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Spain's ICEX taps Campoy as advisor
Eduardo Campoy, president of the Spanish Producers' Federation (FAPAE), has been named advisor to Spain's Foreign Commerce Institute (ICEX).This marks the first time that the ICEX has appointed an advisor from the media sector. Campoy will advise on how Spanish audiovisual product can better sell abroad.Campoy - a film director ...
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Telefonica doubles stake in Portugal Telecom
Spain's Telefonica has more than doubled its stake in Portuguese counterpart Portugal Telecom (PT) from 4.75% to 10% as part of a deal that sees the two companies create South America's largest mobile phone operator via a joint venture in Brazil.The Spanish conglomerate may also take an option to invest ...
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France Telecom to take control of Madrid Film
France Telecom subsidiary TDF looks poised to take control of leading Spanish film laboratory Madrid Film with an accumulated 79% interest in the company. According to Spanish daily Cinco Dias, TDF, which already owns a 66% share in the firm, has agreed to buy out a 13% share held by ...
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Quiero strikes output deals with Warner, Disney
Quiero Television, Spain's first and Europe's second-ever DTT platform, has closed two non-exclusive PPV deals with Warner and Disney.Both deals begin 2001 and last five years through 2005. Among the titles included are Warner's Analyze This, Three Kings and Deep Blue Sea, and Disney's Runaway Bride, End Of Days and ...
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Alquimia pacts with Via Digital; unveils slate
Spanish digital satellite platform Via Digital has signed an exclusive, three-year PPV rights deal with Madrid production-distribution start-up Alquimia Cinema, to add to its accords with other local companies such as Lauren Films, Manga Films, Planeta 2010, Alta Films, Lolafilms and Filmax. Signed by Via Digital director of programming and ...
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Gimenez-Aleman replaces Gonzalez at TeleMadrid
Francisco Gimenez-Aleman has been appointed the new managing director of Spanish regional public broadcaster TeleMadrid.Gimenez-Aleman replaces Silvio Gonzalez, who was asked Tuesday by the regional Madrid government to resign from his post following the broadcast of a programme concerning the tempestuous political situation in Basque Country. The programme has been ...
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Spain's Alquimia buys five from Alliance
Madrid-based newcomer Alquimia Cinema has picked up all Spanish rights on five films from Canada's Alliance Atlantis Pictures International, including Berlin Panorama entry Maelstrom from French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve.The deal - brokered by Alquimia chief Francisco Ramos and Alliance Atlantis Pictures International president Mark Horowitz - could lead to ...
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Spain: production up as local market share falls
Spanish production levels rose significantly last year but box-office for local product fell, according to the year-end analysis by the Spanish Cinema Academy.Spain produced a whopping 104 films last year, seven more than the previous year and 25 more than in 1998. Average budgets on Spanish films continued their decade-long ...
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Spain's Anita heads for Berlin's Panorama
Anita Takes A Chance (Anita No Pierde El Tren), from veteran Spanish director Ventura Pons, has been invited to screen in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival.This marks the fourth consecutive year that Pons will screen a film in Berlin, following To Die- Or Not (Morir- O ...
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Spain's Via Digital appoints general manager
Pedro Urieta has been appointed general manager of Spanish digital satellite TV provider Via Digital.Urieta, 42, was previously general manager of Via Digital parent company TPI, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant Telefonica. During his tenure he helped generate an income rise of 100% over four years.Urieta will work alongside Via ...
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Sogecable takes stake in Canal Technologies
Spanish multimedia group Sogecable has taken a 3.23% stake in France's Canal Plus Technologies in a deal valued at Euros 49.7m.The acquisition was made jointly with Sony and Thomson Multimedia for an overall 9.7% share in Canal Plus Technologies, a leading digital TV technology provider. As part of the deal, ...
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Broadcasting chief exits at Spain's Antena 3
Juan Jose Diaz is stepping down as general director of broadcasts at Antena 3 Television.According to a statement from the broadcaster, Diaz "has reached an agreement with the channel to leave his position in the company and confront new professional challenges."In his position as general director of broadcasts, which he ...
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Spain's Goyas fete de la Iglesia, You're The One
Alex de la Iglesia's black comedy Common Wealth (La Comunidad) and Jose Luis Garci's black-and-white period tale You're The One led the list of nominees for Spain's Goya awards, announced today in Madrid by the Spanish Cinema Academy.Common Wealth, which won kudos at the San Sebastian International Film Festival last ...
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Brian Yuzna's genre Factory heads for Fantasporto
Brian Yuzna's Fantasy Factory, the Spanish genre house which struck deals with Dimension Films, Lions Gate and Trimark late last year, is expected to world premiere Arachnid at Portuguese fantasy festival Fantasporto as part of a spotlight on the Filmax subsidiary.The Porto-based festival, which runs February 23 to March 3, ...
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Spain's San Sebastian appoints festival manager
Leading Spanish film event the San Sebastian International Film Festival has named Mikel Etxagibel as its general manager.Etxagibel will work alongside incoming festival director Mikel Olaciregui, who replaces Diego Galan this month. Etxagibel, 48, comes to the festival from the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, where he had been assistant director ...
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Spain's Canal hits 1 million pay-TV subscribers
Grupo Prisa's Spanish pay-TV operation Canal Satelite Digital has racked up 1.05 million subscribers.The figure is nearly double that of rival Via Digital's 630,000, a lead some attribute to four year-old Canal Satelite's ready-made subscriber base through pay platform Canal Plus. The 10-year-old sister service now boasts 1.85 million subscribers.Via ...
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Telefonica in talks for majority stake in Manga
Telefonica Media, the multimedia filial of Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, is in negotiations to take a majority stake in Barcelona-based distributor Manga Films.A spokesperson for Telefonica Media confirmed that talks are in "early stages." Manga was reportedly in negotiations last year to sell a stake to Germany's Splendid Medien.Manga would ...
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Planeta takes Triumph, Legend Of Zu
Planeta 2010, the acquisitive media division of Spanish publishing giant Planeta, has picked up all local rights on The Triumph Of Love and The Legend Of Zu.Triumph, a romantic comedy starring Mira Sorvino and Ben Kingsley, is currently shooting in Tuscany under director Clair Peploe. Peploe co-wrote the script with ...
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UIP acquires Spanish Big Brother feature
International distribution giant UIP has picked up Spanish theatrical rights to The Big Martian (El Gran Marciano), a hoax digital feature starring the (unwitting) cast of the Spanish version of Big Brother.UIP acquired the rights from start-up production outfit Zebra Produccciones, which shot Martian almost entirely without the knowledge of ...
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Planeta seeks partners for debut production
Planeta 2010 - the start-up media division of publishing giant Planeta - is seeking international co-production partners for the feature film which will mark it's entry into the production market, Avatar.An English-language futuristic action story from up-and-coming director Elio Quiroga, Avatar is planned for an autumn 2001 shoot on a ...