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  • 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
  • Overseas hits cross borders

    09/24/09 Senior citizens having sex, a rock star deciding to kill himself, a clueless Italian bungling his way through a Christmas vacation -- these are the plot lines of top local hits in key European territories.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • Daniel Bruehl to star in 'Eva'

    09/22/09 Barcelona-based Escandalo is teaming with Tarantula in France and Switzerland to co-produce "Eva," toplining German-Catalan thesp Daniel Bruehl ("Inglourious Basterds").  |  Variety
  • Spaniards revamp fiscal strategies

    09/20/09 Like many international sales agents, Spaniards are suffering a perfect storm of market makeovers.  |  Variety
  • Del Toro returns to scare fare

    08/07/09 BENASQUE, Spain Guillermo Del Toro just can't seem to turn down a project -- particularly one in the line of smart, sophisticated chillers that has put Spain at the forefront of the contempo scarefare genre.  |  Variety
  • 'Orphanage' remake finds a director

    08/04/09 Actor-producer-director Larry Fessenden has signed on to helm "The Orphanage," New Line's remake of the Guillermo del Toro-produced Spanish-language horror movie.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • Paramount shakeup continues

    06/30/09 The shakeup at the top of Paramount Pictures continued Tuesday with the layoffs of 31 production staffers, including a number of division heads.  |  Variety