One of the largest corporate presences at this year’s MipCancun, Spain’s Mediapro, for decades now a sports broker, services provider and producer of auteur films, from Woody Allen and Roman Polanski to Spain’s Isabel Coixet and Fernando León de Aranoa, has made a pair of high-profile executive moves within its flagship The Mediapro Studio production unit, naming Eugeni Sallent as the company’s new head of Latin America and Carolina Bilbao as VP of content and business development for the U.S.
Both appointments are representative of an ongoing push among many European “super indies” to grow their current operations on the other side of the Atlantic, a phenomenon manifesting itself in the open at this year’s MipCancun, where speakers from Gaumont, Banijay, Endemol Shine Boomdog, The Mediapro Studio, Rt and Turkey’s Intermedya will all participate.
Recent CEO at the Mediapro Group’s headquarters in Colombia and Italy,...
Both appointments are representative of an ongoing push among many European “super indies” to grow their current operations on the other side of the Atlantic, a phenomenon manifesting itself in the open at this year’s MipCancun, where speakers from Gaumont, Banijay, Endemol Shine Boomdog, The Mediapro Studio, Rt and Turkey’s Intermedya will all participate.
Recent CEO at the Mediapro Group’s headquarters in Colombia and Italy,...
- 11/17/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid-based international TV powerhouse The Mediapro Studio has sold banner series “The Head” to HBO Max for the U.S. as it powers into English-language production, partnering with John Turturro, “Casualty” writers Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, U.K. producer Big Talk and London-based director Guillem Morales.
The drive into U.S. and now most especially U.K. production marks the latest strategic growth in one of the fastest ramp-ups in drama series production in Europe, spearheaded by Laura Fernández Espeso, appointed The Mediapro corporate director in October 2019 and chief executive last month.
“We are making a large bet on fortifying our position in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America, and feature film production, and are proud to be working with a huge range of high-caliber partners,” Fernández-Espeso told Variety.
Underscoring her point, she noted four U.S. projects now in development; a production alliance with Erik Barmack,...
The drive into U.S. and now most especially U.K. production marks the latest strategic growth in one of the fastest ramp-ups in drama series production in Europe, spearheaded by Laura Fernández Espeso, appointed The Mediapro corporate director in October 2019 and chief executive last month.
“We are making a large bet on fortifying our position in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America, and feature film production, and are proud to be working with a huge range of high-caliber partners,” Fernández-Espeso told Variety.
Underscoring her point, she noted four U.S. projects now in development; a production alliance with Erik Barmack,...
- 1/25/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize winner and the New York Times journalist who obtained the Pentagon Papers, has died.
His wife, Susan Sheehan, told The New York Times that he died Thursday due to complications of Parkinson’s disease at his Washington home. He was 84.
Born on Oct. 27, 1936 in Holyoke, Massachussetts, Sheehan graduated from Harvard and began his reporting career as an Army journalist. For The New York Times and United Press International, Sheehan chronicled the events of the Vietnam War.
Sheehan, however is most known for reporting on the Pentagon Papers, which revealed U.S. involvement in Vietnam ordered by the Department of Defense. Military analyst Daniel Ellsberg granted Sheehan access to the critical documents in 1971, which exposed the truth about American involvement in the war and set off legal retaliation from the Nixon Administration.
After the bombshell report, Sheehan focused his attention on his book A Bright Shining...
His wife, Susan Sheehan, told The New York Times that he died Thursday due to complications of Parkinson’s disease at his Washington home. He was 84.
Born on Oct. 27, 1936 in Holyoke, Massachussetts, Sheehan graduated from Harvard and began his reporting career as an Army journalist. For The New York Times and United Press International, Sheehan chronicled the events of the Vietnam War.
Sheehan, however is most known for reporting on the Pentagon Papers, which revealed U.S. involvement in Vietnam ordered by the Department of Defense. Military analyst Daniel Ellsberg granted Sheehan access to the critical documents in 1971, which exposed the truth about American involvement in the war and set off legal retaliation from the Nixon Administration.
After the bombshell report, Sheehan focused his attention on his book A Bright Shining...
- 1/8/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
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