Telecinco Cinema is a subsidiary film company of
Mediaset España. Formerly known as Estudios Picasso, the subsidiary adopted its current brand identity (Telecinco Cinema) in 2007. While the company continued in the middle of postproduction of
The Impossible, the new film by director
J. A. Bayona starring
Naomi Watts and
Ewan McGregor; they were also working on Tadeo Jones, a 3D animation film directed by Enrique Gato. Some other pictures produced or co-produced by Telecinco Cinema include
Amigos... a comedy by Borja Manso and Marcos Cabotá,
Verbo, and
Dark Impulse,
No Rest for the Wicked, ranked fifth among Spanish box office in 2011 and won five
Goya Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Telecinco Cinema has undertaken some of Spain's biggest international hits, including
Guillermo del Toro's ''
Pan's Labyrinth'' (US$83 million gross at the international box office); and
J. A. Bayona's
The Orphanage (US$78 million) and
The Impossible (US$198 million). It also produced or co-produced films such as
Steven Soderbergh's
Che, which won the
Best Actor Award for
Benicio del Toro at
Cannes 2008; or the latest
Agora (
Alejandro Amenábar) and
Cell 211 (Daniel Monzón). Telecinco Cinema produces all genres, as shown by their filmography, with titles like
Álex de la Iglesia's
The Oxford Murders,
Alatriste by Agustín Díaz Yanes,
Brad Anderson's
Transsiberian or the first Spanish spoof film
Spanish Movie. The studio has also undertaken film remakes such as
Perfect Strangers (2017),
I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2019),
If I Were Rich (2019) and
Undercover Wedding Crashers (2021). == Films ==