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DeA Planeta to launch new international sales arm
Spanish-Italian media venture DeAPlaneta will launch a new international sales department at Cannes, headed by CFOGonzalo Martin.Current acquisitions directorYolanda del Val and sales manager Laia Medina will handle day-to-day work.The company's slate will spanin-house productions, co-productions and third-party pick-ups from Spain andLatin America.Among DeA Planeta's recent featurefilm productions are psychological ...
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Sogepaq picks up international on Spanish hit
Spain'sSogepaq has picked up international rights on local box office hit The2 Sides Of The Bed.Thefilm (Los 2 Lados De La Cama) from director Emilio MartinezLazaro wasreleased in Spain by Buena Vista on December 20, 2005 andhasearned more than $8.5m (Euros 7m) to take top ranking of local films for ...
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Cruz reveals passion for India
PenelopeCruz and Spanish producers Colomo Producciones and Sogecine have optioned therights to popular novel Pasion India.Cruzis set to take the lead alongside Bollywood co-stars inthe English-languagefilm adaptation, expected to shoot in Spain and India.JavierMoro's original novel (Indian Passion)was inspired by the true story of Anita Delgado, a 17 year old ...
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Spain's Sogepaq pre-sells Bollain feature to Indie Circle
Spain's Sogepaq has closed a pre-sale on director Iciar Bollain's new film, Mataharis, topan-European distribution pool Indie Circle.The deal, which Sogepaq negotiated withMataharis producers La Iguana and Sogecine, includes rights in France (Haut et Court), Italy (Lucky Red), Belgium (Cineart), the Netherlands (A-Film) and Switzerland (Frenetic). Indie Circlepreviously handled ...
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Blockbuster to close all its Spanish stores
Blockbuster has announced it will close86 of its stores in Spain by May 15. Blockbuster Video Espana, which openedits first stores in 1991, reported losses of $6.6m (Euros 5.5m) in 2004, up 65%over 2003, and expects even greater losses for 2005.The company attributed the closure,which will affect some 688 employees, ...
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Sogepaq agrees Spanish distribution deal with Fox
Spain'sSogepaq has signed a deal to release all of itsproductions and acquisitions locally through Hispano Foxfilm,including new titles from Antonio Banderas and Julio Medem.This agreement follows the December 31, 2005 end to Warner Sogefilms, the local distribution venture forged by Sogepaq and Warner Bros in January 1998.The deal encompasses theatrical ...
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Almodovar's Volver gets warm reception in Madrid
Pedro Almodovar has submitted his muchanticipated new film, Volver, forcompetition at Cannes."The selectors have seenit and I understand they liked it, and we will have an answer from them inApril," Almodovar said.The director openedCannes in 2004 with his last film, Bad Education (La Mala Educacion), and wonbest director honours in ...
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Six titles chosen for Films in Progress financing initiative
The Films in Progresscompletion financing initiative of the Latin American Film Festival of Toulouseand the Donostia-San Sebastian International FilmFestival has announced the six titles participating in the upcoming 9thedition March 23-24 in Toulouse.The films, chosen from 67entries from across Latin America and Spain, will screen for companies and festivals whichcould ...
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Sandino Moreno signs on to Cuadri's new feature
Oscar-nominated Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Morenohas signed on to the cast of $14.3m (Euros 12m) Spanish-UK-Portugalco-production The Heart Of The Earth,shooting from March 31.Sandino Moreno, who earned anOscar nomination and Berlin'sSilver Bear for her feature film debut in 2004's Maria Full Of Grace (Maria LlenaEres De Gracia), starsin the true ...
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Notro Films picks up Spanish rights to On Probation
Spanish distributor NotroFilms has picked up local rights to Argentinean feature On Probation ahead of its European premiere at the 9th annualSpanish Film Festival of Malaga (March 17-25).The film (Tiempo De Valientes) will inaugurate Malaga's newly created Latin American cinema competition, Territorio Latinoamericano.Damian Szifron directed theaction comedy starring Diego Peretti ...
