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variety.com | John Hopewell
Chile’s Sanfic Industria, one of the most significant industry meets in South America, has unveiled two new sections aimed at promoting both a cutting-edge diversity in Latin American filmmaking and TV creation as well as powering up its international reach.
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msn.com | John Hopewell
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variety.com | John Hopewell
Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin American literature’s modern greats, died April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89. He died surrounded by his family and “at peace,” his children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa announced in a social post. “He enjoyed a long, adventurous and fruitful life, and leaves behind him a body of work that will outlive him,” they added. That body of work is huge.
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variety.com | John Hopewell
Cannes Frontières buzz title “Skin Side Up,” the directorial feature debut of “Drag Race Down Under” Season 4 winner Robert Ten Eyck, heads to the Creosote exploring a little visited sub-genre – drag queen horror – as it has pacted a key theatrical distribution deal for Australia and New Zealand with one of their genre champions. “Skin Side Up” turns on Bertha Woodhouse, a drag queen who takes a hen’s gig in the middle of nowhere.
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variety.com | John Hopewell |Jamie Lang
Robert Ten Eyck’s “Skin Side Up,” Sebastian McKinnon’s “The Stolen Child” and Richard Raaphorst’s “Children of the Moor” look like three potential standouts at this year’s Frontières Platform in Cannes which bids fair to prove one of the festival’s highest-caliber project showcases. Described as Drag Queen Horror and boasting a heart-in-the-mouth promo, “Skin Side Up” marks the directorial feature debut of Australian Ten Eyck who as Lazy Susan won RuPaul’s “Drag Race Down Under” Season 4.
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variety.com | John Hopewell
Soo Hugh, who showran Apple TV+’s “Pachinko,” “House of Cards” showrunner Beau Willimon and Bad Wolf producer and ex-BBC top exec Jane Tranter will speak at the inaugural edition of Canneseries Industry, which unspools April 25-27.
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variety.com | John Hopewell |Elsa Keslassy
J.J. Abrams’ Max period crime thriller “Duster,” AMC Networks’ “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” Season 2 and Paramount+ with Showtime’s “The Agency” will bow at this year’s Canneseries whose 2025 lineup belies naysayers who argued, without a parallel MipTV and the buyers it brought to Cannes, the French TV festival would fail to draw series or celebs of weight. “Dead City” is a world premiere, “Duster” looks like one too – it’s slated to be made available on Max on May 15.
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tribunecontentagency.com | John Hopewell
LILLE, France – Lili Reinhart scored best actress for “Hal & Harper” at France’s Series Mania, Europe’s biggest TV festival, as its attendance figures went through the roof. Meanwhile, Spain’s Movistar Plus+ scored a historic double, winning the top Grand Prize in main competition for Alauda Ruiz de Azua’s “Querer” and best series for Diego San José’s “Celeste,” co-produced with The Mediapro Studio, in the fest’s major sidebar.
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3 weeks ago | 
variety.com | John Hopewell
LILLE, France — Lili Reinhart scored best actress for “Hal & Harper” at France’s Series Mania, Europe’s biggest TV festival, as its attendance figures went through the roof. Meanwhile, Spain’s Movistar Plus+ scored a historic double, winning the top Grand Prize in main competition for Alauda Ruiz de Azua’s “Querer” and best series for Diego San José’s “Celeste,” co-produced with The Mediapro Studio, in the fest’s major sidebar.
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variety.com | John Hopewell
LILLE, France 2025 looks set to go down in history as the year that Series Mania, already the biggest TV festival in Europe, stepped up to another level. Exhibition booths at the Grand Palais’ newly expanded second floor stretched from one side of its second floor – and the Palais is very grand – to another. Floor traffic was packed, charging up from second to third and fourth floors with more exhibition space with an energy reminiscent of Mipcom back in the day.
