Laura Fernández Espeso will be the next General Manager of Spain’s Mediapro.
On January 1, 2025, the current CEO of production and sales subsidiary The Mediapro Studios will succeed Juan Ruiz de Gauna as General Manager of the overall business, as part of a major restructure of the Spanish media and broadcasting giant.
Alberto Vía will replace José Luis Rubio as Head of Mediapro Broadcast and Media Services on the same day next year.
Espeso began her career in indie film, working with directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Danis Tanovic, Ken Loach and Juan José Campanella. She then joined Spanish production giant Globomedia as Director of Film and later added leadership of International TV Development.
In 2015, she joined Mediapro as Head of International Content. Four years later, she took on management of TV and Corporate management of The Mediapro Studio and has been overall CEO since 2020, leading the creation, production...
On January 1, 2025, the current CEO of production and sales subsidiary The Mediapro Studios will succeed Juan Ruiz de Gauna as General Manager of the overall business, as part of a major restructure of the Spanish media and broadcasting giant.
Alberto Vía will replace José Luis Rubio as Head of Mediapro Broadcast and Media Services on the same day next year.
Espeso began her career in indie film, working with directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Danis Tanovic, Ken Loach and Juan José Campanella. She then joined Spanish production giant Globomedia as Director of Film and later added leadership of International TV Development.
In 2015, she joined Mediapro as Head of International Content. Four years later, she took on management of TV and Corporate management of The Mediapro Studio and has been overall CEO since 2020, leading the creation, production...
- 1/29/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The board of Mediapro has voted to have co-founder Jaume Roures step down as Managing Partner of the Spanish content giant, with Taxto Benet remaining in post as President and CEO.
According to a statement released a few moments ago, the company’s directors approved a request from majority shareholders for the “disassociation” of Roures, who is one of Spanish media’s biggest and most influential characters.
Besides helping establish Mediapro as a major Spanish drama producer and distributor behind the likes of Movistar+ series The Head, Roures has been a key figure in the growth of Spain’s La Liga soccer league. He and Benet have pushed the division to grow its revenues from €150M ($158.5M) in the 2009-2010 season to over €700M in 2021-2022.
“The void that Jaume leaves in the group is immense, and from a personal standpoint, I will deeply miss these wonderful decades of working together,...
According to a statement released a few moments ago, the company’s directors approved a request from majority shareholders for the “disassociation” of Roures, who is one of Spanish media’s biggest and most influential characters.
Besides helping establish Mediapro as a major Spanish drama producer and distributor behind the likes of Movistar+ series The Head, Roures has been a key figure in the growth of Spain’s La Liga soccer league. He and Benet have pushed the division to grow its revenues from €150M ($158.5M) in the 2009-2010 season to over €700M in 2021-2022.
“The void that Jaume leaves in the group is immense, and from a personal standpoint, I will deeply miss these wonderful decades of working together,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Inspired by the simmering one-man rebellion that kicked off a tremendous tide-change in Barcelona, writer-director Marcel Barrena (“Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea”) and Spain’s The Mediapro Studio have begun filming “The 47.”
Tms has released first look images. The premise centers on social activist bus driver Manolo Vital, played by three-time Goya Award winner Eduardo Fernández (“Smoke & Mirrors”), as he grows increasingly outraged at the abject neglect faced by immigrant communities outside the city’s center, whose neighborhoods, peeled by immigrants from Extremadura and Andalusia, had only just achieved running water.
Stonewalled by the City Council, Vital seizes a bus used on Barcelona’s #47 line and extends its route to Torre Baró in an attempt to prove that the vehicle can safely service the outlying communities in need.
“What the film shows is that this good man tried to convince everyone that it was feasible. The contempt of...
Tms has released first look images. The premise centers on social activist bus driver Manolo Vital, played by three-time Goya Award winner Eduardo Fernández (“Smoke & Mirrors”), as he grows increasingly outraged at the abject neglect faced by immigrant communities outside the city’s center, whose neighborhoods, peeled by immigrants from Extremadura and Andalusia, had only just achieved running water.
Stonewalled by the City Council, Vital seizes a bus used on Barcelona’s #47 line and extends its route to Torre Baró in an attempt to prove that the vehicle can safely service the outlying communities in need.
“What the film shows is that this good man tried to convince everyone that it was feasible. The contempt of...
- 6/29/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
El 47, the latest feature from Spanish production powerhouse Mediapro Studio, is kicking into gear with cameras set to roll on the pic in Barcelona in the coming days.
Directed by Marcel Barrena (Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea), the pic is billed as a “tribute to the working class and to the men and women who built our cities, not only physically but also culturally.” The pic tells the story of Manolo Vital, a bus driver who helped create modern Barcelona during the city’s 1970s boom. Barrena co-wrote the pic with Alberto Marini (El desconocido).
Synopsis reads: In the 1960s and 70s Spain, rural Barcelona was built, for the most part, by immigrants from Extremadura and Andalusia who, although they had built the neighborhoods with their bare hands, were still not considered part of the city. Their homes didn’t even have running water or electricity. Tired of hearing...
Directed by Marcel Barrena (Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea), the pic is billed as a “tribute to the working class and to the men and women who built our cities, not only physically but also culturally.” The pic tells the story of Manolo Vital, a bus driver who helped create modern Barcelona during the city’s 1970s boom. Barrena co-wrote the pic with Alberto Marini (El desconocido).
Synopsis reads: In the 1960s and 70s Spain, rural Barcelona was built, for the most part, by immigrants from Extremadura and Andalusia who, although they had built the neighborhoods with their bare hands, were still not considered part of the city. Their homes didn’t even have running water or electricity. Tired of hearing...
- 6/28/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Spain’s The Mediapro Studio is teaming with writer-director Marcel Barrena and Spanish star Eduard Fernández on real-life inspired social film “The 47.”
Scheduled to shoot in Catalan and Spanish June-July in Barcelona, “The 47” is based on the true story of Manolo Vital, a bus driver who, during the city’s expansion in the 1970s, help shape the Barcelona of today.
Produced by Jaume Roures and executive produced by Laura Fernández Espeso, Javier Méndez and Eva Garrido, the film is one of the projects The Mediapro Studio Distribution is presenting for international sales at the current Cannes’ Marché du Film.
Award-winning screenwriter-producer Alberto Marini co-wrote the script alongside Barrena.
Winner of three Goya Awards and a San Sebastian Silver Shell, Fernández plays the central character in the film.
The cast also takes in Clara Segura (“The Sea Inside”), Zoe Bonafonte, Salva Reina (“Con quién viajas”), Aimar Vega (“Prison 77”), Carlos Cuevas...
Scheduled to shoot in Catalan and Spanish June-July in Barcelona, “The 47” is based on the true story of Manolo Vital, a bus driver who, during the city’s expansion in the 1970s, help shape the Barcelona of today.
Produced by Jaume Roures and executive produced by Laura Fernández Espeso, Javier Méndez and Eva Garrido, the film is one of the projects The Mediapro Studio Distribution is presenting for international sales at the current Cannes’ Marché du Film.
Award-winning screenwriter-producer Alberto Marini co-wrote the script alongside Barrena.
Winner of three Goya Awards and a San Sebastian Silver Shell, Fernández plays the central character in the film.
The cast also takes in Clara Segura (“The Sea Inside”), Zoe Bonafonte, Salva Reina (“Con quién viajas”), Aimar Vega (“Prison 77”), Carlos Cuevas...
- 5/17/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Mediapro Group has refinanced its debts, handing majority shareholder Southwind Group more control of the Barcelona-based production and live broadcasting services giant and easing financial pressures.
The agreement, which Mediapro says “definitively resolves uncertainties caused by the effect of the [Covid-19] pandemic” hands the company an immediate €620M (530M) capital increase.
