Spain’s Shoot Scene Sees Incentives Effect as Ever Greater Demands Are Made on Film Commissions

Venice International Film Festival has announced which film will be closing the event in September.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Spanish director J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow,” a reconstruction of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes that forced survivors to take extreme measures, including cannibalism, has been set as the Venice Film Festival’s closing film. The deeply immersive Spanish-language saga is a Netflix original film shot in Andalusia’s Sierra Nevada, mainland Spain’s highest mountain range, using a 300-person crew. “Society of the Snow” will world premiere on the Lido out-of-competition on Sept. 9th. Its official screening will be held in the Palazzo del Cinema after the awards ceremony. In 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to bring Montevideo’s Old Christians Rugby Club team to Chile, crashed at an altitude of 11,712 feet in the Andes.  Of its 45 passengers – which consisted mostly of the rugby team, friends and family – 29 survived. Without food, the survivors, who belonged to Uruguay’s elite, were forced to eat the flesh of the deceased to stay alive. 19 survived an avalanche. 72 days after the crash, 16 finally made it out alive. 

Marcus Rashford has been a mainstay at Manchester United for the last seven years and is set to remain so for the next five at least.

Barack Obama, recently spilled the beans on his ultimate playlist – and it’s got some serious groove!Peso Pluma, Rosalía, and Rauw Alejandro caught Obama’s attention, and now their beats are making his summer epic. Obama’s got 42 top-notch jams to keep the party going! From the latest hits to timeless classics that still make us swoon, this man knows his music like a maestro knows his orchestra.Bob Dylan and Ella Fitzgerald also made an appearance.

Shakira has been delivering hit after hit, getting creative with stunning music videos. Her latest single, “Copa Vacía,” featuring Manuel Turizo had a magical aspect as Shakira portrayed a mermaid. While the music video came out beautiful, the singer revealed there was a terrifying accident when the fish tank she was in suddenly broke, causing the entire set to flood.

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content has partnered with New Europe Film Sales to handle North American rights for animated feature The Peasants, directed by Oscar-nominated Loving Vincent filmmakers D.K. Welchman and Hugh Welchman. 

Parts of Spain are baking in 44C heat this week as the Cerberus heatwave continues to grip southern Europe. The Foreign Office has warned anyone travelling to the country to stay safe as the country's national weather agency issued an extreme heat warning.

Karol G’s romantic involvement with Feid were circulating online. However, she has ended all the speculation by confirming through her social media that their relationship is serious and there is a strong chemistry between them.

Ivanka Trump, Ricky Martin, Elsa Pataky,Eva Longoria, and more have been enjoying a similar summer. They’ve been spending part of their summer vacation in Spain alongside a variety of various celebrities who seem to have had the same thought over the past couple of months. Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky prove to be the hottest celebrity couple: See pics of their vacationAmber Heard enjoys tourism in Spain and more estrellas we loveA post shared by Ivanka Trump (@ivankatrump)The pair have shared some photos of their summer in Spain, where they stopped by Ibiza and spent some time with David Guetta. The two were photographed with David Guetta on a yacht and joined him on a party in the club.

Manchester United's valuation of Harry Maguire could prevent him from leaving the club this summer unless there is a compromise on any fee.

