CELL 211, AGORA Top Spanish Academy Awards; Pedro Almodóvar Gets Standing Ovation at Goyas
Juan Oliver, Luis Tosar in Cell 211 (top); Rachel Weisz in Agora (middle, upper); Lola Dueñas, Pablo Pineda in Me Too (middle, lower); Penélope Cruz in Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces (bottom)
Daniel Monzón’s Celda 211 / Cell 211, a drama set during a prison riot, was the big winner at the 2010 Goya Awards ceremony held in Madrid on Sunday. Cell 211 won eight Goyas, including best film, best director, best actor (Luis Tosar), best supporting actress (Marta Etura), and best adapted screenplay (Monzón and Jorge Guerricaechevarría).
The Goyas’ runner-up was Alejandro Amenábar’s historical drama and box-office smash Agora, starring Rachel Weisz, which received seven trophies, including best original screenplay for eight-time winner Amenábar and Mateo Gil.
The best actress winner [...]
by Andre Soares | February 15, 2010
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Tags: Agora, Alejandro Amenabar, Broken Embraces, Cell 211, Goya Awards, Javier Bardem, Lola Dueñas, Luis Tosar, Me Too, Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, Rachel Weisz, The Secret of Her Eyes
CELL 211, AGORA, Penélope Cruz, Pedro Almodóvar: 2010 Goya Award Nominations
Rachel Weisz in Agora (Mod Producciones) (top); Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom)
Daniel Monzón’s prison drama Cell 211 and Alejandro Amenábar’s historical blockbuster Ágora (aka Mists of Time), with respectively 16 and 13 nominations, are the two leaders in the race for the 2010 Premios Goya (or Goya Awards), the Spanish Academy Awards. Actress Paz Vega and filmmaker Javier Fesser, accompanied by Academy president Alex de la Iglesia, made the announcements earlier today in Madrid.
Besides Cell 211 and Ágora, the two other best picture nominees are Fernando Trueba’s The Dancer and the Thief, Spain’s submission for the best foreign language film Academy Award, and Argentinean [...]
by Andre Soares | January 9, 2010
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Tags: Agora, Broken Embraces, Film Awards, Goya Awards, Goya Awards 2010, Juan Jose Campanella, Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, Rachel Weisz, The Dancer and the Thief, The Secret of Her Eyes
Penélope Cruz, Pedro Almodóvar, Rachel Weisz for the Goyas?
Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Rachel Weisz in Agora (Mod Producciones) (middle); Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darin in The Secret in Their Eyes (Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom)
The Spanish Academy’s 2010 Goya Award nominations — that’s Spain’s Oscars — will be announced on Jan. 9. Among the potential nominees are Broken Embraces, director-screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar, actor Lluís Homar, actress Penélope Cruz, and supporting actress Blanca Portillo. In Broken Embraces, which has won a few awards from US critics’ groups, Penélope Cruz plays a secretary/sex worker who becomes her wealthy boss’ lover only to fall for a film director (Homar). Cruz has been touted as a potential best actress [...]
by Steve Montgomery | January 4, 2010
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Tags: Agora, Alejandro Amenabar, Broken Embraces, Film Awards, Goya Awards, Goya Awards 2010, Juan Jose Campanella, Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, Rachel Weisz, Ricardo Darin, The Secret of Her Eyes
International Box Office Tops US$10 Billion
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart in Chris Weitz’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Kimberley French / Summit Entertainment) (top); Rachel Weisz in Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora (Mod Producciones) (middle); Noomi Rapace in Niels Arden Oplev’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Nordisk Films) (bottom)
A total of $10.7 billion. That’s the 2009 box-office take overseas for Hollywood’s six major studios according to early estimates published in The Hollywood Reporter. That’s also an all-time record and an increase of 7% from 2008. Top Hollywood hits overseas include Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2012, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Avatar, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Only three of the top ten domestic grossers — The Hangover, Star Trek, and [...]
by Michelle Hutton | January 2, 2010
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Tags: Agora, Alejandro Amenabar, Box Office, Kristen Stewart, Niels Arden Oplev, Noomi Rapace, Rachel Weisz, Robert Pattinson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Cannes 2009: Out of Competition Films, Special Screenings
Cannes 2009: Out of Competition Films / Special Screenings
Below is a sample of out-of-competition films, special screenings, and midnight screenings at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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Pete DOCTER, UP (Opening Night Film)
Anne AGHION, MY NEIGHBOR, MY KILLER
Alejandro AMENABAR, AGORA
Terry GILLIAM, THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
Robert GUÉDIGUIAN, L’ARMÉE DU CRIME (The Army of crime)
Sam RAIMI, DRAG ME TO HELL
Marina de VAN, NE TE RETOURNE PAS (Don’t look back)
Jan KOUNEN, COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY (Closing Night Film)
Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes
by Massimo David | May 21, 2009
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Tags: Agora, Alejandro Amenabar, Anna Mouglalis, Anne Aghion, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, Don't Look Back, Drag Me to Hell, Heath Ledger, Jan Kounen, L'armée du crime, Mads Mikkelsen, Marina de Van, Monica Bellucci, My Neighbor My Killer, Ne te retourne pas, Pete Docter, Rachel Weisz, Robert Guédiguian, Sam Raimi, Sophie Marceau, Terry Gilliam, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Up