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The raving success of Globoplay’s medical drama “Under Pressure” — which ran for five heavily acclaimed seasons between 2017 and 2022 — was bound to see Brazil firmly step into procedurals, and Amazon Prime Video’s “Suture” is proof of just that. The eight-episode series, selected as part of the Berlinale Series Market Selects, follows gifted medical student Ícaro (Humberto Morais) and surgeon Mancini (Claudia Abreu) as the duo is forced to work for a criminal organization as their underground medical support team.

Co-produced by Brazil’s Boutique Filmes and Miami-based production and distribution banner Spiral International, “Suture” aired on Amazon Prime Video at the tail end of 2024. The medical procedure is the latest co-production between Boutique Filmes and Spiral International, who also worked together on “Falco” and “Negociador.”

Speaking with Variety ahead of Berlin, Spiral International CEO Zasha Robles — who signs as a showrunner and executive producer of “Suture” — says he and...

Peter Chernin’s North Road Company has acquired Mexican production company Perro Azul.

Perro Azul produced Netflix’s most-watched show produced in Mexico and Latin America entitled Who Killed Sara? (¿Quién mató a Sara?). This is North Road’s first acquisition in Latin America and comes as the company seeks to strengthen North Road’s international presence.

Perro Azul’s founding partners, Alexis Fridman and Juan Uruchurtu, will remain in their leadership roles, as will the company’s executive producers Diego Rabasa and Julián de Tavira. Fridman and Uruchurtu will report to Jan Frouman, president of North Road International.

Founded in 2019, Perro Azul’s production portfolio also includes The Secret of the River (El Secreto Del Río), Netflix’s most popular Spanish-language show of October 2024. As well as the Netflix hits Queens on the Run (Fuga de Reinas), Nothing to See Here (Ojitos De Huevo) and Daughter From Another Mother...

The North Road Company, a media venture launched in 2022 by mogul Peter Chernin, has made its first acquisition in Latin America with Perro Azul, a major Mexican production company.

Perro Azul has produced Netflix’s most watched show ever produced in Mexico and Latin America, “Who Killed Sara? (¿Quién mató a Sara?).” The companies said the acquisition will allow Perro Azul to “scale their storytelling vision,” while allowing it to use “North Road’s strategic resources and expertise to bring even more Latin American stories to global audiences.”

As part of the deal, Perro Azul’s founding partners, Alexis Fridman and Juan Uruchurtu, will remain in their leadership roles, alongside the company’s Executive Producers Diego Rabasa and Julián de Tavira. Fridman and Uruchurtu will report to Jan Frouman, President of North Road International.

The acquisition of Perro Azul follows North Road’s purchase of Karga Seven Pictures, one of...

Exclusive: Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company is heading to Brazil for its latest international co-pro.

The company is teaming with Spiral International and Boutique Films on medical thriller series Suture, which has landed at Prime Video in Latin America and Portugal and will be unveiled at MIPCOM next week. North Road retains the rights to produce an English-language version.

From International Emmy winner Zasha Robles, Suture tells the story of Ícaro, an upstanding medical student barred from his residency program due to college debts, and Dr. Mancini, a brilliant surgeon plagued by hand tremors who yearns to return to the operating table. Left with no other recourse, the two must become doctors for a criminal organization, leading them down a treacherous path of double lives from which escape may prove impossible.

North Road said the series will feature “several of Brazil’s most prominent actors” including Cláudia Abreu,...

Toledo, Spain — Global producer-distributor Fremantle has dropped an international trailer for “Negotiator,” a sleek, slick and chic eight-part São Paulo crime thriller produced by two prominent players on the Latino and Latin-American TV scene – Miami-based Spiral International and Brazil’s Boutique Filmes.

Acquiring world rights outside Latin America and Portugal, Fremantle will use Conecta Fiction in Toledo, Spain to introduce “Negotiator,” which underscores building market trends coursing through the international TV scene.

The busy trailer begins with a desperate kidnapper bursting through big church doors, revolver in hand pointing to a victim’s head. “I’m going to kill him,” he shouts hysterically.

Cut in counter-shot to a close up of the late-‘30s granite featured face of Captain Gabriel Menck (Malvino Salvador), head of negotiations for Gate, a special police unit charged with resolving crisis situations across Brazil’s São Paulo. “Nobody dies today,” Menck states categorically.

“I understand your suffering,...

Exclusive: Pantaya has set September 15 as the premiere date for Toda La Sangre, the crime-thriller starring Aarón Díaz and Ana Brenda Contreras.

Based on the best-selling novel by Mexican author Bernardo Esquinca, Toda La Sangre follows Casasola (Díaz), a tabloid reporter who joins forces with police lieutenant Edith Mondragón (Contreras) and Elisa (Yoshira Escárrega), a local anthropologist, who aim to decipher a series of murders that have shocked the country. Together they travel through Mexico City chasing a ritual murderer whose peculiarity is to recreate ancient Aztec sacrifices.

Yoshira Escárrega, Antonio Trejo Sánchez, Clementina Guadarrama, Cinthia Vázquez, Odiseo Bichir, and Julio Casado also star.

Produced by Fremantle Mexico, the 10-episode series is developed and produced by showrunner and executive producer Zasha Robles from Spiral International, the creator of the Emmy-winning series Falco. The series is directed by Luis Prieto and Hari Sama; and written by Rodrigo Ordónez, Santiago Rocagliolo, Natalia Mejia,...

Exclusive: Spiral International, the company behind Amazon Latin America original Falco, has teamed up with Jared Gutstadt’s podcast studio Audio Up.

The two companies have launched a joint venture to co-develop a slate of podcast and TV projects to be released around the world.

They have set their first project; a Spanish language podcast to be released around Day of The Dead.

Dia De Los Muertos In Hell is a four episode fictional podcast based on the tug of war between the American “scary” Halloween vs. the “light-hearted all-out party” of Day of the Dead. The story follows four broke musicians that will do anything to succeed, including agreeing to a pact devised by Satan in order to destroy the Mexican celebration. The musical comedy podcast is written by Mexican writer Alejandro Gerber Biececci (Toda La Sangre) and will include original music and participation by Latin American artists.

Zasha Robles,...

Exclusive: Aaron Diaz (Quantico) and Ana Brenda Contreras (Dynasty) have been set to star in Mexican crime thriller series Toda La Sangre, for Pantaya, Starzplay, Spiral International and Fremantle Mexico.

Produced by Fremantle Mexico, production is now underway on the genre series which is being directed by Luis Prieto and Hari Sama and is based on the best-selling novels by Mexican author Bernardo Esquinca.

Diaz will play the role of Eugenio Casasola, a journalist who joins forces with Lieutenant Edith Mondragon, played by Contreras, in a quest to uncover the truth behind a series of visceral murders that resemble Aztec sacrifices in modern-day Mexico City.

Prieto is best known for features such as Kidnap and directing on TV series such as White Lines and Snatch while Sama is best known for movie This Is Not Berlin.

Distributed internationally by Fremantle, the ten-episode series is developed and produced by showrunner and...