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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In a groundbreaking move, European powerhouse Beta Film and Grupo Globo, the biggest production force in Latin America, have inked a multi-year partnership, kicked off by development on ‘Discipline,’ from Konrad Dantas and Felipe Braga, the creative team behind “Sintonia,” Netflix’s biggest hit in Brazil. “Discipline” marks Beta Film’s first series outside Europe, but head Jan Mojto has always been alert to new creative hubs, entering Central and Eastern Europe years before most competitors, a move now reaping rewards.

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Wildfire Eco Thriller ‘Lume’ Swooped on by ZDF Studios (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In one of its major recent scripted pick-ups, ZDF Studios has acquired international distribution rights to “Lume,” an eco thriller set against the building crisis of endemic wildfires on the northern Portugal-Spain border which is devastating its countryside. The production-distribution powerhouse of one of Europe’s biggest public broadcaster powerhouses, ZDF Studios is bringing “Lume” to market at this week’s Mipcom trade fair.

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Filmmakers Fuel TV Ambitions in Spain

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent When Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s series “The New Years” world premiered at the Venice Film Festival alongside new series from Alfonso Cuarón, Thomas Vinterberg and Joe Wright, Spanish critics hailed it as the country’s best series of the year. Three weeks later, when Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s “Querer” bowed at San Sebastián, another set of Spanish reviewers greeted it as the country’s best series of 2024.

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Mattel Set to Drive Into Premium Non-Pre School Series, Announce Dates for ‘Thomas & Friends’ Netflix Christmas Special

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent As it rolls out new animated series “Barney’s World” on Max and Cartoon Network and prepares a live-action “Barney” movie with Daniel Kaluuya, Mattel will be driving into live action non-pre school premium TV series to grow its brands and properties, Josh Silverman, Mattel’s chief franchise officer, announced on Sunday at his MipJunior leadership keynote at Cannes, entitled Beyond the Toybox: Shaping the Future of Play. Silverman also confirmed the Netflix release date of “Thomas & Friends: The Christmas Letter Express” one-hour holiday special as Nov. 21 in the U.S.

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‘Mozart/Mozart,’ A Big, Poppy, Loud Take on Sister Maria Anna Mozart Boarded by ARD, ORF & ‘Zweiflers’ Director Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Signalling one of the biggest European packages to hit Monday’s Mipcom, “Mozart/Mozart,” the latest big series swing from Germany’s Story House Pictures, behind Beta Film/RTL mega-hit “Sisi,” has been boarded by Germany’s ARD and its Austrian public broadcaster counterpart ORF. In further news, Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim, co-director of “The Zweiflers,” this year’s Canneseries best series and German TV Awards winner, is set to helm the series. Based on one of Europe’s largest IPs and now backed by ARD, the biggest of Europe’s public broadcasters, “Mozart/Mozart” is created by Andreas Gutzeit – co-founder of Story House Pictures, the international studio of the Bavaria Film Group, and producer and showrunner on “Sisi” – and Swantje Oppermann, a staff writer on “Dignity” and a Story House development executive.

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‘The Beasts’ Rodrigo Sorogoyen Unpacks Movistar Plus+ Banner Series ‘The New Years’: ‘It Starts About a Couple, Ends Up About Life’

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent As Spanish TV production stands strong, largely resisting the cut-back in commissions suffered in most of the world, few higher profile new series will be brought to market at Mipcom than Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The New Years” (“Los años nuevos”). A Movistar Plus+ Original, produced with Caballo Films (“La Ruta,” “The Wailing”), the fast-rising Sorogoyen co-founded Madrid production label, in association with Arte France, “The New Years” follows on Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” which established him as one of Europe’s youngest top-tier filmmakers.

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South International Series Festival: 10 Titles to Watch

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Unspooling in Cadiz over Oct. 25-31, the South International Series Festival is a bellwether on trends and highlights for the current season. What could be some of its star performers? Following, 10 titles to track, which also often say something about the way the market is going.

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EFD Studios Sets Plans for Largest Virtual Production Set in Europe Outside the U.K., Reveal Training Initiatives in Mexico, Spain

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent EFD Studios, an advanced tech rentals company based in Mexico, Colombia, the U.S. and Spain, has announced plans to open what it describes as the largest virtual set on the European continent. The facility will boast over 2,000 sq.

