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- 9/1/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Easily one of the best movies of its kind, J.A. Bayona’s minute-by-minute tale of survival poses an immediate challenge to audiences: could I survive that? The genuinely terrifying true story of one family lost in the middle of a devastating disaster is even more relevant now, with similar disasters seemingly happening daily. The near-flawless direction concentrates on the direct experience of a mother and son, who in just a couple of days learn the meaning of human concern and kindness. It’s a Spanish production (in English); Naomi Watts received an Oscar nomination and Ewan McGregor and young Tom Holland give strong performances. We reach back ten years for this review.
The Impossible
Blu-ray
Summit Entertainment
2012 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 114 min. / Lo imposible / Street Date April 23, 2013 / Available from Amazon / 19.99
Starring: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast, Marta Etura, Sönke Möhring, Geraldine Chaplin, Ploy Jindachote, Jomjaoi Sae-Limh,...
The Impossible
Blu-ray
Summit Entertainment
2012 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 114 min. / Lo imposible / Street Date April 23, 2013 / Available from Amazon / 19.99
Starring: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast, Marta Etura, Sönke Möhring, Geraldine Chaplin, Ploy Jindachote, Jomjaoi Sae-Limh,...
- 6/25/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Saban Films has acquired rights to the U.S. and Canada on Jaume Balagueró’s “The Vault” (F.K.A. “Way Down”), starring Famke Janssen of “X-Men” franchise fame, Sam Riley, and Golden Globe nominee Freddie Highmore.
Also starring are Astrid Bergès-Frisbey (“King Arthur: Legend of the Sword”) and Liam Cunningham (“Game of Thrones”).
Produced by Álvaro Augustin, Ghislain Barrois, Highmore, Eneko Lizarraga and Francisco Sánchez, “The Vault” will be released by Saban Films in theaters, on demand and digitally on Jan. 22.
The U.S deal was negotiated by Saban Films’s Jonathan Saba with CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers and TF1 Studio, the cinema division of top French broadcast group TF1, which is handling international sales.
Saban Films’s acquisition comes as TF1 Studio closed further key territories on “The Vault,” with Eagle Pictures snagging Italy, and U.K. rights taken by Signature Entertainment.
India (Lionsgate India...
Also starring are Astrid Bergès-Frisbey (“King Arthur: Legend of the Sword”) and Liam Cunningham (“Game of Thrones”).
Produced by Álvaro Augustin, Ghislain Barrois, Highmore, Eneko Lizarraga and Francisco Sánchez, “The Vault” will be released by Saban Films in theaters, on demand and digitally on Jan. 22.
The U.S deal was negotiated by Saban Films’s Jonathan Saba with CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers and TF1 Studio, the cinema division of top French broadcast group TF1, which is handling international sales.
Saban Films’s acquisition comes as TF1 Studio closed further key territories on “The Vault,” with Eagle Pictures snagging Italy, and U.K. rights taken by Signature Entertainment.
India (Lionsgate India...
- 11/12/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Movie titles produced by top Spanish broadcast network Mediaset España used to spark buzz at the Cannes film market every year, befitting a driving force of the Spanish film industry.
This year, however, like many other top European film production houses, Mediaset España is waiting on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis to take the next steps in its theatrical release plans.
Films such as Jaume Balaguero’s TF1 Studio-sold “Way Down,” one of the company’s most anticipated titles of the year, is scheduled for a theatrical release this fall; and comedy “Operación Camarón,” handled internationally by Filmax, delayed its Spanish release from March 13 to Sept. 11.
“These are films for which we have strong audience expectations, and we want to protect them until we find the best scenario,” Mediaset España CEO Paolo Vasile said.
Although this year at Cannes virtual market there is no Mediaset España spotlight,...
This year, however, like many other top European film production houses, Mediaset España is waiting on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis to take the next steps in its theatrical release plans.
Films such as Jaume Balaguero’s TF1 Studio-sold “Way Down,” one of the company’s most anticipated titles of the year, is scheduled for a theatrical release this fall; and comedy “Operación Camarón,” handled internationally by Filmax, delayed its Spanish release from March 13 to Sept. 11.
“These are films for which we have strong audience expectations, and we want to protect them until we find the best scenario,” Mediaset España CEO Paolo Vasile said.
Although this year at Cannes virtual market there is no Mediaset España spotlight,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
The Spanish TV industry has been shaken by the dramatic impact of the coronavirus crisis, but it is fighting back.
Industry players have reacted fast, pushing forward with development, post-production and other business activities using online tools, and with the expectation of supporting funds from both public and private initiatives that will mitigate the effects of the crisis in production.
As has been the case in the local film sector, TV fiction production has been halted, with some 30 TV drama project shoots suspended.
Despite huge difficulties, the TV networks haven’t stopped broadcasting live, operating as normally as possible. Live programming, held without the presence of audiences, continues. News programs, crucial in crisis times, are breaking ratings records. There is, though, a higher than usual presence of reruns.
The release of original TV dramas, a key content for VOD platforms, is being adapted to the exceptional circumstances.
HBO has postponed the keenly-awaited launch of “Patria,...
