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For Colombian writer Camila Brugés, working on the series adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez was exactly what she expected: a process of the utmost rigor and intensity, not without its own — very necessary — delusions. “We had a million challenges, but there was always this certainty that we were going to make it. And I find that completely absurd,” the screenwriter says, laughing. “That seems to me like the greatest event of magical realism.”

But they did make it. The response was such that the show made it to the Global Top 10 of non-English series on Netflix. The writing team Brugés is part of is already working on the second season of a story that, until recently, was thought to be unadaptable. With prose that revives the folklore and oral tradition of the Caribbean, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a portrait...

Chile’s Quijote Films, behind Un Certain Regard winner “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” and Madre Content – co-run by much-courted emerging filmmaker Francisca Alegría, director of Sundance title “The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future” and FilmNation/Prime Video’s upcoming series “The House of the Spirits” – will be joining forces on Alegría’s sophomore pic “Nacimiento” (“Nativity”).

The writer-director and Quijote Films producer Giancarlo Nasi will pitch the project for the first time to international co-producers and financiers June 10 at the Ecam Forum Co-Production Market in Madrid.

Quijote Films will serve as lead producer, with Madre Content due to formally enter the project, which is in early development, at a later stage. “We will see what gaps in the financing we can fill with Madre,” said Alegría who set up her production shingle in 2023 with partners Fernanda Urrejola, Gabriela Rosés and Cristóbal Güell.

Based on Alegría’s original script,...

Look, I don’t usually quote old Fleetwood Mac lyrics before a TV review, but “Players only love you when they’re playing” has never hit harder. Episode 8 of Your Friends and Neighbors doesn’t just throw punches; it lets them simmer, like a scorned lover stirring soup laced with secrets. There’s no redemption arc here, no triumphant violin crescendo. Just Coop, spiraling faster than a flushed stock market, as friends, enemies, and frenemies become indistinguishable in the rearview mirror of a stolen Lexus.

Episode 7 was a hard punch; Coop, fresh off surviving a hit-and-run engineered by Christian, suddenly found himself in Detective Lin’s unforgiving spotlight for Paul’s murder. Now, in the eighth episode, aptly titled When Did We Become These People?, acts as both confession and autopsy. From Coop’s murky bail-out and depleted loot stash to Mel finally getting a slice of karma with her pink slip,...

Oscar Restrepo (Ubeimar Rios) is a bum. Call him a lush, a louse, a putz, a schmuck, a sad-sack, and a dumb-sob and all would apply. He can take them, and then some. He is, after all, a man of words — poor Oscar’s a poet, and woe unto all those who know him.

But good news for all those that take in “A Poet” (“Un Poeta”), director Simón Mesa Soto’s immensely appealing and often caustic character study-turned-social-satire premiering out of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar. Put together with impressive efficiency — the film only started shooting in January — this art-world send-up explores the many fears and frustrations the acclaimed director felt in the decade since making the 2014 short film Palme d’Or winner “Leidi,” channeling them into a darkly-funny burlesque that speaks of verse while playing like a Dan Clowes comic brought to manic life.

Oscar’s a poet,...

Netflix’s ambitious series adaptation of Nobel Laureate Gabríel Gárcia Marquez’s seminal novel ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ would take years of research, drawing extensively from museums, historical documents and historians.

The production was a massive collaborative effort, employing nearly 900 crew members, primarily Colombian, alongside 150 skilled artisans and thousands of extras. More than 850 local suppliers contributed to the ambitious task of constructing the legendary town of Macondo from the ground up, turning a cornerstone of Colombian literature into a tangible, culturally rich reality.

Most of the set pieces were handcrafted by artisans from across Colombia, preserving centuries-old ancestral traditions. Items such as baskets, iraca palm hats, hand-crocheted bags, musical instruments, hammocks, textiles, mats, and nets were created by Indigenous communities, including the Wayuu, Chimila and Kamsá.

The creative team underwent in-depth lessons on Colombian history, delving into events like the Thousand Days’ War, a devastating civil conflict central to Season One.

Netflix has unveiled the start of production on four new series in Mexico, including one starring Gael García Bernal, reflecting the global streaming giant’s commitment “to continue bringing Mexican stories created by local creators to the screen.”

Following February’s news of a $1 billion investment in local production by Netflix, directors and showrunners presented the new shows in the streamer’s Mexican office. They are Santita, Love 9 to 5 (Amor de oficina), I’m Not Afraid (No tengo miedo), and Corruptors (Los corruptores).

