Mixed martial arts league Combate Americas is launching its own TV studio, TheWrap has learned exclusively, making it the first Mma organization to start a production company. Veteran foreign film producer Stan Jakubowicz will run La Jaula Studios, which will create content for both linear television and digital platforms.
“Our mission with La Jaula Studios is to tell the bold, untold and unfiltered stories of the real-life heroism behind Combate’s fighters and their communities,” the Hispanic fight league and media company’s president, Jacqueline Hernandez, told TheWrap. “Stan’s proven creative expertise and uncontainable passion for this sport make him a perfect fit to lead La Jaula.”
La Jaula Studios, which will be based in New York, plans to target its content toward Hispanic millennials and Generation Z. Shows and other short-form content will be produced in Spanish, English and Portuguese, which production taking place in Latin America, Brazil,...
“Our mission with La Jaula Studios is to tell the bold, untold and unfiltered stories of the real-life heroism behind Combate’s fighters and their communities,” the Hispanic fight league and media company’s president, Jacqueline Hernandez, told TheWrap. “Stan’s proven creative expertise and uncontainable passion for this sport make him a perfect fit to lead La Jaula.”
La Jaula Studios, which will be based in New York, plans to target its content toward Hispanic millennials and Generation Z. Shows and other short-form content will be produced in Spanish, English and Portuguese, which production taking place in Latin America, Brazil,...
- 8/20/2018
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Venezuelan helmer-scribe Ignacio Castillo Cottin, who has signed with Hollywood talent agency Apa, is prepping his first English-language film, “The Death of Marquez.” Budgeted for up to $10 million, it’s an ambitious leap from his previous film, “El Inca,” made for an estimated $1 million, which repped Venezuela at this year’s foreign-language Oscar race
The dramedy takes place mostly in Paris, and will include some French, Spanish and Italian as it includes scenes in Rome, Morocco and a South American country, said Castillo. Apa is packaging the feature film for Castillo who is in Los Angeles to meet with potential studio partners and cast.
“The Death of Marquez” turns on a writer in his mid-thirties who chances upon strange characters, finds romance with a gorgeous French woman and the plot for his next novel, all while investigating the mysterious death of his friend, Marquez.
The film “is not an exercise in morality,...
The dramedy takes place mostly in Paris, and will include some French, Spanish and Italian as it includes scenes in Rome, Morocco and a South American country, said Castillo. Apa is packaging the feature film for Castillo who is in Los Angeles to meet with potential studio partners and cast.
“The Death of Marquez” turns on a writer in his mid-thirties who chances upon strange characters, finds romance with a gorgeous French woman and the plot for his next novel, all while investigating the mysterious death of his friend, Marquez.
The film “is not an exercise in morality,...
- 4/12/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Edwin “El Inca” Valero was a Venezuelan icon, an undefeated, two-weight boxing world champion and a ferocious fighter who won all but one of his fights by knockout. But in 2010 he was arrested on suspicion of killing his wife and took his own life in prison. After that, the filmmakers behind his life story, “El Inca,” says his cultural legacy virtually vanished. Director Ignacio Castillo Cottin spent years researching Valero, uncovering what he calls “this love story, which I think is tragic, dramatic and incredible love story worthy to make a film of it.” What he didn’t expect upon.
- 11/29/2017
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The final deadline for submitting each country’s film for consideration for the foreign-language Oscar was October 2. Last year 85 were finally deemed eligible by the Academy; this year the number is a record 92. Haiti, Honduras, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mozambique, Senegal and Syria are first-time entrants. These films are vying for the initial shortlist of 9, and final five nominations to be announced on January 23. See the final list below.
Read More:Oscar Announces Changes for Foreign-Film Voting: Now Simpler! (Sort Of.)
The frontrunners include Sweden selected Ruben Östlund’s hilarious Palme d’Or-winner “The Square” (October 27, Magnolia Pictures), an art-world satire shot in majority Swedish with some English from stars Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, and Dominic West, thus giving Östlund another shot after “Force Majeure” was a surprise 2015 Oscar omission.
Germany’s choice, Fatih Akin’s “In the Fade” (December 27, Magnolia Pictures), won Best Actress for Diane Kruger at Cannes.
Read More:Oscar Announces Changes for Foreign-Film Voting: Now Simpler! (Sort Of.)
The frontrunners include Sweden selected Ruben Östlund’s hilarious Palme d’Or-winner “The Square” (October 27, Magnolia Pictures), an art-world satire shot in majority Swedish with some English from stars Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, and Dominic West, thus giving Östlund another shot after “Force Majeure” was a surprise 2015 Oscar omission.
Germany’s choice, Fatih Akin’s “In the Fade” (December 27, Magnolia Pictures), won Best Actress for Diane Kruger at Cannes.
