Toledo, Spain — The tide has changed. Just one year after Disney+ dazzled with “Santa Evita,” a banner title from its extraordinary swathe of Latin American originals, the 7th Conecta Fiction & Entertainment caught the mood of a larger international market with panelists in its conference strand focusing often on market challenges, when a feeding fever for premium content dominated conversations in recent editions. That said, running June 26-29 in Toledo, in market attendance and insight and shows brought to market, Cf&e fairly rocked.
10 takeaways from this year’s edition:
Conecta Fiction Booms
Despite Toledo’s sweltering in a hot snap, even by Spanish standards, Conecta Fiction’s attendance sky-rocketed to 1,031 accredited professionals, an all-time record and 42% up on figures announced at the end of 2022’s edition. Reasons abound. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to exchange ideas, to touch base with production partners, new ideas. It’s really interesting to see...
10 takeaways from this year’s edition:
Conecta Fiction Booms
Despite Toledo’s sweltering in a hot snap, even by Spanish standards, Conecta Fiction’s attendance sky-rocketed to 1,031 accredited professionals, an all-time record and 42% up on figures announced at the end of 2022’s edition. Reasons abound. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to exchange ideas, to touch base with production partners, new ideas. It’s really interesting to see...
- 7/3/2023
- by John Hopewell and Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
Industry veteran Mercedes Gamero will head, alongside Pablo Nogueroles and Christian Gockel.
Germany’s Beta Group has set up Beta Fiction Spain, which will produce television series and feature films, offer production services, and act as a theatrical distribution arm.
Beta Fiction Spain will be headed up by Mercedes Gamero, the former general manager of Atresmedia Cine, and Pablo Nogueroles, who was senior vice president at Warner Bros. Pictures International España. They will work closely with Christian Gockel, who heads all Beta Group’s Spanish activities.
Beta Fiction Spain is the second Spanish subsidiary of Beta Group alongside Beta Entertainment Spain,...
Germany’s Beta Group has set up Beta Fiction Spain, which will produce television series and feature films, offer production services, and act as a theatrical distribution arm.
Beta Fiction Spain will be headed up by Mercedes Gamero, the former general manager of Atresmedia Cine, and Pablo Nogueroles, who was senior vice president at Warner Bros. Pictures International España. They will work closely with Christian Gockel, who heads all Beta Group’s Spanish activities.
Beta Fiction Spain is the second Spanish subsidiary of Beta Group alongside Beta Entertainment Spain,...
- 5/3/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Jan Motjo’s Beta Group is making a bold bet on Spain, both its content and market, launching Beta Fiction Spain, a TV-movie production house which will also offer production services in Spain and run a theatrical distribution operation.
The new entity will be headed by two of the best-known and reputed film-tv execs in Spain: Mercedes Gamero, the former head of Atresmedia Cine, the film production-acquisition arm of Atresmedia Cine, and one of the most powerful movie producers in Spain; and Pablo Nogueroles, the former SVP at Warner Bros. Pictures International España. Both will head Beta Fiction Spain together with Christian Gockel, responsible for all Beta Group’s Spanish activities.
First projects or buys from Beta Fiction Spain have yet to be announced. The launch comes, however, as Spain is consolidating as an international power in a new platform driven environment – eight of the Top 10 non-English language TV shows...
The new entity will be headed by two of the best-known and reputed film-tv execs in Spain: Mercedes Gamero, the former head of Atresmedia Cine, the film production-acquisition arm of Atresmedia Cine, and one of the most powerful movie producers in Spain; and Pablo Nogueroles, the former SVP at Warner Bros. Pictures International España. Both will head Beta Fiction Spain together with Christian Gockel, responsible for all Beta Group’s Spanish activities.
First projects or buys from Beta Fiction Spain have yet to be announced. The launch comes, however, as Spain is consolidating as an international power in a new platform driven environment – eight of the Top 10 non-English language TV shows...
- 5/3/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Munich-based production and distribution house Beta Film has created a Spanish scripted division, with former Atresmedia exec Mercedes Gamero and Warner Bros. Pictures International España’s Pablo Nogueroles tapped to lead it.
Beta Fiction Spain will produce TV series and feature films, offer production services and act as a theatrical distributor in Spain.
The launch pushes Beta further into Iberia following the launch of Javier Pérez de Silva’s formats-focused Beta Entertainment Spain. The company has been a consistent investor in Spanish content over the years, selling several high-profile dramas such as Gran Hotel — often dubbed the Spanish Downton Abbey — and tying with likes of Atresmedia and Movistar+.
