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British holidaymakers heading to destinations in the Canary Islands this month have been warned of ‘significant travel disruption’ as bus and coach drivers go on strike. Road transport works will walk out across various dates this month in Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.

“Oasis” in 2019. “I think he’s an excellent artist,” Balvin, 38, said Friday night in a fan-captured screen recording posted to X, the platform previously known as Twitter.“The person I know is a great person.

A restaurant in Wales is showing its staff how much they appreciate them - by taking them away on holiday.

EXCLUSIVE: A+E Studios and Telemundo Global Studios are teaming up on a drama series starring Blanca Soto.

The Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, running from October 18 to 24 in the Spanish island’s capital of Palma, has unveiled its full line-up.

Thania Garcia Latin music revenue is growing at an unprecedented pace in the United States, rising in consumption by 15% compared to the first half of 2022. Not only that, Spanish is now the second most listened-to language in music across the U.S. accounting for an estimated 23% of listeners.

The Queen’s Gambit), Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) and Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) were sat with Spanish pop star Rosalía at Dior’s Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 show. US actress Jennifer Lawrence was also close by.A 12-second clip from the evening shows Taylor-Joy introducing her husband to Rosalía and Ortega in Spanish.

UPDATE: A Spanish court has ruled that tech titan John McAfee died by suicide, an inquest prompted by his family’s questions on his jailhouse death. 

Liza Foreman SAN SEBASTIAN — Legendary Spanish writer-director Victor Erice received a standing ovation from a packed press conference on Friday, ahead of receiving the festival’s Donostia Award tonight. The award ceremony for San Sebastian’s accolade for career achievement follows on from the San Sebastian screening this morning of his first feature film in 30 years, “Close Your Eyes,” which, already pre-sold to France’s Haut et Court, world premiered in Cannes Premiere in May with the Basque director notably absent. “Close Your Eyes” sparked highly positive reviews.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “Modestly speaking, we’ve tried to create a culture at Movistar Plus+ which attracts talent. We have a lot of respect for what creators want to tell and believe in them,” Domingo Corral, Movistar Plus+ director of fiction and entertainment, has said. One case in point is Berto Romero, whose latest series, “The Other Side” (“El otro lado”), world premieres at Spain’s San Sebastian Festival on Sunday.

Jet2 has warned passengers travelling to the Spanish hotspot of Alicante in the coming months of ‘potential congestion’ at the airport as ground handling staff go on strike. The walkouts are supported by the security service at Alicante airport, meaning holidaymakers could face longer waits than usual.

Kerry Katona looked better than ever as she showed off her amazing body on holiday in Spain.The 43 year old star – who recently astonished fans when they discovered her real age – packed on the PDA with her fiancé Ryan Mahoney while they continued to enjoy a luxury holiday to Marbella. Sporting an orange bikini and an impressive tan, with her blonde hair in beachy waves and an apparently make-up free face, former singer Kerry smiled as she soaked up the sun on a wooden lounger while also larking around with her white cover-up, wearing green Gucci sliders.

Spanish cinema has undoubtedly been making a strong imprint on the international film festival circuit throughout the last few years and, crucially, there’s a new wave of female filmmakers that are driving this charge. 

Michelle Obama made the most out of the fading days of summer. The former First Lady recently embarked on a late summer holiday in Spain, enjoying a whirlwind adventure in two beautiful cities – Mallorca and Madrid.

Variety breaks down over 40 top locations across Spain, and just a few, often recent, major shoots in their region, city or area: The only populated island off Alicante’s coast, a 25-minute ferry ride from Alicante, on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, with a near perfectly preserved 1950s style Spanish village, embattlement walls, big sunsets, a marine reserve. Alicante, a bustling port-resort, also houses the reopened Ciudad de la Luz film studios. Shoots: “La ley del mar” (Alberto Ruiz Rojo), “Route to Bethlehem,” and “Sharks” (Xavier Gens), the Netflix series which used the Ciudad’s water tank.

Shakira and Karol G just took home one of the most coveted awards at the MTV VMAs. The two Colombian stars received the VMA for Best Collaboration for ‘TQG,’ taking the stage during an emotional moment, sharing how proud they are of representing their home country and making the audience go crazy.SHAKIRA’S EPIC VMA PERFORMANCE: CROWD SURFING, KNIVES, AND HYPNOTIC HIPSTAYLOR SWIFT MOVES HER HIPS AND DANCES TO SHAKIRA DURING HER VMAS PERFORMANCESHAKIRA AND HER SONS SASHA AND MILAN STUN AT THE VMAS IN MATCHING VERSACEThe pair were all smiles holding hands as they approached the stage, with Karol G wearing a gray sheer dress and Shakira wearing a baby blue satin dress.

Thania Garcia Bad Bunny candidly addressed several of the headlines surrounding his superstardom that have led the narrative for much of this year in a new interview with Vanity Fair. Among the topics discussed, the Puerto Rican singer touched on his loss for album of the year at the 2023 Grammys. Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti” broke countless records after its release last, including making history as the first Spanish-language album nominated for album of the year.

Emiliano De Pablos Madrid-based agency Feel Sales has picked up worldwide sales rights to indie social drama film “Third Week,” by long term New York-based Catalan writer-director Jordi Torrent (“The Redemption of the Fish”). A U.S.-Spain co-production, the film is produced by Torrent, alongside Randy Simon, Maria Àngels Amorós and Toni Espinosa, for New York’s companies Duende Pictures and RFS Wolf Entertainment and Barcelona’s Toned Media.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Canary Islands-based filmmaker Paula Bilbao, whose debut documentary “Inshallah,” about the Las Raíces migrant camp in Tenerife, won the Audience Award at the MiradasDoc festival this year, is turning to fiction in her upcoming dramedy “A Supermarket in Tigaday.” Among the projects in the development showcase at MIA’s Spanish Screenings on Tour, “A Supermarket in Tigaday” focuses on Fer, a frustrated musician, who returns home after a 20-year absence to bury his estranged father. He turns to the music of his past to deal with his grief but to his great surprise, he finds that his father is still alive and that he must prove himself to earn his inheritance, a tiny supermarket in the town of Tigaday.

