41 stories by "John Hopewell"
CANNES — Sealing anchor TV partnerships as it gears up for production, "Find Me in Paris," one of the first attempts to make a premium international series for teens, has closed a raft…
Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights outside Spain to Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s offbeat musical comedy "Holy Camp!," the film …
Buenos Aires’ Magma Cine, a pioneering company on the pan-Latin American co-production scene, has boarded Jorge Navas’ musical action movie "Buenaventura Mon Amour," adding furth…
Unveiling a rough-cut of his buzzed-up feature debut "Arpón" (Harpoon) at Ventana Sur, Caracas-born Tom Espinoza is developing his second directorial outing, "No crecerás" ("You Won't …
MADRID – HBO España, HBO’s video streaming service for Spain, launched on Monday, offering not only its most popular shows such as "Game of Thrones" but also content from reno…
World-class festival winners are bowing at the 14th Morelia Int'l Film Festival, including Damian Chazelle's Oscar-buzzworthy "La La Land," Nate Parker's controversial Sundance hit "Birth of…
CANNES, France – Where will Ben Sherwood take Disney-ABC TV? Â One answer: abroad. Another: further into the digital realm. Sherwood, co-chairman of Disney Media Networks and preside…
CANNES, France — Disney's ABC Studios International looks set to drive significantly more into local production outside the U.S. as it seeks to leverage the distribution muscle of Disn…
SAN SEBASTIAN — Santiago Segura, a driving force of Spanish comedy, is teaming via Bowfinger Int. Pictures with Argentina's Está Por Venir on "Casi leyendas" ("Almost Legends"), a c…
At the Venice Film Festival Wednesday, "La La Land" star Emma Stone and director Damien Chazelle talked about Ryan Gosling, delivering a modern take on old-fashioned musical, chasing your dr…
VENICE " Stars Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and director Damien Chapelle wowed the Venice Festival Wednesday morning with "La La Land" – and it took just 10 minutes. And the Venice rec…
MADRID " James D'Arcy ("Master and Commander," "Cloud Atlas"), Jack Davenport ("Pirates of the Caribbean") and Maria Valverde ("Exodus") star in "Gernika," a love story set against the infam…
BUENOS AIRES " Launching Colombia's first world sales operation for movies " in a country where films are hard put to recoup from domestic " Colombia's Calle Luna Producciones, a Bogota-base…
"Evita," Pablo Aguero's long-gestating pic about the strange but true 25-year odyssey of the corpse of former Argentine First Lady Evita Peron, is set to start principal photography in Janua…
Top major territory distribs count among pre-sales struck by Millennium on Barry Levinson's Al Pacino-starrer "The Humbling." France's Metropolitan Film Export, Italy's Ambi, Lionsgate U.K.,…
BERLIN " Starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard (pictured), See-Saw Films' production "Macbeth" commenced principal photography in Scotland, Studiocanal and Film Four announced Thu…