Offers in from US, UK, Mexico, South Korea, Italy.
FilmSharks label The Remake Co. has struck deals on Uruguayan fantasy romantic comedy Ghosting Gloria (Muerto Con Gloria) and Argentinian erotic comedy 2+2 (Dos Mas Dos).
Spanish remake rights on Ghosting Gloria have gone to Igancio G. Cucucovich’s Mother Superior Films. Cucucovich produced Uruguayan horror specialist Gustavo Hernandez’s upcoming Big Bad Wolves remake Lobo Feroz, Virus-32, and You Shall Not Sleep (No Dormiras).
Nacho Alvarez (My Heart Goes Boom! / Explota Explota) will direct the remake. The original premiered at Fantasia last year and stars Stefania Tortorella as the eponymous...
FilmSharks label The Remake Co. has struck deals on Uruguayan fantasy romantic comedy Ghosting Gloria (Muerto Con Gloria) and Argentinian erotic comedy 2+2 (Dos Mas Dos).
Spanish remake rights on Ghosting Gloria have gone to Igancio G. Cucucovich’s Mother Superior Films. Cucucovich produced Uruguayan horror specialist Gustavo Hernandez’s upcoming Big Bad Wolves remake Lobo Feroz, Virus-32, and You Shall Not Sleep (No Dormiras).
Nacho Alvarez (My Heart Goes Boom! / Explota Explota) will direct the remake. The original premiered at Fantasia last year and stars Stefania Tortorella as the eponymous...
- 9/19/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Antonia Nava’s Barcelona-based Neo Art Producciones has teamed with Rome’s Pupkin Production to co-produce gay romantic drama “Si las paredes hablasen” (“If Walls Had Ears”), the feature debut of Spanish femme director, Ceres Machado.
Scheduled to roll by this year-end or the first quarter of 2023 in Barcelona and Rome, the film will be produced by Nava and Pupkin’s Rita Rognoni.
Spanish actor Fernando Tejero is attached to star in a cast that will combine Spanish and Italian actors.
Co-written by Machado and scribe Salva Martos Cortés (“Maniac Tales”), “If Walls had Ears” will narrate, in 10 sequences, a Barcelona and Rome-set story of intense love, passion and pain between two men.
They are Juan, a 50 year-old married man who hides his homosexuality, and Leonardo, a 23-year Italian who arrives in Barcelona to try his luck as a soccer player.
Over a decade, they will live their romance, but...
Scheduled to roll by this year-end or the first quarter of 2023 in Barcelona and Rome, the film will be produced by Nava and Pupkin’s Rita Rognoni.
Spanish actor Fernando Tejero is attached to star in a cast that will combine Spanish and Italian actors.
Co-written by Machado and scribe Salva Martos Cortés (“Maniac Tales”), “If Walls had Ears” will narrate, in 10 sequences, a Barcelona and Rome-set story of intense love, passion and pain between two men.
They are Juan, a 50 year-old married man who hides his homosexuality, and Leonardo, a 23-year Italian who arrives in Barcelona to try his luck as a soccer player.
Over a decade, they will live their romance, but...
- 3/24/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Gabriel Blanco has joined Mythical Entertainment, the Internet-first entertainment studio led by YouTube creators Rhett & Link, as Vice President of Production & Operations.
In his new role, he will lead all of the independent studio’s content production activities. While supervising the teams behind Rhett & Link’s daily show, Good Mythical Morning, he will also oversee other popular digital programs, as well as podcasts, traditional television and features, branded integrations, short form social media content, touring and livestream shows, and special events.
Blanco will also oversee the company’s physical operations, with a growing team of studio management, equipment, and It specialists under his command. He will report directly to Mythical COO Brian Flanagan and Chief Creative Officer Stevie Wynne Levine.
“Gabriel brings to Mythical a wealth of experience transforming complex creative concepts into incredible entertainment,” said Flanagan. “We feel lucky to have found a production leader whose deep,...
In his new role, he will lead all of the independent studio’s content production activities. While supervising the teams behind Rhett & Link’s daily show, Good Mythical Morning, he will also oversee other popular digital programs, as well as podcasts, traditional television and features, branded integrations, short form social media content, touring and livestream shows, and special events.
Blanco will also oversee the company’s physical operations, with a growing team of studio management, equipment, and It specialists under his command. He will report directly to Mythical COO Brian Flanagan and Chief Creative Officer Stevie Wynne Levine.
“Gabriel brings to Mythical a wealth of experience transforming complex creative concepts into incredible entertainment,” said Flanagan. “We feel lucky to have found a production leader whose deep,...
