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El thriller psicológico aterriza en SkyShowtime en junio. © SkyShowtime

SkyShowtime ha publicado el primer tráiler de la serie Matices, un thriller psicológico creado por Sergio Canovas (Noche de chicas).

Matices narra la historia de seis pacientes que se reúnen en una apartada bodega para completar el tratamiento de un reconocido, excepcional y carismático psiquiatra, convertido en una eminencia en su campo gracias a su famoso método, que ha logrado un altísimo porcentaje de cura entre los pacientes más complejos y difíciles de reconducir. Tras una insólita cata ceremonial, un fatídico suceso da un giro inesperado a los acontecimientos. Un intuitivo teniente de la Guardia Civil se hace cargo del caso y descubre la verdad de los traumas de los pacientes.

La serie de ocho episodios está protagonizada por un reparto coral compuesto por Maxi Iglesias (Punto Nemo), Enrique Arce (La casa de papel), Hovik Keuchkerian (Reina roja), Juana Acosta (Perfectos desconocidos...

El thriller psicológico aterriza en la plataforma de streaming en junio. © SkyShowtime

SkyShowtime ha anunciado la fecha de estreno de Matices, un thriller psicológico creado por Sergio Canovas (Noche de chicas).

Matices narra la historia de seis pacientes que se reúnen en una apartada bodega para completar el tratamiento de un reconocido, excepcional y carismático psiquiatra, convertido en una eminencia en su campo gracias a su famoso método, que ha logrado un altísimo porcentaje de cura entre los pacientes más complejos y difíciles de reconducir. Tras una insólita cata ceremonial, un fatídico suceso da un giro inesperado a los acontecimientos. Un intuitivo teniente de la Guardia Civil se hace cargo del caso y descubre la verdad de los traumas de los pacientes.

La serie de ocho episodios está protagonizada por un reparto coral compuesto por Maxi Iglesias (Punto Nemo), Enrique Arce (La casa de papel), Hovik Keuchkerian (Reina roja), Juana Acosta...

De ser la reina de la noche a ser la reina de España. © Prime Video

Prime Video ha compartido el primer tráiler de su nueva serie original española Su Majestad, una comedia satírica creada por Borja Cobeaga y Diego San José.

Su Majestad está ambientada (ficticiamente) en una España de 2024. Pilar es una joven princesa y futura reina de España que, de forma repentina y precipitada, se ve obligada a permanecer al frente de la institución tras un escándalo protagonizado por su padre, el rey Alfonso Xiv, que le aparta de la primera línea pública durante unos meses. Pilar debe demostrarle al país que no es la mujer irresponsable, insolente, vaga e inútil que todos creen que es. Lo que pasa es que igual tienen razón.

La serie está protagonizada por Anna Castillo como la Princesa Pilar y Ernesto Alterio como Guillermo, el Secretario de la Princesa. Completan el reparto...

Una comedia satírica que llega de la mano de los creadores de ‘Ocho Apellidos Vascos’. © Prime Video

Prime Video ha publcado las primeras imágenes de su nueva serie original española Su Majestad, una comedia satírica creada por Borja Cobeaga y Diego San José.

Su Majestad está ambientada (ficticiamente) en una España de 2024. Pilar es una joven princesa y futura reina de España que, de forma repentina y precipitada, se ve obligada a permanecer al frente de la institución tras un escándalo protagonizado por su padre, el rey Alfonso Xiv, que le aparta de la primera línea pública durante unos meses. Pilar debe demostrarle al país que no es la mujer irresponsable, insolente, vaga e inútil que todos creen que es. Lo que pasa es que igual tienen razón.

La serie está protagonizada por Anna Castillo como la Princesa Pilar y Ernesto Alterio como Guillermo, el Secretario de la Princesa. Completan...

Una comedia satírica que llega de la mano de los creadores de ‘Ocho Apellidos Vascos’. © Prime Video

Prime Video ha anunciado la fecha de estreno de su nueva serie original española Su Majestad, una comedia satírica creada por Borja Cobeaga y Diego San José.

Su Majestad está ambientada (ficticiamente) en una España de 2024. Pilar es una joven princesa y futura reina de España que, de forma repentina y precipitada, se ve obligada a permanecer al frente de la institución tras un escándalo protagonizado por su padre, el rey Alfonso Xiv, que le aparta de la primera línea pública durante unos meses. Pilar debe demostrarle al país que no es la mujer irresponsable, insolente, vaga e inútil que todos creen que es. Lo que pasa es que igual tienen razón.

