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Film Constellation Finalizes Global Deals on Juan Galiñanes’s Upcoming Thriller “Fatum”

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Juan Galiñanes’ latest project is going global…

Film Constellation has finalized several deals on the 42-year-old Spanish director’s upcoming thriller Fatum.

Juan GaliñanesThe film has been acquired for France (Canal+), Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy (Plaion) and Latin America (California Filmes).

The Spanish-language feature brings together a compulsive gambler and an elite sniper, whose destinies become intertwined on a fateful day when the local betting shop gets robbed.

When a single gunshot is fired, the next 24 hours will set them on a race against time that will define their lives forever.

The cast features Luis Tosar, Álex García, Elena Anaya and Arón Piper.

The production will be released in Spain in 2023 by Universal Studios.

Garcia Launching Latino-Driven Fantasy/Horror-Themed Channel Morbido TV

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Alex Garcia is about to get morbido…

The Mexican producer, based in Los Angeles, is launching the multiplatform service AG Networks next year.

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Garcia’s AG Networks will first launch fantasy/horror-themed Morbido TV in late 2015 as a way to reach the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets, with other themed channels planned for the future.

“We hope to start with at least three distribution carriage deals (for Morbido TV),” said Garcia, who has a stake in the Morbido and Los Cabos film festivals in Mexico.

Talks are under way with other content delivery platforms.

Garcia is building vertically integrated operations that include production outposts in Brazil, New Orleans, Mexico City and Colombia, distribution outfit LatAm Pictures, film festivals and Internet start-ups,

Pablo Guisa, who runs the Morbido Fest, will serve as content director.

Garcia has tapped Eduardo Caso, a former partner and international sales director at LatAm Pictures, to head AG Networks. Caso built a network of contacts while at LatAm and at Turner Broadcasting, where he was involved in the negotiation, sales and distribution of 22 pay TV networks across Latin America, formulated marketing strategies for affiliates and led in the acquisition of new networks and media projects for Turner from February 2008 to March 2012.

Morbido TV 24-hour programming will comprise acquired films, festival pics, TV series and classic archival material from around the world, said Caso, adding, “We intend to air them in their original language, with subtitles in Spanish, English and Portuguese.”

In-house productions will include close-captioned interviews with filmmakers in their original language and full coverage of major fantasy-horror film festivals worldwide. “We will eventually be airing our own TV series and movies on Morbido TV in the long term,” he said. “We want to be at the forefront of new distribution methods, such as TV everywhere.”

Rodriguez Partnering with Mark Burnett to Bring Lucha Libre to American Television

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Calling Mil Máscaras! Robert Rodriguez is ready to luchar…

The 45-year-old Mexican American filmmaker’s El Rey Network has partnered with television producer Mark Burnett to bring Lucha Libre wrestling, and a new league, to the United States.

Robert Rodriguez

It all begins with a weekly one-hour series featuring a new Lucha Libre AAA league, premiering on El Rey Network in the second half of 2014, El Rey vice chairman Scott Sassa announced at the TV Press Tour 2014.

Lucha Libre

Burnett’s One Three Media is partnering with the leading lucha libre league in Mexico, Lucha Libre AAA, and FactoryMade Ventures. Also joining, through their interests in Lucha Libre AAA, are Antonio Cue Sanchez-Navarro and Latin America’s largest production group, Alex Garcia’s AG Studios.

“I’m at the point in my career where I could probably try anything. I’ve earned that right,” Burnett told TV critics at the press tour. “This is building a bona fide sport within America. Clearly the Hispanic culture is really growing (here),” he said, noting it’s the No. 2 most popular sport in Mexico, behind only soccer. “Why wouldn’t you bring Mexico’s No. 2 sport to America? This is a long-term, big play for us.”

Storylines and masks are characteristic of the sport Burnett said, explaining that the logline for the U.S. introduction revolves around five of the sport’s stars who’ve discovered a secret plot that’s going to destroy the very foundation of the sport and they’ve been exiled to America.

In addition to launching the weekly series, the new venture will develop monthly and quarterly specials and live pay-per-view lucha libre events, as well as potential merchandising, licensing and product integration opportunities for the league.

Lucha libre marks a return to arena-based sports events for the award-winning Burnett, who previously produced five seasons of the unscripted boxing series The Contender.

El Rey Network, is the recently launched 24 hour English-language entertainment network founded by Rodriguez.

It targets renegades 18-49 with adrenaline-infused content including original signature dramas, feature films, grindhouse genre, cult classic action, horror/sci fi and next generation sports.

Cuarón to Helm His First English-Language Film, “Desierto”

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Jonás Cuarón is heading to el desierto to direct his first Englaish-language film….

The Mexican filmmaker will direct Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in thriller Desierto.

Jonás Cuarón

The story focuses on a group of illegal immigrants, one of which is portrayed by Bernal, who try to cross the border but run afoul of a man (Morgan) who has taken up border patrol duties in his own racist hands.

Cuarón, who co-wrote the awards contender Gravity with his father, Alfonso Cuarón.

Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón and Alex Garcia are producing the film, which will be shot in Baja, California in February.

Bernal is exec producing along with Lucas Akoskin and Santiago Garcia Galvan.

Cuarón’s credits include Año uña and The Shock Doctrine.