Spanish director Álex Montoya is to adapt Paco Roca’s best-selling graphic novel The Abyss Of Oblivion about the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
Montoya and production companies Nakamura Films and Raw Pictures secured the rights to The Abyss Of Oblivion after teaming to make La Casa, a film adaption of another Roca graphic novel.
La Casa played in competition at the Malaga Film Festival in March, winning best screenplay, best music and the audience award.
Producers Jordi Llorca, Sofía López and Araceli Isaac as well as writer-director Montoya started talking to Roca about adapting The Abyss Of Oblivion...
Montoya and production companies Nakamura Films and Raw Pictures secured the rights to The Abyss Of Oblivion after teaming to make La Casa, a film adaption of another Roca graphic novel.
La Casa played in competition at the Malaga Film Festival in March, winning best screenplay, best music and the audience award.
Producers Jordi Llorca, Sofía López and Araceli Isaac as well as writer-director Montoya started talking to Roca about adapting The Abyss Of Oblivion...
- 12/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
Update, 8.12 a.m. Pt: Leo Legrand has been added to the cast. He will play William’s cowardly half-brother, who must be kept on a leash.
Previously, 6 a.m. Pt: Shooting on the CBS Studios and BBC period drama series King & Conqueror has wrapped in Iceland, with six more cast members unveiled.
Elander Moore,, Indy Lewis, Jason Forbes, Ines Asserson (Royalteen, Skam), Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson and Ingvar Sigurdsson have joined the cast of the period how, which is from Michael Robert Johnson.
They join the likes of James Norton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emily Beecham, Clémence Poésy, Eddie Marsan and Juliet Stevenson in the series, which is set in 11th-century Britain, where Harold (Norton) faces a threat to his throne from the ambitious Duke of Normandy,...
Previously, 6 a.m. Pt: Shooting on the CBS Studios and BBC period drama series King & Conqueror has wrapped in Iceland, with six more cast members unveiled.
Elander Moore,, Indy Lewis, Jason Forbes, Ines Asserson (Royalteen, Skam), Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson and Ingvar Sigurdsson have joined the cast of the period how, which is from Michael Robert Johnson.
They join the likes of James Norton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emily Beecham, Clémence Poésy, Eddie Marsan and Juliet Stevenson in the series, which is set in 11th-century Britain, where Harold (Norton) faces a threat to his throne from the ambitious Duke of Normandy,...
- 7/15/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
DeAPlaneta ha publicado el primer tráiler del biopic del icónico grupo de electro-pop español de los 80 y 90, protagonizado por Jaime Lorente. © DeAPlaneta
“Disco, Ibiza, Locomía” es la nueva película dirigida por Kike Maíllo (“Toro”), escrita por Marta Libertad (“Oswald. El falsificador”) y el propio Maíllo y producida por Kiko Martínez (“Perfectos Desconocidos”).
La película está protagonizada por Jaime Lorente (“La Casa de Papel”), Alberto Ammann (“Celda 211”), Alejandro Speitzer (“La fortuna”), Ivan Pellicer (“Sagrada Familia”), Pol Granch (“Élite”), Javier Morgade (“Alma”), Albert Baró (“Els “Nens Salvatges”), Gonzalo Ramírez (“Ángel o Demonio”), Eva Llorach (“Quién te Cantará”) y Blanca Suárez (“El Bar”). Una película sobre música, glamour, familia, ambición y traición ambientada en los años 80, donde se abordan los entresijos de la cultura de clubs, la época dorada de las discográficas, la noche de la movida madrileña, el fenómeno fan y la explosión de la música latina en Miami.
Es la...
“Disco, Ibiza, Locomía” es la nueva película dirigida por Kike Maíllo (“Toro”), escrita por Marta Libertad (“Oswald. El falsificador”) y el propio Maíllo y producida por Kiko Martínez (“Perfectos Desconocidos”).
La película está protagonizada por Jaime Lorente (“La Casa de Papel”), Alberto Ammann (“Celda 211”), Alejandro Speitzer (“La fortuna”), Ivan Pellicer (“Sagrada Familia”), Pol Granch (“Élite”), Javier Morgade (“Alma”), Albert Baró (“Els “Nens Salvatges”), Gonzalo Ramírez (“Ángel o Demonio”), Eva Llorach (“Quién te Cantará”) y Blanca Suárez (“El Bar”). Una película sobre música, glamour, familia, ambición y traición ambientada en los años 80, donde se abordan los entresijos de la cultura de clubs, la época dorada de las discográficas, la noche de la movida madrileña, el fenómeno fan y la explosión de la música latina en Miami.
Es la...
- 2/26/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Madrid-based Rock & Ruz – the production company of Netflix’s “Nowhere,” which has just been confirmed by Netflix as its most-viewed Spanish-language movie of all time – has pacted new projects with Italy’s Leonardo Fasoli, a head-writer of “Gomorrah” and creator of “ZeroZeroZero,” and Spain-based Alejandro Hernández, a co-writer on Alejandro Amenábar’s “While at War” and “La Fortuna.”
Targeting the key to high-end fiction success in Europe – its screenwriters – and added to “Nowhere” and an upcoming Spanish-Mexican remake of hit Korean movie “Miracle in Cell No. 7” – the freshly-announced projects mark out Rock & Ruz as a new and significant Spain-based international player.
As international markets – both theatrical and global streamers – are asking for bigger films with identifiable audiences, Rock & Ruz’s bold slate looks like a ready source of titles.
“Our company is focused on producing global strategic projects. No matter if they are in English or Spanish,” Rock & Ruz...
Targeting the key to high-end fiction success in Europe – its screenwriters – and added to “Nowhere” and an upcoming Spanish-Mexican remake of hit Korean movie “Miracle in Cell No. 7” – the freshly-announced projects mark out Rock & Ruz as a new and significant Spain-based international player.
As international markets – both theatrical and global streamers – are asking for bigger films with identifiable audiences, Rock & Ruz’s bold slate looks like a ready source of titles.
“Our company is focused on producing global strategic projects. No matter if they are in English or Spanish,” Rock & Ruz...
- 12/20/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
New Amazon Prime Video series “Los Farad,” released Dec. 12, takes a look at the Cold War from one of its strangest geo-political hubs, 1980s Málaga. The action-packed show follows a family that is normal in many ways, despite earning a luxurious living as arms traffickers.
Part of a determinedly diverse and burgeoning lineup at Spain’s Prime Video, “Los Farad” is a high-profile prestige package starring Miguel Herrán – who plays Rio in “Money Heist” and Cristián in “Elite” – and the on-the-rise Susana Abaitúa, who delivered a tearaway performance in Netflix rom-com “Crazy About Her.”
Co-created by Alejandro Aménabar co-scribe Alejandro Hernández, “Los Farad” is directed by Mariano Barroso in his fifth collaboration with Hernández.
Emerging as one of Spain’s most notable drama series directors in an age of premium fiction, Barroso has extracted terrific, nuanced performances in series set in Spain’s recent past, such as “The Invisible Line” and “What the Future Holds.
Part of a determinedly diverse and burgeoning lineup at Spain’s Prime Video, “Los Farad” is a high-profile prestige package starring Miguel Herrán – who plays Rio in “Money Heist” and Cristián in “Elite” – and the on-the-rise Susana Abaitúa, who delivered a tearaway performance in Netflix rom-com “Crazy About Her.”
