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scene in the animated Fox sitcom where Peggy Hill attempts to speak Spanish, inadvertently calling a judge “a reasonable horse” and mistakenly saying she is pregnant. In Spanish, a “caballo” is a horse while a “caballero” is a gentleman.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn an out-of-the-box move, the Cannes-backed Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest movie market, looks set for a game changing seven city on-site roll-out to run from Nov. 30 to Dec.

Christopher Vourlias Alex Rodrigo, a director on the acclaimed Netflix drama series “Money Heist,” is making his feature film directorial debut with “The Last Shot,” one of 16 film projects being pitched to prospective buyers this week during Rome’s MIA market.“The Last Shot” is a biopic about the late Spanish photographer and humanitarian Luis Valtueña (pictured), who was killed in Rwanda in 1997.

Emiliano De Pablos Beta Entertainment Spain is joining forces with Nicely Entertainment, the L.A.-based outfit run by former Gaumont executive Vanessa Shapiro, to produce the TV thriller series project “The Tamer.”The project, about a serial killer who tames and trains other killers to take down more of their kind, has attached Spain’s Paco Torres (“El vuelo del tren”) as writer, director and showrunner, alongside Mexican director of photography Guillermo Navarro, who won an Academy Award for

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMK2, a family-owned French film company boasting a prominent arthouse cinema chain in Paris and in Spain, is staging various events to turn the spotlight on classics from Charles Chaplin to Claude Chabrol and Abbas Kiarostami which are part of its impressive library of 600 movies.MK2’s CEO Nathanael Karmitz has been invited by Thierry Fremaux, the chief of Cannes Film Festival and the ongoing Lumiere Festival in Lyon, to deliver a masterclass on Tuesday

Beta Film has clinched first-phase sales in Europe on “Tell Me Who I Am,” an epic tale of a woman’s emancipation, and its cost, which celebrates its international premiere today at Mipcom Online Plus.First fruit of a three-year, three series co-production alliance between Spain’s Movistar Plus and Telemundo Intl.

Atresplayer Premium, the OTT platform run by Spanish media conglom Atresmedia, is prepping TV series “La Ruta,” teaming with Caballo Films, the production outfit whose partners include filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the co-creator of Movistar Plus’ hit “Riot Police.”“La Ruta” – a working title – is set on the La Ruta del Bakalao, a legendary zone of nightclubs lining some 19 miles of a CV-500 secondary road between the Spanish coastal city of Valencia and its beaches to its south.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Camelot,” the Season 2 premiere of “The Spanish Princess.”When “The Spanish Princess” returns for its second season, Queen Catherine (Charlotte Hope) and Henry VIII (Ruairi O’Connor) are ruling together over the country as the house of Tudor.When the audience rejoins the royal couple, they are closer than ever; she has given birth to a royal heir; her father, King Ferdinand of Spain (Antonio de la Torre), is

Emiliano De Pablos Spanish TV drama producers are thinking bigger than ever, scaling up in a globalized SVOD market.They are also allying with powerful U.S.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentArgentina and Mexico-based Jaque Content, originator of suspense drama series “The Cleaning Lady,” now set to become a Warner Bros.-produced U.S. drama pilot, has clinched a strategic alliance with Spain’s Grupo Black Panther.Marking Jaque’s first European beachhead, the partnership will see the two companies targeting fiction production, playing off an emerging co-production triangle linking Spain, Latin America and the U.S.

Latin America’s Movistar, the brand of giant Madrid-based telecom Telefonica, has dropped a first teaser for “Los Prisioneros,” a portrait of the legendary Chilean punk band as it creates its greatest hits under Augusto Pinochet’s oppressive military dictatorship.Set to go into production in January, and showrun by Joanna Lombardi, Movistar Latin America’s head of fiction, “Los Prisioneros” marks the first Movistar Original in Chile.

Jessica Chastain is defending the casting of co-star Penelope Cruz in their new espionage thriller “The 355”.

Dave McNary Film ReporterIrish actor Ruairi O’Connor will play rock ‘n’ roll icon Buddy Holly in the biopic “Clear Lake” with a tentative production start date set for the spring.O’Connor, who stars as a young King Henry VIII in the Starz miniseries “The Spanish Princess,” was selected following a six-month search by the producers and casting directors at Presser/Well Casting to find the right actor who both resembled Holly and could handle vocals and instrumentation on classic songs such as

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks’ genre streamer Shudder has landed a major multi-territory deal on The Banishing, Christopher Smith’s horror starring Jessica Brown Findlay that has its world premiere at Spanish festival Sitges this month.Sales agent WestEnd Films struck the deal, which covers North America, UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentRevving up its streaming service expansion in Europe, ViacomCBS will launch leading AVOD service Pluto TV in Spain from the end of October. It will then roll out Pluto TV in France and Italy in 2021, the French launch being set for first quarter 2021, ViacomCBS Networks Intl.

Jamie Lang For three decades Spanish filmmaker Juanma Bajo Ulloa has consistently delivered his own unique brand of cinema, playing with genres while exploring family dynamics like a kid with toys. Now, the award-winning filmmaker is back with fairytale thriller “Baby,” world premiering in competition at this year’s Sitges Film Festival.