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'LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS' CIERRA EL FESTIVAL DE CINE DE NUEVA YORK
EcoDiario - August 13,2009 -
[...] The organization of the NYFF find that with “Broken Embraces”, starring Penélope Cruz, Almodovar transports the audience “through a rollercoaster of emotions that goes from romantic comedy to melodrama, and ends up in a film noir. Cruz has never been so brilliant, and is backed by the skillfull support of Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo and a splendid new arrival in Almodovar´s cast, Rubén Ochandiano” [...] Read more |
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PENÉLOPE CRUZ, NOMINATED FOR BEST SUPORTING ACTRESS BY THE
December 15,2008 -
El Mundo 5 Diciembre 2008 |
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Comunicado de Prensa - Jordi Mollà
May 07,2008 -
JORDI MOLLÀ acaba de regresar de Rumanía donde ha participado en la película "Bunraku", junto a Demi Moore y Josh Hartnett. El thriller está escrito y dirigido por Guy Moshe.
La próxima semana viajará a Cannes para rodar "Plus One" bajo la dirección de Mary McGuickian.
Dos de las recientes películas de Jordi se estrenarán durante esta semana.
En el Festival de Cannes se presenta "Che" de Steven Soderberg, donde Jordi tienes una participación especial. Y el próximo 16 de Mayo se estrenará en cines de España "Sultanes del Sur" del director mejicano Alejandro Lozano. Su personaje, "Leo", es un carismático y sofisticado ladrón de bancos. |
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Daniel Brühl y Héctor Alterio opened a new movie
May 02,2008 - Daniel Brül and Héctor Alterio are opened the movie "UN POCO DE CHOCLATE" directed by Aitzol Aramaio and based on the novel "UN TRANVIA EN SP". |
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Héctor Alterio at the theater
April 30,2008 - Héctor Alterio opened in a new play "2 MENOS" directed by Oscar Martinez at Buenos Aires La Plaza Theater. |
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Alicia Borrachero in New York
April 30,2008 -
ALICIA BORRACHERO is travelling to New York on Monday, May 5th, to attend the world premiere of the second movie in the series, “NARNIA, PRINCE CASPIAN”, directed by Andrew Adamson. Alicia, in the film, gives life to the Queen Prunapismia. Spanish audiences will be able to see the movie after its July 4nd opening.
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Rafa Castejón at the theater
April 28,2008 - Rafa Castejón opened the play "LA LEYENDA DEL BESO" (THE LEGEND OF THE KISS) at Madrid's La Zarzuela Theater last friday night. The play is directed by Jesús Castejón and the musical director are Miquel Ortega and Pablo Heras. |
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Susi Sanchez at the theater
April 25,2008 -
Susi Sanchez opened in a new play, LA PAZ PERPETUA (Perpetual Peace), directed by José Luis Gómez, at Madrid's Maria Guerrero Theater last night. |
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Jordi Mollà in Rumania
April 24,2008 -
Jordi Mollà has just returned from making a guest star appearance in Guy Moshe's BUNRAKU with Demi Moore and Josh Hartnet. |
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Talent Spotter: Katrina Bayonas
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Representantes de Actores
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THE STAR COLLECTOR
El País Semanal - October 30,2005 -
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FOLD OUT COVER |
KATRINA BAYONAS |
KATRINA BAYONAS AND ANTONIO RUBIAL |
THE STAR COLLECTOR
Katrina Bayonas manages the careers of some of the biggest actresses in Spanish cinema. This is the story of a British daughter of actors who created an impressive factory of actors from nothing. We have managed to bring together fourteen of her stars in a once in a lifetime session.
Penelope Cruz tells how the acting bug bit her one afternoon in 1990, after seeing Pedro Almodovar's "Tie me up, Tie me down". "I was fifteen years old, working as a model, studying dance and still going to school. I wanted to take on the world. I don't know how I got into that movie, because I was just a child. I came out fascinated. I decided then and there that I wanted to be an actress and work with Almodovar. I am very stubborn. But I didn't know what an audition was. I hadn't done a single role. I knew I needed an agent. Someone told me about Katrina, that she did screen tests with young actors. I showed up."
Katrina Bayonas was thirty-nine years old. She had an extensive and irregular career as a production secretary, press agent, location manager, casting director and small time agent. "I would go to the producers´ offices on Saturdays to collect my clients´ money in cash." Daughter of British actors, partner of Latin directors. Katrina Bayonas knew all the tricks of the trade. But she didn't have a dime. She needed a stroke of good luck. Her embryonic agency, formed in 1974, represented a handful of prestigious actors like Hector Alterio and Emilio Gutierrez Caba. And some minor players. Few clients, a lot of dedication, little income, and two children to feed. "At the end of the eighties, the film industry was going through a tremendous crisis. No one was working. Well, some people worked, but they were always the same people. The producers wouldn't take any risks. They never take risks. 'Let someone else make a mistake,' they think. I was on the brink of closing my office. But in 1988 I decided to have annual screen tests to discover young actors who had at the least three years of training. And so New Faces was born. The idea was to invest time and energy in developing their careers. Create a group of young actors with exceptional talent. It was in 1990, the second year, that Penelope appeared."
What was your first impression of her? "A bright, passionate girl, with a strong focus and a mysterious and fascinating quality which the camera loved. And she was ready to pursue her chosen profession, come hell or high water".
