Banijay Americas has acquired a majority stake in Brazilian studio A Fábrica.
The purchase comes just one week after Banijay revealed it will launch Banijay Studios Brasil, a 750,000 square foot studio outside of São Paulo, in early 2023.
Based in Rio de Janeiro, A Fábrica was founded in January 2016 and has content crossing Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, Turner, HBO Max, Globo, Globoplay, Canal Gnt and Multishow.
A Fábrica produces Brazil’s highest-rated pay TV sitcom, “Vai Que Cola,” which is in its 10th season for Multishow and Globo, and has two highly anticipated scripted series launching soon, including Netflix comedy “Sem Filtro.”
The studio currently has eight feature films in its pipeline, including the comedy “Cansei De Ser Nerd,” in partnership with Hungry Man for Paramount Pictures, and “Era Uma Vez Minha Primeira Vez,” based on a book by best-selling Brazilian author Thalita Rebouças. The studio is also producing four true-crime docuseries.
The purchase comes just one week after Banijay revealed it will launch Banijay Studios Brasil, a 750,000 square foot studio outside of São Paulo, in early 2023.
Based in Rio de Janeiro, A Fábrica was founded in January 2016 and has content crossing Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, Turner, HBO Max, Globo, Globoplay, Canal Gnt and Multishow.
A Fábrica produces Brazil’s highest-rated pay TV sitcom, “Vai Que Cola,” which is in its 10th season for Multishow and Globo, and has two highly anticipated scripted series launching soon, including Netflix comedy “Sem Filtro.”
The studio currently has eight feature films in its pipeline, including the comedy “Cansei De Ser Nerd,” in partnership with Hungry Man for Paramount Pictures, and “Era Uma Vez Minha Primeira Vez,” based on a book by best-selling Brazilian author Thalita Rebouças. The studio is also producing four true-crime docuseries.
- 12/6/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
Rio De Janeiro — Rio Creative Conference (Rio2C), the largest film-tv gathering in Latin America, wrapped its market sessions Friday April 26 with Christian de Castro, president off Ancine, Brazil’s foremost public-sector source, vowing to fully re-establish its incentives.
Castro spoke to an audience of producers and other players Brazil’s heavily incentive-dependent industry still in shock after the April 18 leak of his internal memo to Ancine’s employees recommending a halt in new incentive adjudications. The recommendation was aimed at protecting the employees from action taken by Brazil’s federal accountability office Tcu, which is investigating Ancine for inadequate accounting procedures.
“We have taken the necessary legal measures, and I am confident the full operation will be re-established next week,” Castro told Variety. “In the meantime, Ancine continues to release funds to ongoing productions and analyzing new projects. The only processes put on hold are the first release of funding to recently approved projects.
Castro spoke to an audience of producers and other players Brazil’s heavily incentive-dependent industry still in shock after the April 18 leak of his internal memo to Ancine’s employees recommending a halt in new incentive adjudications. The recommendation was aimed at protecting the employees from action taken by Brazil’s federal accountability office Tcu, which is investigating Ancine for inadequate accounting procedures.
“We have taken the necessary legal measures, and I am confident the full operation will be re-established next week,” Castro told Variety. “In the meantime, Ancine continues to release funds to ongoing productions and analyzing new projects. The only processes put on hold are the first release of funding to recently approved projects.
- 4/27/2019
- by Marcelo Cajueiro
- Variety Film + TV
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