Latin: Last News

Jamie Lang As we enter 2025, the global television industry finds itself at a pivotal juncture. In Miami, during a Content Americas presentation today, Ampere analyst Fred Black provided a comprehensive overview of the current landscape and the future trajectory of the broadcast and streaming sector, with a particular focus on Latin America. Below, we look at the five most compelling takeaways from Black’s presentation.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Now in its third edition, Content Americas, the Miami-based event aimed at the Latin and Hispanic markets, with telenovelas, series, documentaries, and formats, continues to try to bridge the gap between creative communities in Latin America, Spain and Portugal and the larger global scene. One of its key initiatives is the Copro Pitch, aimed at facilitating international co-production deals and featuring projects from Caponeto-Fremantle, Vertice 360, and Druzina Content this year.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent MIAMI — The best thing about the Miami Hilton Downtown is its vistas from above Biscayne Bay and opposite the city’s iconic serried strip of high-rises. Delegates at Content Americas, which begins its third edition this Monday, will be hoping that the market will afford an equally panoramic view of the international TV business. That’s crucial.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Eze Olzanski’s Buenos Aires-based EO Media has confirmed the Jan. 27 A&E Latin America debut for Argentine-Brazil series “Sumergidos” as it descends on Content Americas. This follows a raft of various new movie deals that the production and distribution company sealed at Mip Cancun with the likes of Paramount, NBC Universal, Globo and MVS.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor The 6 p.m. telenovela slot at Globo — the free-to-air channel of the biggest production force in Latin America — has long been known for its highly successful, family-oriented period pieces, from “The Thorn and the Rose” to “Pepper Chocolate.” Currently on air, “She’s the One” is eyeing to join this prestigious rank.

Anna Marie de la Fuente The news that “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Netflix’s most ambitious series in Latin America, injected more than $52 million (225 billion Colombian Pesos) into the Colombian economy is gratifying for the thousands of locals who contributed to its making. The reported amount accounts for both direct expenses and the broader ripple effects across the supply chain.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Luiz Toledo, the formerly highly active director of investments and strategic partnerships at Spcine, the São Paulo Film Commission, has launched Filomena Productions, a private sector consultancy which aims to help supply missing links between burgeoning audiovisual hubs in Brazil, Latin America and the global South and established international markets. A mover and shaker on the São Paulo film-TV scene, Toledo was one of the architects of a pioneering Sao Paulo cash rebate for foreign and international Brazilian shoots – launched by São Paulo City Hall in 2019 and also embraced by São Paulo state from 2023 in a newly fortified edition.

Bad Bunny is on top!

Jack Dunn In a recent discussion with The Guardian, Rami Malek detailed his experiences with racism as an Egyptian-American, pointing to one racial profiling incident where he found himself on the hood of a cop car. “I got thrown on the bonnet of an LAPD cop car because someone had robbed a liquor store and stolen a woman’s bag,” Malek explained. “They said the [thief] was of Latin descent and, ‘You fit the description.’ I remember how hot that engine was, they must have been racing over there and it was almost burning my hands.” Luckily for the “Mr.

Rami Malek opened up about his experiences with racism and recalled a situation where he said that he was racially profiled by the Los Angeles Police Department.

Bad Bunny will be playing 30 concerts in his hometown of Puerto Rico this summer and all of the dates are now sold out!

Jamie Lang Banijay Rights, the global distribution arm of Banijay Entertainment, has announced its documentary series “Bosé Renacido,” which translates to “Bosé Reborn,” the most-watched non-fiction format in the history of Spain’s Movistar Plus+ platform, will feature in the company’s Content Americas 2025 lineup. The Miami-based market takes place next week.

Bad Bunny will be performing 30 concerts in Puerto Rico this summer as part of his No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí residency and it’s sure to be one of the hottest tickets of 2025!

Bad Bunny is taking over the world with his new album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.

A post shared by Fuerza Regida (@fuerzaregida)The San Bernardino-based band, who are multiple winners at the Billboard Music Awards and Billboard Latin Music Awards, urged people to contact logistics@streetmobcorp.com for further information.Among those to have passed away amid the ongoing natural disaster is the former child actor Rory Callum Sykes, who died aged 32 in his home in Malibu on Wednesday (January 8).Paris Hilton has spoken about watching her home burn down on television, while James Woods, Billy Crystal, Cary Elwes and Mark Hamill are among the other high-profile names to have been badly affected.Heroes actor Milo Ventimiglia choked up during a live interview while discussing watching his own house burn down, while a fundraiser for DIIV frontman Zachary Cole Smith was launched after his house succumbed to the fires. Mel Gibson‘s house was another one to be destroyed, with the actor revealing that it burned down while he was recording his appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast.Many music recording spaces have also been destroyed by the fires, including Bob Clearmountain’s legendary Mix This! recording studio in Pacific Palisades.A benefit concert for the victims has been announced.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The first episode of WWE‘s “Monday Night Raw” to stream live on Netflix pulled in 4.9 million views globally. That is according to Live+1 data provided by Netflix, with a view defined as total hours viewed for the program divided by its runtime. The 4.9 million views came from countries like the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Latin America, but did not include 92 countries/territories where Netflix doesn’t yet distribute WWE, including France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea.

Thania Garcia Lauren Davis has been promoted to associate chair of New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She will work alongside Nick Sansano, chair of the Clive Davis Institute. Davis is a highly-experienced music attorney who has represented high-profile musicians, producers and publishers, among others.

Selena Quintanilla-Pérez‘s murderer is gearing up for a 2025 parole hearing — but her fellow inmates don’t believe she’ll ever see peace, in or out of prison.

Scotland is arguably one of the best places in the world to celebrate the New Year. We have our own unique way of marking the occasion - including some interesting traditions that have been practiced for hundreds of years.

When Laura Fernández Espeso sits down in Grup Mediapro‘s General Director seat for the first time on January 1, it will mark the latest notable step in a career that began in indie film working with award-winning directors Francis Ford Coppola, Danis Tanović and Ken Loach. In her first interview as Mediapro’s new leader (or last as CEO of The Mediapro Studio, depending on which way you look at it), the Spanish exec tells Deadline, “It’s an amazing opportunity, a dream come true.”

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor The soap opera, or telenovela, holds cultural power like nothing else in Brazil. And no other timeslot holds the prestige of the 9 p.m. telenovela at Globo’s free-to-air channel, the television flagship of the biggest production force in Latin America.