In today’s Global Bulletin, Netflix picks up the rights to Spanish feature “Sky High” for a series adaptation, French crime series “Balthazar” posts record audience numbers for TF1, Mexican filmmaker Juan Ernesto Regalado Morales receives this year’s Guillermo del Toro-backed Jenkins-Del Toro Scholarship, and French journalist Augustin Trapenard announces he’s leaving Canal Plus.
Adaptation
Netflix has acquired global rights to the feature film “Sky High,” the leading Spanish film at the domestic box office over the holiday period, trailing only “The Croods: A New Age” and “Wonder Woman 1984” from abroad, and will develop the IP into a new original series.
Creators Daniel Calparsoro and Jorge Guerricaechevarría will helm the small-screen adaptation, set to pick up where the film drops off. Netflix is teaming once again with the film’s producers, Vaca Films, having previously commissioned the company’s thriller series “The Mess You Leave Behind.
Adaptation
Netflix has acquired global rights to the feature film “Sky High,” the leading Spanish film at the domestic box office over the holiday period, trailing only “The Croods: A New Age” and “Wonder Woman 1984” from abroad, and will develop the IP into a new original series.
Creators Daniel Calparsoro and Jorge Guerricaechevarría will helm the small-screen adaptation, set to pick up where the film drops off. Netflix is teaming once again with the film’s producers, Vaca Films, having previously commissioned the company’s thriller series “The Mess You Leave Behind.
- 12/30/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Del Toro returned after winning best director, picture at the Oscars.
The 33rd Guadalajara film festival (March 9-16) paid tribute to Guillermo del Toro, back in Mexico after winning the best director and best film Oscars for The Shape Of Water.
The filmmaker, met with standing ovations during the festival, took part in three master classes attended by around 12,000 people and launched three scholarships. During the event he revealed plans to shoot a film in Mexico.
Del Toro also opened a new cinema named after him, one of nine new state of the art venues with a 3500-seat capacity in...
The 33rd Guadalajara film festival (March 9-16) paid tribute to Guillermo del Toro, back in Mexico after winning the best director and best film Oscars for The Shape Of Water.
The filmmaker, met with standing ovations during the festival, took part in three master classes attended by around 12,000 people and launched three scholarships. During the event he revealed plans to shoot a film in Mexico.
Del Toro also opened a new cinema named after him, one of nine new state of the art venues with a 3500-seat capacity in...
- 3/19/2018
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
Telenovelas rock. They just seem to be so much more soapy and operatic than U.S. serials. Even though I don’t speak much Spanish, I love the over-the-top drama of it all.
That’s why I’m looking forward to seeing Casi Divas, a Mexican film about four women vying to become the next big telenovela star.
Casi Divas is the story of four young women competing for the lead in the movie version of a popular telenovela. The women are from very different backgrounds and each satirizes a stereotype of Mexican society.
Francisca (Maya Zapata) is a shy Indian from Oaxaca.
Ximena (Ana Layevska) is a formerly pudgy rich girl who now is thin but miserable – and really hungry.
Catalina (Diana Garcia) is a troubled factory worker from Ciudad Juárez, where young women disappear with alarming regularity.
Yesenia (Daniela Schmidt) is a flamboyant hairstylist from a poor section of Mexico City.
That’s why I’m looking forward to seeing Casi Divas, a Mexican film about four women vying to become the next big telenovela star.
Casi Divas is the story of four young women competing for the lead in the movie version of a popular telenovela. The women are from very different backgrounds and each satirizes a stereotype of Mexican society.
Francisca (Maya Zapata) is a shy Indian from Oaxaca.
Ximena (Ana Layevska) is a formerly pudgy rich girl who now is thin but miserable – and really hungry.
Catalina (Diana Garcia) is a troubled factory worker from Ciudad Juárez, where young women disappear with alarming regularity.
Yesenia (Daniela Schmidt) is a flamboyant hairstylist from a poor section of Mexico City.
- 9/3/2009
- by thelinster
- AfterEllen.com
Casi Divas (Almost Divas), is a Mexican-produced feature from director Issa Lopez, starring actresses Julio Bracho, Patricia Llaca, Maya Zapata, Ana Layevska, Daniela Schmidt, Diana Garcia, Mónica Huarte and Keiko Durán. The musical comedy, featuring compositions from Hans "The Dark Knight" Zimmer follows four women from different regions of Mexico vying for the lead role in a new film by 'Alejandro Mateos', the largest film producer in the country, amidst numerous social, ethnic and gender conflicts. Sneak Peek the trailer from Casi Divas...
- 8/21/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
Casi Divas tells the story of four very different women vying in a contest to become the next big telenovela star. It is a story infused with dreams of changing your life and desires for celebrity and success but if you think it is all gloss you will miss the real point of the film. This film manages to do what so many others miss — it manages to tell important stories and be entertaining. Francisca (Maya Zapata) is a poor Indian woman from Oaxaca who deals with race issues in the Mexican culture; Ximena Lizarraga (Ana Layevska) is a rich girl who has remade her body to fit into the culture but is miserable and really, really hungry; Catalina (Diana Garcia) works in the factories of Ciudad Juarez and uses her platform to raise awareness about young girls who continue to go missing in her community; and Yesenia (Daniela Schmidt) is struggling.
- 8/21/2009
- by Melissa Silverstein
- Huffington Post
Here is the poster for Maya Entertainment film “Casi Divas”. The comedy is set to open in theaters August 21, 2009. Casi Divas is directed by Issa Lopez , starring Patricia Llaca, Julio Bracho, Maya Zapata, Ana Layeska, Diana Garcia, and Daniela Schmidt. Four beautiful and spirited young Mexican women from very different backgrounds join the national frenzy of a contest to determine the next film actress superstar. Fired by ambition, pride and desperate desire for overnight fame, they all face insurmountable odds, outrageous manipulation and fierce media hype, yet each learns in her own way that true victory [...]...
- 7/30/2009
- by The Critic
- SmartCine.com
Maya Entertainment has acquired U.S. theatrical and home entertainment rights to the Spanish-language comedy from Mexico, "Casi Divas."
Written and directed by Issa Lopez and scored by composer Hans Zimmer, "Divas" is the story of four ambitious and beautiful young women from four very different corners of Mexico who get caught up in the frenzy that sweeps the country during a nationwide talent search for a lead role in a movie.
Produced by Luz Maria Rojas for Columbia Pictures Producciones Mexico, the local production arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the film stars Maya Zapata, Ana Layevska, Patricia Llaca, Daniela Schmidt and Julio Bracho.
In Mexico, it opened at number one at the boxoffice and was among the top five grossing films of 2008.
A theatrical release in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and San Diego is planned for Aug. 21, followed by a national rollout.
Written and directed by Issa Lopez and scored by composer Hans Zimmer, "Divas" is the story of four ambitious and beautiful young women from four very different corners of Mexico who get caught up in the frenzy that sweeps the country during a nationwide talent search for a lead role in a movie.
Produced by Luz Maria Rojas for Columbia Pictures Producciones Mexico, the local production arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the film stars Maya Zapata, Ana Layevska, Patricia Llaca, Daniela Schmidt and Julio Bracho.
In Mexico, it opened at number one at the boxoffice and was among the top five grossing films of 2008.
A theatrical release in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and San Diego is planned for Aug. 21, followed by a national rollout.
- 6/23/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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