‘Godmothered’ Review: Disney Tweaks Its Own Legacy in Bland Spin on Fairy Tale Formula

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSince the Beatles split in 1970, seemingly every known scrap of their history has been scrutinized and curated for public consumption — every minute of studio tape, every radio broadcast, home and concert recording; every photo and document and snippet of film footage — with one huge exception: the “Let It Be” film.There are several reasons for this, but only one matters: “Let It Be” is a downer.

Fortune shined Tuesday on the lucky holders of tickets with the number 72897 that took top prize in Spain’s huge Christmas lottery, known as "El Gordo" (The Fat One). The prize shelled out 400,000 euros ($489,000), or some 325,000 euros after tax, to holders of 20-euro tickets bearing the number.

direct to your inbox Spain and Portugal are the latest in a string of countries to ban travel from the UK after the discovery of the mutated strain of coronavirus. On Monday, the Spanish Government announced that flights from the UK would be suspended - with only Spanish citizens and those who currently live in the country allowed to enter.Madrid said it would also reinforce controls at the border with Gibraltar to ensure travellers complied with the restriction.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLegendary Global, the TV production-financing house launched by Chris Albrecht and Anne Thomopoulos, has teamed with Barcelona-based ESPotlight to acquire rights for a small screen adaptation of “Los Forasteros del Tiempo,” a family-targeting, illustrated time travel book series from Spain’s Roberto Santiago.The first season makes over the first title in the saga, “La Aventura de los Balbuena en el Lejano Oeste,” said ESPotlight partner Anxo

Queen Letizia talks with a group of children during her trip to San Pedro Sula, Honduras on Tuesday (December 15).

direct to your inbox A major new travel initiative could soon see tourists welcomed back to Spain. The country currently remains off the UK travel corridor, meaning arrivals need to self-isolate on entry to Britain - with the exception of the Canary Islands which don't require mandatory quarantine.

“Enchanted” with Amy Adams was perfectly fine. So was “Elf” starring Will Ferrell. Produced by Disney and directed by Sharon Maguire (“Bridget Jones’s Diary”), “Godmothered” is the store-brand version of those more enjoyable films.

Comedian Jillian Bell thrives as a wild woman. The pith of her comic persona is a grasping, inelegant id — the kind of needy enfant terrible who undergoes antic slapstick and sour humiliations while the dangling carrot of maturity eludes her.

Also Read: Jillian Bell and Isla Fisher to Star in Fairy Godmother Comedy for Disney+With a great deal of effort on both sides of the dimensional portal, Eleanor makes her way to Boston, only find that Mackenzie (Fisher) is now a middle-aged single mother who’s long past believing in happy-ever-after.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn further growth in Europe, ViacomCBS’s Pluto TV, the U.S. media giant’s banner free ad-supported streamed TV linear service, is launching eight more channels in Spain, as it has unveiled data underscoring the impact of its Oct.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSpain-based Onza Distribution will use Singapore’s Asian Television Forum as the launchpad in Asia for a slate of recent series hits and some upcoming shows.The Madrid-based company handles sales of its own content, as well as telenovelas from TVI and fiction series from Movistar Latam.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Spain’s Luis López Carrasco picked up the Best International Film prize for his documentary “The Year of the Discovery” (“El año del descubrimiento”) on Sunday at Argentina’s Mar del Plata, the only Latin American film fest granted a Category A status by producers assn.