When we think back on a movie that transported us, we often focus on a great scene \u2014 or maybe the greatest scene \u2014 in it.<\/b>
\nWhen we think back on a movie that transported us, we often focus on a great scene \u2014 or maybe the greatest scene \u2014 in it. It\u2019s natural. Those scenes are more than just defining. They can be the moment that lifts a movie into the stratosphere, that takes it to the higher reaches of […]
\u201cSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u201d is swinging into theaters on a high note. Sony-Marvel\u2019s latest output is launching to $42 million from 3,813 North American locations in its debut, though other more conservative estimates place that number at $35.5 million. The animated superhero story picked up $12.6 million on Friday, easily leading the pack for the weekend. […]
Mexico\u2019s Cinema226, run by Marco Antonio Salgado and Sam Guill\u00e9n, is driving into a raft of Mexico, Argentina and Spain co-productions, playing off the current vibrancy of Mexican film production funding and distribution outlets. Among the projects are titles which have been standouts at Ventana Sur\u2019s Blood Window, the next film by Mexico-based Argentine filmmaker […]
BUENOS AIRES \u2014 Despite recent gains, namely the equality pledge towards 50\/50-2020 signed at the Mar del Plata Film Festival on Nov. 12, producer Magal\u00ed Nieva, pointed out that no representative from INCAA was present following the apparent resignation of its vice-president Fernando Juan Lima. \u201cWe are left without an interlocutor to discuss gender policies […]
BUENOS AIRES \u2014 Celebrating its 10th anniversary with a huge hike in attendance to over 4,000 accredited delegates, the 2018 Ventana Sur will go down in history on multiple counts: Sales and pick-ups on movies which combined social comment and entertainment value, increasingly the new foreign-language movie standard; new sections, led by a Proyecta co-production […]
Uruguay\u2019s Aparicio Garc\u00eda impressed with his one-of-kind debut earlier this year, the grindhouse rural mobster comedy \u201cLa noche que no se repite,\u201d and the filmmaker has now participated in Ventana Sur\u2019s Proyecta section with his next project, the dark comedy thriller \u201cMatufia.\u201d Garc\u00eda\u2019s Isla Patrulla is so far the only producer, but his participation at […]
BUENOS AIRES \u2014 UGC Distribution has beaten out all other suitors to clinch what had became by Friday morning the most anticipated deal of this year\u2019s Ventana Sur market: All rights to France on Argentine Mariano Cohn\u2019s \u201c4 x 4,\u201d sold by Latido Films and distributed throughout Argentina by Disney. After mounting speculation about which […]<\/p>\n