Cuba’s Jorge Perugorría, best known for his career-launching perf in the Oscar-nominated “Strawberry & Chocolate,” “Slumdog Millionaire” line producer Tabrez Noorani and ‘The Iceman’ helmer Ariel Vromen have boarded Havana-set “Malecón” as executive producers.
Its producer, Flavio Florencio, director-writer of the multi-winning documentary “Made in Bangkok,” is attending Ventana Sur.
The debut feature of Madrid-born Carlos Larrazabal, “Malecón” will be having a special screening as a work-in-progress at the Havana Film Festival, which runs Dec. 8-17.
Shot entirely in Havana by Dp Gevorg Gev Juguryan, the drama follows Elvis (played by César Domínguez) who returns to the Cuban capital after serving a 10-year sentence in prison for killing his abusive stepfather.
His best friend Martin (Omar Rolando) helps him in his struggle to reintegrate himself into society, but things get complicated when he encounters his childhood sweetheart, Yuli (Camila Rodhe) and her husband, a key figure in Havana’s criminal underworld.
Its producer, Flavio Florencio, director-writer of the multi-winning documentary “Made in Bangkok,” is attending Ventana Sur.
The debut feature of Madrid-born Carlos Larrazabal, “Malecón” will be having a special screening as a work-in-progress at the Havana Film Festival, which runs Dec. 8-17.
Shot entirely in Havana by Dp Gevorg Gev Juguryan, the drama follows Elvis (played by César Domínguez) who returns to the Cuban capital after serving a 10-year sentence in prison for killing his abusive stepfather.
His best friend Martin (Omar Rolando) helps him in his struggle to reintegrate himself into society, but things get complicated when he encounters his childhood sweetheart, Yuli (Camila Rodhe) and her husband, a key figure in Havana’s criminal underworld.
- 11/28/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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,...
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,...
- 8/23/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
What could sear your retinas as thoroughly as forbidden cult cinema in 4K Ultra HD? The unrestrained crime-shock transgressors Perdita and Romero cut a path of lust, cult ritual madness and amoral nastiness across the U.S./Mexico border. Kidnapping, murder and theft are among their printable crimes. Álex de Iglesia’s beautifully produced slice of post- Tarantino excess arrives in a completely uncut original version.
Perdita Durango 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Severin Films
1997 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 130 min. / Dance with the Devil / Street Date March 20, 2021 / Available from Severin Films / 49.95
Starring: Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Harley Cross, Aimee Graham, James Gandolfini, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Demiín Bichir, Carlos Bardem, Santiago Segura, Don Stroud, Alex Cox.
Cinematography: Flavio Martínez Labiano
Film Editor: Teresa Font
Original Music: Simon Boswell
Production Design: José Luis Arrizabalaga, Biaffra
Written by Barry Gifford, Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Álex de Iglesia
Produced by Andrés Vincente Gómez
Directed by Álex de...
Perdita Durango 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Severin Films
1997 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 130 min. / Dance with the Devil / Street Date March 20, 2021 / Available from Severin Films / 49.95
Starring: Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Harley Cross, Aimee Graham, James Gandolfini, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Demiín Bichir, Carlos Bardem, Santiago Segura, Don Stroud, Alex Cox.
Cinematography: Flavio Martínez Labiano
Film Editor: Teresa Font
Original Music: Simon Boswell
Production Design: José Luis Arrizabalaga, Biaffra
Written by Barry Gifford, Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Álex de Iglesia
Produced by Andrés Vincente Gómez
Directed by Álex de...
- 4/10/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Buenos Aires-based International Sales Company Film Sharks will be present in Berlin with an incredibly eclectic lineup that includes animation, some of the most successful Latin American films of the past year, an even an Oscar Foreign Language submission.
Save Oz
Directed by Alberto Mar
A new animated film from Anima Estudios, the Mexican animation company that produced the successful Top Cat film, which has gross close to $14.7 million worldwide. Based upon the classic L. Frank Baum books, the film will infuse the well-known universe with its own characters and an original storyline. FilmSharks will be showing a Promo Reel in Berlin as the film is still in production expecting to be finished in the next few months.