And what did Penelope think of Katrina? "She impressed me. With her British accent and those eyes. She had a strong character; she was clear, direct, demanding. I liked her. She knew what I wanted. She's headstrong. And so am I. We've had a lot of fights." Katrina Bayonas doesn't deny it: "Penelope was ready to take on the world. Even today, to convince her, I have to have very solid arguments. In the beginning I didn't have as much say in her career: she wanted to make all the decisions. And we had confrontations."
Two strong and stubborn women. The first train wreck came about the day they met. Penelope wasn't chosen for New Faces. "Katrina gave me a scene from "Casablanca". It wasn't a part for me, at the tender age of sixteen, and I was dreadful. I was really annoyed and asked her to let me repeat the scene. The second time it didn't come out well either. She rejected me again. She told me to prepare something else. And I invented a scene, using my anger, crying with rage. And that time, yes, she picked me from the three hundred actors and actresses who auditioned."
"I tested her three times. But this was no ordinary girl; if she had been, I would have sent her on her way immediately. She was completely inexperienced, but she had great intuition. Although it took a year and a half to find her first role, in the end I wasn't wrong about her," remembers Bayonas.
She says it with pride. Others confirm it. "Katrina has an ear, eye and nose to detect good acting," explains Juan Carlos Corazza, actor and acting teacher who has trained Javier Bardem and coaches him for each role. The majority of Bayonas´ clients train with him. "Katrina is on the prowl, investigating, studying, discovering. She was raised in the entertainment industry and possesses the instinct to perceive the subtlety of a good performance. She respects the creative process. And she has the courage to openly critique what she doesn't like."
The Bayonas cocktail: tenderness and rigor with her actors and intractability with producers; the ones who pay their salaries, of which 15% makes its way into Katrina's company's pocket. (According to sources in the industry, an A list Spanish actress is paid some 120,000 Euros per picture in Spain. Penelope Cruz is another story.)
"I am bullish in protecting my clients. Actors need to limit themselves to acting; the rest, finding projects, reading scripts (the blueprints of the building), press, image, contracts, legal affairs, I take care of these things. I defend their image. It might suit the producer for an actress to appear in the popular press to sell the movie. But that does nothing for us. The producer can try to cut corners, by picking up an actress to go to the set in a van filled with people smoking joints, but that's not going to fly with me. In order to act one needs concentration and privacy. It's not snobbery, it's dignity. And that's how conflicts with producers can arise."
"She's the 'bad guy', and for us that's good," comments Monica Cruz, Penelope's sister and a budding actress. "They say that Katrina is a shark, but in the movie business that's the best thing they can call you," says actress Najwa Nimri. "She always tells me to be more astute ."
-And what does that mean?
"Just that, be more astute."
Katrina Bayonas loves actors. She can't help it. She was born backstage. Her parents were British actors James Liggat ("charming, alcoholic and a terrible actor") and Lorraine Clewes ("distant, over-the-top and successful"). An only child, from early on, she knew both the glamour and the deprivation of postwar London theater. At the age of ten she was already working, cuing actors to go onstage. The deeper understanding of the profession came some years later, when her father became a casting director for the iconic American director Stanley Kubrick. He cast all his films, from Lolita (1962) to The Shining (1980). At Jimmy Liggat's side, Katrina would learn how enhance a film with a strong foundation of great but unknown actors. "A casting director has to look for the best actors for a project, from amongst established actors, and those who would never have occurred to the director. Movies like "El Bola" or "Dias Contados", with no stars in the cast, exploded at the Spanish box office because they had great actors who were perfect for the roles. That is good casting. My father had his favorites. And they were all in the cast of Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" in 1971."
What was Kubrick like?
"Unbearable. He drove his crew mad. During the shooting of "Barry Lyndon", the art director had to be hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. Kubrick often called my father at the crack of dawn. He would ask him to put together a complete cast before having the script. That way he could write it with the actors in mind. Watching my father I understood the problems that can arise between the casting director of a film, and the agents. The push and the pull. When the phone would ring at home, my father would say: "If it's an agent, I´m not here." And now when I call a director, asking them to meet one of my clients, and they tell me that he's not there, I remember my father. And I call again later."
Reputation for toughness? "In my career there is a before and an after Penelope. Her success completely changed my life. In professional terms, I can take more risks with new people, unknown actors. In personal terms I have a much better lifestyle. I bought a house in Los Angeles and sometimes I fly first class. I am treated with a certain respect in the business. The down side is that people began to say that I am tough. That is new. I don't know what they mean. I don't know how to ask for things for myself, but I do know how to protect my actors. And I do make demands for them. Their success has brought me both friends and enemies within the industry."
Spending just a few hours at her side at the San Sebastian Film Festival, this is easy to detect. A certain producer who approaches smiling, adoring, kissing, is in the process of negotiating for one of the actresses Katrina Bayonas represents. A few minutes later, in the restaurant at the luxurious hotel Maria Cristina, neither the producer nor the director of "Obaba", the film starring Pilar Lopez de Ayala, one of her clients, acknowledges the presence of Katrina Bayonas, who enters the salon loftily, wearing enormous Ferre dark glasses. No one gets up. Not one greeting. She remains unmoved. "It's always like this. While you are negotiating, you're the best person in the world, especially when the producers can't get the funding and they are looking for alternative way to pay your client."
For example?
