“People say that I am a genius. That it all came easily to me. The truth is, the only way to be a true artist is to work day and night.” Those words are from Pablo Picasso, played by Antonio Banderas, in the trailer for National Geographic’s Genius: Picasso.
It clearly wasn’t always easy for Picasso, one of the 20th…
EXCLUSIVE: In one of the year’s biggest acquisition deals, Amazon Studios has made a $10 million-plus deal for U.S. rights to Life, Itself, a drama directed and written by This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman. The completed film is a multi-generational love story, weaving together a number of characters whose lives…
Spanish-born Antonio Banderas has been tapped to play Pablo Picasso in the second season of National Geographic’s anthology series Genius, which will chronicle the life and work of the Spanish painter, one of the 20th century's most influential and celebrated artists. The new season, set for a 2018 premiere, is from…
Saban Films has acquired the Antonio Banderas-starring film Gun Shy for theatrical release. The film, directed by Simon West and previously titled Salty, will be released on Sept. 8 this year.
Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Oblivion) also stars in the actioner written by Toby Davies and Mark Haskell Smith. West…
For Anglo-Saxons, the concept of dubbing can carry with it a comical stigma, bringing to mind the martial arts movies, horror flicks and softcore porn films of the '70s, where the lip movements of the actors hardly matched the (usually flat and booming) voices coming out of the screen. At the Cannes film…
Antonio Banderas and Alec Baldwin are getting behind the wheel for the Lamborghini biopic from Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi's AMBI Media Group. Michael Radford has signed on to direct. Banderas will star as Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of the famous car that bears his name while Baldwin will co-star as…
EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Films has set Adrien Brody, John Malkovich and Antonio Banderas to star in Unchained, a Reservoir Dogs-style thriller that begins production November 14 with Paul Solet (Grace) directing his script. They play career criminals who trap themselves in a warehouse with the law closing in, and run…
Starz is stepping up its efforts to get its Havana Quartet drama series project starring Antonio Banderas off the ground, bringing in veteran showrunner Tom Fontana as executive producer. He is bringing a steady and experienced hand to the ambitious production, which is looking to be the first U.S. series to film in…
Antonio Banderas has been set to star in Simon West's action-comedy, Salty. Principal photography begins next month in Chile. Banderas will play Turk Henry, an aging rock star and reformed sex addict married to a supermodel who is abducted by pirates while on vacation. The story is adapted from the novel by Mark…
The Warner Bros press notes for The 33, the movie about the 2010 rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners, promise that the film delivers the “untold story.” Certainly that is the correct way to try to sell this film, which tells a story that a reported 1 billion people around the globe actually watched happening. We…
The thawing relations between U.S. and Cuba have led to a boom in American TV productions with ties to the Communist country. The latest is Havana Quartet — a drama series in development at Starz, which has Antonio Banderas attached to star. Starz CEO Chris Albrecht made the announcement at TCA today. The idea is to…
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