Gamero worked in acquisitions at Spanish broadcaster Atresmedia for 18 years, and worked as a producer on Academy Award-nominee Klaus and Goya Award Best Picture winners Futbolin and Marshland.
Nogueroles has been with Warner Bros. International Pictures International (now part of Warner Bros. Discovery...
Beta Fiction Spain will produce TV series and feature films, offer production services and act as a theatrical distributor in Spain.
The launch pushes Beta further into Iberia following the launch of Javier Pérez de Silva’s formats-focused Beta Entertainment Spain. The company has been a consistent investor in Spanish content over the years, selling several high-profile dramas such as Gran Hotel — often dubbed the Spanish Downton Abbey — and tying with likes of Atresmedia and Movistar+.
Gamero worked in acquisitions at Spanish broadcaster Atresmedia for 18 years, and worked as a producer on Academy Award-nominee Klaus and Goya Award Best Picture winners Futbolin and Marshland.
Nogueroles has been with Warner Bros. International Pictures International (now part of Warner Bros. Discovery...
- 5/3/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Gearing up for its final-phase filming on locations in northern Spain and North America, Movistar Plus-AMC’s high-end original “La Fortuna,” starring Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci and Clarke Peters (“The Wire”), has shared a behind-the-scenes featurette with Variety.
The on-set first-look comes as Germany’s Beta Film has acquired international rights to “La Fortuna,” which marks the first incursion into drama series direction by Oscar winning director Alejandro Amenabar.
An adventure series, based on the true-to-life discovery of the biggest sunken treasure of all time in 2007, “La Fortuna’s” two-minute making of video marks the first footage of any sort from the six-hour series, one of the most-anticipated TV shows from the Spanish-speaking world.
The teaser forefronts the cast, taking in high-caliber character actors such as T’Nia Miller (“Years & Years”) and Peters, as well as Tucci, who’s gaining heat for his performance in “Supernova.” The video also features...
The on-set first-look comes as Germany’s Beta Film has acquired international rights to “La Fortuna,” which marks the first incursion into drama series direction by Oscar winning director Alejandro Amenabar.
An adventure series, based on the true-to-life discovery of the biggest sunken treasure of all time in 2007, “La Fortuna’s” two-minute making of video marks the first footage of any sort from the six-hour series, one of the most-anticipated TV shows from the Spanish-speaking world.
The teaser forefronts the cast, taking in high-caliber character actors such as T’Nia Miller (“Years & Years”) and Peters, as well as Tucci, who’s gaining heat for his performance in “Supernova.” The video also features...
- 2/25/2021
- by John Hopewell and Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish formats are having a moment in Europe and further abroad, headlined by successes such as “Dangerous Moms,” “Gran Hotel” and, perhaps most successful of all, Albert Espinosa’s “The Red Band Society” — the format was sold globally, including to the U.S.
Espinosa, after a decade remaking his highly autobiographical Catalan original “Polseres vermelles” (“Red Band Society”), is back with “Alive and Kicking,” a new coming-of-age series that Beta Film is shopping at Mipcom.
Produced by Movistar Plus and Dynamo Audiovisual — the Madrid-based branch of Colombian indie powerhouse Dynamo, producers of Netflix’s “The Great Heist” and Colombia’s 2019 Oscar submission “Monos” — “Alive and Kicking” marks something of a sea change for Spain’s most successful fiction format creator.
A decade ago, when “Red Band Society” was created and its format sold globally, Netflix wasn’t a player in Europe and wouldn’t even arrive in Spain for another five years.
Espinosa, after a decade remaking his highly autobiographical Catalan original “Polseres vermelles” (“Red Band Society”), is back with “Alive and Kicking,” a new coming-of-age series that Beta Film is shopping at Mipcom.
Produced by Movistar Plus and Dynamo Audiovisual — the Madrid-based branch of Colombian indie powerhouse Dynamo, producers of Netflix’s “The Great Heist” and Colombia’s 2019 Oscar submission “Monos” — “Alive and Kicking” marks something of a sea change for Spain’s most successful fiction format creator.
A decade ago, when “Red Band Society” was created and its format sold globally, Netflix wasn’t a player in Europe and wouldn’t even arrive in Spain for another five years.