Most of this will be used to bring Mediapro’s €900M debt down to below €400M in net debt, or €500M in gross debt. This takes the debt load below three times Ebitda. The remaining cash will be used as working capital.
Shareholders of Southwind, the owner of Mediapro’s Chinese conglomerate parent Orient Hontai Capital, fully subscribed to the refinancing. This means Southwind’s overall shareholding grows from 53 to 80. UK-based ad giant Wpp now owns 10, with Mediapro founders Jaume Roures and Tatxo Benet taking the other 10.
Mediapro — whose Mediapro Studios has become one of the biggest players in European...
The agreement, which Mediapro says “definitively resolves uncertainties caused by the effect of the [Covid-19] pandemic” hands the company an immediate €620M (530M) capital increase.
Most of this will be used to bring Mediapro’s €900M debt down to below €400M in net debt, or €500M in gross debt. This takes the debt load below three times Ebitda. The remaining cash will be used as working capital.
Shareholders of Southwind, the owner of Mediapro’s Chinese conglomerate parent Orient Hontai Capital, fully subscribed to the refinancing. This means Southwind’s overall shareholding grows from 53 to 80. UK-based ad giant Wpp now owns 10, with Mediapro founders Jaume Roures and Tatxo Benet taking the other 10.
Mediapro — whose Mediapro Studios has become one of the biggest players in European...
- 6/9/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
In the run-up to its roll-out in cinema theaters around the world, Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas starrer “Official Competition” has a official trailer.
Variety has had exclusive access to its international subtitled version. Buena Vista International will release “Official Competition” in Spanish cinemas on Feb. 25.
Spanish producer The Mediapro Studio and London-based international sales agent Protagonist Pictures already dropped a 48-second teaser trailer in late July, just before the film’s announced selection – appositely – for Official Competition at September’s Venice Film Festival, where it world premiered in September and was pretty much liked by everyone.
The now dropped official trailer is a minute longer and hits the movie’s main plot points: “Official Competition” begins with a billionaire businessman deciding to make a movie that leaves his mark on history. So he hires Cannes Palme d’Or winning filmmaker Lola Cuevas (Cruz), whose oeuvre includes “The Inverted Rain,...
Variety has had exclusive access to its international subtitled version. Buena Vista International will release “Official Competition” in Spanish cinemas on Feb. 25.
Spanish producer The Mediapro Studio and London-based international sales agent Protagonist Pictures already dropped a 48-second teaser trailer in late July, just before the film’s announced selection – appositely – for Official Competition at September’s Venice Film Festival, where it world premiered in September and was pretty much liked by everyone.
The now dropped official trailer is a minute longer and hits the movie’s main plot points: “Official Competition” begins with a billionaire businessman deciding to make a movie that leaves his mark on history. So he hires Cannes Palme d’Or winning filmmaker Lola Cuevas (Cruz), whose oeuvre includes “The Inverted Rain,...
- 11/26/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
New York-based Cohen Media Group has acquired all U.S. rights to Javier Bardem-starrer “The Good Boss” (“El Buen Patrón”), Spain’s submission to the international feature film Oscars race at the 2022 Academy Awards.
The deal was negotiated by Cmg senior VP Robert Aaronson and Fionnuala Jamison, managing director, MK2, which is handling international sales on the film.
Written and directed by Fernando León de Aranoa, “The Good Boss” world premiered at September’s San Sebastián Festival, where it was one of the best received of main competition films, critics especially highlighting Bardem’s central performance.
Released by Tripictures in Spain, it has grossed €1.64 million ($1.9 million) after its first three weekends, a resilient result in a still under-performing Spanish box office.
A workplace satire which says much about how corporate identity has eviscerated family and human relations in a modern world, “The Good Boss” stars a once more remarkably coiffured Bardem – here,...
The deal was negotiated by Cmg senior VP Robert Aaronson and Fionnuala Jamison, managing director, MK2, which is handling international sales on the film.
Written and directed by Fernando León de Aranoa, “The Good Boss” world premiered at September’s San Sebastián Festival, where it was one of the best received of main competition films, critics especially highlighting Bardem’s central performance.
Released by Tripictures in Spain, it has grossed €1.64 million ($1.9 million) after its first three weekends, a resilient result in a still under-performing Spanish box office.
A workplace satire which says much about how corporate identity has eviscerated family and human relations in a modern world, “The Good Boss” stars a once more remarkably coiffured Bardem – here,...
- 11/8/2021
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to “Official Competition,” Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s colorful film with Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas. Represented in international markets by Protagonist, the film world premiered at Venice in competition and earned unanimous praise.
Written by Cohn and Duprat, the movie stars José Luis Gómez as an octogenarian millionaire pharmaceutical tycoon who decides to finance a great work of cinema after surveying his legacy and finding it lacking in prestige.
He purchases the rights to a Nobel Prize–winning novel about sibling rivalry and entrusts the property to enigmatic auteur Lola Cuevas (Cruz). A visionary conceptualist with a penchant for offscreen theatrics and micromanagement, Lola casts as her embattled co-leads a pair of veteran thespians who couldn’t be less alike: Iván Torres (Oscar Martínez) is a revered educator and legend of the stage much concerned with ethics and artistry, while Félix Rivero...
Written by Cohn and Duprat, the movie stars José Luis Gómez as an octogenarian millionaire pharmaceutical tycoon who decides to finance a great work of cinema after surveying his legacy and finding it lacking in prestige.
He purchases the rights to a Nobel Prize–winning novel about sibling rivalry and entrusts the property to enigmatic auteur Lola Cuevas (Cruz). A visionary conceptualist with a penchant for offscreen theatrics and micromanagement, Lola casts as her embattled co-leads a pair of veteran thespians who couldn’t be less alike: Iván Torres (Oscar Martínez) is a revered educator and legend of the stage much concerned with ethics and artistry, while Félix Rivero...
- 10/21/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy and K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
A week after taking the Volpi Cup best actress award at the Venice Film Festival, Penelope Cruz and her “Official Competition” co-stars Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez were in San Sebastian on Friday evening for the film’s Spanish premiere, where the trio hosted a press conference joined on stage by producer Jaume Roures, CEO at Mediapro, and via a video stream by the film’s writing-directing duo Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn.
While discussing her admiration for Duprat and Cohn’s ability to make the difficult task of shooting a comedy seem easy, Cruz teased that she would be teaming up again with the Argentine duo in the future.
“Sometimes when audiences leave the theatre after a comedy, they think that those films are easier to make than dramas, but that’s not the case. I admire so much the work of Mariano and Gastón… which they do with such charm and intelligence.
While discussing her admiration for Duprat and Cohn’s ability to make the difficult task of shooting a comedy seem easy, Cruz teased that she would be teaming up again with the Argentine duo in the future.
“Sometimes when audiences leave the theatre after a comedy, they think that those films are easier to make than dramas, but that’s not the case. I admire so much the work of Mariano and Gastón… which they do with such charm and intelligence.
- 9/18/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish TV drama producers are thinking bigger than ever, scaling up in a globalized SVOD market.
They are also allying with powerful U.S. partners, responding to a global feeding-frenzy for Spanish-language premium series.
Spanish TV dramas at Mipcom Online Plus underscore this trend. One, “Inés of My Soul,” marks the first move into big-budget international co-production by public broadcaster Rtve, teaming with Boomerang TV, Chile’s Turner-owned Chilevisión and Amazon Prime Video Spain.
Beta Film is presenting “Tell Me Who I Am,” based on Julia Navarro’s global bestseller, co-produced with Telemundo Intl. Studios in partnership with Dlo.
In ongoing productions, Movistar, Telefonica’s SVOD/pay TV arm, alongside AMC Studios and Fernando Bovaira’s Mod Pictures, is producing “La Fortuna,” an adventure series created by Academy Award winner Alejandro Amenábar.
Also, Spain’s Paco Cabezas (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”) is leading creative development on “The Gipsy Bride,...
