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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 …

LOS ANGELES: Production has begun on the film Cup of Love, marking the second co-production between Colombia’s Caracol Televisión, Los Angeles-based MarVista Entertainment and Argentina’s Snap Distribution. The movie will be shot near the Colombian city of Medellin. A romantic comedy, the film stars Anna Hutchison (The Cabin in the …

SÃO PAULO: Costa Rica’s Teletica has picked up six titles from Globo’s catalogue. The network will soon air the series Merciless and The Hunter, the miniseries Doomed and The Party, and the telenovelas Helena’s Shadow and Empire. Teletica has previously aired other Globo productions, among them Brazil Avenue, The Life …

SÃO PAULO: Globo in Brazil is slated to launch its own VOD service, Globo Play, next week. The new on-demand platform is due out November 3. It will feature live content, catch-up programming and a library of Globo’s classic titles, available across devices such as smartphones, tablets and desktop computers. …