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Chennai , Sept 7(Ians) Bollywood super star Shah Rukh Khan’s much anticipated movie ‘Jawan’, directed by ace Tamil director Atlee was received by South Indian fans to a rousing welcome.

In Thiruvananthapuram ,Chennai and other cities of south India, the movie opened to full house. Shah Rukh Khan playing the dual role of a police officer and a thief In a 2 hour 49 minute movie has thrilled the masses.

The fans of Thalapathy Vijay, the Tamil superstar has also given a rousing reception to the Srk movie as the director, Atlee has made three back to back hits with Vijay in ‘Theri’ , ‘ Mercel’ and ‘ Bigel’.

In several theaters across Tamil Nadu fans welcomed the opening of the movie by pouring milk over the cut-out of Shah Rukh Khan.

Nikhil .R.S, an Engineer who opted to watch the Hindi version of the movie from Thiruvananthapuram’s Aries theatre while speaking to...

Amazon Prime Video hosted a San Sebastian press conference for its new Spanish docu-series “The Challenge: Eta,” sharing a new trailer for the program and announcing that the series will be made available to stream around the world on Oct. 30.

The well-attended panel, also streamed on San Sebastian’s website, was hosted by Oscar Prol, head of Spanish unscripted originals, Amazon Studios, Luis Velo, executive producer at Atar TV, and series director Hugo Stuven.

One of a series of high-profile productions to come out this year examining the violent conflict between the Basque Country’s Eta armed resistance group and the Spanish government, it joins the likes of Movistar Plus’ “La Linea Invisible,” launched earlier this year to rave reviews and massive audience numbers, and HBO’s “Patria,” one of the highest profile titles, film or series, playing at this year’s festival.

“The Challenge: Eta” is based on Manuel Sánchez Corbí...

In a joint press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy at the White House on Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump mistakenly and repeatedly referred to his Spanish counterpart as “Mr. President.”

Critics on Twitter took note and immediately began to mock Trump for the gaffe.

“Trump referred to the Spanish Pm as Mr President all the way through his speech. He’s f—–g hopeless,” one Twitter user said.

“You would think that Trump would try and get the basics right,” wrote another.

The White House Press Office also incorrectly referred to Rajoy as president in its daily schedule...

The King of Spain, Felipe VI, on Friday led a moment of silence in Barcelona’s famous Catalonia Square less than a day after a van barreled into the city’s popular Las Ramblas tourist district, killing 13 people.

The King stood alongside Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy as he led the somber moment surrounded by scores of mourning residents.

After silence concluded, the crowd clapped and chanted “I am not afraid,” according to NBC News.

Just before 6 p.m. on Thursday, the van jumped the curb and left a trail of bloodied, bruised bodies as it continued on its path for more than a thousand feet.

Catalan police confirm officers shot and killed four suspects in a separate alleged terror plot in Cambrils, hours after a van attack killed at least 13 in Barcelona.

Early Friday, amateur video, aired by Spain’s state Tve broadcaster, showed multiple police cars speeding along a seafront boulevard, according to the Washington Post. In the footage, people could be heard screaming, followed by the sound of about 10 bullets.

Spanish public TV reported some of the suspects in the latest attack were carrying explosive belts, according to USA Today. Police said they shot five men, killing four of them. Seven civilians were injured.

Reporters took another crack at getting President Obama to talk about the now-concluded email investigation into Hillary Clinton Sunday morning, as the President took questions from reporters after he wrapped up meetings with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Madrid. While they were ultimately unsuccessful, they did manage to give President Obama the opportunity to clarify earlier comments he had made concerning "legitimate concerns" over the handling of email and other data at the State Department, which he added were concerns that span the entire spectrum of government information transmission.

President Obama continued to make news from abroad Sunday morning, taking questions from reporters as he wrapped up meetings with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Madrid. After deflecting another question about the FBI's email investigation, the President tackled criticism that ha been leveled at the #BlackLivesMatter movement over a handful of anti-cop statements that have been made at protests. The President acknowledged that sometimes, protesters will say things that are "stupid" or "imprudent," but he defended the movement as part of the American tradition that includes other great social movements.

