Mexican Directors Team with Universal Pictures

The three famous Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu will be in the same team in a five-feature, $100 million, production partnership with Universal Pictures and Focus Features International.
This partnership will include one new movie directed by each of the “Three Amigos” Oscar-nominated directors (Cuaron for “Children of Men”, Inarritu for “Babel” and del Toro for “Pan’s Labyrinth”), and another movie written and directed by the Colombian filmmaker Rodrigo Garcia, plus a movie by Carlos Cuaron, co-screenwriter of brother Alfonso Cuaron’s “Y Tu Mama Tambien”.
The three Mexican directors and longtime friends have recently experienced important success in the United States. They were the ones who devised the partnership idea and shopped the $100 million-range package to several studios, which include Warner Brothers and Paramount Vantage.
Carlos Cuaron announced film will be his soccer comedy-drama titled “Rudo y Cursi”, in which the main actors from his “Y Tu Mama Tambien” Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal will appear.
The ownership of the five movies will be shared between Universal and all the five directors. Focus Features International will handle all non-North American distribution and sales for each movie.
There will be at least two out of five Spanish-language movies.

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