Netflix also confirmed the end of production of Lovesick (Mal de amores), an adaptation of the novel written by Ángeles Mastretta and directed by her daughter, Catalina Aguilar Mastretta.

The new series add to Mexican series that Netflix previously announced it would release this year, namely Snakes and Ladders, The Dead Girls, How to Win the Lottery, The Gringo Hunters, Unspeakable Sins, and No One Saw Us Leave.

I’m Still Here, the first Brazilian film to win the international feature film Oscar, added the Platino Award for best Ibero-American film to its trophy cabinet at the Platino Awards in Madrid on Sunday night.

Brazilian master Walter Salles earned best director and Oscar-nominated Golden Globe winner Fernanda Torres was named best actress as the film took top prizes at Ifema Municipal Palace.

The Brazilian and French (MacT Productions) co-production follows a mother’s struggle to support her family after her husband disappears during the Brazilian dictatorship in the 1970s. Goodfellas represents sales and Sony Pictures Classics distributed in the US,...

Walter Salles’ political drama “I’m Still Here” swept top honors at the 12th edition of the Premios Platino, Ibero-America’s most prominent awards event.

The Brazilian drama, winner of the Best International Feature Film Oscar this year, took home prizes for Best Iberoamerican Feature, Director for Salles and Actress for its Oscar-nominated lead, Fernanda Torres, at the glittering event held in Madrid.

On the television side, Netflix’s ambitious Colombian series “100 Years of Solitude” beat out another equally large-scale Netflix series, Brazil’s “Senna,” as well as O2 Filmes’ “City of God: The Fight Rages On” and Endemol Shine Boomdog-hbo Max’s lush “Like Water for Chocolate.”

“100 Years of Solitude” director Alex Garcia Lopez thanked Netflix VP of Content Paco Ramos and the company “for having the vision, the guts, the crazy idea of buying the rights to this book and giving all of us the opportunity to...

Listen, the news business is tough. Yes, fact-checking is important, but when there’s a breaking story, there’s not always time to get it straight before those bastards at Insert Competing Publisher get the scoop. Sometimes, though, it pays to be cautious, at least if you don’t want some very powerful enemies because you forced them to read about their own deaths.

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Of course, preeminent American humorist Mark Twain most famously announced that “reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” but he actually had to do it twice. The first time, his cousin’s illness resulted in a game of telephone that led to his notorious quip, but 10 years later, after The New York Times reported that his boat was lost at sea, he wrote an article for the same newspaper investigating his own possible death. At least, after both mistakes, we got some great writing out of it.

The final nominees for the 2025 Peabody Awards were revealed this morning, and to suggest there were some surprises is an understatement. The expected nominees, such as “Hacks,” “Baby Reindeer,” “Ripley,” and “Shōgun,” were there. Pleasant surprises included Julio Torres’ “Fantasmas” and Netflix’s acclaimed but essentially ignored in the U.S. epic adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” How “Clipped” made the cut is utterly headscratching.

Continue reading ‘Hacks,’ ‘Baby Reindeer,’ ‘Clipped’ Among 2025 Peabody Awards Nominees at The Playlist.

Updated with full list of nominees: Standout TV series Shōgun, Baby Reindeer and Hacks — Emmy best series winners all — are among the loaded list of nominees for the 85th Peabody Awards.

The organization, which put out its full list of nominees Thursday, honors the year’s most captivating and impactful stories in broadcast and streaming media. The 68 nominees across the categories of Arts, Children’s/Youth, Entertainment, Interactive & Immersive, Documentary, News, Public Service, and Radio/Podcast categories represent the best of 2024.

Winners, chosen by a unanimous vote of 27 jurors, will be revealed June 1 during a ceremony hosted by Roy Wood Jr at the Beverly Wilshire. NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell will receive the Peabody Career Achievement Award and Saturday Night Live the Institutional Award during the event, which is marking the Peabodys’ first time in Los Angeles.

Last year, a total of 34 winners were selected across the categories including FX’s The Bear,...

Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin American literature’s modern greats, died April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89.

He died surrounded by his family and “at peace,” his children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa announced in a social post.

“He enjoyed a long, adventurous and fruitful life, and leaves behind him a body of work that will outlive him,” they added.

That body of work is huge. Winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, Vargas Llosa was also with once close friend Gabriel García Márquez, the towering star of the Latin American Boom, which brought to global attention the works of young Latin American writers – Peru’s Vargas Llosa, Colombia García Márquez, Mexico’s Carlos Fuentes, Argentina’s Julio Cortázar and Cuba’s Guillermo Cabrera Infante – which were among the first Latin American novelists to be published in Europe.

