Those who accept will be only additions to Academy’s membership in 2023.
Vicky Krieps, Paul Mescal, Warner Bros Discovery head David Zaslav, Aftersun writer-director Charlotte Wells, She Said director Maria Schrader, and Kerry Condon are among 398 who have been invited to join the Academy.
Some 40% of the 2023 class identify as women, 34% belong to underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 52% are from 50 countries and territories outside the United States. There are 76 Oscar nominees including 22 winners among the invitees.
Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership. Should they all accept, the total number of members...
Vicky Krieps, Paul Mescal, Warner Bros Discovery head David Zaslav, Aftersun writer-director Charlotte Wells, She Said director Maria Schrader, and Kerry Condon are among 398 who have been invited to join the Academy.
Some 40% of the 2023 class identify as women, 34% belong to underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 52% are from 50 countries and territories outside the United States. There are 76 Oscar nominees including 22 winners among the invitees.
Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership. Should they all accept, the total number of members...
- 6/28/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Luis Gnecco (The Two Popes), Claudia Ramírez (Nice Sunday) and Juan Manuel Bernal (Perfect Obedience) will lead the upcoming thriller Confessions, from Sony Pictures International Productions, Alameda Films and Zamora Films, which has wrapped production in Mexico. Also amongst the cast is Ana Claudia Talancón (The Crime of Padre Amaro), who will make a special appearance.
The film from award-winning writer-director Carlos Carrera (The Crime of Padre Amaro) sees a young child from an affluent Mexico City family go missing. At night, hours after the disappearance, a man arrives at the family home to discuss the child’s return. The terms are not monetary, rather a confession from one family member that has committed a terrible act. One by one, confession by confession, the intruder exposes each family member—unveiling their deepest, shocking secrets.
Alberto Chimal (7:19) wrote the screenplay. Daniel Birman Ripstein produced for Alameda Films, with Gerardo Moran from Zamora Films.
The film from award-winning writer-director Carlos Carrera (The Crime of Padre Amaro) sees a young child from an affluent Mexico City family go missing. At night, hours after the disappearance, a man arrives at the family home to discuss the child’s return. The terms are not monetary, rather a confession from one family member that has committed a terrible act. One by one, confession by confession, the intruder exposes each family member—unveiling their deepest, shocking secrets.
Alberto Chimal (7:19) wrote the screenplay. Daniel Birman Ripstein produced for Alameda Films, with Gerardo Moran from Zamora Films.
- 5/9/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Twenty years after making the Oscar-nominated box office hit “The Crime of Padre Amaro” in 2002, Mexican director Carlos Carrera and producer Daniel Birman Ripstein are teaming up once more for psychological thriller “Confessions.”
“We’re now in post with a documentary about child actors in Mexico, ‘I Want to be Famous,’ but this will be the first drama we’ll have made together since ‘Padre Amaro,’” said Birman whose Alameda Films — originally founded with his late grandfather Alfredo Ripstein — has produced a number of literature-inspired films, including such classics as “Midaq Alley,” which launched Salma Hayek’s career, and also distributes indie films in Mexico.
“We’d been looking at several fiction projects to do together when this script reached us. Like Vicente Leñero’s screenplay for ‘Padre Amaro,’ it was ready to shoot,” he added.
Renowned Mexican screenwriter and novelist Alberto Chimal has adapted the original script by Spain...
“We’re now in post with a documentary about child actors in Mexico, ‘I Want to be Famous,’ but this will be the first drama we’ll have made together since ‘Padre Amaro,’” said Birman whose Alameda Films — originally founded with his late grandfather Alfredo Ripstein — has produced a number of literature-inspired films, including such classics as “Midaq Alley,” which launched Salma Hayek’s career, and also distributes indie films in Mexico.
“We’d been looking at several fiction projects to do together when this script reached us. Like Vicente Leñero’s screenplay for ‘Padre Amaro,’ it was ready to shoot,” he added.
Renowned Mexican screenwriter and novelist Alberto Chimal has adapted the original script by Spain...
- 1/17/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
FIlmSharks (exclusive)
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks’ The Remake Co. has struck international deals on a quartet of comedies led by Ariel Winograd’s No Kids and That’s Not Cheating.
