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DEVELOPMENT
HISTORY:
1/8/16
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STATUS:
previously in development (2016-2017 season) |
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
script |
DESCRIPTION:
(from Starz's press release, January 2016) Starz Chief Executive Officer Chris Albrecht announced at today's Starz Television Critics Association (TCA) presentation at The Langham Huntington in Pasadena, Calif. that Starz has partnered with Televisa USA, a division of the Mexican media company Grupo Televisa, to develop the original series "Maleficio." The Starz and Televisa USA co-production is based on the popular Mexican production "El Maleficio," which originally aired in 1983-84 with 320 episodes to become one of the most successful telenovelas of all time. The new supernatural thriller will center on Don Enrique De Martino, a powerful Mexican businessman who has made a deadly pact with the Devil. Writer and Producer Mauricio Katz ("Niño Santo," "The Bridge") will serve as showrunner. Pedro Peirano (No, "Niño Santo") will serve as executive producer and will co-write the first episode with Katz. Peirano, an award-winning Chilean director, screenwriter, journalist, cartoonist and television producer, wrote the film No, which was nominated for an Academy Award(R) for Best Foreign Film in 2013. |
CREW INFORMATION:
· Mauricio Katz as CRTR/EP
· Pedro Peirano as CRTR/EP
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GENRE(S):
· drama
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Televisa USA
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