Combining a large influence of European modernism, William Faulkner, experiment and word play,...

Peruvian Nobel literature laureate and Latin American literary giant Mario Vargas Llosa has died in Lima at the age of 89.

The writer’s son Álvaro Vargos Llosa announced Sunday that his father had “passed away peacefully in Lima” in a social media post, signed by himself and his siblings Gonzalo and Morgana.

“His departure will sadden his relatives, his friends and his readers around the world, but we hope that they will find comfort, as we do, in the fact that he enjoyed a long, adventurous and fruitful life, and leaves behind him a body of work that will outlive him,” read the post.

Born on March 28, 1936, in the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa, Vargas Llosa spent his early childhood in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with his mother and grandparents, after his parents divorced while he was a young child.

Returning to Peru at age 10, he was sent to a military academy...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has died, his son said Sunday. He was 89.

“It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, passed away peacefully in Lima today, surrounded by his family,” read a letter signed by his children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana, and posted by Álvaro on X.

The letter says that his remains will be cremated and that there won’t be any public ceremony.

“His departure will sadden his relatives, his friends and his readers around the world, but we hope that they will find comfort, as we do, in the fact that he enjoyed a long, adventurous and fruitful life, and leaves behind him a body of work that will outlive him,” they added.

He was author of such celebrated novels as The Time of the Hero (La Ciudad y los Perros...

In this installment of the fabulous series, This Day That Year, Subhash K Jha revisits Salman Khan’s Lucky: No Time For Love which released on April 8th, 20 years ago.

Love is a ‘grave’ matter for the couple in this film. Much of the romantic interaction between the 40-year-old Salman Khan and the 19-year-old Sneha Ullal takes place in a graveyard in Russia, where they are holed up after riots break out all over the city.

Riot on! Gabriel Garcia Marquez got there first in Love During The Time Of Cholera. Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru’s sweet but finally unproductive concoction about cradle-snatching -love is a bit of a letdown.

Sure, the films Looks good. It even sounds good. With Sudeep Chatterjee’s cinematography creating a sweeping arc over the snowcapped violence of the landscape, the film cannot go wrong visually. But it has no heart. It pretends hard.

Un thriller realista, inspirado en hechos reales. © Max

Max acaba de anunciar el inicio de rodaje de Ravalear, una serie creada por Pol Rodríguez y dirigida por él mismo junto a Isaki Lacuesta, los aclamados codirectores de Segundo premio.

Ravalear ha sido descrita como un thriller realista, inspirado en hechos reales, que acontece en la ciudad de Barcelona y más concretamente en el barrio del Raval. La serie cuenta cómo, después de casi cien años de historia y tres generaciones, Can Moscas, un restaurante de toda la vida, estimado y respetado por todos en el barrio y frecuentado por artistas, empresarios y políticos, se encuentra bajo la inminente compra por parte de un fondo de inversión. Los quieren fuera del edificio como parte de sus planes para comprar propiedades y remodelar el barrio. Al principio, la noticia hunde a la familia en la desesperación; piensan que todo está perdido. Pero,...

Taron Egerton airport thriller Carry-On was the most-viewed film in the second half of 2024on Netflix on 137m views, while Oscar contender Emilia Pérez is way down the list on 1.5m views.

Jaques Audiard’s beleagueredmusical enters Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony on a field-leading 13 nominations and ranked 1,778th out of 8,686 features viewed from July to December last year.

However it should be noted that Netflix only holds US and UK rights for the film and cannot make it available in approximately 190 countries, as is the case when it has worldwide rights.

Netflix only has US rights for its other Oscar-nominated feature,...

Nearly one-third of all Netflix viewing in the second half of 2024 came from films and shows not in the English language, while Taron Egerton airport thriller Carry On was the top feature on 137m views.

Mark Wahlberg-Halle Berry thriller The Union was second on 131m, followed by Jeremy Saulnier’s thriller Rebel Ridge on 129m, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F on 97m.

Ten of the top 25 films were animation, led by licensed titles The Grinch on 67m, Trolls Band Together on 61m, and Sing on 58m. Netflix Original That Christmas drew 60m views.

Squid Game Season 2 dominated...

Netflix subscribers streamed more content than ever in the back half of 2024 — and the second season of Korean hit drama “Squid Game” was the biggest TV show on the service.

The streamer’s customers watched more than 94 billion hours on Netflix in the second half of last year, a 5% increase year over year, according to its latest Engagement Report sharing data on what people watched on from July-December 2024.