- 10/13/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Update: During Monday’s digital sales presentation, Beta Film executive VP Christian Gockel announced the company has sold “La Unidad” to HBO Latin America, and that a deal is close in the U.S. and deep talks are underway in Russia. He also boasted the company has already received 356 requests for digital screeners of the “hot selling property” from buyers around the world.
Madrid — Telefonica’s Movistar Plus was set to show off a pair of dramas at this year’s MipTV before the market was canceled. Now, Movistar has prepared online presentations on Monday where it will screen episodes of both series as well as conversations with producers and creatives from both series.
Each show focus on terrorist organizations working in Spain. “La Linea Invisible” recounts the origins of violence within the Basque Country’s Eta organization in the ‘60s, while “La Unidad” (The Unit) is a contemporary look...
Madrid — Telefonica’s Movistar Plus was set to show off a pair of dramas at this year’s MipTV before the market was canceled. Now, Movistar has prepared online presentations on Monday where it will screen episodes of both series as well as conversations with producers and creatives from both series.
Each show focus on terrorist organizations working in Spain. “La Linea Invisible” recounts the origins of violence within the Basque Country’s Eta organization in the ‘60s, while “La Unidad” (The Unit) is a contemporary look...
- 3/29/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — In one of the first detailed breakdowns from a major European company of marketing strategies in the Series Mania/MipTV online marketplace, Germany’s Beta Film has announced that it will stage a virtual Beta Brunch on March 31.
Nobody will be offered virtual food, but the event will retain some of its flavor, going live at the same time at the traditional event, which also always takes place at midday on the markets’ Tuesday.
It remains to be seen how much of another highlight remains: Jan Mojto taking the stage to deliver a highly entertaining, anecdote-laced, 10-minutes-or-so speech. Mojto is billed this year, but as featuring along with Beta colleagues in an initial video presentation which will explain who is who at the ever-expanding Beta Film empire.
To retain the essence of a live event, however, clients will be provided with a personalized link, which will expire after the live-streaming of this introduction.
Nobody will be offered virtual food, but the event will retain some of its flavor, going live at the same time at the traditional event, which also always takes place at midday on the markets’ Tuesday.
It remains to be seen how much of another highlight remains: Jan Mojto taking the stage to deliver a highly entertaining, anecdote-laced, 10-minutes-or-so speech. Mojto is billed this year, but as featuring along with Beta colleagues in an initial video presentation which will explain who is who at the ever-expanding Beta Film empire.
To retain the essence of a live event, however, clients will be provided with a personalized link, which will expire after the live-streaming of this introduction.
- 3/27/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Jan Motjo’s Beta Films has found new broadcast homes for the Movistar Plus original series “Arde Madrid,” which won the Rose d’Or-Award for Best Comedy or Drama this past Sunday in London. The Virginia-based MHz Networks will broadcast the series in the U.S., France Televisions in France, HBO in Brazil and Teleclub in Switzerland.
According to Beta, negotiations are ongoing with broadcast partners in Russia, Eastern Europe, Portugal and Greece.
Co-created and co-written by Anna R. Costa and Paco Léon,who also stars in the show, “Arde Madrid” was an immediate hit in Spain for Telefonica’s Movistar Plus, quickly becoming the service’s most binged series ever after its November 2018 release. Since then it has hauled in a raft of prizes including best comedy at Spain’s Feroz Awards, the country’s Golden Globes, best miniseries or TV-series at the Platino Awards; and Sunday’s Rose d’Or.
According to Beta, negotiations are ongoing with broadcast partners in Russia, Eastern Europe, Portugal and Greece.
Co-created and co-written by Anna R. Costa and Paco Léon,who also stars in the show, “Arde Madrid” was an immediate hit in Spain for Telefonica’s Movistar Plus, quickly becoming the service’s most binged series ever after its November 2018 release. Since then it has hauled in a raft of prizes including best comedy at Spain’s Feroz Awards, the country’s Golden Globes, best miniseries or TV-series at the Platino Awards; and Sunday’s Rose d’Or.
- 12/6/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Beta Entertainment Spain, the joint venture just launched by European independent film-tv giant Beta Film and Spanish producer Javier Pérez de Silva, has unveiled its earliest unscripted and TV drama production projects.
With central offices from October in Madrid’s Salamanca neighborhood, Beta Entertainment Spain will guarantee Beta access to a larger volume of Spanish-language content, whose distribution has proved highly successful for Beta in recent years.
