Argentinian filmmakers are uniting under the banner Cine Argentino Unido to gather in Berlin on Tuesday to raise awareness of the unfolding public funding crisis in the country.
National film and TV institute Incaa, which funds most of the country’s local productions, has been unable to allocate money since Nicolas Batlle resigned as head last December in protest over the election of far-right president Javier Milei.
Milei has promised a programme of deep cuts to help fix the country’s ravaged economy and the industry fears cultural funding is high up his list.
“The far-right government is attempting to...
National film and TV institute Incaa, which funds most of the country’s local productions, has been unable to allocate money since Nicolas Batlle resigned as head last December in protest over the election of far-right president Javier Milei.
Milei has promised a programme of deep cuts to help fix the country’s ravaged economy and the industry fears cultural funding is high up his list.
“The far-right government is attempting to...
- 2/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Co-productions are increasingly the norm in Chile where state funds remain scant in a market of a mere 19.5 million inhabitants. Its new president’s campaign pledge last year to more than double the state’s contribution to the arts is not quite a reality, with a 16% increase noted so far. On the bright side, there has been an uptick in private funding, with some 50% of a film’s budget covered by private investors. To date, the audiovisual sector has seen a 31.5% increase in state funding this year compared to 2022.
Chilean filmmakers are also exploring new genres, straying from traditional dramas. More often than not — as in Maite Alberdi’s Sundance win for 2023’s “The Eternal Memory” — Chilean cinema has triumphed at one major festival or awards event after another.
Topping it all, Chile’s Pedro Pascal, whose star has continued its meteoric rise with “The Mandalorian” and “The Last of Us,...
Chilean filmmakers are also exploring new genres, straying from traditional dramas. More often than not — as in Maite Alberdi’s Sundance win for 2023’s “The Eternal Memory” — Chilean cinema has triumphed at one major festival or awards event after another.
Topping it all, Chile’s Pedro Pascal, whose star has continued its meteoric rise with “The Mandalorian” and “The Last of Us,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks subsidiary The Remake Company has closed a remake deal with Italy’s Marco Belardi and his new label Bamboo Prod. for Ariel Winograd’s latest film “Today We Fix the World” (“Hoy se Arregla el Mundo”).
Produced by powerhouse shingle Patagonik, the family dramedy was picked up by Netflix for several key territories after its theatrical release by Disney’s Star early this year.
Mexico’s BH5 has also acquired the remake rights and is about to produce its version while talks are underway with Korean and French companies, said FilmSharks founder and CEO, Guido Rud. Winograd is already a known quantity in Italy. His last film “Ten Days Without Mom” topped the box office in Italy when it was released.
Dramedy stars Leonardo Sbaraglia from “Wild Tales” and “Pain and Glory” who finds out that he’s not the biological father of the nine-year-old boy at home.
Produced by powerhouse shingle Patagonik, the family dramedy was picked up by Netflix for several key territories after its theatrical release by Disney’s Star early this year.
Mexico’s BH5 has also acquired the remake rights and is about to produce its version while talks are underway with Korean and French companies, said FilmSharks founder and CEO, Guido Rud. Winograd is already a known quantity in Italy. His last film “Ten Days Without Mom” topped the box office in Italy when it was released.
Dramedy stars Leonardo Sbaraglia from “Wild Tales” and “Pain and Glory” who finds out that he’s not the biological father of the nine-year-old boy at home.
- 9/20/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Argentina’s Aleph Cine, led by Fernando Sokolowicz, one of the country’s most established film producers, has taken an undisclosed co-production stake in Romina Paula’s project “Gente de noche” (“People by Night”), produced by New Argentine Cinema icon Diego Dubcovsky at Varsovia Films.
Selected for San Sebastian Festival’s 9th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, “Gente” marks Paula’s return to the Spanish festival after winning the 2019 Horizontes Award with her feature debut “Again Once Again” and co-directing 2020 Official Section omnibus player “Unlimited Edition.”
Toplining Agustina Muñoz (“Viola”) and Margarita Molfino (“Wild Tales”), the project follows Agustina, a woman who travels with her newborn baby to Selva Misionera to meet her wife’s family.
Selva Misionera owes its name to the Jesuit missions that began in the 17th Century in Guaraní territory -comprising current northeastern Argentina plus Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil- by the Society of Jesus to evangelize the region.
Selected for San Sebastian Festival’s 9th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, “Gente” marks Paula’s return to the Spanish festival after winning the 2019 Horizontes Award with her feature debut “Again Once Again” and co-directing 2020 Official Section omnibus player “Unlimited Edition.”
Toplining Agustina Muñoz (“Viola”) and Margarita Molfino (“Wild Tales”), the project follows Agustina, a woman who travels with her newborn baby to Selva Misionera to meet her wife’s family.
Selva Misionera owes its name to the Jesuit missions that began in the 17th Century in Guaraní territory -comprising current northeastern Argentina plus Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil- by the Society of Jesus to evangelize the region.
- 9/9/2021
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
To paraphrase an old adage, there’s bound to be a silver lining in every cloud. Indeed, for some Caribbean island locations, the Covid-19 pandemic, despite some losses in human life, has been a blessing for their audiovisual industries. The Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, two of the most generous locations in terms of film incentives, are expecting a record boom.
“The number and size of projects coming to the country have increased exponentially,” says Albert Martinez, COO of Lantica Media, which operates the Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios. “By opening up earlier than other locations, many projects gravitated to us.”
Among the first major productions to film in the Dominican Republic, and which made full use of Pinewood Dr, was “Old,” M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller starring Gael Garcia Bernal.
The Dominican Republic’s film commission projects a total foreign production spend of around $176 million by year-end, up from $35 million last year.
“The number and size of projects coming to the country have increased exponentially,” says Albert Martinez, COO of Lantica Media, which operates the Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios. “By opening up earlier than other locations, many projects gravitated to us.”
Among the first major productions to film in the Dominican Republic, and which made full use of Pinewood Dr, was “Old,” M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller starring Gael Garcia Bernal.
The Dominican Republic’s film commission projects a total foreign production spend of around $176 million by year-end, up from $35 million last year.
- 6/4/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Lion’s Heart (Corazón de León), which is one of the most successful Argentinian movies of all time with more than two million cinema tickets sold, will be getting the Italian remake treatment after the Fremantle-owned Wildside landed rights.
The deal, which was brokered by Filmsharks’ The Remake Co, is the latest such pact on the title following remakes in Colombia, Mexico and Peru, as well as in Europe where Gaumont made the French-language Up For Love (Un Homme A La Hauteur), which starred Jean Dujardin and grossed more than $5M in France.
The original movie, directed by Marcos Carnevale, starred Julieta Díaz, Mauricio Dayub and Guillermo Francella. The story follows a lawyer who, after she loses her mobile phone, receives a call from the person who found it. They talk and hit it off very quickly, but she is shocked when she sees that he’s very short.
The deal, which was brokered by Filmsharks’ The Remake Co, is the latest such pact on the title following remakes in Colombia, Mexico and Peru, as well as in Europe where Gaumont made the French-language Up For Love (Un Homme A La Hauteur), which starred Jean Dujardin and grossed more than $5M in France.
The original movie, directed by Marcos Carnevale, starred Julieta Díaz, Mauricio Dayub and Guillermo Francella. The story follows a lawyer who, after she loses her mobile phone, receives a call from the person who found it. They talk and hit it off very quickly, but she is shocked when she sees that he’s very short.
- 3/3/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Remake Co, FilmSharks’ specialty label handling remake rights, has closed a deal with Korea’s Covenant Pictures for rights to the Argentinian feature Crazy Heart.
Directed by Marcos Carnevale (Inseparable), the Spanish-language comedy stars Adrian Suar (A Boyfriend for My Wife) as Fernando.
