Estudios Churubusco

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Estudios Churubusco is one of the oldest and largest movie studios in Latin America located in the Churubusco neighborhood of Mexico City.

It was inaugurated in 1945 after a 1943 agreement between RKO and Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (of Televisa). In 1950 it was acquired by the government of Mexico and merged with Estudios y Laboratorios Azteca to form Estudios Churubusco Azteca. Since 1958 it has been controlled by the government of Mexico.

It is estimated that 95% of the films produced in Mexico since 2000 have used many of the services the studio provides.

[edit] History

Estudios Churubusco were inaugurated in 1945 with the film La morena de mi copla starred by Spanish singer Conchita Martínez. The following year Pedro Infante signed with Churubusco and Cantinflas filmed A volar joven in 1947. In 1948 Emilio Fernández directed María Félix and Pedro Armendáriz in Maclovia, a film photographed by Gabriel Figueroa. Luis Buñuel started working at Churubusco studios in 1950 and directed its first film there the following year, Una mujer sin amor. In 1952 Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante made their first and last film together called Dos tipos de cuidado.

In 1954 Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, then president of Mexico, announced a new system of finance for the movie industry and in 1958 it took control of the studios and, with Sube y Baja' with Cantinflas, they produced the first movie processed at the in-house laboratories. In 1960, Luis Buñuel filmed La joven, his only English-language film and Santo made his first film the following year, El Santo contra los zombies. In 1963, Mauricio Garcés and singers Angélica María, Enrique Guzmán and César Costa all filmed at Churubusco. By 1967 Churubusco began filming exclusively in color and the following year made its first film using four-channel sound.

In 1971, the Plan of Re-structuring of the Film Industry is presented and in 1972 the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy of Film, which was re-activated is presented once again.. 1975 became one of the best years for the cinema of Mexico but by 1978 production dropped significantly. The government of Mexico then created the Mexican Institute of Cinematography in 1982 producing El corazón de la noche in April of that year.

By the mid-late 1980s the cinema of Mexico was going through its worst years. In 1993 Estudios Churubusco exchanges part of its land for federal funds to make the company most efficient. The National Center for the Arts was created in the land donated. The following year Churubusco remodeled its sound and laboratory buildings and created the first THX theater in Latin America certified by both Lucas Films and Dolby Digital as well as a new special effects and dubbing facilities. By 1995 Churubusco replaced its antiquated impression and development equipment for Eastman Kodak-certified equipment and that year saw the beginning of the New Era of the Cinema of Mexico with films such as Like water for chocolate and Cilantro y perejil. In 1997, the studios digitized the sound of all films it produced between 1956 and 1980.

In the year 2000, Churubusco built its first THX sound studio

[edit] Selected films

See complete list at Films shot at Estudios Churubusco .

