Friday, September 26, 2025
SAN SEBASTIÃN " Spain's Quickets and U.K. startup AnthroTek claimed the top prizes Friday at the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, the San Sebastián Festival's flagship technology competit…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2025
Daniel Burman, icon of the New Argentine Cinema and now one of Argentina's foremost feature/TV series writer-directors and showrunners, is shooting a new series "So Far So Good" ("El Resto B…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2025
Veteran Portuguese producer Paulo Branco has begun principal photography on the €4.5 million ($5.3 million) dystopian drama "Aqui," directed by Tiago Guedes ad shooting in Spain and Po…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
In 2019, making "Money Heist Season 3," Netflix and creators Alex Pina and Esther MartÃnez Lobato took Spanish TV to a new production level. Now they look poised to do the same with t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:23PM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2025
Packed with panoramic shots of a 1575 Algiers, "The Captive," from Oscar-winning director Alejandro Amenábar ("The Sea Inside," "The Others"), weighs in as one of the biggest Spanish movi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Spain's Verónica Echegui, an actor of enormous vitality and contagious humor, died Aug. 24, at Madrid's 12 de Octubre hospital where she was being treated for cancer. She was 42. Only tho…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Top Icelandic actor-writer-producer Björn Hlynur Haraldsson (seen in "The Witcher," "The Borgias," "Lamb"), also the co-showrunner of the Series Mania winning show "Blackport," is teaming…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Chile's Paulina GarcÃa, winner of a Berlin Silver Bear for her performance in Sebastián Lelio's "Gloria" and a highly-courted actor in Latin American productions, is attached to toplin…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2025
For Helen Walsh, place comes first. "Place is always my starting point. It's an active force that shapes and informs our identities right throughout our lives," said the novelist-turned-…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:31AM[SHARE]Director Jesse Noah Klein is world premiering at Edinburgh the jet-black comedy thriller "Best Boy," starring Caroline Dhavernas and Aaron Abrams, ("Hannibal"), Marc Bendavid ("Good Witch…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
LOCARNO, Switzerland " AGC International is closing a slew of major distribution deals in key markets worldwide on 'Kiss of the Spider Woman,' starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and Tonatiu…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:02AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2025
Diego MartÃnez-Ulanosky's Caponeto, the Mexico-based company behind Netflix original "Unstoppable," Disney's "Soy tu Fan" and Sundance player "The Virgin of the Quarry Lake," is teaming w…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2025
Tapping into one of Spanish TVs big, big IPs, BuendÃa Estudios is developing "Sira," the sequel to "The Time In Between," teaming with Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 and Netflix in a busine…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Noted Canadian actor Prince Amponsah ("Station Eleven") has been cast in the film's central role of "King Baby" director duo Kit & Arran's satirical horror chiller "How Dare You" as the …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52PM[SHARE]Actor-filmmaker Frank Mosley, star of Sundance Jury Prize winners "Upstream Color" and "The Procedure," is set to play the lead in "Fur," taking on the part of Albert Ostman, history's first…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:18PM[SHARE]Locarno's interdisciplinary and international think tank StepIn will welcome comedian and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid to its 14th edition.  In her introduction "Somewhere Ove…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2025
Mexico's Marina de Taviria, Oscar-nominated as supporting actress for her performance as the mother in Alfonso Cuarón's "Roma" is attached to star in Brenda Navarro's "House Eight" ("Casa…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:13PM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2025
Acclaimed Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan was honored at this year's Amman Intl. Film Festival, where Ireland received a tribute as its country of honor. The six-time Oscar nominee ("My Lef…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Ashé Ventures, co-founded by Viola Davis, an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner, has joined forces with Brazil's Maria Farinha Filmes to co-produce "The Girl Who Could Fly." The partnershi…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:14AM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2024
Richard Hunter's feature "Foul Evil Deeds" is one of the more European of British first features, taking its inspiration from continental art house names rather than the more usual luminarie…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Ãlvaro Morte, immortalized by his performance as the Professor in "Money Heist," has inked a multi-year producing deal with Sony Pictures Television through his Madrid-based production co…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:07AM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2023
Dogwoof has shared with Variety the trailer of "Theatre of Violence," nominated in main competition at CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, one of Europe's …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2023
Barcelona-based sales shingle Filmax has acquired international rights to Spanish thriller "Ellipsis," directed and co-written by Goya-nominated David Marqués ("The Unemployment Club," …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:53AM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2022
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Antonio Banderas are teaming to create a joint company Amigos Para Siempre (APS) aimed at producing musicals, stage plays and live entertainment for major markets in …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:57AM[SHARE]Monday, April 12, 2021
Disney Plus has acquired Latin American broadcast rights to animated musical "Turu and the Wackies," a 26-episode CGI spin-off series from the hit 2019 toon movie "Turu, the Wacky Hen," a Sp…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2019
TORONTO"Who is telling whose stories in the world of documentary filmmaking today? Why are they telling those stories, and to what audience? And why do those questions matter? Those are some…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 10, 2018
The EnergaCamerimage fest's main lineup, its competition for best cinematographer, covers a vast range of styles, and honors several fresh visual stylists along with many legends in the fiel…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 21, 2018
A band of young street performers and pickpockets in Athens find an unlikely refuge in an abandoned shopping mall. But when their former leader is released from prison, his return threatens …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 4, 2018
LOCARNO, Switzerland — Originally announced as a movie re-teaming, post "Southpaw," Antoine Fuqua and Jake Gyllenhaal’s "The Man Who Made It Snow" is now set up at Epix as a limi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2018
Award-Winning actress Elisabeth Moss ("The Handmaid's Tale") is set to star for director Ritesh Batra ("The Lunchbox," "The Sense of an Ending," "Our Souls at Night") in his upcoming feature…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 27, 2018
Moroccan-French writer-director Nabil Ayouch, one of the most prominent film voices in the Arab World, is set to direct "Positive School," a hybrid, realistically-shot hip hop musical which …
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