Anna Marie De La Fuente

2 weeks ago | variety.com | Anna Marie De La Fuente

Amazon MGM Studios Distribution, led by Chris Ottinger, head of worldwide distribution for the relatively new division, has started making the studio’s highest profile – and said to be costliest – titles “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” and “Citadel,” available to third parties. These are joined by two upcoming series, the graphic novel based-spy thriller series “Butterfly” and the action series “Countdown,” starring Jensen Ackles (“The Boys”).

2 weeks ago | variety.com | Anna Marie De La Fuente

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has found its Carlota. Belinda, the Spanish-born Mexican Latin pop star is poised to topline as the titular “Carlota,” the Empress of Mexico, in SPT’s most ambitious Latin American series to date.   The high-concept project is among the hot picks in the studio’s presentation to LA Screenings attendees on Tuesday, May 20.

2 weeks ago | variety.com | Anna Marie De La Fuente

Mexican producer Laura Imperiale at Cacerola Films, whose notable credits include the Oscar-nominated “The Crime of Father Amaro” starring Gael Garcia Bernal and dark comedy “Nicotina,” has boarded “Black Sheep, White Sheep,” the fiction feature debut of documentary filmmaker Flavio Florencio.

2 weeks ago | variety.com | Anna Marie De La Fuente

Four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe is set to team up once more with Brazil’s Bárbara Paz in near-future drama, “Cuddle,” Paz’s fiction feature debut. Dafoe was an associate producer of the documentary “Babenco: Tell Me When I Die” (2019), which Paz directed as an ode to her late husband, Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Hector Babenco (“Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Carándiru”) and which represented Brazil at the 93rd Academy Awards.

3 weeks ago | variety.com | Anna Marie De La Fuente

In one single, bold move, Costa Rica has secured SVOD distribution in one of its largest international markets — Spain — by launching a dedicated channel onpopular streaming platform Filmin. To be unveiled at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the new Costa Rica Channel, Canal Costa Rica, will spotlight a curated selection of up to 20 recent and standout feature films, documentaries and shorts from the small but increasingly prolific territory.