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

The new Mediapro 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 destined for the production of series, films, short-form formats and documentaries.

Mediapro This week in Madrid it presented its new production arm 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 alongside top-level national and international talent, both in front of and behind the screen.

Jaume Roures y Tacho Benedict, presidents of The Mediapro Studio, have been in charge of releasing details of this ambitious project.

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

Regarding the characteristics of The Mediapro Studio, Benet has clarified that this “finances content production” which other platforms then offer, “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 expressed.

Benet has also explained that The Mediapro Studio will produce “all kinds of genres and formats” and will close agreements with a team made up of more than 200 scriptwriters and almost 500 producers. “We have given all that we already had a unit, The Mediapro Studio, to launch ourselves into competing with all the big studios and make our production and distribution capacity available to talent around the world.”

"What were our objectives 25 years ago, we have been consolidating them: we are actors in sports rights in the world, in content in the world, main actors in audiovisual services in the world and we are focusing on being world leaders in eSports - commented 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 turn if we are not located a little on that wheel."

In that sense, Roures has also highlighted that the group has "the vice" of "never saying 'no' to anything": "This has allowed us to position 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 centers in different countries that have equipment for the creation and production of content. 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 alongside global industry keyplayers such as HBO, Netflix, Amazon, DirectTV, Fox, Viacom, Yle or Disney and has several international awards to his credit, including two Oscars, two Golden Globes and multiple Goya awards.

34 series in 2019

The Mediapro Studio is already producing all types of content in the field of fiction, entertainment and documentaries. In that sense, it has a global investment of 200 million euros intended for the production of series, films, short formats and documentaries in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Great Britain, Finland, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, the United States and the Middle East.

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

At this moment, The Mediapro Studio already has running thirty-four series. Some of the new series titles that it is currently co-producing are: Paradise, a series that transfers the criminal 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; Malacca, a police thriller set in Malaga, where a new drug triggers a war between gangs; Charon, a police-legal drama about second chances; N00bees, season 2 of the youth series about gaming; Las Bravas F.C., a fiction about the personal improvement of a women's soccer 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 drama about an architect who has the opportunity to start over from scratch; Unwanted, about the crossroads of a mother through surrogacy; Border Republic, a series with its sights set on the border between the United States and Mexico; 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 objective. 100 Replies, Big Bang Media, Globomedia, K 2000 and the group content divisions audiovisuals add their trajectories in productions of all types to form this new project, which promotes the creation of high-quality international content based on a solid existing base.

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

14 offices around the world

Based 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) y Laura Fernandez 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) y 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 supported by scriptwriters, 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 locations around the world.