Convicted Spanish Rapper in Prominent 'Gag Law' Case Arrested

Antonio Banderas suits up sharp for the 2021 Goya Cinema Awards held at Gran Hotel Miramar on Saturday (March 6) in Malaga, Spain.

vaccines while in Abu Dhabi to visit their father, former monarch Juan Carlos I.The sisters said they agreed to accept the vaccines “with the goal of obtaining a health passport” that would allow them to regularly visit their father, who left Spain in August amid investigations into alleged financial wrongdoing.Their statement came a day after the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial reported their vaccinations.Spain is still only administering vaccines to the very elderly and essential

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentAtresmedia Cine, one of Spain’s biggest film production companies, has tapped David Pérez Sañudo, writer-director of “Ane,” the country’s biggest first feature breakout of 2020, to write and direct a new movie, an adaptation of Felix García Hernán’s “Cava dos fosas.”Part of Spain’s Buendía Estudios, a 50/50 joint venture between broadcaster Atresmedia and pay TV/SVOD giant Movistar Plus, Atresmedia Cine has optioned in exclusivity rights to the

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSpanish director and screenwriter Rodrigo Sorogoyen, fresh off large acclaim, prizes and recording-breaking viewership on Movistar Plus for “Riot Police,” is preparing a follow-up series for the Telefonica Spanish pay TV/SVOD service in Spain, which will deliver Sorogoyen’s personal take on the Spanish Civil War.The untitled series will be co-written by Isabel Peña and Eduardo Villanueva, Sorogoyen’s regular co-scribes.

U.K.-based sales outfit Alief has racked up a series of international territory deals for Isaac, a romantic drama from directors Ángeles Hernández and David Matamoros, about two childhood friends who reconnect as adults. Hernández and Matamoros were both producers on Netflix's Spanish-language horror hit The Platform.

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.

Spain brings an extraordinary gamut of movie titles to Berlin. Some highlights:“All the Moons,” (Igor Legarreta)A France-Spain co-production, “All the Moons” tracks two vampires in the northern Spain during the last Carlist war.

HELLO! magazine from their new home in Spain, Blue star Lee Ryan and his girlfriend Verity Paris, who performs as an Ariana Grande tribute act, reveal they are expecting their first child together."I'm so excited," Lee tells HELLO! "I love being a dad; there is nothing better than that.

Lee Ryan has sparked rumours he's set to become a father for the third time.The Blue singer, who recently said he was "affected really badly" after witnessing his friend's dad shoot himself dead, has been pictured with girlfriend Verity Paris as they walked along the beach in Malaga, Spain.

EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Morales makes her feature directing debut with Language Lessons which will have its world premiere in the Specials section of the Berlin Film Festival next week. Written by Morales and Mark Duplass, the darkly comic drama is an exploration of platonic love. Duplass is also an exec producer along with his brother Jay Duplass. Check out an exclusive clip from the movie above.

MADRID -- A law firm representing Juan Carlos I says that the former Spanish monarch has paid close to 4.4 million euros ($5.33 million) to the country's tax authorities in his latest attempt to regularize past undeclared income.The 83-year-old former king, who has been living abroad for more than half a year after media revealed fresh allegations of financial misdoings, already filed for settlement for another tax debt in December for covert donations made to him between 2016 and 2018.

BARCELONA, Spain -- Pablo Hasél was a name little known to most Spaniards two weeks ago.Go ask people in the streets now and many will tell you it's a stage name inspired by an Arabic tale. That its bearer, a rap artist born Pau Rivadulla Duró, is a free-speech crusader.

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

Filmax, Film Factory and Latido, the three leading film sales companies for cinema from Spain and Latin America, have joined forces to create a single umbrella association to promote Spanish-language film and TV worldwide. Filmax has handled titles such as Polo Menárguez's El Plan (2019) and is selling Toño Lopez's upcoming comedy Brothers-in-Law at the virtual European Film Market (March 1-5).