Fernando doesn’t have that one special love of his life. He has two. Paula and her teenage daughters in Mar del Plata. Vera and her little boy in Buenos Aires. 250 miles apart. Two separate lives, two different worlds. But of course, all good things must eventually come to an end: after nine years of duplicity, Fernando is uncovered. His wives join forces and set out a cold-blooded revenge.
The pic was released on Netflix in September 2020. It was produced by Disney-owned Patagonik.
Covenant Pictures was launched in November last year by former Lotte executives Lee Young Han and Justin Choi.
Directed by Marcos Carnevale (Inseparable), the Spanish-language comedy stars Adrian Suar (A Boyfriend for My Wife) as Fernando.
Fernando doesn’t have that one special love of his life. He has two. Paula and her teenage daughters in Mar del Plata. Vera and her little boy in Buenos Aires. 250 miles apart. Two separate lives, two different worlds. But of course, all good things must eventually come to an end: after nine years of duplicity, Fernando is uncovered. His wives join forces and set out a cold-blooded revenge.
The pic was released on Netflix in September 2020. It was produced by Disney-owned Patagonik.
Covenant Pictures was launched in November last year by former Lotte executives Lee Young Han and Justin Choi.
- 3/2/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Particular Crowd, the fledgling U.S.-based film division from WarnerMedia’s Turner Latin America, has nabbed all Latin American rights to Argentine filmmaker Marcos Carnevale’s latest film, the dramedy “El Cuartito.”
Shot and produced entirely in Puerto Rico, “El Cuartito” refers to the security screening room that five Latinos are confined in when they run afoul of U.S. immigration authorities at Puerto Rico’s San Juan airport. Donald J. Trump was still president when film was made so his portrait hangs on the wall of the tiny room and is a key prop in the dramedy. Carnevale even incorporated the tremors of the 6.8-magnitude earthquake and the multiple aftershocks which struck Puerto Rico while they were filming.
Spain’s Mario de la Rosa, whose credits include Netflix hit “Money Heist” (“La Casa de Papel”), BBC’s “The Night Manager” and the latest James Cameron production “Terminator: Dark Fate,...
Shot and produced entirely in Puerto Rico, “El Cuartito” refers to the security screening room that five Latinos are confined in when they run afoul of U.S. immigration authorities at Puerto Rico’s San Juan airport. Donald J. Trump was still president when film was made so his portrait hangs on the wall of the tiny room and is a key prop in the dramedy. Carnevale even incorporated the tremors of the 6.8-magnitude earthquake and the multiple aftershocks which struck Puerto Rico while they were filming.
Spain’s Mario de la Rosa, whose credits include Netflix hit “Money Heist” (“La Casa de Papel”), BBC’s “The Night Manager” and the latest James Cameron production “Terminator: Dark Fate,...
- 1/30/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
“Diversity is still crucial for us because it’s what our members so eagerly ask from us.”
Netflix’s German historical Roman era epic Barbarians and Swedish crime drama Quicksand are among some of the most notable international series to catch on with the platform’s Latin America audiences, a Ventana Sur online panel heard this week.
In a 20-minute session titled Netflix Between The Pandemic And The Ott Ecosystem, Francisco Ramos, the service’s vp of Spanish-language originals in Latin America who has been doing the festival rounds (he spoke at San Sebastian recently), said while the plan was...
Netflix’s German historical Roman era epic Barbarians and Swedish crime drama Quicksand are among some of the most notable international series to catch on with the platform’s Latin America audiences, a Ventana Sur online panel heard this week.
In a 20-minute session titled Netflix Between The Pandemic And The Ott Ecosystem, Francisco Ramos, the service’s vp of Spanish-language originals in Latin America who has been doing the festival rounds (he spoke at San Sebastian recently), said while the plan was...
- 12/3/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
While the coronavirus pandemic has shut down productions around the world, forced cinemas to shutter and film festivals to cancel their gatherings, folks in the worldwide film industry are stilll pushing forward with their art, ideas and hopes for creations after the pandemic has eased. Variety talked to a handful of international directors about their latest works, partnerships and collaborations, how they’re coping with the current situation, and even what they are watching right now. Most have films that were headed to major spring and summer film festivals, while others saw their works being pulled from screens and sent to VOD. Still others have hopes that their productions will make it to fall and winter festivals. But all the filmmakers see hope for the future of cinema.
Marcos Carnevale
Helmer-scribe Marcos Carnevale, best-known for his international hits “Corazon de Leon” and “Elsa y Fred,” has so far emerged unscathed from natural disasters.
Marcos Carnevale
Helmer-scribe Marcos Carnevale, best-known for his international hits “Corazon de Leon” and “Elsa y Fred,” has so far emerged unscathed from natural disasters.
- 5/28/2020
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Holiday season specialist John Stimpson (Christmas a La Mode) directs the project.
Blue Fox Entertainment, fielding interest from Efm buyers on its Zazie Beetz drama Still Here, has launched sales on holiday romance Christmas On Ice starring Abigail Klein from Glow, which has just gone into production
The story from Off Camera Entertainment centres on a female former ice skating champion battling the impending closure of the public skating rink to make way for an indoor skating venue proposed by a dynamic entrepreneur (Ryan Cooper from Rough Night).
Holiday season specialist John Stimpson (Christmas a La Mode) directs the story,...
Blue Fox Entertainment, fielding interest from Efm buyers on its Zazie Beetz drama Still Here, has launched sales on holiday romance Christmas On Ice starring Abigail Klein from Glow, which has just gone into production
The story from Off Camera Entertainment centres on a female former ice skating champion battling the impending closure of the public skating rink to make way for an indoor skating venue proposed by a dynamic entrepreneur (Ryan Cooper from Rough Night).
Holiday season specialist John Stimpson (Christmas a La Mode) directs the story,...
- 2/24/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm.
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm alongside Puerto Rican producer-distributor Cynthia Wiesner on the comedy drama El Cuartito directed by Argentina’s Marcos Carnevale (Elsa & Fred).
The project (English working title Border Control) is in post-production after shooting on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico last month and is scheduled for delivery in autumn.
The high-stakes story centres on five tourists detained by immigration officers in a small room at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who must...
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm alongside Puerto Rican producer-distributor Cynthia Wiesner on the comedy drama El Cuartito directed by Argentina’s Marcos Carnevale (Elsa & Fred).
The project (English working title Border Control) is in post-production after shooting on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico last month and is scheduled for delivery in autumn.
The high-stakes story centres on five tourists detained by immigration officers in a small room at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who must...
- 2/23/2020
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm.
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm alongside Puerto Rican producer-distributor Cynthia Wiesner on the comedy drama El Cuartitodirected by Argentina’s Marcos Carnevale (Elsa & Fred).
The project (English working title Border Control) is in post-production after shooting on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico last month and is scheduled for delivery in autumn.
The high-stakes story centres on five tourists detained by immigration officers in a small room at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who must find...
Former Match Factory executive Brigitte Suarez is launching world sales at Efm alongside Puerto Rican producer-distributor Cynthia Wiesner on the comedy drama El Cuartitodirected by Argentina’s Marcos Carnevale (Elsa & Fred).
The project (English working title Border Control) is in post-production after shooting on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico last month and is scheduled for delivery in autumn.
The high-stakes story centres on five tourists detained by immigration officers in a small room at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who must find...
- 2/23/2020
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Argentinian Oscar winner Juan José Campanella to present comedy The Weasels.
The 37th Miami Film Festival will open on March 6 with The Burnt Orange Heresy and close with Netflix’s recent Sundance world premiere Mucho Mucho Amor on March 15.
Besides the roster of more than 125 feature narratives, documentaries and short films from 30 countries, festival director Jaie Laplante and his team have selected Amy Ryan to receive the Precious Gem Awards on March 9 accompanied a screening of another Sundance selection, Liz Garbus’ Lost Girls.
Midsommar director Ari Aster, Stella Meghie (The Photograph starring Issa Rae) and The Farewell director Lulu Wang...
