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Filmax to distribute Lauren Films' catalogue of titles
Spain'sFilmax has signed a deal to distribute Lauren Films'catalogue of titles on DVD in Spain.Starting this month, Filmax willhandle all Lauren catalogue titles and new releases. Recent titles include Beautiful Boxer andThe Importance OfBeing Ernest, while among the cataloguetitles encompassed by the dealare The English Patient, The Cider HouseRules, Life ...
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Tornasol Films to back new prize at Guadalajara
Spanish producer Tornasol Filmsis backing a new prize for the winning film at the two-day Ibero-American Co-Production Meeting of Mexico's Guadalajara International Film Festival (March 24-31).Tornasol will bring $302,812 (250,000Euros) to the winning film as co-producer, taking an agreed upon percentage ofthe production depending on the budget. The winner is ...
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New Spanish film festival to be held in June
International buyers of Spanish featureshave a new event to mark on their calendars: the Spanish Film Screenings ofMadrid, to be held June 18-20.Dubbed "Madrid de Cine,"themini-market will fill the hole left by the cancellation of the Spanish FilmScreenings of Lanzarote.It will offer a more central and accessiblelocation for international travellers, ...
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Spanish government launches action plan for film
Spain'sMinistry of Culture has unveiled an "action plan" for Spanish film, including increased subsidies and the creation of a new mutual guarantee fund.Presentedin Madrid by Minister of Culture Carmen Calvo, the initiative targets production, distribution and exhibition.The most significant measure is an increase to the 2006 budget of the Spanish ...
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Spain claims 20-year production record
Spainproduced more feature films in 2005 than in any year in the past two decades,according to new figures released by the Ministry of Culture.Some142 features were made in Spain last year, nine more than the previous year,with another 30 currently in post-production.Ofthose 142, 53 were international co-productions. The mostfrequent co-producing ...
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The Match Factory picks up films from Wanda Vision
New international sales outfit The Match Factory has picked up international rights to two new titles from Spain's Wanda Vision. The Match Factory, set up by former Bavaria Films International managing director MichaelWeber has picked up Claudia Llosa's Sundance and Rotterdam entry Madeinusa and Gerardo Olivares' The Great Match.Peruvian-set Madeinusa ...
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Spanish box-office admissions down by 12.7%
Admissions at Spanish cinemas took a 12.7% dive in 2005,hitting a seven-year low.According to figures from Nielsen EDI, box-office grosses inSpaindiminished 9.5% to $745.9m (617.5m Euros) from $823.8m (682m Euros) theprevious year. Admissions dropped 12.7% from 140 to 122.2 million, thelowest level recorded locally since 1998.The downward turn reverses the ...
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Woody Allen prepares 2007 Spanish shoot
Woody Allen is to shoot a film in Spain in 2007 with local producer MediaPro.MediaPro general director Jaume Roures said his company has signed a deal with Allen to back an as-yet unscripted film by the director set in Spain, and likely Barcelona.Roures told Screendaily.com that a contract was ...
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Woody Allen prepares 2007 Barcelona shoot
Woody Allen is to shoot a film in the Barcelona in 2007 with local producer MediaPro.MediaPro general manager Jaume Roures said that his company had signed a deal with Allen to back an as-yet unscripted film by the director set in Barcelona."We signed a contract in which Woody Allen ...
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Spanish Film Screenings at Lanzarote cancelled
The Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote, a three-day mini-market for Spanish cinema heldevery winter in the Canary Islands, have been cancelledafter six editions.The Screenings drew anywhere from50 to 90 international buyers each winter to the Spanish archipelago off thenorthwest coast of Africa. After five years running inlate November and early ...
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Spanish stars head home for new projects
Spain's most exportable filmtalent, led by Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz,are going back to their roots for their most recent productions.Cruz has signed on to star oppositeAdrien Brody in English-language bullfighting biopic Manolete, whichbegins shooting on March 21 in Cordoba, Seville and Madrid.Meanwhile, Banderas began filming in his hometown of ...
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Sogepaq sells Goya-nominated Virgins to US
Spain's Sogepaq has sold allrights for the US to Picture This! Entertainment on Alberto Rodriguez's coming-of-age drama 7Virgins (7 Virgenes).The announcement comes onthe same day the film turned heads with six nominations for the Spanish FilmAcademy's Goya Awards including in the best film, director and original scriptcategories.7 Virgins, a Tesela ...
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New Spanish studio secures its first international production
Additional reporting by Nancy Tartaglione-VialatteThe third installment in France'shugely popular Asterix series will shoot at Spain'snew City of Light studio complexnext year, marking the studio's first major international production.The budget of around $95.6m (80m Euros)Asterix At The Olympic Games (AsterixAux Jeux Olympiques) isexpected to begin shooting next May or June ...
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Obaba and Princesas dominate the Goyas
Montxo Armendariz's Obaba andFernando Leon's Princesses are thefrontrunners in the nominations for the 20th anniversary edition of Spain's Oscar-equivalent Goya Awards, which willtake place January 29.Obaba, aBasque Country-set adaptation of an award-winning novel, earned 10 nominationsincluding in the best film and director categories. The movie is Spain's nomination to the ...
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Obaba and Princesas dominate the 20th Goya Awards
Montxo Armendariz's Obaba and Fernando Leon's Princesses are the frontrunners in the nominations for the 20th anniversary edition of Spain's Oscar-equivalent Goya Awards, which will take place January 29.Obaba, a Basque Country-set adaptation of an award-winning novel, earned 10 nominations including in the best film and director categories. The movie ...
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Sogepaq announces sales for Fernando Leon's latest
Spain's Sogepaq has announced first sales in Europe and Latin America on Fernando Leon's Sundance World Competition entry, Princesses (Princesas). The film has sold to France and Belgium (ARP), Switzerland (Xenix), Greece & Cyprus (Audiovisual), Portugal (Atalanta Filmes), Mexico (Cine Video y TV), Argentina, Chile, Uruguay & Paraguay (Alfa Films) ...
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Grupo Pi reveals string of deals in the US
Spanish consortium Grupo Pi hasclosed a string of sales on its slate of local films, including a USpay TV and video deal with HBO for first-time feature director Guillem Morales' thriller The Uninvited Guest.Grupo Pi general directorGeraldine Gonard said: "It is not easy forSpanish-language films to break into the USmarket ...
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Sogepaq takes on Banderas' Spanish project
Sogepaq has picked upinternational rights to Antonio Banderas' second film as director, The WayOf The English, which beginsshooting next Monday in Spain.The film is a co-productionbetween Banderas' own Green Moon Producciones and Sogepaq sister companySogecine.It marks Banderas' return tothe Spanish film industry, where he also plans to begin producing local ...
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Audiard beats rivals to Golden Giraldillo at Seville
JacquesAudiard's The Beat That My HeartSkipped (De battre mon coeur s'est arrete) took theGolden Giraldillo at Spain's European Film Festival ofSeville.The award comes with a $70,000 (Euros 60,000) prize awarded - like all those handed out - to the film's Spanish distributor.AustrianJorg Kalt's Crash Test Dummies won the SilverGiraldillo, while ...
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Pedro Maso earns Spain's highest film award
Veteran director Pedro Maso will receive the Goya of Honour at the 20thanniversary edition of Spain'sOscar-equivalent national awards ceremony next January 29.The Academy said the career of Maso, 60, "has followed the social,moral and political evolution of Spanish society, so that his broad workconstitutes an important sociological testimony to the ...