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Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s real crime re-imagination “Re-Creation,” Alberto Rodríguez’s big-scale “Los Tigres,” Paz Vega’s directorial debut “Rita” feature in Spain’s lineup at this year’s AFM.

They are joined at the Spanish Screenings on Tour by “Nightfall,” a Federico García Lorca focused real life horror film from “Wounded” director Fernando Franco, and “Wolf Night,” the latest from Guillem Morales.

Rich on crime thrillers, this year’s Spanish slate also plays to two of Spain’s strengths, the subject of Spanish Screenings showcases, which luckily enough are also proved to be of general market demand: animation and genre/fantasy. The Screenings also highlight just a few of the Spanish companies which have scored recent market hits. Very few were around before 2010 – a sign of Spain’s relatively recent dramatic growth.

Spanish Screenings on Tour

Animation Showcase

“Ages of Madness,” (Miguel Miranda, 3Doubles Producciones, Spain)

From go-ahead Tenerife-based 3 Doubles,...

Hamburg-based production company Junafilm is marking its 15th anniversary this year with the world premiere of English-language thriller Spirit In The Blood on home turf at Filmfest Hamburg.

The Hamburg connection runs strong in Spirit In The Blood, which is directed by Canadian-born, Hamburg-based Carly May Borgstrom.

It was also backed by new Filmfest Hamburg director Malika Raballah in her previous job as head of funding at regional fund Moin.

“Malika had been a great supporter from the very beginning,” says Junafilm founder Verena Gräfe-Höft. “She saw the film in a very early phase at a test screening when she...

The Worst Person In The World producer Andrea Berentsen Ottmar and Carla Fotea of Romania’s microFILM are among 18 independent producers selected for the 34th edition of Ace Producers’ annual workshop programme.

The producers will attend three workshops throughout 2024 and 2025, developing the projects with which they applied. At the conclusion of the programme they will join the Ace Network.

Scroll down for the list of selected producers

Ottmar, producer at Norway’s Eye Eye Pictures, is participating with Stefan Faldbakken’s Slave. Ottmar is currently in production on Worst Person director Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, and produced Cannes 2024 title Armand.

Shout! Studios will be giving the psychological thriller The Wasp, starring Naomie Harris of Skyfall and Natalie Dormer of Game of Thrones, a theatrical release on August 30th, and with that date just eight weeks away a trailer for the film has made its way online. You can check it out in the embed above.

Julia’s Eyes director Guillem Morales was at the helm of The Wasp, working from a screenplay written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, based on Malcolm’s stage play of the same name. Harris and Dormer are said to deliver captivating performances in this “tense, twist-filled” film as two estranged friends who reunite over tea, only to unveil a dangerous and deceptive plot that will irrevocably alter their lives.

Dominic Allburn (A Place to Call Home), Jack Morris (Into the Deep), Rupert Holliday-Evans (Silent Witness), Naomi Richards (The Ballad of Lucy Sands), Jake Donald-Crookes (Hill of Vision...

Reconnecting with a childhood friend is always a little strange, but "The Wasp" takes it to a whole other level. This psychological thriller is all about Heather (Naomie Harris), a seemingly put-together, well-off woman who reaches out to Carla (Natalie Dormer), a standoffish pregnant former classmate who barely seems to remember her. Heather wants to hire Carla to do a dangerous, morally dubious task, but more importantly she wants to talk through everything that happened back when they were kids. Their childhood friendship fell apart the day young Carla killed a wounded bird in front of young Heather; as we learn throughout a suspenseful, emotional 96 minutes, things are weird between them for reasons far more complicated than that. 

I hesitate to say more about the plot, because "The Wasp" is one of those movies where it's best to know as little as possible going in. It's a film split into three clear acts,...

The ladies of The Talk will definitely have something to gab about after their bizarre encounter with a stage crasher during Wednesday’s People’s Choice Awards.

RelatedPretty Little Liars, Taylor Kinney and More People’s Choice Award Winners

Aisha Tyler, Sara Gilbert, Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne and Sheryl Underwood took to the stage to accept the award for “Favorite Daytime TV Hosting Team,” when they were unexpectedly ambushed by a rando trying to promote his (or someone else’s) album. Honestly, it was hard to tell what he was saying.

Watch video of the event, courtesy of Loni Love,...

Here's a spoiler-free look at what to expect from the second series of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's glorious Inside No. 9...

