Jamie Lang Starzplay has unveiled plot details, casting and a first-look image for “Express,” an original co-produced with Spanish production giant The Mediapro Studio and U.S. streaming platform Pantaya.
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Spain’s three major film sales agencies – Filmax, Film Factory and Latido – are banding together to launch VICA, a joint organization that the companies hope will give them a united voice and will further the promotion of Spanish film and TV around the world.
VICA (International Sales Agents Of Audiovisual Content) will maintain a close dialogue with the public and private institutions in Spain, as well as the other associations in the sector.
It will also talk up the crucial role of sales agents
Jamie Lang Starzplay has unveiled plot details, casting and a first-look image for “Express,” an original co-produced with Spanish production giant The Mediapro Studio and U.S. streaming platform Pantaya.
Chung Ha has released a teaser for the upcoming Spanish-language version of her song ‘Demente’.The musician offered a sneak peek of the new version with a snippet of the forthcoming music video, which captures Chung Ha performing the song in a galmorous hotel lobby.
Emiliano Granada “Words for an End of the World,” the third feature by Spain’s Manuel Menchón, continues his exploration of the towering figure of Miguel de Unamuno, also the subject of his prior fiction film, “The Island of Wind.” The documentary, however, covers new ground, embarks on a far more ambitious revisiting of Spain’s still not so distant past with a deep dive into a muddled history that for years has had just one interpretation that has simply been accepted as canon.Unamuno, the
Emilio Mayorga One of the Spanish-speaking world’s biggest sales forces, Film Factory Entertainment has swooped on sales rights to thriller “Two” (“Duo”), directed by Mar Targarona and the latest production from top Spanish genre auteur producer Rodar y Rodar.Producer of two milestone titles of Spain’s genre auteur scene – J.A Bayona’s “The Orphanage” and Guillem Morales’ “Julia’s Eyes,” Targarona has built her own directorial career on suspense thrillers that prove unexpected and
Selena Gomez is ready for a new chapter in her career after releasing her very first Spanish EP.
Netflix has signed a deal for a Spanish language spin-off of the streaming service’s hit 2018 horror movie Bird Box.The new film will see original producers Dylan Clark, who is currently working on The Batman, and Chris Morgan (who previously worked on Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw) return while Spanish duo Alex and David Pastor – best known for the 2020 Netflix thriller The Occupant and the 2009 pandemic movie Carriers – will write and direct.The as-yet-untitled film is due to start production
Leo Barraclough International Features EditorA Spanish movie spin-off of Netflix 2018 sci-fi horror hit “Bird Box,” which starred Sandra Bullock and was directed by Susanne Bier, is in the works.The as yet to be titled movie will start production toward the end of this year in Spain.Alex and David Pastor, whose credits include “The Occupant,” “The Head,” “Carriers” and “Los Últimos Dias,” will write and direct the project.The producers are Dylan Clark (“Bird Box,” “The Batman”), Chris Morgan
The Bird Box universe is expanding with a Spanish-language spinoff, we can reveal.
Selena Gomez's new music is finally here! Nearly two months after dropping her debut single, «De Una Vez,» the songstress released her first Spanish EP, , on Thursday night.Gomez celebrated the launch with a video posted to her Instagram story, in which she thanked fans for listening and gleefully commemorated the release.«I hope you guys like the album and have so much fun with it, because obviously I've been wanting to do this for so, so long.
Selena Gomez has dropped her first ever Spanish-language project!
Neslihan Atagül, who rose to fame after her role in the film, ‘Ilk Ask,’ has another film that she could now add to her resume alongside some big name actors. It’s been said that Atagül will appear in the upcoming Spanish thriller, En Los Margenes ‘On the Fringe.’A post shared by Neslihan Atagül Doğulu (@neslihanatagul)The upcoming film will also star Penelope Cruz and Luis Tosar and it’s being written and directed by Juan Diego Botto, according to Alba Waba.
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
Emilio Mayorga Spain’s Film Factory has acquired international rights on Jaime Rosales’ latest feature “Wild Sunflowers,” a co-production between the director’s own Fresdeval Films, A Contracorriente Films (“The Bookshop”), Oberon Films (Golden Bear winner “The Milk of Sorrow”), and Paris-based production-distribution company Luxbox Films (“Our Time”).Starring Anna Castillo (“The Olive Tree”) and Oriol Pla (“Petra”), “Wild Sunflowers” follows 22-year-old Julia, a mother of two who falls in love
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.