Erik Barmack Sets Up Wild Sheep Latin America, Launches New Film Fund with Paulina Goto Rom-Com from J.M. Cravioto (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Driving ever more into Latin America, Wild Sheep Content, the L.A.-based label of former Netflix head of international original series Erik Barmack, has launched the Mexico City-based Wild Sheep Latin America as well as a dedicated film completion finance-distribution fund targeting five-to-eight investments a year in the region.  “Three Idiots” producer Jimena Rodríguez, who also created the distribution arm of Mexican exhibition giant Cinepolis, will head up Wild Sheep Latin America following on her production with Barmack of a burgeoning line in star-studded, character-driven crime thrillers begun by Netflix Mexico original “Invitation to Murder.” In all, in movies and series, Wild Sheep Content, which has a production alliance with The Mediapro Studio, has 16 projects, – movies and series – greet globally, including seven projects greenlit with streamers – set up in Mexico, Brazil, Chile and the Latino U.S. – and two more in development in the region.

If it continues adding to its investments, its strategies will put it among the top three producers in Latin America by the end of the year, Barmack told Variety.

The first project backed by the new completion-distribution fund is “Entra en Mi Vida,” a Mexican rom-com starring Paulina Goto (“Veinteañera, divorciada y fantástica,” “Madre Solo Hay Dos”), one of the top young actors in Mexico, helmed by “Invitation To Murder” director José Manuel Cravioto and produced by Mariana Franco at Pirexia Films, Franco and Cravioto’s Mexico City-based production label, founded in 2016 and behind “Olimpia,” “Malvada” and “Corazonada,” all movies, and the series “El Colapso.” Paula Rondón, who co-wrote  the Intl.