“Squid Game” Season 2, despite premiering on Dec. 26 with only six days left in the year, dominated the period as Netflix’s most-viewed series with nearly 87 million views. That said, no single title accounts for more than 1% of total viewing on Netflix. For example, “Squid Game 2” represented only 0.7% of global viewing for the time period. That’s “why we invest in a wide variety of quality shows and films and why we need to make them great, so that every time a member...

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

That’s the opening line of Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s best-selling magical realist novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, and it’s echoed in the teaser above, a first look at the series adaptation streaming on Netflix. The words are spoken generations later, read aloud from the diary of Melquiades (Moreno Borja).

The clips that follow take you to the mythical town of Macondo with the Buendía family, previewing breathtaking scenes as José Arcadio Buendía (Marco González) and a young Úrsula Iguarán (Susana Morales) search for happiness.

Claudio Cataño, who felt an “enormous responsibility” in playing Colonel Aureliano, tells Tudum it was “an honor and a risk” to take on the role. He adds, “Macondo and its host of characters,...

First look at ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Part 2 (Photo Credit: Netflix)

Production has begun on Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude Part 2, with Marleyda Soto and Claudio Cataño returning as Úrsula Iguarán and Colonel Aureliano Buendía. Part 1 premiered in December 2024. Netflix hasn’t announced a target date for the release of Part 2.

Part 2 newcomers include Ángela Cano, Emmanuel Restrepo, Estefanía Piñeres, María Adelaida Puerta, and Emiliano Pernía. Juanita Molina, Laura Taylor, Obeida Benavides, Julián Román, and Carla Baratta will also star.

The series is adapted from Gabriel García Marquez’s novel. Part 1 director Laura Mora returns for Part 2 and is joined by Colombian director Carlos Moreno.

“Following the reception from our members and specialized press from all around the world, we are deeply proud to announce that the production of the second part has begun. With this series we pay tribute to the legacy of Gabriel García Márquez...

Following the exceptional recognition from audiences and critics alike for the first installment of One Hundred Years of Solitude, which premiered in December, Netflix has announced the start of production for the second installment, which will complete the visual adaptation of Gabriel García Marquez’s masterpiece novel.

Laura Mora will continue her role as director in Part 2 along with Carlos Moreno, a Colombian director known for his work on renowned films like Lavaperros and Perro come perro and the series Goles en contra and Distrito Salvaje.

Marleyda Soto and Claudio Cataño reprise their roles as the iconic characters Úrsula Iguarán and Colonel Aureliano Buendía, respectively.

They will be joined by new faces who will bring more of Macondo’s characters to life, including Ángela Cano, Emmanuel Restrepo, Estefanía Piñeres, María Adelaida Puerta, Emiliano Pernía, Juanita Molina, Laura Taylor, Obeida Benavides, Julián Román, and Carla Baratta, among others.

“Following the reception...

The Iron Curtain had already collapsed when Maria Bakalova was growing up in Bulgaria, but old sensibilities still lingered: as a girl she was discouraged from playing the “aggressive and muscular” electric guitar (she learned the flute instead) and life there was still largely circumscribed by national borders.

But Bakalova, who portrays the Czech-born Ivana Trump in “The Apprentice,” found avenues for expansion, in part, as a way of rebelling. “It didn’t feel right to be put in a box because of your gender,” says Bakalova, who burst on the scene with her Oscar-nominated performance in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” “Knowing I didn’t get a chance to pursue something had some impact on my development and maybe made me stronger and a bit more daring.”

Bakalova’s first path out was singing, and by age 11, she was traveling throughout Western Europe to competitions, much as Ivana Trump had gotten out via national ski teams.

Un thriller realista, inspirado en hechos reales. © Max

Max acaba de anunciar el inicio de rodaje de Ravalear, una serie creada por Pol Rodríguez y dirigida por él mismo junto a Isaki Lacuesta, los aclamados codirectores de Segundo premio.

Ravalear ha sido descrita como un thriller realista, inspirado en hechos reales, que acontece en la ciudad de Barcelona y más concretamente en el barrio del Raval. La serie cuenta cómo, después de casi cien años de historia y tres generaciones, Can Moscas, un restaurante de toda la vida, estimado y respetado por todos en el barrio y frecuentado por artistas, empresarios y políticos, se encuentra bajo la inminente compra por parte de un fondo de inversión. Los quieren fuera del edificio como parte de sus planes para comprar propiedades y remodelar el barrio. Al principio, la noticia hunde a la familia en la desesperación; piensan que todo está perdido. Pero,...