Guy Lodge Film Critic The loose, lolling chapters of “The Girls Are Alright” are marked and separated by a simple visual motif: for each one, a different close-up panel of ornately illustrated Toile de Jouy fabric, rendered in various pastel shades against a calico background. The material’s distinctive period pastoral scenes, depicting gussied-up women in various states of passive repose and their corresponding noblemen, contrast pleasingly with the more modern, less dependent portrait of 21st-century femininity presented in Spanish writer-director-star Itsaso Arana’s short, sweet, winsome freshman feature. When its female characters don Toile-appropriate corsets and hoop skirts, it’s with a postmodern, literally performative sense of irony.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Unlike in the U.K., Spain and Sweden — where kings and queens are still formally heads of state — Italy’s royal family, the House of Savoy, no longer rules. The last heir to the Italian throne, Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy and his family were forced into exile in 1946, when the prince was 9. That year, the Italian people voted in a referendum about whether the monarchy should continue. They chose to create a republic and punished the royals for failing to save their country from Mussolini’s fascist regime. The Savoys were allowed to return in 2003 after 57 years of exile. In 1978, Vittorio Emanuele – the king who never was – got into trouble while he and his wife and kids were living on the island of Cavallo, on the south coast of Corsica, France. As reconstructed from eyewitness interviews in a new Netflix documentary, on a hot August night he became enraged when some loud “shitty Italians” “borrowed” the dinghy off his yacht and tied it to another nearby boat. Fuming, he took a rifle, went to one of their boats and, after shots from his rifle rang out – that were just meant to scare – someone got hurt. Dirk Hamer, a 19-year-old sleeping on another boat nearby, died of gunshot injuries in early December. Though it was never legally proven that Vittorio Emanuele killed Hamer, this incident had a big impact on the prince’s life.

Ivanka Trump is continuing her Europe trip with a stop in Spain. Accompanied by her family, Ivanka has been photographed in places like Ibiza, enjoying herself in beaches and yachts with some of the most famous people in the world.

Love Island looks set for dramatic scenes on Thursday as newly-single Tyrique Hyde "bounces back" after his Ella Thomas heartbreak. Fans will recall that Tyrique, 24, was left both furious and heartbroken on Wednesday night when partner Ella, 23, returned from Casa Amor with a new man - Ouzy See.Tyrique, who had remained closed off in the main villa to new bombshells, didn't take the news well and immediately ended things with Ella, who had wanted to get to know both men.

Marta Balaga Spanish actress Itsaso Arana proves that “Girls Are Alright” with her directorial debut, vying for the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Known to the festival’s audience thanks to Jonás Trueba’s “August Virgin,” which she also co-wrote, she is currently readying their next project, set to shoot in the autumn. “That experience, as well as his other films I starred in, have been profoundly significant in my life. Jonás is a great inspiration,” says Arana. But after years of collaborations, however satisfying, she is ready to venture out on her own.

Rauw Alejandro and the renowned producer Bizarrap unleashed their creative powers once again with the mind-blowing BZRP Music Session #56 from Argentina. These musical masterminds have been on a roll, churning out global hits and captivating audiences worldwide.

Sideshow and Janus Films have snapped up all US rights to Wim Wenders’ Cannes title Anselm, a 3D documentary about the celebrated contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer.

Emiliano Granada “Dating in Barcelona” has left to big ratings in Spain, both on its first window debut on Catalan public network TV3 and on Amazon’s Prime Video, where it bowed to become the streaming services most watched show. Barcelona-based Filmax, the series production house, is now bringing the show to Conecta Fiction as one of its banner new offerings. Written by Pau Freixas Èric Navarro, Ivan Mercadé, Clara Esparrach and Eduard Sola, it follows in the course of an episode two dates happening simultaneously in the city of Barcelona. Drawing contrast and larger social point from one another, the series manages to make insightful commentary on the modern ways of dating while shuttling dynamically from each story, always maintaining a lighter mood.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent TOLEDO, Spain — Warner Bros. Discovery has announced the greenlight and start of production of its first new Spanish series for Max, crime thriller  “When Nobody Sees Us,” whose eight episodes will be directed by Spain’s Enrique Urbizu (“No Rest for the Wicked”). The produced by “Elite” producer Zeta Studios.   Based on the same title novel by Sergio Sarria, “When Nobody Sees Us” has been written by lead writer Daniel Corpas (“The Ministry of Time,” “Malaka”) heading a writing team with the collaboration of Arturo Ruiz and Isa Sánchez. Set against Spain’s 2023 Holy Week celebrations, “When Nobody Sees Us,” is set in Morón de la Frontera, south east of Seville in Andalusia’s deep Spain, next to a U.S. Army Air Force base. There, Lucía Gutiérrez,  a Spanish Civil Guard sergeant, investigates the bizarre suicide of a neighbour and strange events at the first Holy Week float processions.