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Telecinco Cinema, guarantee

of successful quality feature-length flm production

Major productions by internationally acclaimed directors, projects introducing the seventh art to young flm makers, comedies aimed at the public at large, tapes that bring genre flms to cinemas and thrillers starring some of the faces most familiar to viewers were the main focus this year of Telecinco Cinema’s prescribed investment in the Spanish flm industry through flms premiered and projects under development.

The year 2010 marked Telecinco’s 10th anniversary in the flm industry in which it made history with productions such as “Ágora”, “El Laberinto del Fauno”, “Celda 211”, “El Orfanato”, “Alatriste”, “Ché”, “Spanish Movie” and “Los crímenes de Oxford”, among many others. Ten years after its frst steps in the industry through flms such as “Al otro lado de la cama”, “Los dos lados de la cama”, “Lobo” and “Intacto”, among others, Telecinco Cinema is one of the leading flm producers in Spain in terms of the volume of investment and box- ofce takings, and has won awards at the most prestigious festivals.

In keeping with these parameters of quality, proftability and public awareness, Telecinco Cinema premiered four diferent genre flms this year: “El mal ajeno”, the frst work of Oskar Santos and starring Eduardo Noriega and produced by Alejandro Amenábar; “Rabia”, a production involving Guillermo del Toro and directed by Sebastián Cordero which won the Biznaga de Oro to the Best Filmat theMalaga Festival 2010; “Agnosia”, a romantic thriller directed by Eugenio Mira and starring Eduardo Noriega, Bárbara Goenaga and Félix Gómez and “La daga de Rasputín”, a comedy directed and interpreted by Jesús Bonilla together with Antonio Resines, Antonio Molero, María Barranco and Carolina Bang, among others.

Together with the premiering of these flms, in 2010 the channel started flming another four projects, including one of the most ambitious in the history of Spanish flm-making: “Lo imposible”, the new flm of Juan Antonio Bayona (“El Orfanato”), starring Naomi Wats, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland which is being flmed in Thailand, Alicante and Madrid. The flm tells the story of a British couple living in Japan who on the frst day of their holidays in Thailand are faced with a brutal tragedy –the tsunami of Indonesia- that will change their lives forever.

Other flms are “Verbo”, the frst feature length flm of the short-flm maker Eduardo Chapero Jackson starring Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Alba García and Verónica Echegui, “Lo mejor de Eva”, a thriller by Mariano Barroso with Leonor Watling and Miguel Ángel Silvestre and “No habrá paz para los malvados”, the new flm of Enrique Urbizu, starring José Coronado and Rodolfo Sancho.

In addition, Telecinco Cinema carried out the flming of the tv movie “Alakrana”, of Salvador Calvo, the most successful television movie director following “Paquirri” and “La Duquesa”, and “Vuelo IL8714”, based on the investigation into the biggest aviation catastrophe in Spain.

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