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BOX OFFICE Spain

Tengo ganas de ti sweeps the Spanish box office

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- Fernando González Molina’s third feature, and second adaptation of a novel by Italian writer Federico Moccia, reaps € 3.07 m, making it the best Spanish release this year

As hoped for by all parts of the Spanish film sector, who were in need of both good figures and a little love from the Spanish public, Tengo ganas de ti (lit. “I want you”) has positively rocked the box office. In the three first days after its release (including Saturday, when Spain was playing in the Euro 2012), the film made more than € 3 m, thus beating box office results for the release of the saga’s first installment, Three Steps Above Heaven [+see also:
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, which in November 2010 made € 2.8 m.

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Tengo ganas de ti has thus become this year’s best release so far, easily beating the € 1.12 m made by Red Lights [+see also:
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by Rodrigo Cortés. On Friday, the film’s first day out in Spain, it reaped in no less than € 1.62 m (72 % of the Spanish box office). Competition from the football match dramatically reduced admissions on Saturday (€ 600,000), but on Sunday figures were up again (another million).

Similarly to practically the only other successful Spanish production at the moment, Torrente 4, Spanish adaptations of teen novels by Federico Moccia may not dazzle the critics, but they are the ones that fill up the Spanish film sector’s coffers at the end of the year.

Director Fernando González Molina is mostly responsible for this success. There are very few Spanish directors, if none at all, who can assume that their films will do well in the box office. But with his first feature, Brain Drain [+see also:
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, he made € 6.9 m. With Three Steps Above Heaven, he made a little less than € 10 m in total, and we shall now see how many more admissions Tengo ganas de ti will attract.

His films tend to generate significant word-of-mouth (although it’s difficult that this travel much further beyond their audience group), and benefit from a large and extremely loyal fan base.

Produced as a first project by Zeta Media and Antena 3 Films, Tengo ganas de ti stars Mario Casas, Clara Lago, and María Valverde. Its international sales agent is Imagina International Sales.

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(Translated from Spanish)

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