''It's Now or Never'' (; lit. Now or never) is a 2015 Spanish

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film directed by

María Ripoll Maria Ripoll Julià (born 1963) is a Spanish film director from Barcelona, with an international background and eight feature films to her credit. The success of her film '' It's Now or Never'' placed her as the highest-grossing Spanish female fi ...

from a screenplay by Jorge Lara and Francisco Roncal which stars

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and

María Valverde María Valverde Rodríguez (born 24 March 1987) is a Spanish actress. Her feature film acting debut in '' The Weakness of the Bolshevik'' (2003) earned her a Goya Award for Best New Actress. Early life María Valverde was born in Madrid on ...

Plot

Álex and Eva are a happy couple who, after years of relationship, have decided to marry in the English countryside village (

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) where they met each other. However, an unexpected problem occurs: a strike of air traffic controllers prevent Álex and his guests from arriving where Eva is waiting.

Cast

Production

The screenplay was written by Jorge Lara and Francisco Roncal. The film is a Zeta Cinema and

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production. It was shot in

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, and

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. It boasted a

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2.9 million budget.

Music

The Music was composed by Simon Smith as a happy feel good comedy score with touches of brit pop, punk and jazz. Much of the score was also played by Simon Smith, including guitars, bass, piano, drums, violin, trumpet, vocals as well as writing many of the English songs. Other key musicians were brought in to provide baritone sax, lead trumpet, guitars, and double bass. One of them Victor Hernandez is the lead vocal for many of the composed songs ( Crazy for you, Run for what you want etc.)
There are also international songs included such as "

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" (

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), " Tick, tick, boom!" (

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), "

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" (

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) and classic Spanish pop, like "Te estoy amando locamente" (

Las Grecas Las Grecas was a Spanish musical duo of Flamenco - rock formed in 1973 by two romani sisters, Carmela Muñoz Barrull (Valladolid, July 19, 1954), and Edelina Muñoz Barrull (Madrid, February 17, 1957 - Aranjuez, January 30, 1995), better known ...

) and "" (

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), among others.

Release

The film had its premiere at Madrid's Cines Callao on 16 June 2015. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing de España, it was released theatrically in Spain on 19 June. It had an in-year gross of at the Spanish box-office.

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 4161962 Spanish romantic comedy films 2015 romantic comedy films 2015 films Films shot in Amsterdam Films shot in Barcelona Films shot in the province of Girona Zeta Studios films Atresmedia Cine films 2010s Spanish films 2010s Spanish-language films Spanish-language romantic comedy films