Protagonizan la película Luz Pascal junto a Paco León. © Movistar Plus+
Finaliza el rodaje de “Miss Carbón”, una película dirigida por Agustina Macri (“Soledad”) y escrita por Erika Halvorsen (“El Fin del Amor”), que relata la historia real de la primera mujer minera en una región de Argentina en la que las mujeres tenían prohibido trabajar en las minas.
“Miss Carbón” es una historia de superación y de esos sueños que no entienden de género. Una superstición consideraba que las mujeres eran una amenaza de derrumbe y el trabajo minero estaba reservado a los hombres. Carlita, como mujer trans, logró ingresar en la mina rompiendo el sistema desde dentro y prendiendo la chispa de una revolución.
La película, rodada durante seis semanas en el País Vasco (Álava y Vizcaya) y la Patagonia argentina, está protagonizada por Lux Pascal (“Narcos”) junto a Paco León (“Un Hípster en la España Vacía”), Laura Grandinetti...
Finaliza el rodaje de “Miss Carbón”, una película dirigida por Agustina Macri (“Soledad”) y escrita por Erika Halvorsen (“El Fin del Amor”), que relata la historia real de la primera mujer minera en una región de Argentina en la que las mujeres tenían prohibido trabajar en las minas.
“Miss Carbón” es una historia de superación y de esos sueños que no entienden de género. Una superstición consideraba que las mujeres eran una amenaza de derrumbe y el trabajo minero estaba reservado a los hombres. Carlita, como mujer trans, logró ingresar en la mina rompiendo el sistema desde dentro y prendiendo la chispa de una revolución.
La película, rodada durante seis semanas en el País Vasco (Álava y Vizcaya) y la Patagonia argentina, está protagonizada por Lux Pascal (“Narcos”) junto a Paco León (“Un Hípster en la España Vacía”), Laura Grandinetti...
- 7/5/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
Exclusive: Joanne Froggatt is staying in business with MGM.
The actor has signed an exclusive first-look deal with MGM International Television Productions through her production company Insight Pictures.
It comes as Last Light, the MGM-produced series that she stars in alongside Matthew Fox, is set to premiere on Peacock on September 8.
Froggatt is best known for starring in long-running ITV/PBS period drama Downton Abbey and also recently starred in crime series Liar for the British broadcaster and BBC/Britbox series Sherwood.
As part of the pact, she has already set up her first project, a comedy drama series called Love To Tell the Tale.
The series is about a single woman’s quest for motherhood with Froggatt is attached to play the lead role. It marks her production company’s debut project.
It is MGM International Television Productions’ latest first-look deal after signed deals with the likes of Simon Baker,...
The actor has signed an exclusive first-look deal with MGM International Television Productions through her production company Insight Pictures.
It comes as Last Light, the MGM-produced series that she stars in alongside Matthew Fox, is set to premiere on Peacock on September 8.
Froggatt is best known for starring in long-running ITV/PBS period drama Downton Abbey and also recently starred in crime series Liar for the British broadcaster and BBC/Britbox series Sherwood.
As part of the pact, she has already set up her first project, a comedy drama series called Love To Tell the Tale.
The series is about a single woman’s quest for motherhood with Froggatt is attached to play the lead role. It marks her production company’s debut project.
It is MGM International Television Productions’ latest first-look deal after signed deals with the likes of Simon Baker,...
- 9/1/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Further expanding its global reach, MGM International Television Productions has signed a multi-year deal with Mbc Group, a leading media company in West Asia and Northern Africa, to develop and co-produce premium original series.
Mbc Group will air these series exclusively on Mbc’s Shahid VIP streaming service, with MGM handling co-production and distribution for the rest of the world. The two companies already have a well-established relationship and recently partnered on MGM’s anticipated shows “Last Light” and “Billy the Kid,” which will air on Mbc.
“Mbc Group is uniquely positioned to tell stories that will combine regional focus with global interest,” said Sheikh Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim, chairman of Mbc Group. The exec said the deal marks “a major step forward in diversifying the group and building on its current strengths.”
Sam Barnett, Mbc Group’s CEO, noted that the partnership marks the banner’s “first big...
Mbc Group will air these series exclusively on Mbc’s Shahid VIP streaming service, with MGM handling co-production and distribution for the rest of the world. The two companies already have a well-established relationship and recently partnered on MGM’s anticipated shows “Last Light” and “Billy the Kid,” which will air on Mbc.