Year filmed	Film	Director	Note
2006	Resident Evil: Extinction	Russell Mulcahy	With Milla Jovovich
2004	The Matador		With Pierce Brosnan
2004	The Librarian: Quest for the Spear		With Noah Wyle
2004	Bandidas		With Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz
2003	Ladies Night	Gabriela Tagliavini
2004	Man on Fire	Tony Scott	With Denzel Washington
2003	Nicotina	Hugo Rodríguez	With Diego Luna
2003	Sobreviviente	Paul Michael
2002	Amar te duele	Fernando Sariñana
2002	El crimen del Padre Amaro	Carlos Carrera	Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination
2002	La hija del caníbal	Antonio Serrano
2001	Asesino en serio	Antonio Urrutia
2001	Frida	Julie Taymor	With Salma Hayek
2001	La habitación azul	Walter Doehner
2001	El tigre de Santa Julia	Alejandro gamboa
2001	Un secreto de Esperanza	Leopoldo Laborde
2001	Sin ton ni Sonia	Carlos Sama
2001	Vivir mata	Nicolás Echeverría
2000	Atlético San Pancho	Gustavo Loza
2000	De la calle	Gerardo Tort
2000	Demasiado amor	Ernesto Rimoch
2000	Fidel	David Atwood
2000	Japón	Carlos Reygadas
2000	Perfume de violetas	Maryse Sistach
2000	Original Sin		With Antonio Banderas & Angelina Jolie
1999	Amores perros	Alejandro González Iñarritu	Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination
1999	El coronel no tiene quien le escriba	Arturo Ripstein
1999	Crónica de un desayuno	Benjamín Cann
1999	La ley de Herodes	Luis Estrada
1999	Todo el poder	Fernando Sariñana
1998	Bajo California, el limite del tiempo	Carlos Bolado
1998	Sexo, pudor y lágrimas	Antonio Serrano	Box-office record
1997	De noche vienes, Esmeralda	Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
1996	100 años de cine mexicano	Carlos Carrera
1996	The Mask of Zorro	Martín Campbell
1996	Romeo + Juliet	Baz Luhrmann	With Leonardo Di Caprio
1996	Santitos	Alejandro Springall
1995	Avalon	Lorenzo Hagerman
1995	Cilantro y perejil	Rafael Montero
1995	De tripas corazón	Antonio Urrutia
1993	Bienvenido /welcome	Gabriel Retes
1993	Hasta morir	Fernando Saldaña
1992	Break of Dawn	Isaac Artenstein
1991	El bulto	Gabriel Retes
1991	Como agua para chocolate	Alfonso Arau
1991	La intervención de cronos	Guillermo del Toro
1991	Miroslava	Alejandro Pelayo
1991	Modelo antiguo	Raúl Araiza	With Silvia Pinal
1990	Cabeza de Vaca	Nicolás Echeverría
1990	Ciudad de ciegos	Alberto Cortes
1990	Danzón	María Novaro
1990	La mujer de benjamín	Carlos Carrera
1990	Sólo con tu pareja	Alfonso Cuarón
1989	Total Recall (film)	Paul Verhoeven	with Arnold Schwarzenegger
1989	The Hunt for Red October	John McTiernan	1st Jack Ryan film
1989	La tarea	Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
1988	Licence to Kill	John Glen	16th James Bond film
1986	Chiquita pero picosa	Juan Pastor	With Verónica Castro
1986	Romancing the Stone	Robert Zemeckis
1984	Rambo: First Blood Part II	Georges P. Cosmatos
1983	Under the Volcano	John Huston
1983	Choices of the Heart	Joseph D Sargent
1983	Conan the Destroyer	Richard Fleischer	With Arnold Schwarzenegger
1983	Dune	David Lynch
1982	Amityville II: The Possession	Damiano Damiani
1982	Sorceress	Jack Hill
1982	The Honorary Consul	John Mackenzie
1981	El barrendero	Miguel M. Delgado	With Cantinflas
1981	The Caveman	Carl Gottlieb
1981	Chanfle II	Chespirito
1981	La Chevre	Francis Veber
1980	Campeche: Un estado de ánimo	Luis Mandoki
1979	Cacciatore di squali	Enzo Castellari
1979	Le Scarabee d’Or	Maurice Ronet
1978	Las cariñosas	Rafael Portillo
1978	The Eagle’s Wing	Anthony Harvey
1977	Bloody Marlene	Alberto Mariscal
1975	El apando	Felipe Cazals
1975	The Devil’s Rain	Robert Fuest
1974	Antonio and the Mayor	Jerry Torpe
1974	Bellas de noche	Miguel M. Delgado
1973	Shootout in a One-Dog Town	Burt Kennedy
1973	Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia	Sam Peckkinpah
1973	Calzonzin inspector	Alfonso Arau
1972	El castillo de la pureza	Arturo Ripstein
1971	The Assassination of Trotsky	Joseph Losey
1971	Big Jake	Georges Sherman
1971	Boulevard Du Rhum	Robert Enrico
1971	Buck and the Preacher	Sidney Poitier
1969	The Blue Soldier	Ralph Nelson
1968	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	George Roy Hill
1968	Cuando los hijos se van	Julián Soler
1968	Robinson Crusoe	René Cardona Jr.
1967	El agente 00-sexy	Fernando Cortés
1967	Corazón salvaje	Tito Davison
1962	El ángel exterminador	Luis Buñuel
1960	Amorcito corazón	Rogelio A. González
1960	El analfabeto	Miguel M. Delgado
1957	¡Ay Jalisco no te rajes!	Jaime Salvador
1956	A Woman’s Devotion	Paul Henreid
1956	El bolero de Raquel	Miguel M. Delgado	With Cantinflas
1956	The Brave One	Irving Harper
1956	Cielito lindo	Miguel M. Delgado
1955	Corazón salvaje	Juan J Ortega
1953	Las cariñosas	Fernando Cortes
1952	El bello durmiente	Gilberto Martínez Solares
1952	Dos tipos de cuidado	Ismael Rodríguez
1952	Pepe el Toro	Ismael Rodríguez
1952	Por ellas aunque mal paguen	Juan Bustillo Oro
1951	Baile, mi rey	Roberto Rodríguez
1951	El derecho de nacer	Zacarías Gómez Urquiza
1951	Mama nos quita los novios	Roberto Rodríguez
1951	Mátenme porque me muero	Ismael Rodríguez
1951	Que te ha dado esa mujer	Ismael Rodríguez
1950	El bombero atómico	Miguel M. Delgado
1950	Doña perfecta	Alejandro Galindo	With María Félix
1949	Puerta….joven	Miguel M. Delgado	With Cantinflas
1948	Allá en el rancho grande	Fernando de Fuentes
1948	Maclovia	Emilio Fernández
1948	Si adelita se fuera con otro	Chano Urueta
1947	A volar, joven	Miguel M. Delgado
1947	Adventures of Casanova	Roberto Gavaldon
1947	La diosa arrodillada	Roberto Gavaldon
1947	Mistery in Mexico	Robert Wise
1946	El ahijado de la muerte	Norman Foster
1946	The Fugitive	John Ford
1946	Hay muertos que no hacen ruido	Humberto Gómez Landero
1946	La insaciable	Juan J. Ortega
1946	La mujer de todos	Julio Bracho
1946	No te cases con mi mujer	Fernando Cortes
1946	La otra	Roberto Gavaldón
1946	Si me han de matar mañana	Miguel Zacarías
1945	La morena de mi copla	Fernando A Rivero
1945	La perla	Emilio Fernández	With Pedro Armendáriz
1945	Pervertida	José Díaz Morales