“We have been teaming for years with fiction producers across Europe, first in Germany, then Italy, Scandinavia and now Spain,” said Christian Gockel, Beta Entertainment Spain’s co-ceo.
Bes was born as Beta’s bridge into the Latin American TV market for both TV drama and unscripted content production.
“The moment is great to produce all types of TV content, not only for Spain, but for the international market,” said Bes co-ceo, Javier Pérez de Silva.
Beta has been linked to the...
With central offices from October in Madrid’s Salamanca neighborhood, Beta Entertainment Spain will guarantee Beta access to a larger volume of Spanish-language content, whose distribution has proved highly successful for Beta in recent years.
“We have been teaming for years with fiction producers across Europe, first in Germany, then Italy, Scandinavia and now Spain,” said Christian Gockel, Beta Entertainment Spain’s co-ceo.
Bes was born as Beta’s bridge into the Latin American TV market for both TV drama and unscripted content production.
“The moment is great to produce all types of TV content, not only for Spain, but for the international market,” said Bes co-ceo, Javier Pérez de Silva.
Beta has been linked to the...
- 11/26/2019
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Munich-based Beta Film is deepening its cooperation with Spanish telco Telefonica’s Movistar+.
Going into this year’s Miptv, the two firms have closed a multi-year pact on “a substantial, annual number of productions” which Beta will co-produce and distribute, often coming aboard at an earlier stage.
Beta has recently closed a string of sales for Movistar+ original series, among them Alex Pina’s (Money Heist) well-sold romance-thriller The Pier and post-apocalypse thriller La Zona. On the former, Beta has closed new deals with Rai/Italy, Orf/Austria, HBO for the Baltics, Sbs/Australia, Mbc/Middle East and U-Next/Japan.
La Zona bows to German Free TV audiences this June on pubcaster and co-producer ZDFneo after hefty global sales in the last two years. The drama was most recently picked up by Amazon Italy, Canal Plus France, Vrt Benelux and throughout Eastern Europe by Canal Plus Poland, Yandex Russia/Cis,...
Going into this year’s Miptv, the two firms have closed a multi-year pact on “a substantial, annual number of productions” which Beta will co-produce and distribute, often coming aboard at an earlier stage.
Beta has recently closed a string of sales for Movistar+ original series, among them Alex Pina’s (Money Heist) well-sold romance-thriller The Pier and post-apocalypse thriller La Zona. On the former, Beta has closed new deals with Rai/Italy, Orf/Austria, HBO for the Baltics, Sbs/Australia, Mbc/Middle East and U-Next/Japan.
La Zona bows to German Free TV audiences this June on pubcaster and co-producer ZDFneo after hefty global sales in the last two years. The drama was most recently picked up by Amazon Italy, Canal Plus France, Vrt Benelux and throughout Eastern Europe by Canal Plus Poland, Yandex Russia/Cis,...
- 4/8/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Cannes — Powering up an enhanced production-distribution axis in Europe, Movistar +, the pay TV unit of Telefonica, Europe’s second biggest telco, have closed a multi-year distribution-production alliance with Germany’s Beta Film, one of the continent’s biggest independent production-distribution companies.
Beta Film already distributed Movistar + series on a title-by-title basis. Made by Christian Gockel, Beta pre-Mip TV dinner, and Ismael Calleja, Movistar + head of production & business affairs, on Sunday night the new deal allows for far deeper collaboration.
Deal announcement came as, distributed by Beta Film, Leticia Dolera’s Movistar + Original Series “Perfect Life” world premiered on Sunday in Official Competition at Cannes. A further Movistar + title, also sold by Beta Film, Mariano Barroso’s “What the Future Holds,” will receive an international premiere screening at MipTV on Monday.
In essence, the new deal transforms a title-by-title distribution arrangement, where Beta Film’s involvement sometimes came on finished product,...
Beta Film already distributed Movistar + series on a title-by-title basis. Made by Christian Gockel, Beta pre-Mip TV dinner, and Ismael Calleja, Movistar + head of production & business affairs, on Sunday night the new deal allows for far deeper collaboration.
Deal announcement came as, distributed by Beta Film, Leticia Dolera’s Movistar + Original Series “Perfect Life” world premiered on Sunday in Official Competition at Cannes. A further Movistar + title, also sold by Beta Film, Mariano Barroso’s “What the Future Holds,” will receive an international premiere screening at MipTV on Monday.
In essence, the new deal transforms a title-by-title distribution arrangement, where Beta Film’s involvement sometimes came on finished product,...