Guido Rud and his team have sold remake rights on No Kids to India’s Germ, which has offices in the subcontinent and the US. Shyam Madiraju (who produced Jennifer Aniston drama Cake) will produce the story based on the 2015 Argentina-Spain original about a man who is swept off his feet by a new lover and does not tell her about his young daughter.
The South Korean remake is set to...
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks’ The Remake Co. has struck international deals on a quartet of comedies led by Ariel Winograd’s No Kids and That’s Not Cheating.
Guido Rud and his team have sold remake rights on No Kids to India’s Germ, which has offices in the subcontinent and the US. Shyam Madiraju (who produced Jennifer Aniston drama Cake) will produce the story based on the 2015 Argentina-Spain original about a man who is swept off his feet by a new lover and does not tell her about his young daughter.
The South Korean remake is set to...
- 9/29/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
La Boda de Mi Mejor Amigo will be directed by Celso García in Sony Pictures International Productions’ latest local-language remake of a classic property. A co-production with Zamora Films and Alameda Films, the Spanish-language adaptation of the 1997 Julia Roberts/Dermot Mulroney/Cameron Diaz starrer My Best Friend’s Wedding is targeting a 2019 release.
Ana Serradilla, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Carlos Ferro and Natasha Dupeyrón star in the update on the original that grossed nearly $300M at the worldwide box office.
Shooting in Guadalajara and Mexico City, the film is adapted by Gabriel Ripstein from Ronald Bass’ original screenplay. Serradilla will play Julia, a renowned food critic who is terrified of commitment. Despite that, she made a promise with her best friend Manuel (Ferro) that if both of them were still single at age 35, they would marry each other. When Julia receives a call from Manuel that he is marrying someone else,...
Ana Serradilla, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Carlos Ferro and Natasha Dupeyrón star in the update on the original that grossed nearly $300M at the worldwide box office.
Shooting in Guadalajara and Mexico City, the film is adapted by Gabriel Ripstein from Ronald Bass’ original screenplay. Serradilla will play Julia, a renowned food critic who is terrified of commitment. Despite that, she made a promise with her best friend Manuel (Ferro) that if both of them were still single at age 35, they would marry each other. When Julia receives a call from Manuel that he is marrying someone else,...
- 4/12/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Original grossed close to $300m worldwide.
Sony Pictures International Productions (Spip) is co-producing with Zamora Films and Alameda Films La Boda De Mi Mejor Amigo, a Spanish-language adaptation of the 1997 global hit My Best Friend’s Wedding.
Production on the rom-com takes place in Guadalajara and Mexico City. Celso García will direct from Gabriel Ripstein’s Spanish-language adaptation of the original screenplay by Ronald Bass.
Daniel Birman Ripstein and Gerardo Morán produce and Spip has targeted a 2019 release. The original stared Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney and grossed close to $300m worldwide through Sony in 1997.
Ana Serradilla plays Julia, a...
Sony Pictures International Productions (Spip) is co-producing with Zamora Films and Alameda Films La Boda De Mi Mejor Amigo, a Spanish-language adaptation of the 1997 global hit My Best Friend’s Wedding.
Production on the rom-com takes place in Guadalajara and Mexico City. Celso García will direct from Gabriel Ripstein’s Spanish-language adaptation of the original screenplay by Ronald Bass.
Daniel Birman Ripstein and Gerardo Morán produce and Spip has targeted a 2019 release. The original stared Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney and grossed close to $300m worldwide through Sony in 1997.
Ana Serradilla plays Julia, a...
- 4/12/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Mexican genre auteur, involved in two projects at Ventana Sur, is weighing up his next directing gig for 2017.
Grau, who earned international acclaim with cannibal drama Somos Lo Que Hay (We Are What We Are – also the name of the 2013 English-language remake) directed the recent Mexican release 7:19 (pictured), an earthquake disaster drama that Elle Driver represents for international sales at the Buenos Aires market.
Grau is also producing San Buenaventura, a horror story about a young woman haunted by visions of a murder who begins to suspect everybody at the family ranch, including her father.
Alejandro Mares directs the project, which is one of the selections in the market’s Blood Window genre co-production and pitching sessions, Beyond The Window.
