Germany’s Beta Film (“Babylon Berlin”) sets its sights on the Croisette for the world premiere of Dutch Royal drama “Máxima,” selected to screen out-of-competition at Canneseries on April 9. In tow, Delfina Chaves (“The Secret of the Greco Family”), who portrays the titular character in the series that Variety recently likened to Emmy-Award-Winning Netflix Drama “The Crown.”
Teased at last month’s London TV Screenings, the six-part drama series unravels the love story between then Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander (Martijn Lakemeier) and his enigmatic Argentine love interest, Máxima, who goes on to become Queen, at his side.
Her future fraught with whispers of her father’s political connection to Argentina’s brutal dictatorship, she’s tasked with circumventing harsh truths to remain faithful to her destiny in the narrative that follows her through her formative years.
“You don’t have to know Máxima and the Dutch royal family to enjoy the show.
Teased at last month’s London TV Screenings, the six-part drama series unravels the love story between then Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander (Martijn Lakemeier) and his enigmatic Argentine love interest, Máxima, who goes on to become Queen, at his side.
Her future fraught with whispers of her father’s political connection to Argentina’s brutal dictatorship, she’s tasked with circumventing harsh truths to remain faithful to her destiny in the narrative that follows her through her formative years.
“You don’t have to know Máxima and the Dutch royal family to enjoy the show.
- 3/19/2024
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Beta Film’s Crown-esque high-end drama series Maxima has sold to networks in Lat Am, Israel and across Europe.
The series, which is one of the German major’s biggest being shopped at the London TV Screenings, will air on Hot in Israel and on Warner Bros. Discovery networks across Latin America following the deals. Other buyers include Croatia’s Hrt, Austria’s Orf and broadcasters in Latvia and Slovakia.
Millstreet Films’ Maxima tells the story of Dutch queen Máxima Zorreguieta and is one of the few shows about a living royal out there. Dropping on The Netherlands’ Videoland from April 20, it takes up the story the moment the Argentina-born queen appears at the Dutch crown prince’s side. Heated discussions subsequently erupt about her father’s political career in the Argentinian Videla regime – something she never faced in her own circles.
Máxima is portrayed by Argentinian rising star...
The series, which is one of the German major’s biggest being shopped at the London TV Screenings, will air on Hot in Israel and on Warner Bros. Discovery networks across Latin America following the deals. Other buyers include Croatia’s Hrt, Austria’s Orf and broadcasters in Latvia and Slovakia.
Millstreet Films’ Maxima tells the story of Dutch queen Máxima Zorreguieta and is one of the few shows about a living royal out there. Dropping on The Netherlands’ Videoland from April 20, it takes up the story the moment the Argentina-born queen appears at the Dutch crown prince’s side. Heated discussions subsequently erupt about her father’s political career in the Argentinian Videla regime – something she never faced in her own circles.
Máxima is portrayed by Argentinian rising star...
- 2/29/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Executive produced by Salma Hayek Pinault and directed by Rodrigo García (“Nine Lives”), in its second scene, Star Plus Productions’ “Santa Evita” has Dr. Pedro Aru arriving at Eva Perón’s home to embalm her corpse.
Many directors would dispatch his arrival in brief transition shots. García, however, uses eight – to capture the rain on he fateful day of July 26, 1952 (a shot from above of drenched black umbrellas packing out the screen), glimpse the poverty of the crowd lining the road and frame the first hints of Perón’s near sanctification in death with crowds keeping vigil outside the house’s gates, candles in hand.
Previewed at Conecta Fiction, Episode One of “Santa Evita” weighs in as classic Disney Latin America adult audience fare, an heir to 2018’s “Selena’s Secret” and 2019 “Monzón.”
A passion project of Mariana Pérez at The Walt Disney Company Latin America’s which has been 10 years in the making,...
Many directors would dispatch his arrival in brief transition shots. García, however, uses eight – to capture the rain on he fateful day of July 26, 1952 (a shot from above of drenched black umbrellas packing out the screen), glimpse the poverty of the crowd lining the road and frame the first hints of Perón’s near sanctification in death with crowds keeping vigil outside the house’s gates, candles in hand.
