Carwyn Jones

Also in today's jam-packed Euro Beat: Ingmar Bergman week resurrects Scenes from a Marriage, extreme film-exhibition in Iceland, the VOD numbers for Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York, rare Alain Resnais short films, European box office and more. Read on!...

Also in today's Eurobeat: Project news from Ben Wheatly and Paolo Sorrentino, a closer look at Spain's new box-office juggernaut, and more!...

Last week, shooting began on Miguel Ángel Vivas's new flick for Sony Pictures, Welcome to Harmony. Filming continues until early April in Budapest with Matthew Fox (Lost) and Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) as the leads, while Ahna O'Reilly, Clara Lago...

Six Goyas landed in the laps of director David Trueba and his friends for Living Is Easy With Your Eyes Closed (Vivir Es Fácil Con Los Ojos Cerrados) on Sunday night in Madrid. The film won best picture, director, screenplay,...

News from Berlin's EFM is that one-half of the directing team of the [REC] franchise, Paco Plaza, will helm Damned Friday (Maldito Viernes) later this year.  Plaza has written it and already teased his fans in 2008 with the release...

News out today in Spain is that Penélope Cruz will star in ma ma, a Spanish language flick penned and to be directed by Julio Medem. Already in pre-production, principal photography begins sometime this spring in Spain. It will be...

For most Spaniards, one piece of news at the end of 2013 didn't cause great uproar. That the country's film industry is further struggling economically hasn't led to mass demonstrations yet on the streets. There's plenty of other reasons for...

Pedro Almodóvar last weekend slammed Spain's right-wing governing party, the People's Party (PP), for deliberately killing the nation's film scene as part of a political war against it.  Talking with Spanish website infoLibre, the writer and director took aim at...

Already a box office success this past month in his native Argentina, Juan José Campanella's Foosball (aka Futbolín and also Metegol) will now become the first ever 3D animated title to open San Sebastián. It's a Spanish-Argentinian co-production and...

Spanish actress Penélope Cruz recently donned the director's hat for the first time, and, in the process, fed the world of straight male fantasies a few more of the usual cliches. Lingerie client Agent Provocateur is probably happy with the...

Already feted in Berlin, Telluride and reviewed by Jason Gorber at TIFF for ScreenAnarchy last year, The Act of Killing continues to impact on jury members and festival goers alike.  This time, DocsBarcelona wrapped up five days of shenanigans by...