Telecinco Cinema
Telecinco Cinema, S.A.U. is the film production division of Mediaset España. It produces both feature films and television films.
History
Telecinco Cinema is a subsidiary film company of Mediaset España. Formerly known as Estudios Picasso, the subsidiary adopted its current brand identity in 2007.While the company continued in the middle of postproduction of The Impossible, the new film by director J. A. Bayona starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor; they were also working on Tadeo Jones, a 3D animation film directed by Enrique Gato.
Some other pictures produced or co-produced by Telecinco Cinema include Amigos... a comedy by Borja Manso and Marcos Cabotá, Verbo, and Dark Impulse, No Rest for the Wicked, ranked fifth among Spanish box office in 2011 and won five Goya Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Telecinco Cinema has undertaken some of Spain's biggest international hits, including Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth ; and J. A. Bayona's The Orphanage and The Impossible. It also produced or co-produced films such as Steven Soderbergh's Che, which won the Best Actor Award for Benicio del Toro at Cannes 2008; or the latest Agora and Cell 211.
Telecinco Cinema produces all genres, as shown by their filmography, with titles like Álex de la Iglesia's The Oxford Murders, Alatriste by Agustín Díaz Yanes, Brad Anderson's Transsiberian or the first Spanish spoof film Spanish Movie.
The studio has also undertaken film remakes such as Perfect Strangers, I Can Quit Whenever I Want, If I Were Rich and Undercover Wedding Crashers.