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As suggested by Venice Film Festival chief Alberto Barbera last week, the 77th edition has added to its lineup. Both Pedro Almodovar’s The Human Voice and Regina King’s One Night In Miami are now among the Out of Competition titles for the Lido event that runs September 2-12. Almodóvar’s latest, a 30-minute adaptation…

Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory, a double Oscar nominee for star Antonio Banderas and the film itself in the Best International Feature race, swept the top categories Saturday at Spain’s Goya Awards. Scroll down for the full list. Banderas, up for Best Actor at the Oscars, won best actor award at the Spanish film…

EXCLUSIVE: Viacom International Studios has set a co-development deal with El Deseo, the Spanish production company owned by brothers Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar, for an eight-episode series, Mentiras Pasajeras (White Lies). The companies will co-develop the series under the direction of Spanish screenwriters Nerea…

Antonio Banderas’ first Oscar nomination came in Monday morning for his leading role in Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory. “I was surprised” Banderas said, not only because he had been fairly absent from the campaigning scene due to the opening of his new theater, Teatro del Soho Caixabank, in his native Malaga, but…

Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar made his return at Cannes this year with Pain & Glory, a deeply personal and semi-autobiographical film about an aging filmmaker reflecting on his life and legacy and dealing with the loss of his youth. The movie stars frequent Almodóvar collaborator Antonio Banderas as Spanish director…

EXCLUSIVE: Heavyweight Oscar contenders Quentin Tarantino and Pedro Almodóvar are among those who will not be going to the WGA Awards this year. And get your knives out, FilmTwitter, because one of the high-profile female directors ignored by the Golden Globes’ directing category, Lulu Wang for The Farewell, won’t…

Prolific Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar (21 features and counting) has spoken about how at one point he believed his films could be “too outrageous” for some audiences, and why he would like to return to the comedy genre in the near future. The director, whose latest film Pain And Glory just got nominated for 16 Goya…

Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas have made eight movies together, and their latest, Pain & Glory, may represent the high point of their collaboration. In perhaps Almodóvar's most directly autobiographical film to date, Banderas literally wears the auteur director's clothes to play a Spanish filmmaker named…

On this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, Antonio Banderas visits our studio to discuss his latest film, and eighth collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory. This is the film that won Banderas the Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and has put him front and…

The European Film Academy has unveiled its nominations for the 32nd European Film Awards with the ceremony to be held December 7 in Berlin. Among the titles to figure in the races, three are tied with four mentions each including Roman Polanski’s An Officer And A Spy, Pedro Almodovar’s Pain And Glory and Marco…

One of the highlights of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was the international unveiling of the great Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar's 21st film, Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria), which is his most personal yet — a look at a film director and his memories that represents the closest thing to Almodóvar's own 8…

It's been a wild year for Antonio Banderas, still riding high on the Cannes hit Pain and Glory, which brought him the Best Actor award at the French festival and was subsequently chosen, not altogether unsurprisingly, as Spain's submission in the Academy's foreign-language category. A strongly autobiographical work…