Spain’s fast-growing Secuoya Studios has tapped seasoned Sony Pictures Television International exec Brendan Fitzgerald for the newly-created position of CEO. His most recent position as Spti’s senior VP of international English-language co-productions makes him the perfect fit for the company’s lofty ambitions.
Fitzgerald’s appointment coincides with the third anniversary of Secuoya Studios and the world premiere of their most ambitious show to date, “Zorro,” which, after its Jan. 19 Prime Video premiere in the Americas, starts streaming Jan. 25 in Spain, Portugal and Andorra through Prime Video Spain.
Mediawan Rights, which handles the international distribution of “Zorro,” has sold broadcast rights to M6 Groupe of France, Mediaset Italy, Tvm Belgium and Rtl Hungary with more sales news to be announced in subsequent weeks.
“For Secuoya Content Group, it is a privilege to have Brendan Fitzgerald’s background and experience at the helm of Secuoya Studios, a leading player...
Fitzgerald’s appointment coincides with the third anniversary of Secuoya Studios and the world premiere of their most ambitious show to date, “Zorro,” which, after its Jan. 19 Prime Video premiere in the Americas, starts streaming Jan. 25 in Spain, Portugal and Andorra through Prime Video Spain.
Mediawan Rights, which handles the international distribution of “Zorro,” has sold broadcast rights to M6 Groupe of France, Mediaset Italy, Tvm Belgium and Rtl Hungary with more sales news to be announced in subsequent weeks.
“For Secuoya Content Group, it is a privilege to have Brendan Fitzgerald’s background and experience at the helm of Secuoya Studios, a leading player...
- 1/22/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
In a glittering event at Madrid’s Florida Park, Spain’s Secuoya Studios brought out its big guns, led by its president James Costos and Secuoya Content Group CEO Raúl Berdonés, to tout the fast-growing company’s slate, led by its 10-episode series “Zorro,” its most ambitious production.
The series pilot will be unveiled at Mipcom in a special screening on Oct. 15, noted Berdonés, who added that the two-year-old company has made a strong commitment to sustainable production.
“Zorro,” starring Miguel Bernardeau and Renata Notni, will be exclusively available on Prime Video in Latin America, the U.S., Spain, Andorra, and Portugal in the first half of 2024, followed by its broadcast on Spain’s Tve. Mediawan handles international distribution.
Attendees of the 3rd Iberseries & Platino Industria were treated to a sneak peek two days before.
Speaking of the company’s slate, Berdonés remarked: “This ambitious, innovative, distinctive, and diverse content...
The series pilot will be unveiled at Mipcom in a special screening on Oct. 15, noted Berdonés, who added that the two-year-old company has made a strong commitment to sustainable production.
“Zorro,” starring Miguel Bernardeau and Renata Notni, will be exclusively available on Prime Video in Latin America, the U.S., Spain, Andorra, and Portugal in the first half of 2024, followed by its broadcast on Spain’s Tve. Mediawan handles international distribution.
Attendees of the 3rd Iberseries & Platino Industria were treated to a sneak peek two days before.
Speaking of the company’s slate, Berdonés remarked: “This ambitious, innovative, distinctive, and diverse content...
- 10/6/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Expanded to four full days, Madrid’s Iberseries & Platino Industria, a joint venture of the Fundación Secuoya and Egeda, Spain’s large rights collection society, opens its doors for its third edition on Tuesday Oct. 3, running all week at Madrid’s Matadero.
I & IP is a market, thanks to its Iberscreenings showcase, and ever more a co-pro forum as well as a massive financing emporium with 149 (sic) projects being pitched behind closed doors at Platforms, Producers Pitch sessions.
The event takes place post-peak TV, however, with a new sense of realism and calculation flooding the world’s TV and film industries. A now robust conference strand looks set to debate key issues and market trends.
Tow weeks out from the event, Variety sat down with Iberseries director Samuel Castro of the Grupo Secuoya and Adriana Castillo, who heads up Egeda’s office in Mexico, to check out their take on...
I & IP is a market, thanks to its Iberscreenings showcase, and ever more a co-pro forum as well as a massive financing emporium with 149 (sic) projects being pitched behind closed doors at Platforms, Producers Pitch sessions.
The event takes place post-peak TV, however, with a new sense of realism and calculation flooding the world’s TV and film industries. A now robust conference strand looks set to debate key issues and market trends.
Tow weeks out from the event, Variety sat down with Iberseries director Samuel Castro of the Grupo Secuoya and Adriana Castillo, who heads up Egeda’s office in Mexico, to check out their take on...
- 10/2/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Making its U.S. market debut, Spain’s Secouya Studios has unveiled a weighty 2023 slate underscoring its ambitions to consolidate as one of the biggest film-tv producers in the Spanish-speaking world.
Ranging from fiction series, docuseries, feature documentaries and entertainment formats, 2023 projects take in, among unannounced drama series, “Crudo,” the first skein out of the gate from a framework deal between Secuoya Studios and Colombia’s Caracol Television unveiled just before September’s Iberseries.
Also new is “Hola, Mundo,” an eight-episode co-production with Weekend Studio, part owned by Mediwan; and “Efímero,” billed as a romantic drama.
Among fresh docuseries, Carlos Sainz, Spain’s two-time World Rally Champion, narrates “Race In,” an exclusive story about motorsport’s challenges in a contemporary world, such as sustainability, gender equality and social responsibility. “Proximity: Flying Centimeters from Death· turns on a near-death experience suffered by Base jumper Alex Villar;‘Vuelo JK5022: Spanair’s...
Ranging from fiction series, docuseries, feature documentaries and entertainment formats, 2023 projects take in, among unannounced drama series, “Crudo,” the first skein out of the gate from a framework deal between Secuoya Studios and Colombia’s Caracol Television unveiled just before September’s Iberseries.
Also new is “Hola, Mundo,” an eight-episode co-production with Weekend Studio, part owned by Mediwan; and “Efímero,” billed as a romantic drama.
Among fresh docuseries, Carlos Sainz, Spain’s two-time World Rally Champion, narrates “Race In,” an exclusive story about motorsport’s challenges in a contemporary world, such as sustainability, gender equality and social responsibility. “Proximity: Flying Centimeters from Death· turns on a near-death experience suffered by Base jumper Alex Villar;‘Vuelo JK5022: Spanair’s...
- 1/25/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Feature comedies “El Cover,” the directorial debut of actor Secun de la Rosa, and Ana Murugarren’s “García y García,” will respectively open and close Spain’s 24th Malaga Film Festival, the country’s biggest event dedicated exclusively to films and TV in Spain and Latin America.
Running June 3-13, the festival focus will fall on its usefulness for the region’s film and TV industries, prioritizing cinema exhibition over social events.
The main competition, a faithful reflection of the most recent cinema produced both in Spain and Latin America, combines highly experienced filmmakers with up-and-coming talents. In total, it will highlight 23 features, 15 Spanish and eight Latin American.
Sold by Latido Films, Benidorm-set musical comedy “El Cover” is produced by Kiko Martínez at Madrid’s Nadie Es Perfecto (“Perfectos desconocidos”) in collaboration with Amazon Prime Video and Gts Entertainment.
Toplining Spanish comedians Pepe Viyuela and José Mota (“Padre no hay...
Running June 3-13, the festival focus will fall on its usefulness for the region’s film and TV industries, prioritizing cinema exhibition over social events.
The main competition, a faithful reflection of the most recent cinema produced both in Spain and Latin America, combines highly experienced filmmakers with up-and-coming talents. In total, it will highlight 23 features, 15 Spanish and eight Latin American.
Sold by Latido Films, Benidorm-set musical comedy “El Cover” is produced by Kiko Martínez at Madrid’s Nadie Es Perfecto (“Perfectos desconocidos”) in collaboration with Amazon Prime Video and Gts Entertainment.
Toplining Spanish comedians Pepe Viyuela and José Mota (“Padre no hay...
- 6/2/2021
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
First they conquered Hollywood film shoots, now they’re aiming to drive up local production, adding a new local edge to one of Europe’s most popular big shoot locales.
A decade ago, Spain’s Canary Islands started to become a top shoot destination for big international films, offering wide-ranging landscapes and unique tax advantages.
An influx of international film and TV shoots served to establish an industrial base, nurturing high-profile crew talent and sparking the creation of competitive production services companies.
Now in second stage growth, the Atlantic Ocean islands are raising the ante, boosting local industry’s production subsidies and their international exposure.
Early fruit of new ambitious measures, the Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster is introducing at next week’s virtual Berlin European Film Market an 80-minute promo reel dubbed Canarias Unleashed which offers a sneak preview of six upcoming features produced on the Islands by local companies tapping into local talent.
A decade ago, Spain’s Canary Islands started to become a top shoot destination for big international films, offering wide-ranging landscapes and unique tax advantages.
An influx of international film and TV shoots served to establish an industrial base, nurturing high-profile crew talent and sparking the creation of competitive production services companies.
Now in second stage growth, the Atlantic Ocean islands are raising the ante, boosting local industry’s production subsidies and their international exposure.
Early fruit of new ambitious measures, the Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster is introducing at next week’s virtual Berlin European Film Market an 80-minute promo reel dubbed Canarias Unleashed which offers a sneak preview of six upcoming features produced on the Islands by local companies tapping into local talent.
- 2/26/2021
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Fruit of a burgeoning production axis in Spain between Warner Bros. Pictures Intl. España and Atresmedia Cine, part of Buendia Estudios, ’You Keep the Kids!’ has been acquired for international sales by Film Factory Ent.
Scheduled to bow in Spanish theaters on Dec. 4, released by Warner Bros., the comedy will be brought onto the market at this week’s AFM where Film Factory’s Ent.’s Vicente Canales will be unveiling a first promo.
Inspired by French hit “Daddy or Mommy,” from scribe-helmer duo Alexandre de la Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte (“What’s in a Name?”), which earned $19.9 million in France, “You Keep the Kids!” is helmed by “Élite” director Dani de la Orden and headlines Paco Leon, star of sitcom “Aida,” a free-to-air TV phenomenon over 2005-14, and more latterly Netflix Mexico hit “House of Flowers.”
