San Sebastian: Local films secure best-ever box office share of 23.6%.
Spanish films have scored their best ever slice of the local box office, recording a 23.6% share.
This success is partly due to major domestic hits including Emilio Martinez Lazaro’s Spanish Affair, which has grossed a staggering $73.9m box office, and Daniel Monzon’s El Niño, which has drawn $15.3m to date.
The share could grow to 25% by year end, according to Spanish producer’s association Fapae.
This further growth is expected from upcoming films such as Alberto Rodriguez’s San Sebastian competition title Marshland; hit franchises Torrente 5, from Santiago Segura, and Rec 4: Apocalypse, from Jaume Balaguero; and comic adaptation Mortadelo & Filemón: Mission Implausible .
But despite the success, the Spanish film industry has continued to struggle.
Ramon Colom, president of Fapae, told Screen: “There is a paradox. Spanish films have never been so successful. The backing of Spanish TV networks has been key to this success...
Spanish films have scored their best ever slice of the local box office, recording a 23.6% share.
This success is partly due to major domestic hits including Emilio Martinez Lazaro’s Spanish Affair, which has grossed a staggering $73.9m box office, and Daniel Monzon’s El Niño, which has drawn $15.3m to date.
The share could grow to 25% by year end, according to Spanish producer’s association Fapae.
This further growth is expected from upcoming films such as Alberto Rodriguez’s San Sebastian competition title Marshland; hit franchises Torrente 5, from Santiago Segura, and Rec 4: Apocalypse, from Jaume Balaguero; and comic adaptation Mortadelo & Filemón: Mission Implausible .
But despite the success, the Spanish film industry has continued to struggle.
Ramon Colom, president of Fapae, told Screen: “There is a paradox. Spanish films have never been so successful. The backing of Spanish TV networks has been key to this success...
- 9/24/2014
- by jsardafr@hotmail.com (Juan Sarda)
- ScreenDaily
In odd movie news, The Huffington Post is reporting that former pastor Ted Haggard will play a role in an indie Christian sex comedy. The film, titled “The Waiting Game”, is being developed by former Colorado Springs stand-up comedians-turned-filmmakers Emilio Martinez and Rich Praytor. The script has already been written and a trailer has already been made, but The Gazette...
- 6/1/2011
- by monique
- ShockYa
Former Colorado Springs New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard will make a cameo appearance as himself in an upcoming pro-abstinence ‘Christian sex comedy’ titled “The Waiting Game”, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.
The film is being developed by two Colorado Springs men, Rich Praytor and Emilio Martinez, former stand up comics turned filmmakers. The Gazette also reports that the two are looking to raise $2 million dollars to shoot the film for which they’ve already written the script and produced a trailer. If they reach their financial goal, they will begin shooting September 1, 2011 in Colorado Springs.
In the trailer for the film, Haggard, in what looks to be a coffee shop, eavesdrops on the conversation of a sexually frustrated, newly married man who says, “I’m so frustrated. You know, I’m just going to do what I want to do anyway, it’s not like it’s going...
The film is being developed by two Colorado Springs men, Rich Praytor and Emilio Martinez, former stand up comics turned filmmakers. The Gazette also reports that the two are looking to raise $2 million dollars to shoot the film for which they’ve already written the script and produced a trailer. If they reach their financial goal, they will begin shooting September 1, 2011 in Colorado Springs.
In the trailer for the film, Haggard, in what looks to be a coffee shop, eavesdrops on the conversation of a sexually frustrated, newly married man who says, “I’m so frustrated. You know, I’m just going to do what I want to do anyway, it’s not like it’s going...
- 5/31/2011
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Having now conquered (or at least dabbled in) reality TV, disgraced evangelical pastor Ted Haggard is making a cameo in the trailer for a planned "pro-abstinence Christian sex comedy." Those last four words are rarely seen together, something the two Christian comedians behind The Waiting Game are hoping to change. "[Christians are] just starving for anything comedy," according to writer/producer Emilio Martinez. Martinez and his co-creator, Rich Praytor, are both former stand-up comics who found the comedy scene spiritually empty. (Which... probably fair.) They've written a comedy about a guy who saves himself for marriage, gets dumped at the altar, and then runs around trying to get laid like the rest of us. In the Haggard scene, the heartbroken schlemiel (wait, what's the gentile word for schlemiel?) tells a friend, "I’m so frustrated, I’m just going to do what [...]...
- 5/31/2011
- Nerve
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