All articles by Jennifer Green – Page 2
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Spain's film-makers call for a Spanish Unifrance
Spanish film-makers and industry representatives are calling on their government to help better promote Spanish cinema abroad by following the model of Unifrance. The call came as one of a series of conclusions out of a landmark two-day industry-wide conference held this week in Cordoba (Feb 12-14) to analyse key ...
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Avanzit buys out Notro Films
Spanish distributor and producer Notro Films has been acquired by media company Avanzit. Notro founding partner Jose Maria Irisarri, former CEO and current advisor of TV powerhouses Globo Media and Grupo Arbol, has been named executive president of Avanzit's media filial. Notro - which was launched in September 2004 by ...
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Antena 3 on board for Woody Allen's Spanish project
Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 has boarded the new Woody Allen film to shoot in Barcelona this summer with star Penelope Cruz.The network announced its participation in the film just days after Allen unveiled that Cruz would have a role.Through its production department Ensueno Films, Antena 3 will co-produce with Mediapro ...
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Spain - Saints above
Like The Da Vinci Code before it, Ray Loriga's Teresa (Teresa, El Cuerpo De Cristo) has drawn the ire of the Catholic Church from Madrid to London before the film - which stars Spanish siren Paz Vega as the 16th century saint - has even premiered.Controversy, says writer-director Loriga, "is ...
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Lolafilms plans $7.7m biopic of Spanish poet Gil de Biedma
Andres Vicente Gomez's Lolafilms will produce a new Spanish-language biopic about prominent 20th-century poet Jaime Gil de Biedma. Guillermo Toledo (Crimen Ferpecto) is set to star in the estimated $7.7m (Euros 6m) El Consul De Sodoma for director Agusti Villaronga. Gomez says he hopes to co-produce with France and shoot ...
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Volver takes best film, director, actress at Goyas in Madrid
Pedro Almodovar's Volver and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth split the top prizes Sunday night at Spain's 21st annual Goya Awards. Almodovar was absent from the ceremony, but his film won five prizes including best film, director, original music, actress for Penelope Cruz and supporting actress for Carmen Maura. Labyrinth ...
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Selling Spanish main attraction
The 2.2% year-on-year drop in Spanish box office for 2006 has split opinion about cinema's health. Admissions were down to 124 million, from 126 million, while ticket sales rose slightly to $839m (EUR648m) thanks to higher prices.According to Nielsen EDI, which compiled the figures, it was a reasonably strong year. ...
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Banderas to direct two new projects as Death's Other Kingdom stalls
Antonio Banderas has two new projects in mind to direct in Spain following his Malaga-set drama Summer Rain, screening in both Sundance and Berlin. Banderas said he is moving forward on a long-gestating project about Boabdil, the last Caliph of the Kingdom of Granada, envisioned as a Spain-France-Morocco co-production through ...
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Laura Mana to direct La Roldana
Laura Mana has signed on to direct ambitious 17th century biopic La Roldana for Spain's Maestranza Films.Seville native Paz Vega (Spanglish, 10 Items Or Less) has expressed interest in taking the lead role of the talented sculptress in the vibrant 17th century setting of Seville who defied her family's wishes ...
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Jeanada to star in Michael Radford's La Mula
Up-and-coming Spanish actor Oscar Jaenada has been tapped for the lead in Michael Radford's new Spanish-language feature La Mula.Jaenada will star alongside Maria Valverde (Melissa P) in the Spanish Civil War-set bittersweet comedy about a soldier who discovers a mule in the middle of a battlefield and decides to keep ...
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Posner launches YaYa! Films in Spain
Enrique Posner, former general manager of Warner Bros in Spain, has set up new production outfit YaYa! Films with three feature films in the works. Posner is currently executive producing 3D animated feature The Missing Lynx, with Manuel Cristobal of Perro Verde Films and Granada-based Kandor Graphics. The $10.4m (Euros ...
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Spanish 2006 admissions drop 2.2% in 2006 but grosses rise
Spanish admissions dropped 2.2% last year, while a rise in ticket prices sent grosses up almost the same percentage. Admissions were down to 124m, while ticket sales were up to $839m (Euros 648m), according to figures from Nielsen EDI. 'The reality is that it was a 'good' year for Spain,' ...
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Filmax starts development of Blind Man Of Seville
Spain's Filmax is developing new feature The Blind Man Of Seville, a crime thriller based on the novel by award-winning UK writer Robert Wilson. A screenplay is currently being written by Will Conroy, co-writer on Brad Anderson's Transsiberian, a $15m train-set mystery now shooting for Filmax. A director will be ...
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Mar Abadin joins new Spanish sales group 6 Sales
New Spain-based international sales consortium 6 Sales has hired Mar Abadin as its head of sales. Abadin was formerly a sales executive at Filmax, where she worked for six years. She will attend Berlin's European Film Market with 6 Sales managing director Marina Fuentes. 'I've known Mar a long time ...
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MediaPro, Grupo Arbol launch new sales company Imagina
Spain boasts a new international sales outfit, Imagina International Sales, handling feature films and television content. Imagina is a holding created by producer and rights broker MediaPro and TV producer Grupo Arbol, and has stakes in other key film and TV producers in Spain including Globomedia, Mercuri, Ovideo and Media ...
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Berlinale Panorama slot for Banderas
Antonio Banderas' second film as a director, the Spanish-language Summer Rain, will receive a 'Panorama Special' screening in the Berlinale.Co-producer and sales company Sogecine-Sogepaq confirmed the invitation, which will follow on Rain's screening in the Premieres section of Sundance.Rain (El Camino De Los Ingleses) stars a cast of up-and-coming young ...
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Mortimer replaces Morton on cast of Transsiberian
Emily Mortimer has signed on to take the place of an injured Samantha Morton in the cast of Brad Anderson's Transsiberian, now shooting for Spain's Filmax Entertainment.According to a statement released by Filmax, Morton was injured in an accident in her London home and will resume her production schedule in ...
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Maltes plans movie for comic book hero Captain Thunder
Young Spanish production house Maltes Producciones has taken a three-year option on rights to popular local comic book series Captain Thunder and is developing a $30-40m (Euros 25-30m) English-language feature.Under the working title The Adventures Of Captain Thunder, Maltes founder Pau Vergara says he aims to follow the production model ...
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Yelmo buys out Loews' stake in Spanish theatrical chain
The Yelmo Group has bought out its partner Loews Cineplex's 50% stake in Spanish exhibition chain, Yelmo Cineplex.The joint venture between the two was signed in 1998 to ramp up Yelmo Films' theatre interests. It has since grown from 108 screens to the current 329, making it Spain's third largest ...
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Maura to receive honorary prize at Malaga Festival
Spanishactress Carmen Maura, the early Pedro Almodovar muse and co-star of hisaward-winning Volver, will receive the honoraryMalaga Prize at next year's 10thanniversary edition of the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (March 9-17).Maurawas the star of Almodovar's earliest films and, together with the director andco-star Antonio Banderas, first came to serious ...