All articles by Jennifer Green – Page 53
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Telecinco strikes 10-pic deal with Singer
Spanish broadcaster Telecinco has sealed a 10-picture pact with US independent producer Joseph Singer, marking its first foray into all-rights acquisitions. Nicolas Cage-starrer One To One will be the first title to emerge from the deal.The pact mirrors a similar move by Telecinco rival Antena 3 which picked up all ...
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AltaVista lines up three to follow Bitch
Mexican start-up production company AltaVista Films - which has its second feature, Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros) in Cannes competition - is prepping a slate of Spanish-language films to shoot before the end of the year.First up out of the new production house is Fernando Sarinana's Smoke In Your Eyes ...
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PHF, Patagonik, Surf extend Sabrina tie-up
Spanish-French joint production venture PHF is developing two feature films in a three-way arrangement with Argentina powerhouse Patagonik Film Group and Italy's Surf Film. The three partners recently wrapped A Night With Sabrina Love (Una Noche Con Sabrina Love), starring Cecilia Roth and Giancarlo Giannini for director Alejandro Agresti. The ...
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Fantastic Factory ready for chopsocky action
Spanish mini-studio The Filmax Group is developing an "Asian-style action movie" for its Fantastic Factory genre film division, according to Factory co-producer and director Brian Yuzna. "The money we would usually put into effects we'll put into stunts," Yuzna said. Filmax plans to bring in Asian talent to further develop ...
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Terra firms up Lycos acquisition
Terra, the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world's leading internet portal majority owned by telecoms giant Telefonica, has closed a deal to acquire multi-brand network Lycos in a stock-for-stock transaction worth $12.5bn.The new company, dubbed Terra Lycos, has also closed a $1bn dollar, five-year commerce deal with European media giant Bertelsmann, which ...
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Via Digital boards Spanish prod'n
Spanish digital satellite platform Via Digital has boarded Spanish title Tercavida (working title) as a co-producer alongside Madrid's PHF and Karma Films. The film, a comedy set in Madrid under second-time director Fernando Huertas, begins shooting this week. Via takes free and pay-TV rights to the project.Although the entrance of ...
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Aurum plans thriller for English first
Spanish distributor-producer Aurum Producciones is developing its first English-language feature film, an untitled thriller from The Man With Rain In His Shoes director Maria Ripoll.According to Aurum head Francisco Ramos the company is close to securing US and European co-producers on the project. The script came from a "US studio," ...
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Filmax thrills with Factory
Barcelona-based mini-studio The Filmax Group has closed a string of sales on four English-language titles from its Fantasic Factory sci-fi and terror genre division - Brian Yuzna's Faust, Jack Sholder's Arachnid, Stuart Gordon's Dagon and Yuzna's Beyond Reanimator.StudioCanal has taken French-speaking European rights on the four titles while Helkon has ...
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SIC takes stake, pics from Morena
Portugal's leading private free TV broadcaster, SIC, has acquired a 10% stake in Juan Gordon's Madrid-based production outfit Morena Films. The broadcaster has also acquired all rights for Portugal on three Morena projects which it will co-produce, and taken TV rights on three other Morena productions. The deal marks SIC's ...
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Medea announces $800,000 handout
The newly launched Mediterranean and European Programme for Audiovisual Development, dubbed Medea, has unveiled the details of its application and awards process. The programme will dole out up to 900,000 Euros annually to 25 feature film and documentary projects from countries in the European Union and Mediterranean region.Medea, which is ...
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Seagull flies with Independent Artists
Los Angeles-based distributor and sales agent Independent Artists (IA) has signed a first-look deal with Spanish start-up The Seagull Productions (TSP). The initial five-year deal gives IA first-look for US distribution on all TSP productions, while TSP gets first-look as Spanish co-producer on IA films.The deal will include the first ...
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Sogepaq picks up Fugitivas, eyes del Toro's Devil
Sogepaq, the rights and acquisitions arm of Spanish media group Sogecable, has picked up world rights on Fugitivas, a feature film currently in production at Seville-based Maestranza Films.Sogepaq is also understood to be negotiating international rights on Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo Del Diablo), a Tequila Gang ...
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Malkovich adds Botto, Morante to Dancer cast
Actor John Malkovich and producer Andres Vicente Gomez of Lolafilms have unveiled the full cast of Dancer Upstairs which will include Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante, Elvira Minguez and Abel Folk alongside Spanish star Javier Bardem.The project, which marks Malkovich's directorial debut, will shoot in English on a budget of ...
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Quiero goes live with 14-channel line-up
Spain's first digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform Quiero TV (formerly Onda Digital) starts broadcasting today (May 5) with an initial offer of 14 thematic channels, Internet/e-mail and PPV services. Quiero is Europe's second DTT platform, after the UK's ONdigital, and the first in the world to offer internet and e-mail ...
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Sogecable seals ten pic pact with Spyglass
Spanish media group Sogecable has closed an exclusive ten picture deal with Spyglass Entertainment for pay-TV outlet Canal Plus and Canal Satelite Digital's PPV service Taquilla.Among the titles included in the deal are box office sensation The Sixth Sense, Brian de Palma's Mission To Mars, Edward Norton's directorial debut Keeping ...
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Telefonica reportedly in merger talks with KPN
Spain's Telefonica is in talks with Dutch telco KPN in what could result in a merger of the two giants according to Spanish press reports. Telefonica has confirmed that it is in negotiations with KPN on a "variety of matters", but sources were unavailable to comment further.A report in Spanish ...
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Cabanillas quits RTVE for government post
In an unexpected announcement yesterday, Pio Cabanillas, general director of public broadcaster Radio Television Espanola (RTVE), was appointed spokesperson of the recently re-elected government of Spanish president Jose Maria Aznar.Cabanillas was recruited to RTVE in 1998 from his post as director of international relations at Grupo PRISA. He has worked ...
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Spain's Saura unleashes Zebra Producciones
Spanish producer and former head of the pan-European Media Business School Antonio Saura has launched production outfit Zebra Producciones with backing from two as-yet unnamed private investors.Saura and co-head Natacha Kucic will invest $6.7-7.3m (pts1,100-1,200m) on their first annual slate of three films - two Spanish language and one international ...
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Sogepaq counts Ephron's Numbers for Spain
Spanish rights and acquisitions house Sogepaq has picked up all rights for Spain on forthcoming Nora Ephron film Numbers, produced by Paramount and set to star John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth and Bill Pullman.The pick-up was made through the joint acquisitions venture which Sogepaq launched last October with Canal ...
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Spain's Garci gears up to shoot You're The One
Spanish director Jose Luis Garci begins production on April 24 on You're The One, his follow-up film to 1998 Oscar nominee The Grandfather (El Abuelo).Lydia Bosch (Al Limite), Juan Diego (Between Your Legs), Fernando Fernan Gomez (All About My Mother) and Ana Fernandez (Solas) are set to star in the ...