Co-created by Alejandro Aménabar co-scribe Alejandro Hernández, “Los Farad” is directed by Mariano Barroso in his fifth collaboration with Hernández.
Emerging as one of Spain’s most notable drama series directors in an age of premium fiction, Barroso has extracted terrific, nuanced performances in series set in Spain’s recent past, such as “The Invisible Line” and “What the Future Holds.
- 12/13/2023
- by Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
In the Spanish comedy drama series “Zorras,” based on the Noemí Casquet best selling novel of the same name, Andrea Ros, Mirela Balic, and Tai Fei play Alicia, Emily, and Diana, three women from very different backgrounds. They find a commonality, however, in a desire for friendship and exploration of themselves through sexual experimentation and novelty.
“Zorras” might translate as “sluts” or “tramps.” The show flips such terms and acts such as bondage on their head.
“I really think it’s about empowering ourselves through those words that have been pejorative to us throughout our existence simply by living and doing with our lives what we want to do with our lives,” Casquet told Variety.
“The term ‘sluts’ has always been very derogatory regardless of how many times we slept with someone. What this series wants to do is to turn the term around. To stop hurting us and to...
“Zorras” might translate as “sluts” or “tramps.” The show flips such terms and acts such as bondage on their head.
“I really think it’s about empowering ourselves through those words that have been pejorative to us throughout our existence simply by living and doing with our lives what we want to do with our lives,” Casquet told Variety.
“The term ‘sluts’ has always been very derogatory regardless of how many times we slept with someone. What this series wants to do is to turn the term around. To stop hurting us and to...
- 10/9/2023
- by Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
The latest series from Alex de la Iglesia and “Veneno” creators Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo feature at a first-look Next from Spain Showcase which marks a massive step-up in the country’s presence at the Berlinale Series Market.
Running Feb. 20-22, the showcase also unveils “Rapa” Season 2, with its first season proving Movistar+’s biggest 2022 bow, and “This Is Not Sweden,” a pioneering Spanish co-production with Scandinavia and Germany.
The Showcase titles are joined by Isaki Lacuesta’s “The Chauffeur’s Son,” a Co-Pro Series project from “Elite’s” Zeta Studios, and “Selftape,” a Filmin Original from Filmax and a Series Market Screening.
Prior to 2023, Spanish titles only screened very occasionally at the market. This year’s splash , however, is entirely logical.
Thanks in part to a captive audience of 580 million Spanish speakers who are largely avid for melodrama-thrillers with a modern edge – think “La Casa de Papel,” “Who Killed Sara?...
Running Feb. 20-22, the showcase also unveils “Rapa” Season 2, with its first season proving Movistar+’s biggest 2022 bow, and “This Is Not Sweden,” a pioneering Spanish co-production with Scandinavia and Germany.
The Showcase titles are joined by Isaki Lacuesta’s “The Chauffeur’s Son,” a Co-Pro Series project from “Elite’s” Zeta Studios, and “Selftape,” a Filmin Original from Filmax and a Series Market Screening.
Prior to 2023, Spanish titles only screened very occasionally at the market. This year’s splash , however, is entirely logical.
Thanks in part to a captive audience of 580 million Spanish speakers who are largely avid for melodrama-thrillers with a modern edge – think “La Casa de Papel,” “Who Killed Sara?...
- 2/20/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Buenos Aires — Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” Manuela Martelli’s “The Meltdown” and Demián Rugna’s Shudder co-pro “When Evil Lurks” were three highlights at 2022’s Ventana Sur. Wrapping Dec. 2, it offered a dazzling myriad of projects, bold initiatives in genre and from Spain and confirmation that the sector has still to emerge from the pandemic when it comes to independent distributors’ appetite for new titles.
Following a brace of takeaways with more to follow:
Ventana Sur Growth
From an art film base, few markets have so cannily addressed potential international film market growth, whether genre/fantasy fare; animation, drama series, video games or established IP exploitation. Each now has its own distinct Vs forum, often supported by some of the world’s most powerful players: France’s Cine+Club for arthouse Primer Corte/Corte Final and its Annecy Festival for Animation!, for instance. Various sections grew this year, genre...
Following a brace of takeaways with more to follow:
Ventana Sur Growth
From an art film base, few markets have so cannily addressed potential international film market growth, whether genre/fantasy fare; animation, drama series, video games or established IP exploitation. Each now has its own distinct Vs forum, often supported by some of the world’s most powerful players: France’s Cine+Club for arthouse Primer Corte/Corte Final and its Annecy Festival for Animation!, for instance. Various sections grew this year, genre...
- 12/3/2022
- by John Hopewell and Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
Buenos Aires — “Wild Tales” and “The Clan” sales agent Film Factory Ent has swooped on “The Blue Star” (“La Estrella Azul“), a fiction film inspired by the life of Spanish musician Mauricio Aznar, a fundamental and endearing figure on Spain’s 1990s rock scene.
The film also marks one of the most anticipated feature debuts of the year in Spain, Javier Macipe having carved out a reputation through his shorts, two of which – 2014’s “Children of the River” and 2019’s “Gastos incluídos” – scored Spanish Academy Goya nominations. Macipe was chosen last year as one of Variety’s 10 Spanish talents to track.
“I am very happy to once more board a project from Mod Producciones and Cimarrón,” said Film Factory head Vicente Canales. “Javier Macipe is one of Spanish cinema’s new talents. We are convinced that this musical journey turning on the recognised artist Mauricio Aznar will captivate the international market.
The film also marks one of the most anticipated feature debuts of the year in Spain, Javier Macipe having carved out a reputation through his shorts, two of which – 2014’s “Children of the River” and 2019’s “Gastos incluídos” – scored Spanish Academy Goya nominations. Macipe was chosen last year as one of Variety’s 10 Spanish talents to track.
“I am very happy to once more board a project from Mod Producciones and Cimarrón,” said Film Factory head Vicente Canales. “Javier Macipe is one of Spanish cinema’s new talents. We are convinced that this musical journey turning on the recognised artist Mauricio Aznar will captivate the international market.
- 11/29/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“La Mesías,” from “Veneno” creators Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, drinks deep from Catholic tradition from its very title — literally, “The Female Messiah” — to iconography and focus on faith.
Another awaited Movistar+ series, “The Left-Handed Son,” created by “The Plague” screenwriter Rafael Cobos, was presented to the press in July against a spectacular backdrop taking in, just across a waterway, Seville’s iconic Torre de Oro and, a little further away, the Giralda bell tower of Seville’s Cathedral.
In line with platform production trends the world over, rather than playing down local elements, Movistar+ is playing them up. For the Telefonica SVOD/pay TV player in Spain, this has been a longterm philosophy, reaching back to its earliest series in 2017.
No big European SVOD player has insisted as much as Movistar+ on capturing the hot button issues, history, culture (“Spanish Shame”), traumas (“The Invisible Line”) and landscapes (“Félix”) of its local market.
Another awaited Movistar+ series, “The Left-Handed Son,” created by “The Plague” screenwriter Rafael Cobos, was presented to the press in July against a spectacular backdrop taking in, just across a waterway, Seville’s iconic Torre de Oro and, a little further away, the Giralda bell tower of Seville’s Cathedral.