The news that “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Netflix’s most ambitious series in Latin America, injected more than $52 million (225 billion Colombian Pesos) into the Colombian economy is gratifying for the thousands of locals who contributed to its making. The reported amount accounts for both direct expenses and the broader ripple effects across the supply chain.

Led by Colombian powerhouse producer Dynamo, the two-part Spanish-language series about the Buendía family employed some 900 mostly Colombian crew members, 150 artisans, thousands of extras and worked with more than 850 suppliers for the construction of the mythical town of Macondo from scratch. Season One of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” led to the booking of more than 100,000 hotel nights in the town of Ibagué during the filming process.

Indeed, this series adaptation of Nobel Literary Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 magnum opus solidifies Colombia’s position as a premier destination for international productions, underscoring the diversity of its landscapes,...

Early on in their accaimed TV series adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” Netflix and Bogota-based producer Dynamo (“Narcos”) set out to find Macondo.

First, writers, producers and location managers visited Aracateca, the Nobel Prize winner’s birthplace on Colombia’s Caribbean seaboard. Later they toured Colombia’s Guajira peninsula, its Pacific Coast and Ciénega Grande swamp, capital Bogota’s province and Tolima in the high Andes.

As they had always imagined, they never found Macondo – in the sense of one single village which could easily readapted into the icon magical realism. The idea, however, from the very beginning was to build Macondo from scratch.

Those fam trips, however, left multiple health hostages to fortune.

Most of the action of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” – the novel and series – in reality takes place in a relatively small strip of territory in Colombia’s far Caribbean north.

Actor Emilio Echevarría, well known for starring in “Amores Perros” and James Bond installment “Die Another Day,” has died. He was 80 years old.

The Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences shared the news of his death in an X post Saturday. No other details pertaining to his death have been confirmed.

“The Amacc mourns the sensitive death of actor Emilio Echevarría, who forged an enormous career in film and theater,” the post read, which was translated from Spanish to English via Google Translate.

See the post below:

La Amacc lamenta el sensible fallecimiento del actor Emilio Echevarría, quien forjó una enorme carrera en cine y teatro. Obtuvo tres nominaciones al Ariel por su participación como actor de cuadro en pic.twitter.com/6gJv9yRrhe

— Amacc (@AcademiaCineMx) January 5, 2025

Echevarría was born in Mexico City on July 3, 1944. Initially, he started a career in finance, studying accounting at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Why was it argued that Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 literary masterwork “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is un-filmable and anti-cinematic, while the novel is one of the most picturesque pieces of literature ever written? One can hardly finish this 422-page novel without bypassing the images it evokes. I assume, the reason behind this ‘un-filmability’ or ‘un-adaptability’ lies in the kaleidoscope of realism that stems from Gabriel García Márquez’s life and works.

Once, while delivering a lecture on García Márquez at the Harry Ransom Center, Salman Rushdie remarked that, while reading García Márquez’s works, his readers’ often, enchanted by the ‘Magic,’ overlook the ‘Real.’ This magic of Gabo, which at times overshadowed the real, is perhaps one of the key reasons for making it look like cinema or television is inefficient in adapting his texts. But, García Márquez, who throughout his life was inextricably involved with cinema, himself did...

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One Hundred Years Of Solitude, the magnum opus by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, simply should not work on screen. Even with the blessing of the writer's family, recapturing the essence of his landmark achievement seems even more impossible than the mystical occurrences that unfold in the book's fictional town of Macondo. Yet capture it they have — and remarkably better than anyone could have hoped for.

Shot in the Spanish language, using a Colombian cast, Netflix's highly anticipated adaptation is one of the largest productions in Latin American history, befitting the multi-generational story beating at the heart of the book's prose. The lavish production, shot on a town-sized set specifically constructed for this show, smartly evolves over time as we travel through history with the Buendía family. Historical realism and mythic surprises ebb and flow as the family's saga rises and falls, encompassing...

Netflix has another major hit series on its hands, as the streamer’s adaptation of the treasured 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (2024) by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez lands rave reviews from both critics and audiences alike. The series, which adapts the multi-generational story of the Buendía family and the magical realism that surrounds them in the fictional town of Macondo, has now landed a score of 84% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as entering the Netflix global top 10.

Alongside the critical acclaim, audiences have been left even more impressed, with the series landing a near-perfect 92% on Rotten Tomatoes’ Popcornmeter. Starring Diego Vásquez as José Arcadio Buendía alongside Marleyda Soto as Úrsula Iguarán, Claudio Cataño as Colonel Aureliano Buendía, Loren Sofía as Amaranta, Janer Villarreal as Arcadio, among others, you can check out the official synopsis for the series below.