Industry players have reacted fast, pushing forward with development, post-production and other business activities using online tools, and with the expectation of supporting funds from both public and private initiatives that will mitigate the effects of the crisis in production.
As has been the case in the local film sector, TV fiction production has been halted, with some 30 TV drama project shoots suspended.
Despite huge difficulties, the TV networks haven’t stopped broadcasting live, operating as normally as possible. Live programming, held without the presence of audiences, continues. News programs, crucial in crisis times, are breaking ratings records. There is, though, a higher than usual presence of reruns.
The release of original TV dramas, a key content for VOD platforms, is being adapted to the exceptional circumstances.
HBO has postponed the keenly-awaited launch of “Patria,...
- 3/30/2020
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
With French events organizer Reed Midem pulling the plug on MipTV for the first time since its formation in 1964, the realities of keeping businesses ticking in the face of a potential global pandemic are quickly emerging for the TV industry, with a range of contingency plans furiously in the works, including a drive towards virtual meet-ups and digital rights platforms.
Most businesses were always going to send small contingents to MipTV because of a Palais-centralized reboot and pre-market business secured via U.K. Screenings and other events. However, the lack of a spring market will manifest in myriad ways — and points to more serious long-term consequences relating to the spread of coronavirus.
Pamela Martinez Martinez, founder of Barcelona-based “Almost Fashionable: A Film about Travis” distributor Limonero Films, says the string of coronavirus-related event cancellations and postponements this quarter will be “disastrous” for boutique outfits.
“As a small distributor, it’s...
Most businesses were always going to send small contingents to MipTV because of a Palais-centralized reboot and pre-market business secured via U.K. Screenings and other events. However, the lack of a spring market will manifest in myriad ways — and points to more serious long-term consequences relating to the spread of coronavirus.
Pamela Martinez Martinez, founder of Barcelona-based “Almost Fashionable: A Film about Travis” distributor Limonero Films, says the string of coronavirus-related event cancellations and postponements this quarter will be “disastrous” for boutique outfits.
“As a small distributor, it’s...
- 3/5/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin — Handled by TF1 Studio, Freddie Highmore heist thriller “Way Down” has pre-sold most of the world’s key distribution territories.
At Berlin, TF1 Studio licensed Latin America with Joao Worcman’s Rio de Janeiro-based Synapse Distribution, which will release the theatrical feature, directed by Jaume Balgueró (“[Rec]”) in collaboration with Ledafilms.
Central Europe (Prorom Media Trade), Israel (Current Flow), Thailand (Sahamongkol Film), and Benelux (Dutch Film Works) also closed at Berlin.
Unannounced sales on the Spain-set but English-language title take in South Korea (Noori Pictures) and Cis (Top Film Distribution/Megogo).
TF1 Studio has also pre-sold Greece (Spentzos), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), airlines (Cinesky), China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (A Really Happy Film), Philippines (Pioneer Films), Indonesia (Prima Cinema) and the Middle East (Italia Films).
Japan, Italy and Poland are in discussion. The U.S. distribution strategy is being discussed and will be finalized before the Cannes Festival, said Sabine Chemaly,...
At Berlin, TF1 Studio licensed Latin America with Joao Worcman’s Rio de Janeiro-based Synapse Distribution, which will release the theatrical feature, directed by Jaume Balgueró (“[Rec]”) in collaboration with Ledafilms.
Central Europe (Prorom Media Trade), Israel (Current Flow), Thailand (Sahamongkol Film), and Benelux (Dutch Film Works) also closed at Berlin.
Unannounced sales on the Spain-set but English-language title take in South Korea (Noori Pictures) and Cis (Top Film Distribution/Megogo).
TF1 Studio has also pre-sold Greece (Spentzos), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), airlines (Cinesky), China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (A Really Happy Film), Philippines (Pioneer Films), Indonesia (Prima Cinema) and the Middle East (Italia Films).
Japan, Italy and Poland are in discussion. The U.S. distribution strategy is being discussed and will be finalized before the Cannes Festival, said Sabine Chemaly,...
- 2/27/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
San Sebastian – Filmax has taken international rights to Álvaro Fernández Armero’s comedy “If I Were a Rich Man.”
Produced by Telecinco Cinema, Think Studio and Ciskul, and backed by Mediaset España and Movistar+, “If I Were a Rich Man” is a Spanish remake of Michel Munz and Gerard Bitton’s French comedy “Ah! Si j’étais riche” (If I Were a Rich Man).
“If I Were a Rich Man” will be released in Spain via Paramount Pictures Oct. 25.
First presented to buyers at the Toronto Film Festival, “If I Were a Rich Man” follows Santi, who, among other problems, is about to divorce his wife. Then he wins the lottery jackpot: €25 million ($27.5 million). The question is: how can he avoid sharing his fortune with his ex?
Especially gifted in comedy, director Fernández Armero presented last year at San Sebastian “Spanish Shame” (co-directed with Juan Cavestany), the first complete TV series screened at this festival,...
Produced by Telecinco Cinema, Think Studio and Ciskul, and backed by Mediaset España and Movistar+, “If I Were a Rich Man” is a Spanish remake of Michel Munz and Gerard Bitton’s French comedy “Ah! Si j’étais riche” (If I Were a Rich Man).
