Paramount Plus Unveils Star-Laden Slate of First Originals for Latin America (EXCLUSIVE)

Anna Marie de la Fuente In its continued bid to transform into a leading media-tech company, Globo, the largest media company in Latin America, has launched the Globo Partner Program aimed at helping U.S. companies looking to grow their operations in the Latin American market.“Globo is a key entry point into Latin America, and we represent over 100 million daily users in the U.S.

Christopher Vourlias The CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, a training program for women documentary filmmakers conceived with a focus on Southern and Eastern Europe, has selected the four projects that will take part in its showcase as part of the Cannes Docs program of the Cannes Film Market, Variety can reveal.Hailing from the program’s backyard in the Balkans to as far afield as Brazil and Taiwan, the selection reflects the growing ambition of a program now in its third year.“Although CIRCLE

Emilio Mayorga Brazilian producer-director Andrés Lieban is set to direct his first animated feature, “My Big Big Friend – The Movie.” It is set up at his 2DLab label, which has specialized to date in TV animation production.

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media1091 Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to “Varginha: The Roswell of Brazil,” James Fox’s follow-up to “The Phenomenon.”The film is another exploration of potential extraterrestrial encounters, this one centered on a series of events in 1996 when citizens of Varginha, Brazil, reported seeing one or more strange creatures and a UFO crash.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSony Pictures has boarded Alê Abreu’s buzzed up animated feature “Perlimps,” the acclaimed Brazilian director’s follow up to “Boy and the World” which was nominated for best animated feature at the 2016 Academy Awards.A best animated feature-winner in the independent category at the 43rd Annie Awards, “Boy and the World” also took the top Cristal at the 2014 Annecy Festival.Several excerpts for the film will be screened on June 17 in this year’s

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentBrussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired “Medusa,” a timely drama directed by rising Brazilian helmer Anita Rocha da Silveira. The film will world premiere at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.

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Jamie Lang Blue Fox Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Brazilian lockdown thriller “The Pink Cloud,” a timely and prescient hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema – Dramatic section.The distributor, which recently opened Julie Delpy’s Toronto Platform title “My Zoe,” plans to release the film in theaters across North America this fall.UTA Independent Film Group handled the North American sales of “The Pink Cloud,” negotiating with Blue Fox.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentPluto TV has signed a long-term strategic content partnership with Mediawan to bring more than 1,000 hours of French content from Mediawan’s library to Pluto TV in France and across 18 countries in Latin America.The pact with Mediawan will allow Pluto TV, ViacomCBS Networks International’s ad-supported streaming service, to grow its portfolio in France, adding 12 new linear streaming channels in the country as well as two more channels in Latin

Millicent Simmonds is opening up about taking the lead in A Quiet Place II, as the film breaks the pandemic box office curse.

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Emilio Mayorga Spain’s Lightbox Entertainment, producer of the smash hit “Tadeo Jones” toon movie franchise, is teaming with Portugal’s Sardinha em Lata, Brazil’s Gepetto Filmes and Spain’s Xose Zapata to make “Alice’s Diary,” a 52-episode animated series for toddlers.“Alice’s Diary” is also backed by Portuguese pubcaster RTP and its Spanish counterpart, TVE.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Philadelphia-based Breaking Glass Pictures (BGP) and Brazil’s O2 Play, the distribution arm of O2 Filmes, which is co-owned by Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles (“City of God,” “The Constant Gardener,” “The Two Popes”), have inked a two-way distribution partnership.The new pact kicks off with BGP’s North American release of a Brazilian drama by Eliane Coster, “Half Brother” (“Meio Irmão”), a timely story of a young man who films a homophobic assault and faces

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterParamount Television head Nicole Clemens is seen as the likeliest candidate to oversee Paramount Plus’ content and programming strategy, according to sources familiar with the matter.The move comes after Paramount Plus head of programming Julie McNamara, a 15-year-veteran of ViacomCBS, announced her departure Thursday.Paramount declined to comment.More to come…