- 4/8/2019
- by John Hopewell and Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Germany’s Beta Film has been working since October’s Mipcom on finding broadcasters for Russian psychological murder-mystery series “Trigger” to the world, and announced yesterday a trio of new territories which have picked up the show.
The series is produced by Sreda, one of Russia’s most important TV production companies, and was commissioned by Channel One Russia.
Confirmed sales were announced with Brazil’s Globo and Hot in Israel, Japanese VoD-rights were scooped by U-Next, and a German broadcast partner is in the final stages of negotiation.
According to Beta, the deals put “Trigger” at the top of the hill of best-selling Russian series in international to date. Beta has also secured rights to another Sreda series, “Alibi.”
“Trigger” is the story of Artem, an uptown Moscow mental health professional known for pushing his clients to confront their fears, often in extreme ways. Things go pear-shaped when one...
The series is produced by Sreda, one of Russia’s most important TV production companies, and was commissioned by Channel One Russia.
Confirmed sales were announced with Brazil’s Globo and Hot in Israel, Japanese VoD-rights were scooped by U-Next, and a German broadcast partner is in the final stages of negotiation.
According to Beta, the deals put “Trigger” at the top of the hill of best-selling Russian series in international to date. Beta has also secured rights to another Sreda series, “Alibi.”
“Trigger” is the story of Artem, an uptown Moscow mental health professional known for pushing his clients to confront their fears, often in extreme ways. Things go pear-shaped when one...
- 2/13/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Miami — Jan Motjo’s Beta Film has acquired worldwide sales rights to one of the most singular of Spanish comedy series released last year, Paco Leon’s “Arde Madrid,” a Movistar Original.
Beta Film made the announcement just after “Arde Madrid” was confirmed as one of the series at the 2019 Berlinale Drama Series Days Market Screenings.
Movistar’s most binged series ever, Telefonica’s pay TV unit announced after the six-part series’ commercial release in November, “Arde Madrid” is written by León and Anna R. Costa. It turns on Ana Mari, a right-wing governess sourpuss who begins the series instructing a class of young wives. “If your husband beats you,” she tells a packed hall, “it’s because you’re doing something wrong.”
Ana Mari is dispatched to the household of Ava Gardner to spy on her. The clash and gradual confluence of Gardner, Ana Mari and the other domestic staff,...
Beta Film made the announcement just after “Arde Madrid” was confirmed as one of the series at the 2019 Berlinale Drama Series Days Market Screenings.
Movistar’s most binged series ever, Telefonica’s pay TV unit announced after the six-part series’ commercial release in November, “Arde Madrid” is written by León and Anna R. Costa. It turns on Ana Mari, a right-wing governess sourpuss who begins the series instructing a class of young wives. “If your husband beats you,” she tells a packed hall, “it’s because you’re doing something wrong.”
Ana Mari is dispatched to the household of Ava Gardner to spy on her. The clash and gradual confluence of Gardner, Ana Mari and the other domestic staff,...
- 1/24/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
In the first scene of “El Embarcadero” (“The Pier”), from “Money Heist” creators Alex Pina and Esther Martinez Lobato, Oscar vidcams his lover, Veronica, naked in bed, getting up, popping on a dress and walking out in dazzling sun onto her patio, the stunning L’Albufera freshwater lagoon beyond.
“The Pier’s” opening captures in a nutshell much of Movistar Plus’ major wager as an original series producer, the biggest of any telecom in Europe, having bowed 11 series from “Velvet Collection” in late September last year. Series is co-produced with Atresmedia Series and Vancouver Media.
It’s a just one-minute scene, filmed, however in 20 shots, with incisive style and the money that only a big-budget series can bring. But Movistar + is willing to put large resources at its creators’ disposal. Recreating c.1580 Seville, serial killer thriller “The Plague’s” six episodes cost €10 million ($11.6 million).
One of Mipcom’s only two World Premiere TV Screenings,...
“The Pier’s” opening captures in a nutshell much of Movistar Plus’ major wager as an original series producer, the biggest of any telecom in Europe, having bowed 11 series from “Velvet Collection” in late September last year. Series is co-produced with Atresmedia Series and Vancouver Media.
It’s a just one-minute scene, filmed, however in 20 shots, with incisive style and the money that only a big-budget series can bring. But Movistar + is willing to put large resources at its creators’ disposal. Recreating c.1580 Seville, serial killer thriller “The Plague’s” six episodes cost €10 million ($11.6 million).