- 10/5/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The final deadline for submitting each country’s film for consideration for the foreign-language Oscar was October 2. Last year 85 were finally deemed eligible by the Academy; this year the number is a record 92. Haiti, Honduras, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mozambique, Senegal and Syria are first-time entrants. These films are vying for the initial shortlist of 9, and final five nominations to be announced on January 23. See the final list below.
Read More:Oscar Announces Changes for Foreign-Film Voting: Now Simpler! (Sort Of.)
The frontrunners include Sweden selected Ruben Östlund’s hilarious Palme d’Or-winner “The Square” (October 27, Magnolia Pictures), an art-world satire shot in majority Swedish with some English from stars Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, and Dominic West, thus giving Östlund another shot after “Force Majeure” was a surprise 2015 Oscar omission.
Germany’s choice, Fatih Akin’s “In the Fade” (December 27, Magnolia Pictures), won Best Actress for Diane Kruger at Cannes.
Read More:Oscar Announces Changes for Foreign-Film Voting: Now Simpler! (Sort Of.)
The frontrunners include Sweden selected Ruben Östlund’s hilarious Palme d’Or-winner “The Square” (October 27, Magnolia Pictures), an art-world satire shot in majority Swedish with some English from stars Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, and Dominic West, thus giving Östlund another shot after “Force Majeure” was a surprise 2015 Oscar omission.
Germany’s choice, Fatih Akin’s “In the Fade” (December 27, Magnolia Pictures), won Best Actress for Diane Kruger at Cannes.
- 10/5/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
December 26 Update: The judge who ordered El Inca to be pulled from theatres has postponed further court hearings on the matter until he and everybody involved in the case have watched the film.
According to the producers of the Venezuelan boxing biopic, Monday’s (26) ruling effectively means Venezuelan judge Salvador Mata García suspended the theatrical run without having seen the film, adding fuel to her claims that the move flies in the face of constitutional safeguards against censorship.
Furthermore producer Nathalie Sar-Shalom of Pa’ Los Panas Producciones told Screen García relied upon submissions by the family of boxing legend Edwin ‘El Inca’ Valero, who it appears may not have seen the film either, despite claiming it violates their honour and right to privacy.
Lawyers on behalf of Pa’ Los Panas on Monday asked the judge to overturn his earlier ruling and acknowledge that the Venezuelan constitution protects free speech. García is expected to respond in the coming...
According to the producers of the Venezuelan boxing biopic, Monday’s (26) ruling effectively means Venezuelan judge Salvador Mata García suspended the theatrical run without having seen the film, adding fuel to her claims that the move flies in the face of constitutional safeguards against censorship.
Furthermore producer Nathalie Sar-Shalom of Pa’ Los Panas Producciones told Screen García relied upon submissions by the family of boxing legend Edwin ‘El Inca’ Valero, who it appears may not have seen the film either, despite claiming it violates their honour and right to privacy.
Lawyers on behalf of Pa’ Los Panas on Monday asked the judge to overturn his earlier ruling and acknowledge that the Venezuelan constitution protects free speech. García is expected to respond in the coming...
- 12/23/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Figures from the local industry have got behind a boxing biopic that the producer claims is the first Venezuelan film to be pulled from screens in 25 years.
Last week Venezuelan judge Salvador Mata García ordered El Inca be suspended from cinemas after nearly three weeks of release following a complaint by family members of the late Edwin ‘El Inca’ Valero that the film violated their honour and right to privacy.
The preliminary ruling confiscated the master Dcp and all copies of the film. El Inca producer Nathalie Sar-Shalom of Pa’ Los Panas Producciones, who will appear in court on Monday (26) to contest the ruling, told Screen the decision “put in jeopardy the core of what the industry is about”.
El Inca recounts the life story of Valero, the gifted Venezuelan former Wbc super featherweight and lightweight world champion who won every fight of his professional career by knockout.
Yet Valero’s life was blighted by person demons...
Last week Venezuelan judge Salvador Mata García ordered El Inca be suspended from cinemas after nearly three weeks of release following a complaint by family members of the late Edwin ‘El Inca’ Valero that the film violated their honour and right to privacy.
The preliminary ruling confiscated the master Dcp and all copies of the film. El Inca producer Nathalie Sar-Shalom of Pa’ Los Panas Producciones, who will appear in court on Monday (26) to contest the ruling, told Screen the decision “put in jeopardy the core of what the industry is about”.
El Inca recounts the life story of Valero, the gifted Venezuelan former Wbc super featherweight and lightweight world champion who won every fight of his professional career by knockout.
Yet Valero’s life was blighted by person demons...
- 12/23/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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