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Esta es la historia de una redención. © Disney+

Disney+ ha compartido el primer tráiler y póster de El clan Olimpia, su nueva serie de ficción basada en hechos reales.

En El clan Olimpia, la vida de Olimpia da un giro radical cuando a su marido le diagnostican un cáncer. Desesperada por salvarle la vida y mantener a su familia a flote, comienza vendiendo hachís en su barrio. Pero cuando se propone costear un tratamiento en Estados Unidos, da un paso más allá: se adentra en el tráfico de cocaína. Junto a su socio, el Moreno, Olimpia asciende vertiginosamente en el mundo del narcotráfico, estableciendo vínculos con cárteles colombianos y la mafia napolitana. Sin embargo, su entorno, una familia de tradición merchera, jamás aceptaría que una mujer se dedicara a ese mundo. Obligada a llevar una doble vida, Olimpia construye un entramado de mentiras para proteger su secreto. Pero todo se...

Raúl Arévalo, Vito Sanz, Gabriel Guevara y Agustín Otón lideran el reparto. © Movistar Plus+

Movistar Plus+ ha iniciado el rodaje en localizaciones de Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza y Suiza de Por cien millones, su nueva serie original, creada y dirigida por Nacho G. Velilla (Menudas piezas) y escrita por Oriol Capel (A muerte), que recrea uno de los episodios más insólitos del fútbol español.

Por cien millones está ambientada en 1981, cuando tres mecánicos zaragozanos, Alfonso, Jorge y Gabi, agobiados por las deudas y tras meses sin trabajo, deciden secuestrar al máximo goleador de la Liga, Enrique Castro «Quini», delantero del Fc Barcelona. A cambio de su liberación, piden 100 millones de pesetas. Pero pronto descubren, por las malas, que la vida no es como las películas. Y que ser malo, cuando eres bueno, no es fácil.

La serie de tres episodios está protagonizada por Raúl Arévalo (El caso Asunta), Vito Sanz (Miocardio...

Exclusive: TelevisaUnivision’s streamer, ViX, is setting sail for Europe.

The service will launch in Spain in January 2025, we can reveal, and be available on Atresplayer, Atresmedia’s streaming platform.

ViX will be offered on Atresplayer with no ads, and offer customers in Spain a library of 15,000 hours of content, live sport from several Liga Mx teams in Mexico and an extensive library of Spanish-language telenovelas, comedies and dramas such as La Mujer del Diablo, El Gallo de Oro, El Extraño Retorno de Diana Salazar, Más Allá de Ti and Pacto de Sangre and films including ¿Quieres ser mi Hijo? and Bendita Suegra.

“This partnership with Atresmedia marks a pivotal step in ViX’s expansion strategy, reinforcing our commitment to delivering unparalleled premium content across global Spanish-speaking markets,” said Rafael Urbina, President of Streaming and Digital at TelevisaUnivision. “We are excited to introduce ViX to new audiences in Spain and...

Una película que habla de las relaciones y los prejuicios con los barrios más humildes y sus gentes. © Disney

Ya está aquí el primer tráiler de “Al Otro Barrio”, una comedia social basada en la historia original y en la película “Jusqu’ici tout va bien”, escrita por Khaled Amara, Mohamed Hamidi y Michaël Souhaité y dirigida por Mohamed Hamidi.

En “Al Otro Barrio”, intentar engañar a Hacienda ha sido una opción demasiado tentadora para Andrés (Quim Gutiérrez), pero no contaba con que le pillaran. Y eso es exactamente lo que le ha ocurrido. Además de la multa millonaria que le ha caído encima, ahora debe trasladar sus oficinas al barrio de Los Caños, en las afueras más marginales de la capital, o eso le parece a él. Pero lo cierto es que Andrés se estaba aprovechando de una jugosa subvención por tener allí su sede, sin haber pisado nunca el barrio.

Una comedia erótico-romántica protagonizada por Adriana Torrebejano, Rubén Cortada, Eva Ugarte y Francisco Ortiz. © Atresplayer

Este otoño, Atresplayer estrenará “¿A qué estás esperando?”, la serie basada en las exitosas novelas “Tampoco te pido tanto” y “¿A qué estás Esperando?”, de la autora superventas Megan Maxwell. Una comedia erótico-romántica que muestra la realidad de dos mundos completamente opuestos, pero no enfrentados, a través de los encuentros y desencuentros de dos parejas que se enamoran.

