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Rubén Doblas Gundersen, the Norwegian-Spanish YouTube star, better known as El Rubius, has signed a deal to create an original entertainment show focused on gaming topics for new streaming platform Binge.

The partnership, announced Thursday, will see El Rubius and Noob Studios develop the entertainment series Rubius Checkpoint for Binge.com. The show, which El Rubius will host and which will feature prominent gaming personalities and experts, will be available exclusively on the Binge platform when it launches next year.

El Rubius is one of the world’s most popular YouTube and Twitch streamers. His YouTube channels elrubiusOMG and Rubius Z, which feature gameplay, vlogs, challenges and ...

Rubén Doblas Gundersen, the Norwegian-Spanish YouTube star, better known as El Rubius, has signed a deal to create an original entertainment show focused on gaming topics for new streaming platform Binge.

The partnership, announced Thursday, will see El Rubius and Noob Studios develop the entertainment series Rubius Checkpoint for Binge.com. The show, which El Rubius will host and which will feature prominent gaming personalities and experts, will be available exclusively on the Binge platform when it launches next year.

El Rubius is one of the world’s most popular YouTube and Twitch streamers. His YouTube channels elrubiusOMG and Rubius Z, which feature gameplay, vlogs, challenges and ...

Barcelona— A take on physical joy and hellish pain, Gaspar Noé‘s “Climax” took best film at the 51st Sitges’ Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.

Among other main awards, Panos Cosmatos (“Mandy“), Quentin Dupieux (“Keep An Eye Out”) and “Atsushi Doi” snagged director, script and FX respectively.

Produced by Germany’s Wild Bunch and Rectangle Productions,”Climax” took Cannes’ 2018 Directors’ Fortnight top unofficial prize, the Cicae Art Cinema Award. selling to a24 for the U.S., it sparked maybe the biggest consensus thumbs-up in the director’s career for its early going, chronicling a dance troupe performance. After that, as is typical with Noe, the feature sparked mixed radically mixed reactions.

Italian-Canadian filmmaker Panos Cosmatos scooped best director for his sophomore effort “Mandy,” starring Nicolas Cage and Andrea Riseborough, a stylized romance between two misfits involving Messianic members of a biker gang.

Sold by Xyz Films, “Mandy” is produced by Belgium’s UMedia and U.

In April, the career of YouTube star Ruben Doblas Gundersen, known online as El Rubius, seemed to be at its peak. The Spanish gamer had recently hosted a star-studded Fortnite broadcast, which featured 100 Hispanic creators and pulled in more than 1.1 million viewers. Meanwhile, he had announced a deal with subscription service Movistar+ for an anime project called Virtual Hero, which is based off his comic book of the same name.

Behind the camera, though, Gundersen struggled. In his latest YouTube video, uploaded May 24, Gundersen discussed his struggle with anxiety issues and announced his plan to take some time off from his channel.

In the video, which is in Spanish but has English subtitles, Gundersen explained that he has "hit the wall" and needs to "disconnect" from his busy career on YouTube. "I had to go to the doctor, because the last few days I felt that i couldn't breathe and I slept worse,...

Cannes — Telefonica’s Movistar +, the biggest drive into original series production by any telecom in Europe, hinted at some of its gameplay to attract millennials at a MipTV presentation Tuesday of “Virtual Hero,” an anime series adapting the same-named 2015-17 comic book saga of El Rubius, Spain’s most popular YouTuber.

From an original idea by Ruben Doblas – El Rubius – produced by Movistar +’s Domingo Corral and Pilar Blasco, directed by Alexis Barroso and written by Barroso and El Torres, “Virtual Hero” pictures the fantasy action adventures of El Rubies navigating through game worlds to save the 100 best gamers trapped in a vital world by dastardly villain Trollmask.

Displayed via a trailer at the presentation, El Rubius’ motley support includes say warrior Sakura, zombie girl Zombirella, who carries a candle for the hero, Slimmer, a gentlemanly, faceless spirit, and A.I. aide G4tO.

Speaking on stage at MipTV,...

A Spanish gamer just proved that you don't need to team up with Drake to put together a legendary live stream. Ruben Gundersen, the creator known online as El Rubius, put together a broadcast that received 1.1 million viewers at its peak. To achieve those numbers, Gundersen gathered 100 notable personalities from the Hispanic gaming community for a star-studded game of Fortnite: Battle Royale.

The Fortnite stream went live on Sunday and quickly gathered a massive audience, owing to the star power of the players involved. The 28 million subscribers on Gundersen's elrubiusomg channel are good for second-best among YouTube gaming hubs; in that category, only Felix Kjellberg's PewDiePie channel counts a larger following.

The peak audience for Gundersen's Fortnite stream nearly doubled the peak audience that tuned in when rapper Drake joined Fortnite streamer Ninja for a record-setting Twitch broadcast two weeks ago. Granted, the Spaniard's stream took place on YouTube,...