By offering back end. On a particular Spanish film with three of my clients, the producer didn't have money and paid them a very small salary, but we were able to make a deal whereby the actors would receive a million pesetas extra for every hundred million at the box office. The film was a success. And the three of them did very well. This is being done more and more. Then there are films where you are prepared to charge less, but these interest you because of the script or the director. In Spain, anything that Almodovar, Amenabar, Medem do. And there are also producers that take direct advantage of your situation: for example, a first Hollywood film will pay the minimum.
And television?
It's putting food on the table for actors, but in Spain you have to get out in time. It scares off film directors. Alicia Borrachero, who is our Meryl Streep, doesn't get offered films. It's the film business's loss. It creates a vicious circle; you don't get offered films because you work in television, and you work in television because you are not offered films.
And commercials?
They can destroy the image of an actress. It isn't a question of whether it is a perfume or a detergent. What is important is the script. A Coca Cola ad in the United States, where Penelope appears burping, was very good for her, because it made her more appealing to the American public. The campaign for Ralph Lauren was also important. It gave her the opportunity to work with photographer Bruce Weber.
Katrina Bayonas says that agents in Spain are treated like the poor relations of the film industry. They get beaten from all sides. They are circumvented by the directors and producers who call the actors directly. And they are treated as mere employees. They are solitary beings. Surrounded by jealousy and more jealousy. Over whom this sentence hangs: "The success of an actor is his own merit; the failure, his agent's fault."
In Spain agents have been able to accrue power as the film industry (and principally television) acquires some muscle. And the actors are demanding a broader scope of services from their agents. Today, the true mission of an agent is to build the career of an actor. Some say an agent is a mix of parent, legal advisor, spokesman, administrator, lawyer, psychologist, protector and handkerchief. In Spain there is a score of agents (half are women) in the top tier. They are not unionized (a few years ago they formed an association of artistic representatives that lasted "five minutes") and maintain strained relations. It is enough to witness the tense moment in which Katrina Bayonas is snubbed by another of the more important actors' agents in Spain, Alsira Garcia Maroto (clients include Leonor Watling, Iciar Bollain, Candela Pena) days after one of Alcira's clients, Natalia Verbeke, defected to Bayonas's agency, Kuranda.
Bayonas says that she did not lift a finger to steal Verbeke: "It has not been a theft, I would never do that to Alsira." A pillar of the industry confirms her defense: "No one abducted Natalia Verbeke. It was her own decision. These things happen in this business. Katrina herself was left by Jordi Molla and Tristan Ulloa, and they were actors whose careers she had developed from the beginning. Actors come and go."
Snatching actors from the competition is habitual practice amongst the Hollywood agents. Here, everything is more polite. Spanish agents have nothing like the industry dominance of their American or French colleagues. In the United States they are a factual power. For an actor or actress it's impossible to succeed in American cinema without an agent. They have no access to the auditions, to scripts, if they are not signed with agencies like CAA (Creative Artists Agency), that has 1,200 clients, among them Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Angelia Jolie and the aforementioned Penelope Cruz. In France, Artmedia has 600 clients at the level of Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu or Catherine Deneuve, and it imposes the rules. And the salaries. "The producers need recognizable names in their movies and TV series to find an audience, and the agents hold the key. And they impose higher fees every time," recently affirms the French daily Le Monde.
In Spain, some voices in the industry attribute that image of power and pomp to Katrina Bayonas. Others criticize the lack of ethics in simultaneously working as an agent and a Casting Director with the attendant temptation to cast her own clients. They label her as eccentric and neurotic. Capable of consuming a candy as her only dish in the best restaurant in Los Angeles. "I was on a diet," she explains. More people speak of her with respect. "She has done a lot for the actors," says a director. "She has discovered more newcomers than anyone," affirms a producer. "She has worked like a dog," is how one producer puts it. All three demanded anonymity.
With effort and intuition, and after the success of Penelope Cruz, Katrina Bayonas has been able to bring together under the banner of Kuranda, her agency, 70 of the most talented actors and actresses in this country. Many, through the screen-tests of New Faces: Alicia Borrachero (1991), Jordi Molla (1991), Najwa Nimri (1994), Joel Joan (1995), Marta Etura (2001), Clara Segura (2002). Without forgetting foreign acquisitions like Geraldine Chaplin or Monica Bellucci. Fourteen of these actresses, from three different generations, leading ladies of most of the movies and television series presently shooting or screening in our country, have spoken to us for this interview.
And it hasn't been easy. In reality is has been very difficult. Marta Etura spoke from Argentina, where she's shooting under the direction of Juan Jose Campanella; Najwa Nimri, while she was buying clothes for her one year old son; Clara Lago, packing her bags to go study for a year in the United States; Lola Duenas and Penelope Cruz, during a break from shooting "Volver", the latest Almodovar film; Elena Anaya, on her way to the Venice Film Festival; Irene Visedo and Diana Palazon, while shooting "Hospital Central" and "Cuentame"; Leticia Dolera, studying in Paris; Alicia Borrachero, about to give birth. And so on.
Their judgment? They all concur that Katrina is a vital and energetic fighter on their behalf. She is adamant that her clients study their craft, take courses between jobs, improve their English. She is direct and transparent, especially in her criticisms. She doesn't hold anything back. "You can't go to bed thinking that your agent is not handling your career well," says Pilar Lopez de Ayala, "you must have absolute confidence." Katrina Bayonas emphasizes, "Money is not the most important thing. An actor's career is molded as much by the jobs that he turns down, as by the ones that he accepts."
