Argentina’s Sebastian Schindel To Helm RomCom/Spy Adventure Hybrid ‘Mienteme’ (EXCLUSIVE)

straight to your inboxManchester City have a 'genuine' belief that Lionel Messi will leave Barcelona this summer, reports say.City are in a position to sign Messi if he becomes available, with the Argentine able to leave Barcelona at the end of the season. He wanted to leave this year, but decided to stay for another season to avoid a lengthy legal battle.Since then, Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu has stood down, with elections taking place in January to choose a replacement.

Martina ‘Tini’ Stoessel’s new album would’ve arrived in May 2020. Fans of the Argentine singer were eagerly awaiting the follow-up to her 2018 album, .

Lawmakers in Argentina’s lower house on Friday passed a bill that would legalize abortion in most cases, a proposal from President Alberto Fernández in response to long-sought demands from women's rights activists. The bill, which needs approval from the country’s Senate in a debate expected before the end of the year, allows for voluntary abortions to be carried out up to the 14th week of pregnancy.

Emiliano Granada Produced and showrun by Vanessa Ragone, an Oscar-winner for “The Secret of Her Eyes,” the Argentinian true crime miniseries dives deep into the still ongoing case of the murder of María Marta García Belsunce. “Carmel, Who Killed Maria Marta?” was released on Netflix reigniting the public’s attention and curiosity.What was deemed an accident quickly transformed into a five-gunshot murder which has piqued the fascination of the country over the last two decades.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn a now firmly established Ventana Sur tradition, Film Factory Ent., one of the Spanish world’s premiere sales agents, has announced a new sales rights pick-up on the market’s final day: Italian-Argentine psychological horror movie “El Nido” (“Nest”).With “Nest” now in post-production, Film Factory will present a first promo at 2021’s Cannes Film Market.The feature debut of Italy’s Mattia Temponi, and produced by Rome-based Alba Produzioni and

Jamie Lang Javier Krause, co-founder of Argentina’s Rispo Films and long one of the country’s key sales agents, has crossed the Atlantic and started Kafilms, a new Swiss production company where he is taking the reins to create new content for international audiences, including two new Italian co-productions which Krause has announced in exclusivity with Variety.Joined by Maurizio and Manuel Tedesco of Italy’s Baires Produzioni, backers of Filmax-sold “Tomorrow’s a New Day” from Simone Spada

Jamie Lang Following Chile’s most successful theatrical release of 2020 and high-profile streaming premieres in Latin America and the U.S.

Emilio Mayorga Achieving a rare double this year – selection for both the Mar del Plata Festival and Ventana Sur’s pix-in-post competitions – Malena Solarz’s “Album for the Youth” marks the first solo feature of a director who tackles one of the most common of debut themes – a coming of age tale – but begs to differ on its structure.Coming-of-age features “usually have big dramatic arcs as the characters discover something very important about their identity, their sexuality, etc.

Marta Balaga Following 2017’s “Las Cinéphilas,” about retired women who go to the cinema every day, and this year’s “Le Temps Perdu,” which just had its world premiere in IDFA’s feature-length documentary competition, Argentinian director Maria Alvarez is already developing the third part of her trilogy focusing on elderly people.In “Close” (“Las Cercanas”), which will see her reunite with producer Tirso Diaz-Jares, she will focus on the Cavallini sisters: identical twins now in their nineties.

Jamie Lang U.K.-based distribution company Alief has secured global sales and remake rights for “Nocturna,” sides A and B, from writer-director Gonzalo Calzada.The British distributors have also shared with Variety an exclusive trailer from the film’s upcoming marketing campaign, set to kick off on Dec.

Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who scored the “Hand of God” goal in 1986 and led his country to that year's World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, has died. He was 60.

Wanderers boss Evatt hailed Maradona as a 'fantastic talent' and that some of his earliest memories include being bought an Argentina shirt with the football legend's name on the back. He said: “He was obviously a fantastic talent.

“A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity” – Friedrich Nietzsche, on love, perseverance, and moving beyond good v evil.Diego Maradona said that when you’ve been to the moon and back, things get difficult.

Diego Maradona, an Argentina football legend, has died at the age of 60 following a heart attack. The news was confirmed by Matias Morla, Maradona‘s longtime agent, on Wednesday.A statement from the Argentina Football Association read spoke about the loss: “The Argentine Football Association, through its President Claudio Tapia, expresses its deepest pain at the death of our legend, Diego Armando Maradona.

straight to your inbox every day for freeManchester United players past and present have been reacting to the death of Diego Maradona, the Argentine hero who is considered one of the best football players of all time.The Argentine Football Association confirmed on Wednesday that Maradona passed away at his home in Tigre just two weeks after undergoing successful surgery for a blood clot on his brain.It's reported that he suffered a heart attack and subsequently died at the age of 60.