In line with platform production trends the world over, rather than playing down local elements, Movistar+ is playing them up. For the Telefonica SVOD/pay TV player in Spain, this has been a longterm philosophy, reaching back to its earliest series in 2017.
No big European SVOD player has insisted as much as Movistar+ on capturing the hot button issues, history, culture (“Spanish Shame”), traumas (“The Invisible Line”) and landscapes (“Félix”) of its local market.
- 10/14/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The San Sebastian Festival opens on Sept. 16 with a bang: Alberto Rodriguez’s “Prison 77,” most probably the biggest Spanish film of 2022, the latest title from one of the Spain’s most preeminent auteurs and a foretaste of one possible future face of Spanish cinema, thanks to Movistar+.
“Prison 77” begins as a fish-out-of-water jail survival thriller. Manuel, in 1977, a young accountant, played by Miguel Herrán, is sent to Barcelona’s legendary Modelo penitentiary pending trial for embezzlement.
It grows, however, for all of its length, as a character-driven tale of psychological observance, as Miguel gradually befriends Pino, his seen-it-all cell mate, who just wants a quiet life.
Charting “the evolving relationship between two completely different people, a young accountant with his whole life before him, and Pino, who’s lived nearly his whole life behind bars,” “Prison 77” is a story of friendship and solidarity, says José Antonio Félez...
“Prison 77” begins as a fish-out-of-water jail survival thriller. Manuel, in 1977, a young accountant, played by Miguel Herrán, is sent to Barcelona’s legendary Modelo penitentiary pending trial for embezzlement.
It grows, however, for all of its length, as a character-driven tale of psychological observance, as Miguel gradually befriends Pino, his seen-it-all cell mate, who just wants a quiet life.
Charting “the evolving relationship between two completely different people, a young accountant with his whole life before him, and Pino, who’s lived nearly his whole life behind bars,” “Prison 77” is a story of friendship and solidarity, says José Antonio Félez...
- 9/12/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Munich-based Beta Film, one of Europe’s biggest truly independent TV-film groups, has licensed to Ppcw Media for Hong Kong and Macau International Emmy winner “Atlantic Crossing,” starring Kyle MacLachan and Sofia Helin.
Ppc Media has also acquired Alejandro Amenábar’s Movistar Plus+ original “La Fortuna,” with Stanley Tucci and Clarke Peters, a tale of piracy, court room battles and historical justice set between the U.S. and Spain.
Reaching more remote places, Beta has also closed Mongolia with Hulegu Media, on “Sisi” a mix of sex, politics and period glam from Rtl, Beta and Story House, a modern mindset take on a film icon.
In further banner title deals when it comes to far-flung lands,“Hotel Portofino” – escribed as “a high-profile, classy affair” by The Times, the period drama, toplining Natascha McElhone as a hotel owner on a swish 1926 Italian Riviera – has now been sold by Beta to New Zealand and South Africa.
Ppc Media has also acquired Alejandro Amenábar’s Movistar Plus+ original “La Fortuna,” with Stanley Tucci and Clarke Peters, a tale of piracy, court room battles and historical justice set between the U.S. and Spain.
Reaching more remote places, Beta has also closed Mongolia with Hulegu Media, on “Sisi” a mix of sex, politics and period glam from Rtl, Beta and Story House, a modern mindset take on a film icon.
In further banner title deals when it comes to far-flung lands,“Hotel Portofino” – escribed as “a high-profile, classy affair” by The Times, the period drama, toplining Natascha McElhone as a hotel owner on a swish 1926 Italian Riviera – has now been sold by Beta to New Zealand and South Africa.
- 9/8/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Seismic shifts in the world’s entertainment industry have thrown a global spotlight on Spain’s film and TV industry as never before.
Foreign productions are flocking to Spain, spending €263 million (266 million) in 2021, double the 2016-19 average, according to a ProFilm study. International inward investment in national productions has also grown on an unprecedented scale.
All the big streamers have beached in Spain. Reed Hastings cut the tape on Netflix’s first European Production Hub, in Madrid’s Tres Cantos, in 2019. Viacom Intl. Studios (Vis) Emea and Asia and AMC Networks Intl. Southern Europe have set up production operations in Spain. Other players — Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max and Starzplay — run offices in the country.
Capitalizing on such a massive presence, in March 2021 the federal government announced an Avs Hub plan aimed at sinking 1.6 billion into the entertainment industry. It is designed to turn Spain into one of the...
Foreign productions are flocking to Spain, spending €263 million (266 million) in 2021, double the 2016-19 average, according to a ProFilm study. International inward investment in national productions has also grown on an unprecedented scale.
All the big streamers have beached in Spain. Reed Hastings cut the tape on Netflix’s first European Production Hub, in Madrid’s Tres Cantos, in 2019. Viacom Intl. Studios (Vis) Emea and Asia and AMC Networks Intl. Southern Europe have set up production operations in Spain. Other players — Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max and Starzplay — run offices in the country.
Capitalizing on such a massive presence, in March 2021 the federal government announced an Avs Hub plan aimed at sinking 1.6 billion into the entertainment industry. It is designed to turn Spain into one of the...
- 9/6/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
With 'Covid-19' variants and breakthrough cases causing fewer production delays in the film industry, here is an updated list of TV series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV)
Masters of the Air (AppleTV)
Mosquito Coast (AppleTV)
Severance (AppleTV)
Shantaram (AppleTV)
Shining Girls (AppleTV)
Slow Horses (AppleTV)
The Afterparty (AppleTV)
The Sting (AppleTV)
Guilty Party (Cbsaa)
Star...
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV)
Masters of the Air (AppleTV)
Mosquito Coast (AppleTV)
Severance (AppleTV)
Shantaram (AppleTV)
Shining Girls (AppleTV)
Slow Horses (AppleTV)
The Afterparty (AppleTV)
The Sting (AppleTV)
Guilty Party (Cbsaa)
Star...
- 8/29/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
With 'Covid-19' variants and breakthrough cases now causing less 'hiatus' status and production delays in the film industry, here is an updated list of TV series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV)
Masters of the Air (AppleTV)
Mosquito Coast (AppleTV)
Severance (AppleTV)
Shantaram (AppleTV)
Shining Girls (AppleTV)
Slow Horses (AppleTV)
The Afterparty (AppleTV)
The Sting (AppleTV...
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV)
Masters of the Air (AppleTV)
Mosquito Coast (AppleTV)
Severance (AppleTV)
Shantaram (AppleTV)
Shining Girls (AppleTV)
Slow Horses (AppleTV)
The Afterparty (AppleTV)
The Sting (AppleTV...
- 7/31/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Off the heels of a world premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where he scooped the Proxima Special Jury Prize, writer-director Eduardo Casanova arrives in Montreal to screen his latest feature “La Piedad” (“La Pietà”) as part of the Queer Genre Cinema Spotlight at Fantasia. The screening marks its North American debut.
The film offers a delightfully bizarre peek into the lives of manic and obsessive Libertad (Ángela Molina), a mother with an insatiable desire to be needed, and her son, Mateo (Manel Llunell), who warily leans into her toxic trappings as the pair become increasingly entwined.
