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Exclusive: Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks locked deals on its AFM titles Electrophilia and Pacifico.

The company has sold Pacifico to Splendid Films for German-speaking Europe and Nashe Kino for Russia, Cis, and the Baltics. The film is set for a 2025 release in all the territories. Directed by Gonzalo Gutierrez, Pacifico is currently in post-production and is set to launch the pic with a market premiere next year. The company has said it’s currently in negotiations with U.S., Spanish, UK, and Latin American distributors.

Described as an adventure-Sci-Fi film, Pacifico follows a group of young travelers that are stranded on an island in the Pacific where they struggle to escape an evil presence that has been kept hidden from mankind for centuries.

The film stars an expansive Latin American ensemble, including Gabi de Faria (James Gunn’s DC Comic’s Superman 2025), Manolo Cardona (Undertow), Ricardo Abarca (Que Culpa Tiene...

Could the next Squid Game, Lupin or Money Heist hail from Latin America? TV history teaches us you cannot engineer a global hit, but with three tentpole projects launching in the next few months, Netflix is stacking the odds in favor of the next worldwide watercooler show coming from the region. Each of Netflix’s big three is a local landmark, the streamer’s biggest show out of its country of origin. Or, in the case of Senna, the biggest ever from the region. This is super-premium TV, Latin America-style.

To break through the clutter, everyone is looking for IP, something that will tempt an audience to sample a show. That being the case, curiosity and anticipation levels are sky high for 100 Years of Solitude, the series adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realist masterpiece, which filmed in Colombia. Out of Argentina there is comic book adaptation The Eternaut — not as well-known globally,...

Images from the first season of 100 Years of Solitude reveal the look and feel of the eagerly anticipated adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realist masterpiece.

The adaptation will be split across two eight-episode seasons and the first will launch on Dec. 11. The multi-generational tale follows the Buendía family and the founding of the mythical town of Macondo. The series based on the classic novel is reckoned to be the biggest ever out of Colombia.

García Márquez’s novel was first published in 1967, has sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages. The Netflix project has been sanctioned by the family of the author.

Dynamo, producer of Narcos and Falco, is making the series. Alex García López (The Witcher), and Laura Mora share directing duties.

The team behind the project started looking for the cast in...

Netflix has set a premiere date for One Hundred Years of Solitude, the series adaptation of the Gabriel García Marquez novel that follows the Buendía family and the founding of the mythical town of Macondo.

Season 1 of the series will kick off December 11; the plan is for two seasons of eight episodes. Alex García López and Laura Mora co-direct the project, which is produced by Colombian production company Dynamo. Writers are José Rivera, Natalia Santa, Camila Brugés, María Camila Arias and Albatrós González.

The series was filmed entirely in Colombia, with the support of Marquez’s family. The cast includes Claudio Cataño (Colonel Aureliano Buendía), Jerónimo Barón (young Aureliano Buendía), Marco González (Jose Arcadio Buendía), Leonardo Soto (José Arcadio’s son), Susana Morales (Úrsula Iguarán), Ella Becerra (Petronila), Carlos Suaréz (Aureliano Iguarán), Moreno Borja (Melquiades) and Santiago Vásquez (teenage Aureliano Buendía).

It was revealed in 2019 that Netflix had landed rights to adapt the book.

Netflix has revealed the premiere date for One Hundred Years of Solitude, based on the masterpiece by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez and directed by Laura Mora and Alex García López. The series, consisting of two parts of eight episodes each, will debut its first installment on December 11, 2024.

One Hundred Years of Solitude represents one of the most ambitious audiovisual projects in Latin American history. The series was filmed entirely in Colombia, with the support of Gabriel García Márquez’s family.

“As a filmmaker and as a Colombian, it has been an honor and a huge challenge to work on a project as complex and that carries as much responsibility as One Hundred Years of Solitude, always striving to understand the difference between the literary and audiovisual languages and to be able to construct images that contain the beauty, poetry, and depth of a work that has impacted the entire world,...

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

That’s the opening line of Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s best-selling magical realist novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, and it’s echoed in the teaser above, a first look at the series adaptation coming to Netflix. The words are spoken generations later, read aloud from the diary of Melquiades (Moreno Borja).

The clips that follow take you to the mythical town of Macondo with the Buendía family, previewing breathtaking scenes as José Arcadio Buendía (Marco González) and Úrsula Iguarán (Susana Morales) search for happiness.

Claudio Cataño, who felt an “enormous responsibility” in playing Colonel Aureliano, tells Tudum it was “an honor and a risk” to take on the role. He adds, “Macondo and its host of characters, who I...

U.K.-French film company Alief has boarded supernatural drama “Horizonte” by Colombia’s César Augusto Acevedo, winner of the 2015 Cannes Camera d’ Or for his debut feature “Land and Shade” (“La tierra y la sombra”). “Horizonte” is Acevedo’s sophomore feature, which had its world premiere at the 49th Toronto Film Festival in early September.

“We have been fans of Cesar Augusto since his first film, ‘Land and Shade,’” said Alief’s Miguel Angel Govea who described “Horizonte” as a “solid story of regret and redemption.”

“We were drawn by Acevedo’s lyrical screenplay, mesmerizing visuals and the standout performances by Chile’s grande dame, Paulina Garcia (Sebastian Lelio’s ‘Gloria’) and Colombian leading man Claudio Cataño, who stars in Netflix’s upcoming ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude,’” said Govea who said that Alief first eyed the drama at the 2024 Toulouse Cinélatino Films in Progress 43 where it won the...

