Iona Napier
SPANIARDS flocked to the big screen in their masses last weekend.
The country’s highest grossing movie of the year so far is Eight Catalan Surnames (Ocho apellidos catalanes), taking €11 million in the first week alone.
The controversial comedy streaks ahead of James Bond, poking fun at the Catalan independence crisis from a small Catalan village.
Viewings were especially high in Catalunya, accounting for 26% of Spanish viewers.
The film, which also goes under the English title, Spanish Affair 2, is a sequel to Universal’s 2014 success, Spanish Affair, which, with nine million cinemagoers, broke all box-office records in Spain.