Noah's Ark The D'A Festival has gained a reputation for championing homegrown filmmakers and its fifth edition proved to be no exception. Although Spanish and Catalan films could be found throughout the programme, there was a particular concentration of local talent in the (Im)Possible Futures strand, an exploration of low voltage sci-fi being made in straightened times but with no shortage of imagination or humour.

Among those films was Noah's Ark, a sweet-natured comedy depicting Spain in the not-so-distant future. It's 2020, Mariano Rajoy is still prime minister and the economy is stuck in a near-apocalyptic downward spiral - the solution of two newly-redundant security guards (played by Fran Gomis and Miguel Chillón) is to build a machine for inter-dimensional travel to find an alternative reality. I asked the film's directors how they came to work together, on growing up in the same town, and about the improvisational...

We have added a set pictures from the event Spanish Royals Attend the Pascua Militar Epiphany Holiday Parade at Palacio Real in Madrid on January 6, 2015.Guests included Queen Letizia of Spain with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz and Defence Minister Pedro Morenes, Mariano Rajoy, Jorge Fernandez Diaz and Pedro Morenes, King Felipe VI of Spain, King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia of Spain and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

Spain has become the latest country to secure a co-production agreement with China.

Spain has become the latest country to sign a co-production film agreement with China.

The agreement coincided with the visit of Spanish president Mariano Rajoy to Beijing. Both governments signed the deal, which was approved by the parliaments of the two countries earlier in the year.

China remains a difficult market in which to secure distribution, with a quota of 38 international films sanctioned in 2013 and 34 in 2014.

The new agreement will allow Spanish films to be distributed within the Asian superpower, providing each co-production partner has contributed a minimum of 20% to the feature.

In an statement, the Icaa (Spanish Government agency for cinema) celebrated the agreement and highlighted the new tax deduction for foreign productions in the country of 15% with a maximum of €2.5m.

However, the Spanish film industry has said 15% is insufficent for attracting internatiponal shoots in Spain.

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Carlos Vermut’s Spanish drama wins best film and best director; Dennis Lehane wins best screenplay for The Drop.Scroll down for other awards

Spanish drama Magical Girl has won the Golden Shell for best film at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).

Carlos Vermut also won the Silver Shell for best director for the film, produced by Madrid-based Aquí y Allí Films and is sold by Films Distribution.

Jury chairman Fernando Bovaira described Vermut as “a disturbing, delicate and unique voice”.

The film, which debuted at Toronto and is currently screening at Zurich before going on to Busan, centres on the wish of an ill child who wants the dress in Japanese series Magical Girl Yukiko. Her father sets out to obtain it but enters a world of blackmail and tragedy.

It marks Vermut’s second film after Diamond Flash.

The Special Jury Prize went to Wild Life (Vie Sauvage), the new film by...

Madrid -- Spain's King Juan Carlos I abdicated on Monday after 39 years on the throne, after steering the country from a dictatorship after General Francisco Franco's death to a vibrant democracy. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced the king's intention to leave his role in an urgent "institutional declaration," saying the 76-year-old monarch would detail his reasons in a speech later. Photos: Grace Kelly's 20 Most Glamorous Style Moments of All Time The king, who has suffered waning health and a dip in popularity following a series of corruption scandals involving his son-in-law, plans to hand

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Director's take on Spain's economic jeopardy, I'm So Excited should remind the Rajoy government that the end is still in doubt

A plane circles in the sky with a damaged undercarriage. The passengers get up to high jinks as they wait for the inevitable crash landing. A cast of call girls, gay cabin crew and a crooked banker on the run says this is your traditional 1970s-style Hollywood airline disaster comedy. In fact, it is how Spain's most renowned film director, Pedro Almodóvar sees the current state of his country.

Needless to say, that is not the view of Mariano Rajoy's government in Madrid. While not disputing that Spain has its problems, the administration say the wipeout that was looming last summer has been avoided.

Proof is that financial market conditions have eased since Mario Draghi said that the European Central Bank would do whatever it took to safeguard the future of the euro.