The 37th Miami Film Festival will open on March 6 with The Burnt Orange Heresy and close with Netflix’s recent Sundance world premiere Mucho Mucho Amor on March 15.
Besides the roster of more than 125 feature narratives, documentaries and short films from 30 countries, festival director Jaie Laplante and his team have selected Amy Ryan to receive the Precious Gem Awards on March 9 accompanied a screening of another Sundance selection, Liz Garbus’ Lost Girls.
Midsommar director Ari Aster, Stella Meghie (The Photograph starring Issa Rae) and The Farewell director Lulu Wang...
- 2/3/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Buenos Aires — Esteemed Argentine film producers gathered to relay their experiences with fiction remakes as part of Ventana Sur’s industry conference series held at the Uca campus in Buenos Aires on Monday.
The panelists included Juan Vera and Marcos Carnevale, directors who sold the rights to their films “Mama Se Fue De Viaje,” and “Elsa y Fred,” respectively, as well as Sebastián Aloi, who produced “Re Loca,” the remake of Chilean film “Sin Filtro.” Navigating the discussion was David Castellanos, managing director of Madrid-based Cinema Republic, who encouraged the group to detail the finesse needed to rework a script for new markets.
Vera, who also serves as artistic director for Argentine production company Patagonik, relayed that “The films that are easiest to remake are those that have universal themes.”
“In the case of ‘Mama Se Fue De Viaje,’ the concept came up by chance when I was with a...
The panelists included Juan Vera and Marcos Carnevale, directors who sold the rights to their films “Mama Se Fue De Viaje,” and “Elsa y Fred,” respectively, as well as Sebastián Aloi, who produced “Re Loca,” the remake of Chilean film “Sin Filtro.” Navigating the discussion was David Castellanos, managing director of Madrid-based Cinema Republic, who encouraged the group to detail the finesse needed to rework a script for new markets.
Vera, who also serves as artistic director for Argentine production company Patagonik, relayed that “The films that are easiest to remake are those that have universal themes.”
“In the case of ‘Mama Se Fue De Viaje,’ the concept came up by chance when I was with a...
- 12/4/2019
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Argentina sales company handling Marcos Carnevale, Fabián Bielinsky projects.
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has picked up worldwide sales and remake rights from Latin American production powerhouse Patagonik to the upcoming high-concept comedy Crazy Heart and remake and format rights to the iconic 2005 thriller The Aura.
Argentine ace Marcos Carnevale is scheduled to direct Crazy Heart (Corazon Loco) in the third quarter of this year. Box office darling Adrián Suar stars as Fernando, whose two wives finally find out about each other after nine years and set out for revenge.
Patagonik co-owner Disney holds Latin American rights and plans a second quarter 2020 release on 300 screens in Argentina.
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has picked up worldwide sales and remake rights from Latin American production powerhouse Patagonik to the upcoming high-concept comedy Crazy Heart and remake and format rights to the iconic 2005 thriller The Aura.
Argentine ace Marcos Carnevale is scheduled to direct Crazy Heart (Corazon Loco) in the third quarter of this year. Box office darling Adrián Suar stars as Fernando, whose two wives finally find out about each other after nine years and set out for revenge.
Patagonik co-owner Disney holds Latin American rights and plans a second quarter 2020 release on 300 screens in Argentina.
- 5/15/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Buenos Aires — In another Hollywood studio deal unveiled at Ventana Sur, Sony Pictures Television has expanded its multi-territory deal on Marcos Carnevale’s “Inseparables” (Inseparable) to take in four new major territories: France, Germany, South Korea and Japan.
Sony Pictures Television already holds all TV/VOD rights for Latin America and all rights for México, Chile and Colombia on “Inseparable,” an Argentine remake of the Gaumont-sold French box office colossus “The Intouchables.” An odd couple, across-the-tracks friendship dreamed directed by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache and starring Omar Sy, “The Intuchables” grossed $427 million worldwide, including $166 million in Franceand, almost as remarkable, $79 million in Germany.
Produced by Luis Alberto Scalella’s Argentina Sono Film and soon to be Viacom-owned Argentine TV network Telefe, “Inseparable” is directed by Marco Carnevale whose credits include big Argentine hits such as “Elsa & Fred” and “Heart of a Lion.” Premiered at the 2016 Venice Festival,...
Sony Pictures Television already holds all TV/VOD rights for Latin America and all rights for México, Chile and Colombia on “Inseparable,” an Argentine remake of the Gaumont-sold French box office colossus “The Intouchables.” An odd couple, across-the-tracks friendship dreamed directed by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache and starring Omar Sy, “The Intuchables” grossed $427 million worldwide, including $166 million in Franceand, almost as remarkable, $79 million in Germany.
Produced by Luis Alberto Scalella’s Argentina Sono Film and soon to be Viacom-owned Argentine TV network Telefe, “Inseparable” is directed by Marco Carnevale whose credits include big Argentine hits such as “Elsa & Fred” and “Heart of a Lion.” Premiered at the 2016 Venice Festival,...
- 12/11/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Koblic, My Love Or My Passion among hot sellers.
FilmSharks has closed key deals with Chinese buyers on its Afm slate here, led by a sale on thriller Dark Buildings (Las Grietas de Jara) to Lemon Tree Media.
The Argentina-Spain co-production has also gone to HBO Europe, and Caribbean Cinemas for Central America. Oscar Martinez, who won the 2016 Venice Coppa Volpi for The Distinguished Citizen, stars in Dark Buildings (Las Grietas de Jara) based on the Argentinian crime novel by Claudia Piñeiro.
FilmSharks chief Guido Rud previously struck deals with Buena Vista for Latin America and HBO for the Us.
FilmSharks has closed key deals with Chinese buyers on its Afm slate here, led by a sale on thriller Dark Buildings (Las Grietas de Jara) to Lemon Tree Media.
The Argentina-Spain co-production has also gone to HBO Europe, and Caribbean Cinemas for Central America. Oscar Martinez, who won the 2016 Venice Coppa Volpi for The Distinguished Citizen, stars in Dark Buildings (Las Grietas de Jara) based on the Argentinian crime novel by Claudia Piñeiro.
FilmSharks chief Guido Rud previously struck deals with Buena Vista for Latin America and HBO for the Us.
- 11/4/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Buena Vista International picks up Adrian Suar-starring comedy.
Buena Vista International (Bvi) has picked up Latin American rights to comedy superstar Adrian Suar’s My Love Or My Passion (El Futbol O Yo) and plans its widest release of the year in August.
FilmSharks brokered the deal on the Patagonik comedy and Bvi is planning its widest release so far this year for the film across the region in mid-August.
My Love Or My Passion centres on a football-mad husband and father who tries to control his obsession and win back his family. Julieta Díaz also stars.
Marcos Carnevale directs My Love Or My Passion, currently in post, and joined Suar in co-writing the screenplay.
Suar’s credits include I Married A Dumbass and 2 + 2.
Buena Vista International (Bvi) has picked up Latin American rights to comedy superstar Adrian Suar’s My Love Or My Passion (El Futbol O Yo) and plans its widest release of the year in August.
FilmSharks brokered the deal on the Patagonik comedy and Bvi is planning its widest release so far this year for the film across the region in mid-August.
My Love Or My Passion centres on a football-mad husband and father who tries to control his obsession and win back his family. Julieta Díaz also stars.
Marcos Carnevale directs My Love Or My Passion, currently in post, and joined Suar in co-writing the screenplay.
Suar’s credits include I Married A Dumbass and 2 + 2.
- 5/22/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Deals signed for Australia, New Zealand, the Baltics and Taiwan.
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has scored fresh deals on Inseparables, the Latin American remake of French smash Intouchables starring Coppa Volpi winner Oscar Martinez.
