Penelope Cruz has joined the solid of Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s upcoming function La Bola Negra (The Black Ball) taking inspiration from an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca.
Calvo and Ambrossi, who’re recognized collectively as Los Javis and made waves with genre-bending thriller La Mesias, unveiled recent casting particulars at an occasion in Cannes on Monday.
Goodfellas’ Eva Diederix was additionally in attendance to announce the corporate had boarded gross sales on the title, which is an authentic Movistar Plus+ movie in collaboration with Suma Content material Movies and co-produced with Le Pacte.
Additional solid bulletins included singer-song author Guitarricadelafuente, who will make his massive display screen debut; Miguel Bernardeau (Querer, Elite), Carlos González (Mariliendre, Veneno), Cannes Greatest Actress winner Lola Dueñas (Volver), who additionally gained the Feroz, Forqué, and Platino Awards for her efficiency in La Mesías.
The duo’s breakout movie La Mesías premiered on the San Sebastián Competition, screened at Sundance, and gained quite a few awards
La Bola Negra is impressed by the surviving supplies of the eponymous unfinished play by Federico García Lorca and the theatrical work La piedra oscura by Alberto Conejero, recipient of the Nationwide Prize for Dramatic Literature and 5 Max Awards.
It should inform the interconnected tales of three males throughout three totally different eras. Three lives intimately sure by sexuality and want, ache and legacy; impressed by certainly one of Lorca’s final, unfinished works.
Filming for La Bola Negra will start in August and can happen in numerous places throughout Spain and Europe.
Lots of the key crew members from La Mesías will return for La Bola Negra: Gris Jordana as director of pictures, Roger Bellés as manufacturing designer, Ana López Cobos as costume designer, Eva Leira and Yolanda Serrano as casting administrators, Rodrigo Madrigal as sound supervisor, Pablo Morillas as head of hair styling, Mariló Osuna as make-up artist, and Belén Martí Lluch as choreographer.
Alberto Gutiérrez will oversee modifying, whereas Raül Refree will compose the movie’s rating. Mariano Piñeiro will function manufacturing supervisor.
“We’re extremely proud to be coproducing La Bola Negra directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi and produced by Movistar Plus+ and Suma Content material Movies. We have now been completely satisfied by Las Mesías and we had been very excited after we obtained the script for La Bola Negra. Instantly we’ve got determined to commit as we had been mesmerized by its inventiveness, intelligence, and emotion,” stated Le Pacte.
The Paris-based movie firm is in Cannes this yr because the co-producer and French distributor Fuori by Mario Martone within the Official Choice.
Goodfellas which can also be out in drive with 5 movies in Official Choice: Nouvelle Obscure by Richard Linklater, Younger Moms by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Fuori by Mario Martone, Renoir by Chie Hayakawa and Saeed Roustaee’s Lady and Little one.
“We had been completely blown away by La bola Negra,” the corporate stated in a press release.
“It’s daring, cinematic, emotionally highly effective and visually placing, the type of movie that grabs you within the guts from the primary scene. Following the success of La Mesías, this movie confirms Ambrossi’s and Calvo’s place among the many most important voices in European cinema immediately and we couldn’t be extra excited to be a part of this journey with Movistar Plus+ and Le Pacte”.
La Bola Negra will even be the primary movie produced by Suma Content material Movies. The manufacturing firm based by Ambrossi and Calvo, Suma Content material, is launching a devoted movie division, Suma Content material Movies, beginning with this undertaking after efficiently finishing the shoot of Mi querida señorita. In the meantime, El desencanto, the debut of Ana Rujas directing, stays in growth.
