Babieka, Viewfinder Co-Produce DGA Winner Carole Polakoff’s ‘Speak Sunlight’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Meghan Markle did more than just show off her cooking skills during her quiet visit to Homeboy Industries last week with Prince Harry. She apparently flexed her Spanish speaking ability, Father Greg Boyle, the group’s founder, told People.

Meghan Markle? Well, make space in your heart for a little more Meghan love because during a recent appearance in Los Angeles, the Duchess of Sussex demonstrated for approximately the 17 millionth time that she's the absolute best.

Lionsgate's Grindstone Entertainment Group has taken all rights for North America and Latin America for Afterward, the dramatic thriller starring Aaron Eckhart and Terrence Howard that was first announced in Toronto last year.

People magazine: “She spoke Spanish perfectly with one young woman.“She just went right into Spanish, which was a revelation - and it was very good.”Meghan is understood to have learnt Spanish while an intern with the US Embassy in Argentina.She previously revealed she had a scary moment there, when she was in a motorcade which was hit by protesters’ placards.At the time, she thought she would have a career in politics.Boyle added to the magazine: “She didn’t want to have a long-table discussion

Meghan Markle did more than just show off her cooking skills during her quiet visit to Homeboy Industries last week with Prince Harry. She apparently flexed her Spanish speaking ability, Father Greg Boyle, the group’s founder, told People.

Meghan Markle showed off her impressive Spanish-speaking skills during a recent charity visit in Los Angeles.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Well Go USA Entertainment has snapped up North American distribution rights to Paraguayan box office hit “Morgue” from Buenos Aires-based sales agent FilmSharks.The deal caps a string of sales across the globe for the supernatural thriller.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentKey members of the team that shepherded hit biopic “Born a King,” about Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, talked about the experience of “witnessing the birth of a film industry” in Saudi, as Spanish director Agustí Villaronga put it, during a Cannes Virtual Market panel. They also announced that they will be making a sequel. “Born a King” is a Spain-U.K.

Jamie Lang Participating in this year’s Marché du Film Speed Meetings for Spanish projects, La Claqueta’s highly-anticipated project “Tobacco Barns” has picked up a new co-producer in Belén Sánchez, one of Variety’s Catalan producers on the rise for 2020 as announced earlier this week, and a top independent sales agency in Spain’s Latido Films.Sánchez comes to the production from Un Capricho Producciones, a company which has proven itself among the best at backing female filmmakers.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentSolveig Langeland’s Stuttgart-based sales agency Sola Media has sold CGI animated feature film “Moonbound” to multiple territories.The film, directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi on a production budget of around $9 million, will be released in Germany and Austria by Little Dreams and Warner Bros.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentBerlin-based sales agency Films Boutique has closed key territories on its bittersweet portrayal of the end of a relationship “Are We Lost Forever.”The Swedish LGBT drama, the feature debut of director David Färdmar, has been picked up by Outplay in France, Salzgeber in Germany, Peccadillo Pictures (U.K./Ireland), Arti Films in Benelux and Surtsey Fim in Spain.

Emiliano De Pablos Madrid-based production and services company Babieka Films is joining forces with Spanish filmmaker Josué Ramos (“Bajo la rosa”) on helmer’s sophomore feature, mystery thriller “La ciudad dormida.”Ramos made waves on the festival circuit with his first film, psychological thriller “Bajo la rosa,” whose U.S.

Jamie Lang A bit of luck and a bit of good planning has seen Spanish arthouse production company Potenza Films board upcoming historical drama “The Cardinal” in a now four-country co-production with Chile’s Storyboard Media, Argentina’s Magma Cine and Brazil’s Gullane.Already a massive period drama proposal from the Latin American producers, the COVID-19 pandemic would have been a much greater threat to production had Potenza not joined.“This was key because it allowed us to complete our

Arca’s fourth studio album ‘KiCk i’, is a delectable declaration of her new gender expression.

Ed Meza @edmezavarMedia Luna New Films has acquired world sales rights to Spanish dramedy “The Grand Farewell,” by Antonio Hens and Antonio Álamo.Described as a quirky ensemble love story, “The Grand Farewell” follows a young woman, Sara, who wants to get married and has one final celebration thrown by her friends and relatives.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMadrid-based Aqui y Alli, producer of two of last decade’s most admired Spanish movies – 2014’s San Sebastian winner “Magical Girl”; 2018’s “Life and Nothing More,” a Variety Top 10 film of the year – has pacted for “[REC]”’s Filmax to handle international sales on “Counting Sheep,” one of the most anticipated Spanish feature debuts of 2020.Filmax, which has acquired international sales rights, will also handled “Counting Sheep’s” theatrical