World Screen

MIAMI: A co-production agreement with Getty Images Latin America has led Cisneros Media Distribution to establish a new creative unit, MOBIUS.LAB Productions, dedicated exclusively to the creation and production of content and formats in a variety of lengths. Cisneros Media Distribution will showcase more than 20 different shows currently being …

CANNES: Brazil-based Band Content Distribution arrives at MIPCOM hoping to strengthen its relationships with existing customers while attracting new partnerships by offering content for different platforms. Among the highlights is Wacky TV, a cartoon spoof on popular network fare featuring parodies of news broadcasts, talk shows and even infomercials. Additionally, …

SANTA MONICA: Taking advantage of a Mexican-Canadian tax treaty for scripted series, Grupo Televisa is slated to produce multiple English-language series aimed at on-demand and traditional TV markets. The group will produce the content with Vancouver-based Odyssey Media. Duality, the first title developed through the partnership, depicts an elite team …

MEXICO CITY: Benjamin Salinas Sada, son of Grupo Salinas founder Ricardo B. Salinas, has been tapped to replace Mario San Roman as CEO of TV Azteca. Salinas Sada has been a member of Grupo Salinas’s executive committee of strategy for the past five years. He has also produced several multiplatform …

CANNES: Two scripted series shot in 4K and spotlighting historic women are at the top of Caracol TV Internacional’s MIPCOM lineup. Soul Sisters is the tale of siblings who fought to bring attention to the Colombian musical genre known as “la carrilera.” Using their voices, the singers managed to overcome …

CANNES: Telemundo Internacional has entered into a long-term deal with Mega Chile, securing the exclusive rights for the distribution of the Chilean channel’s fiction productions worldwide. The two firms signed the agreement during a press conference at MIPCOM this morning. The deal goes into effect this month. Telemundo Internacional has …

MIAMI: A Spanish-dubbed version of the drama Prison Break is set to premiere on U.S. Hispanic network NBC Universo later this month. The series, which originally aired for four seasons on FOX, will debut October 20. NBC Universo subscribers will also be able to catch up on episodes in Spanish …

CANNES: Brazil’s Globo has secured multiple sales for The Party, its latest drama offering. Among the ten countries that picked up the title are EPG in South Korea, Ecuador’s Ecuavisa, Peru’s ATV, SIC in Portugal and Uruguay’s Teledoce. A reinterpretation of a 1974 telenovela, the miniseries is set at a …

BOGOTÁ: The series The Cartel 2, distributed by Caracol Internacional, has launched in the U.S. for streaming on Hulu. The title follows Pepe Cadena, an informer who cooperates with the DEA to snitch on several major drug dealers. The original series has already been sold into more than 50 countries. …

JOHANNESBURG: Cisneros Media Distribution has in its catalogue Separated by Love, Urban Legends and XRC. Cisneros Media Distribution recently signed a deal with Getty Images Latin America for the development and worldwide commercialization of programmable content, exploiting the agency’s archive of millions of images and thousands of hours of audiovisual …