Phenomena is a movie directed by Carlos Therón starringr Belén Rueda, Gracia Olayo and Toni Acosta.
Starting this Friday on Netflix.
Nice within its pretensions, and with the grace of letting us appreciate Belén Rueda in a horror film after having seen her in so many horror films… way more serious than this one.
Very curated in the photography… but in the rest, an entertainment that “goes to the point” and, without leaving its light tone, manages to entertain for a while and be forgotten very quickly.
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It will not go down in history, but it leaves a pleasant taste in the mouth, without pretensions, without wanting to be anything other than what it is, without seeking to find the original and, with a tone of self-conscious parody, just aiming at entertaining without looking for absolutely nothing else.
Deeply Spanish, with that humor that succeeds in the Spain that consumes national production that,...
Starting this Friday on Netflix.
Nice within its pretensions, and with the grace of letting us appreciate Belén Rueda in a horror film after having seen her in so many horror films… way more serious than this one.
Very curated in the photography… but in the rest, an entertainment that “goes to the point” and, without leaving its light tone, manages to entertain for a while and be forgotten very quickly.
Movie Review
It will not go down in history, but it leaves a pleasant taste in the mouth, without pretensions, without wanting to be anything other than what it is, without seeking to find the original and, with a tone of self-conscious parody, just aiming at entertaining without looking for absolutely nothing else.
Deeply Spanish, with that humor that succeeds in the Spain that consumes national production that,...
- 4/14/2023
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Spanish indie production shingle Nadie es Perfecto, producer of Alex de la Iglesia’s hit comedy “Perfectos Desconocidos,” has tapped former Netflix exec Juan Mayne to join the company as it revs up its slate with a slew of new projects.
These include two pics in pre-production: “La navidad en sus manos,” in co-production with Bowfinger and Esto También Pasará, directed by Joaquín Mazón, starring Ernesto Sevilla and with a special collaboration from actor-filmmaker Santiago Segura, who has worked with de la Iglesia and Guillermo del Toro; and “Locomía,” directed by Kike Maillo, starring Jaime Lorente and Alberto Ammann.
Mayne’s 20 plus years of experience in the entertainment industry includes stints at Warner Bros. and Disney before heading the film division of Netflix in Spain. Said Mayne: “I am tremendously excited to begin this new role as an independent producer in a company that has spent two decades telling the best stories,...
These include two pics in pre-production: “La navidad en sus manos,” in co-production with Bowfinger and Esto También Pasará, directed by Joaquín Mazón, starring Ernesto Sevilla and with a special collaboration from actor-filmmaker Santiago Segura, who has worked with de la Iglesia and Guillermo del Toro; and “Locomía,” directed by Kike Maillo, starring Jaime Lorente and Alberto Ammann.
Mayne’s 20 plus years of experience in the entertainment industry includes stints at Warner Bros. and Disney before heading the film division of Netflix in Spain. Said Mayne: “I am tremendously excited to begin this new role as an independent producer in a company that has spent two decades telling the best stories,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Germany’s Beta Film has picked up world sales on two tales of Spanish power women: Movistar Plus’ originals “Supernormal” and “You Shall Not Lie,” the latter created and directed by “The Red Band Society” helmer Pau Freixas.
Written by Olatz Arroyo and Marta Sánchez, head writers on Atresmedia hit “Down There,” “Supernormal” is directed by Emilio Martínez Lazaro, whose credits take in “Spanish Affair,” the highest grossing Spanish film of all time in Spain. A six-part half-hour, it stars Miren Ibarguren as Patricia, a hyper over-achiever who has it all: a top job at an investment bank, a loving husband and three children, a lovely house in a leafy Madrid suburb. But she wants far more, especial when battling rival Mauro for promotion in the man-dominated high finance world.
A six-hour crime drama-thriller, “You Shall Not Lie” (“Todos Mienten”) is produced by Filmax, the Barcelona-based production-distribution-sales studio behind Freixas...
Written by Olatz Arroyo and Marta Sánchez, head writers on Atresmedia hit “Down There,” “Supernormal” is directed by Emilio Martínez Lazaro, whose credits take in “Spanish Affair,” the highest grossing Spanish film of all time in Spain. A six-part half-hour, it stars Miren Ibarguren as Patricia, a hyper over-achiever who has it all: a top job at an investment bank, a loving husband and three children, a lovely house in a leafy Madrid suburb. But she wants far more, especial when battling rival Mauro for promotion in the man-dominated high finance world.
A six-hour crime drama-thriller, “You Shall Not Lie” (“Todos Mienten”) is produced by Filmax, the Barcelona-based production-distribution-sales studio behind Freixas...
- 4/9/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The new comedy by the Spaniard, a Spanish-Mexican co-production toplined by Miren Ibarguren, Eduardo Casanova and Pol Monen, is currently filming in Mexico. Monday 8 March marked the start of the Mexican leg of the shoot for La novia de América (lit. “The Bride of America”), a comedy helmed by Alfonso Albacete, based on a true story and starring, on the Spanish side, Miren Ibarguren (who also stars in the soon-to-be-released Mamá o papá and Operación Camarón), Pol Monen (seen recently in The Paramedic and Who Would You Take to a Deserted Island?) and Eduardo Casanova. The Mexican cast includes Diana Bovio, Christian Vázquez and Maribel Guardia. The working-class neighbourhood of Xochimilco and the historic centre of Mexico City are the main locations where the first stage of...
