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TIS Studios Boards PTIS, Gaumont USA’s ‘Futuro Desierto’ Starring José María Yapik, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Andrés Parra, Karla Souza (EXCLUSIVE)

21 January 2025 at 15:00
MIAMI  — Colombia and Mexico-based TIS Studios has boarded the Gaumont USA-produced “Futuro Desierto,” Lucía Puenzo and Nicolás Puenzo’s six-episode near-future psychological thriller and family drama which explores big questions sparked by Artificial Intelligence.  Also, it looks to do what Lucía Puenzo does best: Enroll a propulsive genre momentum to ask highly relevant personal questions, here […]

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Content Americas 2025: The Confab’s No. 1 Question, a Movie Renaissance, What Buyers Want, Brazil and Deals to Date 

20 January 2025 at 16:44
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 […]

São Paulo’s Luiz Toledo Launches Filomena Productions to Accelerate Growth in the Global South Film-TV Industry  (EXCLUSIVE) 

20 January 2025 at 13:00
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 […]

How Colombians Crafted Netflix’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

20 January 2025 at 13:00
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 […]

Göteborg TV Drama Vision Unveiled: Paramount Global’s Horror ‘The Cruise,’ Newen Connect’s ‘We Come in Peace’ in Works in Progress (EXCLUSIVE)

20 January 2025 at 12:45
The eagerly anticipated TV Drama Vision showcase in Göteborg has unveiled its 2025 program, where 50+ series from some of the best Nordic and European creatives will be showcased over Jan. 28-29, next to a full program of inspiring talks. “Our curated program is a true team effort. We’ve worked hard and enjoyed every bit of […]

Netflix Hit ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’: Colombia’s Locations From Caribbean Sun to Rose-Tinged Salt Flats, Marshy Mountain Moors, a Mangrove Swamp and That Key Big Tree   

20 January 2025 at 12:45
Early on in their accaimed TV series adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” Netflix and Bogota-based producer Dynamo (“Narcos”) set out to find Macondo.  First, writers, producers and location managers visited Aracateca, the Nobel Prize winner’s birthplace on Colombia’s Caribbean seaboard. Later they toured Colombia’s Guajira peninsula, its Pacific Coast and […]

‘Pørni’s’ Henriette Steenstrup on Her Hospital Series ‘Triage’ and Inheritance Drama Comedy ‘Nepobaby’: ‘I Love Mixing Genres’ (EXCLUSIVE)

20 January 2025 at 09:00
Norwegian actor turned TV writer-director Henriette Steenstrup says she “adooores” “Ted Lasso,” and it’s easy to see why. Her first gig as showrunner “Pørni,” the Viaplay comedy hit, recommissioned by Netflix for Seasons 4-5, displays similar qualities: a rare ability to mix comedy with heart-warming drama, without shying away from serious issues. With her upcoming […]

Berlinale Series Market: Fernando Meirelles, Alex de la Iglesia, ‘Borgen’s’ Maja Jul Larsen to Unveil New Shows

17 January 2025 at 13:16
Berlinale Series Market Selects has revealed its lineup. The European Film Market’s “boutique market for serial content from all over the world” will welcome Spanish shows in Berlinale Market Selects, its screening showcase, from “Internal Affairs,” focusing on one of the first female police officers in Spain, starting her first post, to “Honor” – yet […]

‘Brazil Avenue’ Star Murilo Benício, ‘Turma da Mônica’s’ Kevin Vechiatto Board Smart Comedy ‘Nico’ From LB Entertainment, +Galeria (EXCLUSIVE) 

16 January 2025 at 11:52
Murilo Benício, star of smash-hit Globo telenovelas such as “The Clone,” “América” and “Brazil Avenue,” and Kevin Vechiatto who grew up in Brazil’s biggest kids franchise “Turma da Mônica,” are set to headline “Nico,” a smart comedy from LB Entertainment, behind “Netflix” global No. 1 Non-English TV series “Sintonia.”  “Nico” is produced by LB Entertainment […]

About Premium Content Tempted by Finnish ‘Guts’ From ‘Money Shot’ Creators: ‘It’s ‘Black Swan’ in the Snow’ (EXCLUSIVE)

14 January 2025 at 11:57
Paris-based About Premium Content has boarded international sales on the Finnish sports drama thriller “Guts” from hot creator Jemina Jokisalo, behind the feminist porn tale “Money Shot” which scooped the Student Award for best short form series at Canneseries 2024, and is currently running for Göteborg TV Drama Vision’s Nordic Series Script Award.  News of APC’s pick-up on “Guts” comes […]

Göteborg Nordic Film Market: ‘An Education’s’ Lone Scherfig, ‘Godland’s’ Hlynur Pálmason, ‘Orphanage’ Director Shahrbanoo Sadat Make the Cut (EXCLUSIVE)