Previewed at Conecta Fiction, Episode One of “Santa Evita” weighs in as classic Disney Latin America adult audience fare, an heir to 2018’s “Selena’s Secret” and 2019 “Monzón.”
A passion project of Mariana Pérez at The Walt Disney Company Latin America’s which has been 10 years in the making,...
- 6/27/2022
- by Pablo Sandoval and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Miami — It’s official. Two of the Argentine industry’s biggest name actors, Natalia Oreiro (“Gilda”) and Ernesto Alterio (“Clandestine Childhood”), are attached to star in “Santa Evita,” produced by Salma Hayek and co-directed by Rodrigo García (“Nine Lives”), who will also produce.
Confirmed by Buena Vista Original Productions on the eve of this year’s Natpe conference in Miami, which kicks off Tuesday, Jan. 21, the seven-part drama series looks like the one of the biggest in the pipeline from Latin American – in terms of talent attached, expectation, and its central on-screen figure: Legendary Argentine First Lady Eva Perón.
Eight years in the works, but now the first series to go into production at Disney’s new Buena Vista Original Productions label in Latin America, headed by Leonardo Aranguibel and Mariana Pérez – and a passion project of Pérez’s when she drove original production at Fox Networks Group Latin America...
Confirmed by Buena Vista Original Productions on the eve of this year’s Natpe conference in Miami, which kicks off Tuesday, Jan. 21, the seven-part drama series looks like the one of the biggest in the pipeline from Latin American – in terms of talent attached, expectation, and its central on-screen figure: Legendary Argentine First Lady Eva Perón.
Eight years in the works, but now the first series to go into production at Disney’s new Buena Vista Original Productions label in Latin America, headed by Leonardo Aranguibel and Mariana Pérez – and a passion project of Pérez’s when she drove original production at Fox Networks Group Latin America...
- 1/21/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Anita
Dir. Marcos Carnevale (2009, Argentina, 104 mins.)
Screenplay by Marcos Carnevale & Marcela Guerty
Argentina, 2009
Director Marcos Carnevale made a bold choice with Anita. Rather than trying to explain a tragedy by dissecting it, Carnevale elected to explain how a tragedy feels by focusing on a character’s reaction at the expense of the tragic event itself. In the course of this film, we find out very little about the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, the event that sparks the film’s action and permeates the film’s atmosphere. However, as we follow Anita’s journey – made fraught by her Downs Syndrome – through a Buenos Aires reeling in grief, we are exposed to such bewilderment, terror, distrust, and kindness that the particulars of the bombing are irrelevant because we can feel the film’s tragedy without them.
This film’s ensemble is what makes it work. Ordinarily, having important characters...
Dir. Marcos Carnevale (2009, Argentina, 104 mins.)
Screenplay by Marcos Carnevale & Marcela Guerty
Argentina, 2009
Director Marcos Carnevale made a bold choice with Anita. Rather than trying to explain a tragedy by dissecting it, Carnevale elected to explain how a tragedy feels by focusing on a character’s reaction at the expense of the tragic event itself. In the course of this film, we find out very little about the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, the event that sparks the film’s action and permeates the film’s atmosphere. However, as we follow Anita’s journey – made fraught by her Downs Syndrome – through a Buenos Aires reeling in grief, we are exposed to such bewilderment, terror, distrust, and kindness that the particulars of the bombing are irrelevant because we can feel the film’s tragedy without them.
This film’s ensemble is what makes it work. Ordinarily, having important characters...
- 4/10/2011
- by DaveRobson
- SoundOnSight
The 13th Annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (Laliff) announced its winners at the Paramount Theatre on the Paramount Lot in Hollywood. Festival co-founders Edward James Olmos and Marlene Dermer led the award ceremony presentation. Winners were announced in the categories of best feature film, best director, best screenplay, best opera prima, best short, best documentary, and audience awards in the feature and documentary categories. Special mentions from the jury were also announced. Features Category: Best Film (Rita Award) Winner: “Anita” Director: Marcos Carnevale Screenwriter: Marcos Carnevale, Lily Ann Martin, Marcela Guerty Country: Argentina Best Screenplay: Features Category Winner: “Morenita” Director: Alan Jonsson Gavica Screenwriter: Alan Jonsson Gavica, Annabel [...]...
- 10/20/2009
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
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