- 8/3/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Raffaella Carrà, beloved Italian singer, dancer and actor, who starred with Frank Sinatra in 1965’s Von Ryan’s Express, died Monday. She was 78.
“Raffaella has left us. She has gone to a better world, where her humanity, her unmistakable laugh and her extraordinary talent will shine forever, her longtime partner, Sergio Iapino, said in a statement Monday to Italian national news agency Ansa. A cause of death was not revealed, but Iapino said she had been battling an unnamed illness for some time.
Carrà was a popular figure throughout Europe and Latin America, known for her work in numerous popular television series, and was widely regarded as a gay icon.
Born in Bologna, Carrà made her feature film debut at the age of nine in Tormento del passato. She went on to appear in several Italian “peplum” films in the early 1960s, Fury of the Pagans, Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops,...
“Raffaella has left us. She has gone to a better world, where her humanity, her unmistakable laugh and her extraordinary talent will shine forever, her longtime partner, Sergio Iapino, said in a statement Monday to Italian national news agency Ansa. A cause of death was not revealed, but Iapino said she had been battling an unnamed illness for some time.
Carrà was a popular figure throughout Europe and Latin America, known for her work in numerous popular television series, and was widely regarded as a gay icon.
Born in Bologna, Carrà made her feature film debut at the age of nine in Tormento del passato. She went on to appear in several Italian “peplum” films in the early 1960s, Fury of the Pagans, Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops,...
- 7/5/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Italian singer, actor, dancer and TV host Raffaella Carrà — who over the course of a 60-year career became a national pop culture sensation, sold millions of records across Europe, and found TV success in Spain and Latin America — has died, Italian national news agency Ansa and multiple Italian media outlets have reported.
Carrà, who was 78, had been suffering from an unspecified illness, her former partner of many years Sergio Japino, a choreographer, told Ansa.
Born in Bologna, Carrà started in showbiz as a child, first appearing at age 8 in the 1952 melodrama “Tormento del Passato,” directed by Mario Bonnard. A few other small film roles followed. She subsequently moved to Rome where Carrà studied classical ballet and attended acting classes at Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia film school, from which she graduated in 1960.
In 1965, Carrà co-starred with Frank Sinatra in Canadian director Mark Robson’s World War II drama “Von Ryan’s Express.
Carrà, who was 78, had been suffering from an unspecified illness, her former partner of many years Sergio Japino, a choreographer, told Ansa.
Born in Bologna, Carrà started in showbiz as a child, first appearing at age 8 in the 1952 melodrama “Tormento del Passato,” directed by Mario Bonnard. A few other small film roles followed. She subsequently moved to Rome where Carrà studied classical ballet and attended acting classes at Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia film school, from which she graduated in 1960.
In 1965, Carrà co-starred with Frank Sinatra in Canadian director Mark Robson’s World War II drama “Von Ryan’s Express.
- 7/5/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid will provide the backdrop for a new production starring two comic actors at the peak of their powers, Carlos Areces and Fernando Tejero. Late March saw filming get under way in the Spanish capital and surrounding area for El club del paro, a new project for David Marqués following the hugely successful co-screenwriting gig that was 2018’s Champions — directed by Javier Fesser and Spain’s highest-grossing (and most lauded) film of the year, taking almost €20 million at the box office. For his latest project, Marqués has turned his writing skills to devising a plot peopled by characters played by Carlos Areces (recently seen in One Careful Owner), Fernando Tejero (featured in 2020 musical My Heart Goes Boom!), Adrià Collado (who appeared alongside Tejero in the TV series Aquí no hay quien viva), Eric Francés (Rosa’s Wedding), Javier Botet (who could forget his turn in the pitch-black Amigo), María...
Appropriately blessed by sunshine in Spain, though the whole event went online, the Malaga Film Festival’s Spanish Screenings wrapped Friday, though films will continue to screen another week given the demand for screenings. The equivalent of France’s UniFrance Rendez-vous with French cinema in Paris, the Screenings proved a bellwether for far larger trends coursing the American Film Market and the international market at large. Following, five takeaways:
The French Connection
The Malaga Spanish Screenings rounded their final bend on Friday with news that France’s Playtime Group, one of Europe’s premier film sales-production groups with companies across Europe, has boarded Vaca Films’ “Project Emperor.” The Playtime-Vaca relation stretches back a decade to one of Spain’s biggest modern break-outs, “Cell 211.” It now forms part of a fast multiplying web of Gallic connections with Spain, as French companies buy into the global reach of Spanish-language fiction.