La serie está protagonizada por Anna Castillo como la Princesa Pilar y Ernesto Alterio como Guillermo, el Secretario de la Princesa.

Un elenco estelar con Luis Tosar, Hovik Keuchkerian y Elsa Pataky encabeza la producción. © Skyshowtime

Comienza el rodaje de la serie original de SkyShowtime, Matices, un thriller psicológico creado por Sergio Canovas (Noche de chicas).

Matices narra la historia de seis pacientes que se reúnen en una apartada bodega para completar el tratamiento de un reconocido, excepcional y carismático psiquiatra, convertido en una eminencia en su campo gracias a su famoso método, que ha logrado un altísimo porcentaje de cura entre los pacientes más complejos y difíciles de reconducir. Tras una insólita cata ceremonial, un fatídico suceso da un giro inesperado a los acontecimientos. Un intuitivo teniente de la Guardia Civil se hace cargo del caso y descubre la verdad de los traumas de los pacientes.

La serie está protagonizada por Maxi Iglesias (Física o química), Enrique Arce (La casa de papel), Hovik Keuchkerian (Reina roja), Juana Acosta (Perfectos desconocidos...

Prime Video is the place to be in August with an incredible month of new releases. The month kicks off with the premiere of the animated series Batman: Caped Crusader on Aug. 1. The series was produced by J.J. Abrams and The Batman‘s Matt Reeves. We also return to Middle Earth this month with the premiere of The Rings of Power season 2 on Aug. 29.

As far as movies go, the Amazon original Jackpot! arrives on Aug. 15 starring Awkwafina and John Cena. This comedy is set in a world where Lottery winners have to survive until sundown in order to claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot – anyone who kills them before that gets to claim their prize.

The Hobbit trilogy also joins the Prime Video library this month, as do 21 and 22 Jump Street, Superman I-iv, Superman Returns, Night Swim, Drive Away Dolls, and 10 Cloverfield Lane.

Here’s everything coming...

Descubre los detalles de la serie y los lugares emblemáticos de Madrid que han sido escenario de esta apasionante serie. © Prime Video

El rodaje de la serie original de Prime Video, “Su Majestad”, ha llegado a su fin. Se trata de una comedia se sitúa en el año 2024. Pilar es una joven Princesa y futura Reina de España que, de forma repentina y precipitada, se ve obligada a quedarse al frente de la institución después de que un escándalo protagonizado por su padre, el Rey Alfonso Xiv, le aparte de la escena pública durante unos meses. Pilar debe demostrar al país que no es la mujer irresponsable, insolente, vaga e inútil que todos creen que es. Lo que ocurre es que, de todos modos, tienen razón.

“Su Majestad” está protagonizada por Anna Castillo como la Princesa Pilar y Ernesto Alterio como Guillermo, el Secretario de la Princesa. Completan el reparto...

DeAPlaneta ha publicado el primer tráiler del biopic del icónico grupo de electro-pop español de los 80 y 90, protagonizado por Jaime Lorente. © DeAPlaneta

“Disco, Ibiza, Locomía” es la nueva película dirigida por Kike Maíllo (“Toro”), escrita por Marta Libertad (“Oswald. El falsificador”) y el propio Maíllo y producida por Kiko Martínez (“Perfectos Desconocidos”).

La película está protagonizada por Jaime Lorente (“La Casa de Papel”), Alberto Ammann (“Celda 211”), Alejandro Speitzer (“La fortuna”), Ivan Pellicer (“Sagrada Familia”), Pol Granch (“Élite”), Javier Morgade (“Alma”), Albert Baró (“Els “Nens Salvatges”), Gonzalo Ramírez (“Ángel o Demonio”), Eva Llorach (“Quién te Cantará”) y Blanca Suárez (“El Bar”). Una película sobre música, glamour, familia, ambición y traición ambientada en los años 80, donde se abordan los entresijos de la cultura de clubs, la época dorada de las discográficas, la noche de la movida madrileña, el fenómeno fan y la explosión de la música latina en Miami.