One of Mipcom’s only two World Premiere TV Screenings,...
- 10/16/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
There has been an exponential hike in international sales for non-English-language drama series as the TV business has become increasingly global.
Spain’s no exception. Traditionally, international buyers were looking for local primetime TV fiction such as Diagonal’s period skein “Isabel,” which has been acquired by Rai in Italy, the 82nd territory nabbing the series.
The global explosion of OTTs has propelled a new culture of Spanish TV fiction consumption.
“Spanish drama works excellently on premium platforms and is definitely not only for the Hispanic world,” says Christian Gockel, Evp acquisitions & sales at Beta Film.
Handled by Beta, Telefonica-Movistar Plus’ “La Zona,” a thriller set in a nuclear plant meltdown, has been taken by Starz in the U.S., France’s Canal Plus and Germany’s Zdf.
“We are at a key moment where non-traditional territories are betting on Spanish drama,” Gockel adds.
“Money Heist” came close to being a global Netflix phenomenon.
Spain’s no exception. Traditionally, international buyers were looking for local primetime TV fiction such as Diagonal’s period skein “Isabel,” which has been acquired by Rai in Italy, the 82nd territory nabbing the series.
The global explosion of OTTs has propelled a new culture of Spanish TV fiction consumption.
“Spanish drama works excellently on premium platforms and is definitely not only for the Hispanic world,” says Christian Gockel, Evp acquisitions & sales at Beta Film.
Handled by Beta, Telefonica-Movistar Plus’ “La Zona,” a thriller set in a nuclear plant meltdown, has been taken by Starz in the U.S., France’s Canal Plus and Germany’s Zdf.
“We are at a key moment where non-traditional territories are betting on Spanish drama,” Gockel adds.
“Money Heist” came close to being a global Netflix phenomenon.
- 10/15/2018
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — In one of the biggest deals to go on a major Mipcom title, involving some of Europe’s largest TV players, France’s TF1 has acquired Alex Pina’s Movistar + Original “The Pier,” sold by Beta Film, and produced with Atresmedia Studios.
Numerous additional deals are already in negotiation, Beta Film revealed Saturday.
Also produced by Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato’s Vancouver Media, “The Pier” marks the showrunner duo’s follow-up to “La Casa de Papel” (“Money Heist”), declared by Netflix this April to be its most watched non English-language series ever.
Alvaro Monte, the Professor in “La Casa de Papel” plays the male lead. Capturing a near futuristic Valencia, and the nearby Albufera National Park, an expanse of marshland and rice paddy fields where time seems to move at another race, Pina has commented, the cinematography looks stunning.
In other ways, this is a departure, a sensual...
Numerous additional deals are already in negotiation, Beta Film revealed Saturday.
Also produced by Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato’s Vancouver Media, “The Pier” marks the showrunner duo’s follow-up to “La Casa de Papel” (“Money Heist”), declared by Netflix this April to be its most watched non English-language series ever.
Alvaro Monte, the Professor in “La Casa de Papel” plays the male lead. Capturing a near futuristic Valencia, and the nearby Albufera National Park, an expanse of marshland and rice paddy fields where time seems to move at another race, Pina has commented, the cinematography looks stunning.
In other ways, this is a departure, a sensual...
- 10/14/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Some 14,000 international TV executives, including around 5,000 buyers from over 100 countries, will be cruising down the Croisette in Cannes this weekend for the annual Mipcom market.
The sun is set to shine in the south of France and the major international distributors, including the Hollywood studios, will hope this helps shift their latest high-end dramas and non-scripted entertainment formats.
The Americans will be back in town, having largely given Mip TV in April a miss, with high-profile buyers from the FAANGs joining traditional buyers from the broadcast networks and cable stations. The likes of Apple’s Morgan Wandell, Hulu’s Craig Erwich, Amazon’s Cj Yu and Euro chief Georgia Brown, Facebook’s Toby Faulkner and Mina Lefevre and YouTube’s Luke Hyams are expected to be joined by Fox’s Rob Wade and teams from Bravo, FX, A+E Networks, Nat Geo and Discovery.
Hollywood talent chief Ari Emanuel will be...
The sun is set to shine in the south of France and the major international distributors, including the Hollywood studios, will hope this helps shift their latest high-end dramas and non-scripted entertainment formats.