And there all of them reiterate that Katrina is a specialist in saying no. "We are incapable of doing it. It makes us very uncomfortable," assures Pilar Lopez de Ayala. "I take my career very slowly, and Katrina respects that. She doesn't force me to do things that don't appeal to me just to get her fifteen percent," Lopez de Ayala who since her success in "Juana la Loca" has rejected dozens of scripts tells us. "It's my rhythm."
Elena Anaya shares the opinion of her fellow actress: "I never do television or commercials. I haven't seen Katrina with the sharpened fangs of the agents who will easily burn out your career in order to squeeze the last cent out of you. For her, this is long term."
The majority of the fourteen actresses had a hard time defining their relationship with their agent. Some compare it to a partnership: "It has to work from both sides." None speak of friendship. The younger ones emphasize the professional side. They are colder in their judgments. Maybe they know her less. The veterans stress the human side and the enormous importance of Katrina Bayonas in the development of their careers. Najwa Nimri and Elena Anaya define her as "a second mother." "You don't go bar hopping with her but she's always there to listen to you." Penelope Cruz recognizes that "what started as a professional relationship has transformed into something closer and more personal."
What none of them will deny is that Katrina Bayonas has given her all for them. "In these years I haven't had time for anything else, not even a boyfriend," she laments. Instead, she has pursued directors, casting directors, producers. She has pulled strings to get the best scripts before any other agent. And if one of her top actresses hasn't been able to do a film, she persuades the director to take a chance on one of her up and coming clients. She is constantly encouraging the new generation. "Sometimes Katrina offers us roles that have been rejected by another one of her actresses, and you accept it just as happily. As an actress you can't worry about being in or out of work," explains Irene Visedo, star of the television series "Cuentame."
The fight for roles for her actresses is already cinematic history. Her first triumph was to get an unknown actress, Penelope Cruz, a leading role in "Belle Epoque" (1992) Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language film. It was the springboard for both of them. It wasn't easy: the director, Fernando Trueba, didn't want Penelope Cruz. "Fernando had only seen her play the little whore in Bigas Luna's "Jamon, Jamon", and he couldn't visualize her as the virginal Luz of "Belle Epoque," remembers Bayonas. "I dug my heels in and sent Fernando a screen-test of Pe on video, without telling him who she was." "I was inspired and did a marvelous audition. It was one of those days when an angel appears to you," recalls Penelope Cruz. When Trueba saw the video, he understood that the role was for her.
More examples? The persistence with which she pursued Alejandro Amenabar so that Najwa Nimri, an actress who had only worked with director Daniel Calparsoro and in whom very few believed, would be cast in the role of Nuria in "Open Your Eyes". And, subsequently, her determination that Najwa star in "Los Amantes del Circulo Polar" (1998) by Julio Medem. Or her belief in an eighteen year old novice, Elena Anaya, who she discovered for the starring role in Alfonso Ungria's "Africa". Or taking Najwa and Anaya to international stardom with "Sex and Lucia", by Medem. Or taking a low profile Spanish actor, Jordi Molla, and getting him the high profile role in "Blow", in the United States, thus starting an important international career.
Her actresses are flying high today in Spain. And the overseas market has become the next goal for Katrina Bayonas in her search for even more success for her actresses. And for herself. "Bigger markets, with more powerful industries open up a wider range of possibilities," assures Bayonas.
The first round in the international assault was also "Belle Epoque". During the Oscars in 1993, Katrina stayed at the cheapest hotel in Los Angeles ("it cost me thirty two dollars a night, I didn't have a dime, and Penelope and I split the cost of my plane fare"). Agents' offers were already flooding in to provide U.S. representation for the new Latina star: Penelope Cruz. Katrina found one of the best: Brandt Joel, who handles, for example, Renee Zellwegger's career. And she started to carve a name for herself in Hollywood. After that came the launching of Elena Anaya and Najwa Nimri in the United States thanks to the international success of "Sex and Lucia". And later, that of Pilar Lopez de Ayala and Leticia Dolera. Today, the Kuranda has extended even further with Lola Duenas shooting in France, Penelope Cruz in Italy, Elena Anaya in Australia and Marta Etura in Argentina. Everything is moving. Mission accomplished.
The Saturday that these fourteen actresses got together in Madrid for the photo shoot with their agent, Katrina Bayonas knew nothing. It was a surprise. A sort of homage to her from her girls. All of them knew how to keep the secret. The first to arrive were the youngest. They were nervous. And they went about selecting a dress from the immense collection of gowns brought to the shoot by stylist Renee Lopez de Haro. Later, the big stars arrived. And it was madness. There were moments of crisis: everyone changed clothes a thousand times. Monica Cruz sweated until she scored the red Valentino and Najwa Nimri had a tough time liking the way she looked with longer black hair. They all wanted to be the prettiest in the picture. However, if there were professional jealousies none mentioned them.
The last to arrive was Katrina, accompanied by Penelope Cruz, who acted as the hook and ended up with the last available dress: a floral Dior. Bayonas took a few seconds before she realized what was happening. She didn't understand what all her girls were doing there. For once she lost her British cool. And she became emotional.
"When I managed to recover and I saw them all together for the first time, so impressive, so beautiful, these amazingly talented actresses, from three generations, I felt proud. Truly. I never would have imagined it. It was one of the great moments of my life."
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Mujeres de Cine
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kuranda Opens L.A. Office
Variety - May 12,2002 - Posted: Sun., May 12, 2002, 1:08pm PT
By Charles Lyons, John Hopewell
The Spanish management firm Kuranda Management has opened an office in Los Angeles.