A personal story unfurls in tandem with a poignant subplot that likens their familial relationship to that of a populace and its dictator, showing that those in control of a mere few can use propaganda just as readily as a sadistic leader to manipulate their wards into submission.
“The syndrome I worked from was Munchausen By Proxy,...
The film offers a delightfully bizarre peek into the lives of manic and obsessive Libertad (Ángela Molina), a mother with an insatiable desire to be needed, and her son, Mateo (Manel Llunell), who warily leans into her toxic trappings as the pair become increasingly entwined.
A personal story unfurls in tandem with a poignant subplot that likens their familial relationship to that of a populace and its dictator, showing that those in control of a mere few can use propaganda just as readily as a sadistic leader to manipulate their wards into submission.
“The syndrome I worked from was Munchausen By Proxy,...
- 7/18/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
With 'Covid-19' variants and breakthrough cases now causing less 'hiatus' status and production delays in the film industry, here is an updated list of TV series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV)
Masters of the Air (AppleTV)
Mosquito Coast (AppleTV)
Severance (AppleTV)
Shantaram (AppleTV)
Shining Girls (AppleTV)
Slow Horses (AppleTV)
The Afterparty (AppleTV)
The Sting (AppleTV...
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV)
Masters of the Air (AppleTV)
Mosquito Coast (AppleTV)
Severance (AppleTV)
Shantaram (AppleTV)
Shining Girls (AppleTV)
Slow Horses (AppleTV)
The Afterparty (AppleTV)
The Sting (AppleTV...
- 7/13/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
With 'Covid-19' variants and breakthrough cases now causing less 'hiatus' status and production delays in the film industry, here is an updated list of TV series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV)
Masters of the Air (AppleTV)
Mosquito Coast (AppleTV...
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV)
Masters of the Air (AppleTV)
Mosquito Coast (AppleTV...
- 5/27/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
With 'Covid-19' variants and breakthrough cases now causing less 'hiatus' status and production delays in the film industry, here is an updated list of TV series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV)
Masters of the Air (AppleTV...
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV)
Masters of the Air (AppleTV...
- 4/28/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Beta Film’s high-concept spy thriller cycle “Agent Hamilton – New Missions” has scored a series of territory deals, including the U.S. and Northern Europe.
The stand-alone reboot of the “Agent Hamilton” series has been sold to MHz for the U.S., TV2 in Norway, Dr for Denmark, Npo for Netherlands and Syn for Island.
Based on the iconic novels and characters by best-selling author Jan Guillou, as was its predecessor “Agent Hamilton,” “New Missions” is produced by Dramacorp Pampas Studios in co-production with TV4/C-More, Beta Film and Zdf.
In further deals on its 2022 MipTV slate, the Munich-based international distributor has sold to France Télévision and Israel’s Hot Network the Norwegian YA series “Rod Knock,” a Fenomen and Storyline Studios production for Nrk, which is back for Season 3, and was honored with seven Gullruten awards in 2021.
Meanwhile, “The Wall – The Orchard,” the Season 3 of French-Canadian thriller series “The Wall,...
The stand-alone reboot of the “Agent Hamilton” series has been sold to MHz for the U.S., TV2 in Norway, Dr for Denmark, Npo for Netherlands and Syn for Island.
Based on the iconic novels and characters by best-selling author Jan Guillou, as was its predecessor “Agent Hamilton,” “New Missions” is produced by Dramacorp Pampas Studios in co-production with TV4/C-More, Beta Film and Zdf.
In further deals on its 2022 MipTV slate, the Munich-based international distributor has sold to France Télévision and Israel’s Hot Network the Norwegian YA series “Rod Knock,” a Fenomen and Storyline Studios production for Nrk, which is back for Season 3, and was honored with seven Gullruten awards in 2021.
Meanwhile, “The Wall – The Orchard,” the Season 3 of French-Canadian thriller series “The Wall,...
- 4/6/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Munich-based Beta Film has closed a raft of major deals over Europe and beyond on Spanish TV dramas “You Shall Not Lie” and “La Fortuna,” two of the most successful recent originals produced by Movistar Plus, Spain’s biggest pay-tv/SVOD operator.
Both series have been sold to Italy’s Rai and to HBO for its platform HBO Max for Eastern Europe, Benelux, the Nordics, Netherlands, and Portugal, among other territories.
A six-part thriller by Pau Freixas, co-creator of “The Red Band Society,” “You Shall Not Lie” was sold to Rtl Deutschland for Germany, where it will premiere on its streaming platform Rtl Plus this spring.
In France, the drama has been picked up by M6 with an exclusive window for its SVOD service Salto. Furthermore, Antenna TV secured rights for Greece and Cyprus, as well as Blue TV for Turkey.
Produced by Movistar Plus in collaboration with Filmax, “You Shall Not Lie...
Both series have been sold to Italy’s Rai and to HBO for its platform HBO Max for Eastern Europe, Benelux, the Nordics, Netherlands, and Portugal, among other territories.
A six-part thriller by Pau Freixas, co-creator of “The Red Band Society,” “You Shall Not Lie” was sold to Rtl Deutschland for Germany, where it will premiere on its streaming platform Rtl Plus this spring.
In France, the drama has been picked up by M6 with an exclusive window for its SVOD service Salto. Furthermore, Antenna TV secured rights for Greece and Cyprus, as well as Blue TV for Turkey.
Produced by Movistar Plus in collaboration with Filmax, “You Shall Not Lie...
- 4/5/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
With 'Covid-19' variants and breakthrough cases now causing less 'hiatus' status and production delays in the film industry, here is an updated list of TV series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story...
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story...
- 3/29/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Telefonica’s Movistar Plus, Spain’s biggest pay-tv/SVOD operator, has launched an in-house overseas sales division, Movistar Plus Internacional, headed up by former Sony and Buendía Estudios exec Maria Valenzuela.
Lorena Molloy, an ex-exec at The Mediapro Studio, has joined Movistar Plus Internacional beginning in March as its head of communication and marketing.
Valenzuela, who began working with the platform last summer, heading international strategy and business development, reports directly to Domingo Corral, Movistar Plus’ director of original production.
Movistar Plus Internacional is making further appointments, raising staff to around 10 employees, Valenzuela said. It will attend all major markets, beginning with Series Mania and MipTV/Canneseries, focusing at least in the short term on sales to Europe, Eastern Europe, U.S. and Latin America, she added.
Presented officially on March 4 in Madrid, the new distribution arm comes after Movistar Plus, Spain’s biggest content investor, has until recently used...
Lorena Molloy, an ex-exec at The Mediapro Studio, has joined Movistar Plus Internacional beginning in March as its head of communication and marketing.
Valenzuela, who began working with the platform last summer, heading international strategy and business development, reports directly to Domingo Corral, Movistar Plus’ director of original production.
Movistar Plus Internacional is making further appointments, raising staff to around 10 employees, Valenzuela said. It will attend all major markets, beginning with Series Mania and MipTV/Canneseries, focusing at least in the short term on sales to Europe, Eastern Europe, U.S. and Latin America, she added.
Presented officially on March 4 in Madrid, the new distribution arm comes after Movistar Plus, Spain’s biggest content investor, has until recently used...
