Spain Commits $1.9B to Bolster Film, TV Industry

Beta Film has closed a pair of big broadcast deals for its WWII drama Atlantic Crossing, starring Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks) and Sofia Helin (The Bridge), selling the limited series to Spanish pay TV group Movistar+ and to Austria’s national public broadcaster ORF. MacLachlan plays U.S.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBeta Film has sold the World War II drama series “Atlantic Crossing,” starring Kyle MacLachlan and “The Bridge” lead actor Sofia Helin, to Spain’s pay TV provider Movistar Plus and Austrian public broadcaster ORF. The limited series, praised as an “immensely moving saga” by the Wall Street Journal, will be aired in both countries later this year.The show premiered last week on the U.S.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Spain’s Black Panther Films and Chile’s Invercine Prods.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentDisney Plus has acquired Latin American broadcast rights to animated musical “Turu and the Wackies,” a 26-episode CGI spin-off series from the hit 2019 toon movie “Turu, the Wacky Hen,” a Spanish Academy best animated feature winner that Filmax has sold to 75 countries.In further deals, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has taken broadcast rights in Spain and A’Punt those to Spain’s Valencia region.An ode to diversity, “Turu, the Wacky Hen” turns on

MADRID -- Spanish authorities have slapped an export ban on a painting a day before it was due to be auctioned with a starting price tag of 1,500 euros ($1,780), saying it could be a lost work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.The oil-on-canvas work apparently depicts the Biblical passage of the Ecce Homo, in which Jesus Christ is presented to the crowds before being crucified.

Amazon Prime is getting into the baking game in Spain by adapting Love Productions’ hit television show The Great British Bake Off.

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Love Island 2021 will head back to Spain with a back up cast to ensure it doesn't encounter the same difficulties as Dancing on Ice. Bosses of the hit ITV reality show are said to be keen to avoid a repeat of the disasters which have hit other telly shows during the coronavirus epidemic.

tourists from the end of this month. The Spanish Government imposed a complete ban on people travelling in from the UK in December after details of the more-transmissible ‘Kent variant’ of coronavirus emerged.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Wednesday the launch of a Spain Audiovisual Hub plan to offer a total €1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) over 2021-25 to power up Spanish film and TV production, and encourage big foreign players to shoot and set up production centers in Spain.One early beneficiary of the scheme, according to Spanish press reports, will be Disney, which on March 26 bows romantic comedy “Besos Al Aire,“ its first Disney Plus

EXCLUSIVE: David Unger’s Artist International Group (AIG) and Barcelona-based Infinito Studios have launched a joint venture that will focus on international production and talent representation.

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