Telecinco Cinema

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Telecinco Cinema, S.A.U.
TypeSociedad Anónima Unipersonal
IndustryFilm
PredecessorDigitel 5 (1996-1999)
Estudios Picasso Fábrica de Ficción (1999-2007)
Producciones Cinematográficas Telecinco (2007)
Founded23 September 1996 (1996-09-23)
Headquarters,
Spain
Area served
Nationwide
Key people
Ghislain Barrois (CEO)
ProductsMotion pictures
ParentMediaset España Comunicación
Websitewww.telecinco.es/t5cinema

Telecinco Cinema, S.A.U. is a Spanish film production company owned by Mediaset España Comunicación. It produces both feature films and television films.

History[]

Telecinco Cinema is a subsidiary film company of Mediaset España – a Spanish private broadcast group.

While the company continues in the middle of postproduction of The Impossible, the new film by director J. A. Bayona starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor; they are also working on Tadeo Jones, a 3D animation film directed by Enrique Gato.

Their most recent film is Amigos... a comedy by Borja Manso and Marcos Cabotá. They also prepare the imminent release of Verbo, the highly anticipated film debut by Eduardo Chapero-Jackson; and Lo mejor de eva, a thriller by Mariano Barroso. No Rest for the Wicked directed by Enrique Urbizu, has ranked fifth among Spanish box office in 2011 and won five Goya Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.[citation needed]

Telecinco Cinema has undertaken some of Spain's feature films, including Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (three Academy Awards); J. A. Bayona's The Orphanage, which took US$80 million at the international box office; and Steven Soderbergh's Che, which won the Best Actor Award for Benicio del Toro at Cannes 2008; or the latest Agora (Alejandro Amenábar) and Cell 211 (Daniel Monzón), the highest-grossing titles of the 2009 Spanish box office, who won together fifteen Goya Awards.[citation needed]

Telecinco Cinema produces all genres, as shown by their filmography, with titles like Álex de la Iglesia's The Oxford Murders, Alatriste by Agustín Díaz Yanes, Brad Anderson's Transsiberian or the first Spanish spoof film Spanish Movie.[citation needed]

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