The Orphanage
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- Synopsis
- Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro produces director Juan Antonio Bayona's gothic frightener about a long-abandoned orphanage with a particularly troubling past....
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- Starring
- Geraldine Chaplin, Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera
- Director(s)
- Juan Antonio Bayona
- Distributor(s)
- Picturehouse
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 105 min.
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Critic Reviews
Variety | Justin ChangAdd Critic to Favorites
A fastidiously grim ghost story that rattles the bones of the haunted-house genre and finds plenty of fresh (but not too bloody) meat.Read the full review
Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites
Lures us in with extraordinary subtlety. Keeping sound effects and incidental music to a relative minimum, it builds its suspense almost subliminally. So when something scary or shocking does occur -- deprived of those Hollywood-style cues -- we are truly startled.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
Deliberately aimed at viewers with developed attention spans. It lingers to create atmosphere, a sense of place, a sympathy with the characters, instead of rushing into cheap thrills.Read the full review
Headlines
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Argentina's Trailer Co. widens focus
03/09/10 Guido Rud's Buenos Aires-based The Trailer Co. is teaming with Miguel Angel San Antonio's Tendal Montivideo in Madrid to offer marketing tools — principally trailers, posters and artwork — on a worldwide basis. | Variety -
Warner Spain nabs 'Buried,' 'Di Di'
03/02/10 Warner Bros. has acquired Spanish rights to two hot local titles: Rodrigo Cortes thriller "Buried," which stars Ryan Reynolds, and "Di Di Hollywood," a showbiz-set drama by vet helmer Bigas Luna. Cortes' second feature, "Buried" sparked an enthusiastic reponse from viewers and film critics after its world premiere at January's Sundance film festival, where Lionsgate picked up U.S. rights. | Variety -
U.K.'s Optimum catches 'Julia's Eyes'
02/22/10 Handling its biggest film ever, Barcelona mini-major DeAPlaneta has sold the Focus Features Intl. co-produced "Julia's Eyes" to Will Clarke's Optimum Releasing in the U.K. | Variety -
'Agnosia' nabs sales
02/15/10 In some of the first reported major-territory sales on a European film at the European Film Market, Barcelona-based Filmax Intl. has pre-sold Eugenio Mira's "Agnosia" to Momentum for the U.K., Alliance for Canada and Square One Entertainment for Germany. | Variety -
Spanish buyers circle 'Agnosia'
01/27/10 Days after Rodrigo Cortes' "Buried" sold North America to Lionsgate at Sundance for $3 million- $4 million, the market continues a feeding frenzy for thrillers from new talent in Spain. | Variety -
Film: Newswire:Director Mark Pellington moves from Arlington Road to The Orphanage remake
01/04/10 Variety reports that director Mark Pellington, whose credits include Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies , some episodes of Cold Case , and Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" video, is in talks to remake The Orphanage en ingles. | The A.V. Club -
Mark Pellington Moves into New Line's Orphanage Remake
01/04/10 Mark Pellington, director of "The Mothman Prophecies," has been hired to helm Warner Bros.' English-language remake of Juan Antonio Bayona's "The Orphanage." | Rotten Tomatoes -
Spanish trio backs 'Spanish Movie'
10/30/09 Three of Spain's most powerful movie players -- Filmax Entertainment, Telecinco Cinema and Hispano Fox Film -- are combining on one of Spain's biggest B.O. hopes of the year, "Spanish Movie." | Variety -
Douglas to direct 'Perfect Assassin'
10/08/09 Brit Andrew Douglas will helm "The Perfect Assassin," which is being produced by "The Orphanage" co-producers Joaquin Padro and Mar Targarona at Barcelona's Rodar y Rodar, and Robyn Slovo at London's Company Pictures. | Variety -
Catalonia spends big on blockbusters
09/25/09 Along the jagged limestone sierra outside Barcelona, Bruc, a Catalan drummer lad, squints cautiously up at Montserrat's cliffs. | Variety
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