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Normani’s ending the year where she loves the most: on stage.

On Thursday night, the R&b superstar performed songs from her debut album, Dopamine, for only the second time ever. To a crowd packed with influencers from Markell Washington to AdamTheFlop, Normani was all smiles as she delivered a choreography-packed set at the annual Spotify Wrapped party in Los Angeles. The show marked only a mere preview of what she has in store for the new year.

“I have so much energy that’s been pent up for...

The Fifth Harmony sisterhood runs deep. Following the release of Normani’s album Dopamine on Friday, her former groupmates Lauren Jauregui, Ally Brooke, Dinah Jane, and Camila Cabello shared sweet messages for the singer over the last few days.

Dinah, who recently released her own solo track “Ocean Song,” is the latest member to post about the LP. “Congratulations on your first album release!! only bad bitches keep this on repeat,” she wrote on Monday, before mentioning her favorite track on the album. “Take My Time is my mooood Ahhhhh!

“I know what it feels like to be in a position to put out records that I don’t believe in,” Normani has said of her time as part of Fifth Harmony. Maybe that’s the best way to describe the lengthy gap between the girl group’s last release in 2017 and the singer’s highly anticipated solo album, Dopamine.

Normani’s 2019 hit “Motivation” drew inspiration from early-aughts trailblazers like Beyoncé, Ciara, and Ashanti. She’s since described the track’s dance-pop quality as not enough of a challenge for her, which is probably why you won’t find any Fifth Harmony-style club bangers on Dopamine. Instead, the album embraces contemporary R&b trends, deftly balancing hip-hop and soul with collaborations with Starrah, Gunna, and even James Blake.

Normani shines brightest, though, on solo tracks like the sultry “Lights On” and the disco-infused “Take My Time,” both of which reflect...

People have been clamoring and clowning about the whereabouts of Normani’s debut album for a pop-music eternity. The singer made that noise sound pretty fucking silly when she recently reflected that part of the delay was due to her parents’ simultaneous cancer diagnoses. Normani first announced that her solo debut was in the works in 2018, not long after the girl group she came to prominence in, Fifth Harmony, pumped its breaks for an indefinite hiatus. She went on to drop a few massive features and singles (“Love Lies,” with Khalid; “Dancing With a Stranger,...

Normani has shared a new single, “Candy Paint.” The fast-talking track is the second listen off the singer’s forthcoming debut solo LP, Dopamine, out June 14 via RCA Records. She previously teased the song in a trailer for the album earlier this month.

“Candy Paint” follows “1:59” featuring Gunna, which Normani dropped in April. The song, written and produced by Normani alongside Brittanny “Starrah” Hazzard and Tommy Brown, sees her drawing inspiration from Houston’s iconic candy-painted lowriders. “If you let me take it you might not ever get him back,...

In a teaser for her upcoming Dopamine album, Normani portrays a phone-sex operator who picks up for a breathy, shadowy man in a phone booth.

“Hello, Hotline 159,” she says. “Yes, here to satisfy your deepest, darkest, wildest desires. No rules, no restrictions, straight dopamine.” While she seems fit for the job, even answering emails while taking the call as her Gunna-featuring song “1:59” plays, she probably could use a standing desk since the latex outfit looks constrictive for when she crouches to type. Later in the clip, though, she shows...

Normani has finally given fans a taste of new music. On Friday, the singer-songwriter released “1:59” featuring Gunna — the first single from her upcoming debut album, Dopamine. Along with the new track, Normani also announced that the LP is slated to release on June 14.

“When I get you alone, boy, what you gon’ do with this?/Don’t talk too much, just do this shit/Boy, what you gon’ do with this?” sings Normani against a captivating rhythm, as Gunna offers: “Lock you to the bed, don’t let you move/Baby,...

Lille — Creating a major and ambitious new player on the Spanish-language film-tv scene, Amaya Muruzábal – showrunner, screenwriter, and executive producer on Amazon MGM Studios’ just-out big hit “Red Queen” and creator and executive producer on milestone production “Hernán” – is launching her own film-tv production house, M Content.

