Monday, June 27, 2022
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Antonio Banderas are teaming to create a joint company Amigos Para Siempre (APS) aimed at producing musicals, stage plays and live entertainment for major markets in …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:57AMMonday, April 12, 2021
Disney Plus has acquired Latin American broadcast rights to animated musical “Turu and the Wackies,” a 26-episode CGI spin-off series from the hit 2019 toon movie “Turu, the Wacky Hen,…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:10AMWednesday, May 1, 2019
TORONTO–Who is telling whose stories in the world of documentary filmmaking today? Why are they telling those stories, and to what audience? And why do those questions matter? Those are so…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:03PMSaturday, November 10, 2018
The EnergaCamerimage fest’s main lineup, its competition for best cinematographer, covers a vast range of styles, and honors several fresh visual stylists along with many legends in the fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:17AMSunday, October 21, 2018
A band of young street performers and pickpockets in Athens find an unlikely refuge in an abandoned shopping mall. But when their former leader is released from prison, his return threatens …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:18PMSaturday, August 4, 2018
LOCARNO, Switzerland — Originally announced as a movie re-teaming, post “Southpaw,” Antoine Fuqua and Jake Gyllenhaal’s “The Man Who Made It Snow” is now set up at Epix a…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PMFriday, February 9, 2018
Award-Winning actress Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) is set to star for director Ritesh Batra (“The Lunchbox,” “The Sense of an Ending,” “Our Souls at Night”) in hi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:05PMSaturday, January 27, 2018
Moroccan-French writer-director Nabil Ayouch, one of the most prominent film voices in the Arab World, is set to direct “Positive School,” a hybrid, realistically-shot hip hop musical wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:28AMTuesday, November 28, 2017
For any fanboy in Latin America working in genre filmmaking, Ventana Sur’s Blood Window is one of the main highlights of any year. It bodes well then for Cristoph Behl and the team beh…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:20AMBUENOS AIRES — In one of the keystone deals on a high-profile new Argentine title at Ventana Sur, Disney’s Buena Vista Intl. has acquired the rights to Argentina and Uruguay and also…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03AMThursday, October 19, 2017
A week after “Coco,” Disney/Pixar’s Day of the Dead-themed toon, marks its world premiere at the Morelia Int’l Film Festival on Oct. 20, it rolls out across Mexico to coincide with t…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:55PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
CANNES — Ricardo Darin and Mercedes Moran (“Neruda,” “La Cienaga”) are attached to star in “Amor a ultima Vista” (Love at Last Sight”), directed by Patagonik produc…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:35AMMonday, October 16, 2017
CANNES — Walt Disney International Chairman Any Bird announced Monday morning that Mark Endemaño will be taking on an expanded role as Senior VP of Media Distribution for the company.…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00AMMonday, September 25, 2017
SAN SEBASTIAN — Suggesting the pull of major documentaries on extreme sports legends, London-based Film Constellation has rolled out Rory Kennedy’s weighty “Take Every Wave: the Li…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00AMThursday, September 14, 2017
Disney, one of Argentina’s most decisive movie players, has acquired rights to Argentina and the rest of Latin America to Constanza Novick’s “El futuro que viene” (The Future Ahead),…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:33AMMonday, August 7, 2017
LOCARNO, Switzerland — Grounded in an only-half fantasy Sao Paulo of Pharaonic high-rises tower rearing into the sky, gigantic malls and aseptic homes, but awash with the palette of fa…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:10AMFriday, July 21, 2017
Disney, the most dominant of all Hollywood studios last year in Latin America, has another Argentine hit on its hands: Ariel Winograd’s “Mamá se fue de viaje” (“10 Days Without Mom�…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:41PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
ANNECY, France — “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Disney executives aren’t that well known for phrasing verities in French, so Disney Television Animation’s Eric…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:14PMTuesday, June 13, 2017
ANNECY, France — Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Disney Channel France, Disney Channels EMEA used France’s Annecy Festival to unveil three brand new series: Disney heritage serie…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:45PMTuesday, April 4, 2017
CANNES — More than anything else, the Disney Media Distribution showcase at the first MipTV Pre-L.A Screenings gave a tantalizing glimpse of mouth-watering series, though often no mo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:39AMSunday, April 2, 2017
CANNES — Sealing anchor TV partnerships as it gears up for production, “Find Me in Paris,” one of the first attempts to make a premium international series for teens, has closed a …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights outside Spain to Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s offbeat musical comedy “Holy Camp!,” the f…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:13PMSaturday, December 3, 2016
Buenos Aires’ Magma Cine, a pioneering company on the pan-Latin American co-production scene, has boarded Jorge Navas’ musical action movie “Buenaventura Mon Amour,” adding f…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:59AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
Unveiling a rough-cut of his buzzed-up feature debut “Arpón” (Harpoon) at Ventana Sur, Caracas-born Tom Espinoza is developing his second directorial outing, “No crecerás” (“You …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41AMMonday, November 28, 2016
MADRID – HBO España, HBO’s video streaming service for Spain, launched on Monday, offering not only its most popular shows such as “Game of Thrones” but also content from re…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:25PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
World-class festival winners are bowing at the 14th Morelia Int’l Film Festival, including Damian Chazelle’s Oscar-buzzworthy “La La Land,” Nate Parker’s controversial Sundance hit…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:32PMCANNES, France – Where will Ben Sherwood take Disney-ABC TV? One answer: abroad. Another: further into the digital realm. Sherwood, co-chairman of Disney Media Networks and president…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:46AMMonday, October 17, 2016
CANNES, France — Disney’s ABC Studios International looks set to drive significantly more into local production outside the U.S. as it seeks to leverage the distribution muscle of Di…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:13AMThursday, September 22, 2016
SAN SEBASTIAN — Santiago Segura, a driving force of Spanish comedy, is teaming via Bowfinger Int. Pictures with Argentina’s Está Por Venir on “Casi leyendas” (“Almost Legends�…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
At the Venice Film Festival Wednesday, “La La Land” star Emma Stone and director Damien Chazelle talked about Ryan Gosling, delivering a modern take on old-fashioned musical, chasing you…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:34AMVENICE — Stars Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and director Damien Chapelle wowed the Venice Festival Wednesday morning with “La La Land” – and it took just 10 minutes. And the Venice…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03AM 