“If I Were a Rich Man” will be released in Spain via Paramount Pictures Oct. 25.
First presented to buyers at the Toronto Film Festival, “If I Were a Rich Man” follows Santi, who, among other problems, is about to divorce his wife. Then he wins the lottery jackpot: €25 million ($27.5 million). The question is: how can he avoid sharing his fortune with his ex?
Especially gifted in comedy, director Fernández Armero presented last year at San Sebastian “Spanish Shame” (co-directed with Juan Cavestany), the first complete TV series screened at this festival,...
- 9/19/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Only a decade ago, Spain was on the periphery of world production, making movies that, as with Pedro Almodovar’s 2019 Cannes competition contender “Pain and Glory,” occasionally sold worldwide.
Now, thanks to an Ott and digital TV revolution, Spain has become a burgeoning global production center.
Take, for instance, Oriol Paulo’s drama “Durante la Tormenta” (“Mirage”), in which a young wife and mother faces the loss of her beloved or the birth of her daughter.
Released in Spain on Nov. 30 by Warner Bros. Pictures, “Mirage” earned a quite modest $867,593. Yet in China, it opened No. 3 on March 27 and grossed $15.9 million.
A Netflix acquisition, the Atresmedia-Think Studio production has moreover gone on to be the only foreign-language movie singled out by Netflix in its April first quarter results, having “seen broad viewing across the world.”
Signs of success were spotted in 2011, when “Gran Hotel,” an original Spanish series, made a...
Now, thanks to an Ott and digital TV revolution, Spain has become a burgeoning global production center.
Take, for instance, Oriol Paulo’s drama “Durante la Tormenta” (“Mirage”), in which a young wife and mother faces the loss of her beloved or the birth of her daughter.
Released in Spain on Nov. 30 by Warner Bros. Pictures, “Mirage” earned a quite modest $867,593. Yet in China, it opened No. 3 on March 27 and grossed $15.9 million.
A Netflix acquisition, the Atresmedia-Think Studio production has moreover gone on to be the only foreign-language movie singled out by Netflix in its April first quarter results, having “seen broad viewing across the world.”
Signs of success were spotted in 2011, when “Gran Hotel,” an original Spanish series, made a...
- 5/17/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Freddie Highmore, star of ABC’s “The Good Doctor,” the top exported U.S. scripted series last year, has been joined on bank heist thriller “Way Down” by Liam Cunningham, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey and Sam Riley.
Cunningham plays Sir Davos Seaworth in “Game of Thrones”; Astrid Bergès-Frisbey embodied mermaid Syrena in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.”; Riley portrayed Ian Curtis in “Control,” and Diaval in Disney‘s “Maleficent,” alongside Angelina Jolie.
Directed by Jaume Balagueró, the ambitious English-language heist thriller partners two of Europe’s biggest media corporations, Spain’s Mediaset España and France’s TF1 Group. Ghislain Barrois and Álvaro Augustín, at Telecinco Cinema, Mediaset España’s film arm, are producing with El Tesoro de Drake Aie, Ciudadano Ciskul (Francisco Sánchez) and Think Studio (Eneko Lizarraga), in collaboration with Mediaset España and TF1 Group.
Highmore himself will take a producer credit. “Way Down” will be sold at...
Cunningham plays Sir Davos Seaworth in “Game of Thrones”; Astrid Bergès-Frisbey embodied mermaid Syrena in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.”; Riley portrayed Ian Curtis in “Control,” and Diaval in Disney‘s “Maleficent,” alongside Angelina Jolie.
Directed by Jaume Balagueró, the ambitious English-language heist thriller partners two of Europe’s biggest media corporations, Spain’s Mediaset España and France’s TF1 Group. Ghislain Barrois and Álvaro Augustín, at Telecinco Cinema, Mediaset España’s film arm, are producing with El Tesoro de Drake Aie, Ciudadano Ciskul (Francisco Sánchez) and Think Studio (Eneko Lizarraga), in collaboration with Mediaset España and TF1 Group.
Highmore himself will take a producer credit. “Way Down” will be sold at...
- 4/15/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Never has Spanish TV drama production been so vibrant.
Over the past 12 months, “La Casa de Papel” (“Money Heist”) and “Elite” became global sensations via Netflix, building on the success of previous series that demonstrated a never-seen-before appetite for Spanish originals.
Netflix is opening the doors of its first European production hub in Madrid in early April and preparing five new Spanish Originals; Movistar + aims to produce 15 series a year; HBO and Amazon are increasing production.
Meanwhile, top free-to-air TV broadcasters Mediaset España and Atresmedia are re-inventing themselves as studios, producing content for third-party operators, and taking advantage of their production expertise.
The boom is opening up more ambitious and flexible business production models, such as co-production.
“Many of our projects, from inception, have co-production partners,” says Telefonica’s Movistar + president, Sergio Oslé. “It keeps us international from the get-go and helps us distribute, and also reach some scale and share know-how.
Over the past 12 months, “La Casa de Papel” (“Money Heist”) and “Elite” became global sensations via Netflix, building on the success of previous series that demonstrated a never-seen-before appetite for Spanish originals.
Netflix is opening the doors of its first European production hub in Madrid in early April and preparing five new Spanish Originals; Movistar + aims to produce 15 series a year; HBO and Amazon are increasing production.
