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Vitor Pinto


1046 articles available in total starting from 11/07/2002. Last article published on 13/11/2018.

A glimpse at Sitges' European menu

Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, which was recently in official competition at Cannes (see news), has been chosen to open the upcoming Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia. The...  

11/07/2006 | Festivals | Spain

Time for summer comedies

Summer is traditionally the time of year in which distributors programme the release of typically feel-good movies and openly commercial titles. Spain's Filmax distribution company makes no...  

07/07/2006 | Releases | Spain

Leitão revisits Colonial wounds

In the mid 1990s, Portuguese director Joaquim Leitão made two of the most successful local titles to date, Adão e Eva and Tentação. Then, in 1999, still backed by his regular producer Tino...  

05/07/2006 | Production | Portugal

Volver grosses nearly €9m

It comes as no surprise that of the 191 Spanish productions that screened in local theatres in the first five months of 2006, Cannes winner Volver (see focus) was the most successful. According to...  

04/07/2006 | Box Office | Spain

12 films with the Eurimages stamp

A total of €4,158,500 was allocated last week by Eurimages, the European Council’s support fund, to 12 new European titles still in production (see list below). The Eurimages Board of Directors...  

03/07/2006 | Funding | Europe

Boycott doesn't haunt Scary Movie 4

Despite the campaign led by Spanish exhibitors Yelmo Cineplex, Cinesa, Ábaco and Cinebox against major distributor Buena Vista International (see news), Scary Movie 4 was the most successful title...  

28/06/2006 | Box Office | Spain

Madrid de Cine: A positive balance

With the objective of promoting local film productions among international sales agents, producers, film commissions and the foreign press, Spain's newest film market, Madrid de Cine, ended its...  

27/06/2006 | Market | Spain

How to scare Buena Vista

Disney's major distribution company, Buena Vista International, is the target of a campaign led by Spanish exhibition chains Cinesa, Ábaco, Yelmo and Cinebox, which refused to premiere David...  

26/06/2006 | Exhibitors | Spain

Cuerda's fairies hit screens

The Education of Fairies by José Luis Cuerda is probably the most interesting European proposal to be released in a weekend marked by the première of other nine titles: Patrick Alessandrin's...  

23/06/2006 | Releases | Spain

Editing Emma

After a 10-week shoot in Madrid, Seville, Toledo and Segovia, Buscando a Emma (lit. "Searching Emma") is currently being edited by renowned Spanish editor Jose Salcedo (who has worked on some of...  

22/06/2006 | Production | Spain

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