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Isabel Allende’s ‘The Long Petal of the Sea’ Adapted by Pablo, Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fabula, Spain’s Alea Media (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Chile’s Fabula and Spain’s Alea Media have unveiled they are allying on development of “A Long Petal of the Sea,” based on a 2019 novel by Isabel Allende. Alea Media founder Aitor Galindo will serve as showrunner on the series which is scheduled to go into production by the end of 2025. The new title joins two of the biggest powerhouses of premium scripted drama in the Spanish-speaking world and powerful IP in a swing for broad audiences worldwide.

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Alfredo Castro, Clara Lago, Natalia Smirnoff, Paula Hernández Behind Titles at Iberseries & Platino Industria’s 2024 Forum

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Backed by some of Latin America’s best known independent production labels – Argentina Kapow, Non Stop Studios Tarea Fina, Chile’s Parox and Rizoma Producciones, Colombia’s Rhayuela and Mexico’s Caponeto, Iberseries & Platino Industria’s industry centerpiece Co-Production and Financing Forum delivers a snapshot of current TV and film production in Latin America and Spain. Yes, a social focus still remains but it is laced by entertainment genres, led by crime and comedy, pushing titles into a cross-over territory.

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‘Death of a Comedian,’ Renowned Argentine Actor Diego Peretti’s Directorial Debut, Is Picked Up by FilmSharks (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Scheduled for release in 2025, “Death of a Comedian” (“La Muerte de un Comediante”), renowned Argentine actor Diego Peretti’s first feature film as director, has been acquired for world sales by FilmSharks. Breaking out in TV series “The Pretenders” (2001-04), directed by Damián Szifrón, Peretti won most immediate notice for comedy, such as “It’s Not You, But Me,” though he can be highly effective in drama or Lucía Puenzo’s “The German Doctor” or humour-laced thrillers like “The Heist of the Century.” Peretti has directed alongside Javier Beltramino, a respected figure on Argentina’s animation scene (“Rice and Matchsticks”) and a former Telefonica Studios production manager.

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‘Lullaby’s’ Alauda Ruiz de Azúa Asks in Her First TV Series if Some Men Understand What Loving Is Really About

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Two years ago, after it bowed in cinema theaters in Spain, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s feature debut “Lullaby” was described by Pedro Almodóvar as “undoubtedly the best Spanish debut for years.” So the big question at a set visit last October was what she would make of her first TV series “Querer.” That set visit gave some inkling. Now the full answer is out, as the premium mini series, selected out of competition at San Sebastián, screened to the press in the entirety of its 212 minutes on Thursday night.

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San Sebastian’s 3rd Creative Investors’ Conference Draws the Contours of a Post-Covid Film-TV Landscape

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SAN SEBASTIAN — Running Sept. 24-25, San Sebastian’s 3rd Creative Investors Conference, organized in collaboration with CAA Media Finance, proved the most intense yet as panel after panel described in detail and nuance the ever more visible contours of a post-COVID film and TV landscape. One conclusion, however, is that such contours could change yet again.

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San Sebastian Industry Awards: ’The Two Landscapes,’ ‘A Loose End,’ ‘Blue Marks’ Win Big

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Argentine Francisco Lezama “The Two Landscapes,” Uruguayan Daniel Handler’s “A Loose End” and “Blue Marks,” from German director Sara Miro Fischer triumphed at the San Sebastián Festival’s Industry Awards ceremony Wednesday, unveiling awards for its most major competitions, the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, and two pix-in-post strands, the WIP Latam and WIP Europa. “Dear Bastiano,” from Spain’s Maria Elorza, took the Ikusmira Berriak Award, a best project prize at the prestigious San Sebastián development program.