Meanwhile, top free-to-air TV broadcasters Mediaset España and Atresmedia are re-inventing themselves as studios, producing content for third-party operators, and taking advantage of their production expertise.
The boom is opening up more ambitious and flexible business production models, such as co-production.
“Many of our projects, from inception, have co-production partners,” says Telefonica’s Movistar + president, Sergio Oslé. “It keeps us international from the get-go and helps us distribute, and also reach some scale and share know-how.
- 4/9/2019
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — Hitting the ground running: “Dangerous Moms,” one of the first series sold by Mediterráneo Audiovisual, the newly integrated sales-production operation of Spain’s Mediaset España, won the MipDrama Buyers’ Summit Coup de Couer.
The award was adjudicated by buyers attending the Summit on Sunday where 10 series titles were pitched via 15 minute extracts.
Headed up by Ghislain Barrois, Mediterraneo, launched to save the huge demand for series in the Spanish-speaking world sparked by Netflix and Amazon, was only announced in any detail in early March. Along with “State Secrets,” “Dangerous Moms” (“Señoras del (h)ampa”) represents one of its two banner titles for MipTV. A dark crime farce, the series turns on four mothers who attend a presentation of a kitchen robot. A terrible accident embroils four women in accidental murder and the need to dispose of a corpse.
Mediaset España had two titles at the MipDrama Buyers Summit.The other,...
The award was adjudicated by buyers attending the Summit on Sunday where 10 series titles were pitched via 15 minute extracts.
Headed up by Ghislain Barrois, Mediterraneo, launched to save the huge demand for series in the Spanish-speaking world sparked by Netflix and Amazon, was only announced in any detail in early March. Along with “State Secrets,” “Dangerous Moms” (“Señoras del (h)ampa”) represents one of its two banner titles for MipTV. A dark crime farce, the series turns on four mothers who attend a presentation of a kitchen robot. A terrible accident embroils four women in accidental murder and the need to dispose of a corpse.
Mediaset España had two titles at the MipDrama Buyers Summit.The other,...
- 4/8/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Sky U.K. E.U. Deal: A Pandora’S Box?
Has outgoing European Competition Commissioner – and maybe next Commission president – Margrethe Vestager opened a Pandora’s Box?
On Thursday evening, the E.U. competition authorities announced they had accepted commitments from Sky U.K. and Disney, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. regarding their film licensing deals in the U.K. The settlement affects a decades-long backbone of the studio business around the world: Territory-by-territory exclusive sales. Sky U.K. and its studio partners, while not marketing the offer in other territories, promise not to bar E.U. consumers outside the U.K. who want to subscribe to its U.K. film services. So a Brit ex-pat in Madrid can now watch Sky U.K. movies without setting up a U.K. account.
But that may not be the rights Armageddon some people imagine. “What the Hollywood studios will want...
Has outgoing European Competition Commissioner – and maybe next Commission president – Margrethe Vestager opened a Pandora’s Box?
On Thursday evening, the E.U. competition authorities announced they had accepted commitments from Sky U.K. and Disney, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. regarding their film licensing deals in the U.K. The settlement affects a decades-long backbone of the studio business around the world: Territory-by-territory exclusive sales. Sky U.K. and its studio partners, while not marketing the offer in other territories, promise not to bar E.U. consumers outside the U.K. who want to subscribe to its U.K. film services. So a Brit ex-pat in Madrid can now watch Sky U.K. movies without setting up a U.K. account.
But that may not be the rights Armageddon some people imagine. “What the Hollywood studios will want...
- 3/8/2019
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Top-rating Spanish broadcast network Mediaset Espana has tapped Ghislain Barrois, CEO of its highly successful film production arm Telecinco Cinema, to head up Mediterraneo, Me’s newly integrated sales-production operation.
Ana Bustamante will serve as its managing director. Silvia Cotino will direct its sales and business development. Barrios will remain director of sales and acquisitions at Mediaset España and continue heading up Telecinco Cinema.
The new sales-acquisition-production company will be introduced to the international market at the upcoming MipTV market-co-production forum, which runs April. 8-11 in Cannes.
First sketched out in a presentation on Oct. 30, but now officially launched, Mediterraneo will seek to serve the exponentially-increasing demand for content in the Spanish-speaking world, driven by Netflix and Amazon, but with more streaming platforms in the offing.
Though part of a free-to-air broadcast network, Mediterraneo will offer content and initiate production conversations with Ott and pay TV platforms.
Part of...
Ana Bustamante will serve as its managing director. Silvia Cotino will direct its sales and business development. Barrios will remain director of sales and acquisitions at Mediaset España and continue heading up Telecinco Cinema.
The new sales-acquisition-production company will be introduced to the international market at the upcoming MipTV market-co-production forum, which runs April. 8-11 in Cannes.
First sketched out in a presentation on Oct. 30, but now officially launched, Mediterraneo will seek to serve the exponentially-increasing demand for content in the Spanish-speaking world, driven by Netflix and Amazon, but with more streaming platforms in the offing.
Though part of a free-to-air broadcast network, Mediterraneo will offer content and initiate production conversations with Ott and pay TV platforms.
