Toledo, Spain — Carmen Machi, one of the foremost performers of her generation in Spain, is attached to play legendary Barcelona agent Carmen Balcells, prime architect of the Latin American Boom and a key figure in the break out of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa to worldwide renown.
Chile’s Invercine, producer of “News of a Kidnapping” which swept April’s Platino Awards, is teaming with Spain’s Abacus, Pausoka and Grupo Lavinia to develop and produce “Boom Agency” (“La Agencia del Boom”) which turns on Balcells extraordinary life, achievement and personality. The deal was confirmed to Variety at Conecta Fiction.
The series also turns on Balcells’ worst nightmare, the rupture of the deep friendship between her star writers, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García-Marquez, whose rift broke the back of the Boom.
Spain’s Oscar Pedraza, co-director of HBO España’s “Patria,” is attached to direct. Colombians Verónica Triana...
Chile’s Invercine, producer of “News of a Kidnapping” which swept April’s Platino Awards, is teaming with Spain’s Abacus, Pausoka and Grupo Lavinia to develop and produce “Boom Agency” (“La Agencia del Boom”) which turns on Balcells extraordinary life, achievement and personality. The deal was confirmed to Variety at Conecta Fiction.
The series also turns on Balcells’ worst nightmare, the rupture of the deep friendship between her star writers, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García-Marquez, whose rift broke the back of the Boom.
Spain’s Oscar Pedraza, co-director of HBO España’s “Patria,” is attached to direct. Colombians Verónica Triana...
- 7/3/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Cepa Audiovisual, the Argentina-based outfit producer of Ricardo Darín hit feature thriller “7th Floor,” has unveiled its initial slate of TV drama projects, led by Conecta Fiction 3 Pitch CoPro Series title “En busca de la primavera” (“In Search of Spring”).
With a pilot episode written by Patxi Amezcua and Alejo Flah, the creative team behind “7th Floor,” “En busca de la primavera” is an action thriller designed as an eight-episode, 50-minute series, inspired in real-life facts.
The series narrates the Latin American odyssey, begun in 1924, by a group of young Spanish anarchists headed by Buenaventura Durruti and Francisco Ascaso, named Los Errantes, that traveled across the American continent searching for political and financing support to battle against General Primo de Rivera dictatorship in Spain.
Los Errantes’ failure drive them to commit a string of bank heists
“En busca de la primavera” is presented for the first time ever to potential...
With a pilot episode written by Patxi Amezcua and Alejo Flah, the creative team behind “7th Floor,” “En busca de la primavera” is an action thriller designed as an eight-episode, 50-minute series, inspired in real-life facts.
The series narrates the Latin American odyssey, begun in 1924, by a group of young Spanish anarchists headed by Buenaventura Durruti and Francisco Ascaso, named Los Errantes, that traveled across the American continent searching for political and financing support to battle against General Primo de Rivera dictatorship in Spain.
Los Errantes’ failure drive them to commit a string of bank heists
“En busca de la primavera” is presented for the first time ever to potential...
- 6/18/2019
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix is to adapt Gabriel García Márquez’s literary classic One Hundred Years of Solitude into a Spanish-language series.
The Svod service has acquired the rights to develop the novel, which was first published in 1967 and has sold over 50M copies.
García Márquez’s sons Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo García Barcha will serve as executive producers on the series, which will be filmed mainly in Colombia.
The book, delving deep into magical realism, tells the story of the multi-generational Buendia family, whose patriarch Jose Arcadio Buendia founded Macondo, a fictional town in Colombia.
It marks the first time that García Márquez’s book will be adapted for screen as the author, who died in 2014, refused to sell the film rights.
Sylvie Rabineau at Wme, attorney Shelley Surpin, and the Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells represented the author’s estate in the deal.
“For decades, our father was reluctant to sell the...
The Svod service has acquired the rights to develop the novel, which was first published in 1967 and has sold over 50M copies.
García Márquez’s sons Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo García Barcha will serve as executive producers on the series, which will be filmed mainly in Colombia.
The book, delving deep into magical realism, tells the story of the multi-generational Buendia family, whose patriarch Jose Arcadio Buendia founded Macondo, a fictional town in Colombia.
It marks the first time that García Márquez’s book will be adapted for screen as the author, who died in 2014, refused to sell the film rights.
Sylvie Rabineau at Wme, attorney Shelley Surpin, and the Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells represented the author’s estate in the deal.
“For decades, our father was reluctant to sell the...
- 3/6/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
"Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez," a portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning author who died last year at 87, has been scooped up by indie distributor Icarus Films for North American release. Directed by Barcelona-based filmmaker Justin Webster and shot in Colombia (the writer's native country), Cuba, France, Mexico, Spain and the Us, "Gabo" asks the question, "How did a boy from a tiny town on the Caribbean coast become a writer who won the hearts of millions? How did he change our perception of reality with his work?" Read More: Gabriel García Márquez and Akira Kurosawa Talk Film, Writing and 'Rhapsody in August' in 1991 Interviewees in the film include Colombian writers María Jimena Duzán and Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Márquez biographer Gerald Martin, Márquez literary agent Carmen Balcells, New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson, and former presidents of Colombia and the U.S....
- 7/22/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
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