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The box office success of “La Bola Negra,” handled by Elastica Films, has given Spain’s independent film distribution sector a timely boost. The momentum comes as Valladolid’s Merci market enters its sixth edition, its first since the death of José Luis Cienfuegos, the director of Valladolid, known in Spain as the Seminci, who helped build […]
In a major shift in the theatrical tides, Netflix has reported box office grosses for the first time ever. The streamer’s awards hopeful “La Bola Negra” scored $277,500 from just four theaters, averaging $69,375 per location. Those ticket sales are notable as the second-highest screen average ever for a non-English language film behind 2019’s “Parasite,” […]
Before being the title of an unfinished work by García Lorca, "The Black Ball" was a real mechanism of social segregation. Its history goes through the masonry, British clubs and casinos of the Spanish elite.
“La Bola Negra,” the film from directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, popularly known as Los Javis, will receive The Gotham Vanguard Tribute at this year’s Gotham Film Awards on Nov. 30. The ceremony, taking place at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, will pay tribute to the filmmakers as well as the Netflix […]
Nothing will be the same in the sleepwalking romance of this dormant society that they have been lynching on the basis of rents, mortgages and evictions without logic or ethics.
With the premiere of the film, we reviewed the presence of the granadino author in the audiovisual, where he has been most played in series
Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo again show that they have a brilliant sense of cinema, although not everything convinces in this story of love, fear, desire and suffering
The Los Javis film that is being planned tonight in San Sebastián starts his career with strength to the Oscar
The generational queer drama “La Bola Negra” has taken the 2026 TIFF People’s Choice Award, a coveted audience prize out of the annual film festival in Toronto. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, the Netflix project has been on a tear since world premiering in Cannes this year (where it earned a 16-minute standing […]
Movistar Plus, producer of “La Bola Negra,” “The Beloved” and “Sirāt ” has unveiled a new slate of projects headed by titles from “The Good Boss” director Fernando León, director-producer JA Bayona (“Society of the Snow”) and actor-director Paco Leon (“Arde Madrid”). Further projects are set to be directed by Los Moriarti (“The Endless Trench”), […]
The specialized media boast up to 14 nominations for the Javis film and Netflix could invest about 20 million euros in its promotion in the award season