Katrina Bayonas, who founded the company in Madrid in 1971, will travel between the two branches, with Amy Angelastro in charge of running the newly opened U.S enterprise. The company is concentrating on forming a U.S client base.
English-born Bayonas is known as one of Madrid's top managers. Mission for the Los Angeles office is to make the best of Spanish talent available to the American market.
In 1988 Kuranda started a discovery program, whereby each year more than 400 young actors are auditioned to fill two coveted spots. It was through this program that Bayonas discovered Penelope Cruz in 1990. Another Kuranda client is Jordi Molla, who co-starred in New Line's "Blow."
Wide experience
Bayonas has a broad range of experience within the industry. She has done unit publicity; cast films for Warren Beatty, Paul Verhoeven and David Cronenberg, among others; and produced "The Power Game," directed by Fausto Canel, and "Tango Feroz," directed by Marcelo Pinyero.
Bayonas, who's chair and CEO, said the new venture represents "an exciting and challenging move, and we are confident that it comes at the right time, with the emergence of an ever stronger Latin presence within the United States and the increasing interest in the global community."
The company is presently expanding to include South American and European clients.
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Ole ladies of Spain
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Carme Elias and Nerea Camacho
October 31,2009 -
Carme Elias and Nerea Camacho recieve the Best Actress Award at the Fuentes de Ebro Film Week (SCIFE) for their roles in “Camino”. They will receive the award in the 14th edition of the Opening Ceremony of the SCIFE. |
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'The Secret of Their Eyes', a box office phenomenon in Argen
ABC.es - September 03,2009 -
Javier Godino is the only Spaniard in the Spanish-Argentinean co-production “The Secret of Her Eyes” directed by Juan José Campanella.
“…we discover Javier, an extraordinary actor. His interpretation is memorable”
“Juan José Campanella´s latest film, “The Secret of Her Eyes”, has become a box office phenomenon in Argentina. More than half a million people saw the film in its first 12 days at cinemas. ‘Really, I do not fully understand this reaction’, says the director of “Son of the Bride” and “Moon of Avellaneda”. The reason for this great success, which the director describes as ‘unexpected’, is easily explained after watching the film that will compete at the San Sebastian Film Festival on the 20th of September.”
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'REC 2' at the Venice Film Festival
September 03,2009 -
“REC 2” is the only Spanish film competing at the 66th Venice Film Festival. REC’s sequel once again stars Manuela Velasco (winner of the Goya for Best Emerging Actress in 2007 for her role in “REC”). The cast of “REC 2” also includes Alejandro Casaseca and Andrea Ros.
The film will premiere in Spain on the 2nd of October, after attending the Sitges Film Festival.
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Queen of Spain - Penélope Cruz
August 31,2009 -
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'MEDEA' - Santi Marín
August 26,2009 -
Santi Marín is back on stage, in a play directed by Tomaz Pandur. On the 20th of August, at the Roman Theatre of Mérida, he premieres “Medea” by Euripides. Santi Marín shares the stage with Blanca Portillo and Julieta Serrano with a spectacular staging design exclusive for the Mérida Theatre Festival. |
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DOUBLE PREMIERE FOR MARÍA BOTTO IN THE MONTH AUGUST
August 06,2009 -
María Botto stars in “Paisito”, directed by Ana Díez, with Emilio Gutierrez Caba and in the romantic comedy by Donald Petrie “My life in ruins” produced by Tom Hanks.
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Castilla-La Mancha European Wine Film Festival
July 16,2009 -
Nerea Camacho was given the “Hoja de Vid” award for Best Emerging Actress at the V Castilla-La Mancha European Wine Film Festival for her role in “Camino” by Javier Fesser. |
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Versión Española/SGAE Latin American Short Film Contest
July 16,2009 -
Irene Anula received the Best Actress Award for her role in “Como conocí a tu padre” directed by Alex Montoya at the X Edition of the Iberoamercian Short-film Version Española/SGAE Competition. |
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“Don Carlos” – Rubén Ochandiano and Rafa Castejón
June 30,2009 -
Rubén Ochandiano and Rafa Castejón star in “Don Carlos”, the latest play by Calixto Bieito, which is an adaptation of the original work by Friederich Schiller. After its premiere in Mannheim (Germany), the show will tour around Spain from September 17th, finishing in Madrid. |
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XVIII Turia Awards
June 30,2009 -
Carme Elias received the Best Actress Award at the XVIII Turia Awards. The ceremony will be held on the 4th of July at the Tívoli de Burjassot Theatre (Valencia). |
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INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL OF MONTECARLO
June 10,2009 - Marta Torné is nominated in the category of Best Dramatic Actress at the 40th International Television Festival of Monte Carlo for her role in the TV series “El Internado” produced by Globomedia for the channel Antena 3. |
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X CINEMA AND TELEVISION FESTIVAL OF ISLA ANTILLA
June 15,2009 - Natalia Verbeke received the Best Fiction Actress award at the X Cinema and Televison Festival of Isla Antilla for her role in the TV series “Doctor Mateo”. |
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BOYFRIEND
June 04,2009 - Valeria Alonso stars in “Boyfriend” on Friday which premiers the 5th of June at Sala Triángulo. The performance combines theatre and dance with video, in which the actress is both the creator and the director. |
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I INTERNCATIONAL FILM AND TV FESTIVAL AT THE REINS OF LLION
June 04,2009 -
On the 23rd of May, Ana Milán received a special mention at the Lyon I International Film and TV Festival for her role in the Spanish TV series “Física o Química”. |
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MARICEL ÁLVAREZ STARS WITH JAVIER BARDEM
May 06,2009 -
' Maricel Álvarez stars with Javier Bardem in a film which is the complete opposite to Woody Allen’s'
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MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE
May 05,2009 -
Penélope Cruz has been named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by TIME magazine. |
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XII Málaga Film Festival Awards 2009
April 28,2009 - Toni Acosta - Silver Biznaga for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Seven Minutes"
Aida Folch - Silver Biznaga for Best Leading Actress for her role in "25 Carat"
Manuel Morón - Silver Biznaga for Best Leading Actor for his role in "25 Carat" |
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SAINT JORDI AWARDS
April 28,2009 -
Last Saturday, 20th of April, actress Carme Elias received the Saint Jordi Award for Best Leading Actress for her role in "Camino" |
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"BROKEN EMBRACES" - PREMIERE
March 18,2009 - |
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LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS
March 10,2009 - |
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WINNERS OF THE UNION OF ACTORS AWARDS
March 10,2009 - Congratulations to our actors!