The Mystery of Happiness (El Misterio de la Felicidad)
Directed by Daniel Burman
Santiago and Eugenio are more than friends, they are life long business partners. They understand each other without words, they care for each other, they need each other. One day Eugenio disappears without leaving any clues behind. Santiago immediately notices his absence, but only realizes what have happened when Eugenio's wife, Laura, lost and hopeless assures him that Eugenio has left. Santiago and Laura begin a journey in order to find him and end up discovering that they prefer to stay together in this quest rather than finding out where he is or what has happened to him. A film about love, but goes beyond it, it pushes boundaries, it explores the idea of loyalty and estrangement , and it definitely puts dreams over long lost promises.
Of Horse and Men
Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
Iceland's Official Oscar Submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award
Read Carlos Aguilar's Review Here
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with immense consequences. Punctuated with humor, Of Horses And Men is an affectionate, yet unflinching portrait of a remote valley community as seen from the horses' perspective.
The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles)
Directed Gaz Alazraki
Highest Grossing Mexican Film of All Time!
Read Sydney Levine's Piece on the Film
When successful construction Mogul, Herman Noble realizes his children are spoiled beyond redemption, he stages the company bankruptcy and seizure of all their assets. And tricks them into believing they are fugitives from the law. He moves them into their grandfather's dilapidated home in a poor neighborhood and makes them do something none of them have ever done before... work.
In Development
Mis-Fits (Working Title)
Directed by L.D. Napier
Starring Freida Pinto and Guy Pearce, Mis-Fits narrates the misadventures of a Brooklyn 'necro-detective', whose job is to encounter the whereabouts of lost or dead relatives.
Abracadaver
Directed by Pancho Rodriguez
After directing his massively successful debut feature, Eugenio Derbez returns to the screen starring in Abracadaver a thriller with black comedy tones (Ocean’s Eleven meets Crimen Ferpecto) by the director of Buena Vista’s Box Office Hit, Calling an Angel.
Death Fearless
Directed by Matias Gueilburt
Starring Academy Award-nominee Demian Bichir the film tells the story of Jesus Ontiveros, a retired sicario (hit man), has been released from prison after 20 years willing to leave behind his violent past. However, the appearance of his brother Pepe, the most popular narcocorrido singer, forces him to do one last job: to save his brother from the powerful man that commands half of Mexico.
Remora
Written by Andres Gelos
In a dying planet, beneath a thick ice shell, a huge submarine city travels across the pan-ocean. Its citizens prepare themselves for the exodus to the new world. Ratio, a seabed driller, uncovers the plan to sacrifice the first ships, which will fracture the ice shell so that only the ship carrying the society's elite will manage to go through it. After being accused of being a traitor, Ratio is rescued by Lania. She is an earth-bound, she belongs to a society of outcasts who live hidden inside a volcano. Ratio and Lania attempt to attach a ship carrying earth-bounds like a remora to the exodus ship in order to escape from the ice world in search for their destiny at the opposite end of the galaxy: a small blue planet with only one sun and only one satellite, where dinosaurs still prevail.
In Production
Torrente 5
Directed by Santiago Segura
The Ultimate in Bizarre is back, considered today one of the biggest European Franchises by far. Theatrically worth over $140 million and sold in over 45 countries.
Save Oz
Directed by Alberto Mar
A new animated film from Anima Estudios, the Mexican animation company that produced the successful Top Cat film, which has gross close to $14.7 million worldwide. Based upon the classic L. Frank Baum books, the film will infuse the well-known universe with its own characters and an original storyline. FilmSharks will be showing a Promo Reel in Berlin as the film is still in production expecting to be finished in the next few months.
The Mystery of Happiness (El Misterio de la Felicidad)
Directed by Daniel Burman
Santiago and Eugenio are more than friends, they are life long business partners. They understand each other without words, they care for each other, they need each other. One day Eugenio disappears without leaving any clues behind. Santiago immediately notices his absence, but only realizes what have happened when Eugenio's wife, Laura, lost and hopeless assures him that Eugenio has left. Santiago and Laura begin a journey in order to find him and end up discovering that they prefer to stay together in this quest rather than finding out where he is or what has happened to him. A film about love, but goes beyond it, it pushes boundaries, it explores the idea of loyalty and estrangement , and it definitely puts dreams over long lost promises.
