Netflix announced last week the start of the Glória series, its new original project, produced by the SPi production company of Grupo SP Televisão and co-produced with RTP. An original series by Pedro Lopes, and directed by Tiago Guedes, Glória will be shooted in Ribatejo region and in Lisbon. The series takes place in the...

Juliet Landau, who is best known for her role as the mean girl vampire in the cult favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, has signed a distribution deal with Modern Films for her feature film directorial debut A Place Among The Dead. Peter Ogunsalo, Spy Manor Productions producer and business development executive is as a contributor to the Film’s Journey....

Algarve Production company, Monte Productions, in association with Spy Manor Productions, Bad Penny Productions &  Moviebox are currently filming feature film “There’s Always Hope “ in the Loule Algarve region. The production  features actor Colm Meany and is for international release . The film is part of an intended slate of films to be shot...

The 21st edition of the Festa do Cinema Francês will take place from October 8 through November 4 in six cities in Portugal, with more than 50 films presented, and many related events. Now a key and unmissable event on Portugal’s fall cultural calendar, this year the Festa do Cinema Francês offers a sterling program, including sixteen features presented at...

In Partnership with Production Algarve and with the seal of approval of The Portugal Film Commission and Loulé Film Office, Spy Manor Productions will host a three-day workshop free of charge to ten pre-selected local screenwriters, that will later be pitched to international streaming services. The selected few will be given the chance to take...

By Harry Klunder; Production Manager at Monte Productions It’s a big responsibility, the job of protecting people in a highly tactile and collaborative environment, especially for independent filmmakers. During the preproduction and budgetting of Tim Lewinston’s “There’s always Hope” I estimated that safety measures cost as much as 10% of the production budget, and it...

The Algarve Indie Scriptwriters Workshop completed last week in Ferragudo with the selection of two storylines created by scriptwriters who live and work in Portugal, which will later become a new TV series filmed and produced in the Algarve. Eight experienced producers and scriptwriters from Portugal and the UK spent three days working alongside ten...

Via screendaily.com By Michael Rosser The 70th Berlin International Film Festival is to open with Philippe Falardeau’s My Salinger Year, starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley. The Canadian-Irish co-production is based on the international bestseller of the same name by US author Joanna Rakoff and will receive its world premiere at the Berlinale Palast on February 20....

Via empireonline.com By James White It had been talked about informally, but given the box office response to Captain Marvel (and Brie Larson‘s multi-film deal), it was a foregone conclusion that Marvel would make a sequel to the movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the sequel’s officially in the works. The news comes partly because Disney and the MCU...

Via emperieonline.com By Ben Travis Few movie studios are as magical as Ghibli – the Japanese anime house behind some of the most stirring, heartfelt, wondrously imaginative animated films of all time. Originated by Havao Mi and Isao Takahata, the films of Studio Ghibli are none more distinct – exploring the balance of man and nature, coming-of-age...