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Cannes Palme d’Or beforehand runner La Bola Negra looks group to beryllium acquired for nan U.S. by Netflix successful a record-breaking woody for nan level for a non-English-title successful nan $4-5 million-range.
We perceive nan woody being brokered by Goodfellas comes a multi-week theatrical responsibility attached and plans for an awards campaign, pinch nan title being seen successful nan vein of crossover breakout Emilia Pérez.
Elastica will administer nan movie successful Spain, and Goodfellas is handling world sales. La Bola Negra is nan first characteristic from Calvo and Ambrossi since 2017’s Holy Camp! The duo’s past task was nan Movistar Plus+ series La Mesías (2023), which premiered astatine nan San Sebastian Film Festival and was screened astatine nan Sundance Film Festival.
La Bola Negra, starring Penélope Cruz, debuted Thursday evening astatine the Cannes Film Festival to a rapturous 20-minute ovation and immoderate sparkling responses. Since past a fistful of home buyers person been chasing nan project.
Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi nonstop nan Spanish-language movie astir 3 men successful 3 different periods — 1932, 1937 and 2017 — connected by nan past useful of Spanish writer Federico García Lorca.
The film’s charismatic synopsis reads: “La bola negra tells nan interconnected stories of 3 men successful 3 different eras. Three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, symptom and inheritance, and 1 of nan past unfinished useful by Spanish writer Federico García Lorca.” Deadline revealed a first clip for nan movie today.
Cast includes Spanish musician Guitarricadelafuente alongside Miguel Bernardeau, Cruz and Glenn Close. Calvo and Ambrossi besides collaborated connected nan screenplay pinch Alberto Conejero.
The film’s 20-minute applause comes very adjacent nan Cannes grounds for an ovation successful a premiere, group by different Spanish film, Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, which clocked a 22-minute ovation successful 2006.
The task is simply a Movistar Plus+ and Suma Content Films accumulation successful co-production pinch Pedro Almodóvar’s El Deseo and Le Pacte. Suma Content Films is Ambrossi and Calvo’s accumulation company. The movie was changeable for 12 weeks successful different locations crossed Spain, including Castile, León, Cantabria, Andalusia, and Madrid.
The movie was changeable connected 35mm by head of photography Gris Jordana. Other below-the-line credits connected nan task see Roger Bellés arsenic creation director, Ana López Cobos arsenic costume designer, Eva Leira and Yolanda Serrano arsenic casting directors, Rodrigo Madrigal arsenic sound engineer, Pablo Morillas arsenic hairstylist, Mariló Osuna for make-up, and Belén Martí Lluch arsenic activity director. Alberto Gutiérrez edited nan film.
Elastica will administer nan movie successful Spain, and Goodfellas is handling world sales. La Bola Negra is nan first characteristic from Calvo and Ambrossi since 2017’s Holy Camp! The duo’s past task was nan Movistar Plus+ series La Mesías (2023), which premiered astatine nan San Sebastian Film Festival and was screened astatine nan Sundance Film Festival.
