Walter Salles: Last News

Clayton Davis Thirty years ago, former Orion Classics heads Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloom created the independent arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment with full autonomy to produce, acquire and distribute films from cinema’s notable auteurs. In the decades since, Sony Pictures Classics has picked up 158 Oscar nominations and 37 statuettes (41 in total for films helmed by Barker and Bernard). It has also made history: Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000) earned 10 Oscar nominations, the most ever for a non-English-language movie, and went on to win four trophies, including foreign language film.

He’s received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA awards, two Grammys, 19 Latin Grammys, and is an Emmy nominee for his work on HBO’s “The Last of Us.”

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent AC Independent, Anonymous Content’s new sales and finance division, is set to introduce Pippa Ehrlich’s anticipated follow-up to her Oscar-winning “My Octopus Teacher,” as well as Walter Salles’ “Sócrates,” to buyers at the Berlin Film Festival. Ehrlich’s untitled new project and Salles’ “Sócrates” are part of AC Independent’s robust slate of documentary features from celebrated filmmakers. In her upcoming project, Ehrlich will shed light on the secretive and endangered world of pangolins, a species viewed as mythological creatures. When Stevie, a baby pangolin, is rescued from death at the hands of poachers in Johannesburg, an investment manager pivots his life to become the animal’s caretaker, teaching him to trust the world again and, in doing so, rediscovers his own purpose. Hand-reared until his release back into the wild, Stevie takes Gareth into his dragon world and together they find freedom and healing in the wild.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Argentina’s Rodrigo de la Serna leads the cast in the latest Paramount+ original film for Latin America, “El Salto de Papá,” based on the memoir of Argentine author-journalist Martin Sivak.Daniela Goggi (“Abzurdah,” “El Hilo Rojo,” “Maria Marta”), who co-wrote the script with Andrea Garrote, will direct the pic which is set to begin shooting in Argentina in upcoming weeks. VIS, Paramount’s international studio, is producing the drama in association with two of Argentina’s leading producers, Infinity Hill (“The Intruder,” “Staged”) and Rei Cine (“Zama,” “The Queen of Fear”).The film is one of multiple Paramount+ original projects underway in Latin America and Spain as the streamer seeks to rev up its local slate.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBérénice Bejo, Oscar nominated for “The Artist,” and two-time Goya winner Antonio de la Torre are to star in “The Movie Teller,” which is to be directed by Lone Scherfig, a BAFTA nominee with “An Education.” Embankment is launching worldwide sales on the Spanish-language film at the virtual AFM.Walter Salles, a BAFTA winner with “The Motorcycle Diaries” and “Central Station,” and Rafa Russo have adapted Hernán Rivera Letelier’s novel, which is the story of life in a mining town in Chile’s Atacama Desert, and a tribute to the inspirational power of cinema, reminiscent of “Cinema Paradiso.”The film is produced by Adolfo Blanco (“The Bookshop”) of A Contracorriente Films and Vincent Juillerat of

EXCLUSIVE: Walter Salles will direct and Mariana Lima will star in I’m Still Here, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s best-selling memoir about his mother Eunice Paiva, a housewife forced to reinvent herself as an activist when her husband fell victim to the military regime that took control of Brazil in 1964. Her husband became among many who were tortured and disappeared with no due process.

Naman Ramachandran Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan will be the 2021 recipient of the annual award presented by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).The FIAF Award was introduced in 2001, when it was presented to Martin Scorsese for his film archival efforts.

EXCLUSIVE:  CAA has inked acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker, documentarian, and philanthropist Walter Salles.

Shakespeare In Love.It was a shock at the time - she beat the likes of Cate Blanchett, in Elizabeth, Meryl Streep in One True Thing and Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro in Walter Salles' celebrated drama Central Station, which was also nominated in the Best Foreign Language film category.And now Glenn Close has rather heavily implied that she was baffled by the decision.: “I remember the year that Gwyneth Paltrow won over that incredible actress who was in Central Station, and I thought, 'What?'“It's like... you know...

Glenn Close has revealed she thinks that Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t deserve to win her Oscar.Paltrow took home the Best Actress trophy at the 1999 ceremony for her role in Shakespeare in Love.It's considered one of the biggest surprises in Oscar history as many had predicted Cate Blanchett would win for Elizabeth.However, Close was backing someone else altogether: Fernanda Montenegro for her role in Central Station, Walter Salles’s drama about a young boy's friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman.Close was talking about the importance of awards ceremonies in a new interview with ABC News when she made it clear she believes Paltrow shouldn't have won.“I remember the year that Gwyneth Paltrow won over that incredible actress who was in Central

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Wagner Moura, a Golden Globe nominee for his role as Pablo Escobar in the Netflix acclaimed series Narcos, has signed with WME.Moura, who was previously repped by UTA, can currently be seen starring in two Netflix film; Sergio, which he also produced, and Wasp Network, opposite Penelope Cruz and Gael Garcia Bernal.Wagner made his directorial debut with Marighella, which premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival. Other credits include Walter Salles’ Behind The Sun for Miramax, Sony’s Elysium, opposite Matt Damon, and Jose Padilha’s Elite Squad, which won the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentIn 1968, during Brazil’s military dictatorship, singer-songwriter, Caetano Veloso – who the preceding year had been among founders of the revolutionary Tropicalia artistic movement – was arrested on trumped-up charges. Veloso was taken from his São Paulo home to Rio de Janeiro, where he was placed in solitary confinement for one week and held behind bars for 54 days.  More than 50 years later, in the documentary “Narcissus Off Duty,” which will premiere on Sept.