Part of...
- 3/7/2019
- by John Hopewell and Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
The good doctor turns treasure hunter as British star Freddie Highmore has signed on to produce and star in Way Down, an English-language heist movie from Spanish genre auteur Jaume Balaguero (Sleep Tight).
France’s TF1 Studio is handling international sales and domestic distribution on the project.
The film is produced by Ghislain Barrois and Alvaro Augustin at Telecinco Cinema, Francisco Sanchez for Ciudadano Ciskul, Eneko Lizarraga at Think Studio and El Tesoro de Drake Aie, in collaboration with Mediaset España and TF1.
Way Down follows the meticulous plan conceived by a gifted engineering graduate, Thom (Highmore), after he joins ...
France’s TF1 Studio is handling international sales and domestic distribution on the project.
The film is produced by Ghislain Barrois and Alvaro Augustin at Telecinco Cinema, Francisco Sanchez for Ciudadano Ciskul, Eneko Lizarraga at Think Studio and El Tesoro de Drake Aie, in collaboration with Mediaset España and TF1.
Way Down follows the meticulous plan conceived by a gifted engineering graduate, Thom (Highmore), after he joins ...
The good doctor turns treasure hunter as British star Freddie Highmore has signed on to produce and star in Way Down, an English-language heist movie from Spanish genre auteur Jaume Balaguero (Sleep Tight).
France’s TF1 Studio is handling international sales and domestic distribution on the project.
The film is produced by Ghislain Barrois and Alvaro Augustin at Telecinco Cinema, Francisco Sanchez for Ciudadano Ciskul, Eneko Lizarraga at Think Studio and El Tesoro de Drake Aie, in collaboration with Mediaset España and TF1.
Way Down follows the meticulous plan conceived by a gifted engineering graduate, Thom (Highmore), after he joins ...
France’s TF1 Studio is handling international sales and domestic distribution on the project.
The film is produced by Ghislain Barrois and Alvaro Augustin at Telecinco Cinema, Francisco Sanchez for Ciudadano Ciskul, Eneko Lizarraga at Think Studio and El Tesoro de Drake Aie, in collaboration with Mediaset España and TF1.
Way Down follows the meticulous plan conceived by a gifted engineering graduate, Thom (Highmore), after he joins ...
Berlin — Freddie Highmore, star of U.S. TV hit “The Good Doctor,” will topline “Way Down,” an English-language heist movie partnering two of Europe’s biggest media corporations, Spain’s Mediaset Espana and France’s TF1 Group.
Tfi Group’s cinema division TF1 Studio will handle international sales and also domestic distribution in France. “Way Down” will be directed by Jaume Balaguero (“[Rec]”). Pic starts shooting in April.
Ghislain Barrois and Alvaro Augustin at Telecinco Cinema, which is Mediaset Espana’s film arm, are producing with El Tesoro de Drake Aie, Ciudadano Ciskul (Francisco Sanchez) and Think Studio (Eneko Lizarraga) in collaboration with Mediaset Espana and TF1 Studio. Highmore himself will take a producer credit.
To shoot in and around Madrid and coastal areas in Spain and England, ”Way Down” follows a gifted engineering graduate student (Highmore), who masterminds a plan to break into one of the most impenetrable and...
Tfi Group’s cinema division TF1 Studio will handle international sales and also domestic distribution in France. “Way Down” will be directed by Jaume Balaguero (“[Rec]”). Pic starts shooting in April.
Ghislain Barrois and Alvaro Augustin at Telecinco Cinema, which is Mediaset Espana’s film arm, are producing with El Tesoro de Drake Aie, Ciudadano Ciskul (Francisco Sanchez) and Think Studio (Eneko Lizarraga) in collaboration with Mediaset Espana and TF1 Studio. Highmore himself will take a producer credit.
To shoot in and around Madrid and coastal areas in Spain and England, ”Way Down” follows a gifted engineering graduate student (Highmore), who masterminds a plan to break into one of the most impenetrable and...
- 2/8/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Key Spanish seller Filmax has taken international rights to comedy I Can Quit Whenever I Want (Lo Dejo Cuando Quiera) from local giant Telecinco Cinema, producers of the successful Spanish reboot of Perfect Strangers, The Impossible and The Orphanage, and Mod Producciones, producers of The Tribe and The Summit.
The anticipated Spanish-language film is a remake of hit Italian crime-comedy Smetto Quando Voglio, about three college professors, recently unemployed due to the economic crisis, who develop a multi-vitamin that allows them to party all night long without side effects. They launch themselves into the world of nightclubs and shady dealings, hoping to find a market for their new wonder drug.
This one sounds like a lot of fun. English-language remake potential seems clear.
Starring are David Verdaguer (Summer 1993), Ernesto Sevilla (We Are Pregnant), Carlos Santos (Smoke and Mirrors), Cristina Castaño (Under the Same Roof), Miren Ibarguren, Amaia Salamanca (Our...
The anticipated Spanish-language film is a remake of hit Italian crime-comedy Smetto Quando Voglio, about three college professors, recently unemployed due to the economic crisis, who develop a multi-vitamin that allows them to party all night long without side effects. They launch themselves into the world of nightclubs and shady dealings, hoping to find a market for their new wonder drug.