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TriPictures helps Gaul to the Games
Spain'sTriPictures has boarded the $93m (Euros 78m) French-language Asterix At TheOlympic Games, set to shoot entirely in Spain beginning nextJune.The film will shoot in high definition for20 weeks at the new Alicante-based City of Light studio complex.The new Asterix isa co-production between Thomas Langmann's La Petite Reine, Pathe RennProductions and ...
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Malaga Film Festival line-up is finalised
Fourteen new Spanish filmsand co-productions will compete at the upcoming ninth annual edition of theSpanish Film Festival of Malaga (March 17-25).More than 60 buyers from 23countries are expected at the feature film Market Screenings (March 23-25),where they will screen more than 50 titles, including the competition line-up.Among the competition titlesare ...
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Spain's Telespan in five-picture pact with BVI
Spanish producer Telespan 2000isnearing a five-picture distribution agreement with Buena VistaInternational in Spain.The deal encompasses local theatrical distribution andpossibly video on five new titles, including Berlin Panorama Documentary title The Railroad All-Stars (EstrellasDe La Linea) by ChemaRodriguez.Other titles include: David Serrano's Dias De Cine (Cinema Days), a co-production with Estudios ...
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Morena greenlights Latin American productions
Spain's Morena Films is preparing a new slate offilms, with the $3.6m (Euros 3m) Andalusian road movie Blinkerscurrently at the Berlin Co-Production market and three more set to shoot shortly.With Morena currently in post on Mexican veteranArturo Ripstein's El Carnaval De Sodoma, its forthcomingproductions tap into Latin American talent.Shooting from ...
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Grupo Pi sells US rights to The Uninvited Guest
Spanish sales consortium Grupo Pi has closed aUS theatricalsale on thriller The Uninvited Guest to D Street Media Group.The film, which will premiere next month at the Philadelphia FilmFestival prior to an initial seven-screen release in New York and Los Angeles, will mark thefirst US release for D Street ...
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Wanda Visions prepares new slate of films
Spain's Wanda Vision, co-producer of Panorama opening title Family Law, is preparing a new slate offilms including two features set in Africa.Documentarian-turned-fiction-filmmaker GerardoOlivares is preparing his follow-up to BerlinaleSpecial screener The Great Match (El Gran Final) for Wanda. The road movie about Africanemigrants to Europe is called Tenere after the ...
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Wanda Vision prepares new slate of films
Spain'sWanda Vision, co-producer of Panorama opening title Family Law, is preparing a new slate of films including twofeatures set in Africa.Documentarian-turned-fiction-filmmakerGerardo Olivares is preparing his follow-up to BerlinaleSpecial screener The Great Match (El Gran Final) for Wanda. The road movie about Africanemigrants to Europe is called Tenere after the Saharan ...
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AMC Entertainment to sell Iberian multiplex network
AMC Entertainment is in final negotiations to sell off its multiplexes in Spain and Portugal to UK private equity firm Terra FirmaCapital Partners.AMC and Cinesa (the Spanish brand of TerraFirma-owned UCI) have reached an agreement for the "potential acquisition" of AMC's cinemas on the Iberian Peninsula, according to a Terra ...
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Trueba's Bienvenido A Casa to open Malaga Film Festival
David Trueba's romanticdrama Bienvenido A Casa will have its world premiere asthe inaugural film atthe upcoming 9th annual Spanish Film Festival ofMalaga (March 17-25).A co-production of Fernando Trueba and Antena 3 Television's Ensueno Films stars up-and-coming actors Pilar Lopez de Ayala and Alejo Sauras as a young couple undergoing a ...
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Julio Medem selects an international cast for his new film
Spain'sSogecine has unveiled new details of Spanish auteurJulio Medem's next film, Caotica Ana, set to begin shooting on February 13.Literally "Chaotic Ana,"the $6m (Euros 5m), majority Spanish-language film will star an internationalcast headlined by newcomer Manuela Velles, in herfeature debut, as the title character and singer Bebe,a recent best new ...