Carme Elias - Best Actress - "Camino"
Berta Ojea - Best Television Actress "La Señora" |
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OSCAR WINNER
February 23,2009 -
The first spanish actress to win an Oscar. Congratulations Penélope! |
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THE MILK OF SORROW
February 16,2009 - Susi Sanchéz stars in the film "The Milk of Sorrow" directed by Claudia Llosa, for which she has received a Golden Bear in the Berlin Film Festival.
The actress is currently playing the role Gertrude in an adaptation of "Hamlet," directed by Tomas Pandur, at the Naves del Matadero del Teatro Español in Madrid. |
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PENÉLOPE WINNER OF THE BAFTA
February 09,2009 -
Congratulations to our client for her Bafta for Best Supporting Actress! |
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2009 GOYA WINNERS
February 03,2009 -
Congratulations to our clients! for Best Supporting Actress, Best Emerging Actress and Best Actress. |
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SANT JORDI RNE AWARD 2009
January 28,2009 - Carme Elias has recieved RNE´s Saint Jordi Best Actress Award for her role in "Camino". The award ceremony will take place at the end of April in Barcelona. |
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NOMINATIONS FOR THE CEC MEDALS 2008
January 23,2009 - Secundary Actress -Penélope Cruz ( Vicky, Christina, Barcelona)
Revelation Actress - Nerea Camacho ( Camino) |
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PENÉLOPE RECEIVES HER SECOND OSCAR NOMINATION
January 23,2009 - 'Penélope Cruz receives her second nomination, this time for "Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona"'
EL MUNDO. Friday, 23rd of January 2009
'Penélope Cruz, on her way to the Oscars... The actress is a candidate for her role in "Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona".'
EL PAÍS. Friday, 23rd of January 2009 |
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SIN ELLA
January 16,2009 - Lola Dueñas will travel to Mexico at the end of the month to start shooting her new film "Sin Ella" directed by Jorge Colón. |
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NOMINATIONS BY THE UNION OF ACTORS 2008/09
January 14,2009 - This years nominees for the Union of Actors Awards:
Ben Temple - Best Emerging Actor for the TV series "Cazadores de Hombres"
Carme Elías - Best Leading Actress for her role in " Camino"
Ana Gracia - Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Camino"
Berta Ojea - Best Supporting Actress for the TV series "La Señora" |
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EL TRUCO DEL MANCO
January 13,2009 - This Friday, 16th of January, Santiago A. Zannou´s film "El Truco del Manco" premieres with Juan Navarro. |
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'1939'
January 09,2009 - Asier Newman is currently filming "1939," directed by Stephen Poliakoff. |
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¿ESTÁS AHÍ?
Clara Segura stars with Paco León in Javier Daulte´s play "¿Estás ahí?". Critics have said:
'Clara has the power of a great neorrelaistic comic: a constant stream of humiliated fury flow from her eyes and mouth'
EL PAÍS, 13th of December, 2008 |
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GOYA NOMINATIONS
December 19,2008 -
Rosana Pastor: Best Supporting Actress for her role in "The El Escorial Conspiracy"
Penélope Cruz: Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" |
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NOMINATIONS - PENÉLOPE
ELMUNDO.ES - December 19,2008 - Penélope Cruz has been nominated by the Screen Actors Gild (SAG) as Best Supporting actress of 2008 for her role portraying a depressed woman in Woody Allen´s film "Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona".
This nomination follows Penélope's two previous nominations for the Golden Globe and Broadcast Film Critics Association (BCA). Furthermore, the Los Angeles Film Critic Assosiation (LAFCA) and the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) have reccognized her work with their awards for Best Supporting Actress. |
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NUBES
December 19,2008 - Cristina Alcázar and Ana Gracia star in "Nubes", the first short film written and directed by Francisco Boira. The film reflects the double morality that forms a great part of Spanish society, through the portrayal of a proud province aristocrat interpreted by Carmen Balagué. The films music is directed by the singer Javier Álvarez. |
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CORTOGENIA
December 18,2008 - Alejandro Casaseca has received the Best Actor Award at the 9th edition of CORTOGENIA, for his role in the short film "Heterosexuales y casados" directed by Vicente Villanueva. |
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'A' - MUSICAL BY NACHO CANO
December 18,2008 - Javier Godino plays the leading role in Nacho Cano´s Musical "A" at Calderón Haägen - Dazs Theatre in Madrid. The musical premieres the 18th of December. |
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BERLANGA AWARDS 2008
December 12,2008 - Enrique Arce is nominated for the Berlanga Awards 2008 for Best Emerging Actor. |
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HKM
December 12,2008 - Nasser Saleh joins the cast of the teen TV series "HKM" interpreting the character 'Moja' - Cuatro Televisión. |
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"HERMANO Y DETECTIVES"
December 12,2008 - Diego Martín and Marta Nieto renew their roles in "Hermanos y detectives" for its second season. |
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INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS 2009 - Penélope Cruz
December 04,2008 - Penélope Cruz has been nominated in Best Supporting Actress at the Independent Spirit Awards 2009 for her role in Woody Allen´s "Vicky, Christina Barcelona". The award ceremony will take place on the 21st of February.