“In the mythical town Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love,...

We're halfway through December, and Netflix has already released so many great shows this month. We're talking about series like The Ultimatum: Marry or Move on season 3, Black Doves, Queer Eye season 9, No Good Deed, etc.

Of course, some become instant hits with viewers, but others end up flying under the radar. This doesn't necessarily mean that they're bad. It's just that people either didn't know about them or they just didn't pull them in right away. These are called hidden gems, and they deserve some love and attention, just like the more popular shows.

In this article, we shared four underrated Netflix shows released this month that you should add to your watchlist. Don't you think it's time to broaden your horizons and watch something different from what you're used to watching? We think so!

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Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magnum opus, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is famously regarded as the single most important piece of literature in the Spanish language since Don Quixote, and the recently released Netflix TV series adaptation of the seminal novel shows us precisely why. Chronicling an epic saga set in the fictional town of Macondo revolving around several generations of the Buendía family, which touches upon a myriad of themes ranging from human emotions, the cyclical nature of time, imagination, legacy, religion, and existential crisis—the nature of life itself—One Hundred Years of Solitude proves itself as a timeless classic, the universal tone of which will keep it relevant and appealing through ages to come. It’s a veritable microcosmic journey of human civilization that begins with new discoveries, wonders, explorations, and gradually adapts darker undertones of outside interventionism, violent politics, hatred, and conflict—harboring the...

Gabriel García Márquez's prolific novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, has been brought to life by Netflix, and the adaptation takes several significant creative liberties in depicting his story. Adaptation of classic literature always walks a tricky line, and Márquez's century-spanning family epic was long thought to be impossible to portray on screen. The book keeps its dialogue minimal, and the constant passing of time makes keeping a cohesive-looking cast challenging. With that being said, One Hundred Years of Solitude's reviews have praised it as a magnificent work of art that honors the original.

With that being said, even the best book adaptations have their creative liberties and adjustments made to translate ideas properly. The Netflix series uses voice-over narration to deliver direct quotations and explanations from the text, but no matter what, it's impossible to be entirely the same. One Hundred Years of Solitude's cast...

Warning! This article contains spoilers for One Hundred Years of Solitude season 1 and the original Gabriel García Márquez novel it is based on.One Hundred Years of Solitude's season 1 ends on an ambiguous note, paving the way for a full-fledged season 2 that would adapt the remaining chapters of Gabriel García Márquez's novel. Directed by Alex García López and Laura Mora, Netflix's One Hundred Years of Solitude seems to achieve the impossible by adapting a book considered inadaptable for decades. While book adaptations can often leave viewers dissatisfied with their creative liberties and source material deviations, Netflix's take on Gabriel García Márquez's novel has been received well by both viewers and critics.

The show boasts an impressive Rotten Tomatoes score of 94% after its season 1 premiere. Owing to this, it is not surprising that Netflix ordered 16 episodes of the show, and its second installment is already underway. Like One Hundred Years of Solitude...

The live TV streamer’s new prices will now match its competitors like Hulu + Live TV and Directv Stream.

This week in streaming news, YouTube TV is starting the new year with price increases on its plans for both new and existing customers (with some current exceptions). Find out when the subscription hikes will go into effect and if your increase may be delayed.

Plus, Dexter Morgan tells his in-depth origin story and one of the world’s most acclaimed novels gets its first major adaptation— get our weekend watch recommendations below!

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YouTube TV To Raise Its Prices Next Month

While YouTube TV customers have long held bragging rights for its lower cost plans, newly announced upcoming price increases will put it on par...

What to Watch on Netflix This Weekend? The Best New Releases to Binge-Watch From December 13-15 - Main Image

It's the weekend again, and you might be looking for new releases to binge-watch on Netflix that you can watch this December 13-15. Here are some of the titles that you should look out for.

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The new comedy-drama series No Good Deed was finally released on Netflix just in time as you're looking for shows to binge this week. The new original is coming from Dead to Me creator Liz Feldman.

The series is about the highs and lows of searching for a safe, happy home and just how far we're willing to go to protect ourselves and our loved ones in the process.

The star-studded cast includes Linda Cardellini, O-t Fagbenle, Abbi Jacobson, Lisa Kudrow, Denis Leary, Poppy Liu, Teyonah Parris, Ray Romano, and Luke Wilson.

For a novel that has been claimed difficult to adapt in a live-action setting, Netflix proved that time solves everything – at least with how they handled Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Many Hollywood filmmakers have attempted to translate the 1967 Nobel Prize-winning story to the screen, but it was only today that an adaptation has been successfully made.