The helmer has wrapped the shoot for this tense Movistar+ series, the cast of which includes Natalia Verbeke, Ernesto Alterio, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Juan Diego Botto. Todos mienten (lit. “They’re All Lying”) is a thriller written and directed by Barcelona-born Pau Freixas (Deadly Cargo), toplined by Irene Arcos, Natalia Verbeke, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Ernesto Alterio, who are flanked by Juan Diego Botto, Miren Ibarguren, Eva Santolaria (who previously worked with the filmmaker on Héroes), Amaia Salamanca, Jorge Bosch and Carmen Arrufat, the big revelation from Lucía Alemany’s feature debut, The Innocence. Principal photography – which began in October and took place on location in Barcelona, Tarragona and Girona – is just wrapping now, after a shoot that was forced to adhere to the requisite health-and-safety measures to ensure that it could go ahead while halting the spread of the coronavirus. The synopsis tells of how the peaceful life of the.
Fruit of a burgeoning production axis in Spain between Warner Bros. Pictures Intl. España and Atresmedia Cine, part of Buendia Estudios, ’You Keep the Kids!’ has been acquired for international sales by Film Factory Ent.
Scheduled to bow in Spanish theaters on Dec. 4, released by Warner Bros., the comedy will be brought onto the market at this week’s AFM where Film Factory’s Ent.’s Vicente Canales will be unveiling a first promo.
Inspired by French hit “Daddy or Mommy,” from scribe-helmer duo Alexandre de la Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte (“What’s in a Name?”), which earned $19.9 million in France, “You Keep the Kids!” is helmed by “Élite” director Dani de la Orden and headlines Paco Leon, star of sitcom “Aida,” a free-to-air TV phenomenon over 2005-14, and more latterly Netflix Mexico hit “House of Flowers.”
He is reunited with another “Aida” alum, Miren Ibarguren, who also looks set for...
Scheduled to bow in Spanish theaters on Dec. 4, released by Warner Bros., the comedy will be brought onto the market at this week’s AFM where Film Factory’s Ent.’s Vicente Canales will be unveiling a first promo.
Inspired by French hit “Daddy or Mommy,” from scribe-helmer duo Alexandre de la Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte (“What’s in a Name?”), which earned $19.9 million in France, “You Keep the Kids!” is helmed by “Élite” director Dani de la Orden and headlines Paco Leon, star of sitcom “Aida,” a free-to-air TV phenomenon over 2005-14, and more latterly Netflix Mexico hit “House of Flowers.”
He is reunited with another “Aida” alum, Miren Ibarguren, who also looks set for...
- 11/9/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Key Spanish seller Filmax has taken international rights to comedy I Can Quit Whenever I Want (Lo Dejo Cuando Quiera) from local giant Telecinco Cinema, producers of the successful Spanish reboot of Perfect Strangers, The Impossible and The Orphanage, and Mod Producciones, producers of The Tribe and The Summit.
The anticipated Spanish-language film is a remake of hit Italian crime-comedy Smetto Quando Voglio, about three college professors, recently unemployed due to the economic crisis, who develop a multi-vitamin that allows them to party all night long without side effects. They launch themselves into the world of nightclubs and shady dealings, hoping to find a market for their new wonder drug.
This one sounds like a lot of fun. English-language remake potential seems clear.
Starring are David Verdaguer (Summer 1993), Ernesto Sevilla (We Are Pregnant), Carlos Santos (Smoke and Mirrors), Cristina Castaño (Under the Same Roof), Miren Ibarguren, Amaia Salamanca (Our...
The anticipated Spanish-language film is a remake of hit Italian crime-comedy Smetto Quando Voglio, about three college professors, recently unemployed due to the economic crisis, who develop a multi-vitamin that allows them to party all night long without side effects. They launch themselves into the world of nightclubs and shady dealings, hoping to find a market for their new wonder drug.
This one sounds like a lot of fun. English-language remake potential seems clear.
Starring are David Verdaguer (Summer 1993), Ernesto Sevilla (We Are Pregnant), Carlos Santos (Smoke and Mirrors), Cristina Castaño (Under the Same Roof), Miren Ibarguren, Amaia Salamanca (Our...
- 2/7/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix unveiled its second original feature film from Spain on Tuesday. Fe de Etarras, a comedy about a dysfunctional terrorist cell in Madrid, stars Javier Camara (Narcos), Julian Lopez, Miren Ibarguren and Gorka Otxoa.
The film is written and directed by Borja Cobeaga, who describes it as “a crazy comedy about a serious subject –- like Friends, but in a safe house.”
Cobeaga wrote Spain’s most successful comedy ever, A Spanish Affair, which ranks as the country’s top-grossing homegrown title of all time. Produced by Barcelona-based Mediapro, the new comedy will premiere simultaneously in the 190 countries in which Netflix...
The film is written and directed by Borja Cobeaga, who describes it as “a crazy comedy about a serious subject –- like Friends, but in a safe house.”
Cobeaga wrote Spain’s most successful comedy ever, A Spanish Affair, which ranks as the country’s top-grossing homegrown title of all time. Produced by Barcelona-based Mediapro, the new comedy will premiere simultaneously in the 190 countries in which Netflix...
- 5/16/2017
- by Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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