The Americans will be back in town, having largely given Mip TV in April a miss, with high-profile buyers from the FAANGs joining traditional buyers from the broadcast networks and cable stations. The likes of Apple’s Morgan Wandell, Hulu’s Craig Erwich, Amazon’s Cj Yu and Euro chief Georgia Brown, Facebook’s Toby Faulkner and Mina Lefevre and YouTube’s Luke Hyams are expected to be joined by Fox’s Rob Wade and teams from Bravo, FX, A+E Networks, Nat Geo and Discovery.
Hollywood talent chief Ari Emanuel will be...
- 10/11/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Renewing its long-standing relationship with Spain, Munich-based Beta Film has boarded “El Embarcadero” (The Pier), a Movistar + original series from “La Casa de Papel” creator Alex Pina and its creative team, which is early fruit of the launch of Spain’s Atresmedia Studios.
“The Pier” also co-stars Alvaro Morte, the Professor in “La Casa de Papel,” along with Verónica Sánchez and Irene Arcos, co-star of Pina’s breakthrough series, “Vis a Vis.”
Movistar +, the pay TV arm of giant telco Telefonica, produces with Atresmedia Studios, the TV series production house set up by network Atresmedia, and Vancouver Media, founded by Pina and “La Casa de Papel” co-scribe Esther Martínez Lobato.
Beta Film will handle all international sales rights on “The Pier.”
Going into production in May and shooting through November in Spain’s Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia and its La Albufera National Park, a freshwater lagoon. It turns on a high-profile architect.
“The Pier” also co-stars Alvaro Morte, the Professor in “La Casa de Papel,” along with Verónica Sánchez and Irene Arcos, co-star of Pina’s breakthrough series, “Vis a Vis.”
Movistar +, the pay TV arm of giant telco Telefonica, produces with Atresmedia Studios, the TV series production house set up by network Atresmedia, and Vancouver Media, founded by Pina and “La Casa de Papel” co-scribe Esther Martínez Lobato.
Beta Film will handle all international sales rights on “The Pier.”
Going into production in May and shooting through November in Spain’s Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia and its La Albufera National Park, a freshwater lagoon. It turns on a high-profile architect.
- 7/20/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Santiago De Compostela, Spain — With remakes already launched in the U.S., France, Germany and Italy since early 2018, the international rollout of “Skam” (Shame) may be far from over.
Germany’s Beta Film and Norwegian public broadcaster Nrk, which handle international sales on the original cult short-format drama hit, have received “strong” expressions of interest in “Skam” remakes from The Balkans, Russia, India, Japan, Brazil and Colombia, Christian Gockel, Beta Film Evp international sales and acquisitions, commented at a Conecta Fiction round table.
Little wonder. Remakes released or in production involve three European public broadcasters – France Televisions, which produces the French retread with Banijay Studio France; Germany’s Zdf/Funk, teaming on the German makeover with Bantry Bay; and Ntr, producing a Dutch reversion for the Netherlands’ Nrt/Npo.
Two telecom arms – Spain’s Movistar +, the pay TV division of Telefonica, and Timvision, the VOD service of Italia Telecom,...
Germany’s Beta Film and Norwegian public broadcaster Nrk, which handle international sales on the original cult short-format drama hit, have received “strong” expressions of interest in “Skam” remakes from The Balkans, Russia, India, Japan, Brazil and Colombia, Christian Gockel, Beta Film Evp international sales and acquisitions, commented at a Conecta Fiction round table.
Little wonder. Remakes released or in production involve three European public broadcasters – France Televisions, which produces the French retread with Banijay Studio France; Germany’s Zdf/Funk, teaming on the German makeover with Bantry Bay; and Ntr, producing a Dutch reversion for the Netherlands’ Nrt/Npo.
Two telecom arms – Spain’s Movistar +, the pay TV division of Telefonica, and Timvision, the VOD service of Italia Telecom,...
- 6/22/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria is headed back to ABC with — wait for it — another soapy drama. The Disney-owned network has placed a pilot order for Longoria’s “Grand Hotel.” Set against the backdrop of a Miami Beach hotel, “Grand Hotel” centers around the family who owns the titular business, the staff who run it, and the explosive secrets they hide under the perfect exterior. “Devious Maids” and “Desperate Housewives” scribe Brian Tanen will pen the script and executive produce along with Eva Longoria and Ben Spector under their UnbeliEVAble banner, and Oliver Bachert and Christian Gockel for Beta. The project hails...
- 2/2/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
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