeks with the former United States president Jimmy Carter, who has a newbook coming out," Demme ...
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Mexican expansion talks for Films In Progress scheme
Jorge Sanchez, director of Mexico's Guadalajara International Film Festival is negotiating with San Sebastian and Toulouse to extend the successful Films In Progress completion financing initiative. The leading Mexican festival wants the scheme to be in place for next March, covering films from Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean.Films in ...
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San Sebastian chief warns of festival overcrowding
Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival director Mikel Olaciregui has warned that the festival calendar is overcrowded.Speaking during the opening weekend of the event, he told reporters that his $7.8m (Euros 6m) budget - reportedly half thatof the new Rome Film Fest - didn't stretch to private jet-type expensesincreasingly required by ...
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John Hurt signs on for de la Iglesia's Oxford Murders
John Hurt will take aleading role in Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia'sin-the-works English-language thriller Oxford Murders.Hurt will play an Oxford University professor embroiled in the investigation of a series of murdersseemingly linked by mathematical symbols. The story is based on anaward-winning novel by the Argentinean writer Guillermo Martinez.The estimated ...
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Spain's Lolafilms readies Aranda's Lolita's Club
Spanish production house Lolafilms is preparing director Vicente Aranda'sLolita's Club, the follow-up to his English-languageromp The White Knight.The estimated $6.4m (Euros5m) film will star Eduardo Noriega (Alatriste) and is expected to start shooting in Spain in early 2007. Producer Andres Vicente Gomez says hewill seek co-producers, likely starting in Italy.The ...
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Sogepaq books multiple deals for DarkBlueAlmostBlack
Spain's Sogepaq has closed a string of sales onwell-received Venice Days entry DarkBlueAlmostBlack (AzulOscuroCasiNegro) which screens in Toronto's Visions programme. The sales, closed in Venice, were to Arsenal for Germany and Austria, Frenetic Films for Switzerland, Cineart for Benelux, Budapest Film in Hungary, Strada in Greece and Arthouse Traffic in ...
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Jaume Balaguero finds The Certain Lady with Filmax
Spanish horror specialist Jaume Balaguero, fresh from the Venice screening of his newest film To Let, is preparing his next feature, The Certain Lady, for producer Filmax.The film is based on thenovel La Dama Numero Trece by Jose CarlosSomoza about a poetry lover haunted by a nightmare of a parallel ...
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Alatriste opens well in Spain but doesn't break records
The hugely awaited Viggo Mortensen-starrer Alatriste, themost expensive Spanish production ever, scored well during its opening weekendin its home market but fell short of breaking local records.According to provisionalfigures from Nielsen EDI, Alatriste took around $5.8m (Euros 4.5m) in its openingweekend, which would leave it trailing local record holders Torrente ...
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San Sebastian reveals line-up for Latin Horizons competition
The Donostia-SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) has released the line-up ofits year-in-production Latin Horizons dual showcases of Spanish cinema, Made inSpain, and Latin American films, Horizons Selection.The competitive Horizons sectionhas a best film prize, which comes with a purse of $23,100 (Euros 18,000).Sixteen films have been selected, including 10 ...
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Robert Carlyle signs on for 28 Weeks Later
Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne,Catherine McCormack, Jeremy Renner, Imogen Poots, Idris Elba and 12-year-oldnewcomer Mackintosh Muggleton have been cast in 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to DannyBoyle's 28 Days Later, which beganshooting yesterday in London.Spain's Sogecine and KoanFilms and the UK's Figment are producing for DNA Films and Fox Atomic. Shooting ...
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Oliver Stone heads to San Sebastian with World Trade Center
Oliver Stone, Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale andDavid Hasselhoff will be on hand to present theirlatest films in special screenings at the Donostia-SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30).The screenings take place inSan Sebastian's impressive 3,000-seat AnoetaVelodrome theatre, celebrating its 20thanniversary this year.Stone, who inaugurated thevenue in 1986 with his film Salvador ...
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San Sebastian selects projects for funding initiatives
The Donostia-SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) has unveiled the filmsselected to participate in its popular completion financing initiatives Filmsin Progress and Cinema In Motion.Now in its 10thedition, the Films in Progress program aims to attach financiers to LatinAmerican and Spanish films currently in post-production. Cinema in Motion,launched last year ...
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Holland, Broomfield to compete in San Sebastian
Lars von Trier,John Boorman, Tom DiCilloand Agnieszka Holland are among the directors set toscreen films in the official selection of the upcoming Donostia-SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30). Von Trier'snew Dogme comedy TheBoss Of It All (DirektoerenFor Det Hele), about anactor whose principles are put to the test when he ...
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San Sebastian's pearls include Inarritu's Babel
American films are the starsof the "Pearls" section and Spanish documentaries lead the Special Screeners inthe Zabaltegi sidebar of the upcoming Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept21-30).Among the "Pearls" competingfor the TCM Audience Award, which offers $38,503 (Euros 30,000)to the Spanish distributor, are Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu'sCannes best director winner Babel,starring ...
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Eighteen compete for San Sebastian new director prizes
Eighteen films will compete in the New Directors'competition at this year's Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (September 21-30). The films come largely from Europe,although Asia, Latin America andthe United Statesare represented as well. First and second-time feature directors competing in the festival's official selection are also eligible for awards. Prizes include ...
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New Marbella festival to offer four competition sections
Dancing For Oliver, a documentary about the making of the dancesequences in Oliver Stone's Alexander,is one of approximately 50 films to screen at the first International FilmFestival of Marbella, Spain this Sept 8-10.The festival, funded by thecharitable organization New World Trust, aims to promote new filmmakers fromaround the world. Organizers ...
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Catalunya establishes new $7.6m co-production fund
Spain's regional government of Catalunya has approved a new $7.6m (Euros 6m) filmco-production fund, Mesfilms Inversions.The CatalanInstitute of Finances (ICF), the Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries(ICIC) and regional public broadcaster TVC each bring $1.3m (Euros 1m) to thefund initially, with an agreement to bring an additional $1.3m (Euros 1m) eachby ...
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Appeals deadline looms for studios in Spanish case
Monday marked the deadline forappeals to be filed in the ruling which found five studios guilty ofanti-competitive practices in Spain.Disney/Buena Vista, SonyPictures, Hispano Fox, UIP and Warner Sogefilms werefined $3m (Euros 2.4m) each for cartel-like practices in a decision handed downby Spain's Competition Defense Court (Tribunal de Defensa de laCompetencia) ...