- 3/7/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
With 'Covid-19' variants and breakthrough cases now causing less 'hiatus' status and production delays in the film industry, here is an updated list of TV series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story...
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story...
- 3/4/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings and monthly guide to What’s on Streaming.
With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.
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With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.
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- 2/12/2022
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Traditionally, Spanish broadcasters retained all rights, paying producers a percentage of the budget of their series, which prevented them from building catalogs of their own rights. Although at first, the arrival of SVOD platforms didn’t change their business relationship, the increasing demand for TV fiction and financial needs have forced an increased use of the co-production model.
“There is a lot of creativity and versatility in co-productions from Spain,” says Caroline Servy, managing director at The Wit.
Dipping its toe into the co-production arena in 2016 with “The Young Pope,” The Mediapro Studio, one of Europe’s super-indies, is expanding across Asia, Latin America and the U.S. markets, teaming with key broadcasters and platforms.
“Co-production has been the perfect model to hike the international reach of our productions. This way of working has become common among production companies, platforms and networks in recent years, and is in fact the...
“There is a lot of creativity and versatility in co-productions from Spain,” says Caroline Servy, managing director at The Wit.
Dipping its toe into the co-production arena in 2016 with “The Young Pope,” The Mediapro Studio, one of Europe’s super-indies, is expanding across Asia, Latin America and the U.S. markets, teaming with key broadcasters and platforms.
“Co-production has been the perfect model to hike the international reach of our productions. This way of working has become common among production companies, platforms and networks in recent years, and is in fact the...
- 1/20/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
With 'Covid-19' variants and breakthrough cases causing more 'hiatus' status and production delays in the film industry, here is an updated list of TV series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV...
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story (AppleTV...
- 1/9/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
With 'Covid-19' variants and breakthrough cases causing more 'hiatus' status and production delays in the film industry, here is a list of TV series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Fallout (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story...
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Fallout (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV)
Lisey's Story...
- 12/23/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Starring “The Lovely Bones’” Stanley Tucci and “Da 5 Bloods’” Clarke Peters and produced by Movistar Plus in association with AMC Studios, “La Fortuna” is set to roll out in half the major distribution territories in the world.
First up is Germany, where Sky will air the TV debut of “The Others” director Alejandro Amenábar from Dec. 24.
A U.S. release date, on AMC Networks premium service AMC Plus, has been set for Jan. 20.
Before then, AMC Plus will begin airing the series in Latin America (Jan. 16) and in the U.K. (Jan. 17). Sbs will air the series in Australia in 2022. Movistar Plus began airing the series in Spain in September. Germany’s Beta Film, a strategic partner of Movistar Plus, is handling international sales.
The only drama series selected for September’s San Sebastian Festival where it received its world premiere, “La Fortuna” weighs in as a modern-day adventure tale.
First up is Germany, where Sky will air the TV debut of “The Others” director Alejandro Amenábar from Dec. 24.
A U.S. release date, on AMC Networks premium service AMC Plus, has been set for Jan. 20.
Before then, AMC Plus will begin airing the series in Latin America (Jan. 16) and in the U.K. (Jan. 17). Sbs will air the series in Australia in 2022. Movistar Plus began airing the series in Spain in September. Germany’s Beta Film, a strategic partner of Movistar Plus, is handling international sales.
The only drama series selected for September’s San Sebastian Festival where it received its world premiere, “La Fortuna” weighs in as a modern-day adventure tale.
- 12/22/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
La Fortuna has its premiere date! AMC+ has set a January launch date for the six-episode limited series. Starring Stanley Tucci and Clarke Peters, the thriller follows a man trying to take back a stolen sunken treasure. Álvaro Mel, Ana Polvorosa, T'Nia Miller, Karra Elejalde, Manolo Solo, Alfonso Lara, Blanca Portillo, and Pedro Casablanc also star in the show.
revealed more about the new series in a press release.
“AMC Networks announced today that the adventure thriller La Fortuna, starring two-time Golden Globe winner Stanley Tucci and acclaimed actor Clarke Peters, will premiere on Thursday, January 20 on AMC+ with two episodes, followed by new episodes streaming weekly, every Thursday. The international production from AMC and Movistar+ is the first television series from acclaimed film director and Academy Award(R)-winner Alejandro Amenábar.
In addition to...
revealed more about the new series in a press release.
“AMC Networks announced today that the adventure thriller La Fortuna, starring two-time Golden Globe winner Stanley Tucci and acclaimed actor Clarke Peters, will premiere on Thursday, January 20 on AMC+ with two episodes, followed by new episodes streaming weekly, every Thursday. The international production from AMC and Movistar+ is the first television series from acclaimed film director and Academy Award(R)-winner Alejandro Amenábar.
In addition to...
- 12/9/2021
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Annie Murphy is getting animated at Freeform: The Schitt’s Creek vet will headline the voice cast of Praise Petey (working title), an animated comedy which has received a series order at the cable network.
The show follows Petey, “a New York City ‘it’ girl who has it all until her life comes crashing down around her,” per the official synopsis. “As luck would have it, a mysterious gift from her father gives her a new lease on life: she’s going to ‘lean into’ modernizing his small-town cult.” The voice ensemble also includes John Cho (Cowboy Bebop), Christine Baranski...
The show follows Petey, “a New York City ‘it’ girl who has it all until her life comes crashing down around her,” per the official synopsis. “As luck would have it, a mysterious gift from her father gives her a new lease on life: she’s going to ‘lean into’ modernizing his small-town cult.” The voice ensemble also includes John Cho (Cowboy Bebop), Christine Baranski...
- 12/9/2021
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
With 'Covid-19' variants and breakthrough cases causing more 'hiatus' status and production delays in the film industry, here is a list of TV series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
TV Limbo
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Fallout (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV...
TV Limbo
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Fallout (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV)
Five Days At Memorial (AppleTV)
Hedy Lamarr (AppleTV)
High Desert (AppleTV...
- 12/3/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
With 'Covid-19' breakthrough cases continuing to cause havoc in the film industry, resulting in 'hiatus' status and TV production delays, here is a list of series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
TV Limbo
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Fallout (Amazon)
Jack Reacher (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Panic (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
The Wilds (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV...
TV Limbo
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Fallout (Amazon)
Jack Reacher (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Panic (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
The Wilds (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV...
- 11/15/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Movistar Plus, the streaming and broadcast arm of Spanish telco giant Telefonica, has confirmed a breathtaking roster of talent which will helm its upcoming five-part anthology series “Apagón,” produced by Buendía Estudios.
Inspired by the popular “El gran apagón” podcast, the series features five stand-alone stories, connected only in that they take place after a solar flair causes a worldwide blackout – “apagón” in Spanish – and deals with the consequences that such a catastrophe might impose.
The series’ impressive lineup of writing talent was first announced in June of this year, and Movistar has today confirmed that award-winning directors Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Alberto Rodríguez, Raúl Arévalo, Isa Campo, and Isaki Lacuesta will helm the five stories. For the first two filmmakers, the series is a return to Movistar Plus. The three new recruits further establishes the broadcaster as one of the Spanish industry’s premier platforms for upscale Spanish talent to express...