They are also allying with powerful U.S. partners, responding to a global feeding-frenzy for Spanish-language premium series.
Spanish TV dramas at Mipcom Online Plus underscore this trend. One, “Inés of My Soul,” marks the first move into big-budget international co-production by public broadcaster Rtve, teaming with Boomerang TV, Chile’s Turner-owned Chilevisión and Amazon Prime Video Spain.
Beta Film is presenting “Tell Me Who I Am,” based on Julia Navarro’s global bestseller, co-produced with Telemundo Intl. Studios in partnership with Dlo.
In ongoing productions, Movistar, Telefonica’s SVOD/pay TV arm, alongside AMC Studios and Fernando Bovaira’s Mod Pictures, is producing “La Fortuna,” an adventure series created by Academy Award winner Alejandro Amenábar.
Also, Spain’s Paco Cabezas (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”) is leading creative development on “The Gipsy Bride,...
- 10/11/2020
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid-based The Mediapro Studio (Tms), one of Europe’s biggest independent film and TV players, had a smashing 2019 with the release of 126 titles. And then the pandemic struck, forcing the company to shut down 56 shows. Months later, the Spanish outfit is slowly getting back on track by enrolling major U.S. players and Spain’s biggest stars in Hollywood.
Tms is teaming with Disney Plus Latin America on what it describes as an ambitious, music-laced romantic thriller set against a Caribbean background. Its shoot was postponed because of Covid-19.
Meanwhile, David Simon, creator of “The Wire,” is writing drama “A Dry Run,” a series set up at Tms that follows Abraham Lincoln Battalion members who come to Spain to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War.
Headlined by Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, drama comedy “Official Competition” has resumed filming in Madrid; a second Tms movie, labor relations-themed “The Good Boss,...
Tms is teaming with Disney Plus Latin America on what it describes as an ambitious, music-laced romantic thriller set against a Caribbean background. Its shoot was postponed because of Covid-19.
Meanwhile, David Simon, creator of “The Wire,” is writing drama “A Dry Run,” a series set up at Tms that follows Abraham Lincoln Battalion members who come to Spain to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War.
Headlined by Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, drama comedy “Official Competition” has resumed filming in Madrid; a second Tms movie, labor relations-themed “The Good Boss,...
- 9/30/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
”MediaPro wanted me to do a film in Spain” the director explained.
The controversy surrounding the personal life of Woody Allen was almost completely avoided at the press conference for the world premiere of Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival in San Sebastian on Friday.
The film, which is set during the San Sebastian film festival, was applauded by the press at the end of the morning screenings, as were the film talents attending the press conference: Actresses Gina Gershon and Elena Anaya and producer Jaume Roures of Spain’s The Mediapro Studio, all in San Sebastián and Allen and actor Wallace Shawn,...
The controversy surrounding the personal life of Woody Allen was almost completely avoided at the press conference for the world premiere of Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival in San Sebastian on Friday.
The film, which is set during the San Sebastian film festival, was applauded by the press at the end of the morning screenings, as were the film talents attending the press conference: Actresses Gina Gershon and Elena Anaya and producer Jaume Roures of Spain’s The Mediapro Studio, all in San Sebastián and Allen and actor Wallace Shawn,...
- 9/19/2020
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Javier Bardem is set to return to his native Spain to star in new feature “The Good Boss,” reuniting with director Fernando León de Aranoa, The Mediapro Studio and many of the social themes of 2002’s “Mondays in the Sun,” a movie that sealed a young Bardem’s acting reputation.
France’s MK2 Films, the Paris-based production, sales and exhibition company, has acquired international sales rights to the film, described as an offbeat satire with darkly comedic elements.
Produced by Fernando León de Aranoa’s own label, Reposado P.C., and The Mediapro Studio, the film will begin shooting this October.
Announced on the eve of 2020’s Toronto Film Festival, the ironic dramedy has Bardem in the lead role as the titular good boss, a charismatic and seemingly benevolent owner of a family factory who thinks he could be up for another local award for business excellence.
In order to...
France’s MK2 Films, the Paris-based production, sales and exhibition company, has acquired international sales rights to the film, described as an offbeat satire with darkly comedic elements.
Produced by Fernando León de Aranoa’s own label, Reposado P.C., and The Mediapro Studio, the film will begin shooting this October.
Announced on the eve of 2020’s Toronto Film Festival, the ironic dramedy has Bardem in the lead role as the titular good boss, a charismatic and seemingly benevolent owner of a family factory who thinks he could be up for another local award for business excellence.
In order to...
- 9/9/2020
- by John Hopewell and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Rifkin’s Festival
Now that Woody Allen has been officially exiled, he’s been adopted in the realm of world cinema with his latest feature, Rifkin’s Festival, a provisional title for the Spanish/Us co-pro, produced by Letty Aronson of Gravitas Productions (Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Midnight in Paris) and Jaume Roures of Mediapro. The international cast includes Gina Gershon, Christoph Waltz, Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Sergi Lopez, and previous Allen collaborators Wallace Shawn and Douglas McGrath. Notably, cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor; Apocalypse Now), who also lensed Allen’s last three features (Café Society; Wonder Wheel; A Rainy Day in New York) is also on hand.…...
Now that Woody Allen has been officially exiled, he’s been adopted in the realm of world cinema with his latest feature, Rifkin’s Festival, a provisional title for the Spanish/Us co-pro, produced by Letty Aronson of Gravitas Productions (Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Midnight in Paris) and Jaume Roures of Mediapro. The international cast includes Gina Gershon, Christoph Waltz, Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Sergi Lopez, and previous Allen collaborators Wallace Shawn and Douglas McGrath. Notably, cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor; Apocalypse Now), who also lensed Allen’s last three features (Café Society; Wonder Wheel; A Rainy Day in New York) is also on hand.…...
- 1/1/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Woody Allen has taken part in a press conference in Spain to launch his next movie, which has a working title of Rivkin’s Festival.
Spanish film and TV stalwart and regular Allen collaborator Mediapro is backing the movie and will co-handle international sales with FilmNation. Letty Aronson’s Gravier Productions also produces.
The movie is due to go into production tomorrow and its cast of Elena Anaya, Sergi Lopez, Gina Gershon and Wally Shawn attended today’s conference in San Sebastian alongside Allen and Mediapro CEO Jaume Roures. Christoph Waltz and Louis Garrel also star.
The romance-comedy tells the story of a married American couple (played by Waltz and Gershon) who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. There they get caught up in the magic of the festival but she has an affair with a brilliant French movie director and he falls in love with a beautiful local Spanish woman.
Spanish film and TV stalwart and regular Allen collaborator Mediapro is backing the movie and will co-handle international sales with FilmNation. Letty Aronson’s Gravier Productions also produces.
The movie is due to go into production tomorrow and its cast of Elena Anaya, Sergi Lopez, Gina Gershon and Wally Shawn attended today’s conference in San Sebastian alongside Allen and Mediapro CEO Jaume Roures. Christoph Waltz and Louis Garrel also star.
The romance-comedy tells the story of a married American couple (played by Waltz and Gershon) who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. There they get caught up in the magic of the festival but she has an affair with a brilliant French movie director and he falls in love with a beautiful local Spanish woman.
- 7/9/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The project, with a working title of Rifkin’s Festival, is set during the San Sebastian Film Festival and starts shooting this week.
Woody Allen’s new film, a romantic comedy starring Gina Gershon and Christoph Waltz and set against the backdrop of the San Sebastian Film Festival, starts filming tomorrow in the Spanish city.
It has a working title of Rifkin’s Festival, the director revealed at a press conference in San Sebastian today (July 9). He was joined by the film’s producer Jaume Roures from Barcelona-based The Mediapro Studio as well as Gershon and further cast members Wallace Shawn...
Woody Allen’s new film, a romantic comedy starring Gina Gershon and Christoph Waltz and set against the backdrop of the San Sebastian Film Festival, starts filming tomorrow in the Spanish city.