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Onyx Collective has signed The House of Flowers creator Manolo Caro to a multiyear first-look deal with writer, director and producer Manolo Caro and Woo Films’ co-founders Rafael Ley and Maria Jose Cordova, it was revealed during the collective’s TCA presentation on Friday. Under the deal, Caro, Ley and Cordova will develop new projects for Onyx Collective.

“Manolo Caro is in a rare class of storytellers who blend heart and humor to reveal the essence of what makes us all human,” said Tara Duncan, president, Onyx Collective. “He is a proven hitmaker, and we’re excited to bring his universal stories to the Hulu audience.”

“Joining the creative voices at Onyx is not only a commitment to my artistic mission but a critical reflection of my own identity,” says Caro. “I want to tell stories through my particular vision and pop lens and create content that allows me to...

Spanish indie production shingle Nadie es Perfecto, producer of Alex de la Iglesia’s hit comedy “Perfectos Desconocidos,” has tapped former Netflix exec Juan Mayne to join the company as it revs up its slate with a slew of new projects.

These include two pics in pre-production: “La navidad en sus manos,” in co-production with Bowfinger and Esto También Pasará, directed by Joaquín Mazón, starring Ernesto Sevilla and with a special collaboration from actor-filmmaker Santiago Segura, who has worked with de la Iglesia and Guillermo del Toro; and “Locomía,” directed by Kike Maillo, starring Jaime Lorente and Alberto Ammann.

Mayne’s 20 plus years of experience in the entertainment industry includes stints at Warner Bros. and Disney before heading the film division of Netflix in Spain. Said Mayne: “I am tremendously excited to begin this new role as an independent producer in a company that has spent two decades telling the best stories,...

Warner Bros Discovery left Spain out of its clampdown on European original programs for HBO Max, and has now doubled down on the country by ordering a soccer comedy there.

Production is underway in Madrid on Playing Dirty (Monos con Pistola) The seven-part series comes from Jorge Valdano Sáenz and Pablo Tébar and is based on an idea from Carolina Bang and Álex de la Iglesia, whose drama 30 Coins is one HBO Max Europe’s most high-profile originals. The series is produced by Bang and de la Iglesia’s Pokeepsie Films, which is part of Banijay Iberia.

Playing Dirty follows the life of soccer agent Alberto Martín Ruiz, otherwise known as ‘Beto,’ as he leaves the comfortable life of working at a large soccer agency to go it alone and start his own venture. Navigating between his daily delirious struggle with soccer players and his stressful family life, his only solace is his girlfriend,...

Dubai-based Middle East distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment is expanding into production to capitalize on the potential of the nascent Saudi market and has hired former Disney exec Nicolas Torloting to handle its day-to-day operations as COO.

Torloting, who is French, was previously with The Walt Disney Company for 15 years, occupying roles in finance, business development and strategy before being becoming the Mouse House’s senior manager overseeing its licensed partners in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Greece, Israel and Turkey.

Front Row is a pioneer in distribution in the Middle East, having long ago gone beyond theatrical distribution to forge relationships with Apple, Google and local pay-tv players and streamers such as Iflix, with which it ventured into production on 2017 Egyptian comedy series “Tough Luck.” On the film front, the company recently announced an Arabic remake of hit Italian dramedy “Perfect Strangers” and have other Arabic projects in the pipeline.

Middle East distributor Front Row has hired former Disney executive Nicolas Torloting as COO. Torloting will oversee all day-to-day operations at the firm with President Hisham Al Ghanim and CEO Gianluca Chakra continuing to oversee all local and international acquisitions.

Frenchman Torloting served 15 years at The Walt Disney Company occupying roles in finance, business development and strategy before taking on a Paris-based Senior Manager role for Emea markets where he oversaw Disney’s licensed partners for the Mena region, Greece, Israel and Turkey.

In 1999 he joined Saudi entity Disney Jawa Enterprise, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the Saudi Jawa family. There he served as Managing Director of Entertainment, running offices in Saudi Arabia, UAE and the rest of the Middle East. In 2012 he joined Vanity Fair Brands (Vfp), where he served as CEO.

Front Row, which is looking to increase its development and production footprint, recently...

Dubai-based company will release its first slate of in-house developed Arabic content this year.

Dubai-based company Front Row Filmed Entertainment has appointed Nicolas Torloting in the newly created company position of COO as part of its expansion drive into development and production.

Since its launch in 2003, Front Row has built a reputation as the top distributor for arthouse and genre cinema in the Middle East as well for edgier mainstream titles.

