The BBC is bringing Enid Blyton's The Famous Five books to life through a new TV series. The three-part series will be the first time the BBC has ever adapted The Famous Five for the screen.
06.06.2023 - 19:55 / deadline.com
Movistar’s fledgling distributor has struck its first slew of sales and is moving to the next stage, GM Maria Valenzuela has revealed, as she discusses the Spanish giant’s attempt to reinvent the thriller genre and how the writers strike is gifting opportunities to spotlight international content.
Valenzuela took charge of Spain’s largest pay-TV/SVoD operator’s distributor Movistar Plus Internacional last year and the former Sony and Huawei exec said it has “been an incredible journey” so far.
The outfit is shopping the likes of Rapa Seasons 1 and 2 and Off World (Apagón), which have sold to Vix+ in the U.S. and LatAm, and is in the process of taking a bunch of new shows to market, which Valenzuela described as the “next step and the big challenge of the coming year” as she chatted to Deadline before a NEM keynote at the Dubrovnik market on Tuesday.
“Partners want to have a direct relationship with Movistar,” she said. “We were so encouraged by the response from around the world [to the distribution arm] and it is so valuable this knowledge we are bringing by having our partners closer. We do not own a platform outside Spain and that makes us a standalone producer-distributor to be aligned with.”
Co-production and collaboration opportunities will naturally improve as the distribution arm becomes more settled, added Valenzuela. The outfit previously used bespoke distribution models for each of its shows and had a partnership with Beta Film – struck in 2019. While that partnership has run down, Valenzuela stressed that the pair remain close collaborators.
She said Movistar is well placed globally to “look at the USPs for a Spanish series and see how they will translate for a French or German or Latin American audience,
The BBC is bringing Enid Blyton's The Famous Five books to life through a new TV series. The three-part series will be the first time the BBC has ever adapted The Famous Five for the screen.
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Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Prime Video has revealed its top traveling non-English local originals in the history of the service, with Spanish YA romance “My Fault” and French crime thriller “Medellín” topping the list. Both are feature films that launched in the last two weeks across Prime Video’s footprint in 240 countries around the world. Interestingly, both titles have more than 75% of their viewership coming from outside their country of origin (Spain for “My Fault,” and France for “Medellín”), though Prime Video hasn’t disclosed any further metrics related to ratings or impressions. Of the list (available in full below), 60% are movies and 40% are TV series.
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“Pitching in Hollywood is like your head against a brick wall right now.”
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