25 Jan, 2014 @ 09:30
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Hollywood hits Spain in celeb bonanza

Penelope Cruz

PENELOPE Cruz will co-direct and produce a film Ma ma by one of Spainโ€™s most prominent auteurs, LA-based director Julio Medem.

An โ€˜intimate womanโ€™s drama, laced with moments of comedyโ€™, Ma ma revolves around Magda, a woman battling inner turmoil.

The movie will be shot in Spain this spring starring Cruz, alongside Luis Tosar, and Asier Exteandia.

Elsewhere, two of Hollywoodโ€™s biggest stars were spotted filming in Valencia this week.

Hugh Laurie and George Clooney are shooting scenes for Tomorrowland, the next science fiction adventure from Disney.

Clooney plays a grizzled inventor called Frank Walker, is already being touted as one of the big releases for 2015 and features Hugh Laurie as a baddie called David Nixe.

The big budget blockbuster shares its name with the futuristic themed lands found at Disneyโ€™s theme parks.

Clooney was rumoured to have bought a house in the Marbella area last summer, although it has never been confirmed.

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Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UKโ€™s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrixโ€™ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrewโ€™s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

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