CANNES — John Malkovich and Russell Smith’s L.A.-based Mr. Mudd has boarded “Brando,” the next film from Spain’s Manuel Martín Cuenca, a director who has grown into one of Spain’s preeminent auteurs. Gonzalo Sálazar-Simpson’s Madrid-based production house Lazona Films (“Spanish Affair,” Días de Cine”) and Martín Cuenca’s own label La Loma Blanca produce the project […]