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Lynch's Empire, Labute's Wicker lined up for Sitges
Guillermo del Toro's Cannespremiere Pan's Labyrinth will openthe 39th annual edition of the International Film Festival of Catalonia, betterknown as Sitges, which has unveiled the first details of its 2006 lineup. Thefestival takes place from Oct 6 to 15.Labyrinth (El Laberinto Del Fauno) will form part of a Special Focus ...
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Filmax raises $25m through bond issue
Spain's Filmax has raised$25m through US investment groups subscribing to bonds it has issued. Filmax announced thetransaction, a coup for a 100%-owned Spanish company dedicated to cinema, onThursday afternoon. It was brokered by Barclays Capital for a period of up toseven years.Filmax, which isheadquartered in Barcelona and whose activities span ...
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Spain's Telespan 2000 to merge with Telson
Leading Spanish producer Telespan 2000 is merging with Telson,the audiovisual arm of telecommunications giant Avanzit.The idea is to create anintegratedmedia holding incorporating companies from all sectors, withthe Telespan team heading content creation. The deal marks a first moveinto content creation for Telson, a specialist inpost-production services and thematic channel packaging, ...
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Spanish exhibitors threaten to escalate Scary Movie row
A stand-off between leading Spanish exhibitors and BuenaVista over the local release of Scary Movie 4 could have ramificationsfor the majors in Spain.Four of Spain's biggest exhibition chains - Cinesa, YelmoCineplex and the newly merged Abaco-Cinebox - have refused to carry ScaryMovie 4 because of a disagreement over rental fees ...
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Madrid Screenings deals continue to rack up
Summer Rain,Antonio Banderas' second directorial effort now inpost-production, has pre-sold to two territories in the latest of dealsannounced out of the three-day Spanish Film Screenings of Madrid (June 18-20).Based on a two-minute promo,Strada picked up the Spanish-language coming-of-agetale Summer Rain (El Camino De Los Ingleses), for Greece and Cyprus, while ...
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Madrid's new Screenings ends with strong turnout and sales
The first edition of theSpanish Film Screenings of Madrid (June 18-20) closed Tuesday night with astronger turnout than the six previous editions of its predecessor in Lanzarote.More than 100 of theexpected 105 buyers from 37 countries travelled to Madrid, where 51 recent Spanish features screened and anadditional 100-plus catalogue titles ...
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Huesca's top prizes go to Melodramat and Electrodomestica
Spain's Huesca International Film Festival closedits 34th edition Saturday night with top honours going to Poland's Melodramat and Brazil's Electrodomestica, qualifying both automatically in thepre-selection for the Oscar for best short film.Director FilipMarczewiski's short Melodramat took the Danzante Prize and its $11,332 (Euros 9,000) purse in theinternational competition, while Kleber ...
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New Madrid Screenings boasts 51 new films
The first edition of theSpanish Film Screenings of Madrid kick off this weekend with an anticipated 105international buyers flying in to screen a selection of recent Spanish featurefilms.The new three-day event(June 18-20) picks up where the Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote,cancelled this year after six editions, left off.Already Madrid anticipates ...
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Grupo GMR to invest $33m in new Spanish cinemas
Grupo GMR, owner of Spain's Cinebox exhibitionchain, has unveiled plans to construct 14 new complexes in cities across thecountry over the next three years.Under the brand Lux Cinemas, the new theatres will offer screening roomscatering to uses beyond feature films, including business meetings andpresentations, and specialized film and video screenings.The ...
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Spain's new MPC focuses on crossover content
New company MPC has launchedin Spain with the objective of producing and acquiringcontent for multiple platforms.The name, which stands for"Multi Platform Content," belies the company's starting objectives: to produceand acquire content with crossover potential in cinema, television, internetand mobile phones."We've been talking about'convergence' for ten years but now it's really ...