Of Horse and Men
Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
Iceland's Official Oscar Submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award
Read Carlos Aguilar's Review Here
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with immense consequences. Punctuated with humor, Of Horses And Men is an affectionate, yet unflinching portrait of a remote valley community as seen from the horses' perspective.
The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles)
Directed Gaz Alazraki
Highest Grossing Mexican Film of All Time!
Read Sydney Levine's Piece on the Film
When successful construction Mogul, Herman Noble realizes his children are spoiled beyond redemption, he stages the company bankruptcy and seizure of all their assets. And tricks them into believing they are fugitives from the law. He moves them into their grandfather's dilapidated home in a poor neighborhood and makes them do something none of them have ever done before... work.
In Development
Mis-Fits (Working Title)
Directed by L.D. Napier
Starring Freida Pinto and Guy Pearce, Mis-Fits narrates the misadventures of a Brooklyn 'necro-detective', whose job is to encounter the whereabouts of lost or dead relatives.
Abracadaver
Directed by Pancho Rodriguez
After directing his massively successful debut feature, Eugenio Derbez returns to the screen starring in Abracadaver a thriller with black comedy tones (Ocean’s Eleven meets Crimen Ferpecto) by the director of Buena Vista’s Box Office Hit, Calling an Angel.
Death Fearless
Directed by Matias Gueilburt
Starring Academy Award-nominee Demian Bichir the film tells the story of Jesus Ontiveros, a retired sicario (hit man), has been released from prison after 20 years willing to leave behind his violent past. However, the appearance of his brother Pepe, the most popular narcocorrido singer, forces him to do one last job: to save his brother from the powerful man that commands half of Mexico.
Remora
Written by Andres Gelos
In a dying planet, beneath a thick ice shell, a huge submarine city travels across the pan-ocean. Its citizens prepare themselves for the exodus to the new world. Ratio, a seabed driller, uncovers the plan to sacrifice the first ships, which will fracture the ice shell so that only the ship carrying the society's elite will manage to go through it. After being accused of being a traitor, Ratio is rescued by Lania. She is an earth-bound, she belongs to a society of outcasts who live hidden inside a volcano. Ratio and Lania attempt to attach a ship carrying earth-bounds like a remora to the exodus ship in order to escape from the ice world in search for their destiny at the opposite end of the galaxy: a small blue planet with only one sun and only one satellite, where dinosaurs still prevail.
In Production
Torrente 5
Directed by Santiago Segura
The Ultimate in Bizarre is back, considered today one of the biggest European Franchises by far. Theatrically worth over $140 million and sold in over 45 countries.
- 2/1/2014
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
"Because if I wasn't a clown I'd be a murderer." That's a line in The Last Circus, the latest film from Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia, aka the director of El Crimen Ferpecto, 800 Bullets, and The Day of the Beast. He has made crazy films before, so The Last Circus is in good company, but it is still rare that we get a look at a movie that seems quite this insane. Set at first in the late '30s, then moving forward to the '70s, the movie tells a multi-generational tale of violence, large-scale killing, and clowns. This one looks like a mind-blower. Check out the red-band trailer -- definitely not safe for work -- after the break. And here's the first teaser, which is also almost Nsfw: 1937, Spain is in the midst of the brutal Spanish Civil War. A "Happy" circus clown is interrupted mid-performance and forcibly recruited by a militia.
- 6/18/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
MADRID -- When Antonio Banderas announced he would produce and direct his second feature, Summer Rain, in Spain, Spanish production houses lined up to woo the actor-turned-Hollywood star. But it raised few eyebrows when Sogecine took the prize. The movie production wing of film and TV powerhouse Sogecable has forged a reputation as the co-production partner of choice for Spain's international directors. Alejandro Amenabar (The Others), Alex de la Iglesia (Ferpect Crime), Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia), Fernando Leon (Mondays in the Sun) and Isabel Coixet (The Secret Life of Words) are some of the top-drawer auteur directors who have opted to produce their films through Sogecine, now Spain's most prolific producer. Penelope Cruz, who launched her own production label, dubbed 88, in May, says she will also co-produce her first feature, Passion India, with the company. It's not surprising when you look at the company's 10-year track record that reads like a who's who in modern Spanish cinema, Pedro Almodovar being the one notable absentee.
