International Insider: ‘Culpa Tuya’ Drives YA Fever At Prime Video; Drama Funding Woes; Federation On The Block

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Another week, another International Insider. This one has been packed with big stories, exclusives and more developments from the international film and TV worlds.

Jesse Whittock here to guide you through. Sign up to the newsletter here. YA Is A-Okay At PV Coming straight ‘Tuya’: Stewart revealed that Spanish young adult movie Culpa Tuya is Prime Video’s biggest-ever international launch this week.

Critics aren’t too impressed (the show has a 20% Rotten Tomatoes rating), but fans certainly do. In 170 countries, it became the streamer’s top show in the month since its December launch. “We can put a film like Culpa out in Spain, and within weeks, even the countries that weren’t planning on promoting it are seeing it jump up to the top of the algorithm,” James Farrell, VP International Originals, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, told Stewart. “You just don’t see that fandom with content that skews a little older.” The second instalment of the Culpables trilogy is, however, only part of Amazon’s YA story.

Deadline also got a sneak peek at the streamers’ roster of top-10 non-English-language shows of 2024 and YA was the genre in vogue.