Champions Movie Details:
Original title | Campeones |
Country | Spain |
Language | Spanish |
Genre | Comedy Drama Sports |
Release date | 6 April 2018 (Spain) |
Running time | 2hr 4min |
Age rating | TV-MA |
Starring | Javier Gutiérrez Juan Margallo Athenea Mata Luisa Gavasa Daniel Freire Itziar Castro |
Directed by | Javier Fesser |
Story by | David Marqués |
Screenplay by | David Marqués Javier Fesser |
Produced by | Gabriel Arias-Salgado Alexandra Lebret Álvaro Longoria Luis Manso |
Cinematography by | Chechu Graf |
Edited by | Roberto Bolado Javier Fesser |
Music by | Rafael Arnau |
Production Company | Películas Pendelton Rey de Babia AIE Morena Films Telefónica Studios |
Distributor | Universal Pictures |
Champions Movie Cast & Characters:
- Javier Gutiérrez as Marco Montes
- Juan Margallo as Julio
- Athenea Mata as Sonia
- Luisa Gavasa as Amparo
- Daniel Freire as Carrascosa
- Itziar Castro as Madre de Jesús
- Mariano Llorente as Iván
- Julio Fernández
- Sergio Olmo
- Jesús Lago
- José de Luna
- Gloria Ramos as Collantes
- Fran Fuentes
- Alberto Nieto Fernández
- Roberto Chinchilla as Ramón
- Stefan López
- Jesús Vidal as Paquito
Storyline:
A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.
Champions Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
Budget | €4.5 million |
Worldwide Collection | $23.8 million |
The film is the highest-grossing Spanish language film of 2018 in Spain, with a box-office taking of €19.1 million from 3.3 million admissions.
About Champions Movie:
Champions (Spanish: Campeones) is a Spanish sports comedy-drama film directed by Javier Fesser and written by Fesser and David Marqués. It stars Javier Gutiérrez, Juan Margallo, Athenea Mata, Luisa Gavasa, Daniel Freire, and Itziar Castro
The film is a Películas Pendelton, Rey de Babia AIE, Morena Films, and Telefónica Studios production.
Distributed by Universal Pictures International Spain, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 6 April 2018. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Champions has an approval rating of 75% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 12 reviews, and an average rating of 6.4/10.
Documentary
A documentary called Ni distintos ni diferentes: Campeones, which tells the true stories of the protagonists of the film, premiered on November 16, 2018, in Spanish theaters.
Sequel
A sequel called Championext was released on August 18, 2023, in Spanish cinemas.
Remakes
In 2020, shooting began for an Arabic-language remake under the same name which was released commercially on March 10, 2022, in theaters in Saudi Arabia. On April 5, 2022, a German-language remake titled Weil wir Champions sind directed by Christoph Schnee was released. On March 10, 2023, an English-language remake of the same name directed by Bobby Farrelly was released. Aamir Khan announced an Indian cinema remake of this film, and shooting will commence in January 2024. It would be entitled “Sitaare Zameen Par“. It would be similar to his 2007 film Taare Zameen Par.