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Filmax recruits Universum for Transsiberian
Spain's Filmax Entertainmenthas signed on Germany's Universum Film to co-produce Brad Anderson's new film, Transsiberian.Set to shoot in English inlate October between Spain and Eastern Europe, the project is the director'sfollow-up to the well-received The Machinist, also a production of Julio Fernandez for Filmax.Universum will retaindistribution rights in German-speaking territories. ...
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Germany's Beta Cinema takes on Salvador
Germany's Beta Cinema willhandle international sales on Un Certain Regard entry Salvador, produced by Spain's MediaPro.The film stars Goodbye,Lenin! actor Daniel Bruhl asSalvador Puig Antich, a young Catalan anarchist who was put to death at thetail end of the Franco era after years spent on the lam.Meanwhile, MediaPro chiefJaume Roures ...
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UK's One Eyed Films launches production arm
London-based One Eyed Films,a sales boutique specializing in Latin American cinema, is launching aproduction arm at Cannes.The first film on the slateis a $1.2m Buenos Aires- and Rio-set sexual coming-of-age drama called FromThe Beginning To The End. Brazilianwriter-director Aluizio Abranches (The Three Marias) is behind the project.One Eyed Films managingdirector ...
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Spanish exhibitors' federation responds to ruling
The Spanish exhibitors'federation has called for the creation of a commission to ensure that thelandmark ruling handed down last week against five multinational distributors accusedof anti-competitive practices gets carried out.In last week's decision bySpain's Anti-Trust Court, Disney/Buena Vista, Sony Pictures, Hispano Fox, UIPand Warner Sogefilms were fined $3m (Euros 2.4m) ...
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Spanish court slaps $15m in fines on major distributors
A Spanish court has handeddown fines of $3.2m (Euros 2.4m) each on five multinational distributorsaccused of price fixing and otheranti-competitive practices in Spain.The decision, affectingDisney/Buena Vista, Sony Pictures, Hispano Fox, UIP and the now defunct jointventure Warner Sogefilms, puts an end to a caseinitiated more than three years ago by ...
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Spain's Latido takes on sales for Nobody's Perfect
Salesconsortium Latido has picked up international rightsto Joaquin Oristrell's new comedy Nobody's Perfect, the follow-up to his2005 Unconscious, which screened atSundance and sold to 25 countries.Also thisweek Latido closed a deal to K-Films Amerique for French-speaking Canada on Tristan Bauer's Falklands Wardrama Blessed By Fire (IluminadosPor El Fuego) on theheels ...
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Filmax adds flamenco biopic to Cannes slate
Spanish mini-studio Filmax has picked up international rights to local flamencobiopic Camaronto add to its Cannes slate.Camaron: When Flamenco Became Legend, from veteran director Jaime Chavarri,earned lead actor Oscar Jaenada rave reviews and a bestnew actor Goya for his performance as the troubled flamenco innovator Jose Monge Cruz, known as ...
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Spain's Dygra Films to launch sales division
Spanish animation producer Dygra Films will launch an international sales departmentat the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.Dygra executive producer Tania Pinto DaCunha, formerly of London's HanWay and Spain's Lolafilms, will head thenew Madrid-based department, working with sales executive Lucas Mackey.Lumina Films' Marina Fuenteswill act as temporary sales consultant and continue to ...
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Annaud feature in talks for Iberian shoot
Spanish studio Ciudad De LaLuz is in advance negotiations to bring Jean-Jacques Annaud'slatest feature to its sound stages. Minor,which is billed as a mythological and pagan comedy set in an era before Homer,is scheduled to shoot around the end of the year.The French film-maker's newproject - produced with Xavier Castano ...
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Brad Anderson returns with Transsiberian
Spain's Filmax has unveiled the first details ofdirector Brad Anderson's follow-up to well-received horror film The Machinist, a new thriller called Transsiberian.Principal photography is setto crank up in October with an international cast shooting between Spain and Eastern Europe.Horror title The Machinist, produced and sold bySpanish mini-studio Filmax, starred Christian ...