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Following A JA Bayona-Hosted Cannes Market Preview, Horror ‘Vieja Loca’ Sells To North America, UK, Australia & Spain For Studiocanal


JA Bayona Produced Horror 'Vieja Loca' Sells To Shudder and Dea Planeta For Studiocanal.

Bayona, Carmen Maura, Daniel HendlerAmanda Edwards/Getty Images/Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images/Matthias Nareyek/WireImage EXCLUSIVE: During the Cannes Film Festival and market, where JA Bayona presented a preview of Vieja Loca, the film he is producing with Belén Atienza, Ramon Campos and Gabriela Carcova, Shudder acquired rights in North America, UK, Australia and New Zealand. The Spanish-language film narrates the nightmare a man (Hendler) suffers after receiving a desperate call from his ex-girlfriend to take care of her senile mother (Maura). In a talk held at the Fantastic Pavilion of the Cannes Film Festival with Ángel Sala, director of the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, Bayona commented: “When I began my career with The Orphanage, Guillermo del Toro produced it on one condition: that I would sponsor another director in the future.

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