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Spanish-Uruguayan co-production “Better Class,” directed by Víctor García León (“Selfie”), who co-wrote with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Borja Cobeaga (“One Too Many”), is now shooting and has been picked up by Spanish sales company the Film Factory. BTeam Pictures will distribute in Spain.

Featuring leading Spanish actors Márián Álvarez, Israel Elejalde, Juan Diego Botto, Natalia Reyes and Pilar Castro, it tells the story of Alicia and Gonzalo, a middle-class couple who face the dilemma of enrolling their son, Fer, in an elite secular school, unlocking opportunities for social mobility but at the cost of their own moral convictions. As a project, “Better Class” impressed at last year’s Venice Gap Financing Market.

“Better class arises from the contradictions in my own daily environment,” explained García. “When we choose our children’s school, what are we really choosing? We read a news story in 2018 about an incident that occurred at a school, and...

Saban Films has acquired rights to the U.S. and Canada on Jaume Balagueró’s “The Vault” (F.K.A. “Way Down”), starring Famke Janssen of “X-Men” franchise fame, Sam Riley, and Golden Globe nominee Freddie Highmore.

Also starring are Astrid Bergès-Frisbey (“King Arthur: Legend of the Sword”) and Liam Cunningham (“Game of Thrones”).

Produced by Álvaro Augustin, Ghislain Barrois, Highmore, Eneko Lizarraga and Francisco Sánchez, “The Vault” will be released by Saban Films in theaters, on demand and digitally on Jan. 22.

The U.S deal was negotiated by Saban Films’s Jonathan Saba with CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers and TF1 Studio, the cinema division of top French broadcast group TF1, which is handling international sales.

Saban Films’s acquisition comes as TF1 Studio closed further key territories on “The Vault,” with Eagle Pictures snagging Italy, and U.K. rights taken by Signature Entertainment.

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Madrid — Freddie Highmore, star of ABC’s “The Good Doctor,” the top exported U.S. scripted series last year, has been joined on bank heist thriller “Way Down” by Liam Cunningham, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey and Sam Riley.

Cunningham plays Sir Davos Seaworth in “Game of Thrones”; Astrid Bergès-Frisbey embodied mermaid Syrena in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.”; Riley portrayed Ian Curtis in “Control,” and Diaval in Disney‘s “Maleficent,” alongside Angelina Jolie.

Directed by Jaume Balagueró, the ambitious English-language heist thriller partners two of Europe’s biggest media corporations, Spain’s Mediaset España and France’s TF1 Group. Ghislain Barrois and Álvaro Augustín, at Telecinco Cinema, Mediaset España’s film arm, are producing with El Tesoro de Drake Aie, Ciudadano Ciskul (Francisco Sánchez) and Think Studio (Eneko Lizarraga), in collaboration with Mediaset España and TF1 Group.

Highmore himself will take a producer credit. “Way Down” will be sold at...

Netflix has unveiled two new Spanish originals including an adaptation of a Harlan Coben story as Reed Hastings was in Madrid to open the Svod service’s first European production hub.

The digital platform has ordered El Inocente and Los Favoritos de Midas. El Inocente is a remake of Coben’s book and has been adapted for TV by Oriol Paulo. The eight-part series tells the tale of Mateo who, nine years ago, interceded in a fight and ended up becoming a murderer. Now he’s an ex-convict who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and both are about to get the house of their dreams. But a shocking and inexplicable call from Olivia’s cell phone again destroys Mateo’s life for the second time.

Paulo writes alongside Jordi Vallejo and Guillem Clúa with Coben, Paulo, Belén Atienza, Sandra Hermida, Eneko Lizarraga and Jesús de la Vega...

The good doctor turns treasure hunter as British star Freddie Highmore has signed on to produce and star in Way Down, an English-language heist movie from Spanish genre auteur Jaume Balaguero (Sleep Tight).

France’s TF1 Studio is handling international sales and domestic distribution on the project.

The film is produced by Ghislain Barrois and Alvaro Augustin at Telecinco Cinema, Francisco Sanchez for Ciudadano Ciskul, Eneko Lizarraga at Think Studio and El Tesoro de Drake Aie, in collaboration with Mediaset España and TF1.

Way Down follows the meticulous plan conceived by a gifted engineering graduate, Thom (Highmore), after he joins ...

The good doctor turns treasure hunter as British star Freddie Highmore has signed on to produce and star in Way Down, an English-language heist movie from Spanish genre auteur Jaume Balaguero (Sleep Tight).

France’s TF1 Studio is handling international sales and domestic distribution on the project.

The film is produced by Ghislain Barrois and Alvaro Augustin at Telecinco Cinema, Francisco Sanchez for Ciudadano Ciskul, Eneko Lizarraga at Think Studio and El Tesoro de Drake Aie, in collaboration with Mediaset España and TF1.

Way Down follows the meticulous plan conceived by a gifted engineering graduate, Thom (Highmore), after he joins ...

Berlin — Freddie Highmore, star of U.S. TV hit “The Good Doctor,” will topline “Way Down,” an English-language heist movie partnering two of Europe’s biggest media corporations, Spain’s Mediaset Espana and France’s TF1 Group.

Tfi Group’s cinema division TF1 Studio will handle international sales and also domestic distribution in France. “Way Down” will be directed by Jaume Balaguero (“[Rec]”). Pic starts shooting in April.

Ghislain Barrois and Alvaro Augustin at Telecinco Cinema, which is Mediaset Espana’s film arm, are producing with El Tesoro de Drake Aie, Ciudadano Ciskul (Francisco Sanchez) and Think Studio (Eneko Lizarraga) in collaboration with Mediaset Espana and TF1 Studio. Highmore himself will take a producer credit.

To shoot in and around Madrid and coastal areas in Spain and England, ”Way Down” follows a gifted engineering graduate student (Highmore), who masterminds a plan to break into one of the most impenetrable and...