Film director gives his support to peaceful demonstrations outside ministers' homes but fears an explosion of violence

Pedro Almodóvar, the celebrated Spanish film-maker, has warned of an increasingly violent mood in his recession-hit country as he throws his weight behind a popular movement determined to stop banks evicting vulnerable people who can no longer pay their mortgages.

"I think the country as a whole is worried about social unrest breaking out. I certainly am," he said as Spanish unemployment hit a national record of 27% last week. "Every day that goes by, I get the impression that there is further provocation to make it explode. That doesn't mean I am inciting anyone to violence. It is quite the opposite. I would invite everyone to react, but in the most peaceful way possible," he added.

Almodóvar said be backed a controversial, if peaceful, campaign of protests outside ministers' houses that prime minister...

He's one of cinema's most visionary directors, and his films have shaped the way we see his country. So how does Pedro Almodóvar choose to portray Spain's catastrophic economic crisis? With an outrageous, sex-sozzled farce

Pedro Almodóvar is hobbling. He is also hopping mad. He has come into his Madrid office – where visitors are greeted by a massive album of Helmut Newton nudes – despite surgery on his knee the day before. Hence the hobble. But what really hurts him is that, forced to rest from his normally hectic routine of scriptwriting, the director has spent his convalescence watching the news. "Some days I try not to see the news at all," he says. "But yesterday I couldn't avoid it. It is all horrific."

Almodóvar's day in front of the television consuming endless stories of the country's economic woes, which have left a quarter of Spaniards out of work, has made him indignant.

Actor uses interview to accuse Spain's government of using high unemployment rate as an excuse for cutting workers' rights

As cyberterrorist Raoul Silva in the latest James Bond film, Skyfall, Spanish actor Javier Bardem proves once again that he makes an ideal celluloid baddie.

But the actor who torments Daniel Craig's 007 and Judy Dench's M in the movie is now being cast as a different kind of villain by Spain's ruling conservative People's party (Pp).

"You have to be a big crook, and not a film one, to say that high unemployment suits the government," tweeted senior Pp deputy Rafael Hernando after reading a newspaper interview in which Bardem attacked the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

The tweet was a response to the interview in El País newspaper, in which Bardem angrily accused the Rajoy government of using the country's 25% unemployment rate as an excuse for cutting back workers' rights.

Just a handful of screenings will go ahead on the day unions and others protest against the Spanish government's spending cuts

Spain's star-studded San Sebastián film festival will be hit by the country's economic and political crisis. Trade unions and other organisations in the Basque country have called a general strike on Wednesday in protest against the public spending cuts being imposed across the nation by prime minister Mariano Rajoy's Partido Popular government. As a result, the festival has axed all screenings that day except for those of a handful of films in competition, which will play at its base in the city's Kursaal centre. All other venues will be shut.

Since the Franco era, hostility towards central government has always been intense among Basques, many of whom want independence for the region. During the festival, the streets have seen frequent protests against Madrid's crisis measures. The strike was...

Europe’s fourth largest economy concede they will have to ask for aid to survive debt crisis.

Spain’s finance minister has announced his country will ask for European aid for its suffering banking system. No official request has been made yet. The Spanish government wish to wait for two individual reports on its banking system to return before finalising the sum. An International Monetary Fund report said Spain needs at least 40 billion euros to be injected into several banks. However, it has been suggested the figure could be nearer 100 billion euros.

A European bailout of this sort would result in Spain joining Greece, Ireland and Portugal in bowing to the need for outside aid. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has already introduced extreme measures of austerity to try and cut Spain’s budget deficit. Additionally, at this moment in time he is refusing to accept the term “bailout” seemingly to save face.

President of Spain Mariano Rajoy's swearing in ceremony before King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid. Photo copyright Solarpix / PR Photos. President of Spain Mariano Rajoy's swearing in ceremony before King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid. Photo copyright Solarpix / PR Photos. President of Spain Mariano Rajoy's swearing in ceremony before King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid. Photo copyright Solarpix / PR Photos. President of Spain Mariano Rajoy's swearing in ceremony before King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid. Photo copyright Solarpix / PR Photos. President of Spain Mariano Rajoy's swearing in ceremony...