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01.12.2020 - 17:41 / variety.com
Ed Meza @edmezavarAmazon Prime Video is rapidly becoming a major force in Latin America with its mix of local content, ambitious productions and compelling stories.Taking part in a Ventana Sur online conference, Pablo Iacoviello, Amazon Prime Video’s director of content for Latin America, and Javiera Balmaceda, Amazon Studios’ head of originals for Argentina, Chile and Colombia, discussed the streaming giant’s slate of productions, which have exploded in the past two years.Amazon launched its
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EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Donovan (Fargo, Burn Notice) and Brett Gelman (Fleabag, Stranger Things) have joined Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell, and Michael K. Williams in the Bron Studios drama Surrounded, which is being directed by Anthony Mandler.
straight to your inboxPablo Zabaleta has urged Lionel Messi to sign for Manchester City next summer.Messi has spent his entire senior career at Barcelona but is now being tipped for a move away from the Nou Camp.City have been linked with the 33-year-old Argentina superstar, who is in the final year of his current contract.Messi has previously played under Pep Guardiola at Barcelona - and his former international team-mate Zabaleta would love to see the pair reunited in Manchester."Manchester
It’s the most wonderful time of the year because Paramount decided to take a risk and make a feel good Holiday rom-com centring around a very unlikely gay couple.
straight to your inboxMan City legend Pablo Zabaleta has warned his former side that they need to be aware of Manchester United's pace on the counter-attack in the derby on Saturday.City sit one point and one place behind sixth-placed United, with both sides having had a similar start to the season.Yet, with United being knocked out of the Champions League in midweek, City are favourites for the game.Former City defender Zabaleta understands why, but he says caution must be paid to United's
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Wanderers from the Kenilworth Road club towards the end of the last transfer window. The defender has been an ever present for Bolton since joining and has scored twice in 12 appearances for the Trotters, having been played at right wing-back.
Ventana Sur, which wrapped Friday, was, on many counts, quite extraordinary. With Buenos Aires, the market’s normal location, still under COVID-19 lockdown, Latin America’s biggest movie mart-meet spread out film screenings over five cities in two continents – Madrid, Mexico City, Bogotá, São Paulo and Santiago de Chile – complemented by digital screenings for the rest of the world.
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentProducer of Argentina’s Oscar entry “Sleepwalkers,” Juan Pablo Miller’s Buenos Aires-based Tarea Fina has unveiled “El Hijo Deseado,” the next film by Berlinale Jury Grand Prix winner Ariel Rotter (“The Other,” “Incident Light”).Its announcement comes as Tarea Fina advances on post-production of “La Encomienda,” from Pablo Giorgelli, whose “Las Acacias” was awarded the Cannes Festival’s Camera d’Or for best first feature by a jury presided by
Juan Pablo di Pace and Peter Porte are weighing in on the debate over whether only LGBTQ actors should be hired to tell LGBTQ stories in blockbuster hits.
Jamie Lang Javier Krause, co-founder of Argentina’s Rispo Films and long one of the country’s key sales agents, has crossed the Atlantic and started Kafilms, a new Swiss production company where he is taking the reins to create new content for international audiences, including two new Italian co-productions which Krause has announced in exclusivity with Variety.Joined by Maurizio and Manuel Tedesco of Italy’s Baires Produzioni, backers of Filmax-sold “Tomorrow’s a New Day” from Simone Spada
Anna Marie de la Fuente Disney Plus has made good on its promise to deliver a varied and ambitious original programming lineup in Latin America where it launched on Nov.
straight to your inboxLa Liga president Javier Tebas admits the Spanish league are working on provisional plans to account for any drop in revenue if Lionel Messi leaves Barcelona.Messi came close to ending his long association with Barcelona in the summer, but decided to stay to avoid a costly legal battle with the club he loves. Manchester City were strongly linked with Messi's signature at the time and view themselves as front-runners to land the Argentine were he to leave Catalonia.
Luton boss Nathan Jones admitted that Kioso could be recalled from his loan spell owing to injuries at the Championship club, while his form at the Trotters has also led to the questions being raised that he could head back to Kenilworth Road. Speaking earlier this month, Evatt confirmed he had not been contacted by Luton concerning a potential recall for Kioso.
The original Burgh Halls façade is being kept and restored. A new two-storey extension is being constructed to the retained East Main Street building which will provide a new easily accessible main entrance leading in to an airy reception area with seating.
WarnerMedia streamer HBO Max has picked up the first season of La Jauría, Amazon Prime Video’s Spanish-language thriller from Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fabula, which made the Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman.