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Beta Fiction, Spain’s No. 1 Independent Distributor in 2024, Sets New Films by ‘El 47’s’ Marcel Barrena and ‘House on Fire’s’ Dani de la Orden (EXCLUSIVE)
After ‘El 47’ and ‘A House on Fire,’ Marcel Barrena and Dani de la Orden rate among Spain’s hottest helmers.
In further news, Spanish pubcaster RTVE, pay TV/SVOD player Movistar Plus+ and Catalan government’s ICEC have boarded “Cronos,” produced by Nostromo Pictures and to be directed by Fernando González Molina. Daniel Minahan’s “On Swift Horses,” with Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones bows July 25, David Yarovesky’s “Locked,” with Anthony Hopkins and Bill Skarsgard, hits Spanish testers on Aug. 22. All three have “very strong characters” and two are based on true facts with a social element attached, she said of “Undercover,” about a real-life woman police officer who infiltrated Basque terrorist org ETA at the age of 20, and “El 47,” which turns on Manolo Vital, a bus driver in Barcelona’s main public transport operator, who drove a bus on the 47 route to Torre Baró, an outlying neighbourhood of Barcelona, to prove wrong his operator’s argument that the bad state of the streets, and their steep tight curves, meant that they couldn’t accommodate buses.
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