MADRID -- When Antonio Banderas announced he would produce and direct his second feature, Summer Rain, in Spain, Spanish production houses lined up to woo the actor-turned-Hollywood star. But it raised few eyebrows when Sogecine took the prize. The movie production wing of film and TV powerhouse Sogecable has forged a reputation as the co-production partner of choice for Spain's international directors. Alejandro Amenabar (The Others), Alex de la Iglesia (Ferpect Crime), Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia), Fernando Leon (Mondays in the Sun) and Isabel Coixet (The Secret Life of Words) are some of the top-drawer auteur directors who have opted to produce their films through Sogecine, now Spain's most prolific producer. Penelope Cruz, who launched her own production label, dubbed 88, in May, says she will also co-produce her first feature, Passion India, with the company. It's not surprising when you look at the company's 10-year track record that reads like a who's who in modern Spanish cinema, Pedro Almodovar being the one notable absentee.
MADRID -- Spanish distribution house Sogepaq announced Friday its first sales of helmer Ramon Salazar's musical 20 Centimeters. The film is the story of a transsexual who wants to shed the male physical characteristic that separates him from being the glamorous woman he dreams of during narcoleptic trances. The deals include a North American sale to TLA Releasing; Lady Film in Italy; We & Co. in France; Paradiso for Benelux; Castello Lopes for Portugal; and Provision for the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Sogepaq said the deals were inked during last month's Festival de Cannes. A Spanish-French co-production between Spain's Alligator Producciones, Estudios Picasso, Jey Films and France's Divine Productions, the film stars Monica Cervera (Ferpect Crime), Lola Duenas (The Sea Inside) and Rossy de Palma (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!). On June 10, Sogepaq will release 20 Centimeters in Spain with 135 prints through Warner Sogefilms.
MADRID -- Spanish distribution house Sogepaq announced Thursday it will handle all international sales on Malaga Spanish Film Festival competition entry 20 Centimeters, director Ramon Salazar's follow-up to his 1999 Berlin competition debut Stones (Piedras). Sogepaq will release the film theatrically in Spain on June 10th, through Warner Sogefilms and it will make its market debut with international buyers as part of its Cannes lineup. 20 Centimeters tells the story of Marieta, a transvestite who would love to get rid of the 20 centimeters that separate her from being the glamorous woman she dreams she is. The film is a Spanish-French co-production between Aligator Producciones, Estudios Picasso, Jet Films and Divine Productions, and stars actress Monica Cervera (Ferpect Crime and Stones).
- 4/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MADRID -- Spanish distribution house Sogepaq announced Thursday it will handle all international sales on Malaga Spanish Film Festival competition entry 20 Centimeters, director Ramon Salazar's follow-up to his 1999 Berlin competition debut Stones (Piedras). Sogepaq will release the film theatrically in Spain on June 10th, through Warner Sogefilms and it will make its market debut with international buyers as part of its Cannes lineup. 20 Centimeters tells the story of Marieta, a transvestite who would love to get rid of the 20 centimeters that separate her from being the glamorous woman she dreams she is. The film is a Spanish-French co-production between Aligator Producciones, Estudios Picasso, Jet Films and Divine Productions, and stars actress Monica Cervera (Ferpect Crime and Stones).
- 4/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MADRID -- Spanish distribution house Sogepaq announced Wednesday a North American deal for Alex de la Iglesia's festival hit Ferpect Crime that sees independent distributor Vitagraph partnering with U.S art house chain Landmark Theater Corp. for the theatrical release of the film. The deal, which was closed at the European Film Market in Berlin, will give de la Iglesia his widest U.S. opening to date, releasing in at least 10 cities. The black comedy, which premiered in Toronto in the fall, was a big hit in Spain, where it attracted nearly 850,000 admissions.
- 2/17/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MADRID -- Spanish distribution house Sogepaq announced Wednesday a North American deal for Alex de la Iglesia's festival hit Ferpect Crime that sees independent distributor Vitagraph partnering with U.S art house chain Landmark Theater Corp. for the theatrical release of the film. The deal, which was closed at the European Film Market in Berlin, will give de la Iglesia his widest U.S. opening to date, releasing in at least 10 cities. The black comedy, which premiered in Toronto in the fall, was a big hit in Spain, where it attracted nearly 850,000 admissions.
- 2/17/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.