Credits: One Hundred Years of Solitude / Netflix

Part of the reason the author had firmly refused to make a movie or show out of his work was because he believed the beautiful and enchanting town of Macondo could never be rendered onscreen. Finally, Netflix made it possible.

Netflix brings a realistic approach to One Hundred Years of Solitude

The setting for Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude stood in a field outside the city of Ibagué where they built a tangible production from the ground up. In plain speaking,...

Exclusive: Filming the adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude in Colombia delivered a 225Bn Peso ($51.8M) economic boost to the country, the streamer said.

Sharing the headline figure with Deadline, Netflix Lat-Am said it is a measure of the impact to Colombian Gdp and includes both the impact of its direct spending on the production and of the spending in the downstream supply chain. The number excludes the budget for the series, which has never been broken out.

The adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel is the biggest TV project ever out of Colombia. In securing the rights to the magical realist tome, Netflix agreed the mythical town of Macondo would be recreated in Colombia and built by Colombians.

The series has just launched and will drop in two eight-episode instalments. It was produced by Dynamo and filmed entirely in Colombia with a 900-person production team. The...

Includes minor Spoilers for One Hundred Years of Solitude season 1.

Netflix's One Hundred Years of Solitude examines the lives of the Buendía family, though they can be difficult to follow as the series progresses. The TV series is based on the acclaimed classic novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a sprawling epic that examines the Buendía family across multiple generations in the town of Macondo. One of the book's biggest challenges, however, is keeping track of the massive family tree, where many characters have similar names. In One Hundred Years of Solitude's cast, the actors change due to time jumps in the story, increasing the challenge.

Notably, One Hundred Years of Solitude's season 1 ending only covers the first half of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, so the family tree in the series isn't quite as big as it is in the book. Season 2 will expand the tree with future generations of the Buendía family.

One Hundred Years of Solitude takes place in the town of Macondo, leaving viewers wondering if it's actually a real location. The critically acclaimed new Netflix series is based on Gabriel García Márquez's literary classic novel of the same name. Despite the book being considered impossible to adapt since its release in 1967, the recent TV show has defied expectations in creating a faithful adaptation. Much of One Hundred Years of Solitude's positive reviews are attributed to the show's beautiful production value in the creation of the quaint but enchanting town of Macondo.

Macondo's population makes up the majority of One Hundred Years of Solitude's cast of characters. The series examines the Buendía family through multiple generations, beginning with the patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, who leads his wife and companions to found the town. His second son, Aureliano Buendía, is the first person to be born in Macondo,...

Netflix’s 2024 drama series, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is a fascinating adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel by the same name. Based on the first half of the book, the Netflix’s series follows the Buendia family as their foundations are laid in the new town of Macondo, up until the death of the patriarch, Jose Arcadio Buendia. Both because of its faithful adaptation of the novel and also the grand scale of production, One Hundred Years of Solitude part 1 is a thoroughly entertaining watch.

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What is the Netflix series about?

One Hundred Years of Solitude begins on a night of festivities in an unnamed town in Colombia, where two cousins, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguaran, were madly in love with each other. Although their friends and neighbors had grown supportive of the relationship, their relatives, and particularly Ursula’s mother, did...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magnificent magnum opus has now finally been adapted to the screen by Netflix, with the release of One Hundred Years of Solitude part 1. The series, with eight hour-long episodes, satisfyingly stays true to the original work despite having to be selective about which parts to adapt and presents viewers with a grand finale. This article is a brief exploration into the events taking place in One Hundred Years of Solitude’s ending. Meanwhile, you can check out our season recap here.

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How does politics destroy the peace at Macondo?

The manner in which people, unofficially led by Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguaran, settled in the swamps and built the town of Macondo bears resemblance to the first humans stumbling upon a piece of land and settling down to create their own civilization. More facilities and amenities were gradually introduced to the town, following the natural flow of advancement,...

Netflix's adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude features a cast of talented but not widely known actors. The series is based on the celebrated literary masterpiece by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and has often been described as a book that would be impossible to adapt. The sprawling epic spans through multiple generations of characters from the Buendía family and the town of Macondo. However, Netflix's rendition has garnered success, with One Hundred Years of Solitude receiving positive reviews for its unbelievable production value, casting, and faithful adaptation of Márquez's novel.

Due to covering one hundred years of the Buendía family's life, the series cycles through several characters, and different actors are used for various iterations of each character. The Netflix adaptation does a fantastic job at bringing each character to life, importantly demonstrating the differences in their personalities at different stages of their lives. Much of...

