Almodóvar’s “I’m So Excited” to Premiere in North America at the Los Angeles Film Festival

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film will be taking flight in Los Angeles this June…

The 63-year-old Spanish filmmaker’s “light, very light comedy” I’m So Excited, which will open in New York and LA in late June, will have it’s North American premiere on opening night of the 19th annual Los Angeles Film Festival on June 13.

The film’s debut will come nearly two weeks before the Spanish-language comedy’s U.S. platform release on June 28 via Sony Pictures Classics.

I’m So Excited opened in Spain on March 8 and is currently opening throughout Europe.

Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas are among the ensemble cast of the comedy, which is set on an airplane flight where nothing seems to be going right.

The film festival, produced by Film Independent, teamed with Sony Pictures Classics last year to premiere the Oscar-winning documentary Searching For Sugar Man.

The LAFF will run through June 23 and spotlight more than 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries.

New Trailer for Almodóvar’s “I’m So Excited” Released

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

Following the release of a teaser trailer for Pedro Almodóvar‘s highly anticipated comedy I’m So Excited, Sony Pictures Classics has released a full trailer for the film.

The full trailer for the 61-year-old Spanish director’s first comedy in nearly 20 years helps fill out the story a little bit, as well as offers a glimpse of Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas’ cameo roles.

The film is a comedy about what happens on a plane after a psychic onboard predicts it’s going to crash.

I’m So Excited is set for limited release on June 28 in the United States.

Louis C.K.’s “Blue Jasmine” Opening in LA & New York This July

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

Louis C.K. will have a Blue summer…

The 45-year-old half-Mexican American actor, comedian and Emmy-winning writer and director is starring in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, which will debut in New York and Los Angeles on July 26.

Sony Pictures Classics describes Blue Jasmine as “the story of the final stages of an acute crisis and a life of a fashionable New York housewife.”

Along with Louis C.K., in his first feature film since 2009’s The Invention of Lying, the film stars Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Peter Sarsgaard and Andrew Dice Clay.

The film was shot in New York City and San Francisco last year.

Sony Pictures Classics Releases Subtitled Trailer for Larraín’s “No”

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Tom Castaneda

Sony Pictures Classics has released a subtitled trailer for Pablo Larraín‘s critically acclaimed film No…

The 36-year-old Chilean director’s film, which stars Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, tells the based-on-facts story of an advertising executive who engineered a marketing campaign that toppled Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in a 1988 referendum.

Sony Pictures Classics acquired the movie at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it picked up the Art Cinema Award. And the film recently won a prize at the Havana New Latin American Film Festival.

No, Chile’s entry into the Best Foreign Language Film race for the Academy Awards, will be released in the United States on February 15, 2013.

Garcia Bernal May Soon Star in The Dallas Buyer’s Club

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Tom Castaneda

It looks like Gael Garcia Bernal could soon be living a buyer’s market…

The 33-year-old Mexican actor is currently in talks to star opposite Matthew McConaughey in The Dallas Buyer’s Club, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The dramatic film from director Jean-Marc Vallee (The Young Victoria) had been shopped around at the Cannes Film Festival as a McConaughey-Hilary Swank vehicle, but Swank has since dropped out.

Inspired by true events, the plot centers on Ron Woodroof (McConaughey), a Texas electrician diagnosed with AIDS who began smuggling alternative drugs into the U.S. to help himself and other AIDS patients. His actions put him on a collision course with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was bent on keeping the drugs out of the country.

In a show-stopping role, Garcia Bernal will portray an effeminate member of the club, a fellow AIDS patient who meets Woodroof in the hospital.

The film’s producers are looking to begin shooting the film in New Orleans this November.

Garcia Bernal, who most recently appeared in , is currently drawing awards-season buzz for his star turn in Sony Pictures Classics‘ No, about an ad executive who comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile’s 1988 referendum. The film will be Chile’s official entry for the foreign-language Oscar.

Sony Pictures Classics Acquires the Rights to Almodóvar’s Next Film

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Tom Castaneda

The anticipation is definitely building for Pedro Almodóvar’s next film, even though production hasn’t even started on the project…

Sony Pictures Classics announced Tuesday that they have acquired all North American rights to Almodóvar’s new comedy currently titled I’m So Excited from El Deseo.

The film, an ensemble comedy written and directed by Almodóvar, is set to begin production in July and will be released next summer.

The all-star cast includes Javier Cámara, Cecilia Roth, Lola Dueñas, Raul Arévalo, Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Hugo Silva, Willy Toledo, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Blanca Suárez, José Luis Torrijo, José María Yazpik and Laya Martí.

In addition, the film—which was previously known as Los Amantes Pasajeros—will include special collaborations from Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Paz Vega.

The Sony Pictures Classics team has a long history with Almodóvar that began with Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at Orion Classics and has continued with seven films at Sony Pictures Classics , including Goya-winning film The Skin I Live In, Broken Embraces, Volver, Bad Education, All About My Mother and Talk to Her.

Cruz’s Second Woody Allen Film to Hit Theaters Next Summer…

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Tom Castaneda

Penelope Cruz’s second project with Woody Allen will definitely hit theaters in the United States next summer…

The 37-year-old Spanish actress—who scored a Best Supporting Actress Oscar after appearing in Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona in 2008—appears in the legendary director’s next film, Nero Fiddled.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American and United Kingdom rights to the Allen’s film, which was shot in Rome over the summer, and they have big hops it will translate into a hit when they release it next year.

“More laughs in this one than you can imagine,” says Sony Pictures Classics. “We know it’s a bit premature, but thank you Woody and company, for granting us the perfect summer comedy of 2012. Keep ‘em coming.”

Along with Cruz, the romantic comedy stars Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Jesse Eisenberg and Ellen Page.

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