New York Times 11 diciembre 2008 |
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'CORTAR POR FAX'
November 24,2008 - Valeria Alonso will star in the play " Cortar por fax" at the Sala Triángulo Theatre until the 14th of December. |
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'EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA'
November 24,2008 - Last Thursday Enrique Arce premiered in the play " El burlador de Sevilla" at Bellas Artes Thetre of Madrid. |
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¿HAY ALGUIEN AHÍ?
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'BIUTIFUL'
November 12,2008 - Rubén Ochandiano is unstopable. Having finished shooting "Broken Embraces" by Pedro Almodóvar, he is currently in Barcelona shooting "Biutiful" directed by Alejandro González Iñarritu. |
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'CENIZAS DEL CIELO'
El País - November 11,2008 - Jose Antonio Quirós´s "Cenizas del cielo" premieres with Clara Segura. The Spanish newspaper El País has defined her as:
´...the extraordinary Clara Segura...´
On the 13th of November Clara will also be premiering in "¿Estás ahi?" at the Lara Theatre in Madrid. In this comedy, directed by Javier Dualte, Clara shares the leading role with Paco León.
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"RATED R"
October 24,2008 - Goya Toledo's latest film, "Rated R" directed byFélix Sabroso and Dunia Ayaso, premieres in cinemas today. Critics from the Spanish newspaper El País have described her work as:
"... an amazing Goya Toledo eclipsesthe screen with her transformation from a surviving predator to a cracked doll."
Currently Goya Toledo is participating in Telecinco´s series "Acusados". |
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HEREDEROS
October 20,2008 - |
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'EL COMISARIO' - Christian Magaloni
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'MIPCOM'
October 13,2008 - Mónica Cruz and Miguel Angel Muñoz are the celebrety guests opening this year´s MIPCOM, the prestigious television market held yearly in Cannes. The series "Un paso adelante" produced by Globomedia, is one of Spain´s most sucessful series ever. It has been sold to 63 countries including France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Cuba, Mexico, Serbia, Rumania and recently to Russia. Monica and Miguel Angel are currently involved in several film and television projects. |
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'EL INTERNADO' - Alejandro Casaseca
October 13,2008 - |
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'LO MÁS IMPORTANTE DE LA VIDA ES NO HABER MUERTO'
October 13,2008 - |
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"CAMINO" - Carmen Elias, Ana Gracia y Jan Cornet
October 09,2008 - |
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MIPCOM - Mónica Cruz and Miguel Ángel Muñoz
October 09,2008 - This year Mónica Cruz and Miguel Ángel Muñoz will represent Spain, the guest country at MIPCOM, in Cannes. |
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"THE SECRET OF HER EYES" - Javier Godino
October 08,2008 -
Before travelling to Buenos Aires to star in Juan Jose Campanella´s "The Secret of Her Eyes", Javier Godino opened the new Canal Theatre in Madrid with songs from "A", a new musical directed by Nacho Cano.
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'PELOTAS' - Belén López, Maria Botto and Javier Albalá
October 08,2008 -
Belén López, Maria Botto and Javier Albalá star in the series "Pelotas", Televisión Española´s new project directed by Jose Corbacho. The series will be based on the ups and downs of a group of friends who play football in a neighbourhood in Hospitalet, Barcelona. |
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“EL REY DE LA MONTAÑA” - Francisco Olmo
October 08,2008 -
On the 12th of September "El rey de la montaña" premiered alongside our actor Francisco Olmo. The film is directed by Gonzalo López Gallego and produced by Miguel Bardem. This frantic thriller has been one of the great surprises of Spanish cinema in recent years. Rights have already been acquired for an American remake. |
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'ACUSADOS' - Goya Toledo
October 08,2008 -
Goya Toledo will play a judicial role in Telecinco´s new series "Acusados". It will premiere next season on primetime. |
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“EL MAL AJENO” - Clara Lago, Angie Cepeda and Carlos Leal
October 08,2008 -
Clara Lago, Angie Cepeda and Carlos Leal form part of the cast of Oscar Santos Gomez’s first feature film, "El mal ajeno". The project is produced by Alejandro Amenábar and Fernando Bovaira and the script lies in the hands of Daniel Sanchez Arévalo. The film is a hospital drama containing elements of the fantastic. |
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“MENTIRAS, INCIENSO Y MIRRA” - Elisa Matilla
October 08,2008 -
Elisa Matilla premieres in the play “Mentiras, incienso y mirra" at the La Latina Theatre – Madrid. The comedy is directed by Juan Luis Iborra who wrote the script along with Antonio Albert.