Spanish Screenings on Tour, which unspools at Rome’s MIA forum, taking place Oct. 9-13. A platform of market premieres, projects, pics in post and potential remake titles, the Spanish Screenings also underscore the ever stronger emergence in Spain of open arthouse titles – Isaki Lacuesta’s “Saturn Return,” Arantxa Echeverría “Chinas,” Benito Zambrano’s “Jumping the Fence” and Gerardo Herrero’s “Under Therapy,” which was one of the best-selling titles at March’s Malaga Spanish Screenings.

Luis Rubiales will be resigning from his position as president of the Spanish soccer federation after he kissed Women’s World Cup champion Jenni Hermoso without her consent.

Luis Rubiales is officially resigning.

Congratulations are in order for Joey King and Steven Piet who have got married in a stunning ceremony in Spain.The Kissing Booth star Joey and director Steven, who first met back in 2018 while filming the Hulu TV show The Act, tied the knot during a lavish ceremony in La Fortaleza, Mallorca, with the couple calling it a “Spanish version of The Great Gatsby”. For the ceremony, Joey, 24, looked incredible as she opted for an Oscar de la Renta gown which featured a strapless neckline and flower-petal paillette. While the beautiful bride kept her glam simple, she was sure to pay attention to detail as she matched her nails to her dramatic dress.

Mariana Downing, previously in a relationship with Marc Anthony, has recently been crowned Miss Dominican Republic. She is preparing to participate in the upcoming Miss Universe competition on November 18th in El Salvador.

Todd Haynes’ biopic “I’m Not There” famously featured several actors in the role of Bob Dylan, each embodying the artist in one era of his varied musical career. The idea, of course, was to acknowledge Dylan’s shapeshifting nature as well as the fact that his work can mean different things to different people — some may find one actor’s interpretation more convincing and accurate than that of another.

Spanish film star Gabriel Guevara was arrested on sexual assault charges while in attendance this weekend at the Venice International Film Festival. The 22-year-old was the star of Prime V

Spanish actor Gabriel Guevara travelled to Venice to accept an award at this year’s Venice International Film Festival; instead, he found himself under arrest due to an outstanding warrant for a previous charge of sexual assault.

Gabriel Guevara has been arrested.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Spanish actor Gabriel Guevara, star of Spanish Amazon Prime teen film franchise “My Fault,” has been arrested during the Venice Film Festival on alleged sexual assault charges, the fest has confirmed, specifying that the teen idol was not on the Lido for anything related to the event. Guevara, 22, had arrived on the Lido yesterday, which he publicised in several Instagram posts.

Emerging Spanish actor Gabriel Guevara, star of the Prime Video series My Fault (Culpa Mia), has been arrested on the fringes of the Venice Film Festival.

Emiliano De Pablos Barcelona-based indie studio Filmax has nabbed international sales rights to Joaquín Mazón’s “The Night My Dad Saved Christmas,” starring Spain’s king of comedy Santiago Segura (”Father There Is Only One”) and Ernesto Sevilla (“I Can Quit Whenever I Want”). A Spain-Mexico co-production, the film teams Spain’s tax incentive structure La Navidad en Sus Manos AIE with three of Spain’s most successful film production companies: Nadie Es Perfecto, Esto También Pasará Producciones and Bowfinger International Pictures.

Hollyoaks star Jorgie Porter enjoyed a sunny day at the beach in Spain with her fiancé Oliver Piotrowski and their son Forest.The soap star, 35, looked loved up with her fiancé as the couple took a stroll along the coast, with eight month old Forest perched on one arm. Jorgie wore a pair of cream-coloured shorts and a crop top which she paired with matching sandals. She completed her look with a pair of black sunglasses.

Emiliano De Pablos Barcelona-based Filmax has swooped on international sales rights to “El amor de Andrea” (“Andrea’s Love”), the new feature by leading Spanish auteur Manuel Martín Cuenca, whose “The Motive” snagged a Fipresci Grand Prize at Toronto Film Festival, and was his third film selected for the festival. “Andrea’s Love” is backed by Lazona, producers of the highest-grossing Spanish film ever on home turf, “Spanish Affair,” and Alebrije, behind Mexico’s all-time biggest box office hit, “Instructions Not Included.” Also producing from Spain are La Loma Blanca, Martin Cuenca’s own label, tax incentive structure El Amor de Andrea AIE and Nephilim Producciones (“Black Beach,” “Invisibles”).

A four-month-old baby is among eight who were left injured in a severe car incident on the Spanish island of Fuerteventura.

Vanessa Bryant’s youngest daughters, Bianka Bella Bryant, 6, and Capri Kobe Bryant,4, are Shakira fans! Listening to her music is even helping them master their Spanish. On Tuesday, Vanessa shared an adorable video on her Instagram story of her mini-me’s singing her record-breaking song, “BZRP Music Sessions #53.”The 41 year old tagged Shakira in the video, writing “Se habla español.” Bianka and Capri showed off their sassy side and were dramatic with their performance, throwing their hands back, and using facial expressions while they sang along in Spanish.

Kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain’s victory in the Women’s World Cup may cost Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales his job.