The French Connection
The Malaga Spanish Screenings rounded their final bend on Friday with news that France’s Playtime Group, one of Europe’s premier film sales-production groups with companies across Europe, has boarded Vaca Films’ “Project Emperor.” The Playtime-Vaca relation stretches back a decade to one of Spain’s biggest modern break-outs, “Cell 211.” It now forms part of a fast multiplying web of Gallic connections with Spain, as French companies buy into the global reach of Spanish-language fiction.
- 11/20/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
For this particular competition of its upcoming, hybrid edition, the Estonian festival has selected 18 films, ten of which are world premieres. Ten world, seven international and one European premiere will make it into the First Feature Competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) this year. In addition, three features will be shown out of competition, including Evi Romen’s Why Not You, recently crowned at Zurich, Nacho Álvarez’s My Heart Goes Boom! and Joe Marcantonio’s Kindred. “It’s almost been said too many times that this is a challenging time for the film industry,” noticed festival director and head of programme Tiina Lokk. “It’s hugely reassuring that we can still present this selection of debut features this year: in cinemas in Estonia and also online. It’s a powerful, challenging and diverse collection, representing everything vital, fresh and revelatory in cinema. When the industry recovers,...
- 10/16/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Three out of competition titles also added to programme.
Estonian film festival Tallinn Black Nights has selected 15 titles for the First Feature Competition at its hybrid 24th edition which runs November 13-29.
The festival has also added three out of competition debut films to the programme; the 18 titles in total include 10 world premieres, seven international, and one European.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
World premieres include The Translator, from Syrian filmmakers Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf. Set during the 2011 Syrian revolution, it follows a political refugee living in Australia who makes the journey back to his native country,...
Estonian film festival Tallinn Black Nights has selected 15 titles for the First Feature Competition at its hybrid 24th edition which runs November 13-29.
The festival has also added three out of competition debut films to the programme; the 18 titles in total include 10 world premieres, seven international, and one European.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
World premieres include The Translator, from Syrian filmmakers Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf. Set during the 2011 Syrian revolution, it follows a political refugee living in Australia who makes the journey back to his native country,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Three out of competition titles also added to programme.
Estonian film festival Tallinn Black Nights has selected 15 titles for the First Feature Competition at its hybrid 24th edition which runs November 13-29.
The festival has also added three out of competition debut films to the programme; the 18 titles in total include 10 world premieres, seven international, and one European.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
World premieres include The Translator, from Syrian filmmakers Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf. Set during the 2011 Syrian revolution, it follows a political refugee living in Australia who makes the journey back to his native country,...
Estonian film festival Tallinn Black Nights has selected 15 titles for the First Feature Competition at its hybrid 24th edition which runs November 13-29.
The festival has also added three out of competition debut films to the programme; the 18 titles in total include 10 world premieres, seven international, and one European.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
World premieres include The Translator, from Syrian filmmakers Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf. Set during the 2011 Syrian revolution, it follows a political refugee living in Australia who makes the journey back to his native country,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Beta Entertainment Spain is joining forces with Nicely Entertainment, the L.A.-based outfit run by former Gaumont executive Vanessa Shapiro, to produce the TV thriller series project “The Tamer.”
The project, about a serial killer who tames and trains other killers to take down more of their kind, has attached Spain’s Paco Torres (“El vuelo del tren”) as writer, director and showrunner, alongside Mexican director of photography Guillermo Navarro, who won an Academy Award for Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth.”
This deal marks an early incursion into the international TV drama production sector by Beta Entertainment Spain, the Madrid-based joint venture launched late last year by European film-tv giant Beta Film and Spanish producer Javier Pérez de Silva.
Bes is conceived as a bridge into the U.S. and Latin American TV markets.
“Partnering with U.S. and Latin American companies was a top priority for us.
The project, about a serial killer who tames and trains other killers to take down more of their kind, has attached Spain’s Paco Torres (“El vuelo del tren”) as writer, director and showrunner, alongside Mexican director of photography Guillermo Navarro, who won an Academy Award for Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth.”
This deal marks an early incursion into the international TV drama production sector by Beta Entertainment Spain, the Madrid-based joint venture launched late last year by European film-tv giant Beta Film and Spanish producer Javier Pérez de Silva.
Bes is conceived as a bridge into the U.S. and Latin American TV markets.
“Partnering with U.S. and Latin American companies was a top priority for us.
- 10/14/2020
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Navarre has never had such a prominent presence at the San Sebastian Festival as in this year’s lineup.
