MADRID -- Spain's Lola Films said Wednesday it has expanded its growing relationship with U.K. sales outfit IAC, with the British company handling worldwide rights outside of Spain on Menno Meyjes' Manolete. Presently shooting in Spain and starring Adrien Brody and Penelope Cruz, Manolete is the third feature film IAC will handle for Lola, following Ray Loriega's Teresa and Luis Llosa's The Feast of the Goat. Produced by Andres Vicente Gomez's Lola Films, with Tarak Ben Ammar of Quinta Communications co-producing, the movie depicts the love affair of legendary Spanish bullfighter Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez and Lupe Sino.
- 5/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Spanish filmmakers are facing a campaign of disruption by animal rights activists over bullfighting scenes in the upcoming film Manolete. Spearheaded by U.K.-based PETA, which has branches in countries including the U.S., Spain, Germany, India and France, the organization called Thursday for "worldwide protests" against Menno Meyjes' film. PETA said all calls to the filmmakers to use CGI technology in place of real bullfighting sequences have been met with a stony silence. The movie, scheduled to start shooting at the end of March in Spain, stars Adrien Brody and Penelope Cruz in the story of legendary Spanish bullfighter Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez and his love affair with Lupe Sino.
LONDON -- U.K. based Sequence Films has teamed with Spain's Lola Film and Tarak Ben Ammar's Quinta Communications to produce the long-gestating matador drama Manolete, the parties said Thursday. Described by the producers as a labor of love for Oscar nominee Menno Meyjes (The Color Purple), the producers said Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and actress Penelope Cruz will star in the movie written and to be directed by Meyjes. Set around the passion and the fury of the bullring in 1940's Spain, Manolete details the true story of Spain's legendary bullfighter, Manolete, and of his obsessive love affair with a heart-stoppingly beautiful actress, Lupe Sino.
- 11/17/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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