M Content is founded with Argentinean Mariano Chihade – the independent producer behind Juan Pablo Kolojdziej’s Netflix Fito Paez bioseries “Love After Music,” working out of Buenos Aires’ Mandarina Contenidos.

The new venture will produce series and films, some large-scale – “for better or for worse, I’ve specialized in big productions,” Muruzábal tells Variety – as well as what she describes as smaller “event” auteur titles.

A first slate will be unveiled in upcoming months. One “priority area” are several feature films: “I need to breathe and handle slightly briefer time periods,” Muruzábal said. Kolojdziej and Muruzábal are collaborating on a series and on a feature.

Get ready for Normani‘s debut solo album!

After years of teasing new music, the 27-year-old singer announced the title of her debut album while also sharing a snippet of her new music and teased when she will be releasing her album.

Keep reading to find out more…On her Instagram, Normani announced that her album will be titled Dopamine and the cover art features her wearing a black leather bikini while riding a black rocket.

“Cryingg typing this rn. Dopamine The Album,” Normani wrote along the cover art.

She then followed up with a snippet of one of her new songs, which you can listen to below.

While she didn’t reveal when she will officially be releasing Dopamine, Normani did confirm that it will be dropping in 2024.

After Fifth Harmony disbanded in 2018, Normani jumpstarted her solo career by dropping her first single “Motivation” in 2019. Since then, she has released a few collabs,...

Banijay’s Shine Iberia and Mexican studio Dopamine are joining forces with renowned Spanish composer Lucas Vidal on musical interview travel series “Tu vida en 3 minutos” (“Your Life in 3 Minutes”).

Created by Shine Iberia’s Begoña Marín in partnership with Dopamine’s writers-directors Xevi Aranda and Sebastián Reyes, “Your Life in 3 Minutes” is one of the four projects selected at Conecta Fiction & Entertainment 2023’s Pitch Feelgood Formats sidebar.

The seventh edition of Conecta Fiction runs June 26-29 in Toledo, the capital of Spain’s Castilla-La Mancha.

A 10 episode show, all coming in 45 minutes, ”Your Life in 3 Minutes” will see Vidal – one the most international Spanish soundtrack composers – living for a few days with a different celebrity in each program, to know the facts, places and people from his past that have marked him the most.

At the end of every chapter, Vidal will give each celebrity a three-minute musical composition...

Warner Bros. Discovery is on track to launch the merged HBO Max Discovery+ streaming service in Latin America before the end of 2023, marking out the region as the first territory outside the U.S. to bow the combined streamer.

Wbd is also fully “committed” to combining global U.S. content with “extremely compelling IP created locally” in Latin America, Fernando Medín, Wbd president and MD Latin America and U.S. Hispanic, told Variety, citing two titles from Brazil, true crime docuseries “A Brutal Pact: The Murder of Daniella Perez,” and the development of “City of God,” a series continuation from the Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund’s four time Oscar-nominated 2002 movie.

Mexico’s “Mariachis,” ”Coyotl” and Argentina’s “Felices los 6”feature among scripted series set to bow on HBO Max in 2023 or 2024.

In a first interview since his appointment this April, Medin also talked about Wbd’s working on telenovela...

Asacha Media Group, the expanding pan-European company, is partnering up with Spain’s Plano a Plano and Mexico’s Dopamine on “Cicatriz,” a high-end action thriller based on Juan Gómez-Jurado’s bestselling novel.

“Cicatriz” is developed by a pair of established writers, Pablo Roa and Fernando Sancristóbal, whose credits include “Toy Boy,” “La Casa de Papel” and “Vis a Vis.”

The high-concept series revolves around a brilliant but lonely entrepreneur on the verge of making his millions, who meets a young woman hell-bent on a long-planned revenge mission. “Cicatriz” will be headlined by a prominent international cast and is currently in the financing stage.

