Just three weeks after Arte France revealed he was on board the Movistar Plus+ original “Killing a Bear,” Movistar Plus+ International, created by Jorge and Alberto Sanchez-Cabezudo (“Crematorium”, “The Zone”), delves into the buyers with the latest sales led by “La Mesías”, “Marbella”, “Marbella” and “Lamesías”.
The sale revelation took place on the first day of a deal at the iberseries & Platino Industry in Madrid.
In total, Movistar Plus+ International is the international sales division of Movistar Plus+, the largest Spanish paid TV/SVOD operator, and has announced 35 licensing agreements.
Arte France
Some unannounced in the stellar deal – Arte France is planning to co-produce “Killing a Bear,” an original murder mystery based on real events, while dying in the valley in the Pyrenees’ in 2020.
The finding prompted the first criminal investigation into the death of Spanish wildlife.
“Killing a Bear” appears to be set to explore multiple war perspectives. Approaching “a conflict that coexists identity, environment and potential violence,” the Sánchez-Cabezudo brothers said the series entered production in mid-September.
Remarkably, “Killing a Bear” marks the fourth co-production between Movistar Plus+ and Arte France, after Pepe Coira’s edgy Canary Island crime drama “Hierro” (2019) and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s on-off couple romantic saga “The New Years” (2024), which played Venice alongside Alfonso Cuarón’s Cate Blanchett starrer “Disclaimer” for Apple TV+, and Thomas Vinterberg’s “Family Like” Ours is sold by Studiocanal.
Kill the bear
In March this year, in one of the series’ mania banner announcements, Movistar Plus+ and Arte France announced that “three important figures of Shakespeare are co-producing “anatomy of a moment.” Gutiérrez Mellado – Acquired Spanish democracy from 1976 to 1977. It also records how they literally refused to resign when a illegitimate rally of military rebels blew a bullet into Spanish parliament in 1981, when democracy was almost lost.
The “Anatomy of a Doment” world was praised at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain last Friday, with Spanish newspaper El Mundo calling the four-part miniseries “magnetic” and announces El Coreo as “the series of the year.”
In further deals, Arte France has also acquired “Veneno” creators and Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, “Los Javis”, “Los Javis”, and the toxic pro-drama “La Mesías”, the biggest series from the family drama and trial thriller “Querer” by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa.
“This is the first time I’ve had so many projects at the same time with the same commissioner and the same program unit on one company or one broadcasting station or platform,” Alexandre Piel, assistant director of Arte France, told Variety in March.
Milestone covers Disney+, Walter Presents, and Rayplay
In other major recent deals, Movistar Plus+ Disney+ inked two famous titles for Pan-Latin American Distribution: Filmax (“(Rec)”), Pau Freixas (“The Red Band Society”), “You Not Lied”), Pol Cortecans (“You Shill Not Lie”), and “Marbellas” created by Marbell, Albell’s “Marbell” unit, ran for three seasons.
An adaptation of a cult novel of the same name by Ramsay Campbell, “a more psychological thriller than a horror work,” said Jorge Pezzi, director of Movistar Plus+ Fiction and Alliances, bowed “Nameless” on Disney+ on September 10th.
With “The Anatomy of the Moment,” “The Nameless” will be appearing as two of Movistar Plus+ International’s flagship titles at Cannes’ Mipcom fair, which will run October 13th-16th.
Marbella’s mob lawyer Caper – “The tone is fictional, artificial and very entertaining, but the background is painstakingly studied,” said executive producer Fran Araujo – “Marbella” also won by two seasons of “Hiero” and two seasons of “Hiero” and a rural crime drama, along with the two seasons of “Hiero” and the rural crime drama “Second Death” (Second Marti Aguse). irati).
Similarly, Italian pub caster VOD service Raiplay succumbed to the number of viewers and critical acclaim for the “New Year.”
License Agreement: “La Mesías”, “The New Years”, “Querer, “Marbella”
“Marbella” was also acquired by top Portuguese film TV distributor Nos Lusomundo, who secured “Querer”, “The New Years” and “La Mesías.”
Roll off Big Fest selections and awards – “Querer” filmed the Series Mania Grand Prix this March – and the newspaper rebates called “Ramesias” and “One of the Most Beautiful Series” are four series featured as the most recent series on Movistar Plus+.
The couple’s rape story “Querer” was featured by Argentinean Streams and Greek Chinobo, “The New Years,” Flow, Cinobo and South Korean LG. “La Mesías” – Following the man’s fight in middle age to agree to a highly oppressive religious upbringing – is licensed by my film One and the top Italian streaming services of Lithuanian pub caster LRT and Greek Chinovo.
The deals range from iconic global streamers (Disney+) to free aerial operators (Channel 4) and premium international streaming services. They are made with titles on the drive of the Autherist. Or, as Maria Lua Agete of Omdia said, “crossover fiction where the vision of the Autherist meets storytelling, which often leaned the thriller.” Think of “The New Years”, “The Nameless”, “Marbella” and “Offworld” as innovative global blackout drama thrillers.
Drilldowns for other transactions:
*Cinobo: The luxury Greek SVOD service includes “Riot Police,” Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s first Movistar Plus+ series, its huge hits on San Sebastián in the 2020s, and “Hierro” and “Rapa and fran fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and fran and f
*TRT Turkish Pubcaster has acquired Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, “Hierro,” “The Lefted Son” Riot Police, “Offworld,” and Art World’s satire “Bellas Artes.”
*LG, a Korean streaming service, has licensed for “Riku Police,” “Off World,” “Velas Art,” “Left-handed Son,” “Gargos,” “Ramesias,” and “Centimos Las Morestia.” “Vergüenza” (2017).
