All articles by Jennifer Green – Page 43
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Alta, Celluloid team for Noriega starrer Nova
Spain's Alta Films is prepping feature film Novo with France's Celluloid Dreams, set to star heartthrob Eduardo Noriega in his first non Spanish-language role.The $4-5m film, which will shoot in Paris beginning in August, is about a man whose memory problems get him in trouble with women. Jean-Pierre Limosin directs.The ...
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Oscar nominee Bardem gets spot in the Sun
Fresh from an Academy Award nomination for his performance in Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls, Spanish actor Javier Bardem has signed on to star in Fernando Leon's Mondays In The Sun (Los Lunes Al Sol) for producer Elias Querejeta.The film is Bardem's first new project announced since the role as ...
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Colifilms buys Assassination In February
Spanish producer Elias Querejeta has sold French rights on Cannes Critic's Week entry Assassination In February (Asesinato En Febrero) to specialist French distributor Colifilms. Querejeta says negotiations are also underway for sales to the US, UK and Italy. The feature film documentary, written by Querejeta and directed by newcomer Eterio ...
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Colifilms buys Assassination In February
Spanish producer Elias Querejeta has sold French rights on Cannes Critic's Week entry Assassination In February (Asesinato En Febrero) to specialist French distributor Colifilms. Querejeta says negotiations are also underway for sales to the US, UK and Italy. The feature film documentary, written by Querejeta and directed by newcomer Eterio ...
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Lolafilms boards Serrano's Cannibal's Daughter
Spanish heavyweight Lolafilms has boarded Mexican production The Cannibal's Daughter (La Hija Del Canibal), which reteams the director and producers of box office smash Sex, Shame And Tears (Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas).Lola, which handled distribution in Spain on Tears, will co-produce and take all Spanish rights to the $2-2.5m comedy-thriller ...
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Spain's Boca launches international sales division
Spanish production house Grupo Boca has launched a new worldwide sales and production division, signalling plans to significantly grow its international presence.Former Boca TV acquisitions and distribution head Mercedes Borruel has been appointed director of the new department. She will handle international sales on all feature film product out of ...
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Pons dishes up cast for Food Of Love
UK actors Paul Rhys, Allan Corduner and Lindsay Duncan have joined the cast of Spanish director Ventura Pons' English-language debut, Food Of Love.Shooting in August, Love will be the third film from new Barcelona-based production and sales outfit 42nd Street Productions, backed by German facilities giant Das Werk. The first ...
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Spanish Dogme producers prepare new projects
Pilar Suero and Juan Pinzas, the producer-director team behind Spain's first official Dogme film, Once Upon Another Time (Erase Otra Vez), are preparing two new Dogme feature films.First up is Although The Bride Wears Silk (Aunque La Novia Se Vista De Seda), planned for a September shoot. Described as an ...
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KWA chews on Beach Dogs for worldwide sales
Spanish sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has picked up worldwide rights on Beach Of Dogs (La Playa De Los Galgos), a new forthcoming feature film from director Mario Camus.The $4m mystery stars Laura Morante (The Son's Room), Carmelo Gomez (Between Your Legs), Ingrid Rubio and Miguel Angel Sola. It ...
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Sogepaq adds Medem's latest to Cannes slate
Spanish rights house Sogepaq has added two films to its Cannes sales slate: Julio Medem's Lucia And Sex (Lucia Y El Sexo) and Antonio Hernandez's In The City Without Limits (En La Ciudad Sin Limites).Lucia is the much-anticipated new film from cult director Medem (The Lovers Of The Arctic Circle). ...
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Wild Bunch takes worldwide rights to Madhouse
StudioCanal specialist division Wild Bunch will handle worldwide rights on French-Spanish co-production Madhouse (Una Casa De Locos) from director Cedric Klapisch.Madhouse stars a pan-European cast of up-and-comers led by Romain Duris, Judith Godreche, Cristina Brondo and Paulina Galvez in a comedy about a group of international students sharing an apartment ...
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San Sebastian unveils three retrospectives
Making his first announcement about content, MikelOlaciregui, the new director of the San SebastianInternational Film Festival, unveiled a 2001 programmecontaining three retrospective sections.The festival, now in its 49th edition (Sept 20-29),will feature a "classic" retrospective dedicated to USdirector Frank Borzage, a "contemporary" retrospectiveof the works of director Otar Iosseliani and ...
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Aurum owner Asensio dies
Francisco Matosas has been named president of publishing and media giant Grupo Zeta following the April death of Zeta founder and chief Antonio Asensio.Asensio's son, Antonio Asensio Mosbah, will take over Matosas' position as vice president of the Group. Asensio, 53, passed away in Madrid on April 20.Zeta publishes a ...
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Early Chabrol to be celebrated by Jove
The 16th annual Cinema Jove International Film Festival (June 16-23) will dedicate a retrospective to the early films of French director Claude Chabrol.The retrospective, set to cover the director's films from the late 1950s and early 1960s, is dubbed "The young' Chabrol." It follows last year's debut of a section ...
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ESICMA boards Lopez vehicle
Spanish production outfit ESICMA has boarded Sergi Lopez-starrer The Women Or The Children by director Manuel Poirier.Women is only the second project to get the greenlight at ESICMA under new head Pau Calpe. Calpe took over the reins from former head Juan Gordon in 1999. The company is backed by ...
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Paquin, Olin emerge in Belaguero's Darkness
Anna Paquin and Lena Olin will head the cast of Catalan director Jaume Balaguero's much-anticipated English-language debut, Darkness. Iain Glen, who co-starred on stage with Nicole Kidman in The Blue Room, Open Your Eyes-star Fele Martinez, Hannibal re-discovery Giancarlo Giannini, Fermi Reixach and newcomer Stephan Enquist round out the cast. ...
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Bille August seduced by Lola's Maid Of Buttermere
Spanish producer Lolafilms has signed two-time Palme d'Or winner Bille August to direct The Maid Of Buttermere, a long-gestating period love tale set in England's Lake District.No cast has yet been confirmed for the film, which was written by Raymond Khoury as an adaptation of a novel by intellectual, TV ...
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Fantasporto festival extends role as distributor
Portugal's Cooperativa Cinema Novo, organisers of the Oporto International Film Festival (aka Fantasporto) have picked up all rights in Portugal on a handful of films from the festival's recent 21st edition. Recent pick-ups include The Price Of Milk, The Irrefutable Truth About Demons, The Filth And The Fury, Purely Belter, ...
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Spanish producers create Grupo PI
Spain's small handful of sales outfits will soon face a new competitor on the international scene: Grupo PI, a powerful new rights broker and channel packager being launched by four of Spain's top producers.Combining film and television content, Grupo PI launches with one of the world's biggest catalogues of Spanish-language ...
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Alta Vista joins No News From God
Growing Mexican heavyweight Alta Vista Films has boarded No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios), a Spanish-language comedy starring Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril. The film is handled internationally by TF1 International.Through distribution partner Nu Vision, Alta Vista may take rights to all Latin America, following the model of ...