Asacha Media Group has come on board as a strategic partner and will co-produce, secure pre-sales and develop an international strategy for the production.

“We are thrilled to board this very special project,” said Marina Williams, co-ceo of Amg. “This is a story with great international...

Globoplay, the streaming platform of Latin American TV giant Globo, has picked up Brazilian rights to police noir thriller series “Motel Valkirias,” a Spain-Portugal co-production handled by Onza Distribution.

Created by Ghaleb Jaber Martínez, writer-producer of Netflix’s Galician TV drama hit “O Sabor das Margaridas,” the series is directed by Álex Sampaio (Schibare”) and Jorge Quiroga (“Atras das Nuvens”).

In post-production, the eight episode 50-minute “Motel Valkirias” is set in a cross-border motel between Galicia and Portugal, following three women with financial and personal problems who get in serious danger after joining forces to get their hands on some valuable merchandise from a guest in the motel.

The skein toplines Lisbon-born Maria João Bastos (“The Casanova Variations”), Goya Award winning actor Chechu Salgado (“Las leyes de la frontera”) and “O Sabor das Margaridas’” Maria Mera.

Jaleb Martinez’s Galician outfit CTV co-produces “Motel Valkirias” with SPi, the Portuguese partner...

In its continued bid to create more premium content for the Latin American market under its Onza Americas banner, Madrid-based Onza Entertainment – behind such hit series as “The Department of Time” and a collaborator on Dopamine’s historical drama “Hernan” – is developing political drama series “Sattva.”

Created by Spanish actor Ruben Sanz (“El Dragon”) and written by Int’l Emmy-nominated Luis Gamboa (“Promesas de Campaña”), the series is conceived as a transatlantic production between Mexico and Spain.

Onza is presenting “Saatva” at Iberseries & Platino Industria’s new Co-Production & Financing Forum on Sept. 28.

The abundance of streaming platforms – and their insatiable demand for content – that allowed shows to circulate across more territories has encouraged more content production, said Valentina Pozzoli, Onza’s director of development & international co-productions. The success of such Spanish-language series as “Money Heist,” (“Casa de Papel”) “Dark Desire” (“Oscuro Deseo”) and “Elite” has also been a motivating factor.

Barcelona-based Scenic Rights, the leading literary rights broker for Spanish-language film and TV series, has officially opened its Mexico City office as it continues to expand its purview across key territories, including Madrid, Los Angeles and most recently, Prague.

The Mexico City office opening, delayed twice by the pandemic, kicks off operations on Monday March 7. According to Scenic Rights CEO, Sydney Borjas, the company’s Mexican branch will oversee more than 30 book to film-tv project adaptations, mostly into series.

Ana Karen Larios, previously a foreign rights manager at Vf Literary Agency, has been tapped as Scenic Rights’ content manager in Mexico and will report to the agency’s Chief Operating Officer Ignacio Diaz.

Scenic Rights Mx is being launched in collaboration with Miguel Rosenfeld as an associate, who has extensive experience in managing writers for TV.

The literary agency’s presence in Mexico underscores the growing importance of the country as a film-tv hub,...

One of Reed Midem’s most successful TV events, the fast growing MipCancun has stood out for its efficient one-to-one meeting coordination, a carefully curated conference program and the bigger picture of an exploding premium series production sector in Latin America, offering as sense of real commercial opportunity and larger artistic ambition.

As MipCancun director Bénédicte Touchard de Morant reminded delegates on Tuesday night at this year’s inauguration, MipCancun remains in essence a mass networking event. Its very setting, at just one part of a monumental all inclusive hotel on the shores of the Caribbean, in itself encourages ad hoc encounters, as do its drinks events and parties. So delegates will benefit immensely from an on-site MipCancun, after last’s year online edition. Compared even to Nov. 2019, the sector’s moved on dramatically, however.

Below, key takes on this year’s MipCancun reunion:

The New Big Picture

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Jesús Zavala (“Club de Cuervos”) and Sofía Espinosa (“Gloria”) have been tapped to lead the Spanish-language adaptation of NBCU’s hit series “Superstore.”

