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Atresmedia Cine (formerly Ensueño Films and Antena 3 Films) is the studio belonging to Grupo Atresmedia responsible for producing films. It was created in 2000.


History

The film production company was created after the enacting of the Spanish Law 22/1999 regulating the collaboration between the television operators and the film industry. The studio of the Grupo Antena 3 (later Atresmedia) was created in 2000 under the brand identity 'Ensueño Films'. It was later rebranded as 'Antena 3 Films', and then as 'Atresmedia Cine'. In light of the ensuing forced investment of the television operators in film production, Atresmedia (through its own studio) as well as rival operator
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(through its respective producing arm
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) eventually became the two main film producers in the country. In 2019, Atresmedia Cine was integrated within Atresmedia Studios, the division created in 2017 to produce fiction for third-party platforms, and which was in turn integrated in 2020 into a newly created joint-venture of Atresmedia with
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, . In 2022, Jaime Ortiz de Artiñano was appointed as the new Director-General of Atresmedia Cine, replacing , who quit the position after 18 years working for Atresmedia to join Beta Fiction Spain.


Films


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