Spain's box office Midas, Santiago Segura, is co-producing andstarring in new comedy The Amazing World Of Borjamari Y Pocholo.

A kind of Spanish Dumb And Dumber, the action turns on twothirty-something brothers who still believe they are living their heyday ofcool despite that period having come - and definitively gone - inthe 1980s.

Segura is best known as the mastermind behind runaway local hits Torrente:The Dumb Arm Of The Law (Euros 10.9m at the Spanish box office) and Torrente2: Mission In Marbella (Euros 22.1m).

Enrique Lopez Lavigne, formerly a producer with Sogecine, and scripterJuan Cavestany (Washington Wolves) are co-directing the Euros 2.55mfilm, now in its fifth of eight weeks shooting in Madrid.

Telecinco's Estudios Picasso co-produces withSegura's own Amiguetes Entertainment and Lopez Lavigne's start-upApache Films.

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