Industry

With the continued growth in serialized fiction and now the exploding diversification in digital and streaming platforms, the "television" landscape is literally changing under everyone's eyes. So much so that the industry in some respects is struggling to keep pace with the changing formats, genres and definitions.

The Cartagena Film Festival is the largest and oldest in South America and celebrates mostly Latin American films. The 54th Edition of the festival directed by Monika Wagenberg, which just concluded, featured counting 12 South American films in the official competition, most of them premieres.

L. A-based writer-director Carlos Marques’ Long Distance (10,000 Km) swept Spain’s Malaga Film Festival, the country’s biggest showcase of Spanish cinema, scooping its top award, the Golden Biznaga, for best movie, best director, best new screenwriter, a critics’ award and best actress to Natalia Tena (a prize she shared with Elena Anaya for her work in Everybody is Dead’s (Todos están muertos).

Jane Fonda was born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda on December 21, 1937 in New York. She grew up in Beverly Hills with her movie star father Henry Fonda, so it was perhaps inevitable that she and her younger brother Peter would become actors.

Donald Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada on July 17, 1935. He studied at the London Academy of Dramatic Arts and acted in British films until he was cast in The Dirty Dozen (1967) by Robert Aldrich, then moved to Hollywood, where he became a symbol of the counter-culture with films like M*A*S*H (1970) by Robert Altman, Alex in Wonderland (1970) by Paul Mazurski, Kelly’s Heroes (1970) with Clint Eastwood, Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) with Gene Wilder.

Strong international numbers made this a very good week for several major studios. Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s foreign-first strategy paid dividends as the film opened to a tidy $75.

Shirley MacLaine was born on April 24, 1934 in Richmond, Virginia. She had studied ballet from the age of 3 and moved to New York at 18 after graduating high school to perform in musical theatre on Broadway.