“Mbc Group is uniquely positioned to tell stories that will combine regional focus with global interest,” said Sheikh Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim, chairman of Mbc Group. The exec said the deal marks “a major step forward in diversifying the group and building on its current strengths.”
Sam Barnett, Mbc Group’s CEO, noted that the partnership marks the banner’s “first big...
- 2/24/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
MGM International Television Productions and Scandinavia’s local streaming leader Nent Group have signed a multi-year deal to develop and co-produce six English-language original international series for the Nordic company’s SVOD service Viaplay.
The partnership’s first two projects will be “Billy the Kid” and “Last Light,” both of which were previously announced. Under the deal, all six series will be Viaplay Originals and will launch exclusively on the service throughout the Nordics, Baltics, Netherlands and Poland, with MGM handling distribution in the rest of the world.
“Billy the Kid” is an epic romantic drama series from Michael Hirst (“Vikings”) starring British actor Tom Blyth (“Benediction”) as the famous American outlaw. The series is a co-production with Epix Studios and MGM International Television Productions, in association with Nent Group. Otto Bathurst (“Peaky Blinders”) is directing the first two episodes of the eight-episode first season.
“Last Light,” which MGM is...
The partnership’s first two projects will be “Billy the Kid” and “Last Light,” both of which were previously announced. Under the deal, all six series will be Viaplay Originals and will launch exclusively on the service throughout the Nordics, Baltics, Netherlands and Poland, with MGM handling distribution in the rest of the world.
“Billy the Kid” is an epic romantic drama series from Michael Hirst (“Vikings”) starring British actor Tom Blyth (“Benediction”) as the famous American outlaw. The series is a co-production with Epix Studios and MGM International Television Productions, in association with Nent Group. Otto Bathurst (“Peaky Blinders”) is directing the first two episodes of the eight-episode first season.
“Last Light,” which MGM is...
- 11/10/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
In this week’s International TV Newswire Variety digs into Latin American news following Mip Cancun where Viacom International Studio’s “El Nudo” featured as one of the year’s best-selling formats. Telefe has announced it’s bringing back its popular gameshow adaptation of “Hole in the Wall.” Spain’s Atresmedia begins shooting “Benidorm” on location. And in Scandinavia “Moscow Noir” producers team up on historical series “The Nobel Brothers,” which will reveal untold stories of the “Russian Rockefellers” who used their fortune to launch the Nobel Prizes.
Viacom International Studios to Distribute “El Nudo” Globally
Viacom International Studios (Vis) has secured global distribution rights for “El Nudo,” the Spanish adaptation of Viacom own original “Love After Loving,” made by Viacom-owned network Telefe, which premiered earlier this month in Spain.
Of the top 20 series to sell formats internationally in 2018, Argentina was the major scripted format export power in the world,...
Viacom International Studios to Distribute “El Nudo” Globally
Viacom International Studios (Vis) has secured global distribution rights for “El Nudo,” the Spanish adaptation of Viacom own original “Love After Loving,” made by Viacom-owned network Telefe, which premiered earlier this month in Spain.
Of the top 20 series to sell formats internationally in 2018, Argentina was the major scripted format export power in the world,...
- 11/29/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Erika Halvorsen to serve as showrunner, Ep.
MGM International TV Productions has acquired Argentinian author Tamara Tenenbaum’s best-selling non-fiction book El Fin Del Amor: Querer y Coger (roughly translated to The End Of Love: Desire And Sex) to develop as a Spanish-language television series.
Argentinian singer-songwriter-actress Lali Esposito is attached to star in the TV version of the book, which explores the challenges faced by Millennials in matters of love and sex. Esposito has starred in several popular telenovelas and in 2018 Venice Film Festival entry The Accused (Acusada).
Author and TV writer Erika Halvorsen, known for series including Amar...
MGM International TV Productions has acquired Argentinian author Tamara Tenenbaum’s best-selling non-fiction book El Fin Del Amor: Querer y Coger (roughly translated to The End Of Love: Desire And Sex) to develop as a Spanish-language television series.
Argentinian singer-songwriter-actress Lali Esposito is attached to star in the TV version of the book, which explores the challenges faced by Millennials in matters of love and sex. Esposito has starred in several popular telenovelas and in 2018 Venice Film Festival entry The Accused (Acusada).
Author and TV writer Erika Halvorsen, known for series including Amar...
- 9/19/2019
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
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