European Talent and Co-Producers Increasingly Hard to Find, According to L.A. Virtual Screenings Roundtable

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentProducer of HBO Max hit “Veneno,” Spain’s Buendía Estudios, a joint venture of Atresmedia and Movistar Plus, is now developing a series on Federico García Lorca, Spain’s greatest and best known modern poet, executed by dictator Francisco Franco supporters in 1936 for his left-wing views and homosexuality.Currently in development, “Lorca in New York,” a six hour miniseries, is based on an original idea by Granada writer-producer Eduardo Galdo.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Walt Disney Company has confirmed plans to launch the Disney Plus Hotstar streaming service in Thailand from the end of this month. It will be closely partnered with local telecoms provider AIS.The service will launch on June 30, 2021 and be offered at THB799 ($26.20) per year.

Sony‘s PlayStation Talents program has announced 21 upcoming titles prior to E3.PlayStation Talents, a program founded by Sony Interactive Entertainment Spain in order to foster the Spanish creative scene, has announced 21 different indie titles ahead of E3.Below is a trailer from sumptuous and strange-looking Snail-based action game, Clid The Snail.The titles range from 2D action games like Aeterna Noctis and Operation Highjump, to racing game KEO, and dungeon raider Rivalia.Last week one of

Roblox will be hosting a virtual premiere for the film adaptation Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights.READ MORE: Gamers are gamers – so stop trying to pigeonhole usAccording to the event listing, there’s going to be a “virtual block party” running between June 4 to 20 that will allow players to “experience the vibrant Latinx community of Washington Heights—visit iconic locales from the movie like Usnavi’s shop, enjoy an ice-cold piragua, create a community mural, and learn Spanish phrases.”The

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off an 11-season run on Shameless, Shanola Hampton has signed a talent holding deal with NBCU Television and Streaming and Universal Television. Under the pact, she has been cast as the main lead in the NBC pilot Dangerous Moms. Hampton will also serve as a producer on the project, from Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have added more dates to their 2022 European tour – see the full schedule below.The band announced the first round of dates for their upcoming tour earlier this month, after being forced to cancel a 2021 tour of Europe and the UK due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.After announcing initial dates in Greece, Germany, Sweden, Norway and more, the band have now announced further shows in Spain, Poland, France and beyond, including a headline slot at Barcelona’s Primavera

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMarking the biggest Spanish-language literary adaptation deal of the year, Telemundo Global Studios has signed with Spain’s Planeta for exclusive rights to the complete library of all time best-selling Spanish-language writer Corín Tellado, which reaches nearly 4,000 titles.The deal signals another big swing by Telemundo Global Studios, the domestic and international scripted unit of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, which early this May

LOS ANGELES -- Two stolen hand-carved religious artifacts, sandstone lintels dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries, were returned to the Thai government on Tuesday in a ceremony more than 50 years overdue.The 1,500-pound (680-kilogram) antiquities had been stolen and exported from Thailand — a violation of Thai law — roughly a half-century ago, authorities said, and donated to the city of San Francisco.

HBO has released the first photo of Justin Theroux as G. Gordon Liddy and Woody Harrelson as E. Howard Hunt in The White House Plumbers, its five-part limited series that revisits one of the biggest political scandals in American history, Watergate. You can see the photo below.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentThe L.A. Virtual Screenings ran May 11-20.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeOn a late April evening this year, dozens of cars sat parked in front of a large, inflatable screen outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena for a pop-up drive-in experience.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentThe Malaga Festival’s Spanish Screenings, the only dedicated Spanish film sales and promotion market in Spain, has locked dates on the fall’s increasingly packed fest-market calendar, announcing it will run Oct.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Disney Plus streaming service is expected to roll out in Thailand at the end of next month. If confirmed, that would be the service’s fourth territory in the highly competitive Southeast Asia region.Multiple sources have told Variety that the service will be branded as Disney Plus Hotstar in Thailand and become operational from June 30.

Jamie Lang Barcelona production-distribution outfit Filmax is at this year’s L.A. Virtual Screenings with its most recent TV acquisition, Basque drama “Mouths of Sand” (“Hondar ahoak”) from leading regional film production company Txintxua Films, its first foray into TV production.Originally commissioned by local Basque public TV broadcaster ETB, the series’ global rights were scooped by Filmax after episode one was buzzed up by critics and viewers on social media in its local market.

The current Mr Gay World, Spain’s Francisco Alvarado

Ciara Kelly has revealed how she punched a man who put his hand up her skirt so hard he was knocked over a car bonnet.