It has a working title of Rifkin’s Festival, the director revealed at a press conference in San Sebastian today (July 9). He was joined by the film’s producer Jaume Roures from Barcelona-based The Mediapro Studio as well as Gershon and further cast members Wallace Shawn...
- 7/9/2019
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Having won the backing of Mediapro, one of Spain’s biggest media groups and an old ally, Woody Allen’s next and as-yet-untitled feature has found further support, with Glen Basner’s FilmNation boarding to co-handle international sales with Mediapro.
New York-based FilmNation, one of the world’s preeminent independent sales companies renowned for its range of titles, handled sales on Allen’s 2016 “Cafe Society” and the upcoming “A Rainy Day in New York.” His next project, which had been provisionally titled “Rivkin’s Festival,” is an homage to the San Sebastian Festival and the town of San Sebastian itself.
The distribution arrangement was confirmed by Mediapro founder Jaume Roures on Tuesday at a news conference in San Sebastian, where Allen will shoot his Spanish feature which goes into production Wednesday. Roures added that no distribution agreement has as yet been closed for Spain.
Distribution prospects in Europe could be good,...
New York-based FilmNation, one of the world’s preeminent independent sales companies renowned for its range of titles, handled sales on Allen’s 2016 “Cafe Society” and the upcoming “A Rainy Day in New York.” His next project, which had been provisionally titled “Rivkin’s Festival,” is an homage to the San Sebastian Festival and the town of San Sebastian itself.
The distribution arrangement was confirmed by Mediapro founder Jaume Roures on Tuesday at a news conference in San Sebastian, where Allen will shoot his Spanish feature which goes into production Wednesday. Roures added that no distribution agreement has as yet been closed for Spain.
Distribution prospects in Europe could be good,...
- 7/9/2019
- by Jamie Lang and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Woody Allen is returning to Spain this summer as production gears up for the director’s 51st film.
According to production studio Mediapro, the untitled film, which was first announced in February, will be a “comedy-romance,” following a married American couple who attend the San Sebastian film festival only to fall in love with different people. Filming is set to begin July 10 in Spain.
“She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there,” the studio confirmed in a statement. “It is a comedy-romance that resolves itself in a funny but romantic way.”
Previously, Mediapro Studios worked alongside Allen for the films “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and “Midnight In Paris,” which garnered strong reviews and several Oscar nominations. “At Mediapro we’ve been working with Woody Allen for 14 years. His films, like every project the group produces, have a unique personality,...
According to production studio Mediapro, the untitled film, which was first announced in February, will be a “comedy-romance,” following a married American couple who attend the San Sebastian film festival only to fall in love with different people. Filming is set to begin July 10 in Spain.
“She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there,” the studio confirmed in a statement. “It is a comedy-romance that resolves itself in a funny but romantic way.”
Previously, Mediapro Studios worked alongside Allen for the films “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and “Midnight In Paris,” which garnered strong reviews and several Oscar nominations. “At Mediapro we’ve been working with Woody Allen for 14 years. His films, like every project the group produces, have a unique personality,...
- 6/4/2019
- by Nate Nickolai
- Variety Film + TV
Woody Allen is set to kick off production on his next movie in Spain this July with a cast that includes two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, Gina Gershon, Louis Garrel, Sergi Lopez, and “The Skin I Live In” favorite Elena Anaya. Wallace Shawn is also set to appear, reuniting with Allen after a small turn in the director’s “Manhattan.” Per Deadline, the film will shoot in Spain under the working title “Wasp 2019.” Gravier Productions and Mediapro, the Spanish producing partner behind “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and “Midnight In Paris,” are on board.
Allen’s new movie centers around a married American couple who travel to the San Sebastian Film Festival and get caught up in the beauty of the Spanish city and the fantasy of the movies playing at the event. The wife begins an affair with a French movie director while the husband falls in love with a beautiful...
Allen’s new movie centers around a married American couple who travel to the San Sebastian Film Festival and get caught up in the beauty of the Spanish city and the fantasy of the movies playing at the event. The wife begins an affair with a French movie director while the husband falls in love with a beautiful...
- 6/4/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Woody Allen will shoot his 51st film in Spain beginning in July with a cast that includes Oscar winner Christoph Waltz and long-time collaborator Wallace Shawn.
MediaPro, the Spanish financing conglomerate, announced the news Tuesday that the untitled project, with the production title WASP2019, will take place in San Sebastian, Spain, from July 10 to Aug. 23.
Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon and Sergi López will also co-star. The MediaPro Studio, an offshoot of the MediaPro Group, will co-produce the film.
Also Read: Woody Allen Releases 'A Rainy Day in New York' Trailer Despite Us Distribution Limbo (Video)
The film tells the story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in...
MediaPro, the Spanish financing conglomerate, announced the news Tuesday that the untitled project, with the production title WASP2019, will take place in San Sebastian, Spain, from July 10 to Aug. 23.
Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon and Sergi López will also co-star. The MediaPro Studio, an offshoot of the MediaPro Group, will co-produce the film.
Also Read: Woody Allen Releases 'A Rainy Day in New York' Trailer Despite Us Distribution Limbo (Video)
The film tells the story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in...
- 6/4/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Embattled filmmaker assembles international cast despite ongoing woes.
Woody Allen’s new film will be a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain starring Christoph Waltz and Gina Gershon.
Barcelona-based MediaPro is producing the untitled film, presently going under the name WASP2019, with Allen and Letty Aronson’s Gravier Productions. It which will shoot in Spain from July 10-August 23.
MediaPro previously co-produced Allen’s Midnight In Paris, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
The casting on WASP2019 will be a surprise to many observers given the long-running...
Woody Allen’s new film will be a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain starring Christoph Waltz and Gina Gershon.
Barcelona-based MediaPro is producing the untitled film, presently going under the name WASP2019, with Allen and Letty Aronson’s Gravier Productions. It which will shoot in Spain from July 10-August 23.
MediaPro previously co-produced Allen’s Midnight In Paris, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
The casting on WASP2019 will be a surprise to many observers given the long-running...
- 6/4/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Embattled filmmaker assembles impressive cast despite ongoing woes.
Christoph Waltz and Gina Gershon have joined the cast of Woody Allen’s 51st film, which Spain’s MediPro said on Tuesday (4) will shoot in San Sebastian from July 10-August 23.
The casting on the untitled film, which currently goes under its production title WASP2019, will be a surprise to many observers given the long-running controversy over Allen’s alleged prior sexual misconduct, which he has consistently denied, and his recent fight with Amazon Studios.
Allen’s last film A Rainy Day In New York remains undistributed in the Us after a legal battle with Amazon Studios,...
Christoph Waltz and Gina Gershon have joined the cast of Woody Allen’s 51st film, which Spain’s MediPro said on Tuesday (4) will shoot in San Sebastian from July 10-August 23.
The casting on the untitled film, which currently goes under its production title WASP2019, will be a surprise to many observers given the long-running controversy over Allen’s alleged prior sexual misconduct, which he has consistently denied, and his recent fight with Amazon Studios.
Allen’s last film A Rainy Day In New York remains undistributed in the Us after a legal battle with Amazon Studios,...
- 6/4/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Woody Allen has lined up a starry, largely European cast for his next movie, which has a working title of Wasp 2019. The cast includes Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, Louis Garrel (The Dreamers), Sergi López (Pan’s Labyrinth), Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In), Wallace Shawn (Manhattan) and Gina Gershon (Blockers).
Mediapro, Allen’s Spanish producing partner on Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Midnight In Paris, is behind the new film with Letty Aronson’s Gravier Productions. Shoot will get underway in July in Spain.
The film tells the story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. According to the production, they get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.
Mediapro, Allen’s Spanish producing partner on Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Midnight In Paris, is behind the new film with Letty Aronson’s Gravier Productions. Shoot will get underway in July in Spain.
The film tells the story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. According to the production, they get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.
- 6/4/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
In this week’s International TV Newswire: the logic of an Mediapro Ipo; Tve’s ‘Monteperdido’s’ renewed.
Mediapro Ipo: Don’T Hold Your Breath
The big TV news from Spain this week, at least according to financial newspaper “El Confidencial,” is that Mediapro, the Barcelona based multinational is preparing to seek an initial stock market listing. Potential investors should not hold their breath. It looks very unlikely to happen this year. Given that, the value sought by Mediapro, according to El Confidencial, of €3 billion ($3.3 billion) seems pure speculation. There is a logic, however, to a mid-term stock market float, as one of the ways to finance further growth at Mediapro as it drives ever more into high-end drama series production without abandoning its past core business of sports right brokering and services. Mediapro’s chief executives Jaume Roures and Taxto Benet have never discounted the move, even after Chinese...
Mediapro Ipo: Don’T Hold Your Breath
The big TV news from Spain this week, at least according to financial newspaper “El Confidencial,” is that Mediapro, the Barcelona based multinational is preparing to seek an initial stock market listing. Potential investors should not hold their breath. It looks very unlikely to happen this year. Given that, the value sought by Mediapro, according to El Confidencial, of €3 billion ($3.3 billion) seems pure speculation. There is a logic, however, to a mid-term stock market float, as one of the ways to finance further growth at Mediapro as it drives ever more into high-end drama series production without abandoning its past core business of sports right brokering and services. Mediapro’s chief executives Jaume Roures and Taxto Benet have never discounted the move, even after Chinese...
- 5/31/2019
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Furthering its expansion in North America, Spain’s Mediapro has purchased Canadian services company Tri-Lite TV.
Put through by Mediapro Canada, the deal comes days after Mediapro confirmed the acquisition of 10-year rights to the Canadian Premiere League, a new soccer competition to launch April 27 across the country.
Mediapro has also announced global revenues for 2018 of €2.0 billion ($2.2 billion), up 19% on 2017, and its strategic objectives for 2019. These take in cross-the-board continuing growth, “both organic and inorganic,” the latter by acquisition of companies – of all its divisions, it said in a recent statement.
Tri-Lite TV will give Mediapro Canada a production center with a 5,400 square-foot soundstage, three HD mobile units and the capacity to produce a broad range of sporting events, entertainment programs and newscasts in Canada, Mediapro said. Tri Lite TV president Chris Priess has joined Mediapro Canada as its general manager of broadcast services.
Mediapro Canada also brings to the table five mobile units – one,...
Put through by Mediapro Canada, the deal comes days after Mediapro confirmed the acquisition of 10-year rights to the Canadian Premiere League, a new soccer competition to launch April 27 across the country.
Mediapro has also announced global revenues for 2018 of €2.0 billion ($2.2 billion), up 19% on 2017, and its strategic objectives for 2019. These take in cross-the-board continuing growth, “both organic and inorganic,” the latter by acquisition of companies – of all its divisions, it said in a recent statement.
Tri-Lite TV will give Mediapro Canada a production center with a 5,400 square-foot soundstage, three HD mobile units and the capacity to produce a broad range of sporting events, entertainment programs and newscasts in Canada, Mediapro said. Tri Lite TV president Chris Priess has joined Mediapro Canada as its general manager of broadcast services.
Mediapro Canada also brings to the table five mobile units – one,...
- 4/24/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Nearly 15 years ago, Mediapro founder Jaume Roures sat in a posh hotel bar in Barcelona explaining why he had moved into director-driven film production, and lamenting the lack of ambition of many Catalans.
“For many people, success is opening a shop on the Diagonal,” he said, referring to Barcelona’s major thoroughfare.
Flash forward to 2019, and while Roures does have a “shop” on the Diagonal — Mediapro’s 16-story building in the high-tech sector of the boulevard looking over the Mediterranean — the ambitions that built it are global: the company encompasses 56 offices in 36 countries around the world, and counting.
Mediapro is also celebrating its 25th anniversary by driving big projects forward.
Last month, it announced the Mediapro Studio, with 34 scripted series in production — not development, production — for 2019, plus 200 TV shows or movies being written, produced or on air. The productions are either for or being produced with heavyweights including HBO, Amazon Prime Video,...
“For many people, success is opening a shop on the Diagonal,” he said, referring to Barcelona’s major thoroughfare.
Flash forward to 2019, and while Roures does have a “shop” on the Diagonal — Mediapro’s 16-story building in the high-tech sector of the boulevard looking over the Mediterranean — the ambitions that built it are global: the company encompasses 56 offices in 36 countries around the world, and counting.
Mediapro is also celebrating its 25th anniversary by driving big projects forward.
Last month, it announced the Mediapro Studio, with 34 scripted series in production — not development, production — for 2019, plus 200 TV shows or movies being written, produced or on air. The productions are either for or being produced with heavyweights including HBO, Amazon Prime Video,...
- 4/8/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
April 1994 As Spanish TV stations increasingly out-house services, Jaume Roures and Gerard Romy found Mediapro, with Taxto Benet’s encouragement, renting an office in Barcelona’s Sarria-district Riu de l’Or to organize the Andorra Intl. Jazz Festival.
Oct. 1994: From the near get-go, Medaipro begins handling sport event production and rights, starting with boxing, tennis and especially basketball.
Oct. 1997: Mediapro pacts with Telefonica to provide satellite uplink services.
Dec. 1997: Company’s first TV show, Andalucia Directo, a daily magazine on Canal Sur.
Dec. 1998: Mediapro’s pact with Audiovisual Sport to handle international rights to Spanish league soccer matches.
July 1999: Canal Barca and Real Madrid TV, dedicated soccer club channels, launch with Mediapro backing.
Oct. 1999: Mediapro buys its first mobile units.
June 2000: A former head of Audiovisual Sports, an Atresmedia, Tvc co-venture, Tatxo Benet creates his own company which now merges with Mediapro.
Sept.
Oct. 1994: From the near get-go, Medaipro begins handling sport event production and rights, starting with boxing, tennis and especially basketball.
Oct. 1997: Mediapro pacts with Telefonica to provide satellite uplink services.
Dec. 1997: Company’s first TV show, Andalucia Directo, a daily magazine on Canal Sur.
Dec. 1998: Mediapro’s pact with Audiovisual Sport to handle international rights to Spanish league soccer matches.
July 1999: Canal Barca and Real Madrid TV, dedicated soccer club channels, launch with Mediapro backing.
Oct. 1999: Mediapro buys its first mobile units.
June 2000: A former head of Audiovisual Sports, an Atresmedia, Tvc co-venture, Tatxo Benet creates his own company which now merges with Mediapro.
Sept.
- 4/8/2019
- by John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
In one of this week’s Intl. TV Newswires, Dr, a classic European drama series producer, announces its plans for 2019 and competing with major international streamers; the U.K. government implements its plan to promote growth in kids TV; Banijay and Clearwood team up, unveiling a new series from “A Very English Scandal” author John Preston; and All3Media joins with MIPCancun on a new format pitching competition for Latin American content creators.
Dr’S Ambitious Local Content Plan, New Series
Danish public broadcaster Dr has announced an evolved drama strategy, and a host of accompanying programs. The objective of the plan is to load up on high-end local content as a means of competing with the global streamers moving in on the territory.
It’s been just over a year since Christian Rank took over as drama director at the company, and he will spearhead the task of developing and implementing the strategy.
Dr’S Ambitious Local Content Plan, New Series
Danish public broadcaster Dr has announced an evolved drama strategy, and a host of accompanying programs. The objective of the plan is to load up on high-end local content as a means of competing with the global streamers moving in on the territory.
It’s been just over a year since Christian Rank took over as drama director at the company, and he will spearhead the task of developing and implementing the strategy.
- 4/2/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The aim is to ramp up global collaboration on high-end TV drama series.
Spanish film and TV group Mediapro is launching a new division, The Mediapro Studio, with plans to invest €200m ($171m) in the development and production of scripted and non-scripted film and TV projects through offices in Europe, Latin America and the Us.
Headquartered in Madrid, with 10 planned creative bases around the world, the new division already has 34 series in the works in Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, the UK, Finland, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, the Us and the Middle East, according to a statement from the Barcelona-based company.
Spanish film and TV group Mediapro is launching a new division, The Mediapro Studio, with plans to invest €200m ($171m) in the development and production of scripted and non-scripted film and TV projects through offices in Europe, Latin America and the Us.
Headquartered in Madrid, with 10 planned creative bases around the world, the new division already has 34 series in the works in Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, the UK, Finland, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, the Us and the Middle East, according to a statement from the Barcelona-based company.
- 3/19/2019
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The Mediapro Group – the Barcelona-based multinational – is unveiling The Mediapro Studio, with 34 scripted series already in production worldwide.
The new production company will be based in Fuencarral, northern Madrid, just a few miles from Netflix’s soon-to-open European production hub. It will be overseen by Javier Méndez as chief content officer and by Laura Fernández Espeso and Javier Pons as its joint heads of TV. Mediapro co-founder Jaume Roures and partner Tatxo Benet will serve as its presidents.
The productions going through The Mediapro Studio span titles with HBO, Canal Plus and Sky Italia (“The New Pope”), Disney (“Cazadores de Milagros”), DirecTV Latin America (“Todo por el juego”), Viacom Intl. Studios (“Noobees”), Turner Latin America (“Las Bravas” ), Vice (“Border Republic”) and Amazon Prime Video, which has acquired “Caronte,” produced for Mediaset España.
Other production partners include Mexico’s Televisa, Italy’s Palomar (“270 Days”), Sweden’s Dramacorp (“The Head”), Finland...
The new production company will be based in Fuencarral, northern Madrid, just a few miles from Netflix’s soon-to-open European production hub. It will be overseen by Javier Méndez as chief content officer and by Laura Fernández Espeso and Javier Pons as its joint heads of TV. Mediapro co-founder Jaume Roures and partner Tatxo Benet will serve as its presidents.
The productions going through The Mediapro Studio span titles with HBO, Canal Plus and Sky Italia (“The New Pope”), Disney (“Cazadores de Milagros”), DirecTV Latin America (“Todo por el juego”), Viacom Intl. Studios (“Noobees”), Turner Latin America (“Las Bravas” ), Vice (“Border Republic”) and Amazon Prime Video, which has acquired “Caronte,” produced for Mediaset España.
Other production partners include Mexico’s Televisa, Italy’s Palomar (“270 Days”), Sweden’s Dramacorp (“The Head”), Finland...
- 3/19/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Two of Europe’s most energetic high-end series producers, Spain’s Mediapro and France’s Federation Entertainment, are teaming with director Jaume Collet Serra to produce an English-language crime drama set in Ibiza.
The project marks a move into series by Collet Serra and his L.A.-based Ombra Films. Collet Serra’s movies, including Liam Neeson thrillers “Unknown,” “Non-Stop” and “The Commuter,” have earned more than $800 million worldwide and made him one of Europe’s most successful L.A.-based movie directors.
Ryan Engle, a writer on “Non-Stop,” Collet Serra’s biggest hit to date with $222.8 million in global revenue, is writing the new eight-episode drama. It will start shooting next year. Engle’s recent writing credits include Dwayne Johnson-starrer “Rampage” for Warner Bros. and the upcoming “Cowboy Ninja Viking,” with Chris Pratt, for Universal.
The new series centers on a young woman’s disappearance on the party island of Ibiza.
The project marks a move into series by Collet Serra and his L.A.-based Ombra Films. Collet Serra’s movies, including Liam Neeson thrillers “Unknown,” “Non-Stop” and “The Commuter,” have earned more than $800 million worldwide and made him one of Europe’s most successful L.A.-based movie directors.
Ryan Engle, a writer on “Non-Stop,” Collet Serra’s biggest hit to date with $222.8 million in global revenue, is writing the new eight-episode drama. It will start shooting next year. Engle’s recent writing credits include Dwayne Johnson-starrer “Rampage” for Warner Bros. and the upcoming “Cowboy Ninja Viking,” with Chris Pratt, for Universal.
The new series centers on a young woman’s disappearance on the party island of Ibiza.
- 6/4/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“The Wire” creator David Simon and Spain’s Mediapro (“The Young Pope”) are in early development on “A Dry Run,” a drama series following members of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion who came to Spain from the U.S. to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War.
The scripts have been outlined, and George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, both of whom worked on “The Wire,” have committed to “A Dry Run” as writers. The show is so far conceived as a six-hour miniseries, though that could change as the stories develop, said Mediapro founder Jaume Roures.
Simon and Mediapro are seeking to raise the necessary funds both in the U.S. and Europe.
“A Dry Run” will follow the Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Battalions, both part of the International Brigade that fought in the Spanish Civil War, from their arrival in 1937 and first bloody battle in the Jarama Valley until...
The scripts have been outlined, and George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, both of whom worked on “The Wire,” have committed to “A Dry Run” as writers. The show is so far conceived as a six-hour miniseries, though that could change as the stories develop, said Mediapro founder Jaume Roures.
Simon and Mediapro are seeking to raise the necessary funds both in the U.S. and Europe.
“A Dry Run” will follow the Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Battalions, both part of the International Brigade that fought in the Spanish Civil War, from their arrival in 1937 and first bloody battle in the Jarama Valley until...
- 4/9/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Argentina’s Daniel Burman, a leading light of the New Argentine Cinema and creator of “Edha,” Argentina’s first Netflix Original Series, has been appointed as head of content, U.S, Mexico and Central America at Spain’s Mediapro Group, one of Southern Europe’s biggest and most international of independent film-tv groups.
Burman will report to the head of Mediapro in the U.S. and the international content directorate in Madrid. He will be based out of Miami.
Running offices in 45 cities in 26 countries, and announcing a 2016 turnover of €1.6 billion ($2.0 billion), in 2017 Mediapro bought a substantial stake in Buenos Aires-based Burman Office, founded by Burman, having signed a co-development deal in 2016.
Burman’s appointment cones less than two months after Orient Hontai Capital, a Beijing-based investment company, bought a 53.5% stake in Imagina media Audiovisual, Medicare’s holding company, valuing Mediopro at €1.9 billion ($2.4 billion). Burma’s new position will see...
Burman will report to the head of Mediapro in the U.S. and the international content directorate in Madrid. He will be based out of Miami.
Running offices in 45 cities in 26 countries, and announcing a 2016 turnover of €1.6 billion ($2.0 billion), in 2017 Mediapro bought a substantial stake in Buenos Aires-based Burman Office, founded by Burman, having signed a co-development deal in 2016.
Burman’s appointment cones less than two months after Orient Hontai Capital, a Beijing-based investment company, bought a 53.5% stake in Imagina media Audiovisual, Medicare’s holding company, valuing Mediopro at €1.9 billion ($2.4 billion). Burma’s new position will see...
- 4/4/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish television giant Mediapro, a producer on HBO's The Young Pope, has taken a “substantial” stake in Oficina Burman, the Argentine production company headed by prolific writer/director/producer Daniel Burman.
Financial terms weren't disclosed.
Burman, who is behind Edha, a fashion-centered drama that will be the first-ever Netflix original produced in Argentina, announced the deal, together with Mediapro boss Jaume Roures in Berlin on Thursday. The agreement will see the two companies co-develop and co-produce high-end television series out of the Latin American market.
“We are trying to break the model in Latin America, where the creatives sit on one side,...
Financial terms weren't disclosed.
