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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Bayona’s “The Impossible”

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The anticipation is building for Juan Antonio Bayona’s heart-wrenching film The Impossible…

The 37-year-old Spanish director’s film, a serious Oscar contender, tells the story of a family separated during the terrifying Tsunami in Thailand in 2004 and their efforts to survive and find each other, despite horrific injury and unspeakable devastation at the resort area where they were vacationing.

Juan Antonio Bayona

Starring Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland, the film has already broken box office records in Spain. Summit will be releasing The Impossible  on December 21 in the United States.

Here’s a look at the making of The Impossible, in a featurette that includes an interview with the real-life wife and mother who fights against all odds to be reunited with her children and husband again.

Bayona’s “The Impossible” Breaks Box Office Records in Spain

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Juan Antonio Bayona has an impossible hit on his hands…

Juan Antonio Bayona

The 37-year-old Spanish filmmaker’s powerful recreation of the 2004 tsunami, The Impossible, has broken the all-time Spanish box office records for the biggest four-day opening, with 10.3 million euros ($13.3 million) and 1.4 million tickets sold.

Warner Bros. released Bayona’s  highly anticipated film, a follow-up to his critically acclaimed The Orphanage, over a three-day weekend after receiving rave reviews at festivals in Toronto, San Sebastian and Sitges.

The Impossible

The film, which stars Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts as a British couple vacationing with their three children in Thailand when the natural disaster strikes, features some intense scenes that forced paramedics to wheel people out on stretchers at festival screenings.

“The Impossible is the proof that in Spain we can make films that compete with Hollywood,” said Telecinco Cinema CEO Ghislain Barrois. “At Telecinco Cinema, we are proud to have worked again with Juan Antonio Bayona, whose opera prima we co-produced. And to have partners like Apaches Entertainment with us in the adventure.”

Grossing $11.6 million in the first three days, Impossible looks poised to outperform previous first three-day record-holders, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($11.45 million) and The Da Vinci Code, ($11.38 million).

Lionsgate will release The Impossible in the United States on December 21.

Bayona’s “The Impossible” Set to Open in the U.S. in December

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The rose to acclaim after directing the Goya Award-winning The Orphanage… And, now J.A. Bayona is returning with another highly anticipated film.

J.A. Bayona

Lionsgate has scheduled the 37-year-old Spanish filmmaker’s latest project, The Impossible, to open in New York and Los Angeles on December 21st.

The Impossible

Bayona’s film, with stars Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, centers on a family that survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed more than 230,000 people in 14 countries.

Bayana Named CineEurope’s International Director of the Year

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He rose to fame after directing the critically acclaimed Spanish-language horror film The Orphanage, which earned him a Goya Award for Best New Director… And, now Juan Antonio Bayana has another award to put on his mantle…

The 37-year-old Spanish filmmaker picked up the international director of the year award at CineEurope, Europe’s top cinema convention during the show’s annual awards luncheon in Bayana’s hometown of Barcelona.

Juan Antonio Bayana

Following The Orphanage—his big debut film, a visceral ghost story set in a former children’s refuse—Bayana has returned with The Impossible, which stars Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Geraldine Chaplin. It’s a tale of a family battling to survive the aftermath of a devastating South East Asian tsunami.

Summit Entertainment is planning to release the movie in the United States later this year while Spaniards will see it on the big screen in October.