He is reunited with another “Aida” alum, Miren Ibarguren, who also looks set for...
Scheduled to bow in Spanish theaters on Dec. 4, released by Warner Bros., the comedy will be brought onto the market at this week’s AFM where Film Factory’s Ent.’s Vicente Canales will be unveiling a first promo.
Inspired by French hit “Daddy or Mommy,” from scribe-helmer duo Alexandre de la Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte (“What’s in a Name?”), which earned $19.9 million in France, “You Keep the Kids!” is helmed by “Élite” director Dani de la Orden and headlines Paco Leon, star of sitcom “Aida,” a free-to-air TV phenomenon over 2005-14, and more latterly Netflix Mexico hit “House of Flowers.”
He is reunited with another “Aida” alum, Miren Ibarguren, who also looks set for...
- 11/9/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid -- Sometimes the picture tells the whole story. That seemed to be the case Tuesday as Spain's film industry showed its first demonstration of unity as it announced the "Fiesta de Cine" initiative to attract Spaniards back into movie theaters.
The initiative -- which organizers expect to become an annual event coinciding with the end of school in June -- aims to draw moviegoers back into theaters by offering any film on more than 2,860 screens countrywide for €2 a ticket ($2.77) from June 21-23.
But the image of traditionally opposing sectors and their accompanying top brass executives working together to present the initiative was dramatic, and a testament to how dire the industry deems the present plunge in ticket sales.
"I'd like to express deep satisfaction at seeing the representation of unity at this table," said Ignasi Guardans, the Culture Ministry's Film Institute chief. "It is historic and significant that all the sectors of the industry,...
The initiative -- which organizers expect to become an annual event coinciding with the end of school in June -- aims to draw moviegoers back into theaters by offering any film on more than 2,860 screens countrywide for €2 a ticket ($2.77) from June 21-23.
But the image of traditionally opposing sectors and their accompanying top brass executives working together to present the initiative was dramatic, and a testament to how dire the industry deems the present plunge in ticket sales.
"I'd like to express deep satisfaction at seeing the representation of unity at this table," said Ignasi Guardans, the Culture Ministry's Film Institute chief. "It is historic and significant that all the sectors of the industry,...
- 6/16/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Madrid -- Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia will become president of the Spanish Film Academy on June 21 after the deadline to contest his appointment came and went Thursday.
De la Iglesia takes over from producer Eduardo Campoy, who briefly filled the vacancy left when Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde left her post to take over as Spain's culture minister in mid-April.
"I have seen that the vision outside of Spain of Spanish cinema is infinitely more positive than the one Spaniards have inside Spain," De la Iglesia said, pledging to work to bolster Spanish cinema's profile internationally and locally.
De la Iglesia's election marks the beginning of a new era in the Spanish industry, coming on the heels of Ignasi Guardans' appointment as head of Spain's Cinema and Audiovisual Arts Institute, the Culture Ministry's film and TV body.
The politically independent Guardans served as a member of the European Parliament committee on education and culture,...
De la Iglesia takes over from producer Eduardo Campoy, who briefly filled the vacancy left when Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde left her post to take over as Spain's culture minister in mid-April.
"I have seen that the vision outside of Spain of Spanish cinema is infinitely more positive than the one Spaniards have inside Spain," De la Iglesia said, pledging to work to bolster Spanish cinema's profile internationally and locally.
De la Iglesia's election marks the beginning of a new era in the Spanish industry, coming on the heels of Ignasi Guardans' appointment as head of Spain's Cinema and Audiovisual Arts Institute, the Culture Ministry's film and TV body.
The politically independent Guardans served as a member of the European Parliament committee on education and culture,...
- 5/28/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Madrid -- The Spanish Film Academy has named Eduardo Campoy its interim president, filling the void left last week when then-president Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde accepted the post as Spain's new culture minister.
Campoy, a veteran producer and former president of the Spanish producers' lobby Fapae, will call on academy members to elect a new president in June.
Gonzalez-Sinde's three-year term as academy president was due to expire at the end of 2009.
Campoy, a veteran producer and former president of the Spanish producers' lobby Fapae, will call on academy members to elect a new president in June.
Gonzalez-Sinde's three-year term as academy president was due to expire at the end of 2009.
- 4/15/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain -- Eduardo Campoy, president of Spain's producers lobby (FAPAE), decried a 30% reduction in state subsidies for film production for 2003 despite the serious slump in output the sector is experiencing. "The Spanish industry is the least protected in all of Europe and we intend to fight the move administratively," Campoy said Wednesday as he gave the association's evaluation of the Spanish sector at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. "We're not asking them to increase the budget, but to maintain the budget from last year." According to FAPAE, Spain's proposed state budget would decrease its investment in Spanish film production from €40.6 million ($39.7 million) this year to €31.2 million ($30.5 million) in 2003. The state budget is due to be debated in Parliament and approved by year's end.
- 9/26/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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