HBO Europe Orders Coronavirus Short Film Anthology ‘At Home’ From Spanish Directors

By John Hopewell

By Tom Grater

Legendary Global, Chris Albrecht's international TV venture with Legendary, has a quarantine-themed series in the works as it expands into Spain. Legendary Global and Spain-based ESPotlight are partnering to develop and produce around 10 series annually for Spanish-speaking audiences worldwide, initially with the COVID-19 dramedy La Trientena.

AT&T-owned WarnerMedia's HBO Asia has wrapped production and is readying the release of Antarctic survival thriller series The Head. The show, produced in association with Hulu Japan and Spanish production house The Mediapro Studio, will premiere on HBO and HBO Go in the Asia-Pacific region on June 12, WarnerMedia said Thursday.

A blind Scot's three-week trip to a Spanish holiday island will become a three month ordeal after all all flights home were cancelled.

Scheduling is a dark art at the best of times, but in a global pandemic, the role becomes a Herculean task for broadcasters around the world.

HBO Europe is tapping into the coronavirus crisis for an innovative new anthology series. At Home (En Casa) will feature five stories about isolation, born from the unprecedented situation caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic and filmed by five Spanish directors.

By Jake Kanter

MADRID — Cecilia Roth starrer “Alice,” Ana Piterbarg’s “La Habitación Blanca,” Brazil’s sure-to-be controversial “Princesa,” and Mexico’s “Intersex” look like potential standouts in the just-announced movie project pitching platform MAFF Online by Filmarket Hub, part of the biggest push by far into a virtual marketplace made by any festival in the Spanish-speaking world.

By Tom Grater

In Ronald D. Moore’s reimagined“Battlestar Galactica,” the ragged remnants of the human race often respond to adversity by invoking an article of their faith: “All this has happened before. All this will happen again.”

Over the past weeks -- with Spain in total lockdown as coronavirus infections and deaths have risen to alarming numbers -- the song “Resistiré" has become a 2020 anthem.Originally released by Spanish pop’s Dúo Dínamico in 1988 and further popularized on the soundtrack of Pedro Almodovar’s 1989 dark romantic comedy Átamé, "Resistiré" is now being sung collectively at a distance by neighbors on balconies, by employees and customers in supermarkets, and in cover versions made by artists at

Millie Bobby Brown has admitted that watching “Hannah Montana” inspired her to become an actress on the latest episode of “Bright Minded” with Miley Cyrus.

Wow, what an inspiration!