Chick Corea, jazz icon and winner of 23 Grammy Awards, dies aged 79

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentParis-based Le Pacte has closed a raft of sales on Olivier Peyon’s “Tokyo Shaking” and Nadine Loiseau’s “Three Times Nothing,” both of which are screening at the Berlin Festival’s virtual European Film Market.A hot title on Le Pacte’s slate, “Tokyo Shaking” sold to Germany and Austria (ZDF), Israel (New Cinema), Canada (Axia Films), Spain (Alfa Pictures) and the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Mediasquad).“Tokyo Shaking” is set on March 11, 2011, when Japan

EXCLUSIVE: The People Upstairs, the Spanish comedy which debuted at San Sebastian last year and is up for multiple Goya Awards in 2021, is getting the English-language treatment after producer David Permut, whose credits include Hacksaw Ridge and Face/Off, acquired remake rights.

Emilio Mayorga Barcelona-based film-TV studio Filmax has acquired international sales rights to Cesc Gay’s new comedy “Stories Not to Be Told,” which is currently shooting.Filmax will also handle Spanish distribution to the latest outing from Gay, whose 2021 Goya Awards contender “The People Upstairs,” has sold to major territories in Europe and North America.Written by Gay and regular co-scribe Tomás Aragay “(“In The City,” “Truman”), Gay’s ninth feature is produced by Marta Esteban at

AMC has released the first stills from Oscar-winner Alejandro Amenábar’s first TV series La Fortuna, which is in the final stages of production in Spain and the U.S.

Emilio Mayorga Olmo Figueredo’s Seville-based La Claqueta, producer of Spain’s Oscar submission “The Endless Trench,” has boarded “The Turtles,” the second feature from Belén Funes, one of the leading lights of Barcelona’s fast-growing – and often women-led – newest wave of filmmakers.Funes’ second feature, following on San Sebastian’s 2019 New Director winner “A Thief’s Daughter,” “The Turtles” has been selected for next week’s Berlinale Co-Production Market.A lynchpin on Spain’s burgeoning

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor“The Metamorphosis of Birds,” which premiered in the Encounters sidebar of the Berlin Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI prize from the international critics’ jury, has been sold in multiple major territories, including the U.S., the U.K., China, Italy and Spain.Portuguese director Catarina Vasconcelos’ “beautifully pensive, lyrical debut feature,” in the words of the Variety review, explores her family stories in the form of a fictionalized

Naman Ramachandran Content group iZen has optioned Eduardo Mendoza’s acclaimed Spanish historical novel “City of Marvels” (La Ciudad de los Prodigios) and is developing it as a six-part series.

José González has returned with his first new music in six years – listen to ‘El Invento’ below.The Argentinian-Swedish singer-songwriter’s last album, ‘Vestiges & Claws’, came out back in February 2015.Making his long-awaited comeback, González has today (February 17) offered up his first-ever Spanish language track in the form of ‘El Invento’, a delicate acoustic number inspired by the birth of his young daughter.“Every now and then I try to write lyrics in Spanish – this time I succeeded! I

The Writers Guild of America announced their film nominees for the delayed 2021 WGA Awards and, once again, the films that didn’t qualify shaped the list of honorees more than those who did. Awards season players “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Promising Young Woman” made the cut as expected in the Original Screenplay category.

A 24-hour standoff between police and a rapper barricaded with dozens of his supporters in a university ended Tuesday with anti-riot officers arresting the artist. Pablo Hasél was escorted by riot police out of Lleida University's rectorate building, in the northeastern Catalonia region, where he and over 50 supporters had locked themselves in since mid-Monday.

straight to your inbox every day for freeGraeme Souness revealed Jose Mourinho told his Sky Sports colleagues Dean Henderson believes he should have been introduced to Manchester United's team two years ago.Henderson has been integrated into United's squad this season, playing back-up to David de Gea after two positive seasons on loan at Sheffield United.

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea, the jazz pianist and composer behind such standards as "Spain," "500 Miles High," and "Armando's Rhumba," has died at 79.

Iconic jazz keyboardist Chick Corea has died at the age of 79. "It is with great sadness we announce that on February 9th, Chick Corea passed away at the age of 79, from a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very recently," an announcement from his official Facebook page reads.

Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. He was 79.Corea died Tuesday of a rare for of cancer, his team posted on his website.

Tim Richard, the founder and CEO of European cinema giant Vue, has been named chair of the British Film Institute. Richards —who was appointed by U.K.

crime profits action.Joseph Lindsay was detained by Spanish police in Tenerife after a European Arrest Warrant was issued and he was returned to Scotland.The 36-year-old was subsequently jailed for four and a half years in 2019.Lindsay, of Blantyre, in South Lanarkshire, admitted breaching proceeds of crime legislation by agreeing with others to conceal and disguise criminal property in 2015 and on January 30 in 2017.In January 2017, police searched an industrial unit at Dixon Place in East

Dani Dyer has insisted she doesn’t care if people don’t like her baby son’s name Santiago.The former Love Island star, 24, who recently admitted she hasn’t washed her hair since giving birth, opened up about the unique moniker as she took part in an Instagram Q+A.