Inspired by the popular “El gran apagón” podcast, the series features five stand-alone stories, connected only in that they take place after a solar flair causes a worldwide blackout – “apagón” in Spanish – and deals with the consequences that such a catastrophe might impose.
The series’ impressive lineup of writing talent was first announced in June of this year, and Movistar has today confirmed that award-winning directors Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Alberto Rodríguez, Raúl Arévalo, Isa Campo, and Isaki Lacuesta will helm the five stories. For the first two filmmakers, the series is a return to Movistar Plus. The three new recruits further establishes the broadcaster as one of the Spanish industry’s premier platforms for upscale Spanish talent to express...
- 11/11/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
‘Doghead’ Director Santi Amodeo World Premieres ‘The Gentiles’ at the Seville European Film Festival
World premiering at the Seville European Film Festival, Santi Amodeo’s latest production “The Gentiles” is a robust reminder of the director’s vibrant and idiosyncratic voice which hasn’t always attracted the notice it merits on the Spanish film scene. After having made cult pieces such as “Astronauts” (2003) and “Doghead” (2006), Amodeo turns again to a portrait of adolescence with “The Gentiles,” this time with a generation of full-on digital natives.
Produced by Grupo Tranquilo and Sacromonte Films, headed by Gervasio Iglesias, the film follows Ana – played by Africa de la Cruz – a teenager who, while struggling with the typical problems of adolescence, is thunderstruck by her charismatic friend Corrales – played by Paula Díaz – who fantasizes with taking her own life.
Amodeo imbues his characters with a spontaneity that you’d expect from a younger filmmaker, someone much closer to the age of its characters. Álex Catalán, a Dp on...
Produced by Grupo Tranquilo and Sacromonte Films, headed by Gervasio Iglesias, the film follows Ana – played by Africa de la Cruz – a teenager who, while struggling with the typical problems of adolescence, is thunderstruck by her charismatic friend Corrales – played by Paula Díaz – who fantasizes with taking her own life.
Amodeo imbues his characters with a spontaneity that you’d expect from a younger filmmaker, someone much closer to the age of its characters. Álex Catalán, a Dp on...
- 11/5/2021
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
With 'Covid-19' breakthrough cases continuing to cause havoc in the film industry, resulting in 'hiatus' status and TV production delays, here is a list of series, either close to shooting, in the can, or sitting in limbo until scheduling gets back to normal:
TV Limbo
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Fallout (Amazon)
Jack Reacher (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Panic (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
The Wilds (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV...
TV Limbo
Call Your Mother (ABC)
Women of the Movement (ABC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Citadel (Amazon)
Daisy Jones and The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Dirty Diana (Amazon)
Fallout (Amazon)
Jack Reacher (Amazon)
Lightyears (Amazon)
Nancy Wu Done It (Amazon)
On The Spectrum (Amazon)
Outer Range (Amazon)
Panic (Amazon)
Paper Girls (Amazon)
The Banker's Wife (Amazon)
The Expatriates (Amazon)
The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon)
The Lord of the Rings (Amazon)
The Peripheral (Amazon)
The Terminal List (Amazon)
The Wilds (Amazon)
Them (Amazon)
Three Pines (Amazon)
Tong Wars (Amazon)
61st Street (AMC)
La Fortuna (AMC)
National Anthem (AMC)
Pantheon (AMC)
Echo 3 (AppleTV...
- 10/19/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Jan Mojto’s Munich-based sales and production powerhouse Beta Film, whose Mipcom slate includes “Sisi” and “La Fortuna,” has closed pre-sales across the Nordic Region and in the Netherlands’ for the PBS-ITV period drama series “Hotel Portofino.” The British show, created and written by Matt Baker, stars Natascha McElhone, whose credits include “Ronin,” “Californication” and “Designated Survivor.”
“Hotel Portofino” has been acquired by Dr for Denmark, Svt for Sweden, Nrk for Norway, Yle for Finland and Syn for Iceland, as well as Dutch national broadcaster Npo. Further negotiations with several international broadcasters are underway.
In previously announced deals, ITV, BritBox, Sky Italia and Foxtel in Australia joined the drama, produced by Eagle Eye in association with Beta Film, while PBS Distribution took North American rights.
The six-hour series, centered around a British family who emigrate to open a high-end hotel in Italy, captures the long-established literary tradition of...
“Hotel Portofino” has been acquired by Dr for Denmark, Svt for Sweden, Nrk for Norway, Yle for Finland and Syn for Iceland, as well as Dutch national broadcaster Npo. Further negotiations with several international broadcasters are underway.
In previously announced deals, ITV, BritBox, Sky Italia and Foxtel in Australia joined the drama, produced by Eagle Eye in association with Beta Film, while PBS Distribution took North American rights.
The six-hour series, centered around a British family who emigrate to open a high-end hotel in Italy, captures the long-established literary tradition of...
- 10/13/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
German sellers returning to Cannes’s Mipcom TV mart will be packing a wide selection of domestic and international TV fare heavy on high-end crime and historical series.
With a market that has become increasingly open to different formats, sales companies see good opportunities for diverse offerings.
“Crime is still the most in- demand genre in the market, as well as action,” says Julia Weber, head of international sales and acquisitions at Munich-based Global Screen. “But whatever genre you look at, the main driver remains the story. It needs to be compelling and speak to the audience.”
Weber adds that more and more historical dramas are also being produced, underscoring “an increasing need for series that are rather escapist and that cater to audiences in the post-lockdown world.”
Global Screen’s six-part “The Palace” is a prime example, she adds. Produced by Constantin Television for Zdf and directed by Uli Edel,...
With a market that has become increasingly open to different formats, sales companies see good opportunities for diverse offerings.
“Crime is still the most in- demand genre in the market, as well as action,” says Julia Weber, head of international sales and acquisitions at Munich-based Global Screen. “But whatever genre you look at, the main driver remains the story. It needs to be compelling and speak to the audience.”
Weber adds that more and more historical dramas are also being produced, underscoring “an increasing need for series that are rather escapist and that cater to audiences in the post-lockdown world.”
Global Screen’s six-part “The Palace” is a prime example, she adds. Produced by Constantin Television for Zdf and directed by Uli Edel,...
- 10/10/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Few high-end series say as much about their producers’ ambitions as Movistar Plus’ “La Fortuna,” starring Stanley Tucci and Clarke Peters, one of nine market screenings at this year’s Mipcom trade fair.
“La Fortuna” weighs in as the single biggest U.S.-Spain co-production in history, teaming Spain’s Movistar Plus, the pay TV-svod unit of giant European telecom Telefonica, and AMC Studios.
It has the Spanish media company’s biggest stars to date. Tucci, a 2021 Emmy winner for “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” plays Frank Wild, owner of Atlantis Underwater Searching, the world’s biggest American deep-sea discovery company. Peters (“The Wire”) takes on the role of Jonas Pierce, the world’s best maritime rights lawyer.
The AMC deal delivers, moreover, the most far-reaching distribution deal for any Movistar series to date with AMC Plus releasing the series in the U.S. and Canada this winter and Latin...
“La Fortuna” weighs in as the single biggest U.S.-Spain co-production in history, teaming Spain’s Movistar Plus, the pay TV-svod unit of giant European telecom Telefonica, and AMC Studios.