It was also one of the first distributors in the region to embrace digital distribution, striking a pioneering deal with iTunes in 2014 to act as it Middle East aggregator.

Paramount’s ’Transformers’ prequel up to $134m after 17 days.

The Chinese box office remained lacklustre in the period of January 14-20, which saw a slight week-on-week decrease. While Bumblebee continued to fly high with its third week at the top and no new releases entered the top three.

Paramount’s Transformers prequel Bumblebee stayed top for three straight weeks, adding $28.9m for $134m after 17 days. It is closing the gap with Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (2011) but is highly unlikely to reach the gross of the two most recent fimls in the franchise,Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) and Transformers: Age of Extinction...

Paramount’s ’Transformers’ prequel up to $134m after 17 days.

The Chinese box office remained lacklustre in the period of Jan 14-20, which saw a marginal week-on-week decrease. While Bumblebee continued to fly high with a hat-trick, no new releases entered the top three.

Paramount’s Transformers prequel Bumblebee stayed top for three straight weeks, adding $28.9m for $134m after 17 days. It is closing the gap with Transformers: Dark of the Moon, but highly unlikely with Transformers: The Last Knight and almost impossible with Transformers: Age of Extinction, which remains the fifth highest grossing foreign film of all time.

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Paramount’s “Transformers” spinoff “Bumblebee” far outstripped local competitors at China’s weekend box office to bring in $25.8 million, according to figures from consulting firm Artisan Gateway. Yet despite strong praise from audiences about the film’s more character-focused storytelling and the cuteness of its eponymous Autobot, the new origin story has still underperformed compared to the previous franchise titles directed by Michael Bay.

Imax screenings accounted for $2.5 million of “Bumblebee’s” three-day haul, bumping the film’s total Imax revenue in China up to $10 million. As of Sunday night, the Hailee Steinfeld-starring tale has grossed a cumulative $107 million in China after 10 days in theaters.

The figures make it appear unlikely that the Travis Knight-directed picture will outstrip the latest “Transformers” installments. “The Last Knight” brought in $229 million in China in 2017, while “Transformers: The Age of Extinction” grossed an even larger sum at a time when the country had fewer screens and multiplexes,...

The film has already out-grossed the first two Transformers films.

The Chinese box office contracted drastically to fall by 50% week-on-week following the end of the New Year holiday. Bumblebee dominated again in the absence of strong contenders between January 7-13.

Paramount’s Transformers spinoff Bumblebee added $46.9m for a gross of $104.9m to date after just 10 days. It has surpassed the lifetime total of each of the first two Transformers in the original franchise - Transformers in 2007, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in 2009, and is enroute to beat the third installment,Transformers: Dark of the Moon, in 2011. Its 10-day...

The Wife benefits from Glenn Close Golden Globe win; Bohemian Rhapsody to cross $200m this week.

January 14 Update: In the weekend it crossed $1bn worldwide, Warner Bros’ smash Aquaman finally relinquished its hold on North American box office as Stx’s buddy movie remake The Upside debuted top on a confirmed $20.4m.

Kevin Hart’s high-profile exit as Oscars host did not appear to damage his standing among audiences, who rewarded The Upside with a table-topping result as it arrived in 3,080 theatres. The film is based on French smash Intouchables and tells of the friendship between a wealthy quadriplegic and his care-giver.

The Wife benefits from Glenn Close Golden Globe win; Bohemian Rhapsody to cross $200m this week.

In the weekend it crossed $1bn worldwide, Warner Bros’ smash Aquaman finally relinquished its hold on North American box office as Stx’s buddy movie remake The Upside debuted top on an estimated $19.6m.

Kevin Hart’s high-profile exit as Oscars host did not appear to damage his standing among audiences, who rewarded The Upside with a table-topping result as it arrived in 3,080 theatres. The film is based on French smash Intouchables and tells of the friendship between a wealthy quadriplegic and his care-giver.

The specialty box office took a downturn in the second weekend of the year, plunging lower than the usual lackluster early January numbers. Of the fifteen new openings reviewed in the New York and/or Los Angeles papers, none reported grosses. Is this the new normal?