Marcos Carnevale directed the buddy film starring Martinez as a wealthy quadriplegic and Rodrigo de la Serna as his caregiver.
Rights have gone to Palace for Australia and New Zealand, Big Film for Cis and Baltics, and Cineplex for Taiwan. Global Eagle took airline rights and FilmSharks chief Guido Rud is in talks for the UK, Germany, France, Japan and China.
Buena Vista International distributed Inseparables in Argentina last year. Sony previously acquired the film for Mexico, Colombia and Chile TV/VOD, Paris for Brazil, and Wiesner Distribution for central America.
Film Movement holds North American rights excluding pay-tv and streaming, which HBO Latino previously licensed.
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has scored fresh deals on Inseparables, the Latin American remake of French smash Intouchables starring Coppa Volpi winner Oscar Martinez.
Marcos Carnevale directed the buddy film starring Martinez as a wealthy quadriplegic and Rodrigo de la Serna as his caregiver.
Rights have gone to Palace for Australia and New Zealand, Big Film for Cis and Baltics, and Cineplex for Taiwan. Global Eagle took airline rights and FilmSharks chief Guido Rud is in talks for the UK, Germany, France, Japan and China.
Buena Vista International distributed Inseparables in Argentina last year. Sony previously acquired the film for Mexico, Colombia and Chile TV/VOD, Paris for Brazil, and Wiesner Distribution for central America.
Film Movement holds North American rights excluding pay-tv and streaming, which HBO Latino previously licensed.
- 5/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Marcos Carnevale’s Argentinian remake of Intouchables starring Coppa Volpi winner Oscar Martinez continues to be a hot seller for Guido Rud’s Buenos Aires-based sales company.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights excluding pay-tv and streaming, which HBO Latino previously licensed.
In two further key deals, Isaan Entertainment acquired the film for Spain and will set a second quarter theatrical release on more than 60 prints.
Movies Inspired acquired Inseparables for Italy and will also stage a theatrical release.
FilmSharks closed earlier deals with Buena Vista International for Argentina and Uruguay, and Sony for Mexico, Colombia and Chile TV/VOD.
Elsewhere, rights previously went in Brazil (Paris Filmes), Central America (Wiesner Distribution), Greece (Spentzos Film), Turkey (Tanweer), and Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia (Eurofilms).
Luis Alberto Scalella’s Sono Film and Viacom’s broadcaster Telefé produced the remake, which drew about 350,000 admissions in Argentina following the August 11 release last year.
Martinez, who won...
Film Movement has acquired North American rights excluding pay-tv and streaming, which HBO Latino previously licensed.
In two further key deals, Isaan Entertainment acquired the film for Spain and will set a second quarter theatrical release on more than 60 prints.
Movies Inspired acquired Inseparables for Italy and will also stage a theatrical release.
FilmSharks closed earlier deals with Buena Vista International for Argentina and Uruguay, and Sony for Mexico, Colombia and Chile TV/VOD.
Elsewhere, rights previously went in Brazil (Paris Filmes), Central America (Wiesner Distribution), Greece (Spentzos Film), Turkey (Tanweer), and Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia (Eurofilms).
Luis Alberto Scalella’s Sono Film and Viacom’s broadcaster Telefé produced the remake, which drew about 350,000 admissions in Argentina following the August 11 release last year.
Martinez, who won...
- 2/11/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ariel Winograd’s Argentinian comedy has been a local hit.
Fox International Productions has optioned multiple language remake rights from Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks to the hit Argentinian comedy That’s Not Cheating (Permitidos).
Ariel Winograd’s original film starred Lali Esposito and Martin Piroyansky and was produced by Nathalie Cabiron’s Tres Planos Cine.
Fox will handle all international sales on the story about a couple at dinner with friends who hatch the idea of a ‘one night pass’.
The scheme would allow each person to hook up with a celebrity for one night of passion and becomes reality for the man when he meets the celebrity of his dreams.
Buena Vista distributes Permitidos in Latin America and reported 350,000 admissions across the continent this year.
Patagonik, the powerhouse produced behind Winograd’s No Kids as well as A Boyfriend For My Wife, took a co-producer role on the original.
FilmSharks chief Guido...
Fox International Productions has optioned multiple language remake rights from Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks to the hit Argentinian comedy That’s Not Cheating (Permitidos).
Ariel Winograd’s original film starred Lali Esposito and Martin Piroyansky and was produced by Nathalie Cabiron’s Tres Planos Cine.
Fox will handle all international sales on the story about a couple at dinner with friends who hatch the idea of a ‘one night pass’.
The scheme would allow each person to hook up with a celebrity for one night of passion and becomes reality for the man when he meets the celebrity of his dreams.
Buena Vista distributes Permitidos in Latin America and reported 350,000 admissions across the continent this year.
Patagonik, the powerhouse produced behind Winograd’s No Kids as well as A Boyfriend For My Wife, took a co-producer role on the original.
FilmSharks chief Guido...
- 11/5/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Plus: Robert De Niro in line for Fslc Chaplin Award; and more…
Marcos Carnevale collected the career Precious Gems Award on Sunday as the four-day Gems festival ended under the auspices of the Miami International Film Festival.
Carnevale, the director of such films as Inseparables, Elsa y Fred and Corazón de León, took part in an on-stage conversation looking back on his work.
The Gems Audience prize went to Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake.
Robert De Niro will receive the Film Society Of Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award on May 8, 2017, and take part in a career tribute. De Niro stars in The Comedian, which will premiere at AFI Fest on November 11 and opens in North America through Sony Pictures Classics.Aisling Walsh’s Maudie has won the 35th Vancouver International Film Festival’s Super Channel People’s Choice Award. Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake won the Viff Most Popular International Feature, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s [link...
Marcos Carnevale collected the career Precious Gems Award on Sunday as the four-day Gems festival ended under the auspices of the Miami International Film Festival.
Carnevale, the director of such films as Inseparables, Elsa y Fred and Corazón de León, took part in an on-stage conversation looking back on his work.
The Gems Audience prize went to Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake.
Robert De Niro will receive the Film Society Of Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award on May 8, 2017, and take part in a career tribute. De Niro stars in The Comedian, which will premiere at AFI Fest on November 11 and opens in North America through Sony Pictures Classics.Aisling Walsh’s Maudie has won the 35th Vancouver International Film Festival’s Super Channel People’s Choice Award. Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake won the Viff Most Popular International Feature, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s [link...
- 10/16/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Pablo Larrain’s Chilean foreign language Oscar submission and Maren Ade’s German submission will screen at Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival Gems event that runs from October 13-16.
The line-up includes Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake, Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian drama The Salesman and winner of the Cannes best actor and best screenplay prizes.
There are Us premieres for Spanish box office hits Kiki, Love To Love and Marcos Carnevale’s Inseparables from Argentina, a remake of French smash The Intouchables. Carnevale will receive the Precious Gem Award on the night.
Previously announced The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé: A Trip Across Latin America from Paul Dugdale is confirmed as the opening night selection.
Anna Muylaert’s Don’t Call Me Son screens, as do Antonio Campos’ Christine, Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women and Jim Jarmusch’s documentary Gimme Danger.
Festival executive director and director of programming Jaie Laplante said:...
The line-up includes Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake, Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian drama The Salesman and winner of the Cannes best actor and best screenplay prizes.
There are Us premieres for Spanish box office hits Kiki, Love To Love and Marcos Carnevale’s Inseparables from Argentina, a remake of French smash The Intouchables. Carnevale will receive the Precious Gem Award on the night.
Previously announced The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé: A Trip Across Latin America from Paul Dugdale is confirmed as the opening night selection.
Anna Muylaert’s Don’t Call Me Son screens, as do Antonio Campos’ Christine, Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women and Jim Jarmusch’s documentary Gimme Danger.
Festival executive director and director of programming Jaie Laplante said:...