It has the Spanish media company’s biggest stars to date. Tucci, a 2021 Emmy winner for “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” plays Frank Wild, owner of Atlantis Underwater Searching, the world’s biggest American deep-sea discovery company. Peters (“The Wire”) takes on the role of Jonas Pierce, the world’s best maritime rights lawyer.
The AMC deal delivers, moreover, the most far-reaching distribution deal for any Movistar series to date with AMC Plus releasing the series in the U.S. and Canada this winter and Latin...
- 10/8/2021
- by John Hopewell and Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Nafessa Williams has been tapped to play Robyn Crawford in the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the upcoming feature about the late musical icon Whitney Houston. Williams steps in for Moses Ingram. who recently parted ways with the role.
Also joining the cast are Clarke Peters and Tamara Tunie, who will play John and Cissy Houston. Naomi Ackie will play Whitney Houston in the musical biopic that is being directed by Kasi Lemmons. The screenplay will be penned by Anthony McCarten, and will take audiences on an emotional, energetic journey through Houston’s career and music.
Crawford was Houston’s longtime assistant who would later become Houston’s creative director while also remaining one of her closest friends.
Alongside McCarten’s Muse of Fire Productions, the film is being produced by Pat Houston on behalf of the Houston Estate; Grammy-winning music producer Clive Davis; Larry Mestel on behalf...
Also joining the cast are Clarke Peters and Tamara Tunie, who will play John and Cissy Houston. Naomi Ackie will play Whitney Houston in the musical biopic that is being directed by Kasi Lemmons. The screenplay will be penned by Anthony McCarten, and will take audiences on an emotional, energetic journey through Houston’s career and music.
Crawford was Houston’s longtime assistant who would later become Houston’s creative director while also remaining one of her closest friends.
Alongside McCarten’s Muse of Fire Productions, the film is being produced by Pat Houston on behalf of the Houston Estate; Grammy-winning music producer Clive Davis; Larry Mestel on behalf...
- 10/4/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Beneath the briny, where Davy Jones’ Locker is home to the bodies of thousands of dead sailors who lost their lives on the high seas, there be treasure. Frank Wild (Stanley Tucci) has never let go of his boyhood dreams of roaming the world turning up buried jewels and ships’ figureheads and letting pieces of eight run through his light fingers, although he has come up with some distinctly adult ploys to make that possible. Are they legal? Perhaps extra-legal would be the right expression. Think black ops. At the very least, there are some shady characters involved, the kinds of people captured by long lenses in police investigations.
In the first episode of La Fortuna, a six-part series that is an American-Spanish co-production written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar and premiered in the official selection at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Wild’s deep-sea salvage company Atlantis is celebrating...
In the first episode of La Fortuna, a six-part series that is an American-Spanish co-production written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar and premiered in the official selection at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Wild’s deep-sea salvage company Atlantis is celebrating...
- 9/24/2021
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Blessed by largely clement weather, San Sebastian fairly hummed, as hundreds of industry execs sat down to talk face to face – some, especially from Latin America, for the first time since February 2020. As at Venice, Latin American producers could talk on-site and with some degree of confidence about putting movies long in development into production. So the 69th San Sebastián Festival proved a joyous and energy-sluiced affair. Following, some of its highlights:
San Sebastian Rebounds
Through Thursday, total San Sebastian delegates numbers came in at 3,848, 46.5% up on 2020 and just 11% down on a pre-pandemic 2019. Industry reps drove much of that rebound, San Sebastian welcoming 1,686 this year, compared to 1,185 in 2020 and 1,749 in 2019. “Everyone’s very active, enthusiastic, appreciating seeing one another again. We really wanted to be here,” said Ventana Sur co-director Bernardo Bergeret. He added that late November’s Ventana Sur had received a record number of applications for accreditations. Expect...
San Sebastian Rebounds
Through Thursday, total San Sebastian delegates numbers came in at 3,848, 46.5% up on 2020 and just 11% down on a pre-pandemic 2019. Industry reps drove much of that rebound, San Sebastian welcoming 1,686 this year, compared to 1,185 in 2020 and 1,749 in 2019. “Everyone’s very active, enthusiastic, appreciating seeing one another again. We really wanted to be here,” said Ventana Sur co-director Bernardo Bergeret. He added that late November’s Ventana Sur had received a record number of applications for accreditations. Expect...
- 9/24/2021
- by John Hopewell and Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Only 140 out of 1,686 industry attendees took part online.
After last year’s festival relied on an online industry offering, with many international attendees unable to attend in person, the screen sector was champing at the bit to return to San Sebastian, a festival cherished by many for its beach location and exquisite culinary offerings, which wraps tomorrow (Sept 25).
Industry professionals who did manage to attend in 2020 remember the city being something of a ghost town, with restaurants often closed and evenings spent holed up in hotel rooms. But for the 69th edition, which continued to offer a mix of in-person and online industry events,...
After last year’s festival relied on an online industry offering, with many international attendees unable to attend in person, the screen sector was champing at the bit to return to San Sebastian, a festival cherished by many for its beach location and exquisite culinary offerings, which wraps tomorrow (Sept 25).
Industry professionals who did manage to attend in 2020 remember the city being something of a ghost town, with restaurants often closed and evenings spent holed up in hotel rooms. But for the 69th edition, which continued to offer a mix of in-person and online industry events,...
- 9/24/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
One of this year’s favorites to shine in the main competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival is Fernando León de Aranoa’s “The Good Boss,” starring Javier Bardem.
“The Good Boss” takes place in and around the Blancos Básculas factory, where all things must be in balance at all times. There, the seemingly benevolent boss, Bardem’s Blanco, is preparing for an upcoming inspection by a group visiting local businesses to single out one for a prestigious prize. Tensions mount, however, when an unflappable recently fired employee makes camp across from the factory’s gates, protesting Blanco and his business practices. On top of everything, Blanco’s behavior behind closed doors threatens to create even more trouble for the boss at the worst possible time.
León de Aranoa and Bardem sat down with Variety in San Sebastian to discuss the film, its prospects abroad and what makes Spain...
“The Good Boss” takes place in and around the Blancos Básculas factory, where all things must be in balance at all times. There, the seemingly benevolent boss, Bardem’s Blanco, is preparing for an upcoming inspection by a group visiting local businesses to single out one for a prestigious prize. Tensions mount, however, when an unflappable recently fired employee makes camp across from the factory’s gates, protesting Blanco and his business practices. On top of everything, Blanco’s behavior behind closed doors threatens to create even more trouble for the boss at the worst possible time.
León de Aranoa and Bardem sat down with Variety in San Sebastian to discuss the film, its prospects abroad and what makes Spain...
- 9/22/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The horse has not left the stable. This summer, Spain’s government unveiled a crucial draft Audiovisual Communication Services Law aimed at implementing an E.U. directive which in Spain’s case will oblige streaming services to invest in Spanish content.
The bill established a quota obligation at 3.5% of global platforms’ annual revenues – which pales in comparison with France, of course, where Ott players – Netflix, Amaxon, Apple TV – are required from this year to invest 20%- 25% of yearly turnover.
That 3.5% figure was written in stone, some industry sources said as Spain’s TV industry gathered in Pamplona for the 5th Conecta Fiction, a co-production forum between Spain and Latin America.
