Aldi Scotland's much-loved 'Best Home Bar' competition is back, offering a year's supply of beer as the grand prize.
07.04.2024 - 17:33 / variety.com
Holly Jones It’s a star-studded Marbella of the 1980s, and the glam Andalusian backdrop frames an opulent narrative that fuses suspense, betrayal and slow-simmering vengeance in the Atresmedia original series “Eva & Nicole,” teased by its producers – Spain’s Atresmedia TV (“Veneno”) alongside Good Mood (“Cristo y Rey”) – at the MipDrama showcase on April 7, a precursor to the broader MipTV international series market in Cannes, running April 8-10. Handling global distribution, Atresmedia TV International Sales will attend MipTV.
One of only 10 international series selected by the MipDrama jury, the eight-episode affair is directed by David Molina, Antonio Hernández and Álvaro Vicario and structured around a fast-paced script written by Daniel Écija, Patricia Trueba, Andrés Martín Soto, Iñaki San Román, Paula López Cuervo and César Mendizábal. The series opens with gusto at Nicole’s, the social club named after its owner who is framed from the back as she fiercely pulls open a red velvet curtain to reveal the luxe locale-music pumping, bodies clad in designer apparel litter the surroundings of an outside terrace.
The camera follows her as she finds her way inside, people pack the dance floor and she snakes through the crowd, pausing only for brief pleasantries and an accolade until an eerily-familiar Eva saunters towards her, stopping her dead in her tracks. Atresmedia director of fiction Montse García and Écija executive produce the project, which stars Goya-Winner Belén Rueda (“The Orphanage,” “The Sea Inside”) and Hiba Abouk (“El Príncipe”) as the titular characters, two high-society rivals gunning for the top nightclub slot while rehashing a decades-long grievance.
Aldi Scotland's much-loved 'Best Home Bar' competition is back, offering a year's supply of beer as the grand prize.
Almost a year after Kevin Spacey was found not guilty of sex crimes, Channel 4 and Max in the U.S. are set to air testimony from more men detailing their experiences with the double-Oscar winner.
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It's the end of an era for presenting duo Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly, who tonight [13 April], after two decades, are hosting the last episode of the beloved entertainment show Saturday Night Takeaway. Ant, and Dec, both 48, who also host ITV shows Britain's Got Talent and I'm A Celeb, previously revealed the reasons for taking a break from the popular Saturday night entertainment show and explained that they want to step off the "hamster wheel" and "decide what's next." However, Ant also said that saying goodbye to the series will be "bittersweet" and will come with "lots of tears." Now a source has told OK! that while the busy and in-demand hosts will "miss the show" they want to spend time with their families.
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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Prime Video has announced the full cast for action comedy show “Costiera” set on Italy’s iconic Amalfi Coast being directed by Emmy-winner Adam Bernstein (“30 Rock,” “Breaking Bad”) and featuring Jesse Williams (“Take Me Out”) as the lead. The ensemble cast for the English-language series being co-produced by Amazon Studios and Luca Bernabei for Lux Vide comprises British actor Jordan Alexandra (“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” “The Winter King”) (pictured, center); Spain’s Alejandra Onieva (“Alta Mar”) (pictured, left); Italy’s Maria Chiara Giannetta (“Blanca”) (pictured, right); Antonio Gerardi; Tommaso Ragno (“Nostalgia”); Amanda Campana; Pierpaolo Spollon; Britain’s Sam Haygarth (“Jojo Rabbit”); and France’s Jean-Hugues Anglade (“Sink or Swim”).
Well Go USA has landed North American rights for Dutch action thriller Invasion about a daring military operation in the wake of a hostile attack on the Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curacao.
AMC Networks International has installed Antonio Ruiz, Warner Bros. Discovery’s former UK and Ireland General Manager, as its boss in Spain and Portugal.
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The Mediapro Studio’s parent company, produced. Like Cruz, Fernández Espeso is driven. At a dinner during Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival in 2020, most of the executive attendees started out with small talk.
The Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival is coming off a successful — and at times turbulent — 26th edition, wrapping “amidst an explosive ambiance with episodes of violence and intolerance.”