Burman, who is behind Edha, a fashion-centered drama that will be the first-ever Netflix original produced in Argentina, announced the deal, together with Mediapro boss Jaume Roures in Berlin on Thursday. The agreement will see the two companies co-develop and co-produce high-end television series out of the Latin American market.
“We are trying to break the model in Latin America, where the creatives sit on one side,...
- 2/16/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Cuban-Spanish cosmonaut comedy Sergio & Sergei is directed by Ernesto Daranas.
WestEnd Films has boarded world rights to Sergio & Sergei, the Cuban-Spanish comedy co-starring Ron Perlman.
Cuban director Ernesto Daranas’ (Behavior) 1991-set film, currently in post-production and inspired be real events, follows Sergei, the last Soviet Cosmonaut, who is floating aimlessly above the planet on the space station Mir following the breakup of the Soviet Union.
One night on the radio he makes a connection with Sergio, a Marxism philosophy professor in Havana who is struggling to make ends meet in a now crumbling Cuba.
Tomás Cao (Habana Blues, Viva) stars as Sergio and his daughter Mariana is played by Ailín de la Caridad Rodriguez.
Héctor Noas plays Sergei and Ron Perlman rounds out the cast.
Jaume Roures and Javier Méndez from Mediapro are respectively producing and executive producing, alongside producers Ramón Samada, Joel Ortega and executive producers Adriana Moyá and Danilo León.
The screenplay...
WestEnd Films has boarded world rights to Sergio & Sergei, the Cuban-Spanish comedy co-starring Ron Perlman.
Cuban director Ernesto Daranas’ (Behavior) 1991-set film, currently in post-production and inspired be real events, follows Sergei, the last Soviet Cosmonaut, who is floating aimlessly above the planet on the space station Mir following the breakup of the Soviet Union.
One night on the radio he makes a connection with Sergio, a Marxism philosophy professor in Havana who is struggling to make ends meet in a now crumbling Cuba.
Tomás Cao (Habana Blues, Viva) stars as Sergio and his daughter Mariana is played by Ailín de la Caridad Rodriguez.
Héctor Noas plays Sergei and Ron Perlman rounds out the cast.
Jaume Roures and Javier Méndez from Mediapro are respectively producing and executive producing, alongside producers Ramón Samada, Joel Ortega and executive producers Adriana Moyá and Danilo León.
The screenplay...
- 2/10/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Metro International takes over from Elle Driver on Juliette Binoche drama.
UK sales outfit Metro International has taken over sales rights from Elle Driver to a refashioned version of Isabel Coixet’s Berlinale opener Nobody Wants The Night.
The film is understood to have been “significantly” cut by the filmmakers and now includes a voiceover narrated by the film’s star Juliette Binoche.
Metro described the new version as “a leaner, revitalized final cut.”
This is the version that got its Spanish premiere last week at the Valladolid Film Festival and will be released in Spain at the end of this month through Filmax.
Few distribution deals have been announced on the drama, which has yet to get an international release after garnering mixed reviews in Berlin.
Metro and Elle Driver are currently negotiating carry over deals.
In Arctic-set Nobody Wants The Night, Oscar-winner Binoche (The English Patient) stars alongside Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) and Rinko Kikuchi...
UK sales outfit Metro International has taken over sales rights from Elle Driver to a refashioned version of Isabel Coixet’s Berlinale opener Nobody Wants The Night.
The film is understood to have been “significantly” cut by the filmmakers and now includes a voiceover narrated by the film’s star Juliette Binoche.
Metro described the new version as “a leaner, revitalized final cut.”
This is the version that got its Spanish premiere last week at the Valladolid Film Festival and will be released in Spain at the end of this month through Filmax.
Few distribution deals have been announced on the drama, which has yet to get an international release after garnering mixed reviews in Berlin.
Metro and Elle Driver are currently negotiating carry over deals.
In Arctic-set Nobody Wants The Night, Oscar-winner Binoche (The English Patient) stars alongside Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) and Rinko Kikuchi...
- 11/7/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films has acquired the U.S. rights to WestEnd Films’ “A Perfect Day,” directed by Spanish filmmaker Fernando León de Aranoa. The film, which premiered in Cannes, stars Benicio del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Mélanie Thierry and Fedja Stukan. Set in the Balkans in the mid-’90s, the film follows a group of aid workers as they try to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone. León de Aranoa, who co-wrote the script with Diego Farias, also produced under his Reposado banner with Jaume Roures of MediaPro and executive producers Patricia de Muns and Javier Méndez. Also Read: Cannes Report,...
- 5/20/2015
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
Fernando León de Aranoa’s film premiered in Director’s Fortnight this week and stars Benicio del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Mélanie Thierry and Fedja Stukan.
A Perfect Day is based on a screenplay by de Aranoa and Diego Farias about aid workers in a Bosnia.
de Aranoa of Reposado produced with Jaume Roures of MediaPro. Patricia de Muns and Javier Méndez served as executive producers.
IFC negotiated the Us rights deal with WestEnd Films.
A Perfect Day is based on a screenplay by de Aranoa and Diego Farias about aid workers in a Bosnia.
de Aranoa of Reposado produced with Jaume Roures of MediaPro. Patricia de Muns and Javier Méndez served as executive producers.
IFC negotiated the Us rights deal with WestEnd Films.
- 5/20/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Fernando León de Aranoa’s English-language debut pre-sells to multiple territories for WestEnd Films.
WestEnd Films has pre-sold multiple territories on A Perfect Day.
Fernando León de Aranoa’s English-language debut stars Benicio del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko and Mélanie Thierry.
Rights have gone to France (TF1/Ugc), Germany (X- Verleih), Benelux (WildBunch), Switzerland (Praesens), Israel (United King), Middle East (Ecs), Greece (Spentzos), Malaysia (Suraya), South-Africa (M-Net) and Ex-Yugoslavia (Vti).
Further territories are still under negotiation, including Spanish distribution rights.
Following Princesas and Amador, A Perfect Day marks the third collaboration between Fernando León de Aranoa’s Reposado and Jaume Roures for Mediapro, who are producing the €7m film.
It follows four conflict zone aid workers who are involved in a race against time to save the water supply of a divided community.
WestEnd’s managing director Mata Amsellem commented: “Fernando’s endearing script had already been extremely well received by the marketplace prior to Cannes...
WestEnd Films has pre-sold multiple territories on A Perfect Day.
Fernando León de Aranoa’s English-language debut stars Benicio del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko and Mélanie Thierry.
Rights have gone to France (TF1/Ugc), Germany (X- Verleih), Benelux (WildBunch), Switzerland (Praesens), Israel (United King), Middle East (Ecs), Greece (Spentzos), Malaysia (Suraya), South-Africa (M-Net) and Ex-Yugoslavia (Vti).
Further territories are still under negotiation, including Spanish distribution rights.
Following Princesas and Amador, A Perfect Day marks the third collaboration between Fernando León de Aranoa’s Reposado and Jaume Roures for Mediapro, who are producing the €7m film.
It follows four conflict zone aid workers who are involved in a race against time to save the water supply of a divided community.
WestEnd’s managing director Mata Amsellem commented: “Fernando’s endearing script had already been extremely well received by the marketplace prior to Cannes...
- 6/9/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television, which previously honored Aussie productions, has launched five new award categories that will recognize international product in Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress. In other words, the Aussies are going Hollywood. The nominees were announced tonight by Jacki Weaver, the Aussie actress who was Oscar nominated for Animal Kingdom. I am not sure how these will factor into the Oscar conversation, but here are the nominees: Inaugural Aacta International Awards Nominees Best Film The Artist – Thomas Langmann (The Weinstein Company) The Descendants - Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Hugo – Graham King, Tim Headington, Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp (Paramount Pictures) The Ides of March – George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Brian Oliver (Columbia Pictures) Margin Call - Robert Ogden Barnum, Michael Benaroya, Neal Dodson, Joe Jenckes, Corey Moosa, Zachary Quinto (Roadside Attractions) Melancholia – Meta Louise Foldager, Louise Vesth...