Titled “Supertitlán,” it will be co-directed by showrunner César Rodríguez (“Compañeros”) and Joserra Zúñiga (“Chumel”).

The English-language original, which reached 33.7 million viewers in its final season 6, was created by Justin Spitzer (“The Office”) and produced by Universal Television, in association with Spitzer Holding Company, Miller Green Broadcasting and The District.

“Supertitlán” is Universal Studio Group’s first co-production partnership in Mexico and its first Spanish-language title.

Joining Zavala and Espinosa in the Spanish-language version are Luz Aldán (“La Casadelas Flores”), Ricardo Peralta (“Sobreviví”), Carlos Orozco (“Plan Sexenalen”), Aldo Escalante (“El Señor de los Cielos”), Erika Franco (“Margarita”), Azalia Ortíz (“Dodo”), Martín Barba (“Cuatro Lunas”), Roberta Burns (“Dibujando el Cielo”), Francisco de la Reguera (“Sr. Ávila”), Viviana Serna (“Señor de los Cielos”), Amanda Farah (“La Casa de las Flores...

All3Media is believed to be in late-stage discussions to buy “The Cry” producer Nent Studios U.K., the production and distribution outfit formerly known as Drg.

Sources tell Variety that the Liberty Global and Discovery-backed super-indie — whose programming portfolio includes dramas “It’s a Sin” and “Fleabag,” as well as reality show “The Circle” and Oscar-nominated film “1917” — is in exclusive closed-door talks with Nent Studios U.K., which has been on the sales block since November.

It’s believed that All3Media is eyeing the Nordic Entertainment Group-backed company for a few key formats, as well as AVOD rights on its library, which spans around 13,500 hours of content. Key unscripted shows from Nent Studios U.K. include “Don’t Tell the Bride,” “The Farm” and “Catch Phrase.” On the scripted front, the outfit’s big success in recent years has been the BBC and ABC Australia co-commissioned drama “The Cry...

In today’s Global Bulletin, Acorn TV greenlights “Queens of Mystery” season two; NATPE Budapest confirms in-person event in August; Lionsgate Play unveils “U-Special” — its second original series in India; ITV commissions relationship drama “You & Me”; Dave Johns joins the cast of “I’m Still Ethan”; Mexico’s Dopamine creates a new in-house entertainment team; Spanish courts proceed with a reckless homicide case against adult film star Nacho Vidal; Front Row nabs “The Present” and deals it to Netflix; and the New Voice Awards reveals its 2021 winners.

Renewal

AMC Networks-owned streaming platform Acorn TV has renewed its Primetime Emmy-nominated British crime series “Queens of Mystery” for a second season.

Created by Julian Unthank, who co-writes with Matthew Thomas (“Marcella”), season two sees the return of Julie Graham (“The Bletchley Circle”), Sarah Woodward (“The Pale Horse”) and Siobhan Redmond (“Unforgotten”), joined by newcomer Florence Hall (“The Princess Switch: Switched Again...

NBC comedy “Superstore” is getting a Spanish-language adaptation, Variety can reveal.

NBCUniversal Formats has partnered with Mexican production outfit Dopamine to co-produce the first international version of the hit workplace comedy. The deal marks NBCUniversal Formats’ first co-production partnership in Mexico and the first time one of its scripted titles will be adapted in Spanish for the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic markets. The show, entitled “Supertitlan” (working title), will be 48 full-hour episodes that will be co-produced by Dopamine and original producer Universal Television.

A Spanish-language remake of the America Ferrera-fronted show — which follows a group of employees at a fictional big-box store called Cloud 9 in St. Louis, Missouri — is fitting given how the NBC show has navigated themes of immigration across its six seasons.

Although that primary storyline is through Nico Santos’ Mateo Liwanag, an undocumented immigrant from the Philippines, Ferrera’s Amy Sosa is a Honduran...