Inside No. 9 returns to BBC Two on Thursday the 26th of March for six more ingenious genre slices of horror, suspense and psychology. Those who were rattled and gripped by the first round of half-hour plays from Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith know to expect to be skilfully sucker-punched with sharp, tricksy writing and well-drawn characters.

Viewers engrossed by the psychological character focus of series one’s Tom & Gerri, the jump scares of series finale The Harrowing, and the unexpected emotional sting of opener Sardines have lots to look forward to from the second series’ first brace of episodes. La Couchette and The 12 Days Of Christine tell the respective stories of a fraught overnight train journey and a woman plagued by a mysterious visitor, featuring guest roles from Mark Benton,...

Exclusive: Arthur Sarkissian and writer-director Tony Kaye are teaming to bring the story of Peg Entwistle to light as a movie. She is the blond-haired, blue-eyed actress who committed suicide by jumping off the ‘H’ of the Hollywood sign in 1932 after she was cut out of the David O. Selznick film Thirteen Women. She was only 24.

Sarkissian (Rush Hour) will produce the picture, and Kaye will write and plans to direct.

The Wales-born Entwistle started her career on Broadway in several plays from 1925-32 including The Wild Duck and The Uninvited Guest and in J.M. Barrie’s Alice Sit By The Fire before marrying Robert Keith. They divorced after she discovered that Keith had been married before and had a 6-year-old son she was not told about. Oddly enough, that son was Brian Keith, who later became an actor best known for the popular TV series Family Affair.

The beautiful...

Spanish fantastic film has been having an incredible renaissance over the past 15 years. From Álex de la Iglesia to Alejandro Amenábar to Nacho Vigalondo, all range of horror, science fiction and fantasy has been pouring out of the country, to be embraced by cinephiles and cult film enthusiasts. And Spanish production company Rodar y Rodar is taking advantage of this new wave, not only by producing new films, but remaking some for those filmgoers who don't like to read subtitles.According to Screen Daily, English-language remakes are in the works for Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage (a film that already did well in the Us market for a non-English film), Guillem Morales' Julia's Eyes and The Uninvited Guest (the latter of which, according to rumor, will be directed by...

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Even though we haven't heard a damn thing about it in quite some time, Screen Daily is reporting that Spain’s Rodar y Rodar Films has just announced its slate of upcoming films, which includes the remake of The Orphanage.

The site reports that a “new international version of ‘The Orphanage’ from Ja Bayona” is on its way along with remakes of Guillem Morales’ Julia’s Eyes and The Uninvited Guest as well as a remake of Oriol Paulo’s The Body. It's like Rodar y Rodar's way of saying to the world, "If you missed it in Spanish, you're getting it in English!" No word on if Bayona will be directing the remake. Our guess is he'll serve as producer, etc. After all, here in America we love to give remake jobs to music video directors. That's like our thing.

In other new movie news, Rodar y Rodar also...

Screen Daily reports that a new version of Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage (pictured), previously attempted by New Line Cinema with Larry Fessenden and then The Mothman Prophecies’ Mark Pellingon at the helm, is on the schedule of Spanish company Rodar y Rodar, which produced the original. Also on its slate is a similar revamp of Guillem Morales’ blindness chiller Julia’S Eyes, which starred Orphanage’s Belén Rueda; both movies had del Toro on their producing teams. Rodar y Rodar further plans to revisit Morales’ 2004 psychological chiller The Uninvited Guest and the mystery/thriller The Body, which marked the directorial debut of Eyes scripter Oriol Paulo, in English. For more on director Andy Muschietti’s Mama, including words with Guillermo del Toro, pick up Fango #320, on sale now.

Screen Daily reports that a new version of Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage (pictured), previously attempted by New Line Cinema with Larry Fessenden and then The Mothman Prophecies’ Mark Pellingon at the helm, is on the schedule of Spanish company Rodar y Rodar, which produced the original. Also on its slate is a similar revamp of Guillem Morales’ blindness chiller Julia’S Eyes, which starred Orphanage’s Belén Rueda; both movies had del Toro on their producing teams. Rodar y Rodar further plans to revisit Morales’ 2004 psychological chiller The Uninvited Guest and the mystery/thriller The Body, which marked the directorial debut of Eyes scripter Oriol Paulo, in English. For more on director Andy Muschietti’s Mama, including words with Guillermo del Toro, pick up Fango #320, on sale now.