- 9/15/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
★★☆☆☆ Few rationally-thinking females jump out of planes at 10,000 feet with a smooth-talking chap they met only an hour previously. But this is the movies, so men and women are swept up in carefree spontaneity and abandon, ignoring the inherent dangers of a tandem skydive with a complete stranger. It's this kind of unadulterated silliness that typifies Laurent Tirard's Up for Love - an enjoyable, bright and breezy, yet vacuous remake of Corazon de Leon by Argentinian writer-director Marcos Carnevale. It's a well-travelled story which flips between fairytale idealism, slice of life semi- sincerity and a sporadically amusing rom-com that hits expectant notes but for one small detail.
- 8/4/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The selection for the 2016 Venice Film Festival has been announced, with new films by Terrence Malick, Pablo Larraín, Lav Diaz, Wang Bing, Amat Escalante, Tom Ford, and more.COMPETITIONVoyage of TimeThe Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour)Une vie i (Stéphane Brizé)La La Land (Damien Chazelle)The Light Between Oceans (Derek Cianfrance)El ciudadano ilustre (Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat)Spira Mirabilis (Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti)The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz)La región salvaje (Amat Escalante)Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)Piuma (Roan Johnson)Paradise (Andrei Konchalovsky)Brimstone (Martin Koolhoven)Jackie (Pablo Larraín)Voyage of Time (Terrence Malick)El Cristo Ciego (Christopher Murray)Frantz (François Ozon)Questi Giorni (Giuseppe Piccioni)Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)Les beaux jours D'Aranjuez (Wim Wenders)Out Of COMPETITIONSafariOur War (Bruno Chiaravolloti, Claudio Jampaglia, Benedetta Argentieri)I Called Him Morgan (Kasper Collin)One More Time with Feeling (Andrew Dominik)The Bleeder (Philippe Falardeau)The Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua...
- 7/28/2016
- MUBI
Is there a best picture winner in the bunch? The Venice Film Festival has unveiled its 2016 lineup, including both in competition and out of competition offerings, and with the festival’s strong track record of debuting recent best picture winners — from “Spotlight” to “Birdman” — there might be another big winner among the slate’s ranks.
As had been previously announced, the festival will open with Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land,” which will later hit Toronto (and, presumably, also Telluride). The festival will close with Antoine Fuqua’s “The Magnificent Seven,” which kicks off its own festival run days earlier, when it will open Tiff.
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
Other picks that will also do the Venice-tiff two-step include Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals,” Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival,” Francois Ozon’s “Frantz,” Nick Hamm...
As had been previously announced, the festival will open with Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land,” which will later hit Toronto (and, presumably, also Telluride). The festival will close with Antoine Fuqua’s “The Magnificent Seven,” which kicks off its own festival run days earlier, when it will open Tiff.
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
Other picks that will also do the Venice-tiff two-step include Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals,” Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival,” Francois Ozon’s “Frantz,” Nick Hamm...
- 7/28/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Lotus International, the international sales agent and the U.S. distributor, Millennium Entertainment, will open “ Elsa & Fred” theatrically on November 7.
Writer-Director Michael Radford and stars Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Marcia Gay Harden, Scott Bakula, George Segal and James Brolin team up to make an endearing film for many reasons.
The terms of endearment of Shirley Maclaine here are those of love, pure love as she takes three small steps with Christopher Plummer. Even at the ripe old ages of 75 and 80, love is young and ecstatic. And what memories septuagenarians and octogenarians have -- of Fellini, Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastrioanni defining new versions of love. This is a targeted film, made on a budget easily recouped.
Christopher Plummer plays himself as an elegant, gorgeous, refined and gentle man, disguised as an old grump and Shirley plays herself, defining herself as a stunning older woman as beautiful as she was when young. In her case, even her face work is forgivable and almost lovable because she knows, and you know she “knows” you know.
My memories of Rome were awakened by the beauty of the city, my memories of Fellini. This device of making love to the audience, so successful in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” by allowing the audience’s eyes to caress the city, is also effective here. The movie also triggered my memories of walking and talking at two almost back-to-back film festivals with Michael Radford…for some reason I am thinking Mill Valley or Napa Valley in the fall and the Guadalajara Film Festival (Ficg)…where walking on new streets in new cities, we talked about our lives and his next film (which was not this one) and enjoyed being together in the collegial way festivals sometimes lend themselves to being.
And my memories of Shirley MacLaine, when I was training at 20th Century Fox International in Amsterdam, so homesick that when it was advertised she was playing live, I went to her hotel and introduced myself as working for Fox and welcoming her to Amsterdam. Her first words were she did not work with Fox (was involved in a lawsuit with them?) which I was prompt to report back to my boss, David Raphael. I remember especially her strong hand as she took my wrist and urged me to have tea with her at the hotel where she was staying and dismissed her entourage. We spent a good three hours talking about so many things, as I attempted to explain the Dutch and how I was experiencing my year in Amsterdam, and I felt so much better afterward.
The next thing I heard about her was when I went to 20th Century Fox’s home office to say my good-byes and they told me to go say hello to her as she was filming Herb Ross’ “The Turning Point” (1977) there on the lot of 20th Century Fox. I was too shy unfortunately to go see her. But it was a turning point in my life too.
This is a movie for women of “uncertain age”. It has a great cast, an accomplished director who is reflected in the character of Christopher Plummer. We hope it might cross over, but its budget is reasonable enough that it need not break box office records in order to break even. I notice that Intramovies, one of last two remaining independent international sales agent-production companies to remain standing in Italy (and both are owned by women of un certain age – Paola Corvino of Intramovies and Adriana Chiesa of Adriana Chiesa Enterprises) is the producer who brought in Rome, the eternal city of sacred and profane love.
The film premiered at Afm 2013 where Inferno was selling it. Something has transpired over the past year and Inferno’s product or Inferno itself has morphed into Lotus International (That is a story to look into another time), just as the U.S. distributor, Bill Lee’sMillennium Entertainment (“ Fading Gigolo” by John Turturro for Theatrical, Tv, Dvd-Video, Vod, Airline; “ The Assassin Next Door” (“Kirot”) by Danny Lerner and “Gacy” by Clive Saunders) and not to be confused with NuImage’s Millennium Films, is rumored to be about to change its name.
Lucky for me, I had not seen the Spanish-language original of “Elsa & Fred” directed by Marcos Camerole in 2005. I had heard such great things about it over a year of festivals and markets, but somehow always missed it. That Argentinean-Spanish coproduction won nine prestigious international awards.
It also sold well, although late to the U.S. where DistriMax took the rights (2008). But that is how “foreign” films fare in the U.S. Independent producers and financiers abroad don’t even bother factoring in the U.S. market – except for remake rights, if they are smart enough. But the story and movie itself was so good that it accomplished a rare feat of distribution: it crossed the borders of Latin American countries, something that rarely happens, and sold to both Venezuela - Amazonia Films and Chile - Four Films and played well in Spain -Altafilms Grupo Alta Classics and Argentina -Columbia TriStar Films de Argentina andLk-tel It also sold to Switzerland -Stamm Film Ag and the Netherlands - Filmfreak Distributie, It even sold to Taiwan which is a greater feat for Spanish language films.