“¿A qué estás Esperando?”, compuesta por 8 episodios de 50 minutos, sigue a Can, un atractivo piloto aéreo de ascendencia turca, que, respetuoso con la voluntad de un padre tradicional, asiste mensualmente a unas cenas en las que le presentan posibles candidatas para casarse. En una de ellas conoce a Sonia, una madre soltera que se presenta, sin avisar, a la cena que su madre ha organizado para que sus otras dos hermanas conozcan al rico heredero. Can y Sonia descubrirán,...

The characters on Land of Women are, generally speaking, not having a great time. Gala (Eva Longoria) is a posh New Yorker who’s just discovered that her feckless husband (James Purefoy’s Fred) is $15 million in the hole to loan sharks. Fearing for her life, she flees to rural Spain with her teenage daughter, Kate (Victoria Bazúa), and mother, Julia (Carmen Maura). Neither of them are thrilled to have their lives upended at a moment’s notice, and once there, they’re only temporarily out of danger anyway.

But if the events of the Apple TV+ series are stressful for its characters, they’re downright relaxing for us as viewers. Once the family has arrived in La Muga, the crime-thriller plot machinations take a back seat to a sun-dappled fantasy of small-town life, cut with tart humor and some minor soap operatics. In the wrong hands, this could be...

The world’s TV scene faces challenges. But it still has opportunities. Marc Cistaré, a writer on “Locked Up,” has seized one, the strategic co-production alliance between TelevisaUnivision’s ViX streaming service and The Mediapro Studio.

Rolling off the hiked ambitions of Spain’s TV scene after streamer success, he has created“Las Pelotaris, 1926,” which The Mediapro Studio Distribution is bringing onto the market at this week’s MipTV.

A ViX Original, airing from March 10 on its platform as part of its premium offer, the show combines the craft learnt from two decades of writing Spanish prime-time series and the larger canvas, gender focus and artistic boldness of contemporary scripted.

Sold outside Latin America and the U.S. by The Mediapro Studio Distribution, which these days means a lot in terms of profile at Cannes TV markets, the series weighs in as one of the market’s big Spanish-language bets...

Lionsgate+, formerly known as Starzplay, has set March 3 as the premiere date of its darkly comic original series ‘Nacho’ across all Latin America.

The news comes as Atresplayer Premium in Spain has announced that “Nacho” will bow on its service on March 5 as an Atresplayer Premium Original, in other words an exclusive in Spain on the adventurous service whose recent Originals include “Cardo,” produced by Los Javis.

Bowing its international trailer exclusively on Variety, the eight-episode series stars Martiño Rivas (“Cable Girls”) who plays the legendary Nacho Vidal whose notable physique makes him a star in Spain’s incipient porn industry in the ‘90s.

“Proving his talents reach far beyond his most infamous 25 cm [9.8 inches], Nacho changed the rules of the game in the 1990s when he became an international superstar,” the synopsis goes.

Shot in Spain, “Nacho” tells the story of the people behind the country’s porn industry, which...

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Lionsgate-owned Starzplay, Starz’s premium international streaming service, and Spain’s Bambú Producciones, producer of “Cable Girls,” are wrapping production on “Nacho,” one of Starzplay highest-profile productions as it builds its burgeoning international originals portfolio.

Premium U.S. Spanish-language SVOD service Pantaya – already a partner with Starzplay on Lucia Puenzo’s “Señorita 89,” Pablo Fendrik’s “El Refugio” and Sofía Auza and Silviana Aguirre’s “Yellow” – will release “Nacho” in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Starzplay distributes in Spain and Latin America. Elsewhere, Lionsgate will oversee international distribution.

Starzplay has shared with Variety a first-look image from the eight-part series, inspired by the life and times of Nacho Vidal, an adult film industry legend. Taken to California by Rocco Siffredi in 1998, Vidal became the sector’s first Spanish international mega-star.

The series is associate produced in Spain by La Claqueta. Caught on a late June set-visit, few productions look...

"Do you really consider yourself a normal citizen?" Signature Ent. has debuted an official UK trailer for a political drama titled The Candidate, originally titled The Realm or also El Reino. This Spanish dramatic thriller is about a politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes the truth to the public. Antonio de la Torre stars as an influential regional vice-secretary "who had everything in his favor to take the leap into national politics", until he gets caught up in a scandal that changes everything. Also starring Mónica López, José María Pou, Bárbara Lennie, Nacho Fresneda, Ana Wagener, Luis Zahera, Francisco Reyes, and María de Nati. This premiered at the Toronto & San Sebastian Film Festivals last year, and is getting a UK release this summer but nothing in the Us yet. Looks damn good. Perhaps a story real-life politicians should heed.