Atresmedia Cine Announces 2026 Releases, Shoots 

Atresmedia Cine, the manufacturing powerhouse of Spanish broadcast community Atresmedia, has unveiled its 2026 launch slate and plans to shoots 10 films over subsequent 12 months. 

That issues. Since 2001 when Spain first obliged native networks to speculate 5% of revenues in European movies and 60% of that in nationwide productions, its two free-to-air TV operators, Atresmedia and Mediaset España, haven’t solely develop into main manufacturing companions on a considerable variety of probably the most vital movies made this century in Spain by way of Atresmedia Cine and Telecinco Cinema however their community dad and mom have put their weighty advertising and marketing muscle behind the films. 

The outcome has been to replace for the higher Spanish audiences’ view of native films, dismissed because the Spanish Civil Battle by the ‘60s as “españoladas” – films whose native reference and relevance didn’t compensate for second-rate manufacturing requirements.

Even in a streaming service world, broadcast networks’ funding and advertising and marketing punch nonetheless depend. Over 2025, Atresmedia Cine productions punched €25 million ($29.5 million) at Spain’s field workplace, accounting for an over 30% share of Spanish movies’ complete annual theatrical gross, it introduced Dec. 24. 

That’s thanks largely to an ongoing manufacturing alliance with Bowfinger Worldwide Photos, headed by Santiago Segura and producer María Luisa Gutiérrez, behind “Father There Is Solely One 5,” which scored €13.4 million ($15.8 million) for distributor Sony in 2025 in Spain, by far the largest field workplace trawl for any Spanish movie. 

The ultimate instalment of the quite a few household saga co-written and directed by and starring Segura as a hapless father, in “Father There Is Solely One 5”  he now confronts the other of an empty nest syndrome – a full nest of six kids, his oldest daughter’s boyfriend, his father and spouse’s mom and different in-laws. And no person appears to be enthusiastic about leaving. 

Timing is all, Gutiérrez defined in an on-stage dialog with Selection at this month’s Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires.  

In 2024, Sony requested Bowfinger to supply a Spanish model of “Demise at a Funeral” to launch Easter Week of 2025: a good turnaround. Gutiérrez realized, nevertheless, that a few of Spain’s prime actors can be out there in the summertime, since on vacation. Launched on time and co-produced with Atresmedia Cine, “Un funeral de locos” took €3.0 million ($3.5 million) on the Spanish field workplace, rating No. 7 amongst 2025 native bows. 

“Torrente President”: Spain’s Largest Field Workplace Wager

Amongst Atresmedia Cine’s subsequent 12 months Spanish premieres, bets are off as to which is able to make most cash. 

Early December, Segura confirmed a March 13 date for “Torrente Presidente,” the sixth a part of a film franchise which started in 1998 with “Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Legislation,” hailed by Selection as “deliriously non p.c.” and “a tremendously gratifying comedy-thriller” dominated by the sort of character – a perpetually inebriated, self-centered sexist, racist scumbag and blow-hard throw-back – which Spaniards had spent democracy disavowing as not consultant of themselves nor trendy Spain.

Relationship “Torrente President’s” launch, Segura mentioned little about its plot-line. It’ll open, nevertheless, within the lengthy run-up to normal elections in Spain, which need to happen by August 2027, with one huge query whether or not Spain’s far-right Vox will find yourself forming a part of coalition governments at federal, regional or municipal ranges. 

Certainly one of “Torrente’s” most extraordinary achievements down he 12 months’s has been to enchantment throughout Spain’s bitter political divide. It stays to be seen if the saga’s sixth iteration’s satire nonetheless does so, or savages Vox. One scene leaked on-line exhibits Torrente addressing a crowd of followers from a balcony above a canvas banner for his celebration, Nox. “I’ve my luggage prepared to depart Spain on March 14,” Segura joked on Spanish comedy chat present “El Hormiguero.” 

