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San Sebastian unveils Spanish, Music sidebars
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) has announced the titles to be included in its Made In Spanish section, a popular sidebar dedicated to presenting the year's best Spanish and Latin American features and short films.Among the 37 feature films included are:Miguel Albaladejo's Verbal Attack (Ataque Verbal)I Will ...
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Telecinco buys stake in digital producer
Spanish broadcaster Telecinco has acquired a 35% stake in TV and interactive content producer Multipark Madrid (MPM). The two companies plan to develop new thematic channels for TV as well as content for the internet.The move forms part of Telecinco's entry into digital content and interactive link-ups. Earlier this year ...
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Spain's Prisa reports 40% profit increase
Spanish multimedia giant Grupo Prisa reported first half profits of $46.6m (PTS8,393m), a 40.7% rise over the same period last year. Operating revenues rose 86% to $470m (PTS87.5bn). The first half of 2000 has been an important period for Prisa, which floated 20% of its shares to great success on ...
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Bread And Roses to get airing at Valladolid
Ken Loach's Bread And Roses is among the titles to be included in the official section of the 45th edition of the popular Valladolid International Film Week (Oct 20-28).The title, co-produced by Spain's Alta Films, received strong reviews in competition at Cannes this year. It will screen out of competition ...
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Nieto to spearhead Telefonica Media
Putting a close to weeks of speculation, Juan Jose Nieto was confirmed today as the new executive president of Telefonica Media, the powerful multimedia subsidiary of Spanish telco Telefonica. Nieto's promotion means he will take over the position left vacant with the August 10 departure of Manuel Garcia Duran in ...
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Telecinco's Lejarza to join Grupo Arbol
Spanish television executive Mikel Lejarza has announced that he will leave his post as general director of broadcaster Telecinco to join TV production outfit Grupo Arbol.Lejarza, 44, who made his resignation public earlier this month (Screendaily, August 6), has been with Telecinco for five years. He was appointed general director ...
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Caine to receive San Sebastian Donostia award
Sir Michael Caine will be the recipient of this year's Donostia Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30). John Irvin's film Shiner, in which Caine plays the ambitious father of a rising boxing star, will screen out of competition in the festival's official section.In 1996, Caine won ...
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Lolafilms, Kinowelt make Rain together in Iowa
Marking their first co-production since announcing their share-swapping production and distribution pact at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Spain's Lolafilms is joining forces with Germany's Kinowelt to make Rain, an English-language American-set project to which Martin Scorsese is attached as executive producer. The film will be a 50-50 co-production between ...
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Sitges adds Sabotage, Shadow Of The Vampire
Spain's Sitges International Film Festival (Oct 5-14) has announced two more films in this year's line-up: screwball comedy Sabotage will close this year's event, while Elias Merhige's Shadow Of The Vampire will compete as part of the official selection.The English-language Sabotage, from Spain's Ibarretxe Brothers (writer-directors Esteban and Jose Miguel, ...
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San Sebastian competition has heavy Spanish accent
The San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled 15 titles for its official selection at this year's 48th edition (Sept 21-30).The line-up so far is marked by a high number of Spanish productions and co-productions, among them Karl Francis' One Of The Hollywood Ten, starring Jeff Goldblum and Greta Scacchi, ...
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Lucky Red snaps up Venice entry Phantom
Italy's Lucky Red has picked up rights on Venice competition entry The Phantom (O Fantasma), from Portugal's Rosa Filmes.According to Phantom producer Amandio Coroado, the feature is slotted for a 10-copy release in Italy on September 8, coinciding with the film's festival screening. Phantom will be released in Portugal on ...
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Morena, Cuatro Cabezas strike co-production deal
Spanish production house Morena Films has signed a TV co-production accord with Argentinean outfit Cuatro Cabezas which will likely grow to include feature films.The agreement originally spans two interview-format shows already popularised on broadcaster Telefe in Argentina and now adapted for the Spanish market. The weekly shows will premiere on ...
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San Sebastian unveils New Directors' line-up
Six Spaniards and only one American are among the 19, mostly European directors competing for the Euros150,000 New Directors' prize at this year's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30), the festival announced today.Three of the films will also compete in the Official Section. They are:Spaniard Salvador Garcia Ruiz's The ...
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Perfect Storm swells Spanish box office
Warner Bros' The Perfect Storm succeeded in pulling in a significant box office gross when it opened in Spain last weekend with $1.6m (PTS294.6m) from its super-wide release of 315 prints. The opening makes it the fifth biggest weekend opening in Spain this year, squeezing past Columbia TriStar's release of ...
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Crouching Tiger to open San Sebastian's Top
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will open "Festivals' Top", part of this year's Zabaltegi (Open Zone) section at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 21-30). The festival has split its traditional offering of films in Zabaltegi into two divisions: Festivals' Top, which will present features already screened at ...
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Portugal's SIC inks five-year pact with Globo
Portuguese broadcaster SIC has closed a five-year deal with Brazilian media giant Globo which gives the two groups mutually exclusive rights to the other's product. As part of the deal, the two companies also plan to start co-producing feature films, made-for-TV movies and fiction series.The first co-production in development is ...
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Cartel, Creaccion set to shoot Ungria's El Deseo
Spanish producers Creaccion and Cartel plan to shoot Alfonso Ungria's El Deseo De Ser Piel Roja from September in Spain and Morrocco.The $1.1m film tells the story of two men, their fight to close a nuclear power centre and their battle for the love of one woman. Up-and-coming actors Patxi ...
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Jazztel founder launches rival cable operator
Jordi Compte Batista, co-founder of Spanish cable company Jazztel, has launched his own competing cable outfit dubbed Flash10.com, according to Spanish news reports. Flash10 plans to offer telephone, data, internet and multimedia services in 32 cities in the Catalan region of Spain. Compte is said to be seeking international backers ...
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Telefonica board installs Alierta as new chief
Juan Villalonga has officially resigned as chairman of Telefonica, ending a four-year run at the Spanish conglomerate he transformed into one of Europe's most dynamic players in the entertainment, communications and on-line realms."In the course of our conversations about the best way to create value for the entire company, we ...
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Euro multimedia titan Villalonga tipped to quit
Juan Villalonga, the embattled chief of telecoms and entertainment giant Telefonica, has reportedly stepped down after a little more than four years at the helm of Spain's largest corporation. His resignation comes less than 48 hours after Telefonica won shareholder support for its purchase of Dutch entertainment force Endemol.According to ...