This one sounds like a lot of fun. English-language remake potential seems clear.
Starring are David Verdaguer (Summer 1993), Ernesto Sevilla (We Are Pregnant), Carlos Santos (Smoke and Mirrors), Cristina Castaño (Under the Same Roof), Miren Ibarguren, Amaia Salamanca (Our...
- 2/7/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: A Monster Calls and The Impossible director J.A. Bayona is reteaming with Lionsgate International as executive producer on the upcoming Cannes sales title Marrowbone.
Regular Bayona collaborator Sergio G. Sanchez wrote the screenplay and will make his feature directorial debut on the psychological thriller, described as being in the vein of Bayona’s The Orphanage as well as The Others.
Sanchez wrote the screenplay to The Orphanage and co-wrote the story to The Impossible.
Marrowbone (working title) centres on a young man and his four younger siblings plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor where they live and have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together.
Bayona collaborators Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustin and Ghislain Barrois will produce.
The project is in pre-production. Us rights allocation are to be determined.
“I cannot imagine a better producer and a better screenwriter to collaborate with, so from the...
Regular Bayona collaborator Sergio G. Sanchez wrote the screenplay and will make his feature directorial debut on the psychological thriller, described as being in the vein of Bayona’s The Orphanage as well as The Others.
Sanchez wrote the screenplay to The Orphanage and co-wrote the story to The Impossible.
Marrowbone (working title) centres on a young man and his four younger siblings plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor where they live and have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together.
Bayona collaborators Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustin and Ghislain Barrois will produce.
The project is in pre-production. Us rights allocation are to be determined.
“I cannot imagine a better producer and a better screenwriter to collaborate with, so from the...
- 5/1/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: A Monster Calls and The Impossible director J.A. Bayona is reteaming with Lionsgate International as producer on the upcoming Cannes sales title Marrowbone.
Bayona collaborator Sergio G. Sanchez will make his feature directorial debut on the psychological thriller, described as being in the vein of Bayona’s The Orphanage.
Sanchez wrote the screenplay to The Orphanage and co-wrote the story to The Impossible.
Marrowbone (working title) centres on a young man and his four younger siblings plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor where they live and have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together.
Bayona produces with regular collaborators Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustin, and Ghislain Barrois.
The project is in pre-production. Us rights allocation are to be determined.
A Monster Calls starring Liam Neeson, Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell and Geraldine Chaplin, is scheduled to open in the Us via Focus Features on October...
Bayona collaborator Sergio G. Sanchez will make his feature directorial debut on the psychological thriller, described as being in the vein of Bayona’s The Orphanage.
Sanchez wrote the screenplay to The Orphanage and co-wrote the story to The Impossible.
Marrowbone (working title) centres on a young man and his four younger siblings plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor where they live and have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together.
Bayona produces with regular collaborators Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustin, and Ghislain Barrois.
The project is in pre-production. Us rights allocation are to be determined.
A Monster Calls starring Liam Neeson, Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell and Geraldine Chaplin, is scheduled to open in the Us via Focus Features on October...
- 5/1/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Mainstream Spanish films are thriving as TV broadcasters fill the gap in public funding. But at what cost to auteur film-making? Could a new Pedro Almodovar emerge now?Spain territory focusSpain focus: new talent, the magnificent sevenSpain focus: hot projects, big name draws
The Spanish film industry has started 2016 on an optimistic note. Emilio Martinez-Lazaro’s broad comedy Spanish Affair 2 (Ocho Apellidos Catalanes), the sequel to the all-time local hit Spanish Affair, was the top grossing film of 2015, taking $34.7m (€32m), and Fernando Gonzalez Molina’s romantic period drama Palm Trees In The Snow, released on December 25, out-performed Star Wars: The Force Awakens on its second weekend on release and has garnered more than $17m to date.
The label ‘made in Spain’ on a commercial, locally produced film is now a positive note for local audiences. “As in France, we’re learning to make films that work for a big audience,” says [link=nm...
The Spanish film industry has started 2016 on an optimistic note. Emilio Martinez-Lazaro’s broad comedy Spanish Affair 2 (Ocho Apellidos Catalanes), the sequel to the all-time local hit Spanish Affair, was the top grossing film of 2015, taking $34.7m (€32m), and Fernando Gonzalez Molina’s romantic period drama Palm Trees In The Snow, released on December 25, out-performed Star Wars: The Force Awakens on its second weekend on release and has garnered more than $17m to date.
The label ‘made in Spain’ on a commercial, locally produced film is now a positive note for local audiences. “As in France, we’re learning to make films that work for a big audience,” says [link=nm...
- 4/1/2016
- ScreenDaily
Force Majeure, Leviathan and Nymphomaniac among nominees.
The nominations for the 27th European Film Awards have been announced at the Seville European Film Festival.
More than 3,000 European Film Academy members will now vote for the winners, who will be presented during the awards ceremony on Dec 13 in Riga.
Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan, Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut - Volume I & II and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep will compete for European Film, with every director - apart from von Trier - up for European Director alongside Steven Knight for Locke and Paolo Virzi for Human Capital.