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‘El Encargado’ Star Guillermo Francella and Writer-Directors Mariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat Re-Team for ‘Homo Argentum’ (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Argentina’s Guillermo Francella and writer-directors Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat, star and creators of Disney+/Star+ smash hit “El Encargado” (Hulu’s “The Boss”), are re-teaming on “Homo Argentum,” an around 10-episode movie anthology, skewering the frustrations, paranoia and bloodymindedness seething below the surface of modern-day life. Arguably Argentina’s biggest star alongside Ricardo Darín, Francella demonstrated his acting chops in a bravado turn in Juan José Campanella’s Oscar winning “The Secret of Their Eyes” before starring in Pablo Trapero’s “The Clan,” one of Argentina’s biggest movie exports in the last decade, grossing $20.4 million worldwide.

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Max Unveils First Spanish Original, ‘When Nobody Sees Us,’ Starring ‘The Flash’s’ Maribel Verdú, ’Mission Impossible’s’ Mariela Garriga

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “It’s not TV,” HBO used to claim of itself. Watching the first 12 minutes of Enrique Urbizu’s crime thriller “When Nobody Sees Us,” Max’s first Spanish original sneak-peaked at San Sebastián Festival Monday morning, the legendary HBO slogan came to mind. Rather than TV, the scenes are pure cinema of the highest order.

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International Productions in Spain Generated $1.5 Billion in Direct Spend Over 2019-22 – Report

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SAN SEBASTIAN — Released Sept. 21, Netflix’s latest data dump for first half 2024 estimated that non-English stories were “hugely popular,” making up early a third of all its viewing.

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San Sebastián Hails Spain’s Crime Series Boom, Debates Its Drivers

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SAN SEBASTIAN — From when it began to incorporate Spanish TV series in its Official Selection – think 2017’s “The Plague” or 2020’s double whammy of “Patria” and “Riot Police” – San Sebastián has used its first Saturday to debate TV issues. This time round, a panel highlighted crime series, featuring Movistar Plus+’s Susana Herreras, Laura Sarmiento, showrunner of Netflix hit “Intimacy” and lead writer on “Burning Body,” and Elías León Siminiani, co-creator of the 2017 docuseries “El caso Asunta (Operación Nenúfar)” which inspired the 2024 Netflix fiction series, “El Caso Asunta.” Six takes on the panel discussion: Spanish Crime Series Boom The panel was entitled in Spanish “The Spanish Crime Series Boom.” That seems an understatement. According to Variety research, through Sept.

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‘Maixabel’ Director Iciar Bollaín Unpacks ‘I’m Nevenka,’ About a Landmark Sexual Harassment Case in Spain

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “I went to bed in one of the [hotel room] and he lay down beside me,” Nevenka Fernández, a former member of Ponferrada Municipal Council, recounts how she was raped in 2000 by her boss, Ismael Álvarez, then the all-powerful major of the city. “Why didn’t you leave?” asks Álvarez’s defence attorney in the trial sparked by Fernández when she took Álvarez to court for sexual harassment.

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‘Time of Silence and Destruction,’ About the Writer Who Dragged Spanish Novel Into the 20th Century, Pounced on by Filmax (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SAN SEBASTIAN — Barcelona-based Filmax has acquired international sales rights to “Time of Silence and Destruction,” a bio-doc feature about Luis Martín-Santos who, along with great friend Juan Benet, revolutionized the Spanish novel, as James Joyce and William Faulkner had achieved decades before outside Spain. Martin-Santos’ “Tiempo de Silencio” (1962) and Benet’s “Volverás a Región” (1967) not only broke with conventional social realism but dragged the Spanish novel into the 20th century using stream of consciousness and shifting narrators and were hugely influential on younger writers active down to this day, shifting novel’s focus from chronicle to a high-style and language.

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From Ester Expósito Starrer ‘The Wailing’ to the Next From Albert Serra and Pilar Palomero, the Breadth of Catalan Films is Underscored at San Sebastián

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SAN SEBASTIAN — Is this the San Sebastián Catalan Film Festival? Always boasting a sterling presence at San Sebastián, Catalonia has a massive 27 titles this year, counting five projects in doc forum Lau Haizetara and including four of the five Spanish movies in main Competition and 10 in Made in Spain. Following a break-down of major section titles: “Afternoons of Solitude,” (Andergraun Films, Ideale Audience, LaCima Producciones) Albert Serra’s not at all obvious follow-up to Cannes competition player “Pacifiction,” a portrait of star bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey at work.

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