Suma Capital Acquires 40% Stake in Spanish Distributor A Contracorriente

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSpain brings a robust crop of developing projects and completed titles to this year’s Cannes Film Market.“Alcarrás” (Carla Simon) Much anticipated after Simon’s “Summer 1993,” “Alcarrás” tracks the final harvest at a multi-generational family farm. Co-produced with Italy.

Nell Tiger Free (Servant), Thomas Doherty (Gossip Girl reboot) and Lorenza Izzo (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) will lead the cast on Fall Into Darkness, an English-language remake of Spanish thriller La Cueva.

Jamie Lang The Mediapro Studio is teaming with “The Department of Time” and “Isabel” creator Javier Olivares to develop a new bio-series about former Spanish King Juan Carlos I in the style of Netflix’s “The Crown,” according to a report by Spanish paper El País and confirmed to Variety by The Mediapro Studio.

hotel in Spain to find it was shut. William Ferguson and wife Marina, both 71, had booked the £1800 sunshine break to Cala d’Or through Teletext Holidays almost two years ago but were forced to delay due to the pandemic.

José Luis Moreno, a heavyweight Spanish television producer, has been arrested in Spain amid allegations of fraud, according to local reports.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentHBO Nordic has acquired AJ Annila’s searing international political thriller “Peacemaker” from REinvent International Sales.Set across Turkey, Syria and Spain, the timely show is headlined by Irina Björklund (“Bordertown”) who stars as Ann-Mari, a peacemaker struggling to defuse an escalating conflict between the Kurds and the Turks, and unexpectedly sparks a scandal by revealing a Finnish state-owned company’s involvement in the arms trade.“We are

Spain’s King Felipe VI, as high-level efforts to allay tensions there gain new momentum.The king was in Barcelona to help mark the opening of a major international wireless trade fair, called Mobile World Congress, which begins Monday.Demonstrations against visits to Catalonia by the monarch, who is a symbol of rule from Madrid and who has criticized separatist movements, are common.But despite the entrenched and confrontational positions, recent developments have raised the possibility that

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John McAfee, of McAfee Antivirus Software, has died.

inadvertently shared by a reporter and photographer who interviewed him while he was in hiding. McAfee had been on the move ever since, but a Florida court in 2019 ordered him to pay Faull’s estate $25 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit.

Jamie Lang Latido Films has closed a seven-country theatrical release agreement with Spanish distributor Versión Digital for Victor Escribano’s debut documentary “7 Lakes 7 Lives,” produced by two-time Spanish Academy Goya-winning director and producer José Luis López Linares.Having passed through the Malaga Film Festival and now on its way to Cannes, the touching documentary will be released in Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania through an agreement with Digital

Rutherglen man William McDonald – who denies attempting to murder her by knifing her three times at his Alicante holiday home almost four years ago.

Jamie Lang Just over half a year since its launch, upstart European sales company Feel Content is heading to the Cannes Film Market with a slate of six Spanish-language features from Spain and Latin America.Feel Content is the joint endeavor of Geraldine Gonard, director of Spain’s Conecta Fiction co-production forum, and Luis Collar, a partner and CEO at The Circular Group, a diversified film company.

EXCLUSIVE: MGM is looking to ramp up its Spanish-language originals after striking a first-look deal with Spanish talent manager Ruth Franco.

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While Netflix has been delighting us with seriously brilliant original movies and TV shows, there is one place that the streaming service seriously excels and that, my friends, is true crime.

Debbie Stringer has shared a heartfelt video tribute to her rugby star husband Peter to mark their six-year wedding anniversary.