Five linked-to-Navarre productions – three films, a TV series and a documentary – will screen at the Festival, highlighting its status as a standout hub for the Spanish audiovisual industry.
Navarre’s higher-profile at San Sebastian, the biggest movie event in the Spanish-speaking world, is no coincidence.
Since 2015, the northern Spain region has attracted Spanish productions and co-production shoots thanks in part to a 35% corporate tax deduction for Navarre-based companies investing in productions that spend at least 40% of their budgets in the territory.
Productions such as HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” Terry Gillian’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” Asian B.O. hit “Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy,” Netflix hit prison drama “La noche de 12 años,” and local blockbuster “Ocho apellidos vascos” (“Spanish Affair”) filmed there in recent years.
The region is taking advantage of accessible,...
Five linked-to-Navarre productions – three films, a TV series and a documentary – will screen at the Festival, highlighting its status as a standout hub for the Spanish audiovisual industry.
Navarre’s higher-profile at San Sebastian, the biggest movie event in the Spanish-speaking world, is no coincidence.
Since 2015, the northern Spain region has attracted Spanish productions and co-production shoots thanks in part to a 35% corporate tax deduction for Navarre-based companies investing in productions that spend at least 40% of their budgets in the territory.
Productions such as HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” Terry Gillian’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” Asian B.O. hit “Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy,” Netflix hit prison drama “La noche de 12 años,” and local blockbuster “Ocho apellidos vascos” (“Spanish Affair”) filmed there in recent years.
The region is taking advantage of accessible,...
- 9/18/2020
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
While the pandemic has reduced film festivals’ capacity to showcase new work, an all-singing all-dancing Spanish-Italian number has been selected for two.
Sold by Latido Films, “Explota Explota” (“My Heart Goes Boom!”), the assured debut feature of music promo and commercials director Nacho Álvarez, will receive an Rtve Gala Screening at the San Sebastian Festival next week and has also made the selection for the Toronto Festival’s market screenings.
Set in dictator Francisco Franco’s Spain during the 1970s, the musical comedy tells an unlikely love story between an aspiring dancer (“Beautiful Youth’s” Ingrid García-Jonnson) and the man who must censor her.
Inspired by “Mamma Mia” and “Hairspray,” Álvarez – brother of Uruguayan Fede Álvarez (“Evil Dead” “Don’t Breathe”) – takes the songs of popular singer, dancer and actress Raffaella Carrà and threads them into a story of forbidden love.
While some might balk at making a musical as their debut feature,...
Sold by Latido Films, “Explota Explota” (“My Heart Goes Boom!”), the assured debut feature of music promo and commercials director Nacho Álvarez, will receive an Rtve Gala Screening at the San Sebastian Festival next week and has also made the selection for the Toronto Festival’s market screenings.
Set in dictator Francisco Franco’s Spain during the 1970s, the musical comedy tells an unlikely love story between an aspiring dancer (“Beautiful Youth’s” Ingrid García-Jonnson) and the man who must censor her.
Inspired by “Mamma Mia” and “Hairspray,” Álvarez – brother of Uruguayan Fede Álvarez (“Evil Dead” “Don’t Breathe”) – takes the songs of popular singer, dancer and actress Raffaella Carrà and threads them into a story of forbidden love.
While some might balk at making a musical as their debut feature,...
- 9/10/2020
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Industry registration closes on September 2.
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) organisers on Tuesday (September 1) announced a selection of 30 global acquisition titles outside the Official Selection.
TIFF Industry Selects titles hail from 29 countries and have been hand-picked by TIFF’s industry and festival programming teams and will screen to accredited users on the festival’s dedicated press and industry platform, TIFF Digital Cinema Pro. Industry registration closes on September 2.
2020 TIFF Industry Selects Titles:
A Good Man (France) Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
After Love (UK) Aleem Khan
And Tomorrow The Entire World (Germany/France) Julia Von Heinz
Apples (Greece) Christos Nikou
Baby Done (New...
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) organisers on Tuesday (September 1) announced a selection of 30 global acquisition titles outside the Official Selection.
TIFF Industry Selects titles hail from 29 countries and have been hand-picked by TIFF’s industry and festival programming teams and will screen to accredited users on the festival’s dedicated press and industry platform, TIFF Digital Cinema Pro. Industry registration closes on September 2.
2020 TIFF Industry Selects Titles:
A Good Man (France) Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
After Love (UK) Aleem Khan
And Tomorrow The Entire World (Germany/France) Julia Von Heinz
Apples (Greece) Christos Nikou
Baby Done (New...