But Spain’s version of the E.U. Audiovisual Media Services Directive will most certainly evolve, José Nevado, managing director of Pate, Spain’s most powerful producers union, said in Pamplona after a panel on Tuesday morning tackling European Fiction...
The bill established a quota obligation at 3.5% of global platforms’ annual revenues – which pales in comparison with France, of course, where Ott players – Netflix, Amaxon, Apple TV – are required from this year to invest 20%- 25% of yearly turnover.
That 3.5% figure was written in stone, some industry sources said as Spain’s TV industry gathered in Pamplona for the 5th Conecta Fiction, a co-production forum between Spain and Latin America.
But Spain’s version of the E.U. Audiovisual Media Services Directive will most certainly evolve, José Nevado, managing director of Pate, Spain’s most powerful producers union, said in Pamplona after a panel on Tuesday morning tackling European Fiction...
- 9/15/2021
- by John Hopewell and Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
In late July, Movistar Plus parent Telefonica announced its half-year results. Chairman José Maria Álvarez-Pallete spent three-quarters of his introduction talking about a return to growth, and one-quarter about how Telefonica, which was nominated for Europe’s Climate Leader prize by the Financial Times, is aligned with U.N. sustainable development goals.
Big companies these days have to show and believe they’re making the world a better place.
“La Fortuna,” says Alejandro Amenábar, is principally feel-good entertainment.
“After the terrible year we’ve all had, we want to appeal to what is good in us and bring a smile to viewers’ lips,” he told Variety. But the series also carries a cultural and ethical charge, inherited, Amenábar explains, from the true-events inspired Spanish graphic novela “The Treasure of the Black Swan,” which he adapts in the series and which insists on the importance of countries’ defense of their cultural heritage.
Big companies these days have to show and believe they’re making the world a better place.
“La Fortuna,” says Alejandro Amenábar, is principally feel-good entertainment.
“After the terrible year we’ve all had, we want to appeal to what is good in us and bring a smile to viewers’ lips,” he told Variety. But the series also carries a cultural and ethical charge, inherited, Amenábar explains, from the true-events inspired Spanish graphic novela “The Treasure of the Black Swan,” which he adapts in the series and which insists on the importance of countries’ defense of their cultural heritage.
- 9/13/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Last year, September’s San Sebastian worked a minor miracle, staging a safe on-site festival as second-wave Covid-19 built up in Spain. This year, on-site attendance will be up, though travel problems, caution and costs in Latin America, the U.S and Asia will prevent a full attendance.
That said, this year’s festival, running Sept. 17-25, will be firing on all cylinders — as a Spanish-language movie emporium, a new talent hub and launchpad for the local Basque industry. Following, seven takes on the most important film event in the Spanish-speaking world:
Star Power: Cruz, Banderas, Bardem, Depp, Cotillard, and Chastain?
Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas are expected for the Spanish premiere of “Official Competition” and Javier Bardem the world premiere of “The Good Boss.” Despite some opposition Johnny Depp will receive a career-achievement Donostia Award as, less controversially, will Marion Cotillard. Jessica Chastain, fest organizers hope, will attend for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,...
That said, this year’s festival, running Sept. 17-25, will be firing on all cylinders — as a Spanish-language movie emporium, a new talent hub and launchpad for the local Basque industry. Following, seven takes on the most important film event in the Spanish-speaking world:
Star Power: Cruz, Banderas, Bardem, Depp, Cotillard, and Chastain?
Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas are expected for the Spanish premiere of “Official Competition” and Javier Bardem the world premiere of “The Good Boss.” Despite some opposition Johnny Depp will receive a career-achievement Donostia Award as, less controversially, will Marion Cotillard. Jessica Chastain, fest organizers hope, will attend for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,...
- 9/13/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Few big European telecoms have driven into original high-end drama series production at the scale of Movistar Plus.
When it world-premiered at the San Sebastian festival in 2017, “The Plague,” a re-creation of 1580 Seville in its dazzling glory and poverty, was most probably the biggest-budget Spanish series ever made.
Yet, even by such measures, Alejandro Amenábar’s “La Fortuna,” which world-premieres at September’s San Sebastian Film Festival, sets a new bar for Movistar Plus’ ambitions.
The six-part series also says much about how Movistar Plus, the pay TV-svod unit of giant European telecom Telefonica, is setting out to consolidate audiences in Spain and secure even more of a global viewership.
“La Fortuna” weighs in as the single biggest single U.S.-Spain co-production in history, teaming AMC Studios, Movistar Plus and Spain’s Mod Producciones. It has the Spanish media company’s biggest stars to date: Stanley Tucci, who plays Frank Wild,...
When it world-premiered at the San Sebastian festival in 2017, “The Plague,” a re-creation of 1580 Seville in its dazzling glory and poverty, was most probably the biggest-budget Spanish series ever made.
Yet, even by such measures, Alejandro Amenábar’s “La Fortuna,” which world-premieres at September’s San Sebastian Film Festival, sets a new bar for Movistar Plus’ ambitions.
The six-part series also says much about how Movistar Plus, the pay TV-svod unit of giant European telecom Telefonica, is setting out to consolidate audiences in Spain and secure even more of a global viewership.
“La Fortuna” weighs in as the single biggest single U.S.-Spain co-production in history, teaming AMC Studios, Movistar Plus and Spain’s Mod Producciones. It has the Spanish media company’s biggest stars to date: Stanley Tucci, who plays Frank Wild,...
- 9/13/2021
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Movistar Plus, the pay TV/VOD operator of Spanish telco Telefonica, and the San Sebastian Festival, the biggest film event in the Spanish-speaking world, are bowing a multi-year alliance to simulcast select titles bowing at the festival in a Movistar Plus virtual screening room.
Imitating the limited access of a festival, the films will only be available for viewing on the days that they screen in San Sebastian.Movistar Plus subscribers will be able to purchase tickets on a VOD basis at a San Sebastian Festival Virtual Screening Room on the platform. Titles will include not only movies to which Movistar Plus has purchased pay TV rights for Spain, but also third-party titles, Cristina Burzako, Movistar Plus CEO, said Wednesday at a presentation of novel exhibition system in Madrid.
Films to which clients will be able to purchase virtual fest tickets include some of the strongest toitles screening at San Sebastian this year,...
Imitating the limited access of a festival, the films will only be available for viewing on the days that they screen in San Sebastian.Movistar Plus subscribers will be able to purchase tickets on a VOD basis at a San Sebastian Festival Virtual Screening Room on the platform. Titles will include not only movies to which Movistar Plus has purchased pay TV rights for Spain, but also third-party titles, Cristina Burzako, Movistar Plus CEO, said Wednesday at a presentation of novel exhibition system in Madrid.
Films to which clients will be able to purchase virtual fest tickets include some of the strongest toitles screening at San Sebastian this year,...
- 9/8/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
La Fortuna is headed to AMC+, and the streaming service has now released a teaser for the series starring Stanley Tucci and Clarke Peters. The drama follows a young diplomat who gets in over his head when he is put in charge of a big mission. The rest of the cast includes Álvaro Mel, Ana Polvorosa, T’Nia Miller, Karra Elejalde, Manolo Solo, Blanca Portillo, and Pedro Casablanc
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- 8/10/2021
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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