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Official Competition (Competencia Oficial) announces its meta intentions with its very title. Here is a Venice Film Festival competitor about the making of a festival film. Lampooning the very world in which it exists, the Spanish comedy-drama is a highly entertaining entry with winning performances from Penelope…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Protagonist Pictures has closed a UK all rights deal with Curzon for Spanish-language pic Official Competition starring Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz and Oscar Martínez. In Official Competition, Oscar winner Cruz plays renowned filmmaker Lola…

Screen Media and Millennium Media have formed a distribution partnership kicking off with noir thriller The Enforcer, which stars Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth and rapper/actor 2 Chainz. The deal will encompass five releases a year over the next three years. The Enforcer is currently in production in Greece and is…

Spanish actress and activist Pilar Bardem—mother of actors Monica, Carlos and Javier Bardem — died Saturday at the Ruber Hospital in Madrid because of complications from lung disease not related to Covid-19. She was 82. The Goya Award-winning actress (the Spanish equivalent of an Oscar) appeared in a variety of film…

EXCLUSIVE: Antonio Banderas is Harrison Ford’s newest co-star in the anticipated next installment in the Indiana Jones franchise. The Oscar-nominated Banderas has closed a deal to join the film to star alongside Ford, who returns as our favorite archaeologist, and an all-star ensemble that includes Phoebe…

Antonio Banderas is to play an Italian crime reporter in his latest TV role. The actor, who starred as Pablo Picasso in Nat Geo's Genius, will play Mario Spezi, a reporter who alongside American fiction writer Douglas Preston, investigated one of the most notorious serial murder cases in Europe. The limited series…

The repeated comic references in Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard to the 1987 Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell comedy Overboard provide an unintended comparison to this eager-to-please sequel that essentially throws all credibility overboard in just hoping to make some attempts at humor stick. Four times I actually laughed out loud…

Pilar Palomero’s coming-of-age story The Girls took home the top prizes, including best picture, at the 35th annual Goya Awards on Saturday. The annual Spain awards show, hosted by Antonio Banderas, also saw Palomero’s drama win the prizes for new director, original screenplay and cinematography. The 35th Goya Awards…

UPDATED, 08/26: Spanish star Antonio Banderas says he has recovered from COVID-19 after isolating since he was diagnosed earlier this month, on his 60th birthday. He confirmed the news in a tweet: After 21 days of disciplinary confinement I can say now that today I overcame the Covid 19 infection. I am cured. My…

Official Competition, the comedy feature reuniting Spanish stars Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz, has temporarily suspended its Spain shoot due to concerns over the coronavirus. Producer The Mediapro Studio issued a statement citing "the implementation of safety measures and responsibility towards our filming crew.&#8221…

Antonio Banderas, who was recently in the running for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Pain and Glory, has signed on to co-star in Uncharted, Sony’s film adaptation of the bestselling PlayStation action-adventure video game created by Naughty Dog. Sophia Ali (Truth or Dare, Grey’s Anatomy) and Tati…

EXCLUSIVE: Amid a flurry of buzz titles heading into Berlin's European Film Market, this could be one of the most in-demand – I can reveal that Protagonist Pictures will launch sales on Official Competition, a comedy reuniting Spanish stars Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz. The Spanish-language movie has Argentinian…