Warning! This article contains potential Spoilers for One Hundred Years of Solitude season 2.Netflix's adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude, the classic novel by Gabriel García Márquez, had an ending that was just as confusing and metaphorical as the book. One Hundred Years of Solitude follows the Buendía family and their life in the fictional Columbian town of Macando across several generations. Their story is also sprinkled with bits of magical realism, supernatural events and moments that predict the future. Reviews of One Hundred Years of Solitude have praised the show's ability to translate that magic to live-action and retain its importance both visually and narratively.

Quite a few things happened in the final episode of One Hundred Years of Solitude season 1. Two members of the Buendía family died, Colonel Aureliano finally faced the firing squad that was hinted at in the first moments of the show, and some...

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week we’re talking to Alex García López, a director on Netflix’s epic adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. The first eight episodes land today (December 11) on the streamer and the Argentine director lifts the lid on the pressures that come with steering Netflix’s most ambitious Latin American project to date, why the project had to be set in Colombia and his next steps, which includes a move into the feature film space.

Alex Garcia Lopez is no stranger to directing big-budget and ambitious TV series, with shows such as fantasy drama The Witcher, neo-noir anime series Cowboy Bebop and Star Wars series The Acolyte among his list of credits. But when...

Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 magnum opus, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” has long been considered one of the greatest works of modern literature. However, during Márquez’s life, he refused to sell the rights to the novel because he felt a film adaptation would not come close to scratching the surface of this century-long tale. Now, with the blessing of his sons Rodrigo García and Gonzalo García Barcha, who serve as executive producers, Netflix has adapted the sweeping masterwork into a two-part limited series spanning over 16 hours of television. (Netflix hasn’t yet announced when Part 2 will premiere.) With directors Alex García López and Laura Mora at the helm for Part 1, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is exquisitely detailed and layered in intricate symbolism. The show is one of the most faithful page-to-screen adaptations in recent years.

A tale of family, fate, power and the frailties of humanity,...

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez is a monumental work in the literary realm. Its pages are alive with the magic of memory, the weight of history, and the delicate dance of fate—a tapestry woven with threads of love, loss, and a real longing.

As I settled in to watch Netflix’s adaptation, I felt a familiar flutter of anxiety: how do you transform the ineffable beauty of Márquez’s words into a visual medium? The novel’s popularity is almost heavenly, revered not only for its narrative complexity but also for its significant impact on the landscape of magical realism. It’s a towering achievement that makes many adaptations feel like pale shadows of the original—a formidable challenge that this series must carefully navigate.

Márquez famously opposed film adaptations of his writings, claiming that no film could capture the depth of his vision. And yet,...

Since its publication in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude has been hailed as a classic of magical realism literature and one of the best sweeping family epics of the 20th century. Decades later, Netflix has brought the seminal novel by Gabriel García Márquez to life as a TV show with the care and attention to detail with which José Arcadio Buendía would sit at his alchemy table or Aureliano Buendía at the table making his golden fish. Though the first eight episodes only cover half of Márquez's book, it's clear that this was an adaptation worth waiting for.

In the town of Macondo, several generations of the Buendía family grapple with love, war, madness, and an inescapable curse that haunts their lineage. As they navigate the trials of fate, the epic tale of magical realism unfolds, exploring the intersection of history, myth, and human experience.

Cast Santiago Vasquez, Carlos Suárez,...

Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude” — an elliptical epic of fate, family, politics and madness in Macondo, a fictional town that represents the wider, tragic history of Colombia and Latin America as a whole — has been made into a Netflix series.

That’s Netflix; the streaming service better known for “Squid Game,” “Tiger King” and the more overpriced works of Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes.

Bad idea, right? Well, to further quote that other prizeworthy wordsmith Olivia Rodrigo, “f—k it, it’s fine.”

More than fine, actually. The first season of this two-part, Spanish-language production can come across at times like a highbrow telenovela. But the sweeping pageant does an impressive job of streamlining García Márquez’s idiosyncratic, discursive novel into an expeditious but still thoughtful, contemplative and, yes, realistically magical eight hours.

The author’s sadness and humor come across intact; the...

Many works of literature have been deemed "unfilmable" for one reason or another — either the original book would be all but impossible to successfully translate from page to screen, or the rights have never been made available, leaving the work untouched until it becomes available via public domain. In the case of One Hundred Years of Solitude, first written in 1967, its author, the late Gabriel García Márquez, famously refused to sell the rights away, insisting that a movie could never sufficiently depict the scope and breadth of his magical realism-infused family saga. He was right.