According to Box Office Mojo its international gross was almost $3,000,000:
Foreign Total
-
7/28/05
n/a
-
$2,796,813
3/1/09
Argentina
Sony
7/28/05
$88,441
7.1%
$1,247,302
11/13/05
Belgium
Cnc
5/30/07
$2,153
100%
$2,153
6/3/07
Mexico
Zima
8/4/06
-
-
$804,202
11/16/06
New Zealand
Rialto
1/16/08
$3,018
10.2%
$29,679
3/9/08
Spain
Alta
11/11/05
$128,771
20.9%
$616,169
12/11/05
Taiwan
-
2/13/09
$3,160
33.2%
$9,509
3/1/09
Venezuela
-
10/17/08
$12,237
13.9%
$87,799
Information courtesy of The Internet Movie Database. Used with permission.
o Elsa & Fred (2014)
o Movie
o Director: Michael Radford (I), Production Co: Cuatro Plus Films [Us]
o Country: United States , Filming Location: New Orleans,… More
o Genre: Comedy | Family | Romance
o Elsa & Fred (2005)
o Movie
o Director: Marcos Carnevale, Production Co: Shazam S.A. [Ar]
o Aka: Elsa y Fred | Elsa és Fred | Intramontabile effervescenza
o Countries: Argentina | Spain , Filming Location: Madrid, Spain
o Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
The new and nearly word-for-word remake of the film has sold to Canada’sMétropole Films Distribution, Israel’sUnited King Films Ltd and Diamond Films for Argentina, the distributor of “The Hunger Games” trilogy and other exciting films. All three of these companies are top caliber which attests to the excellence of this film. If other rights are still available after one year, as they seem to be, this may the right time to acquire them – so listen up all you distributors out there in the world aiming at the cultured klatch of women who pay their own way to movies, theater, concerts and dancing! Reviewed at Wilshire Screening Room, October 12, 2014. Opens in theaters November 7, 2014.
Writer-Director Michael Radford and stars Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Marcia Gay Harden, Scott Bakula, George Segal and James Brolin team up to make an endearing film for many reasons.
The terms of endearment of Shirley Maclaine here are those of love, pure love as she takes three small steps with Christopher Plummer. Even at the ripe old ages of 75 and 80, love is young and ecstatic. And what memories septuagenarians and octogenarians have -- of Fellini, Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastrioanni defining new versions of love. This is a targeted film, made on a budget easily recouped.
Christopher Plummer plays himself as an elegant, gorgeous, refined and gentle man, disguised as an old grump and Shirley plays herself, defining herself as a stunning older woman as beautiful as she was when young. In her case, even her face work is forgivable and almost lovable because she knows, and you know she “knows” you know.
My memories of Rome were awakened by the beauty of the city, my memories of Fellini. This device of making love to the audience, so successful in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” by allowing the audience’s eyes to caress the city, is also effective here. The movie also triggered my memories of walking and talking at two almost back-to-back film festivals with Michael Radford…for some reason I am thinking Mill Valley or Napa Valley in the fall and the Guadalajara Film Festival (Ficg)…where walking on new streets in new cities, we talked about our lives and his next film (which was not this one) and enjoyed being together in the collegial way festivals sometimes lend themselves to being.
And my memories of Shirley MacLaine, when I was training at 20th Century Fox International in Amsterdam, so homesick that when it was advertised she was playing live, I went to her hotel and introduced myself as working for Fox and welcoming her to Amsterdam. Her first words were she did not work with Fox (was involved in a lawsuit with them?) which I was prompt to report back to my boss, David Raphael. I remember especially her strong hand as she took my wrist and urged me to have tea with her at the hotel where she was staying and dismissed her entourage. We spent a good three hours talking about so many things, as I attempted to explain the Dutch and how I was experiencing my year in Amsterdam, and I felt so much better afterward.
The next thing I heard about her was when I went to 20th Century Fox’s home office to say my good-byes and they told me to go say hello to her as she was filming Herb Ross’ “The Turning Point” (1977) there on the lot of 20th Century Fox. I was too shy unfortunately to go see her. But it was a turning point in my life too.
This is a movie for women of “uncertain age”. It has a great cast, an accomplished director who is reflected in the character of Christopher Plummer. We hope it might cross over, but its budget is reasonable enough that it need not break box office records in order to break even. I notice that Intramovies, one of last two remaining independent international sales agent-production companies to remain standing in Italy (and both are owned by women of un certain age – Paola Corvino of Intramovies and Adriana Chiesa of Adriana Chiesa Enterprises) is the producer who brought in Rome, the eternal city of sacred and profane love.
The film premiered at Afm 2013 where Inferno was selling it. Something has transpired over the past year and Inferno’s product or Inferno itself has morphed into Lotus International (That is a story to look into another time), just as the U.S. distributor, Bill Lee’sMillennium Entertainment (“ Fading Gigolo” by John Turturro for Theatrical, Tv, Dvd-Video, Vod, Airline; “ The Assassin Next Door” (“Kirot”) by Danny Lerner and “Gacy” by Clive Saunders) and not to be confused with NuImage’s Millennium Films, is rumored to be about to change its name.
Lucky for me, I had not seen the Spanish-language original of “Elsa & Fred” directed by Marcos Camerole in 2005. I had heard such great things about it over a year of festivals and markets, but somehow always missed it. That Argentinean-Spanish coproduction won nine prestigious international awards.
It also sold well, although late to the U.S. where DistriMax took the rights (2008). But that is how “foreign” films fare in the U.S. Independent producers and financiers abroad don’t even bother factoring in the U.S. market – except for remake rights, if they are smart enough. But the story and movie itself was so good that it accomplished a rare feat of distribution: it crossed the borders of Latin American countries, something that rarely happens, and sold to both Venezuela - Amazonia Films and Chile - Four Films and played well in Spain -Altafilms Grupo Alta Classics and Argentina -Columbia TriStar Films de Argentina andLk-tel It also sold to Switzerland -Stamm Film Ag and the Netherlands - Filmfreak Distributie, It even sold to Taiwan which is a greater feat for Spanish language films.
According to Box Office Mojo its international gross was almost $3,000,000:
Foreign Total
-
7/28/05
n/a
-
$2,796,813
3/1/09
Argentina
Sony
7/28/05
$88,441
7.1%
$1,247,302
11/13/05
Belgium
Cnc
5/30/07
$2,153
100%
$2,153
6/3/07
Mexico
Zima
8/4/06
-
-
$804,202
11/16/06
New Zealand
Rialto
1/16/08
$3,018
10.2%
$29,679
3/9/08
Spain
Alta
11/11/05
$128,771
20.9%
$616,169
12/11/05
Taiwan
-
2/13/09
$3,160
33.2%
$9,509
3/1/09
Venezuela
-
10/17/08
$12,237
13.9%
$87,799
Information courtesy of The Internet Movie Database. Used with permission.
o Elsa & Fred (2014)
o Movie
o Director: Michael Radford (I), Production Co: Cuatro Plus Films [Us]
o Country: United States , Filming Location: New Orleans,… More
o Genre: Comedy | Family | Romance
o Elsa & Fred (2005)
o Movie
o Director: Marcos Carnevale, Production Co: Shazam S.A. [Ar]
o Aka: Elsa y Fred | Elsa és Fred | Intramontabile effervescenza
o Countries: Argentina | Spain , Filming Location: Madrid, Spain
o Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
The new and nearly word-for-word remake of the film has sold to Canada’sMétropole Films Distribution, Israel’sUnited King Films Ltd and Diamond Films for Argentina, the distributor of “The Hunger Games” trilogy and other exciting films. All three of these companies are top caliber which attests to the excellence of this film. If other rights are still available after one year, as they seem to be, this may the right time to acquire them – so listen up all you distributors out there in the world aiming at the cultured klatch of women who pay their own way to movies, theater, concerts and dancing! Reviewed at Wilshire Screening Room, October 12, 2014. Opens in theaters November 7, 2014.
- 11/5/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Michael Radford's romantic comedy Elsa & Fred is a remake of Marcos Carnevale's Spanish-language film of the same name, and it also retains the original's obsession with La Dolce Vita. It's seventysomething Elsa (Shirley MacLaine) who is obsessed with the Fellini picture, telling older widower and new neighbor Fred (Christopher Plummer) that back in the day she was a dead ringer for Anita Ekberg. World-weary Fred doesn't quite believe that — or much of anything else she claims, such as Picasso having painted her — yet he finds himself drawn into her orbit all the same, despite his desire to just lie around and wait for death's cold embrace. This occasionally charming November-December romance has elements of a Douglas Sirk woman's weepie, part...