Grau and his Mexico City-based Velarium Arts partner Mayra Espinosa Castro produce alongside Rancho Pictures. The partners have partial backing through Mexico’s Eficine apparatus and are seeking a co-producer.
Meanwhile Grau, represented...
Grau, who earned international acclaim with cannibal drama Somos Lo Que Hay (We Are What We Are – also the name of the 2013 English-language remake) directed the recent Mexican release 7:19 (pictured), an earthquake disaster drama that Elle Driver represents for international sales at the Buenos Aires market.
Grau is also producing San Buenaventura, a horror story about a young woman haunted by visions of a murder who begins to suspect everybody at the family ranch, including her father.
Alejandro Mares directs the project, which is one of the selections in the market’s Blood Window genre co-production and pitching sessions, Beyond The Window.
Grau and his Mexico City-based Velarium Arts partner Mayra Espinosa Castro produce alongside Rancho Pictures. The partners have partial backing through Mexico’s Eficine apparatus and are seeking a co-producer.
Meanwhile Grau, represented...
- 12/1/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Mexican genre auteur, involved in two projects at Ventana Sur, is lining up his next directing gig for 2017.
Grau, who earned international acclaim with cannibal drama Somos Lo Que Hay (We Are What We Are – also the name of the 2013 English-language remake) directed the recent Mexican release 7:19 (pictured), an earthquake disaster drama that Elle Driver represents for international sales at the Buenos Aires market.
Grau is also producing San Buenaventura, a horror story about a young woman haunted by visions of a murder who begins to suspect everybody at the family ranch, including her father.
Alejandro Mares directs the project, which is one of the selections in the market’s Blood Window genre co-production and pitching sessions, Beyond The Window.
Grau and his Mexico City-based Velarium Arts partner Mayra Espinosa Castro produce alongside Rancho Pictures. The partners have partial backing through Mexico’s Eficine apparatus and are seeking a co-producer.
Meanwhile Grau is...
Grau, who earned international acclaim with cannibal drama Somos Lo Que Hay (We Are What We Are – also the name of the 2013 English-language remake) directed the recent Mexican release 7:19 (pictured), an earthquake disaster drama that Elle Driver represents for international sales at the Buenos Aires market.
Grau is also producing San Buenaventura, a horror story about a young woman haunted by visions of a murder who begins to suspect everybody at the family ranch, including her father.
Alejandro Mares directs the project, which is one of the selections in the market’s Blood Window genre co-production and pitching sessions, Beyond The Window.
Grau and his Mexico City-based Velarium Arts partner Mayra Espinosa Castro produce alongside Rancho Pictures. The partners have partial backing through Mexico’s Eficine apparatus and are seeking a co-producer.
Meanwhile Grau is...
- 12/1/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Indie distributor Filmhouse will launch a home video division in May, the company said Tuesday. Filmhouse was launched two-and-a-half years ago as a theatrical distributor. Chief executive Fernando Alanis said that the upstart home video unit will handle about 90 titles this year, including a collection of Jim Jarmusch pictures. Alanis' partners, Daniel Birman Ripstein and Leonides Guadarrama, will oversee acquisitions and marketing, respectively. "We will be a new option for home video distribution in Mexico," Alanis said. "Our main competition wil be Quality Films and Distrimax." Filmhouse plans to sell its movies to department stores, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Blockbuster and independent video stores. Alanis and Birman will be at Cannes shopping for new titles.
- 3/28/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired all North American rights to the Spanish-language film "El Crimen de Padre Amaro" (The Crime of Father Amaro), which has recently courted controversy while breaking box-office records in Mexico. Adapted from an 1875 novel by Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz, and reset in modern-day Mexico, "Crimen," directed by Carlos Carrera, centers on a young priest (Gael Garcia Bernal) assigned to a remote provincial town, where he has an affair with a young woman. In its home country,"Crimen" captured the highest grossing opening for a Mexican-produced film, earning over 31 million pesos ($3.1 million) in its first weekend. The film, in current release in Mexico, has also attracted attention from the Catholic church there, which has vocally disapproved of its content. The deal was negotiated by Meyer Gottlieb, president, Samuel Goldwyn Films, and producer Daniel Birman Ripstein. The film is slated for a U.S. release later this year.
- 8/22/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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