- 9/1/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Cesc Gay’s “The People Upstairs” (a.k.a. “Sentimental”), Nacho Álvarez’s feature debut “My Heart Goes Boom! (“Explota Explota”) and the series “Ines of My Soul” (“Inés del alma mía”), based on the book of the same name by Isabel Allende, will have their world premieres at the San Sebastian film festival in September.
All three are galas from Radio Televisión Española (Rtve), official sponsor of the festival.
Spain’s Gay had a hit with “Truman,” starring Ricardo Darin (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) and Javier Cámara (“Talk to Her”). The film world premiered at San Sebastian in 2015, won best actor for Darin and Camara, and went on to carve out sizeable box office in and outside Spain.
“The People Upstairs,” starring Camara, Belen Cuesta, Griselda Siciliani and Alberto San Juan, is the adaptation of a play by Gay himself, where a meeting between two neighboring couples ends in an emotional tsunami.
All three are galas from Radio Televisión Española (Rtve), official sponsor of the festival.
Spain’s Gay had a hit with “Truman,” starring Ricardo Darin (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) and Javier Cámara (“Talk to Her”). The film world premiered at San Sebastian in 2015, won best actor for Darin and Camara, and went on to carve out sizeable box office in and outside Spain.
“The People Upstairs,” starring Camara, Belen Cuesta, Griselda Siciliani and Alberto San Juan, is the adaptation of a play by Gay himself, where a meeting between two neighboring couples ends in an emotional tsunami.
- 8/18/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The People Upstairs Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival The San Sebastian Film Festival has announced an additional three titles for this year's festival, which will run from September 18 to 25.
Cesc Gay's The People Upstairs (Sentimental) - an adaptation of Gay's own play about two pairs of neighbours - will have its world premiere at the festival and features Javier Cámara and Belén Cuesta in the cast. Uruguayan director Nacho Álvarez will make his feature film debut with My Heart Goes Boom! (Explota Explota), about a young singer and dancer trying to make her dreams come true in the grey Spain of the early Seventies, which is also having its world premiere.
The titles are part of the Radio Televisión Española (Rtve) sponsorship of the festival, which will also include the presentation of the first three episodes of the channel's period drama Inés of My Soul (Inés del alma mía...
Cesc Gay's The People Upstairs (Sentimental) - an adaptation of Gay's own play about two pairs of neighbours - will have its world premiere at the festival and features Javier Cámara and Belén Cuesta in the cast. Uruguayan director Nacho Álvarez will make his feature film debut with My Heart Goes Boom! (Explota Explota), about a young singer and dancer trying to make her dreams come true in the grey Spain of the early Seventies, which is also having its world premiere.
The titles are part of the Radio Televisión Española (Rtve) sponsorship of the festival, which will also include the presentation of the first three episodes of the channel's period drama Inés of My Soul (Inés del alma mía...
- 8/18/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Latido Films has picked up international sales rights to musical comedy “Explota Explota” (“My Heart Goes Boom!”), a Spanish-Italian co-production, based on the hit songs by Italian singer Raffaella Carrà.
Produced by Mariela Besuievsky at Madrid-based Tornasol Films and Carlotta Calori at Rome’s Indigo Film, the movie marks the feature debut by Uruguayan-Spanish director Nacho Álvarez.
“My Heart” teams two Oscar-winning European companies: “The Secret In Their Eyes” producers Besuievsky and Gerardo Herrero’s Tornasol with Indigo, the shingle behind Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty.”
Spanish pubcaster Rtve is also co-producing.
Amazon Prime Video will offer “The Heart” after its theatrical release, which will be handled by Universal Pictures International Spain.
The film went into production in early November and will shoot for eight weeks in Madrid, Pamplona and Rome.
Set in the ’70s, it tells the story of María, played by Ingrid García-Jonsson (“Beautiful Youth”), a young...
Produced by Mariela Besuievsky at Madrid-based Tornasol Films and Carlotta Calori at Rome’s Indigo Film, the movie marks the feature debut by Uruguayan-Spanish director Nacho Álvarez.
“My Heart” teams two Oscar-winning European companies: “The Secret In Their Eyes” producers Besuievsky and Gerardo Herrero’s Tornasol with Indigo, the shingle behind Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty.”
Spanish pubcaster Rtve is also co-producing.
Amazon Prime Video will offer “The Heart” after its theatrical release, which will be handled by Universal Pictures International Spain.
The film went into production in early November and will shoot for eight weeks in Madrid, Pamplona and Rome.
Set in the ’70s, it tells the story of María, played by Ingrid García-Jonsson (“Beautiful Youth”), a young...
- 12/3/2019
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
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