13 January 2025 at 09:50
Göteborg’s prime Nordic Film Market where last year’s Cannes sensations “The Girl with the Needle,” “Armand” and “When the Light Breaks” were first showcased as works in progress, has announced exclusively to Variety its full 2025 program. Over Jan. 29-31, more than 60 completed films, titles in development and post-production will be showcased to 500-plus industry delegates […]

Nordic Series Script Award: ‘Another Round’s’ Thomas Vinterberg and Feminist Porn Tale ‘Money Shot’ Score Nominations  

9 January 2025 at 12:00
Thomas Vinterberg’s “Families Like Ours,” “Pressure Point” from the writer of “Black Crab” and Erik Poppe’s “Quisling” count among nominations for a high-powered Göteborg Nordic Series Script Award, the biggest plaudit for TV screenwriting in Scandinavia. Replacing the Göteborg Festival’s Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, the Script Award nominations also take in feminist porn comedy “Money Shot,” a Canneseries winner, and […]

Pia Lundberg on Her First Gig as Göteborg Artistic Director, Sundance and Rotterdam Dates Jigsaw and the Importance of Disobedience (EXCLUSIVE)

7 January 2025 at 12:15
After a decade under the helm of Jonas Holmberg, the 48th Göteborg Film festival will inaugurate a new era under the reign of artistic director Pia Lundberg. Big names expected between Jan 24-Feb. 2 take in Julie Delpy, Thomas Vinterberg, Mohammad Rasoulof, Joshua Oppenheimer, Thomas Alfredson and Trine Dyrholm.  In this exclusive interview, the former head […]

Göteborg Reveals Lineup With 25 World Premieres, Thomas Vinterberg and Julie Delpy Tributes, ‘Stranger’ as Closing Film

7 January 2025 at 12:02
Scandinavia’s biggest film-TV event, the Göteborg Film Festival, has unveiled the complete lineup for its 48th edition, due to unspool Jan. 24-Feb. 2 in Sweden’s second largest city. For her first gig as artistic director, Pia Lundberg and her team will be treating the festival’s usual 270,000-plus film fans in theaters and online to a […]

‘Sultana’s Dream,’ ‘Decorado,’ ‘Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope’ Drive Basque Animation Surge 

6 January 2025 at 14:09
Last year proved fairly spectacular for Spanish animation with “Robot Dreams” scoring a best animated feature Oscar nomination, “Sultana’s Dream” winning the Annecy Festival’s Contrechamp, its biggest sidebar, and “Buffalo Kids” proving the third most popular local movie in Spain, grossing €5.2 million ($5.4 million) while breaking out to substantial sales abroad.  “Robot Dreams” and […]

Mohammad Rasoulof to Attend 2025 Göteborg Film Festival With ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig,’ Germany’s Shortlisted 2025 Oscar Submission (EXCLUSIVE)

3 January 2025 at 12:02
Acclaimed Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof will attend the upcoming 2025 Göteborg Film Festival with his latest film, family drama and political thriller “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Germany’s submission to this year’s international feature Oscar race which made the Oscar shortlist on Dec. 17. Variety rates the film, which he also wrote and co-produced, […]

‘Fairy Queen,’ Inspired by Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Paris 70,’ in Prep at Spain’s Morena, A Contracorriente and France’s Noodles (EXCLUSIVE) 

30 December 2024 at 14:30
Leading Spanish production house Morena Films is teaming with A Contracorriente Films, one of Spain’s top indie distributors, and “The Beasts” French co-producer Noodle Productions to produce “Fairy Queen” (“Reina de las Hadas,” “Reina de les fades” in Catalan), a feature inspired by “Paris 70” which was shortlisted on Dec. 17 for the 97th Oscars. […]

Spain 2024 Box Office: Despite ‘Inside Out 2,’ Revenues Dip 2%, Admissions Slip 5% Hit by Hollywood Strikes 

30 December 2024 at 14:17
Hit by last year’s Hollywood’s strikes, total box office in 2024 in Spain dipped 2% compared to 2023, breaking three consecutive years of recovery over 2021-23, Comscore Movies Spain announced Monday. At 71 million admissions, attendance edged down 5% compared to last year. At €477 million ($496.1 million), total box office in Spain was 29% […]

Beta Fiction, Spain’s No. 1 Independent Distributor in 2024, Sets New Films by ‘El 47’s’ Marcel Barrena and ‘House on Fire’s’ Dani de la Orden (EXCLUSIVE)

30 December 2024 at 12:18
Beta Fiction Spain, the No. 1 independent distributor in the country this year thanks to a barn-storming €8.0 million ($8.3 million) box office gross from Arantxa Echevarría’s “Undercover,” is set to produce new films from Marcel Barrena and Dani de la Orden, directors of two other big 2024 Spanish breakouts: “El 47” and “A House […]

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