Prepárate para adentrarte en el universo de Gabriel García Márquez. © Netflix

Netflix ha publicado el primer teaser tráiler de “Cien Años de Soledad”, la serie de 16 episodios basada en la famosa novela de 1967 de Gabriel García Márquez. Una novela que es considerada una obra maestra de la literatura hispanoamericana y universal con más de 50 millones de ejemplares vendidos y traducciones a más de 40 idiomas.

Casados contra la voluntad de sus padres, los primos José Arcadio Buendía y Úrsula Iguarán abandonan su pueblo y emprenden un largo viaje en busca de un nuevo hogar. Acompañados de amigos y aventureros, su viaje culmina con la fundación de una aldea utópica a orillas de un río de piedras prehistóricas a la que bautizan con el nombre de Macondo. Varias generaciones de la estirpe de los Buendía marcarán el devenir de este mítico pueblo, atormentado por la locura, los amores imposibles, una guerra sangrienta y absurda,...

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." –Gabriel García Márquez. Netflix has revealed a first look teaser trailer for their upcoming adaptation of the seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (aka Cien Años de Soledad), first published in 1967. In the timeless town of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past — and their fate. The book by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez comes to Netflix, telling the story of the Buendía family, tormented by madness, impossible love, war, and the fear of a curse that condemns them to solitude for a 100 years in the mythical town of Macondo. Artists in this teaser: Claudio Cataño (Colonel Aureliano Buendía as adult), Jerónimo Barón (Aureliano Buendía as child), Marco González (Jose Arcadio Buendía...

Netflix has revealed a first look at One Hundred Years of Solitude, the series based on Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece novel.

In this sneak peek, we hear Aureliano Babilonia as he reads from the mythical diary of Melquiades and is transported to Macondo to witness Colonel Aureliano Buendía standing before a firing squad while he remembers that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

What follows are breathtaking scenes of José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán’s journey in search of happiness, fleeing the curse placed upon their lineage.

Directed by Laura Mora and Alex García López, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most ambitious film projects in Latin America to date, brought to life by talented artists from Colombia and Latam. It was filmed entirely in Spanish and shot in Colombia with the support of Gabriel García Márquez’s family.

Married against their parent’s wishes,...

Gabriel García Márquez’s famed novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is finally landing an adaptation courtesy of Netflix.

A sprawling 16-episode series is set to debut later this year, bringing Márquez’s beloved 1967 bestseller to the screen. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is one of the most ambitious film projects in Latin America to date, brought to life by the most talented artists from Colombia and Latam, filmed entirely in Spanish and shot in Colombia with the support of author Márquez’s family.

The series is produced by independent Colombian entertainment company Dynamo, which has been behind more than 47 feature films and 25 television series. Previous Dynamo releases include fellow Netflix series “Wild District,” “Crime Diaries,” and “Green Frontier,” as well as providing location services to “Narcos,” “El Chapo,” and “Gemini Man.”

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” was filmed in the regions of La Guajira, Magdalena, Cesar, Cundinamarca, and Tolima in Colombia.

A sneak peek of Netflix’s 100 Years Of Solitude has been released. The hugely anticipated series adaptation of the Gabriel García Marquez novel bows on the streamer later this year.

The multi-generational tale follows the Buendía family and tells the story of the founding of the mythical town of Macondo.

The Spanish-language series was filmed in Colombia with support from the family of Marquez whose widely acclaimed novel has sold over 50 million copies and been translated into 40 languages. Netflix released a brief teaser in 2022 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Marquez winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, but the new teaser reveals much more.

The new video shows Aureliano Babilonia as he reads from the mythical diary of Melquiades before transporting viewers to Macondo to witness Colonel Aureliano Buendía standing before a firing squad while he remembers the afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

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Exclusive: Loving Pablo star Julieth Restrepo is set to star as Colombian politician and women’s rights pioneer Esmeralda Arboleda in Spanish-language feature Estimados Señores (Dear Gentlemen).

Arboleda, was a Colombian politician and the first woman elected to the Senate Of Colombia, serving from 1958-1961. A leader of the women’s suffrage movement in the country, she played an intrinsic role in achieving universal voting rights for women in the 1950s. The new film will chart how Arboleda managed to convince 70 of the most powerful men in Colombia to approve the vote for women, despite the powerful influence of the country’s religious right. Colombian actress Restrepo, also known for Amazon and AGC series Noticia De Un Secuestro with Juan Pablo Raba, and Netflix mini-series Griselda with Sofia Vergara, is due to star with Elkin Diaz (Memoria) and Claudio Cataño (Thousand Fangs). Agora Films and El Circo Film are producing.

With a soundtrack recorded by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Wellington and sound engineer John Neill of Peter Jackson’s Park Road Studio serving as recording producer and score mixer, Latin America’s first multi-million dollar science fiction horror movie “Pacific,” is set to make a splash when it bows next year.

Producer Mauricio Brunetti estimates the final production cost for “Pacific,” now in post for its multiple visual effects, will reach up to $10 million and if all goes well, it may even have its world premiere in New Zealand.

The Colombian-Argentine co-production is the directorial debut of visual effects supervisor Gonzalo Gutierrez who has worked on such films as “Xyz” and on the original Argentine and Colombian versions of hit romantic comedy “Lion’s Heart” (“Corazon de Leon”).

“Pacific” is a reunion of sorts for Gutierrez, Brunetti and the leads of the Colombian “Lion’s Heart,” Manolo Cardona and Maria Nela Sinisterra.