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In Barry Katz's world, a blown-out knee is funny. Katz, who heads New Wave Entertainment's talent management division, is producing "Dumbbells," a buddy comedy about a college basketball star who blows out his knee and gets a job working at a dumpy Los Angeles gym. The basketball player, who has NBA dreams, learns the true meaning of life at the gym. Brian Drolet (MTV's "Disaster Date," "2 Dudes and a Dream") wrote the movie and stars. Hoyt Richards ("The Disciple") also stars. "Hit and Runway's" Chris Livingston is directing. Travus Pope, Jordan Eubanks and Josh...

Madrid -- The 5th Madrid de Cine Spanish Film Screenings will kick off Sunday, showcasing 33 films from Spain to 117 international buyers from 30 countries.

Oskar Santos' supernatural drama set in a hospital "For the Good Others" and Mar Coll's profile of a Catalan family at a life cycle event "Three Days With the Family" are two of the films with good buzz going into the event, which runs June 20-22.

"Others," produced by Alejandro Amenabar, Fernando Bovaira's Mod Prods. and Telecinco Cinema, stars Eduardo Noriega and Belen Rueda -- acting godmother of this year's edition.

Rueda also toplines Guillem Morales' much-anticipated "Julia's Eyes," which re-teams producers Rodar y Rodar and Guillermo del Toro after their first venture -- "The Orphanage."

Market premieres include Emilio Ruiz Barrachina's English-language "The Disciple," Manuel Huerga's space documentary "Sun and Moon" and Alex Coll's digital 3D "The Happets."

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