Screen Daily reports that a new version of Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage (pictured), previously attempted by New Line Cinema with Larry Fessenden and then The Mothman Prophecies’ Mark Pellingon at the helm, is on the schedule of Spanish company Rodar y Rodar, which produced the original. Also on its slate is a similar revamp of Guillem Morales’ blindness chiller Julia’S Eyes, which starred Orphanage’s Belén Rueda; both movies had del Toro on their producing teams. Rodar y Rodar further plans to revisit Morales’ 2004 psychological chiller The Uninvited Guest and the mystery/thriller The Body, which marked the directorial debut of Eyes scripter Oriol Paulo, in English. For more on director Andy Muschietti’s Mama, including words with Guillermo del Toro, pick up Fango #320, on sale now.

The Guillermo Del Toro produced "Julia's Eyes” became the second biggest grossing Spanish film of 2010. Now, the director Guillermo Morales (“The Uninvited Guest”) and co-writer Oriol Paulo team up again for a new horror thriller called "Venom". Shot in English, the 12 million Euro production which is pegged to begin principal shooting next year with a release date set approximately for the end of 2012. In the statement from prod co. RodaryRodar (the company behind “The Orphanage”) "'Venom will be about a major pharmaceutical company based on a remote island that keeps dangerous snakes to test their venom in the hope of treating serious illnesses, when one day an accident occurs with disastrous consequences." Also worth noting, RodaryRodar will also produce Paulo's directing debut based on his own script “The Body” -- an English-language thriller that is budgeted at $14m. This is about a police inspector investigating a missing dead body, whose...

Spain is now jumping on the 3D bandwagon as Barcelona's Rodar y Rodar, producer of The Orphanage and Julia's Eyes, teams with Sony for psychological horror-thriller Paranormal Xperience 3D, the country's first 3D genre film.

Variety reports from the 2011 Efm that the pic is produced with Spain's Antena 3 Films, the film-production arm of broadcast network Antena 3.

Sony Pictures Releasing de Espana will handle theatrical DVD and digital delivery in Spain. Mexico's Quality Films has prebought all Latin American rights. Prebuys from Spanish paybox Canal Plus and Catalonia pubcaster TV3 are under negotiation.

Loglined "Xperience the Fear", the pic revolves around two sisters who, with other students, visit an abandoned village to investigate alleged paranormal phenomena.

"Xperience" belongs to a growing breed of new Spanish productions that build on young creative talent, broadcast network co-financing, heavy marketing, local TV stars, and Hollywood major distribution in Spain to aggressively target Spain's 15-...

Barcelona's Rodar y Rodar, producer of The Orphanage and Julia's Eyes, is teaming with Sony to make psychological horror-thriller Paranormal Xperience 3D, Spain's first 3D genre film. Loglined "Xperience the Fear" (nice and cheesy), the pic revolves around two sisters who, with other students, visit an abandoned village to investigate alleged paranormal phenomena. "This is a PG-13 film conceived from the point of view of its youth market and marketing potential," said Rodar's Joaquin Padro. "One of the film types that benefits most from 3D is horror," added Ivan Losada, managing director of Sony Pictures Releasing de Espana. As on Orphanage and Guillem Morales' The Uninvited Guest, Rodar has tapped a first-time feature director, 26-year-old Sergi Vizcaino. Screenplay is by 25-year-old Daniel Padro. Xperience's cast come from hit TV series: Maxi Iglesias ("Fisica o quimica"), Nasser Saleh ("La pecera de Eva"), and Luis Fernandez ("Los protegidos").

Did Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart get busted by local police for "getting sexy" on a beach in Rio? Is Zac Posen designing Bella's yucky wedding dress? And what went down in Brazil that has Summit fuming? There's way too much Twilight goss to clear up, so let's get started... First off, people over at Summit are not happy campers today, and we do not blame 'em at all on this one. Earlier this morning, HollywoodLife posted an unauthorized video from the Breaking Dawn set. See, apparently a fan snuck into Rob and Kristen's Brazilian love nest during filming and walked around with a hidden camera. The uninvited guest is literally right next to...

MADRID -- Spanish sales company Grupo Pi announced Thursday it will handle international sales for the directorial debut of Guillem Morales' El Habitante Incierto. Pi will include Habitante in its sales lineup in Cannes, along with Mariano Barroso's Ants in the Mouth, Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman's Semen: A Love Story, and Juanma Bajo Ulloa's Fragile: True Love is a Fairy Tale. Habitante, a Rodar y Rodar production, stars Monica Lopez and Andoni Gracia. The movie tells the story of a successful architect devastated by his wife's departure and how loneliness and a strange visit give way to an obsession.