The merger of Manga Films and Notro Films gives rise to Vértice Cine

As a result of the merger between Manga Films and Notro Films, Grupo Vértice 360 ​​launches Vértice Cine. The first film to be released entirely under this label will be El baile de la Victoria, by Fernando Trueba, on November 27.

Two of the companies integrated into Grupo Vértice 360, Manga Films and Notro Films, will now be integrated under the Vértice Cine brand whose objective will be the distribution of films, documentaries and series for exploitation in movie theaters, DVD/BLU-RAY, television and the Internet. It will distribute both national and international productions, with films such as Pagafantas, Borja Cobeaga's debut feature, which was a great success among critics and the public and whose DVD edition goes on sale next November 18; the oscarized Crash, by Paul Haggis; Traffic, the Steven Sodebergh, o Gangs of New York, by Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio, which was seen by more than one and a half million viewers when it premiered in Spain. The first film to be released entirely under this label will be The Victory Dance, by Fernando Trueba, on November 27.

In 2010, Vértice Cine will premiere Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese's latest film again with Leonardo DiCaprio, on February 19; Oceans, the most expensive European documentary in history, with a budget of more than 50 million, next April; Telespan production, One more hour in the Canary Islands, directed by David Serrano, and whose cast includes Quim Gutiérrez, Angie Cepeda, Juana Acosta and Eduardo Blanco, scheduled for spring; either The new Daughter, Luis Berdejo's debut film starring Kevin Costner and Ivana Baquero, at the end of the year.

Also, more recent acquisitions such as: Last Night, directed by Massy Tadjedin and starring Keira Knightley (Atonement, Pirates of the Caribbean), Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation, Avatar), Eva Mendes (Cleaner, Ghost Rider) and Guillaume Canet (Merry Christmas, “together Nothing More”) o Wuthering Heights, the film adaptation of the famous novel by Emily Brontë, about the tormented love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. The director, Peter Webber, (Girl with a Pearl Earring, Hannibal. The Origin of Evil) will give this story a teenage vision of obsession, passion and desire. To do this, he has looked for Ed Westwick, popular for his role in the television series, as protagonists. Gossip Girl, and British actress Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, and that the adaptation of the video game will premiere in 2010 Prince of Persia).

Vértice Cine has recently acquired at the American Film Market, The Baster, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck and starring Jennifer Aniston (Friends) and Jason Bateman (Juno) and after the San Sebastián Festival, the closing film, Mother and Child, directed by Rodrigo García (Nine Lives, Things I'd Say Just by Looking at Her) and starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Samuel L. Jackson.