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Four films dominate Goya nominations
Fourfilms, Alatriste, Volver, Pan's Labyrinth and Salvador dominated the nominations for this year's Goya Awards.Thenominees were announced in Madrid by a team led by the newly-elected presidentof the Academy, writer-director Angeles Gonzalez Sinde. The ceremony for the 21st annual edition of the awards will be held over the lastweekend in ...
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Lionsgate strikes deal for Filmax's The Backwoods
Lionsgate has acquired NorthAmerican rights to Gary Oldman-starring thriller The Backwoods from Spanish mini-studio Filmax Entertainment. First-time feature directorKoldo Serra premiered the film at the Donostia-San Sebastian International FilmFestival in September. The mostly English-language film stars Oldman, VirginieLedoyen, Paddy Considine, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon and Lluis Homar in the story oftwo vacationing ...
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Almodovar hopes to get Cruz on board for next film
Spanish director PedroAlmodovar may reteam with Volver starPenelope Cruz in a new project titled LaPiel Que Habito.In an interview over theweekend with local newspaper El Paisat the European Film Awards in Warsaw, Almodovar said: "My next film will be totallydifferent from my 16 earlier films. It is called La Piel ...
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Grisebach's Longing takes top prizes at Gijon
Spain's Gijon International Film Festival (Nov 28- Dec 1) awarded its top honours to Valeska Grisebach's Longing (Sehnsucht).The German film about a man who unexpectedly falls in love with another woman, picked up best feature film award and the Fipresci prize.The best director prize was awarded ex-aequo to Maziar Miri ...
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Anderson lines up starry cast for Filmax's Transsiberian
Ben Kingsley, WoodyHarrelson, Samantha Morton, Kate Mara and Eduardo Noriega are set to star inBrad Anderson's upcoming thriller Transsiberian for Spanish mini-studio Filmax Entertainment.The film, a co-productionwith Germany's Universum Film GmbH, is budgeted at $15m-$20m. Shooting will getunderway December 11 in such far-flung locations as Beijing, Russia andLithuania.The story follows ...
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Perfume has strong Spanish opening for Filmax
Tom Tykwer's Perfume did strong business on itsopening weekend in Spain, landing in second position at the box officetrailing only Casino Royale.Perfume'sper-screen average of $7,047 (Euros 5,355) was just shy that of the new Bondfilm, $7834 (Euros 5,953), according to figures from Nielsen/EDI.According to distributorFilmax, also a co-producer on the ...
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Spain's Notro picks up 10 films at AFM
Two-year-old independentSpanish film distributor Notro Films is flexing its muscle with ten new titlesacquired at the recent American Film Market.The AFM pick-ups includethree titles each from Horizon and HanWay, another two from Shochiku and oneeach from Myriad and Fabrication Films. They range from Anne Hathaway-starrer Becoming Jane and Sarah Polley-directed ...
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Vargas takes Golden Columbus at Huelva
Mexico'sFrancisco Vargas took the Golden Columbus and best photography prizes for his El Violin at the 32nd edition of Spain's Iberoamerican FilmFestival of Huelva (Nov 18-25).Thewinner,an alumnus of the Films in Progress initiative of the San Sebastian andToulouse film festivals and a past Cinefondation premiere in Cannes, is aboutthree men ...
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Spain's Gijon festival opens with The History Boys
The 44th annual edition ofthe independent cinema-minded International Film Festival of Gijon, Spain (Nov23-Dec 1) kicked off Thursday with a line-up of international titles vying forofficial competition prizes. The top prize carries a $25,888 (Euros 20,000)purse for the Spanish distributor.Nicholas Hytner'stheatre-inspired UK hit The History Boys opened the festival, and ...
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First Look takes on domestic to Kovak from Filmax
Spain's Filmax Entertainment has sold North Americandistribution rights on English-language thriller The Kovak Box to First Look Studios.Timothy Hutton stars as a novelist in Spain for a conferencewho finds himself drawn into a string of suicides eerily similar to the plot ofone of his books. The thriller recently picked up ...
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New Latin American body takes on piracy
The Motion Picture Association and the Spanish producers' rights' management entity EGEDA have joined to create the Latin American Regional Alliance to fight piracy in the region.The Alliance aims to work on different fronts across Latin America to ensure the protection of rights and to fight against piracy and fraud.EGEDA ...
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Sony boards Armero football comedy in Spain
Columbia FilmsProducciones Espanolas has boarded the new comedy from Spanish director AlvaroFernandez Armero, to be distributed internationally and released in Spain bySony Pictures Releasing International.The as-yet untitledco-production with Madrid-based Morena Films and broadcaster Telecinco'sprolific production arm Estudios Picasso will star Guillermo Toledo and JavierGutierrez, who have previously teamed on a ...
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35 new projects on show at Iberoamerican Co-production Forum
Close to 30 companies will get an early look at 35 new projects from 13 countries at the upcoming Iberoamerican Co-production Forum (Nov 19-21) at Spain's Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva (Nov 18-25).Projects range from the low budget $300,000 El Premio from Peru's Alberto (Chicho) Durant to the $12m La ...
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The Optimists triumphs at Valladolid
GoranPaskaljevic was the main winner of the 51st annual International Film Festivalof Valladolid, taking home the Golden Spike award and best actorprize forThe Optimists (Optimisti).The film'scharismaticlead Lazar Ristovskistars in five varied tales that turnin one way or another on the search for hope in modern-day Serbia. It wasthe second time ...
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German films claim top prizes at Sitges
Two German films, Hans-Christian Schmid's Requiem and Martin Weisz's Butterfly-AGrimm Love Story (Rohtenburg), split most of the top prizes at the 39th edition of thegenre International Film Festival of Catalunya (Oct 6-15), better known as Sitges.Requiem, the story of a woman's dramatic spiral downward,took home the official fantastic competition's best ...
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Studios face more anti-competition allegations in Spain
The Spanish Exhibitors'Federation said it is gathering evidence for a new formal complaint to Spain's Competition Defense Service against the Hollywood majors.The Federation, known asFECE, won a case against five multinationals in a landmark ruling by Spain's Competition Defense Court last May. Disney/Buena Vista, Sony Pictures, HispanoFox, UIP and the ...
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51st Valladolid line-up announced
Fifteen feature films willcompete for the top Golden Spike Award at this year's 51st International FilmWeek of Valladolid, Spain, also known as Seminci (Oct 20-28).Last year's Golden Spikewinner, Matias Bize's In Bed (En LaCama), has been selected to represent Chile in the nominations to the foreign-language Oscar.Bize will sit on ...
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Sitges line-up announced
Terry Gilliam, Joe Dante,Paul Verhoeven, Darren Aronofsy and Brad Anderson are a few of the directorsexpected this year at the upcoming 39th edition of the InternationalFilm Festival of Catalunya (Oct 6-15), better known as Sitges.The popular genre event willopen with Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth then give way to a ...
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Spain backs Almodovar's Volver in Oscar race
Spain has selected Pedro Almodovar's Volver as its submission for the foreign language Academy Award.Almodovar is clearly astrong contender: Volver has alreadyearned rave reviews internationally and picked up the best script and bestactress prizes in Cannes for its female cast, led by star Penelope Cruzand early Almodovar muse Carmen Maura. ...
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Spanish partners establish new consortium 6 Sales
A group of partners havejoined to establish new Spain-based international sales consortium 6 Sales, thepartners announced at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival. Enrique Posner, formergeneral manager of Warner Bros Pictures International Espana who is now in theprocess of acquiring a non-entertainment company with assets to properties forfilm and TV, ...