- 11/5/2014
- Village Voice
Anything Elsa: Radford’s Remake Rough Around the Edges
English director Michael Radford, still best known for earlier works 1984 (1984) and the critical darling Il Postino (1994), arrives with his most notable effort since that Demi Moore diamond heist flick, Flawless (2007) with a remake of Argentinean director Marcos Carnevale’s 2005 film, Elsa & Fred. Featuring two iconic American stars in this rehashed material gains Radford a lot of leverage in what’s otherwise a rather feeble claptrap of mounting cliché, though it will indubitably find a strong herd of champions from older audience members hungry for mainstream-minded cinematic vehicles aimed at their sensibilities and starring familiar faces.
In tax-break friendly New Orleans, octogenarian Fred (Christopher Plummer) has recently lost his wife, and is aggravated this his daughter Lydia (Marcia Gay Harden) has taken it upon herself, and with the help of her smarmy husband (Chris Noth), to relocate him to a smaller apartment.
English director Michael Radford, still best known for earlier works 1984 (1984) and the critical darling Il Postino (1994), arrives with his most notable effort since that Demi Moore diamond heist flick, Flawless (2007) with a remake of Argentinean director Marcos Carnevale’s 2005 film, Elsa & Fred. Featuring two iconic American stars in this rehashed material gains Radford a lot of leverage in what’s otherwise a rather feeble claptrap of mounting cliché, though it will indubitably find a strong herd of champions from older audience members hungry for mainstream-minded cinematic vehicles aimed at their sensibilities and starring familiar faces.
In tax-break friendly New Orleans, octogenarian Fred (Christopher Plummer) has recently lost his wife, and is aggravated this his daughter Lydia (Marcia Gay Harden) has taken it upon herself, and with the help of her smarmy husband (Chris Noth), to relocate him to a smaller apartment.
- 11/3/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Christopher Plummer and Shirley MacLaine were charming the hell out of each other -- and everyone else in Miami – during Friday night’s gala opening of the Miami International Film Festival, which hosted the world premiere of “Elsa & Fred,” Michael Radford’s remake of the 2005 Argentine crowd-pleaser “Elsa y Fred.” But don’t tell Plummer it’s a remake. “I don’t like that word,” said 84-year-old Plummer, who did agree that working with his old pal Shirley was a joy, and seemed ready to take his one-man show “A Word or Two” on the road, or at least to Broadway (which he implied was a possibility). “For one thing, we’re in it, Shirley and I, and Michael totally rewrote it. So I prefer to think of it as the English-language version. “Some of the Argentine crew came and watched while we were filming,” he said, including director Marcos Carnevale.
- 3/8/2014
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Michael Radford's Elsa & Fred English-language remake added Scott Bakula in Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer starrer. Based on 2005's Spanish-language Elsa y Fred film of directed by Marcos Carnevale, the film follows two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it’s never too late to love. or to dream. In the original synopsis, Elsa is 82 years-old and for the past 60 years she’s dreamt of a moment that Fellini had already envisaged: the scene of “La Dolce Vita” at the Fontana di Trevi. The same scene without Anita Ekberg in it but Elsa instead. Without Marcello Mastroiani but with that love that took so long to arrive. Alfredo is a bit younger than Elsa and was always a good man who did everything he was supposed to do. After losing his wife, he feels disturbed and confused and his daughter decides that it would be...
- 12/12/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Michael Radford's Elsa & Fred English-language remake added Scott Bakula in Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer starrer. Based on 2005's Spanish-language Elsa y Fred film of directed by Marcos Carnevale, the film follows two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it’s never too late to love. or to dream. In the original synopsis, Elsa is 82 years-old and for the past 60 years she’s dreamt of a moment that Fellini had already envisaged: the scene of “La Dolce Vita” at the Fontana di Trevi. The same scene without Anita Ekberg in it but Elsa instead. Without Marcello Mastroiani but with that love that took so long to arrive. Alfredo is a bit younger than Elsa and was always a good man who did everything he was supposed to do. After losing his wife, he feels disturbed and confused and his daughter decides that it would be...
- 12/12/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Walk of Shame
James Marsden has joined the cast of the comedy "Walk of Shame" for Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.
The story centers on an uptight news anchor (Elizabeth Banks), whose prospects for a new job are put in jeopardy after she is locked out after a one-night stand, with no money, phone, or ID. [Source: Variety]
Prisoners
Terrence Howard has joined the cast of Denis Villeneuve's "Prisoners" at Alcon Entertainment. Shooting kicks off in February.
Hugh Jackman plays a small-town carpenter whose young daughter and her best friend are abducted. After the cops fail to find them, he takes the law into his own hands but runs up against a detective (Jake Gyllenhaal). Melissa Leo, Viola Davis, Maria Bello and Paul Dano also star. [Source: Deadline]
Elsa & Fred
Marcia Gay Harden has signed on to Michael Radford's "Elsa & Fred" opposite Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer. Shooting kicks off Monday...
James Marsden has joined the cast of the comedy "Walk of Shame" for Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.
The story centers on an uptight news anchor (Elizabeth Banks), whose prospects for a new job are put in jeopardy after she is locked out after a one-night stand, with no money, phone, or ID. [Source: Variety]
Prisoners
Terrence Howard has joined the cast of Denis Villeneuve's "Prisoners" at Alcon Entertainment. Shooting kicks off in February.
Hugh Jackman plays a small-town carpenter whose young daughter and her best friend are abducted. After the cops fail to find them, he takes the law into his own hands but runs up against a detective (Jake Gyllenhaal). Melissa Leo, Viola Davis, Maria Bello and Paul Dano also star. [Source: Deadline]
Elsa & Fred
Marcia Gay Harden has signed on to Michael Radford's "Elsa & Fred" opposite Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer. Shooting kicks off Monday...
- 12/7/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Joining the cast of Michael Radford's remake of "Elsa & Fred," starring Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer, are Marcia Gay Harden, Chris Noth, Jared Gilman, James Brolin, George Segal, Wendell Pierce, Reg Rogers, and Erika Alexander. The film just kicked off production in New Orleans. The film is a remake of the 2005 Spanish-Argentine romantic comedy from director Marcos Carnevale, which was also adapted into a stage play. MacLaine plays a gregarious and lively New Orleans retiree, and Plummer will be the straight-laced widower that moves into her apartment, causing conflict as she won't leave him alone. The film, which raised funds at the Afm, will also shoot in Rome. During Afm, producer Ed Saxon said: "I'm pinching myself; as getting the chance to work with Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, and Michael Radford is a producer's dream come true." He is producing alongside Nicolas Veinberg, Matthias Ehrenberg, Ricardo...
- 12/4/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Marcia Gay Harden has joined the cast of Michael Radford's Elsa & Fred, starring with Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer, reports Variety. Filming started in New Orleans on Monday on the projected which also includes Chris Noth, Jared Gilman, James Brolin, George Segal, Wendell Pierce, Reg Rogers and Erika Alexander. The English remake of Marcos Carnevale's Spanish language Elsa & Fred tells of two older people who fall in love late in life. Nicolas Veinberg, Matthias Ehrenberg, Ricardo Kleinbaum, Jose Levy and Edward Saxon produce while Angel Losada Moreno, Carsten Lorenz. Aaron Gilbert, Osvaldo Rios and Rob Weston serve as exec producers.
- 12/4/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Marcia Gay Harden has joined the cast of Michael Radford's Elsa & Fred, starring with Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer, reports Variety. Filming started in New Orleans on Monday on the projected which also includes Chris Noth, Jared Gilman, James Brolin, George Segal, Wendell Pierce, Reg Rogers and Erika Alexander. The English remake of Marcos Carnevale's Spanish language Elsa & Fred tells of two older people who fall in love late in life. Nicolas Veinberg, Matthias Ehrenberg, Ricardo Kleinbaum, Jose Levy and Edward Saxon produce while Angel Losada Moreno, Carsten Lorenz. Aaron Gilbert, Osvaldo Rios and Rob Weston serve as exec producers.
