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UPDATED with latest winner: The Palm Springs International Film Awards said Thursday that Andrew Garfield will receive this year’s Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, for the Lin-Manuel Miranda film tick, tick…BOOM! The prize will be presented on January 6 during the fest’s awards gala. "From his numerous film roles…

VIS Social Impact, the cause-driven production division of ViacomCBS International Studios, is teaming with Pedro Almodóvar's El Deseo and Spanish indie Mogambo for documentary series Not A Bride. Frequent Almodovar collaborator Penelope Cruz will executive produce and narrate the four-part series which Paramount+…

Power collaborators Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz dived into their latest project Parallel Mothers and celebrated the magic of diverse families Sunday during the movie’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles award-season event. “This is a rough story about motherhood, above all,” said Almodóvar of Parall…

EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography has begun on Penélope Cruz drama On The Fringe (En Los Márgenes), directed by Juna Diego Botto, and written by Botto and Olga Rodríguez. Currently filming on location in Madrid, the Spanish-language film stars an ensemble cast which includes Oscar winner Cruz (Pain and Glory), Luis…

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…

Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers had Venice Film Festival attendees on their feet in the Sala Grande this evening, giving the opening night world premiere a nine-minute standing ovation. The movie, which traces the complicated relationship of two women (Penélope Cruz and newcomer Milena Smit) who meet in a hospital…

"You need to know what kind of country you're living in!" Janis snaps at Ana — the much younger woman who shared her hospital ward when she was giving birth — in Parallel Mothers, the Venice Film Festival's opener. Has nobody told her there are 100,000 bodies buried in Spanish ditches? Doesn't Ana understand that…

Penelope Cruz's role in Pedro Almodovar's Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas) is "one of the most difficult characters" she has ever played, the actress told the press corps at the Venice Film Festival this afternoon. It’s a good thing then that she made the movie with long time collaborator Almodovar, who she called…

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…

éSony Pictures Classics has taken all rights in North America, Australia and New Zealand to Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas), repping the 13th collaboration between the distributor and the filmmaker’s production company El Deseo. Production began last month on the film in Madrid. The movie also…

Top Spanish Auteur Pedro Almodovar is preparing to head into production on his next movie Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas), which will star Penelope Cruz alongside the newly-announced Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (The Machinist), Israel Elejalde (Love Above All Things) and Milena Smit. The movie is set to roll cameras by…