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Cruz, Abril attached to Diaz Yanes' second feature
Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril are reportedly attached to star as a bad angel and a good angel in the highly anticipated second feature from Spanish director Agustin Diaz Yanes, No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios).The film is a co-production between Edmundo Gil of Flamenco Films, Eduardo Campoy ...
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Sogecable joins private broadcasters' union
Grupo Prisa subsidiary Sogecable, which houses pay-TV outlet Canal Plus and digital satellite platform Canal Satelite Digital, has announced that it will join free TV stations Antena 3 and TeleCinco in the Union of Associated Commercial Broadcasters (UTECA).The move comes at a time when the Spanish television market is set ...
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Spain's Filmax acquires post-production lab
Barcelona mini-studio Filmax has added another feather to its cap with the 60% buy-out of post-production laboratory Filmtel. The move follows Filmax's entrance last month into the post-production sector with the launch of animation effects house Bren Entertainment. Filmtel was a founding partner in Bren and will maintain its 30% ...
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Prisa set to float 25% of shares in June
Spanish media conglomerate Grupo Prisa has revealed that it plans to float between 20-25% of its shares in June. "Prisa will grow stronger, be in better condition to preserve its independence and attract necessary resources to embark on new projects," Prisa president Jesus de Polanco said at a shareholders' meeting ...
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Spanish film stays alive with Art Of Dying
Domestic productions continue to hold their own at the Spanish box office. Last week, two Spanish films opened in the top ten, one of which - Aurum Producciones' teen horror flic The Art Of Dying (El Arte De Morir) - nabbed the number two spot, beaten only by awards-laden American ...
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Telefonica tight-lipped on Telemundo acquisition
Telefonica refused to comment today on press reports that the telecommunications giant is negotiating the buy-out of US-based Spanish-language channel Telemundo. The company also declined to comment on its rumoured acquisition of a majority stake in Argentinean cable company Multicanal or the possible sale of its 5% share in the ...
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Kinovision fills out slate with Devil's Beauty
Kinovision, the start-up production arm of Spanish distributor Araba Films, has added $40m drama The Devil's Beauty to its rapidly expanding English-language production slate.Beauty, based on the novel by French writer Lauren Haloche and adapted by Enrique Urbizu, has been set up as a co-production with France's Orly Films ...
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Portugal's SIC Filmes unveils debut slate
Leading Portuguese private broadcaster SIC (Sociedad Independente de Comunicao) has unveiled the remaining seven projects on its debut film production slate of 10 made-for-TV movies. The slate, which nearly doubles Portugal's annual feature film output, was launched in 1999 under the banner SIC Filmes, in association with the national cinema ...
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Via Digital reaches half million subscribers mark
Spanish digital satellite platform Via Digital has announced that it has reached the half million mark in subscribers. Still trailing rival Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) by more than 300,000 subscribers, Via's numbers reflect a remarkable 70.5% rate of growth over the last 12 months.Via claims its market share has grown ...
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Filmax unveils Captain Thunder multimedia project
Barcelona-based mini-studio, The Filmax Group, is finalising plans for its "most ambitious" project this year: a feature film and spin-off multimedia ventures based on popular Spanish cartoon character Capitan Trueno (Captain Thunder).Director Juanma Bajo Ulloa - whose last feature film, 1997's Airbag, became the highest grossing Spanish film ever in ...
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Planeta 2010 makes first theatrical acquisition
Planeta 2010, the start-up multimedia division of publishing company Grupo Planeta, has acquired all rights to its first feature film, the Italian animation La Gabbianella E Il Gatto.The division picked up theatrical, video, pay-TV and free-TV rights to the film, which was produced by Italy's Cecchi Gori Group and successfully ...
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Telefonica reportedly in talks to buy Lycos stake
Spanish telecommunications and media giant Telefonica continues to make news this week in Spain, most recently with speculation that the company is negotiating a stake in US Internet portal Lycos.Spanish newspapers reported yesterday that Telefonica was in similar negotiations with Latin American web portal StarMedia. Both Lycos and StarMedia compete ...
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Portugal's SIC buys controlling stake in CNL
Portuguese private broadcaster SIC has bought a 60% stake in pay-TV news channel Canal de Noticias de Lisboa (CNL) from telco Portugal Telecom subsidiary PT Multimedia. The channel is carried by pay-TV operator TV Cabo.The deal marks SIC's first move into the production of thematic channels. Last year SIC launched ...
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Telefonica in talks for Latin American buys
Spanish telecoms and multimedia giant Telefonica is understood to be making another aggressive step into the Latin American market by acquiring a stake in Mexican broadcaster TV Azteca, according to Spanish press reports.According to one report, Telefonica's media subsidiary, Telefonica Media, is also negotiating the buy-out of Peruvian cable operator ...
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Douglas, Dunaway to attend first Las Palmas fest
The autonomous governments of Spain's Canary Islands and its capital Las Palmas have launched the International Film Festival of Las Palmas, Grand Canary Island. The first annual edition of the festival, which is co-sponsored by Canal Plus, will be held April 8-16.Kirk Douglas, Kristen Scott Thomas and Faye Dunaway are ...
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Telecinco doubles profits; unveils Internet launch
Spanish private broadcaster TeleCinco has reported a 51.9% profit increase for the 1999 financial year to euros110.5m (pts18,388m). Revenue rose 24.3% to euros512.7m (pts85,301m) over the same period.The channel, which described itself as "the most profitable [channel] in Europe", attributed the strong results to increased ad revenue, higher audience shares ...
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Sogecable seals PPV deal with DreamWorks
Spanish audiovisual group Sogecable has flexed its acquisition muscle by signing a 16-picture agreement with DreamWorks SKG giving it pay-per-view (PPV) rights for its digital satellite platform Canal Satelite Digital (CSD). Among the titles included in the deal are multiple Academy Award nominee American Beauty, The Prince Of Egypt, The ...
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Sogecable denies Canal Satelite sale
Spanish audiovisual group Sogecable has vehemently denied speculation that it is nearing a sale to Telefonica of a 92.5% stake in digital satellite platform Canal Satelite Digital (CSD). Such a sale would undoubtedly result in a long-awaited merger between CSD and Telefonica-owned rival platform Via Digital.Sources at Sogecable this morning ...
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Prisa to acquire Spanish publisher ahead of float
Spanish multimedia conglomerate Prisa Group is acquiring Santillana de Ediciones, one of the Spanish-speaking world's largest publishing houses, for an undisclosed amount. The move is seen as an effort by Prisa to add muscle to its planned 25% stock flotation in June.The Prisa announcement coincided with media rival Telefonica's much-discussed ...
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San Sebastian to feature Bertolucci tribute
The 48th San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 21-30) will host a tribute to Bernardo Bertolucci which will feature screenings of all of his films as well as several documentaries about him and his body of work. Coinciding with the film's 25th anniversary, Bertolucci's Novecento will be given a special ...