Roger Michell’s Le Week-End is up for European Comedy, alongside Paco León’s Carmina & Amen and Pierfrancesco Diliberto’s The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer.
The full list of nominations is as follows:
European Film 2014
Force Majeure (Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway)
Written & Directed By: [link...
The nominations for the 27th European Film Awards have been announced at the Seville European Film Festival.
More than 3,000 European Film Academy members will now vote for the winners, who will be presented during the awards ceremony on Dec 13 in Riga.
Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan, Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut - Volume I & II and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep will compete for European Film, with every director - apart from von Trier - up for European Director alongside Steven Knight for Locke and Paolo Virzi for Human Capital.
Roger Michell’s Le Week-End is up for European Comedy, alongside Paco León’s Carmina & Amen and Pierfrancesco Diliberto’s The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer.
The full list of nominations is as follows:
European Film 2014
Force Majeure (Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway)
Written & Directed By: [link...
- 11/8/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Paramount Pictures has closed worldwide distribution rights for Spanish animation duo.
Paramount Pictures has closed a worldwide distribution deal for Enrique Gato’s next two animation productions, Capture the Flag and Tad Jones: The Hero Returns.
The agreement was signed with TeleCinco Cinema, Telefónica Studios and Los Rockets Aie along with producers Jordi Gasull - creator and co-writer of Tad - Edmon Roch and Nico Maji, CEO of Lightbox Entertainment.
The deal follows the breakout success of Spanish animation feature Tad the Explorer ($54m worldwide), which charts the story of a construction worker who realises his dream of becoming an adventurer like his hero Indiana Jones.
This character will be back “with new and exciting adventures”, said Gasull, “in funnier film that won’t lose its tenderness”.
Capture the Flag, based on the return of men to the moon when a greedy millionaire wants to exploit its natural resources for his own benefit, is scheduled...
Paramount Pictures has closed a worldwide distribution deal for Enrique Gato’s next two animation productions, Capture the Flag and Tad Jones: The Hero Returns.
The agreement was signed with TeleCinco Cinema, Telefónica Studios and Los Rockets Aie along with producers Jordi Gasull - creator and co-writer of Tad - Edmon Roch and Nico Maji, CEO of Lightbox Entertainment.
The deal follows the breakout success of Spanish animation feature Tad the Explorer ($54m worldwide), which charts the story of a construction worker who realises his dream of becoming an adventurer like his hero Indiana Jones.
This character will be back “with new and exciting adventures”, said Gasull, “in funnier film that won’t lose its tenderness”.
Capture the Flag, based on the return of men to the moon when a greedy millionaire wants to exploit its natural resources for his own benefit, is scheduled...
- 7/21/2014
- by jsardafr@hotmail.com (Juan Sarda)
- ScreenDaily
Paramount Pictures has closed worldwide distribution rights for Spanish animation duo.
Paramount Pictures has closed a worldwide distribution deal for Enrique Gato’s next two animation productions, Capture the Flag and Tad Jones: The Hero Returns.
The agreement was signed with TeleCinco Cinema, Telefónica Studios and Los Rockets Aie along with producers Jordi Gasull - creator and co-writer of Tad - Edmon Roch and Nico Maji, CEO of Lightbox Entertainment.
The deal follows the breakout success of Spanish animation feature Tad the Explorer ($54m worldwide), which charts the story of a construction worker who realises his dream of becoming an adventurer like his hero Indiana Jones.
This character will be back “with new and exciting adventures”, said Gasull, “in funnier film that won’t lose its tenderness.”
Capture the Flag, based on the return of men to the moon when a greedy millionaire wants to exploit its natural resources for his own benefit, is scheduled...
Paramount Pictures has closed a worldwide distribution deal for Enrique Gato’s next two animation productions, Capture the Flag and Tad Jones: The Hero Returns.
The agreement was signed with TeleCinco Cinema, Telefónica Studios and Los Rockets Aie along with producers Jordi Gasull - creator and co-writer of Tad - Edmon Roch and Nico Maji, CEO of Lightbox Entertainment.
The deal follows the breakout success of Spanish animation feature Tad the Explorer ($54m worldwide), which charts the story of a construction worker who realises his dream of becoming an adventurer like his hero Indiana Jones.
This character will be back “with new and exciting adventures”, said Gasull, “in funnier film that won’t lose its tenderness.”
Capture the Flag, based on the return of men to the moon when a greedy millionaire wants to exploit its natural resources for his own benefit, is scheduled...
- 7/21/2014
- by jsardafr@hotmail.com (Juan Sarda)
- ScreenDaily
Spanish films made more at the international box office than domestically, according to a report released at the annual Madrid de Cine.
Pedro Pérez, president of Spanish producers association Fape, said it was the fourth consecutive year that Spanish films had collected more box office takings outside of the country’s borders.
International takings were $200m in 2012 compared with $157m in Spain.
The data was collected by Fapae, Rentrak and the European Audiovisual Observatory.
The number of Spanish films exhibited internationally rose to 28.2% and the amount of prints distributed grew by 57.7%.
Italy screened the most Spanish films (37) while the biggest box office takings were in Mexico, which generated $23.6m from Spanish movies.