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“BARROCO” - Chema León
October 08,2008 - Chema León returns to Madrid with the play ‘Barroco’ after a long and successful tour around various Spanish cities after working abroad since his debut last year. The play, based on C. de Laclos and Cuarteto de H. Muller´s ‘Las amistades peligrosas,´ has been written by Barco Lukic and Tomaz Pnadur, who also directs the play, and will be showing at the Jerman Gomez theatre in Madrid. |
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“THE EL ESCORIAL CONSPIRACY” - Jordi Mollá
September 02,2008 - Jordi Mollá is in Madrid to attend the premiere of “The El Escorial Conspiracy”, a historical thriller directed by Antonio del Real, sponsered by Sony Pictures. The film also stars Julia Ormond and Rosana Pastor.
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Elena Anaya starts the film 'HIERRO'
August 29,2008 - Elena Anaya stars in "Hierro", directed by Gabe Ibañez and produced by Jesus de la Vega. This psychological thriller will be shot in Madrid and in the Canary Islands from the 1st of September .
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News, August 2004.
August 12,2004 - The Spanish press praises Gustavo Salmeron´s work in "Fuera del Cuerpo". A critic of La Razon comments: "Salmeron gives an excellent performance, confirming his promise as comedy actor" and according to El Pais, "Salmeron gives the performance of his career". Maria Adanez plays the voiceover of Angie, in the Spanish version of the DreamWorks animated movie, "Sharks Tale". Angie Cepeda stars in Antonio Hernandez´s "Oculto" with Leo Sbaraglia. Penelope Cruz starts shooting "Chromophobia", Martha Feinnes second film, with Kristin Scott Thomas and Ralph Feinnes. Lola Dueñas is filming her first musical, "20 Centimeters", directed by Ramon Salazar. Veteran actors, Simon Andreu and Emilio Gutierrez, join forces on Rafael Escolar´s "Postdata". Goya Toledo is in Galicia, in the North of Spain, filming "Cero", directed by Isidro Ortiz. |
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September, 2004
Congratulations to Javier Bardem, Alejandro Amenabar, our two clients, Lola Dueñas and Clara Segura and the entire cast and crew of MAR ADENTRO for their Awards at the Venice Film Festival. |
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November, 2004.
November 06,2004 - Contratulations to our clients, Penelope Cruz and Daniel Bruhl for their Best Actress and Best Actor nominations by the European Film Academy. Penelope Cruz is in Durango, Mexico, filming BANDIDAS with her close friend, Salma Hayak. This film, produced by Luc Besson, will remind us of Penélope´s talent for comedy. Pilar Lopez de Ayala is in Navarra filming OBABA, directed by Montxo Armendariz. Director Marcelo Piñeyro has started filming his first movie, shot outside his native country, Argentina: THE GRONHÓLM METHOD. The film Stars Najwa Nimri and Pablo Echarri. Their co-stars are Eduard Fernandez, Eduardo Noriega, Adriana Ozores and Ernesto Alterio. Leticia Dolera is in New York shooting MAN PUSH CART, her third English film. It is directed by Ramin Bahrani. Goya Toledo reconquers the Latin American public, following her success in AMORES PERROS. She is in Buenos Aires filming NORDESTE, directed by Joan Solana. She will then move on to the making of the Savadorian movie, ULYSES. Director Juan Vicente Cordoba has given Marian Alvarez her first starring role in LAS CHICAS ANDAN SUELTAS. Aitor Merino returns to television after several years absence in the series, LOBOS. |
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February, 2005
Spanish Cinema is celebrating its' new Oscar! Congratulations to Alejandro Amenabar, Javier Bardem, the cast and crew of THE SEA INSIDE and especially to our clients Lola Dueñas and Clara Segura. A congratulations to our client, Lola Dueñas, who received the Goya Best Actress Award after her amazing performance in the Academy Awar winning movie. Susi Sanchez enjoys critical acclaim for her role in The National Theater´s CARA DE PLATA, directed by Ramon Simo. Marcos Ordóñez, in Spain´s leading newspaper El Pais, comments: "Susi Sanchez is impressive as Doña Jeromita, which she plays with the flair of a Nineteenth Century Lauren Bacall." Alfonso Begara will play guitar legend, Tomatito, in Jaime Chavarri´s biographical movie, CAMERON, THE MYTH. Angie Cepeda stars in EL MUERTO, an independent movie based on the Mexico comic of the same name, directed by Brian Cox. Two of Spain´s emerging stars, Marta Eturra and Roger Coma (both won coveted places in our New Faces project in 2001), attended the premiere PARA QUE NO ME OLVIDES at the Berlin Film Festival. |
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June, 2005.
June 01,2005 - Penelope Cruz will spend this summer in her native city of Madrid, filming VOLVER with her close friend, Pedro Almodovar. Her co-stars in this comedy are Carmen Maura and Lola Dueñas, winner of this year´s Best Actress Goya (Spanish Academy Award). Elena Anaya, on the other hand, will be taking her summer in the U.S.A. First she will play a cameo in John Kasdan´s IN THE LAND OF WOMEN and then will join Richard Dreyfuss in Wolfgang Petersen´s POSEIDON for Warner Bros. Marta Etura is starring in DARK BLUE, ALMOST BLACK, directed by Daniel Sanchez Arevalo. She will then join the case of Roger Gual´s REMAKE. Javier Pereira has just finished shooting YOUR LIFE IN 65 MINUTES, directed by Maria Ripoll. He will soon begin filming Sigried Monleon´s SHOOTING. |
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