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Fernando Guillén dies: Pedro Almodóvar Collaborator, Goya Award winner for Don Juan in Hell Fernando Guillén, a Spanish acting legend whose film, stage, and television career spanned close to six decades, died of cancer earlier today at a Madrid hospital. The Barcelona-born Guillén was 81 according to the daily El Mundo. (As per the IMDb, he was 80; born on Nov. 22, 1932.) Curiously, Fernando Guillén became more active in Spanish cinema in the last three decades. Among his movies are three directed by Pedro Almodóvar: Law of the Desire (1987), in which Guillén plays the police investigator; the Academy Award-nominated Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), as Carmen Maura’s jerk ex-boyfriend; and the Oscar-winning All About My Mother (1999), as the Doctor featured in the play A Streetcar Named Desire starring Marisa Paredes as Blanche DuBois. (Correction: Penélope Cruz’s father is played by Fernando Fernán Gómez.) [Photo: Fernando Guillén.] Other Guillén movies include...

BERLIN -- International sales company Lumina Films has signed up local stars to voice characters for each territory version of its CGI-animation Midsummer Dream. For the United Kingdom, Lumina said Rhys Ifans, Toby Blessed and Brian Blessed have been signed to provide the vocals for the movie, which is "loosely based on Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' " The announcement came Friday at the Berlin International Film Festival. Stars signed for Spanish-speaking territories include Gabino Diego, Jose Luis Gil, Emma Penella, Isabel Ordaz, Gemma Cuervo and Carmen Machi. Directed by Angel de la Cruz and Manolo Gomez for Spain's Dygra Films, Midsummer is a co-production with Portugal's AppiaFilmes.

BERLIN -- International sales company Lumina Films has signed up local stars to voice characters for each territory version of its CGI-animation Midsummer Dream. For the United Kingdom, Lumina said Rhys Ifans, Toby Blessed and Brian Blessed have been signed to provide the vocals for the movie, which is "loosely based on Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' " The announcement came Friday at the Berlin International Film Festival. Stars signed for Spanish-speaking territories include Gabino Diego, Jose Luis Gil, Emma Penella, Isabel Ordaz, Gemma Cuervo and Carmen Machi. Directed by Angel de La Cruz and Manolo Gomez for Spain's Dygra Films, Midsummer is a co-production with Portugal's AppiaFilmes.