- 1/15/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
As usual, we’re always here when there’s something interesting to share with you. This time, it’s the right time for some new images from Woody Allen‘s upcoming Midnight In Paris.
Yeah, we already had a little chat about this project, that is, by the way, set to open the 64th Cannes Film Festival on May 11th, 2011, so don’t miss these photos.
By now, you know that Midnight in Paris is a romantic comedy that follows a family traveling to the city for business. The party includes a young engaged couple that has their lives transformed throughout the journey.
The film celebrates a young man’s great love for Paris, and simultaneously explores the illusion people have that a life different from their own is better…
Movie definitely has a great cast: Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Owen Wilson,...
Yeah, we already had a little chat about this project, that is, by the way, set to open the 64th Cannes Film Festival on May 11th, 2011, so don’t miss these photos.
By now, you know that Midnight in Paris is a romantic comedy that follows a family traveling to the city for business. The party includes a young engaged couple that has their lives transformed throughout the journey.
The film celebrates a young man’s great love for Paris, and simultaneously explores the illusion people have that a life different from their own is better…
Movie definitely has a great cast: Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Owen Wilson,...
- 4/23/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
When you make a movie described as “a wonderful love letter to Paris,” then it’s quite logical that your movie should open the Cannes Film Festival, right?
Well, that’s exactly the thing with Woody Allen‘s newest Midnight in Paris, and we’re here today to announce that the movie will open the 64th Cannes Film Festival on May 11th, 2011.
Just in case you have any doubts, this is Allen’s first time opening the festival.
It’s unbelievable, I know, especially because it will be director’s second consecutive trip to the Croisette after You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and even and tenth overall.
By the way, Midnight in Paris is the sixth English-language title in a row to open Cannes.
Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood opened the festival last year, then we had Pixar/Disney 3-D animated Up in 2009, then Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness in...
Well, that’s exactly the thing with Woody Allen‘s newest Midnight in Paris, and we’re here today to announce that the movie will open the 64th Cannes Film Festival on May 11th, 2011.
Just in case you have any doubts, this is Allen’s first time opening the festival.
It’s unbelievable, I know, especially because it will be director’s second consecutive trip to the Croisette after You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and even and tenth overall.
By the way, Midnight in Paris is the sixth English-language title in a row to open Cannes.
Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood opened the festival last year, then we had Pixar/Disney 3-D animated Up in 2009, then Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness in...
- 2/3/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
#82. Midnight in Paris Director/Writer: Woody AllenProducers: Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures and Stephen TenenbaumDistributor: Sony Pictures Classics The Gist: This follows a family travelling to the city for business. The party includes a young engaged couple that has their lives transformed throughout the journey. The film celebrates a young man’s great love for Paris, and simultaneously explores the illusion people have that a life different from their own is better.....(more) Cast: Michael Sheen, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Alison Pill, Adrien Brody, Kathy Bates, Tom Hiddleston, Léa Seydoux, Kurt Fuller, Corey Stoll, Mimi Kennedy, Gad Elmaleh and Carla Bruni List Worthy Reasons...: Soderbergh might be fed up of the movie a year pace, but then you have someone like Woody who keeps churning them out. Benefitting from a vast ensemble cast and an ideal backdrop for matters of the heart, this might be Allen's coup de...
- 1/11/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
New York (January 11, 2011) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all North American rights to Woody Allen’s new film, Midnight In Paris. The film stars Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, and Owen Wilson. Midnight In Paris is produced by Letty Aronson, Steve Tenenbaum, and Jaume Roures. It is financed by Mediapro, the Spain-based company which also funded Vicky Christina Barcelona and You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. The film was Allen’s first film shot in Paris. "I had a particularly enjoyable experience shooting in Paris. It's something that I hope I get a chance to do again. I always look forward to having my films distributed by Sony Classics because they have great sensitivity toward my work and I appreciate it," says Allen. Sony Pictures Classics states, “Midnight In Paris is Woody Allen at his most magical. We...
- 1/11/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all North American rights to Woody Allen's new film, Midnight in Paris . The film stars Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, and Owen Wilson. Midnight in Paris is produced by Letty Aronson, Steve Tenenbaum, and Jaume Roures. It is financed by Mediapro, the Spain-based company which also funded Vicky Christina Barcelona and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger . The film was Allen's first film shot in Paris. "I had a particularly enjoyable experience shooting in Paris. It's something that I hope I get a chance to do again. I always look forward to having my films distributed by Sony Classics because they have great sensitivity toward my work and I appreciate...
- 1/11/2011
- Comingsoon.net
July is a pretty big month for movie productions worth keeping tabs on - this month's Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a mix of indie and studio project, with helmer Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door) making the jump for low budget to huge budget with Summit Ent. distributing and Timur Bekmambetov producing an alien invasion project. - July is a pretty big month for movie productions worth keeping tabs on - this month's Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a mix of indie and studio project, with helmer Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door) making the jump for low budget to huge budget with Summit Ent. distributing and Timur Bekmambetov producing an alien invasion project. Sticking with the notion of madness, Lars Von Trier has a huge ensemble at his disposal for the a shot in Sweden apocalypse. and we have a pair of shot in Hollywood North horror projects:...
- 7/2/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
July is a pretty big month for movie productions worth keeping tabs on - this month's Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a mix of indie and studio project, with helmer Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door) making the jump for low budget to huge budget with Summit Ent. distributing and Timur Bekmambetov producing an alien invasion project. Sticking with the notion of madness, Lars Von Trier has a huge ensemble at his disposal for the a shot in Sweden apocalypse. and we have a pair of shot in Hollywood North horror projects: one indie by Mark Tonderai and one big budget from Catherine Hardwicke. Keeping with the shot in Canada projects, we have Sarah Polley shooting in Toronto. Shooting in the U.K we have Madonna going retro with W.E. and have Lone Scherfig taking on book to film romance One Day. To wrap things up, we have Woody in...
- 7/2/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Alison Pill has rounded out the cast of Woody Allen's new romantic comedy "Midnight in Paris."According to Variety, the cast includes Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen and Owen Wilson. Nina Arianda, Kurt Fuller, Tom Hiddleston, Mimi Kennedy and Corey Stoll are co-starring. The film follows a family traveling to Paris for business, including a young engaged couple whose lives are changed throughout the journey. Letty Aronson, Steve Tenenbaum and Jaume Roures are producing.Shooting is set to begin this summer in Paris.Pill.s film credits include "Milk" and "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World."...
- 5/26/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Woody Allen announced today the full cast for Midnight in Paris, his latest film in pre-production. The film stars, in alphabetical order: Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen and Owen Wilson. Co-starring in the film, in alphabetical order, are: Nina Arianda, Kurt Fuller, Tom Hiddleston, Mimi Kennedy, Alison Pill and Corey Stoll. The film shoots this summer in Paris.
Midnight in Paris is a romantic comedy that follows a family travelling to the city for business. The party includes a young engaged couple that has their lives transformed throughout the journey. The film celebrates a young man’s great love for Paris, and simultaneously explores the illusion people have that a life different from their own is better.
Midnight in Paris is produced by Letty Aronson, Steve Tenenbaum and Jaume Roures. It is part of a three-picture financing deal between Allen’s Gravier Productions and Mediapro,...
Midnight in Paris is a romantic comedy that follows a family travelling to the city for business. The party includes a young engaged couple that has their lives transformed throughout the journey. The film celebrates a young man’s great love for Paris, and simultaneously explores the illusion people have that a life different from their own is better.
Midnight in Paris is produced by Letty Aronson, Steve Tenenbaum and Jaume Roures. It is part of a three-picture financing deal between Allen’s Gravier Productions and Mediapro,...
- 5/25/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
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