‘La Bola Negra,’ One other 2026 Spotlight 

In all, Atresmedia Cine will see over 10 of its films launched in Spain subsequent 12 months. Its different most anticipated is “La Bola Negra,” written and directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, behind HBO Max U.S. pick-up “Veneno”  and Arte France hit “La Mesías,” which burnished their credentials as probably the most thrilling younger film-TV artistic duos in Europe. 

Produced by Movistar Plus+, Suma Content material Movies, France’s Le Pacte and Atresmedia Cine, distributed by Elástica Movies in Spain and offered internationally by Goodfellas, “La Bola Negra” co-stars Penelope Cruz and Glenn Shut in a big solid. It interweaves the interconnected lives of three males in three totally different eras, depicting lives intimately linked by sexuality and want, ache and legacy. The movie additionally incorporates and is partly impressed by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca’s unfinished novel of the identical title, his first work with an explicitly homosexual protagonist. Set in 1932, throughout Spain’s Republic and in 1937, when homosexual males have been imprisoned and executed by Francisco Franco’s forces, equivalent to Lorca himself, and in 2017, “La Bola Negra” is available in at Spanish historical past from a little-explored angle of queer legacy. It additionally has a big Spanish choral solid of little recognized actors newcomers; which could possibly be two causes for the discharge date, Oct. 2, simply after the San Sebastián Pageant, a platform for each the movie’s focus and solid. 

What Atresmedia Cine’s Slate of 2026 Releases Says About Present Spanish Cinema

“Father There Is Solely One” topped Spanish movie field workplace charts for 5 of the final seven years. Not surprisingly, seven of the 12 titles confirmed by Atresmedia Cine to open in cinemas in 2026, or at the least shoot subsequent 12 months, are comedies. 

They’re rigorously set aside, nevertheless. Two play off robust IP: “A Little One thing Further,” one 2026 shoot, adapts France’s 2024 No. 1 film, beating out all Hollywood blockbusters, promoting greater than 10.8 million admissions – the equal of an round $80 million gross. Not for nothing, in 2023, one 12 months when there was no “Father,” the highest-grossing Spanish movie of the 12 months was Javier Fesser’s “Championext,” one other comedy starring non-professional actors with disabilities, which scored €11.9 million ($14.0 million).

One other Atresmedia Cine title set for 2026, “Beneton Household +2,” is a sequel to a 2024 authentic, which scored €4.1 million ($4.8 million) on the Spanish field workplace. 

Two different Atresmedia Cine slate titles could possibly be described as household comedies: “Abuela tremenda,” toplining Elena Irureta (“Patria”) as a battling grannie, concentrating on mature audiences, and “Tres de más,” a parenting farce with Kira Miró (“Alpha Males”), made for a youthful crowd. 

Social satire “Torrente Presidente” has the broadest of audiences. “La Roja,” one other 2026 shoot and a title to comply with, targets an grownup viewers in a film about Spain’s cricket staff, made up largely of gamers of overseas origin. A sort of “Full Monty” about integration, director Marcel Barrena has mentioned, it guarantees the identical mixture of lastly uplifting real-life social observance which he delivered so properly in “The 47,” a movie that shared a greatest image Spanish Academy Goya this 12 months, whereas hitting €4.0 million ($4.7 million) at Spanish theaters. 

Billed as black comedy, “Cada día nace un listo,” a portray heist  caper, reps the newest from Arantxa Echevarría, whose ETA infiltration thriller “Undercover” shared this 12 months’s greatest image Goya and made a exceptional breakout €9.7 million ($11.4 million) in Spain off a 2024 bow.

Elsewhere, given the uncertainties of Spain’s theatrical market, Atresmedia is hedging its bets, producing an actual life sports activities bio, “Karateca,” a Spanish wingsuit BASE leaping journey starring Carlos Cuevas (“Merlí”), Miguel Bernardeau (“Elite”) and Miguel Ángel Silvestre (“30 Cash”), teen musical “A Fuego” and “Viaje al país de los blancos,”  a biopic of human rights activist Ousman Umar.