All articles by Claire Wallerstein

  • Features

    Upcoming Projects - In the works

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    PLANET 51With a budget of $60.7m (EUR41m), Ilion Studios' alien invasion animation is billed as the most expensive Spanish project of all time. It is the feature debut of director Jorge Blanco and is scripted by the Oscar-nominated Shrek writer Joe Stillman. "(Stillman) loved the project," says Ilion founder Ignacio ...

  • Features

    Spain - On Location - Studio could be breakthrough

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Spanish locations earned the attention of Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Steven Soderbergh (The Argentine and Guerrilla) in 2007. This year Universal and Working Title's Iraq-set The Green Zone, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Matt Damon, is shooting on location around the country.Now the Spanish capital of Madrid ...

  • Features

    Spain - Box office - Biting back at the bootlegs

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Whether the problem lies with piracy or mediocre product, Spanish admissions and DVD revenue took a tumble last year as audiences found other ways to fill their leisure time. Although the territory's annual per capita cinema admissions remain higher than in the UK, Italy or Germany, they plunged by 18% ...

  • News

    Spanish exhibition: negative impact

    2007-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Claire Wallerstein reports on the country's drop in admissions and negative impact of the new film law. Spain has the most screens per capita worldwide outside the US, and yet admissions reached only 121 million for 2006 - the lowest since 1998.Revenue increased just 0.2% year on year, to $856.6m ...

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    Controversial Spanish film law approved by ministers

    2007-06-03T21:39:00Z

    Spain's controversial new film law took a major step forward on Friday after being approved by the Council of Ministers.The legislation, now expected to come into force by the end of the year after being pushed through Parliament as a matter of urgency, is intended to improve distribution and boost ...