Three new films opened wide. Of the remaining dozen, nine had parallel streaming debuts, including two boasting Oscar-winners, Vanessa Redgrave in “The Aspern Papers” (Cohen Media) and Richard Dreyfuss in “The Last Laugh” (Netflix). Iceland’s “And Breathe Normally” premiered a year ago at Sundance (Netflix). The last two were foreign-language titles, “Touch Me Not” (Kino Lorber) from Romania and “Perfect Strangers” (Pantelion) from Mexico, which yielded $425,000 in 132 theaters on the Spanish-language circuit. But new specialty titles meant to see much more theatrical play? Nada.

And this comes with the announcement that CBS Films, in recent years a provider of important specialized releases as well as more commercial fare,...

If the movies have taught us something is that nothing good ever comes from dinner parties. So when the seven friends in Manolo Caro’s Perfect Strangers get together for an evening of food and drinks, one can’t help but squirm a bit in preparation of what’s to come. That feeling of “something’s coming and it won’t be good” is validated when the hostess Eva (a flawless Cecilia Suárez), who also happens to be a psychologist, proposes they play a game: in order to avoid being rude to each other during dinner while checking their phones, they will all just lay their phones on the table and make the texts, social media notifications, and calls they receive, a part of the conversation.

Except for Eva’s husband Alonso (Bruno Bichir), most of them decide to play and the night goes from the stuff of romantic comedies...

The premise of Paolo Genovese’s 2016 Italian hit “Perfetti sconosciuti” was simple: A group of longtime friends – three couples, and one seventh wheel – gather for an intimate dinner party, and in a sort of ill-advised parlor game, decide to spend the evening with their cell phones on the table, reading all their incoming texts and DMs out loud, and taking all their incoming calls on speaker. After all, among such close friends and happy couples, who has anything to hide?

Set amongst Mexico City’s upper-middle-class, Manolo Caro’s “Perfect Strangers” (Perfectos desconocidos) is one of several international remakes that have already bowed in South Korea, Greece, France and elsewhere. Released in Mexico late last year, Caro’s seriocomic adaptation alternates between a tense, well-acted chamber drama and an at times overly didactic parable, but its focus on our newfound willingness to collect all of our darkest secrets behind such...

Less than a year after it was released in his native Italy, Paolo Genovese’s smash hit “Perfect Strangers” inspired a Greek remake. Within two years, there were nearly a dozen other remakes, including versions made in Spain, South Korea, France, Hungary, China, and India, with still more films planned in Poland, Germany, Qatar, and Sweden. (Wondering where the American version is? The Weinstein Company snapped up English-language rights before the company collapsed.)

Now Mexico is getting in on the act. Manolo Caro’s take on the lively chamber play is a modern comedy of manners that may hinge on the influence of cell phones and the internet, but chronicles emotions and twists that don’t need technological fluffing. The setup of Caro’s “Perfect Strangers” — released as “Perfectos desconocidos” in Mexico late last year, now arriving in the United States care of Lionsgate’s Hispanic arm, Pantelion Films — adheres...

Tapping into our cell phone-obsessed zeitgeist and harnessing marital disputes for incendiary plot twists, Italian director Paolo Genovese (and a team of four other writers) unleashed an international craze in 2016 with their wildly profitable and easily adaptable dramedy “Perfetti sconosciuti.”

Genovese’s feature — about a group of secretive friends (three couples and a single man) having dinner who test their trust in each other by agreeing to place their devices on the table and answering all text messages, phone calls, and other notifications out loud for everyone to hear — has been adapted in multiple nations around the world, from South Korea to Turkey, with Spanish auteur Alex de la Iglesia’s 2017 version being one of the more notable iterations.

Now, the phenomenon arrives in Latin America, guided by one of the region’s directors who is most up to the task of remaking a tale about upper-class relationships in decay: Manolo Caro.

Transformers prequel scores $60m opening weekend.

Thanks to the strong debut of Bumblebee, the Chinese box office soared by 67% week-on-week in the period of Dec 31 2018 – Jan 6 2019.

Paramount’s Transformers spinoff Bumblebee flew to the top of the Chinese box office with $59.8m from its three-day opening weekend, becoming the first Hollywood blockbuster of the New Year. It opened slightly above Rampage, which went on to become the eighth biggest foreign film of 2018.

Local comedy drama Kill Mobile came in second with $50m for $74.79m after 10 days. Produced by Zhang Yibai and adapted from 2016 Italian film Perfect Strangers, it marks the directorial debut of Yu Miao,...