FIFA+ & Others Take Soccer Doc ‘Brazil 2002:The Actual Story’ – Briefs – Deadline

FIFA+ & Others License Soccer Doc ‘Brazil 2002: The Actual Story’

World football-focused streamer FIFA+ has acquired 90-minute function doc Brazil 2002: The Actual Story for territories together with Asia (excluding Japan), Turkey and New Zealand following a cope with distributor Abacus Media Rights. The doc has additionally offered to Canal+ Group for Canal+ Foot and myCanal (France); Sky Deutschland (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg); Sky Italia (Italy, Republic of San Marino, Vatican Metropolis, Malta, Capodistria, Montecarlo and Italian talking Switzerland); DBS Satellite tv for pc Companies (Israel and West Financial institution); Supersport Africa (for Africa); NOS Portugal (Portugal and PALOPs); Movistar Plus+ (Spain); and Stan (Australia). Sky within the UK, Entrance Row Filmed Leisure (Center East) and Viaplay (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) have been unveiled as consumers again in February when the doc was introduced. TelevisaUnivision additionally introduced its acquisition of the movie for North and South America (excluding Brazil), as a part of the slate of originals coming to ViX+, via a cope with doc co-producer Trailer Movies. Collective Media Group and Entourage Sports activities & Leisure produced the doc, which tells the story of Brazil’s FIFA World Cup 2002 win in South Korea via the eyes of the dressing room. It makes use of six hours of unseen archive materials shot by Brazilian soccer legend Juliano Belletti in the course of the match, which varieties the spine of the story.

Roger Casamajor, Macarena García & Lola Dueñas Amongst Forged Of Movistar+’s Drama Collection ‘La Mesías’

Spanish streamer Movistar+ has set the solid of upcoming household trauma drama collection La Mesías, with a mixture of established stars and newcomers. Roger Casamajor, Macarena García and Lola Dueñas are among the many lead solid, together with Carmen Machi, Ana Rujas, Albert Pla, Amaia, Biel Rossell and Cecilia Roth. Debutantes are Irene Balmes, Bruno Núñez, Carla Ethical, Iona Roig, Lluc Jornet, Sara Martínez, Arlet Zafra, Joana Buch and Ninoska Linares, who will play the teenage solid within the present, which is a Movistar+ manufacturing from creators Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo in collaboration with Suma Content material. “The casting course of was spectacular,” mentioned Ambrossi, who together with Calvo is behind exhibits resembling La Llamada and Paquita Salas. “Now we have at all times blended massive names with new expertise and in La Mesías we’re taking this to the max.” The collection, which follows Enric, a person laid low with a childhood formed by non secular fanaticism and the yoke of a mom with messianic delusions, started capturing on August 16 and can run for 22 weeks in several places throughout Catalonia, Spain.

Abacus Media Rights Hires TVF’s Will Stapley For Acquisitions

Amcomri Group-owned Abacus Media Rights has appointed Will Stapley as Head of Acquisitions. Stapley has been Head of Acquisitions and Partnerships at one other London-based content material distributor, TVF Worldwide, since 2016. He started at Abacus this week and will probably be at Mipcom subsequent month promoting newly acquired exhibits resembling Shiny Yellow Movies, Samson Movies and Groove Worldwide’s function doc The Ghost of Richard Harris, true crime drama Maxine from Clapperboard Studios and Downfall of the Porn King: The Ron Jeremy Story, a Channel 4 two-part doc from BriteSpark Movies exploring the rise and fall of the world’s largest porn star. Jonathan Ford, Managing Director of Abacus, mentioned: “We’re very happy to welcome Will to affix our rising staff. Our continued progress depends on securing the best productions throughout each scripted and unscripted content material. Will’s in depth expertise and established producer relationships will allow us to additional broaden our wide-ranging and high-end portfolio of programming.”

Blue Ant Bolsters Canadian Manufacturing Ranks

Blue Ant Studios has employed Aileen Gardner as Head of Manufacturing, Canada, and Zachary Frank, beforehand of Cream Productions as VP, Growth. Gardner will report back to Laura Michalchyshyn, CCO and Co-President, International Manufacturing, Blue Ant Media and her International Manufacturing Co-President Sam Sniderman. Working carefully with Gardner, Frank will report back to Jennifer Harkness, SVP, Unscripted. Gardner has expertise within the UK, US, and Canada at firms resembling Mentorn Media, Endemol, Cineflix Media and Scott Brothers Leisure. Since arriving in Canada she has overseen exhibits resembling Discovery’s Nazi Hunters. Frank has labored on exhibits resembling CNN’s Historical past of the Sitcom, Discovery ID’s If I Ought to Die) and Bell’s Concern Thy Roommate.

Lionsgate Strikes Library Deal With India’s MX Participant

Lionsgate options movies resembling Starvation Video games: Mockingjay Half 1 and 2, Struggle and Destruction: Las Vegas are being added to Indian ad-led VoD service MX Participant from this month. The North American firm struck the deal to put greater than 50 Hollywood titles with the streamer, which affords greater than 200,000 hours general and operates in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Mansi Shrivastav, Senior Vice President, Content material Acquisitions and Alliance for MX Participant, mentioned: “Our partnership with Lionsgate permits us to carry a few of the hottest and commercially acclaimed Hollywood movies to our viewers of their native languages. This partnership additionally allows us to draw new customers to the platform whereas consolidating our current viewers base.”

BBC Acquires Youngsters Comedy-Journey Collection ‘Vegesaurs’

The BBC has licensed children animated comedy-adventure collection Vegesaurs from Germany’s Studio 100 Media. The Australian short-form collection — from Cheeky Little Media in affiliation with the ABC, France TV and Studio 100 — will launch on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer later this yr. Based mostly on an idea created by Gary Eck and Nick O’Sullivan and focused at higher preschoolers, the collection is billed as “a contemporary tackle the dinosaur style with distinctive vegetable and fruit-shaped characters which might solely be discovered on this present.” It follows younger ‘Tricarrotops’ Ginger, who lives in Vegesaur Valley, a little bit backyard of Eden bathed in daylight with nutrient-rich soil, lush vegetation and even temperatures. Every episode is a mini-adventure pushed by Ginger and her mates, the infant ‘Pea-Rexes,’ leaning into themes resembling sharing, friendships and play.