The Fapae-Rentrak award for the most successful Spanish film abroad went to the producers of tsunami drama The Impossible: Enrique Lavigne and Belén Atienza for Apaches Entertainment and Ghislain Barrois and Alvaro Agustín for TeleCinco.
English-language co-productions proved lucrative for the Spanish film industry...
Pedro Pérez, president of Spanish producers association Fape, said it was the fourth consecutive year that Spanish films had collected more box office takings outside of the country’s borders.
International takings were $200m in 2012 compared with $157m in Spain.
The data was collected by Fapae, Rentrak and the European Audiovisual Observatory.
The number of Spanish films exhibited internationally rose to 28.2% and the amount of prints distributed grew by 57.7%.
Italy screened the most Spanish films (37) while the biggest box office takings were in Mexico, which generated $23.6m from Spanish movies.
The Fapae-Rentrak award for the most successful Spanish film abroad went to the producers of tsunami drama The Impossible: Enrique Lavigne and Belén Atienza for Apaches Entertainment and Ghislain Barrois and Alvaro Agustín for TeleCinco.
English-language co-productions proved lucrative for the Spanish film industry...
- 6/19/2013
- by jsardafr@hotmail.com (Juan Sarda)
- ScreenDaily
Check out interviews with Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland and director Juan Antonio Bayona for Summit Entertainment's The Impossible drama. The film which is helmed Bayona from the script by Sergio G. Sanchez, opens December 21st. Also in the cast are Geraldine Chaplin, Oaklee, Pendergast and Samuel Joslin. Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustín, Ghislain Barrois and Enrique López Lavigne produce. A powerful story based on one family's survival of the 2004 tsunami, The Impossible follows Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons who begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas festivities the night before, a terrifying...
- 12/8/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out interviews with Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland and director Juan Antonio Bayona for Summit Entertainment's The Impossible drama. The film which is helmed Bayona from the script by Sergio G. Sanchez, opens December 21st. Also in the cast are Geraldine Chaplin, Oaklee, Pendergast and Samuel Joslin. Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustín, Ghislain Barrois and Enrique López Lavigne produce. A powerful story based on one family's survival of the 2004 tsunami, The Impossible follows Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons who begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas festivities the night before, a terrifying...
- 12/8/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Last night, as I was talking with director Juan Antonio Bayona and producer Ghislain Barrois at a Soho House afterparty, they asked me how the Toronto Film Festival crowd reacted at the end of their tsunami survival tale The Impossible. I had to be honest: Once a picture of the actual family that survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 230,000 people was shown onscreen (the parents are played by Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts) and then the actual Belon family stood up to embrace Bayona, the crowd rushed to their feet for a standing ovation so fast and it lasted so long it was hard to tell if they were rooting for the harrowing film, the family that survived it, or both. That’s what makes Toronto so great. There are so many surprises and this one reminded me of the way I felt when I attended the 127 Hours premiere,...
- 9/10/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Juan Antonio Bayona and Sergio Sanchez, the director and screenwriter of The Orphanage, are reteaming on what looks set to be Bayona's second film, according to Variety. The project doesn't have a title yet, or at least not publicly, but is a "powerful story, based on true facts, which poses large technical challenges." That's a bit vague. "The film looks absolutely unique," says Telecinco Cinema CEO Ghislain Barrois. Apparently Bayona spent months working on the screenplay and the film's visual design before he was approached to direct the third Twilight film for Summit, a job that eventually went to David Slade. Mysteriously, no other details about the project were revealed. And this isn't the adaptation of David Moody's Hater that Bayona is also attached to direct. The project is apparently "highly ambitious by Spanish standards" and Guillermo del Toro and Mark Johnson will be back to produce. Shooting is...
- 5/15/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Director Juan Antonio Bayona and screenwriter Sergio Sanchez, the two people behind "The Orphanage", are reuniting, Variety reported. The directing-writing pair are said to be re-teaming for what seems to be Bayona's next film, which is scheduled to be shot in spring 2010.
Variety further claimed that Bayona has spent months working on this film's screenplay and the visual design before he was approached to helm "Twilight" second sequel, "Eclipse". Sanchez, on the other hand, has completed a first-draft screenplay in late April.
The movie will be produced by Apaches Entertainment, Telecinco Cinema and Spongeman. Apaches' Belen Atienza described the yet-to-be-titled movie as a "powerful story, based on true facts, which poses large technical challenges," while Telecinco Cinema CEO Ghislain Barrois said that "the film looks absolutely unique."
Both Juan Antonio Bayona and Sergio Sanchez teamed up for the first time in "The Orphanage". For this 2007 Spanish horror movie, the two...
Variety further claimed that Bayona has spent months working on this film's screenplay and the visual design before he was approached to helm "Twilight" second sequel, "Eclipse". Sanchez, on the other hand, has completed a first-draft screenplay in late April.
The movie will be produced by Apaches Entertainment, Telecinco Cinema and Spongeman. Apaches' Belen Atienza described the yet-to-be-titled movie as a "powerful story, based on true facts, which poses large technical challenges," while Telecinco Cinema CEO Ghislain Barrois said that "the film looks absolutely unique."
Both Juan Antonio Bayona and Sergio Sanchez teamed up for the first time in "The Orphanage". For this 2007 Spanish horror movie, the two...
- 5/15/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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