- 12/4/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Christopher Plummer (Beginners) and Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment) will co-star in Elsa and Fred, THR are reporting.
The film, which is a remake of writer-director Marcos Carnevale’s hit Spanish-Argentine film, centers on a lively retiree (MacLaine) who gets an unwanted neighbour when straight-laced widower Fred (Plummer) moves into her apartment building.
Michael Radford is attached to direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with his Il Postino partner Anna Pavignano. Elsa and Fred is scheduled to shoot in New Orleans and Rome in December.
Plummer will next be seen in Stephen Frears’ Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Flight, while MacLaine has a role in the Ben Stiller-starrer The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
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The film, which is a remake of writer-director Marcos Carnevale’s hit Spanish-Argentine film, centers on a lively retiree (MacLaine) who gets an unwanted neighbour when straight-laced widower Fred (Plummer) moves into her apartment building.
Michael Radford is attached to direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with his Il Postino partner Anna Pavignano. Elsa and Fred is scheduled to shoot in New Orleans and Rome in December.
Plummer will next be seen in Stephen Frears’ Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Flight, while MacLaine has a role in the Ben Stiller-starrer The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
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- 11/2/2012
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Santa Monica -- Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer have signed on to star in the romantic comedy Elsa & Fred, a remake of the hit Spanish-Argentine film, which Michael Radford (Il Postino) will direct. MacLaine plays a lively retiree in New Orleans who gets a at first unwanted neighbour when straight-laced widower Fred (Plummer) moves into her apartment building. The original 2005 film was set in Madrid. Written and directed by Marcos Carnevale, it featured actors China Zorrilla and Manuel Alexandre and was a huge box office hit in Argentina. Carnevale brought the project to Afm last year to
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- 10/31/2012
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Michael Radford ("Il Postino") is set to direct Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer in the English-language remake of the Spanish-Argentine box-office hit, "Elsa & Fred," the filmmakers announced on Wednesday at the American Film Market. The romantic comedy features Elsa (MacLaine) as a gregarious retiree who is as lively as the New Orleans streets outside her apartment. When straight-laced widower Fred (Plummer) moves into her building, conflict ensues. Adapted from Marcos Carnevale's film that played in theaters in Latin America for a year and yielded a successful stage play, the script is...
- 10/31/2012
- by Liza Foreman
- The Wrap
Anita
Dir. Marcos Carnevale (2009, Argentina, 104 mins.)
Screenplay by Marcos Carnevale & Marcela Guerty
Argentina, 2009
Director Marcos Carnevale made a bold choice with Anita. Rather than trying to explain a tragedy by dissecting it, Carnevale elected to explain how a tragedy feels by focusing on a character’s reaction at the expense of the tragic event itself. In the course of this film, we find out very little about the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, the event that sparks the film’s action and permeates the film’s atmosphere. However, as we follow Anita’s journey – made fraught by her Downs Syndrome – through a Buenos Aires reeling in grief, we are exposed to such bewilderment, terror, distrust, and kindness that the particulars of the bombing are irrelevant because we can feel the film’s tragedy without them.
This film’s ensemble is what makes it work. Ordinarily, having important characters...
Dir. Marcos Carnevale (2009, Argentina, 104 mins.)
Screenplay by Marcos Carnevale & Marcela Guerty
Argentina, 2009
Director Marcos Carnevale made a bold choice with Anita. Rather than trying to explain a tragedy by dissecting it, Carnevale elected to explain how a tragedy feels by focusing on a character’s reaction at the expense of the tragic event itself. In the course of this film, we find out very little about the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, the event that sparks the film’s action and permeates the film’s atmosphere. However, as we follow Anita’s journey – made fraught by her Downs Syndrome – through a Buenos Aires reeling in grief, we are exposed to such bewilderment, terror, distrust, and kindness that the particulars of the bombing are irrelevant because we can feel the film’s tragedy without them.
This film’s ensemble is what makes it work. Ordinarily, having important characters...
- 4/10/2011
- by DaveRobson
- SoundOnSight
The 13th Annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (Laliff) announced its winners at the Paramount Theatre on the Paramount Lot in Hollywood. Festival co-founders Edward James Olmos and Marlene Dermer led the award ceremony presentation. Winners were announced in the categories of best feature film, best director, best screenplay, best opera prima, best short, best documentary, and audience awards in the feature and documentary categories. Special mentions from the jury were also announced. Features Category: Best Film (Rita Award) Winner: “Anita” Director: Marcos Carnevale Screenwriter: Marcos Carnevale, Lily Ann Martin, Marcela Guerty Country: Argentina Best Screenplay: Features Category Winner: “Morenita” Director: Alan Jonsson Gavica Screenwriter: Alan Jonsson Gavica, Annabel [...]...
- 10/20/2009
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
Although too few movies take into account the rich lives of the elderly—unless those elderly are actors trying to pass as action heroes—that doesn't fully excuse a movie as cloying and predictable as Elsa & Fred. Manuel Alexandre and China Zorrilla star as unattached neighbors who take turns inadvertently insulting each other, then develop a grudging friendship that turns into a tentative romance. She's a brassy matron who speaks her mind, craves adventure, and models herself after Anita Ekberg. He's a timid soul who clings to his routine and his medication, and sums up his late wife in one word: "tidy." Will they overcome their differences and find happiness together before either the end credits roll or one of them croaks? Do you even need to ask? Writer-director Marcos Carnevale keeps Elsa & Fred breezy and light—even with the specter of death hovering over his leads—but the absence of.
- 6/26/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
By Neil Pedley
As the temperature rises, romance blooms amongst the geriatric set, "Mary Poppins" goes Bollywood, and parents will get their first chance to lay eyes on that which will likely have them driving to Toys "R" Us all summer long.
"Elsa and Fred"
Seeing anyone under 30 fall in love on screen is elusive these days, and so director Marcos Carnevale's gentle and endearing tale of romance between a couple with a real-life combined age of 176 is quite the breath of fresh air. In a role that nabbed several awards in his native Spain, Manuel Alexandre stars as Fred, an embittered widower whose chance encounter with Elsa (China Zorilla), a mischievous Fellini fanatic, leads the pair to Italy to fulfill her dream of reenacting the famous Trevi Fountain scene from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita." In Spanish with subtitles.
Opens in limited release.
"Finding Amanda"
Fans of the small...
As the temperature rises, romance blooms amongst the geriatric set, "Mary Poppins" goes Bollywood, and parents will get their first chance to lay eyes on that which will likely have them driving to Toys "R" Us all summer long.
"Elsa and Fred"
Seeing anyone under 30 fall in love on screen is elusive these days, and so director Marcos Carnevale's gentle and endearing tale of romance between a couple with a real-life combined age of 176 is quite the breath of fresh air. In a role that nabbed several awards in his native Spain, Manuel Alexandre stars as Fred, an embittered widower whose chance encounter with Elsa (China Zorilla), a mischievous Fellini fanatic, leads the pair to Italy to fulfill her dream of reenacting the famous Trevi Fountain scene from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita." In Spanish with subtitles.
Opens in limited release.
"Finding Amanda"
Fans of the small...
- 6/23/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Michael Hazanavius' OSS 117: Nest of Spies, a French spy spoof, earned the Golden Space Needle Audience Award as best film at the 32nd annual Seattle International Film Festival, which concluded its 25-day run Sunday. Runners-up were Goran Dukic's Wrist Cutters: A Love Story, Marcos Carnevale's Elsa & Fred, Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer's Quinceanera and Charles Sturridge's Lassie. Dukic also took the prize for best director. The Trials of Darryl Hunt, an account of a man wrongly imprisoned in a rape/murder case, won the best documentary award for its directors Rickie Stern and Annie Sundberg.
- 6/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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