'Father there is no more than one': the highest-grossing Spanish film, exceeding 14 million euros in collection

The film directed and starring Santiago Segura is in sixth place in the TOP 15 of all films released in our country this year, including blockbusters.

Atresmedia Cinema closes 2019 with a successful balance after having achieved the highest grossing Spanish film of 2019, Father there is only one, and overcome the 29 million euros in receipts (29,479,876.10 euros), a result that places it as the box office leader in our country.

The film production company of the Atresmedia group, in addition to the film Santiago Segura, has premiered Losing the East, The Japan, Who kills with iron, Taxi to Gibraltar, People who come and go, The Sisters Brothers, The Silence of the White City, Legacy in the bones y like life itself.

The films released by Atresmedia Cine thus represent the 33.6% of the total box office grossed by Spanish productions and 34.3% of the public (5,114,267 spectators) who have seen Spanish cinema in 2019.

Since last February, Atresmedia Cine has been integrated into Atresmedia Studios, thus enhancing its status as a global factory for the creation and exploitation of fiction and entertainment audiovisual content.

Father there is only one has achieved more than 14.2 million euros box office receipts and nearly 2.5 million spectators. Furthermore, the film directed and starring Santiago Segura, in a new success with the Atresmedia production company, is in sixth place in the Top 15 of all films released in our country this year, including blockbusters.

Atresmedia Cine productions have once again demonstrated their great commercial success in all windows and also their impact internationally, with the films with the greatest presence in the entire industry outside our borders and an excellent adaptation in international markets (remakes), as the titles have demonstrated. The body, Contratiempo, Julia's eyes, o The unknown, among others.

It has also been a great year for Atresmedia Cine in the winning prizes, as the great winner of the Goya 2019 with a total of 10 awards, seven for The Kingdom, the most awarded film of the 33rd edition, and three for The shadow of the law, both films released in 2018. The film directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen also won five Feroz awards, awarded by the Association of Cinematographic Informants of Spain and the Forqué Award to the protagonist, Antonio de la Torre, in the 24th edition of these awards organized by EGEDA (Audiovisual Producers' Rights Management Entity).

Looking to 2020

For this new year, Atresmedia Cine will continue to strengthen its strategy to continue being the most versatile production company in the industry, with designed premieres and movements that allow us to continue advancing in the development and promotion of our cinema.

As in 2019, all genres, comedy, thriller, drama, horror..., will once again be present in the 2020 titles with 8 films.

Malasaña 32, the horror film, directed by Albert Pintó, will be the first to debut next year, with its premiere on January 17, which will be followed, on February 14, Until the wedding do us part, directed by Dani de la Orden (The best summer of my life, The proclamation) and with Belén Cuesta, Alex García, Silvia Alonso, Marian Hernández, Gracia Olayo, Leo Harlem, Antonio Resines and Malena Alterio.

In March, Offering to the storm will close the Baztán Trilogy, the film adaptation of the literary phenomenon of the same name by the Planeta Award-winning author Dolores Redondo, and, for summer, it arrives Superagente Makey with Leo Harlem, Silvia Abril and Jordi Sánchez under the direction of Alfonso Sánchez and Father there is only one 2, which has just started filming, again with Santiago Segura, Toni Acosta, Silvia Abril, Leo Harlem, Martina D'Antiochia, Calma Segura, Luna Fulgencio, Carlos G. Morollón and Sirena Segura, in this new and fun family adventure that will hit theaters on July 17, 2020.

In autumn 2020, it will be time for big production The summer we lived, a love story, inspired by real events, directed by Carlos Sedes (Velvet, Fariña) and starring Javier Rey, Blanca Suárez, Carlos Cuevas and Guiomar Puerta. The plot, told in two parts, will move to Jerez in the 1950s, as the main setting, taking a journey through its history, its culture, its wineries and its vineyards.

In the 2020 projects, the filming of the new films by Paco Plaza and Arantxa Echevarría, Goya for Best New Director for Carmen and Lola (2018).