The Mediapro Studio brings together all the creative talent of the group to compete with the big studios

Mediapro's new studios, which bring together the production companies 100 Balas, Big Bang Media, Globomedia, K 2000 and Mediapro's content divisions, have a global investment of 200 million euros for the production of series, films, short-form formats and documentaries.

Mediapro has presented its new production arm this week in Madrid The Mediapro Studio. An international studio to expand the creation, production and distribution of content globally on a solid existing foundation, creating high-quality international content together with top-level national and international talent, both in front of and behind the screen.

Jaume Roures and Tatxo Benet, presidents of The Mediapro Studio, have been in charge of announcing details of this ambitious project.

Tatxo Benet insisted that the group has adapted "very well to the new times", marked by the great expansion that has taken place in the world of demand for content through new platforms. "At a certain point we realised that not only did we have different companies that were dedicated to making content around the world, but that meant that we had a Studio", he added.

On the characteristics of The Mediapro Studio, Benet has clarified that this "Fund content production" which are then offered by other platforms, "something that has not been done much here in Spain". We decided that we had to get involved in the financing of the content in order to have a much better negotiating position and keep most of the intellectual property of that content," he said.

Benet has also explained that The Mediapro Studio will produce "all kinds of genres and formats" and will close deals with a a team made up of more than 200 screenwriters and almost 500 producers. "We have given a unit to all that we already had, The Mediapro Studio, to compete with all the major studios and make our production and distribution capacity available to talent around the world."

"What our objectives were 25 years ago we have been consolidating: we are actors in sports rights in the world, in content in the world, main players in audiovisual services in the world and we are turning to being world leaders in eSports," said Jaume Roures. We have worked with the same intensity on those four legs on which our development has been based and we have achieved a position where the wheel does not rotate if we are not a little located on that wheel".

In this sense, Roures also stressed that the group has "the vice" of "never saying 'no' to anything": "That has allowed us to place ourselves at a level where we are not only happy but also serve to promote new projects and challenges that sometimes no one had dared to enter".

Mediapro currently has 14 production sites in different countries that have equipment for the creation and production of content. It develops, creates, produces and distributes content in all genres for television, film and exhibitions. With an enormous capacity for the production of both fiction and entertainment content, he works on numerous projects in development, production or broadcast with key players in the global industry such as HBO, Netflix, Amazon, DirectTV, Fox, Viacom, Yle or Disney and has to his credit several international awards, including two Oscars, two Golden Globes and multiple Goya awards.

34 series in 2019

The Mediapro Studio is already producing all kinds of content in the field of fiction, entertainment and documentaries. In this sense, it has a Global investment of 200 million euros aimed at the production of series, films, short-form formats and documentaries in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Great Britain, Finland, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, the United States and the Middle East.

These new productions include the upcoming films by Woody Allen and Fernando León de Aranoa, as well as the new documentary series by David Beriain, as well as numerous entertainment programs for television.

At this time, The Mediapro Studio already has Thirty-four series underway. Some of the new series titles that it is currently co-producing are: Paradise, a series that brings crime drama to the Costa del Sol; The New Pope, an international co-production directed by Paolo Sorrentino; Paradise, an ambitious fiction that combines the genres of youth drama, science fiction and mystery; The Head, a great project with the brothers Àlex and David Pastor; Malaka, a police thriller set in Malaga, where a new drug triggers the war between gangs; Charon, a legal-police drama about second chances; N00bees, season 2 of the youth series about gaming; Las Bravas F.C., a fiction about the self-improvement of a women's football team; Lost, the desperate journey of two parents to find their daughter who disappeared 13 years earlier; Miracle Hunters, an innovative series that combines fiction and reality; Stroke, a dramedy about an architect who has the opportunity to start over from scratch; Unwanted, about the crossroads of a mother by surrogacy; Border Republic, a series with an eye on the U.S.-Mexico border; 270 Days, the true story of an Italian doctor during the Nazi occupation of Rome; The Ministry of Time, the fourth season of the series in which the protagonists travel to different moments in history...

Five production companies under a common umbrella

The Mediapro Studio involves the integration of five production companies from the Mediapro group with a common goal. 100 Balas, Big Bang Media, Globomedia, K 2000 and the Group Content Divisions audiovisual combine their careers in productions of all kinds to form this new project, which promotes the creation of high-quality international content from a solid existing base.

They are endorsed by titles that have contributed decisively to the international success of Spanish fiction such as Red Eagle or more recently Vis a vis and I'm alive, from Globomedia; of the new political comedy Vote Juan 100 Bullets; of programs that have become benchmarks over 15 seasons such as The Conqueror of the End of the World of Hostoil; formats that combine science with spectacle such as Laika Orbit K 2000; or new television projects such as Charon by Big Bang Media.

14 offices worldwide

Headquartered in Barcelona, The Mediapro Studio has fourteen creative offices around the world. Together with Jaume Roures and Tatxo Benet, as presidents, and Juan Ruiz de Gauna (Managing Director of Mediapro), Javier Méndez Zori (Chief Content Officer), Javier Pons (Head of TV) and Laura Fernández Espeso (Head of TV) will be in charge of the studio's productions in all territories.

Beatriz Setuain (Director of Imagine Intl. Sales), Ran Tellem (Head of Development – International Content), Luis San Narciso (Art Director) and Daniel Burman (Head of Content US The Mediapro Studio) will also be part of the team that also promotes the creation, production, financing and distribution of content, also strengthening its presence in the US through its headquarters in New York, opened three years ago.

All of them are backed by screenwriters, directors, producers... the great team that makes up Mediapro, which covers the entire audiovisual value chain, with more than 6,600 professionals working in 58 offices around the world.